Please note that tickets for Little Box are $10 General Admission and $7 for Students and Seniors.

Bridge 

Written by Andrew Kramer
Thursday, October 23rd

Two strangers meet late one night on a city bridge. The men soon discover that they have come to the bridge with the same goal: to commit suicide. Not wanting to jump the same night as the other, a violent debate of race, politics, class and addiction emerges as the two men fight to be the one to carry through with their plan of death. Directed by Josh Brown.

Bon Voyage, Nate 

Writte by Steve Maistros
Friday, October 24th

Nate is dead and Darla is in charge of helping his co-workers deal with it. Scenes from their grief counseling session mix with monologues from Nate’s funeral to show just how deeply (or not so deeply) his passing has affected the group. Darla struggles to keep the group on task. The group struggles to figure out why they’re there. In the end the truth comes out, progress is made (if that’s what you want to call it), real tears are shed (sort of) and Nate is just as dead as he was in the beginning. Whether any actual grief gets counseled remains to be seen. Directed by Margi Herwald Zitelli.

Bisbee, America 

Written by Tara Broeckel Ooten
Saturday, October 25th

Bisbee, America examines the lives of the Nations family, before, during and after the 1917 Bisbee Deportation, a real event that forced over 1,000 striking copper miners to be deported from their home in Bisbee, Arizona. This play looks at the role of women and children in the male-driven world of the copper mining industry in early 20th century America while examining how corrupt business can encourage a town to become so fearful of a community that they turn on each other. The events of this play ultimately force the question: What does it really mean to be a patriot? Directed by Rose Leininger

The Conjure-Man Dies: A Play in Five Acts 

Written by Adrienne Gossellin
Thursday, October 30th

The Conjure-Man Dies is the story of the murder of N G’ana Frimbo, scientist, Harvard graduate and African king, who resurrects himself to find his murderer, only to be killed in the process. The crime is investigated by John Archer, a pedantic doctor, and Perry Dart, the first black detective in Harlem, with help from Jinx Jenkins and Bubber Brown, two ex-sanitation workers turned “private eyes.” The Conjure-Man Dies is an adaptation of the first African American Detective novel written by Rudolph Fisher in 1932.

540 AM 

Written by Jeffrey Grover
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It’s Okay to Cry: A Personal History of Cleveland Baseball 

Written by Mike Geither
Saturday, November 1st

540 AM by Jeffrey Grover
A 50 something man finds himself an orphan, having recently lost his Mom. Add to that a divorce and the quest to find the answer to the question: How can I die content? Lessons learned from the way his mom died and the ways that she lived add to his introspective and often humorous journey. 540 AMis a time of day for everyone. Directed by Jacqi Loewy

It’s Okay to Cry: A Personal History of Cleveland Baseball by Mike Geither
It’s Okay to Cry is a Cleveland sports fan’s attempt to negotiate bitterness, death and middle age. By exploring the Ray Chapman/Carl Mays story, the economics of professional baseball and personal tragedy, this quirky fan makes peace with the complexity of loving losers of all kinds. Directed by Jacqi Loewy