The work follows Huey as he enlists his best friend Aldo to help negotiate a reconciliation with his ex-wife Janice.

The work follows Huey as he enlists his best friend Aldo to help negotiate a reconciliation with his ex-wife Janice.

The Archive: New Works by Black Women presents its third annual Archive Reading Series, as its main programmatic event of the year! The Archive continues to offer production resources to four black femme playwrights to workshop and stage read their plays.

PLAYWRIGHTS: Natalie Braye, Tah-Janay Shayoñe, Adama Sall, Mia Sterbini

The work follows Huey as he enlists his best friend Aldo to help negotiate a reconciliation with his ex-wife Janice.

The Archive: New Works by Black Women presents its third annual Archive Reading Series, as its main programmatic event of the year! The Archive continues to offer production resources to four black femme playwrights to workshop and stage read their plays.

PLAYWRIGHTS: Natalie Braye, Tah-Janay Shayoñe, Adama Sall, Mia Sterbini

A group of friends escape to the Berkshires for a week-long getaway almost a year after their friend Abby’s untimely passing. Despite their efforts to keep their pasts outside the walls of their secluded AirBnB cabin, their grief continues to haunt them until they have no choice but to confront it or die trying to avoid it. A play about bugs, strangers in the woods, and the unrelenting grasp of guilt.

A group of friends escape to the Berkshires for a week-long getaway almost a year after their friend Abby’s untimely passing. Despite their efforts to keep their pasts outside the walls of their secluded AirBnB cabin, their grief continues to haunt them until they have no choice but to confront it or die trying to avoid it. A play about bugs, strangers in the woods, and the unrelenting grasp of guilt.

Ooh, you feel that on your neck? That tantalizing whisper? That’s capitalism, and she wants you bad. OBIE Award winning artist Jenn Kidwell and Brandon Kazen-Maddox answer capitalism’s siren call in an evening of hysterical undertakings. The world premiere of we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism, instigated by the artistic collective the blackening, debunks the alluring tale of American economic might weaving stand-up comedy, performance art, and the carnivalesque. You know you can’t resist.

Ooh, you feel that on your neck? That tantalizing whisper? That’s capitalism, and she wants you bad. OBIE Award winning artist Jenn Kidwell and Brandon Kazen-Maddox answer capitalism’s siren call in an evening of hysterical undertakings. The world premiere of we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism, instigated by the artistic collective the blackening, debunks the alluring tale of American economic might weaving stand-up comedy, performance art, and the carnivalesque. You know you can’t resist.

Ooh, you feel that on your neck? That tantalizing whisper? That’s capitalism, and she wants you bad. OBIE Award winning artist Jenn Kidwell and Brandon Kazen-Maddox answer capitalism’s siren call in an evening of hysterical undertakings. The world premiere of we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism, instigated by the artistic collective the blackening, debunks the alluring tale of American economic might weaving stand-up comedy, performance art, and the carnivalesque. You know you can’t resist.

A group of friends escape to the Berkshires for a week-long getaway almost a year after their friend Abby’s untimely passing. Despite their efforts to keep their pasts outside the walls of their secluded AirBnB cabin, their grief continues to haunt them until they have no choice but to confront it or die trying to avoid it. A play about bugs, strangers in the woods, and the unrelenting grasp of guilt.

Ooh, you feel that on your neck? That tantalizing whisper? That’s capitalism, and she wants you bad. OBIE Award winning artist Jenn Kidwell and Brandon Kazen-Maddox answer capitalism’s siren call in an evening of hysterical undertakings. The world premiere of we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism, instigated by the artistic collective the blackening, debunks the alluring tale of American economic might weaving stand-up comedy, performance art, and the carnivalesque. You know you can’t resist.

A group of friends escape to the Berkshires for a week-long getaway almost a year after their friend Abby’s untimely passing. Despite their efforts to keep their pasts outside the walls of their secluded AirBnB cabin, their grief continues to haunt them until they have no choice but to confront it or die trying to avoid it. A play about bugs, strangers in the woods, and the unrelenting grasp of guilt.

A group of friends escape to the Berkshires for a week-long getaway almost a year after their friend Abby’s untimely passing. Despite their efforts to keep their pasts outside the walls of their secluded AirBnB cabin, their grief continues to haunt them until they have no choice but to confront it or die trying to avoid it. A play about bugs, strangers in the woods, and the unrelenting grasp of guilt.

Ooh, you feel that on your neck? That tantalizing whisper? That’s capitalism, and she wants you bad. OBIE Award winning artist Jenn Kidwell and Brandon Kazen-Maddox answer capitalism’s siren call in an evening of hysterical undertakings. The world premiere of we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism, instigated by the artistic collective the blackening, debunks the alluring tale of American economic might weaving stand-up comedy, performance art, and the carnivalesque. You know you can’t resist.

Ooh, you feel that on your neck? That tantalizing whisper? That’s capitalism, and she wants you bad. OBIE Award winning artist Jenn Kidwell and Brandon Kazen-Maddox answer capitalism’s siren call in an evening of hysterical undertakings. The world premiere of we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism, instigated by the artistic collective the blackening, debunks the alluring tale of American economic might weaving stand-up comedy, performance art, and the carnivalesque. You know you can’t resist.

