The Cry of the Reed
by Sinan Unel
directed by Daniel Goldstein

A journalist and her colleague find themselves unexpectedly "detained" by a band of insurgents as bombs rain down on a wartorn landscape. Her captors offer her one telephone call - a chance to reconnect with the mother she hasn't spoken to in 10 years, now living in Turkey and preparing for a festival celebrating the great Sufi poet Rumi. History, religion, and the beauty of whirling dervishes collide in this powerful portrait of a world at war.

November 2 at 4pm

Presented in partnership with the Huntington Theatre Company

Thursdays at the Lark is supported with funds from the New York State Council for the Arts, a state agency.

Lark’s Romanian Exchange continues…

Presented in partnership with the Romanian Cultural Institute

How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
adapted from the novel by Julia Alvarez
by Karen Zacarías
directed by Blake Robison

A sexy, sensual, and wildly theatrical adaptation of
Julia Alvarez's acclaimed best-selling novel which chronicles a family from the Dominican Republic. The story centers on the rebelliousness of the four Garcia daughters' against their elders. A look at immigration, family, and America from a Hispanic perspective.

December 13 at 7pm

Thursdays at the Lark is supported with funds from the New York State Council for the Arts, a state agency.

She Like Girls
by Chisa Hutchinson
directed by Kristin Horton

With: Jeffrey Biehl*, Willie Cofield, Karen Eilbacher, Audrey Esparza,
Kimberly Hébert Gregory*, Taifa Harris*, Jennifer Joplin*, Jared McNeill,
Maria-Christina Oliveras* and Amelia Workman

Inspired by the 2003 murder of a lesbian teenager in Newark, NJ, She Like Girls is the story of two inner-city high school girls who fall in love in a dangerously homophobic climate.

A Palestinian-American graduate student is interrogated and accused of terrorism by an Arab-American FBI agent, who tells her that her boyfriend used her as a pawn in a terrorist plot.  She must now decide whether to reveal evidence that may entrap her lover and herself.

Thursday, February 28 @ 7pm & Friday, February 29 @ 7pm

Thursdays at the Lark is supported with funds from the New York State Council for the Arts, a state agency.

a public reading of...

Jeanne Sakata's
DAWN'S LIGHT:
THE JOURNEY OF GORDON HIRABAYASHI

directed by Lisa Rothe / featuring Thom Sesma

A one-person show inspired by the true story of Gordon Hirabayashi a 24-year-old college student who, during World War II, openly defied and legally challenged U.S. government orders to forcibly remove and imprison over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry into desolate concentration camps. Throughout this shocking upheaval, his subsequent imprisonment, and a Supreme Court trial, Gordon struggles to arrive at a deeper understanding of America 's triumphs and failures.

presented in partnership with

originally commissioned by
Center Theatre Group's Asian Theatre Workshop in 2003.

2 n d A n n u a l
P l a y w r i g h t s' W o r k s h o p R e a d i n g s

Every year, select writers develop new plays in Lark’s Playwright’s Workshop program, led by
Arthur Kopit and co-hosted by esteemed writers like David Henry Hwang, Tina Howe, Theresa Rebeck, and Doug Wright. For the 2nd year, the Lark presents this raw, in-progress work

May 19 - Carson Kreitzer
Tuesday, May 20 - James Price
Wednesday, May 21 - Katori Hall
Thursday, May 22 - Kenneth Lin
Thursday, May 29 - Jeroen van den Berg (P. Wrkshp 2006-07)

enchantment by carson kreitzer — May 19
Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna in 1903 and died in Chicago in 1990, barbituates in his bloodstream and a plastic bag over his face. In the time between, he studied Freudian psychiatry, spent time in Dachau and Buchenwald, a guest of the Third Reich, put forth (and then disavowed) the theory that autism was caused by bad mothering, and wrote "The Uses of Enchantment", a popular and somewhat scandalously freudian book on fairy tales. Temple Grandin is a high-functioning autistic woman who designs more humane slaughterhouses. ENCHANTMENT explores the reverberations between these two extraordinary lives.

collision course by james price — May 20
Benny Baxter was on his way to a promising career in astro-physics when a personal tragedy sent him reeling, out of the world of science, and into a Fed Ex truck. Content to live out his life in the tangible world of overnight package delivery, one day he meets the love of his life, Angel—an event that sets in motion a series or events that would change his life, Angel’s life, and the life of his obsessed parents. Along the way, others are pulled in to the drama as the dominos fall and secrets are revealed. Collision Course explores the realms of the divine, fate, and chance to ultimately ask the question, what are we doing with our time here on earth, and do we really  have a say in the direction of our lives when all is said and done.

the mountaintop by katori hall —May 21
April 3, 1968. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. retires to room 306 in the Lorraine Motel. When a mysterious young hotel maid comes to visit him during the night, King is forced to confront his mortality and the future of his people.

genius in love (formerly titled Dovetail) by kenneth lin —May 22
Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton, two giants of The Enlightenment independently and spontaneously invented calculus in the late 17th Century. They accused each other of plagiarism and create a rift between German and English intellectual society that would last for generations. In DOVETAIL, a play written in modern verse, these two giants meet at the ends of their lives to consider why a world that teetered on the precipice of the industrial revolution (following generations of plague, war, famine and blight) needed Calculus, a study of the rates at which things change, so badly that two of its master thinkers set about creating it and destroying each other in the process.

injury time by jeroen van den berg —May 29
Four elderly people have to spend their remaining years together in a senior residence. In this unfamiliar environment, they struggle to make their lives worth living. They try to hold on to fading memories or to find the love of their lives. Or they just wait for their heart to stop beating and free them from the burden of a life without meaning.

Readings begin at 7pm

Tina Girlstar
book by Anton Dudley
lyrics by Charlie Sohne
music by Brian Feinstein

An aging record producer decides her swan song will be to create the world's greatest Pop Princess, literally piece by piece.  Tina Girlstar is a musical story of the destructive power of desire and the redemptive possibilities of true talent. 

June 6 at 4pm

Thursdays at the Lark is supported with funds from the New York State Council for the Arts, a state agency.