Free Admission. RSVPs are recommended but not required. Walk-ups are welcomed. First Come, First Seated. Urban Stages Theater opens 30 minutes before ShowTime.
Thursday, October 1, 2026 | 7pm
Covenant
by William A. Smith
directed by Maria Mileaf
A Vatican guesthouse meeting room. A long table, four chairs, a window overlooking a walled courtyard garden that hasn’t seen rain in weeks. Over thirty-six hours, four people - a Filipino Cardinal, a British-Ghanaian climate lawyer, a Lakota spiritual leader, and a young Vatican aide - discover that the interfaith climate dialogue they were convened to conduct is not the conversation they actually need to have. What follows is a reckoning: with what each tradition has enabled, what each person has privately failed to do, and whether language adequate to the crisis they are gathered around actually exists.
Monday, October 5, 2026 | 7pm
Last Night At Mikell's
by Larry Muhammad
directed by Ron Beverly
James Baldwin is writing himself into bad health. After two heart attacks and being hospitalized for hepatitis, the globe-trotting author returns to New York City for some rest, relaxation, and much-needed TLC. First on his itinerary is the iconic jazz club Mikell’s, a favorite hangout where he’s usually surrounded by adoring fans and his brother David tends bar. But things have changed since Jimmy last came home. To his surprise, Mikell’s is closing, and his entourage this night consists of just Maya Angelou and Miles Davis, good friends who meet him there because they also didn’t know. What’s intended as a celebration turns into an Irish wake for the not-yet deceased, instigated by Miles as Jimmy impulsively, on the spot, starts writing an elegy to his beloved old joint, enabled by David, while Maya tries to intervene.
Wednesday, October 7, 2026 | 7pm
Bosie
by Lily Welsh
directed by Vincent Scott
Branded “The Man Who Killed Oscar Wilde”, Bosie Douglas sets out on yet another ill-fated libel case to clear his own name. Finally given a chance to tell his side of the story, the Greatest Villain of Literary History will tell all about his troubled family, his artistic ambitions, and his doomed romance with Britain’s infamous genius. But can anyone who lives in the past truly move forward?
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Tuesday, October 13, 2026 | 7pm
Boulevard of Bold Dreams
by LaDarrion Williams
directed by Trezana Beverley
On February 29, 1940, the Oscars are set to make history in Hollywood, but the night takes an unexpected turn when Bartender Arthur Brooks, a hopeful Black filmmaker from rural Alabama, and his best friend Dottie Hudson, a disillusioned maid at the Ambassador Hotel, find themselves at a crossroads. As Academy Award Nominee Hattie McDaniel unexpectedly opts out of the night’s grand event, Arthur and Dottie are thrust into a frantic mission to convince her to attend and seize her historic victory. As they navigate the glittering world of Hollywood, they confront their own dark pasts and strive to make their own dreams come true. This gripping play delves into themes of race, class, gender, and the shifting dynamics of Hollywood's golden age.
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Thursday, October 15, 2026 | 7pm
The Mischief Maker
by Ruth Apolonia Zamoyta
directed by Cheryl Katz
Set in exurban Virginia in the 80s, "The Mischief Maker" follows Jo, a 15-year-old Catholic schoolgirl, who rebels against her hyper-religious mother Jane by making mischief at school and at work—and by flirting with 20-year-old Tim, who manages the local stereo shop. Jane’s attempts at controlling her daughter always fail, until she reveals to Jo she had been abused by her uncle as a child and doesn’t want the same thing to happen to her daughter. Painfully, Jo agrees to break up with Tim. But when Jane punishes her for sneaking beers to drink at an amusement park with her girlfriend, Jo lashes back by seducing Tim on an old mattress in the woods. With no recourse, Jane shows up with a car jack and ends the spiral of defiance once and for all. "The Mischief Maker" explores a mother and daughter caught in a cycle of violence, anger, and manipulation—and the failed attempts to break through it with compassion.
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Thursday, October 22, 2026 | 7pm
Hallway House
by Judy Klass
Director TBA
Dianne, Emily, and Michael lived on the same coed freshman hallway at college, and when Emily and Michael’s lives fall apart, they take refuge in the large house that Dianne, as a successful romance writer, owns. The friends are obsessed with the Algonquin Roundtable. They quote the witty Algonquinites: Dorothy Parker and so on. Emily and Michael worry that their odd, intense friendship and obscure reference points make it hard for them to have long-term relationships with “normal” people. Currently, Emily’s marriage is falling apart, and she goes a final round with her soon-to-be-ex-husband when he stops by. Meanwhile, Michael, after years alone, is thinking of starting a new relationship with Connor, who is much younger and knows nothing of the literary figures the three friends admire. But maybe that does not matter, and maybe Connor should not be underestimated.