A group of friends escape to the Berkshires for a week-long getaway almost a year after their friend Abby’s untimely passing. Despite their efforts to keep their pasts outside the walls of their secluded AirBnB cabin, their grief continues to haunt them until they have no choice but to confront it or die trying to avoid it. A play about bugs, strangers in the woods, and the unrelenting grasp of guilt.

A group of friends escape to the Berkshires for a week-long getaway almost a year after their friend Abby’s untimely passing. Despite their efforts to keep their pasts outside the walls of their secluded AirBnB cabin, their grief continues to haunt them until they have no choice but to confront it or die trying to avoid it. A play about bugs, strangers in the woods, and the unrelenting grasp of guilt.

Ooh, you feel that on your neck? That tantalizing whisper? That’s capitalism, and she wants you bad. OBIE Award winning artist Jenn Kidwell and Brandon Kazen-Maddox answer capitalism’s siren call in an evening of hysterical undertakings. The world premiere of we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism, instigated by the artistic collective the blackening, debunks the alluring tale of American economic might weaving stand-up comedy, performance art, and the carnivalesque. You know you can’t resist.

Set in an Oklahoma high school in December 2023, this is the story of an educator who, ready to retire, decides on her last day she is going to educate high school students about medicated abortions, crisis pregnancy centers, and how to be a caring companion to someone having an abortion. Acknowledging she's in a ban state, with consent from her students, she locks them inside their auditorium, and risks it all by providing links like this one...https://www.plancpills.org/.

Ooh, you feel that on your neck? That tantalizing whisper? That’s capitalism, and she wants you bad. OBIE Award winning artist Jenn Kidwell and Brandon Kazen-Maddox answer capitalism’s siren call in an evening of hysterical undertakings. The world premiere of we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism, instigated by the artistic collective the blackening, debunks the alluring tale of American economic might weaving stand-up comedy, performance art, and the carnivalesque. You know you can’t resist.

A group of friends escape to the Berkshires for a week-long getaway almost a year after their friend Abby’s untimely passing. Despite their efforts to keep their pasts outside the walls of their secluded AirBnB cabin, their grief continues to haunt them until they have no choice but to confront it or die trying to avoid it. A play about bugs, strangers in the woods, and the unrelenting grasp of guilt.

A group of friends escape to the Berkshires for a week-long getaway almost a year after their friend Abby’s untimely passing. Despite their efforts to keep their pasts outside the walls of their secluded AirBnB cabin, their grief continues to haunt them until they have no choice but to confront it or die trying to avoid it. A play about bugs, strangers in the woods, and the unrelenting grasp of guilt.

Ooh, you feel that on your neck? That tantalizing whisper? That’s capitalism, and she wants you bad. OBIE Award winning artist Jenn Kidwell and Brandon Kazen-Maddox answer capitalism’s siren call in an evening of hysterical undertakings. The world premiere of we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism, instigated by the artistic collective the blackening, debunks the alluring tale of American economic might weaving stand-up comedy, performance art, and the carnivalesque. You know you can’t resist.

A group of friends escape to the Berkshires for a week-long getaway almost a year after their friend Abby’s untimely passing. Despite their efforts to keep their pasts outside the walls of their secluded AirBnB cabin, their grief continues to haunt them until they have no choice but to confront it or die trying to avoid it. A play about bugs, strangers in the woods, and the unrelenting grasp of guilt.

Ooh, you feel that on your neck? That tantalizing whisper? That’s capitalism, and she wants you bad. OBIE Award winning artist Jenn Kidwell and Brandon Kazen-Maddox answer capitalism’s siren call in an evening of hysterical undertakings. The world premiere of we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism, instigated by the artistic collective the blackening, debunks the alluring tale of American economic might weaving stand-up comedy, performance art, and the carnivalesque. You know you can’t resist.

The night features theater-maker Jewels Galindo worksharing his new play Niños, exploring an Afro-Caribbean family from Harlem on their journey to redefine family. Host Abel Santiago will DJ the evening, musically curating tributes to Black artists throughout the diaspora with Afro-Caribbean, Soul, R&B, House, and Hip Hop.
Following the featured presentations, we'll open the floor for community work-sharing where you can plug in and share your own works-in-progress.

A group of friends escape to the Berkshires for a week-long getaway almost a year after their friend Abby’s untimely passing. Despite their efforts to keep their pasts outside the walls of their secluded AirBnB cabin, their grief continues to haunt them until they have no choice but to confront it or die trying to avoid it. A play about bugs, strangers in the woods, and the unrelenting grasp of guilt.

Ooh, you feel that on your neck? That tantalizing whisper? That’s capitalism, and she wants you bad. OBIE Award winning artist Jenn Kidwell and Brandon Kazen-Maddox answer capitalism’s siren call in an evening of hysterical undertakings. The world premiere of we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism, instigated by the artistic collective the blackening, debunks the alluring tale of American economic might weaving stand-up comedy, performance art, and the carnivalesque. You know you can’t resist.

A group of friends escape to the Berkshires for a week-long getaway almost a year after their friend Abby’s untimely passing. Despite their efforts to keep their pasts outside the walls of their secluded AirBnB cabin, their grief continues to haunt them until they have no choice but to confront it or die trying to avoid it. A play about bugs, strangers in the woods, and the unrelenting grasp of guilt.