Season 21: 2023-2024
The Chinese Lady by Lloyd Suh
Atwater by Fred Thompson
(World Premiere)
Season 20: 2022-2023
A Hidden Life by Randy Neale
(World Premiere)
Clyde’s by Lynn Nottage
Hangmen by Martin McDonagh
Septima by Patricia Lessane
(World Premiere)
Compulsion: Or the House Behind by Rinne Groff
Season 19: 2021-2022
Mlima’s Tale by Lynn Nottage
Boy Vey by Rachel Kaftan
(Piccolo Spoleto Festival)
Honoria Quietly Drawing Strength From Her Truth by Clifton Campbell
Ben Butler by Richard Strand
Little Gem by Elaine Murphy
The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey by James Lecesne
(Dock Street Theatre, Cannon Street Arts Center, and Cannon Street Arts Center Outdoor Space)
Constellations by Nick Payne
(Fall Nights at Battery Gadsden)
Buyer & Cellar by Jonathan Tolins
(Fall Nights at Battery Gadsden)
Season 18: 2020-2021
No Child by Nilaja Sun
Satchmo at the Waldorf by Terry Teachout
Stages by David Lee Nelson
(PURE Live Reprise)
Retcon by Michael Smallwood
(Bearing Witness Series)
Denmark: Every Man Has a Story by Dr. Ade Ajani Ofyniyin
(Bearing Witness Series)
Last Rites by Randy Neale
(Bearing Witness Series)
The Agitators by Mat Smart
(Reprise)
Season 17: 2019-2020
Last Rites by Randy Neale
Osceola’s Muse
(Battery Gasden)
The Lifespan of a Fact by Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell & Gordon Farrell
Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney
MOJA Arts Festival
(Dock Street Theatre + Cannon Street Arts Center)
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos
The Children by Lucy Kirkwood
Becoming Dr. Ruth by Mark St. Germain
(Summer Slam)
Season 16: 2018–2019
Sweat by Lynn Nottage (Dock Street Theatre)
True West by Sam Shepard
Fool for Love by Sam Shepard
A Doll’s House, Part 2 by Lucas Hnath
Small Mouth Sounds by Bess Wohl
The Agitators by Mat Smart
Sweat by Lynn Nottage
(Queen Street Theatre encore, Piccolo Spoleto Festival)
Butcher Stories by Andy Livengood
(Piccolo Spoleto Festival)
The Why by Victor Kaufold
(Piccolo Spoleto Festival, PURE Apprentice Company
Season 15: 2017–2018
If I Forget by Steven Levenson
The Royale by Marco Ramirez
Fun Home
Music by Jeanine Tesori, Book & Lyrics by Lisa Kron, Based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel
This Random World by Steven Dietz
Straight White Men by Young Jean Lee
Fully Committed by Becky Mode
Stages by David Lee Nelson (World Premiere – Piccolo Spoleto Festival)
Season 14: 2016–2017
The Christians by Lucas Hnath
The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh
Underneath the Lintel by Glen Berger
The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence by Madeleine George
Our Mother’s Brief Affair by Richard Greenberg
Father Comes Home from the Wars: Parts 1, 2 & 3 by Suzan-Lori Parks
Buyer & Cellar by Jonathan Tolins
(Piccolo Spoleto Festival)
The Gentleman Pirate by Rodney Lee Rogers
(Piccolo Spoleto Festival)
Season 13: 2015–2016
Rapture, Blister, Burn by Gina Gionfriddo
Failure: A Love Story by Philip Dawkins
Holiday Shorts from the PURE Lab
The Realistic Joneses by Will Eno
A Sudden Spontaneous Event by David Lee Nelson
Constellations by Nick Payne
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Adapted for the stage by Stephen Sachs
(Piccolo Spoleto Festival)
Buyer & Cellar by Jonathan Tolins
(Summer Slam)
Season 12: 2014–2015
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang
Slowgirl by Greg Pierce
Holiday Shorts from the PURE Lab
new work by David Lee Nelson, Rodney Lee Rogers, R.W. Smith, Donnetta Lavinia Grays & Emily Bohannon
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
Outside Mullingar by John Patrick Shanley
Marie Antoinette by David Adjmi
No Child . . . by Nilaja Sun
(Piccolo Spoleto Festival)
