2 Pulitzer Prize Winners, a timely new play, our 2026 Colombi New Plays Festival,
and our exciting new “Ensemble in the Community” Series!

Directed by August Scarpelli :: Marinello Little Theatre
Fridays & Saturdays @7:30 :: Sundays @ 2:00

On the eve of her birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father’s who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all:
How much of her father’s madness—or genius—will she inherit?

“…combines elements of mystery and surprise with old-fashioned storytelling to provide a compelling evening of theatre…[PROOF is a] smart and compassionate play of ideas.”-New York Daily News.
“PROOF surprises us with its aliveness…Mr. Auburn takes pleasure in knowledge…At the same time, he is unshowily fresh and humane, and he has written a lovely play.”—New York Observer.
“[A] wonderfully funny…ambitiously constructed work…”—Variety.

Co-Directed by Ian Wolfgang Hinz & Rebecca Moseley :: Marinello Little Theatre
Fridays & Saturdays @7:30 :: Sundays @ 2:00

At their summer home in Connecticut, each member of the Tyrone family harbors a personal tragedy while maintaining a complicated balance of love and resentment for the others. Father James’s alcoholism, mother Mary’s morphine addiction, younger son Edmund’s advancing illness and elder son Jamie’s bitterness at being a lesser version of his father... these are all just aspects of their daily lives that they must face despite their deep desire
to bury and ignore them.

Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play is widely regarded as his finest work. First published by Yale University Press in 1956, his powerful exploration of addiction and familial dysfunction won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, sold more than one million copies, and became a template for many other notable playwrights.

“…a magnificent and shattering play.”—New York Post. “It is a stunning theatrical experience.”—New York Herald-Tribune.
“This is O’Neill’s most beautiful play.”—New York Daily News.
“LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT has been worth waiting for. It restores the drama to literature and the theatre to art.”
—The New York Times.

2026 COLOMBI NEW PLAYS FESTIVAL.
3 Weekends. 3 Locations. Lots of New Plays! Be a part of the new play process!! 

March 13th-29th, 2026.  Titles and Locations To Be  Announced! 

IN OUR OWN WORDS : EPISODE FIVE! April of 2026. Dates & Location TBA.
 A Co-Production with SumMedia Productions.
Short Plays with BIG themes that share the black experience with Cleveland audiences. 

Directed by Jeannine Gaskin :: Cleveland Premiere!! :: May 22nd-June 7th, 2026
Marinello Litte Theatre :: Fridays & Saturdays @7:30 :: Sundays @ 2:00

They bring mouse traps from home, they make the toilet paper last, and they show up for the kids nobody else shows up for. So when the school is slated for closure at the end of the year, and the weight of the inevitable bears down on the community, students and teachers alike discover their breaking points. Ricky, the vice principal, has stayed firmly on the sidelines for all of the teachers’ previous battles, but now in the eleventh hour, he’s compelled to step up with a plan to save the school. Some risk their futures to follow his lead-- But does he actually have any idea what he’s doing? Spiked with humor and brimming with fury, EXIT STRATEGY is an exhilarating call to arms about what we owe each other.

“Each character in EXIT STRATEGY comes quickly into clear focus. And while the play serves as a stinging indictment of the state of public schools in Chicago and, more broadly, the country, Mr. Holter deftly embeds his finger-pointing in the drama itself. We see beyond the surface dysfunction to the toll it takes on the lives, and careers, of the teachers, whose dedication to their students comes across movingly,
even when they are complaining about them.” —The New York Times.