Vineyard Theatre sets 2024-25 Off-Broadway season

The nonprofit theatre company is a co-producer on one previously announced show at Playwrights Horizons and will present a second play at its Union Square venue.

UPDATE: As of July 25, 2024, Vineyard Theatre has announced four total productions in its 2024-25 Off-Broadway season. The below article has been updated to reflect the full season.

Vineyard Theatre has set its 2024-25 season, which includes three world-premiere Off-Broadway plays and one U.S. premiere presented by the award-winning theatre company.

The first show in Vineyard's season is the U.S. premiere of Age Is a Feeling, written and performed by Haley McGee and directed by Mitchell Cushman. McGee, an Olivier Award-nominated artist, charts various milestones from age 25 to death to investigate — and even celebrate — how the mystery of mortality shapes our lives.

Age Is a Feeling runs from September 11 to October 13, with opening night on September 22. The show previously premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and sold out two London runs under the direction and dramaturgy of the late Adam Brace.

In October 2024 is playwright Sarah Gancher's The Wind and The Rain: A Story about Sunny’s Bar. Jared Mezzocchi directs the world-premiere play about a real family-run bar in Red Hook, Brooklyn and its 100-plus year history of surviving gentrification, prohibition, pandemics, and more.

The show is a site-specific, immersive work that begins at the Waterfront Barge Museum in Red Hook and ends at the actual Sunny's Bar. En Garde Arts is a co-producer alongside Vineyard.

The third show in the season is The Antiquities, written by Jordan Harrison. The show is set in the far future at the Museum of Late Human Antiquities, where curators are committed to discovering how a lost civilization — that is, humans in our present moment — lived and eventually died out.

The Antiquities was previously announced as part of the season of fellow nonprofit Playwrights Horizons. Vineyard and Chicago's Goodman Theatre are co-producers on the show, and it will be performed at Playwrights Horizons's venue on 42nd Street in winter 2025.

Vineyard's spring show, presented at its own venue in Union Square in spring 2025, is Bowl EP. Written and directed by Nazareth Hassan, the show follows Kelly K Klarkson and Quentavius da Quitter, two people looking for a name of their rap group, exorcising demons, and practicing their ollies at the skate park of the play's title, growing closer all the while. The show features original music and actual onstage skating.

Bowl EP is a co-production of Vineyard Theatre and National Black Theatre in association with The New Group.

Casting, additional creative team members, and dates for both shows have yet to be announced.

Photo credit: Jordan Harrison and Nazareth Hassan. (Photos courtesy of Vineyard Theatre)