(ORANGE, NJ) -- Luna Stage has brought & Sons back for three outdoor performances in the Kelli Copeland Arts Center Courtyard (located two blocks from Luna) June 5-7, 2026. Winner of the Kirk Prize for Best New Play, & Sons by Jack Angelo Cummings is a sharply funny, quietly devastating portrait of brotherhood, labor, and the ways men learn—often badly—to love one another. Admission is free.
On a New Jersey construction site, the DiSanti crew eats subs, burritos, and pizza on their lunch break while everything underneath begins to crack. Dom, the sweet-natured, perpetually high second son, is caught between his best friend Juan, a driven protégé hungry to lead the company, and his older brother Anthony, a imposing, tightly wound figure newly returned after years of unexplained absence.
As power struggles escalate and old wounds resurface, the men avoid saying what they feel—touching, jostling, and posturing instead, using work and food as cover for grief, loyalty, and longing. By turns hilarious and aching, & Sons is an intimate meditation on masculinity, inheritance, and how blue-collar men translate emotion into action when language fails.
Performances take place Friday, June 5 at 8:00pm; Saturday, June 6 at 8:00pm; and Sunday, June 7 at 7:00pm. Click here to reserve your free ticket. Kelli Copeland Arts Center Courtyard is located at 544 Freeman Street in Orange, New Jersey. Bring a picnic and a blanket! Courtyard opens 30 minutes before the show.
Supported by funding through the NJEDA A.R.T. — Phase II Grant Program
Luna Stage develops and produces vibrant plays about local and global experiences. Recently Luna’s commissioned world premiere RIFT by Gabriel Jason Dean made its international debut at Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre where it was honored with the 2025 Scotsman Fringe First Award. Other Luna world premieres include Tony Award-winner Matthew Lopez’s breakout play The Whipping Man, which became one of the most widely-produced plays in the United States; Jenny Lyn Bader’s Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library, which had two extended runs Off-Broadway in the 2024-2025 season; three premieres by Obie-winner Nikkole Salter; and the Luna-commissioned The Ground On Which We Stand, which received the 2024 Giles R. Wright Designation for Excellence in African American History.
The company has served as an arts anchor of New Jersey’s Valley Arts neighborhood, a traditionally-underserved region bridging the townships of Orange and West Orange. Luna received the JerseyArts People’s Choice Award for Favorite Small Theatre in New Jersey, and is dedicated to eliminating barriers to participation and nurturing the next generation of audiences and artists.
