We’re excited to launch our 2024–25 Season, and with it our first Season Subscription Package!
The season features four productions that explore the role of compassion in human life, our need to both give and receive mercy, and the deepest longings of the human heart.
From classics such as Antigone and It’s a Wonderful Life, to contemporary works inspired by timeless stories: Dante 360 and the world premier of Ionéu, a mythical retelling of the story of Jonah and the Whale—each of these productions invites us into an encounter with beauty, and offers an opportunity to experience truths of human existence in a meaningful way.
We’re excited to launch our 2024–25 Season, and with it our first Season Subscription Package!
The season features four productions that explore the role of compassion in human life, our need to both give and receive mercy, and the deepest longings of the human heart.
From classics such as Antigone and It’s a Wonderful Life, to contemporary works inspired by timeless stories: Dante 360 and the world premier of Ionéu, a mythical retelling of the story of Jonah and the Whale—each of these productions invites us into an encounter with beauty, and offers an opportunity to experience truths of human existence in a meaningful way.
We’re excited to launch our 2024–25 Season, and with it our first Season Subscription Package!
The season features four productions that explore the role of compassion in human life, our need to both give and receive mercy, and the deepest longings of the human heart.
From classics such as Antigone and It’s a Wonderful Life, to contemporary works inspired by timeless stories: Dante 360 and the world premier of Ionéu, a mythical retelling of the story of Jonah and the Whale—each of these productions invites us into an encounter with beauty, and offers an opportunity to experience truths of human existence in a meaningful way.
We’re excited to launch our 2024–25 Season, and with it our first Season Subscription Package!
The season features four productions that explore the role of compassion in human life, our need to both give and receive mercy, and the deepest longings of the human heart.
From classics such as Antigone and It’s a Wonderful Life, to contemporary works inspired by timeless stories: Dante 360 and the world premier of Ionéu, a mythical retelling of the story of Jonah and the Whale—each of these productions invites us into an encounter with beauty, and offers an opportunity to experience truths of human existence in a meaningful way.
Executive/Artistic Director and Associate Director, Lawrence and Katie Joy Daufenbach.
Executive/Artistic Director and Associate Director, Lawrence and Katie Joy Daufenbach.
Dante 360
Dante 360 takes you on a journey through the Divine Comedy, from Inferno to Paradiso, through the lens of art historian Elizabeth Lev in an immersive, multi-dimensional production.
November 8–10, 2024
It’s a Wonderful Life
This tender, comic, all-American classic is presented as a live radio play, drawing in the audience brought together by love of art, family, and social ties to our community.
December 13–29, 2024
Antigone
In our production of this classic story, we explore themes of love & loyalty, justice and allegiance to our country and to God.
March 7–April 6, 2025
Ionéu
Jonah and the Whale is reimagined in this thrilling, heart-breaking, frightening, beautiful, dangerous, triumphant, and fantastical story that comes to life with the sounds of choral poetry, folk tunes and the resonating insights of a Greek chorus.
May 23–June 22, 2025
What do Dante Alighieri’s pilgrim Dante, Frank Capra’s George Bailey, Sophocles’ Antigone, and the Bible’s Jonah have to do with each other?
This year’s season explores at least one thing that ties these four characters’ stories together: compassion. What is compassion? Why is humanity so vexed by its paradoxical nature—the noble desire to live it, the excruciating need to receive it and the superhuman strength so often required to practice it? This year’s Dante 360 highlights the central role that Beatrice’s pity plays in Dante’s emergence from the dark wood of hopelessness and exile. In It’s a Wonderful Life, George Bailey returns to remind us that self-sacrificing friendships build meaning in our personal lives. In Antigone and Ionéu (Jonah) we witness the tragedies that are averted by compassion practiced at personal cost, and those that befall when that cost is deemed too high.
This year’s season explores at least one thing that ties these four characters’ stories together: compassion. What is compassion? Why is humanity so vexed by its paradoxical nature—the noble desire to live it, the excruciating need to receive it and the superhuman strength so often required to practice it? This year’s Dante 360 highlights the central role that Beatrice’s pity plays in Dante’s emergence from the dark wood of hopelessness and exile. In It’s a Wonderful Life, George Bailey returns to remind us that self-sacrificing friendships build meaning in our personal lives. In Antigone and Ionéu (Jonah) we witness the tragedies that are averted by compassion practiced at personal cost, and those that occur when that cost is deemed too high.
—Peggy Garvey, Associate Artistic Director
Become a Subscriber
- Up to 20% off your tickets
- Select a minimum of 2 plays or for the full experience all 4
- Choose your dates in advance but receive free ticket exchanges (we know, plans change)
- 20% off at the Bar in the Paradiso or at our concessions and pop-up bars
- Receive 15% off companion tickets for shows you are attending
- Discounted ticket opportunities for other shows
Season Sponsors
We would like to thank the individuals and companies dedicated to supporting the arts in our community who are our key supporters for this upcoming season.
