Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company has revealed the complete dates for its 2024–2025 season. As previously reported, the new season includes five world premiere plays.
Mona Pirnot's I'm Assuming You Know David Greenspan will make its world premiere in the company's Atlantic Stage 2 space, running January 8-February 9, 2025. Opening night is set for January 21. The work is reportedly about life as a career playwright, with Greenspan to star as four millennial women. Ken Rus Schmoll is directing.
Eliya Smith's Grief Camp will concurrently make its premiere January 9-February 16 in the Linda Gross Theater with Les Waters at the helm. Opening night is set for January 28. The piece is described in press notes as "a study of loss and adolescence," set at a Virginia summer camp.
The season's Atlantic for Kids musical is Elephant & Piggie's "We Are in a Play!," running February 1-23 in the Linda Gross Theater. Based on the Elephant & Piggie books by Mo Willems, the work features a book and lyrics by Willems, direction and choreography by MK Lawson, and music and music direction by Deborah Wicks La Puma.
Back in the Linda Gross, Ethan Coen's Let's Love! will make its premiere with a March 19-April 27 run, directed by Artistic Director Neil Pepe. The work is a trio of one-acts exploring love.
Previously slated for a fall 2024 run, NSangou Njikam's A Freeky Introduction will now run May 16-June 15 at Atlantic Stage 2. Njikam will star as Freeky Dee, who is there to lead audiences towards freedom with a mix of poetry, ministry, and magic. Njikam will be joined by DJ Monday Blue, with Dennis A. Allen II directing.
The season will close with Abby Rosebrock's Lowcountry, following an under-employed actor who returns to her rural hometown and finds herself romantically linked to a high school teacher with a record. Jo Bonney is directing, with performances to run May 29-July 6.
Visit AtlanticTheater.org for more information.