She survives by telling stories.
Then she makes the story her own.

A dark comedy about second chances, bad choices, hidden pasts, and two women who are done being predictable.

Echo Theatre's Birthday Party Fundraiser!

Enjoy refreshments and toast to another year at Echo. 

We'll also see a staged reading of a play in the theatre, and discuss it afterwards.

Tuesday and Weeks make hats on the Great Barrier Reef waiting for the world to end.

A play for two.  And a rabbit. 

The fish have died, the coral won’t hold on for long, and it’s been a very long time since they saw another person. It is very, very hot outside. You must wear a hat.

But they pass the time together, making hats. And deciding whether or not to…..

to…..

keep making hats.

A world premiere by C. Meaker, You Must Wear a Hat is filled with the unspoken. Hope, grief, plans for the future, sharing their pasts. Tuesday & Weeks try to figure out what community means when the world might end tomorrow. Or maybe next week.

Developed in the aftermath of the fall of Roe v. Wade, Silhouettesis a 75-minute, two-hander musical that examines a pivotal moment in American history through the intersecting lives of two women navigating the decision to have an abortion.

The story follows Naima, a Black woman in her 30s, and Ashley, an Asian American teen who meet in a waiting room in Chicago, seeking abortions. Though they couldn’t be more different, the women share a brief moment in time in which they confront family expectations, fears around parenthood, intersecting systems of oppression and the reality that access to choice has never been guaranteed.

A Liberal, a Beauty Queen, and a Conservative walk into a hotel room. Mature audiences.

Suspend your disbelief as the Magician tries to save a life. A queer love story. Mature audiences.

The witty, humorous correspondence between two star-crossed poets.

A Louisiana Gothic coming-of-age story set at a sketchy boarding school; nightmares begin, shadowy figures appear, and one teen goes missing.

Black and Brown students find their voices through poetry; Mani, Murdr, and Javier compete for scholarships while navigating life in the hood, police brutality, and growing pains.

The New King Lear-inspired Latinx comedy. A Shakespearean telenovela about Reymundo Lear retiring from his fried chicken empire features all the family drama you can eat!

Two sisters create Daisy Violet to take the blame for their messes; gleefully monstrous, rejected by adults, and increasingly ravenous. A play about sisterhood, memory, and an explosion of beauty products.

A teenager with dissociative episodes becomes obsessed with a sleepwalking murder case; a feminist study in dissociation, portraiture, and the latent power of the supine woman.

Three scientists living in Antarctica deconstruct notions of gender, identity, religion, climate, and time itself.

K and Ann struggle to be full; a voyeuristic Man gorges on food and waits for danger he's bound to commit. Explores how bodies are taught to love. (Recommended for mature audiences.)

A newly-elected lesbian Pittsburgh councilor is thrust into a media firestorm and a career-defining choice.

In a collapsed world where clean air and water are scarce, two women test the boundaries of survival and friendship.

Clean drinking water is not a thing anymore.  Clean air is not a thing anymore.  Infrastructure is gone, order is mythic, and no one believes that help is coming.  Roe lives in isolation, with nothing but a collection of canned food and a solitary Bible.  Until she meets Bell.  Bell shows Roe a game: take off your mask and see if you can breathe. Try this vegetable, see if you wake up. Read a poem. Do more than just not-die.  But friendship can prove more dangerous than isolation.

Winner, Harold and Mimi Steinberg National Student Playwriting Award 2019

Today is Fiona's birthday, the two-year anniversary of her son's disappearance. A comedy about grief and how the words we use can take on a life of their own. (NYT Critic's Pick; Francesca Primus Prize 2017)

1964 Freedom Summer haunts May and Charlie decades later; a story of trauma, love, and survival amid civil-rights violence.

A meta-theatrical coming-of-age about a trans woman unraveling family ghosts: manic mother, con-man stepdad, and the ghost of her father rearranging the furniture.

Two New England families face a spiraling crisis; three actors play six roles across generations.

An artist in crisis finds an unusual path to help inside a psychiatric hospital.

Two schoolteachers' lives are upended by a malicious lie in Hellman's 1934 classic.

Step into a storybook. When Amy returns to her childhood home to care for her ailing mother, she discovers uninvited guests from her favorite childhood novels. Beloved heroines -- Heidi, Anne of Green Gables, a Little Princess, a Girl Detective -- turn the household topsy-turvy as Amy struggles to reconcile the characters she grew up with, the people she loves, and the stories she has told herself. Following the show's May 2013 premiere, the Omaha World-Herald raved simply: "'Recommended Reading' is, well, recommended!"

Once upon a time, a little girl was murdered and all her little friends grew up. The boy who killed her was sent away and no one ever heard from him again. Until they did. Inspired by the death of a grade school classmate, Toni Press-Coffman gives us a play about the power of faith, friendship, and the gift of our lives -- no matter what ghosts we might confront as we lead them.

Three African-American sisters head west under the Homestead Act of 1860, determined to find peace and freedom in the wake of the Civil War. Cleage’s story of their struggle to honor the past and fight for the future defies pioneer stereotypes and celebrates a legacy of courage and sisterhood.