Season Schedule

Our 2026-2027 Season

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Jane Eyre

November 5-14
Nick Lane’s fresh adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s classic is reimagined for ensemble storytelling with live music and movement. Follow Jane, an orphan who grows into a woman resolved to live by her convictions; an expansive, intimate take on faith, romance, and personal tenacity.

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Ecclesiastes

January 14-16
Arena’s latest spoken-word scripture project — an experiment in memorized, embodied Scripture — asks whether hearing the Bible recited from memory opens up new spiritual and communal possibilities.  Join us for this daring, contemplative exploration.

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Crimes of the Heart

February 19-27
Three sisters gather in their Mississippi hometown after one of them shoots her abusive husband. Sharp, funny, and oddly tender, Beth Henley’s Pulitzer Prize winning dark-comedy probes identity, trauma, and the fragile bonds of family.

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Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812

April 16-24
Dave Malloy’s ground-breaking Broadway opera drawn from a vivid slice of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Pierre Bezhukov works to salvage Natasha Rostova’s shattered reputation- and his own life- amidst a degenerate aristocracy living in denial of a rapidly advancing military invasion.

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Our 2026-2027 Season

loves-labours-lostJane Eyre

November 5-14
Nick Lane’s fresh adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s classic is reimagined for ensemble storytelling with live music and movement. Follow Jane, an orphan who grows into a woman resolved to live by her convictions; an expansive, intimate take on faith, romance, and personal tenacity. 


our-town

Ecclesiastes

January 14-16
Arena’s latest spoken-word scripture project — an experiment in memorized, embodied Scripture — asks whether hearing the Bible recited from memory opens up new spiritual and communal possibilities.  Join us for this daring, contemplative exploration.

silent-skyCrimes of the Heart

February 19-27
Three sisters gather in their Mississippi hometown after one of them shoots her abusive husband. Sharp, funny, and oddly tender, Beth Henley’s Pulitzer Prize winning dark-comedy probes identity, trauma, and the fragile bonds of family.


loves-labours-lost

Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812

April 16-24
Dave Malloy’s ground-breaking Broadway opera drawn from a vivid slice of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Pierre Bezhukov works to salvage Natasha Rostova’s shattered reputation- and his own life- amidst a degenerate aristocracy living in denial of a rapidly advancing military invasion.