Our Principles
Do more with less.
Theater is most exciting when artists can make lots of work quickly and audiences can see the work cheaply. In the spirit of community theater, we move fast, operate frugally, and keep prices low. We love problem-solving within constraints. We take risks and prioritize working with new and young talent.
New audiences want meaningful experiences.
We offer intimate live events that respect the audience’s time, money, and desire for authenticity. We love mixing the high and the low, the elaborate and the simple, comedy and tragedy. We are unapologetically earnest. Life is too short for novelty for its own sake. Life is too short for irony without sincerity. Life is too short.
Embrace not knowing.
Our theater is a home for artists to push themselves and take risks, and for audiences to be surprised, delighted, challenged, and moved. We make no assumptions about what is possible, but we want every artistic choice to be generous. If we take care of each other, we can go further into the unknown. We want to do hard things, together.
True wonder in the theater is possible.
There is a world that only theater can access—one that, more than any other art form, recreates the childhood spirit of make-believe. In an imaginative theater, in a brave theater, in a true community theater, we can remember the best version of ourselves.