September 21 – October 21, 2018

press opening: September 27, 2018

Vanya was once a brilliant intellectual but now, suddenly, he realizes that he’s squandered twenty years managing his family's farm. Eschewing love and personal acclaim can take its toll on a psyche, so is it any surprise that he eventually cracks, especially with all these family members under one roof? Comic, caustic, and true to life, Uncle Vanya challenges us to find value in the things that we take for granted.

November 8 – November 18, 2018

Cutting Ball's signature festival – half shindig, half artistic salon – returns, delivering a sumptuous line-up that's sure to delight the creatively curious. With directorial shorts, new play workshops, and roundtable readings, The Variety Pack challenges a small army of artists to propel past the outer limits of their imaginative capacities and create the art that even they didn't see coming.

January 9 – January 26, 2019

Join the community: get to know the neighborhood that Cutting Ball calls home. Tenderloin, Cutting Ball’s original documentary-style play from 2012, was a collage of interviews with its denizens, a vibrant homage to the unheard voices of a complex and spirited neighborhood. In 2019, Cutting Ball is thinking locally: The Tenderloin Tour brings the "prime cuts" of that original production back to the theater and out into the community that inspired the play.

March 14 – April 14, 2019

press opening: March 18, 2019

Sex can start a revolution, and couldn't our world use some serious shaking up? Arthur Schnitzler waited two decades to see his play produced because it was deemed too salacious for the stage. When it finally premiered – in Berlin, 1920 – audiences were incensed by its incisive, indelicate investigation of "polite" society's carnal underbelly. A pioneering play that rewrote dramatic form, La Ronde examines our shared hypocrisies, dismantling class as an arbitrary societal divider and sex as the ferocious equalizer that permeates everything.

June 5 – June 16, 2019

The play that breaks all the rules is back! In celebration of its twenty years, Cutting Ball is reprising its hit 2008 production of The Bald Soprano, Ionesco's quintessential absurdist masterpiece where chaos cheerfully reigns over logic. Founders Rob Melrose and Paige Rogers collaborate, as director and actor (respectively), to refresh this raucous and beloved past production for Cutting Ball's banner year.