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BabelFest 2025


@ Redhouse Arts Center

A New American Play Festival

Join us for a free weekend of new works! Redhouse presents ELEVEN groundbreaking new plays that feature emerging voices and underrepresented perspectives. With a focus on local and national playwrights, BabelFest represents an opportunity for Redhouse and Syracuse to add its influence to the robust national theater scene. A new play festival that provides a platform for emerging playwrights to develop their work can put Syracuse’s dynamic theater community on the map.

  • September 25, 2025
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  • September 26, 2025
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  • September 27, 2025
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  • September 28, 2025
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Guys & Dolls


@ Redhouse Arts Center

Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser
Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows
Based on a Story and Characters of Damon Runyon 

Set in Damon Runyon’s mythical New York City, Guys and Dolls is an oddball romantic comedy. Gambler Nathan Detroit tries to find the cash to set up the biggest craps game in town while the authorities breathe down his neck; meanwhile, his girlfriend and nightclub performer, Adelaide, laments that they’ve been engaged for fourteen years. Nathan turns to fellow gambler, Sky Masterson, for the dough and Sky ends up chasing the straight-laced missionary, Sarah Brown, as a result. Guys and Dolls takes us from the heart of Times Square to the cafés of Havana, Cuba, and even to the sewers of New York City, but eventually everyone ends up right where they belong.

  • Friday, December 5 @ 7:00 PM
  • Saturday, December 6 @ 2:00 PM
  • Saturday, December 6 @ 8:00 PM
  • Sunday, December 7 @ 2:00 PM **
  • Thursday, December 11 @ 7:00 PM
  • Friday, December 12 @ 7:00 PM
  • Saturday, December 13 @ 2:00 PM*
  • Saturday, December 13 @ 8:00 PM
  • Sunday, December 14 @ 2:00 PM
  • Thursday, December 18 @ 7:00 PM
  • Friday, December 19 @ 7:00 PM
  • Saturday, December 20 @ 2:00 PM
  • Saturday, December 20 @ 8:00 PM
  • Sunday, December 21 @ 2:00 PM

ASL Available
** Talkback following performance

Details about Guys & Dolls

The Motherf**ker with the Hat


@ Redhouse Arts Center

By Stephen Adly Guirgis

Struggles with addiction, friendship, love, and the challenges of adulthood are at the center of the story. Jackie, a petty drug dealer, is just out of prison and trying to stay clean. He’s also still in love with his coke-addicted childhood sweetheart, Veronica. Ralph D. is Jackie’s too-smooth, slightly slippery sponsor. He’s married to the bitter and disaffected Victoria, who, by the way, has the hots for Jackie. And then there’s Julia, Jackie’s cousin … a stand-up, “stand by me” kind of guy. Join us for the CNY premiere of this 6-time Tony Award nominee, including best play.

  • Wednesday, February 11 @ 7:00 PM
  • Thursday, February 12 @ 7:00 PM
  • Friday, February 13 @ 7:00 PM
  • Saturday, February 14 @ 2:00 PM **
  • Saturday, February 14 @ 8:00 PM
  • Sunday, February 15 @ 2:00 PM

** Talkback following performance

Details about The Motherf**ker with the Hat

Da


@ Redhouse Arts Center

By Hugh Leonard
Presented in association with 5 for the Show

In this Tony award winner for best play, middle-aged assimilated American Charlie returns home to his native Dublin to sort through and come to terms with his relationship to this thoroughly beguiling, maddening presence in his life: “Da.” Reminiscence gives way to memory and illusion as an adolescent “Charlie Then” is brought back form the past, while the man who is “Charlie Now” grapples with his own mortality, and the part of his life that will always be the irascible “Da.”

  • Friday, March 20 @ 7:00 PM
  • