(WEST ORANGE, NJ) -- Luna Stage presents the NY Drama Critics' Circle award-winner for Best Play, A Case for the Existence of God by Samuel D. Hunter from February 20 - March 16, 2025. Directed by Luna Artistic Director Ari Laura Kreith, this is a heartrending yet hopeful play about two men’s parallel desires to build a secure foundation for their families.
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. Over the course of Ryan’s struggle to purchase a home, the two men forge an unlikely alliance.
Playwright Hunter is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant for “crafting quietly captivating dramas that explore the human capacity for empathy and confront the socially isolating aspects of contemporary life across the American landscape.”
Performances are Thursdays at 7:30pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm and Sundays at 3:00pm. Run time is approximately 2 hours with a 10 minute intermission. To support equity and access, all Luna Stage productions are pay-what-you-choose. Tickets range from $10-$60 and are available for purchase online. Luna Stage is located at 555 Valley Road in West Orange, New Jersey.
Special group rates and student matinee performances are available upon request.
Luna Stage develops and produces vibrant plays about local and global experiences, and brings communities together for artistic events that spark conversations, create understanding, and inspire change. Founded in Montclair NJ in 1993, Luna Stage moved to West Orange in 2010 to become an arts anchor of the underserved Valley neighborhood. As producer, innovator, and educator, Luna is dedicated to eliminating barriers to participation, and nurturing the next generation of audiences and artists.
Luna received the NJ Arts People’s Choice Award for Favorite Small Theatre in New Jersey, the 2024 Giles R. Wright Designation for Excellence in African American History, and has contributed to the development of over 100 new works for the stage. The theatre’s 2024 production of Lonely Planet was named to two year-end Best New Jersey Production lists, while Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library appeared on two lists of the 2024 Best Plays in New York.
Luna World Premieres include Tony winner Matthew Lopez’s breakout play The Whipping Man, which became one of the most widely-produced plays in the United States, three World Premieres by Obie-winner Nikkole Salter, and Jenny Lyn Bader’s Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library, which last month completed two extended runs Off-Broadway.
