- By Kitchen Theatre Company
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The Kitchen Theatre Company, Central New York’s Off Broadway theatre, announced it’s 2020-2021 season. The Journey to 30 will offer twenty hybrid and online events and culminate in one live, World Premiere production in June of 2021. The season builds towards the theatre’s 30th Anniversary next season.
THE COMPLETE 2020-2021 SEASON LINEUP
December 16 & 17: SPECIAL EVENT, HOLIDAY PARTY MATCH GAME
Local celebrities compete in a hilarious, one-of-a-kind recreation of the hit game show!
January 14-21: STREAMING PRODUCTION , CRY IT OUT
New mothers Jessie and Lina, with little in common except their new babies, form an unlikely friendship over a series of naptime coffee dates. When another new mom arrives, their concept of motherhood is put to the test.
January 21: SCRIPT CLUB, SWEAT
The American Dream is on the line at a bar in Reading, PA as the working class collapses in the new millennium.
February 4: SCRIPT CLUB, WHITELISTED
Rebecca is just living her life In all her gentrifying glory, when weird, supernatural stuff starts happening, for no reason she can think of. A revenge horror comedy in a Brooklyn Brownstone.
February 18-25: STREAMING PRODUCTION, EVERY BRILLIANT THING
Ithaca’s Best Actor Karl Gregory returns in a tale of a young boy attempting to ease his mother's depression by creating a list of all the best things in the world.
March 4: SCRIPT CLUB, THE GREAT LEAP
A star of the sidewalk basketball courts of San Francisco’s Chinatown strong arms his way onto an American college team travelling to Beijing for a “friendship” game.
March 8-19: NEW PLAY WORKSHOP, FINAL BOARDING CALL
The human stories of Hong Kong come to life through seven interconnected characters - a brother and sister; a mother and daughter and husband; an American businessman and his Chinese lover. Politics and protest are very personal.
April 1-8: STREAMING PRODUCTION, THE ROOMMATE
A laugh-out-loud comedy of moving boxes, new beginnings, questionable business ventures, and a little bit of marijuana.
April 15: SCRIPT CLUB, VIETGONE
A “culturally-savvy comedy” and all-American love story about two very new Americans. It's 1975 and two young survivors meet in a Vietnamese refugee camp in mid-America shortly after the fall of Saigon. Will this strange new land of cowboys, hippies and bikers allow them to fall in love?
April 19-30: NEW PLAY WORKSHOP, TITLE TBA
Stay tuned for the thrilling final entry into a Journey to bring the best new work from across the country and around the world right here to Ithaca.
May 8: LIP SINK FUNDRAISER
Famous annual Lip Sink fundraiser returns - online and in-person!
May 13-20: STREAMING PRODUCTION, BLOOM WHERE YOU’RE PLANTED...A 20 YEAR ARTISTIC JOURNEY!
The amazing Rachel Lampert tells the story of the Kitchen through archival video, photos, and interviews with some of the community’s favorite artists.
June 15: SCRIPT CLUB, FAIRVIEW
There’s a couch and a family and a dinner table, but this time they’re asking why white people should make space for people of color.
June 6-28: PRODUCTION, SHAPE
Built on adrenaline, determination, transformation, and sweat, this play cracks open fresh conversations about how we relate to our bodies and what we’re capable of accomplishing. Come see Puppy lift weights live on stage in this wildly hilarious, riotously honest, and uniquely feminist new play. FYI: laughing burns calories. Watching this play will burn 40 calories and engage your core!
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