Shows Archive

NEXT@LCT3 was a special event series at the Claire Tow Theater. Programming included new music, solo evenings, works in progress and other exciting musical performances that will push boundaries, inspire, and entertain. Learn More »

A new play by Julia May Jonas (author of the acclaimed novel Vladimir), YOUR OWN PERSONAL EXEGESIS is a bracingly funny and slyly devastating collision of coming-of-age eroticism and religious ecstasy.  Learn More »

An intimate autobiography that explores playwright/director Aya Ogawa’s fractured relationship with their long-deceased and enigmatic father.  Learn More »

THE HEADLANDS is a contemporary noir that explores the stories we tell ourselves and the fallibility of the mind. Learn More »

In POWER STRIP, Yasmin, a young Syrian refugee, spends her days tethered to an electric power strip in a Greek refugee camp. Learn More »

IN THE GREEN, a new musical by Grace McLean, tells the origin story of one of Medieval history's most powerful and creative women: Hildegard von Bingen.  Learn More »

In MARYS SEACOLE, Mary (Quincy Tyler Bernstine) is an ambitious Jamaican woman whose adventures take her across oceans and eras, from a battlefield of the Crimean War to a contemporary nursing home, and many times and places in between.  This new play by Jackie Sibblies Drury is an exploration of what it means to be a woman who is paid to care. Learn More »

Screenwriter, playwright, and novelist Lucy Alibar (Beasts of the Southern Wild) shares extraordinary coming-of-age stories in THROW ME ON THE BURNPILE AND LIGHT ME UP, set in the sometimes dangerous and often magical Florida Panhandle. Learn More »

This contemporary queer love story explores gender, intimacy, and the dangers of revealing yourself to the person you love. Learn More »

Kicking off the new LCT3 Spotlight Series, SHABASH! is a summer spectacle of new music and comedy celebrating the talents of South Asian artists. Learn More »

A provocative mashup of Waiting for Godot and the Exodus saga, PASS OVER exposes the unquestionable human spirit of young black men who dream about a promised land they've yet to find. Learn More »

In queens, the lives of two generations of immigrant women collide in a basement apartment. When the choices they’ve made about their security, dignity, and desires come back to haunt them, they must ask:  what cannot – and should not – be left behind?     Learn More »

AFTER THE BLAST is set in the wake of total environmental disaster, when the human population has retreated underground. Experience is simulated. Fertility is regulated. And Anna and Oliver have one last chance to have a baby. Learn More »

GHOST LIGHT is a performance about performance, a benevolent haunting which invites audiences beyond the footlights, glitter, and greasepaint and into the unseen corners of LCT3’s Claire Tow Theater. Learn More »

Galloping through forty years in a New England women's college, this world premiere play follows Mary Woolley and her partner Jeannette Marks as they reform and revolutionize women's education at the height of the suffrage movement.  Learn More »

World premiere! In the basement of a small evangelical church in Southeastern Idaho, a group of young missionaries is preparing to go to the Middle East.  One of them—a young man who has recently lost his father—has bought a one-way ticket.  But his plans are complicated when his estranged sister returns home and makes it her mission to keep him there.   Learn More »

The members of a fractured family navigate the landmines of the past and try to broker peace with each other – and themselves – in the present. Learn More »

When Caitlin takes her senior year off from high school to compose a full-scale requiem, her dedication inspires her father and concerns her mother. But as their home becomes a nexus for lost souls, her parents must deal with her project’s effect on the family. Learn More »

World premiere! In KILL FLOOR, Andy returns to her hometown after five years in prison and takes a job at the local slaughterhouse, while trying to reconcile with her 15 year-old son, B. Learn More »

World premiere! From the creators of Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, PRELUDES is a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. Learn More »