FORWARD THEATER COMPANY

The Wisconsin Directors Lab, taking place on January 4th and 5th, 2025, at Madison College, aims to nurture early- to mid-career theater directors in Wisconsin. ...

Clyde's, written by the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, is a powerful dramedy that takes a comedic yet poignant look at redemption and second ...

Danny’s a white, blue-collar, New York City sanitation worker. Marlowe’s the Black, Ivy-educated newbie who just joined his route. Thrown together in the cab of ...

It can mean something different for everyone. For some it is a place, or people, or simply memories made over time. But “home” defines us ...

As part of a rolling world premiere, Forward Theater Company will present its final production in the 2020-21 season, 46 Plays for America's First Ladies, ...

Rolling world premiere | Directed by Jennifer Uphoff Gray Forty-six plays. Forty-six First Ladies. This 100-minute journey through American history utilizes comedy, drama, music, dance ...

Forward Theater Company continues their 12th season in digital fashion, presenting The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess. The play will be streaming online via overture.org beginning ...

In The Niceties, Zoe, a Black student at a liberal arts college, is called into her white professors office to discuss her paper about slaverys ...

A one-actor play featuring David Daniel. Directed by Tyler Marchant.Presented in-the-round in The Playhouse at Overture CenterAn immersive storytelling experience blends comedy, improv, and audience ...

Sarah Ruhl; dir: Jennifer Uphoff Gray....

During a rain-drenched summer in New York City, an indefatigable single mother navigates the mundane, shattering and sublime aspects of caring for a chronically sick ...

The Playhouse:...

The Playhouse: Aaron Posner; dir: Jennifer Uphoff Gray....

Amidst the bustle of a crowded London train station, Georgie spots Alex, a much older man, and plants a kiss on his neck. This electric ...

Fun Home is a Tony Award-winning musical based on Alison Bechdel's 2006 graphic memoir of the same name. The musical features music by Jeanine Tesori ...

It’s the age of artificial intelligence, and 85-year-old Marjorie — a jumble of disparate, fading memories — has a handsome new companion who’s programmed to ...

The no-holds-barred story of a Chicago public high school slated for closure at the end of the year. The impending shut-down causes tensions in the ...

Anthony arrives at Caroline’s door bearing waffle fries, a beat-up copy of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, and an urgent assignment from their high school ...

Forward Theater Company’s biennial Wisconsin Wrights New Play Festival is an investment in new works that awards Wisconsin playwrights the rare opportunity to develop their ...

Welcome to Southie, a Boston neighborhood where a night on the town means a few rounds of bingo… where this month’s paycheck covers last month’s ...

Forward Theater presents an evening dedicated to love and relationships – stories of courtship, marriage, and the inevitable evolution of relationships over time. Follow one ...

The art world is ecstatic when a box of stunning black and white photos from the ’30s is discovered amongst some long-lost possessions of Ernest ...

In collaboration with the UW Madison Department of Theatre and Drama/University Theatre Philo T. Farnsworth is a visionary. A farm boy from Idaho, he can ...