Over a decade of stories rooted in community, resistance, and joy. Every production is an act of representation amplifying emerging and diverse playwrights writing the world as it is, and as it could be.
Tina and Nathan are recent transplants to the 'burbs, going through a bit of a rough patch in their marriage. When Tina refuses marriage counseling, Nathan, a neuroscientist who has developed a potentially groundbreaking AI device, can’t help but take advantage of his new technology’s power. As relationship woes escalate, it calls into question AI’s place in our world and the need to save ourselves… from ourselves..
In a dystopian near-future, two American tourists are stranded atop Machu Picchu during a violent protest. Centuries earlier, a third-gender oracle and their apprentice foresee the collapse of the Inca Empire. Past and present spiral toward each other.
Siluetas tells the story of Dinora, a Cuban-American immigrant, and Khalilah, a Syrian refugee, who move in together amidst a charged 2016 presidential campaign, the lifting of the Cuban embargo, and the escalation of the Syrian Civil War.
A devised theater performance about addiction and people who cope with it in their lives in North Philadelphia.
When the local University begins to buy houses in el barrio, the landscape of a diverse neighborhood starts to change. Block by block residents are pushed out of their homes, and the fabric of the community begins to come undone.
Streaming live for 12 hours each day on Power Street’s Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube accounts, the Digital Rally for Philly Arts featured 50+ Philly artists and organizations with performances and discussions spanning from writers, comedians, poets, musicians, dancers, theater artists, and more. The goal of the rally was to highlight the value of arts and culture in the city, ahead of City Council’s budgeting decisions for the next fiscal year.
TTheatre Al Fresco began on Saturday, May 11 2019 with the Student Showcase, featuring a celebration of the work created by Power Street’s first class of Land & Body students.
Morir Sanyando is a play about the healing of a Latinx family and the intergenerational, complexities of silence and violence Genesis, an academic working her way through an Ivy League education, is proud of the fact that she’s survived her family’s dysfunction, if only just barely.
Las Mujeres is a journey through time as we meet the famous Latinas of Herstory's past. Marlene, a workaholic engineer who wouldn’t call herself a feminist, has just been the only womyn at her firm promoted to a managerial position. After a devastating encounter, Marlene finds reality has faded away and her kitchen becomes... a party. The guests? Frida Kahlo, Rita Hayworth, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and Minerva Mirabal.
Shelter in Place by Alisha Adams, imagines what it takes for two Puerto Rican women to survive the fall of America. What happens when everything we take for granted disappears? When life pushes us to our limits, how long can we keep love and compassion alive?
Protagonist, Yudy, a strong and confident young Latina woman, excitedly joins the armed forces in pursuit of the military pride and prowess that her respected older brother Abraham represents. Yudy’s high regard for her military “family,” however is deeply tarnished in the aftermath of trauma, as silence, disbelief, and betrayal ensue
Out of Orbit devised by Power Street Theatre Company members Gabriela Sanchez, Erlina Ortiz, and Diana Rodriguez, explores the complexities of privilege. Power is a difficult thing to give up, and privilege is even harder. The imbalances of these dynamics in our society have isolated us like a planet out of Orbit.
