The Umbrella Stage Company returns this fall with a line-up featuring iconic characters and stories in a series of productions that enable the Company to celebrate the full range of its renovated space!

A feminist revenge fantasy, really
Based on the novel by Bram Stoker
BY KATE HAMILL
9/30-10/23

125 years after its publication, Bram Stoker’s Dracula still looms large, thrilled to and interpreted by each generation in turn. And now, Kate Hamill – one of the most produced playwrights in America for 3 years running – sinks her teeth into the seductive tale and its patriarchal take on the modern woman. You’re in for a fun, fearless ride when the Count meets his match – and the #MeToo movement – in this fast-paced, theatrical tour de force.

How do you measure a year in a life?
BOOK, MUSIC AND LYRICS BY JONATHAN LARSON
11/11-12/4

The Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning phenomenon invites us into the lives of a group of artists and friends in NYC’s East Village as they struggle through the AIDS epidemic and financial hardship to follow their dreams without selling out. For almost 30 years RENT has inspired generations of audiences to choose love over fear and to live without regret. This is theater at its best – exuberant, passionate and joyous. La Vie Boheme!

A World Premiere Commission by The Umbrella Stage Co.
BY HORTENSE GERARDO
3/31-4/23

Meena and her Filipino family are immigrants, newcomers to a homey Midwestern suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Against a backdrop that takes us from the tumultuous 1960’s to the first decades of the new millennium, we follow them as they assimilate to this new life. With a wry and darkly comic voice, playwright Hortense Gerardo shares the Asian American Pacific Islander immigrant experience in this newly commissioned work, and the raw, loving, laugh-out-loud honesty that is family and the pursuit of the American dream.

A joyous testament to the healing power of love
BY MARSHA NORMAN, MUSIC AND LYRICS BY BRENDA RUSSELL, ALLEE WILLIS, AND STEPHEN BRAY
5/12-6/4

This glorious musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel spotlights Celie, a young woman whose personal awakening over the course of 40 years forms the arc of an epic story. With a joyous Tony Award-winning score featuring jazz, ragtime, gospel, African music and blues, The Color Purple is a story of hope, an intensely moving American classic, and a triumphant theatrical treasure.

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