Trinity Rep Announces Dynamic Lineup for Sixty-First Season

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Though a diamond jubilee would normally be a tough act to follow for any theater, Trinity Rep is taking its sixty-first season in stride with a fantastic five-show subscription and, of course, its signature fresh retelling of A Christmas Carol. The new season will kick off in September this year and conclude in June 2025.

“This season’s plays are about coming together and overcoming past conflict to find a way forward,” says artistic director Curt Columbus. “It is about creating unexpected alliances and home away from home. These plays are filled with humor, pathos, and great drama. It is a stellar collection of theatrical work that will bring people together in profound and surprising ways.”

Two female-centric comedies will open the season and play in rotating repertory between September 5 and November 17. Written by Selina Fillinger and directed by Columbus, POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive is described as “a political farce about seven women in the president’s inner circle who are tasked with wrangling an ever-spiraling PR disaster.” Meanwhile, former Cleveland Play House artistic director Laura Kepley will return to Trinity Rep for the first time in fifteen years to direct Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson. The quirky murder mystery comedy is a contemporary, gender bent reimagination of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s celebrated novels.

Next, during the holiday season, Trinity Rep will debut its forty-eighth iteration of A Christmas Carol. Director Tatyana-Marie Carlo — whose past collaborations with the theater include La Broa’ (Broad Street) and the Inferior Sex —aims to bring a joyous, festive and fun perspective to the timeless story. Note: because Trinity’s Rep’s Chace Theater will be undergoing renovations at this time, the production will be held off-site with the exact location and dates to be announced soon.

Then, from January 23 to February 23, 2025, the theatre will introduce the world premiere of Someone Will Remember Us, a collaboration between resident playwright and Deborah Salem Smith, resident company member Charlie Thurston, and former Director of Community Engagement Dr. Michelle Cruz. Directed by Christopher Windom, Someone Will Remember Us is a follow-up to Smith’s 2006 play Boots on the Ground and it explores the struggles and opportunities of various groups including U.S. military veterans, a Gold-Star family, Iraqi civilians and refugees living in Rhode Island.

Just a month later from March 27 to April 27 comes La Tempestad, a translated and adapted version of the Tempest by William Shakespeare. Translated and adapted by Tatyana-Marie Carlo, Leandro “Kufa” Castro, and Orlando Hernández, the script was originally produced with Rhode Island Latino Arts for Teatro en El Verano, the organization’s bilingual summer theater program.

Finally, the season will end with Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage, directed by resident company member Jackie Davis. Set during the Harlem Renaissance, this powerful drama features themes of finding direction through personal and political conflicts, which resonate just as strongly nearly 100 years after the time period it is set. Blues for an Alabama Sky will play in the Dowling Theater May 29 through June 29.

Interested in catching all of the above? Season subscriptions go on sale May 15. Learn more about the season and ticket purchases at trinityrep.com.