Six Points Theater

Welcome to Six Points Theater’s 30th Year, the 2024 - 2025 Season!

As we embark on our 4th decade, I continue to be humbled by the commitment of our passionate, talented artists and the devotion of our audiences who together create the magic that is Six Points Theater. Since 1995, we’ve staged 115 productions and 14 world premieres, received countless accolades and “bests of the year” from the press.

Our work garnered 5 Ivey Awards and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council Arts Achievement Award. We’re proud to be nationally recognized as the preeminent, independent professional theater in the United States that looks at life through a Jewish lens as we reveal common threads of humanity.

I’m excited to invite you into our intimate theater where bold and provocative new plays will challenge you, and humor will provide the levity as together we explore complexities of the world we live in now. 

Cheer for Alex in JUST FOR US as he takes control of those who troll him on social media. Become inspired by the different women in THE MESSENGER who brave bigotry in their community. And laugh along with God while learning about the Ten Commandments and their place in our lives today in AN ACT OF GOD. Your package can be complemented by SURVIVORS, through which you’ll be eye witness to the resiliency of those who survived the Holocaust. 

The 2024 - 2025 Season, the theater's 30th:

We started this year in August with a Community Event, called POLITICS AND THEATER, with Political Writing by Jewish Playwrights, readings from plays by Clifford Odets, Arthur Miller, David Mamet and Tony Kushner, What is Political Theater? With Wendy Knox, Founder and Artistic Director, Frank Theatre and Beth Cleary, Professor Emeritus of Theater, Macalester College, and The Theatrics of Government, with Hamline Distinguished University Professor David Schultz, Capitol reporter and theater critic Rob Hubbard, and Minnesota Senator Sandy Pappas.

Our plays include:

• Alex Edelman's Just for Us, 2024 Tony and Emmy Award-winner. After being trolled on social media by white supremacists, Alex attends a neo-Nazi meeting in Astoria, Queens, setting the stage for hysterically funny, intelligent, and brutally honest storytelling. A journey through a religious upbringing to life today as a Jew, Just for Us reveals the power of empathy and identity. 
  • "The reviews are right! This (Just for Us) is a stunning production, and I fell completely in love with it." - Jenna Z. Facebook posting.
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  Survivors, a play about the Holocaust and standing up to hate by Wendy Kout, weaves together the true, inspirational stories of 10 Holocaust survivors whose ordinary and joyful young lives were transformed by the Nazi regime. Illustrating the risk of normalizing hate, this uplifting work impels us to take lessons from the past and think about how we can create a safer, more inclusive community.

• Jenny Connell Davis' The Messenger: Four women in Pasadena, California. A Holocaust survivor and math teacher shares her wartime experience in the classroom; one student’s mother fights against this and ignites racist incidents; a researcher discovers archival documents revealing WWII evil; and a young Asian student recounts traumatic experiences in the community. Although each speaks from different moments in time, they’re part of the same larger story.
• An Act of God, by David Javerbaum. In this hip and irreverent parody, God has come to Six Points Theater to deliver a new Ten Commandments in order to clarify what the Almighty wants from humanity. With the help of two wingmen, along with questions and comments from the audience, we explore popular culture and current news. Not mincing words, God engages us to reflect on the world today. And God does this all with a sense of humor! Sally Wingert stars as God.

Our season of productions is complemented by our Doorways Programs. Community forums, post-show symposia, panel discussions, written communications, and work with schoolchildren are designed to open the doors to greater understanding and enjoyment of the plays Six Points Theater presents and to deepen insights into the subjects and issues they address.

Wellsprings is our initiative to find and develop new plays, that through a Jewish perspective, reveal the common threads of humanity in stories for audiences from all backgrounds. 

For more information about Six Points Theater, please visit our website.

Thank you.

Barbara Brooks, Producing Artistic Director