Hope and Gravity – February 27 – March 1 – Comedy
When an elevator plummets in a major city, nine lives collide in unexpected, often comic—and sometimes heartbreaking—ways. Their connections ripple through offices, living rooms, and hotel suites; through love affairs and dental appointments, poetry readings and private doubts.
Jill pines for Steve, who’s engaged to Barb, who has a fling with Peter, who’s already entangled with Nan, who’s married to Marty, an avid reader of Elevator World. Elsewhere, nine floors above the chaos, Douglas meets Tanya—who hopes to conceive with Hal—and a small, unlikely miracle quietly changes hands.
By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Hope and Gravity follows the delicate, nearly invisible threads that bind strangers, lovers, and dreamers together.
St. Gregory the Great Auditorium – Knoxville Catholic High School
9245 Fox Lonas Road, Knoxville
Decoration Day – May 15-31 – Drama
World Premiere
On Decoration Day in East Tennessee, Kate Hughes and her aunt June clean the Rankin cemetery and remember their dead. Kate recently lost her mother, Cordie, whose memories haunt the day. Years earlier, Kate and Cordie left after Boyd Hughes—Kate’s father—went to prison for attacking a preacher. Boyd returns home with a troubled past, marked by a childhood drowning that divided the Rankin and Hughes families.
As Boyd’s plans with his friend Nickel unravel, long-buried secrets surface. Guided by June, Kate must confront her parents’ history and the meaning of family, home, and tradition amid the cemetery’s lingering shadows.
Playhouse at Borderlands
802 Sevier Avenue, Knoxville
Perfect Quiet Place – TBA – Psychological Thriller
Tennessee Premiere
Perfect Quiet Place follows Hannah, a young girl at a California boarding school whose grip on reality unravels. While juggling musical studies and the strange behavior of her friends, she becomes intrigued by the school’s night watchman—only to sense that nothing around her is as it seems.
When objects vanish from her room, Hannah slips into confusion and fear. The watchman’s true identity is revealed, and she realizes her world is built on hallucinations. Struggling to trust her own mind, Hannah confronts the darkness of her illness and ultimately escapes by overcoming the terror at the core of her fractured reality.
Location TBA