THEATRE NOVA

Two young sisters navigate life, family, and sisterhood after an unexpected tragedy* strikes their hometown. Emily is just trying to make it through her senior ...

Swamp Creatures is a new play by Michael Alan Herman, featured in the 2024 Michigan Playwrights Festival at Theatre NOVA. The performance will showcase the ...

Eclipsed: The Sun, The Moon, and Gladys Atkinson Sweet, written by D. L. Patrick, explores the 1925 arrest of Gladys Atkinson Sweet, charged with first-degree ...

Shattered Pieces is a new play by Joël Doty, set to be presented during the 2024 Michigan Playwrights Festival at Theatre NOVA. The production will ...

Cora Lynn Beauty Can Change Your Life, written by Maureen Paraventi, explores themes of self-acceptance and transformation. Directed by Sarah Elisabeth Brown, the play features ...

Emergency Protocol Camouflage, written by Erin Osgood, is part of the 2024 Michigan Playwrights Festival at Theatre NOVA. This staged reading features a talented cast, ...

The Crown Forum is a new play by Craig Ester, set to be presented on August 21, 2024, at Theatre NOVA. Directed by Lynch Travis, ...

DOCTOR MOLOCH by Carla Milarch World Premiere Science Fiction theatre about Artificial Intelligence. It’s 2029, and tech startup VitalAI is about to launch the first ...

THEATRE NOVA PRESENTS  Death of a Driver by Will Snider Michigan Premiere Can two friends from different worlds try to make change before their worlds ...

Maude, a lonely, surly, storefront psychic has accepted that love is not in the cards for her. She can see the future and knows this ...

In post-9/11 Newark, NJ, two teenagers who were brought to America as children become one another’s sanctuaries from harsh circumstances. When G becomes naturalized, she ...

Jim Fingal had one job: to fact-check renowned essayist John DAgatas piece for the high-profile magazine where he interns. But the more Jim digs, the ...

By the Tony Award-winning authors of "Falsettos," "A New Brain" is a life-affirming, heartfelt, often comical musical about a composer during a medical emergency. As ...

Theatre Nova Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell and Gordon Farrell, based on the book by John D'Agata and Jim Fingal...

Theatre NOVA will present a new play written specifically for the Zoom format each month (JANUARY through APRIL) with their PLAY OF THE MONTH series. ...

In 1902, Albert and Mileva Einstein had a baby daughter. After 1904, she was never heard from again. Years later in Princeton, when a young ...

A darkly hilarious solo tour-de-force where an unnamed woman is forced into her basement when she finds herself in the path of a tornado. Trapped ...

A Socially Distant Interactive Holiday Panto: December 19 - 27Showtimes are 11:00 am and 2:00 pm on Saturdays (Dec. 19 and 26); 5:00 pm on ...

Fifteen juried plays written specifically to be presented on Zoom were performed LIVE (on Zoom), October 7-11. Now you can see what you missed for ...

ARABIC TO ENGLISH by David Wells-World PremiereMarch 20 - April 12, 2020Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm.In a high-stakes immigration case, ...

APPLE SEASON by E. M. Lewis-Michigan Premiere When her father dies, Lissie returns to her family's apple orchard after escaping from there with her brother ...

Nov. 29 - Dec. 29, 2019Fri. at 7:30 pm, Sat. at 3pm & 7:30pm, and Sun. at 2:00 pmAll the holiday hilarity and happiness youve ...

A true theatrical event, this legendary masterpiece is considered by many to be the greatest musical ever created. Surreal, sophisticated, compelling, heart wrenching and epic ...

Sondheim's Broadway smash hit musical concerns a reunion in a crumbling Broadway theatre of the past performers of the "Weismann's Follies" that played in that ...

The Michigan Playwrights FestivalFour new plays by Michigan playwrights will be given readings Oct 24-27, 2019 at Theatre NOVA, 410 W. Huron in Ann Arbor. ...

Bill and Sherri are white, progressive and proud. Respectively the headmaster and dean of admissions of a New Hampshire boarding school, theyve dedicated their 15-year ...

The Birthday Party was the first full-length offering from British playwright Harold Pinter, who is now widely regarded as the theatre’s master of enigma and ...

Rupert Knox is looking for love in all the wrong planets. Hes an astrophysicist who wants two things in life: to make the astronomical discovery ...

Kill Move Paradise by James Ijames tells the story of Isa, Daz, Grif, and Tiny, four black men who find themselves stuck in a cosmic ...

January 1972: Vietnam war protests are at their peak, and newly ex-Beatled John Lennon walks into the office of Leon Wildes, an eminent immigration lawyer. ...

Two brilliant female evolutionary biologists share a bold, contrarian approach to their male-dominated field, but the younger scholar challenges the older womans work with a ...

Theatre NOVA’s holiday tradition continues with another fun-filled night from the team that brought you The Year Without a Panto Claus and Sugar Plum Panto. ...

“Extraordinary art must be tamed," says reclusive genius Simon Grindberg, the world’s most illustrious children’s book writer. But, holed up in a remote cabin with ...

Politician Penelope Easter is a disaster of a candidate: impulsive and crass, with a closet full of skeletons. When she enlists the help of Francine, ...

Theatre NOVA presents the Michigan premiere of this hit Off-Broadway musical celebration of the legendary Bessie Smith, whose life was as large and outrageous as ...

Theatre NOVA presents the Michigan premiere of this hit Off-Broadway musical celebration of the legendary Bessie Smith, whose life was as large and outrageous as ...

This spellbinding, romantic journey begins with a simple encounter between a man and a woman. But what happens next defies the boundaries of the world ...

Theatre NOVA, Ann Arbor’s professional theatre with an exclusive focus on new plays and playwrights, presents the world premiere of “The Year Without a Panto ...

Resisting by David Wells From the playwright of the smash-hit IRRATIONAL comes this hard-hitting and topical play about systemic racism in the American legal system. ...

Theatre NOVA, Ann Arbor’s professional theatre with an exclusive focus on new plays and playwrights, presents the Michigan premiere of “The Revolutionists” by Lauren Gunderson. ...

The smashing success from The Ringwald Theatre – He’s young, he’s broke, his landlord’s knocking at the door, and he’s just found out his wife ...

How do you tell the story of your life? And what if the characters in the story tell it differently than you remember? In this ...