Dee returns to her birthplace at the blindingly bright McMurdo Station in Antarctica to work as a janitor and seek answers to her mother’s disappearance in this wonderfully weird and…

Dan finally finds his calling in life – and it sends all of his loved ones spiraling into a spiritual crisis in this smart, searching, and hilarious new play. The…

Haunted by his own childhood, a psychologist tries to minister to the distressed souls who find their way to the doors of the health center he runs in rural Connecticut.…

Enjoy world premiere ten minute pieces by The Gift and guests. As members of the National New Play Network, we feel it is our duty to present new works and…

In collaboration with lead production sponsor The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, The Gift’s RICHARD III re-defines what (dis)ability and Shakespeare’s great villain look like by utilizing both a disabled actor…

When an American family is forced off of their land during the Great Depression, they begin an epic journey west to California. Come Closer on Sunday, August 7th for a…

Annabel Anderson McCafferty is an expectant mother who vanishes from her small Ohio town on Christmas Eve. Both mystery and memory play, “A Life Extra Ordinary’ untangles and re-assembles the…

Enjoy world premiere ten minute pieces by The Gift and guests. This festival allows us to work with many talented artists who help us uphold our mission of telling great…

Conflict photographer Mia wakes up in the Istanbul apartment of her on-again, off-again girlfriend after being found unconscious at the scene of a massacre she was photographing. Mia can’t even…