Sic Semper Tyrannis by Rodney Lee Rogers
(Piccolo Spoleto Festival)
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín
(Piccolo Spoleto Festival)
Bad Jews by Joshua Harmon
(2015 Summer Slam)
Season 11: 2013–2014
Tribes by Nina Raine
The Birds by Conor McPherson
Penelope by Enda Walsh
Russian Transport by Erika Sheffer
Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín
(Piccolo Spoleto Festival)
Folly Beach by David Lee Nelson
(Summer Slam)
Season X: 2012–2013
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz
Good People by David Lindsay-Abaire
The Motherf**ker with the Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Parhelia by Arlene Hutton
(workshop production)
Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris
The Mountaintop by Katori Hall
Annapurna by Sharr White
(Summer Slam)
Season 9: 2011–2012
Red by John Logan
In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) by Sarah Ruhl
Waffle Haus Christmas by Rodney Lee Rogers
A Behanding in Spokane by Martin McDonagh
Next Fall by Geoffrey Nauffts
Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies
Love Song by John Kolvenbach
(Summer Slam)
Season 8: 2010–2011
Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker
AWOL by Joanna Crowell
Waffle Haus Christmas by Rodney Lee Rogers
Superior Donuts by Tracy Letts
Fool’s Lear by Randy Neale
(co-production with Nomad Theatre, NYC)
Race by David Mamet
Season 7: 2009–2010
Low Country Boil by R.W. Smith
(Summer Slam)
Ginger: A Hansel & Gretel Tale by Rodney Lee Rogers
Yankee Tavern by Steven Dietz
It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play adapted by Joe Landry
The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
a reading with the Tectonic Theatre Project
Up by Bridget Carpenter
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Season 6: 2008–2009
Speech & Debate by Stephen Karam
(Summer Slam)
The Gentleman Pirate created & performed by Rodney Lee Rogers
Sheep’s Clothing by Spencer Deering
Hogs by Rodney Lee Rogers
The Last Five Years written & composed by Jason Robert Brown
Faith, Hope & Charity by Odon von Horvath
Season 5: 2007–2008
Horse Tranqs & Carriage People by R.W. Smith
(Summer Slam)
The Seafarer by Conor McPherson
Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl
The Tragedian by Rodney Lee Rogers
PURE Holidays II: New Plays from the PURE Lab
Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
365 Plays by Suzan Lori-Parks
(Free Night of Theatre)
Shining City by Conor McPherson
Season 4: 2006–2007
Killer Joe by Tracy Letts
(Summer Slam)
Cloud Tectonics by Jose Rivera
Coyote Picnic by Patrick Sharbaugh
Colder than Here by Laura Wade
The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh
PURE Holidays: Plays from the PURE Lab
Killing Chickens by Rodney Lee Rogers
Grace by Craig Wright
36 Views by Naomi Iizuka
Season 3: 2005–2006
Man from Nebraska by Tracy Letts
Thom Pain (based on nothing) by Will Eno
The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh
Fairgrounds by Rodney Lee Rogers
Bring It to the Table: Various Plays from the PURE Lab
Doolymoog written & performed by John Paulsen
This Is How It Goes by Neil LaBute
Reckless by Craig Lucas
A Number by Caryl Churchill
Spinning into Butter by Rebecca Gilman
Season 2: 2004–2005
American Buffalo by David Mamet
Perfect Ten: 10-Minute Plays from the PURE Lab
The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh
What Comes Around by Rodney Lee Rogers
Underneath the Lintel by Glen Berger
Fully Committed by Becky Mode
True West by Sam Shepard
Jesus Hopped the “A” Train by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Season 1: 2003–2004
The Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute
Fully Committed by Becky Mode
Tell by Rodney Lee Rogers
Lobby Hero by Kenneth Lonergan
