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 An acclaimed hit in New York and Los Angeles, FATHERLAND is the true story of the 18-year-old son who turned in the father he loves to the FBI because of his dad’s role in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Fast-paced and powerful, this riveting drama erupts verbatim from official court transcripts, case evidence, and public statements from the explosive trial that ignited a media frenzy and grabbed headlines nationwide. 

 INTERNATIONAL HIT! Maude, a fifty-something unemployed bartender living in a trailer park, has bought a painting for a few bucks from a thrift store. Despite almost trashing it, she’s now convinced it’s a lost masterpiece by Jackson Pollock worth millions. But when world-class art expert Lionel Percy flies over from New York and arrives at her trailer home in Bakersfield to authenticate the painting, he has no idea what he is about to discover. Inspired by true events, this hilarious and thought-provoking comedy-drama asks vital questions about what makes art and people truly authentic. 

 The award-winning stage adaptation of the Claudia Rankine book. A searing, poetic riff on race in America, fusing prose, poetry, movement, music, and the visual image. Snapshots, vignettes, on the acts of everyday racism. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams, online, on TV—everywhere, all the time. Those did-that-really-just-happen-did-they-really-just-say-that slurs that happen every day and enrage in the moment and later steep poisonously in the mind. And, of course, those larger incidents that become national or international firestorms. As Rankine writes, “This is how you are a citizen.” 

 A re-imagined adaptation of August Strindberg’s masterpiece, set in Mississippi on the night of July 4, 1964, two days after the signing of the Civil Rights Act, during the explosive Freedom Summer of the Civil Rights Era. The white Miss Julie and her black chauffeur, John, struggle for independence and freedom from the personal and social demons that bind them. This sexually-charged social drama explores racial and sexual tensions in a riveting struggle for power, freedom, and social change. 

Starring MARLEE MATLIN and JEFF DANIELS.  A drama about marriage, power, and identity within a mixed Deaf–hearing relationship.

Laura, who is Deaf and deeply rooted in Deaf culture, is married to Dan, a hearing man who has long acted as her interpreter and bridge to the hearing world. Over time, Dan’s unspoken resentment about the limits he feels Laura’s deafness has placed on his life begins to surface.

When Laura becomes pregnant and learns their child may be deaf, Dan secretly begins arranging cochlear implant surgery, believing the baby must be “fixed.” Laura sees this as a betrayal—an attempt to erase her identity and culture. The conflict exposes long-standing imbalances in their marriage, including Dan’s quiet control and Laura’s marginalization in decisions affecting her own life. As their relationship unravels, Laura asserts her independence and reconnects with the Deaf community, while Dan is forced to confront his fears and need for control. The film ultimately asks whether they can truly learn to communicate as equals—for the first time. 

 Dan and Laura are an attractive young couple happily married for nine years. He is hearing; she is deaf. Dan speaks and uses sign language to communicate with Laura and their 6-year-old deaf son, Adam. His family's deafness has never been an issue for Dan—until a doctor says that Adam should have a cochlear implant—a tiny computer device that would be surgically inserted into his skull to enable the child to hear. A technological miracle? Not to Laura, who sees the device as a threat to deaf culture. In her eyes, the most "natural" thing for Adam is for her boy to remain deaf. To her, deafness is an honor, not a handicap—like being "a flower of a different color." But Dan becomes convinced that it's in Adam's "best interest" to become a "normal" child. The battle to help his deaf son become a hearing boy launches Dan on an emotional journey of self-discovery that exposes hidden prejudices and threatens to shatter his family. "Sweet Nothing in My Ear" was a finalst for the 1998 PEN West Literary Award for Drama.