(WEST ORANGE, NJ) -- Luna Stage has announced their 2024-25 Season. It kicks off with Lonely Planet by Steven Dietz in in November and includes A Case for the Existence of God by Samuel Hunter and the ripple the wave that carried me home by Christina Anderson.
November 14 - December 8, 2024 | Lonely Planet by Steven Dietz. In the early 1990s, down an old city street, inside a small map store, a pile of chairs begins to form. Two best friends, Jody and Carl, manage the ever-growing mountain of chairs while taking care of each other and navigating the dark reality that looms in the outside world- a reality Carl faces in their neighborhood everyday and one Jody is afraid to see. A funny and heartwarming story of friendship, love, and survival during one of the world’s hardest moments, Lonely Planet continues to show us that “Friendship, not technology, is the only thing capable of showing us the enormity of the world” -Steven Dietz, playwright.
February 6 - March 2, 2025 | A Case for the Existence of God by Samuel D. Hunter. Ryan is undereducated, awful with money, and reeling from a painful divorce with the mother of his child, while Keith is polished, financially savvy, and the gay single caretaker of a foster daughter. When Ryan seeks Keith’s help to secure a loan and buy back twelve acres that formerly belonged to his family, the two men bond over their love of their daughters, as well as “a specific kind of sadness” that emerges in the gap between their dreams and their realities. A heartrending yet hopeful play about two men’s parallel desires to build a secure foundation for their families even as everything around them is falling apart.
May 1 - May 25, 2025 | the ripple the wave that carried me home by Christina Anderson. Tony-nominated playwright Christina Anderson brings us a poignant, transporting, and quietly subversive story of racial justice, political legacy, and family forgiveness. Janice’s childhood was steeped in her parents’ activism as they fought for the integration of public swimming pools in 1960s Kansas and taught scores of Black children to swim. But Janice later steps away from her parents’ politics and starts her own life and family far away—until she’s pressed into speaking at a ceremony honoring her father. the ripple, the wave that carried me home is a moving exploration of a family’s response to injustice and a daughter’s reckoning with her political inheritance.
All Titles and Dates Subject to Change. A season ticket package for $150 is available for purchase online. Luna Stage is located at 555 Valley Road in West Orange, New Jersey.
Luna Stage is a professional regional theatre dedicated to developing and producing vibrant plays about local and global experiences. Firmly rooted in New Jersey's Valley Arts District – a crossroads of cultures – Luna brings its communities together for artistic events that spark conversations and create understanding and change.
Luna received the JerseyArts People's Choice Award for Favorite Small Theatre in New Jersey and has contributed to the development of over 100 new works for the stage, many of which premiered at Luna and have gone on to be produced in New York, regionally, and internationally.
As producer, innovator, and educator, Luna is dedicated to eliminating barriers to participation and allowing all community members to nurture their own creativity and vision. Luna offers classes for children and adults, as well as opportunities for early-career and established theatre artists to develop and incubate new work.
All programs at Luna are pay-what-you-choose to support equity and access to professional arts experiences in our region.
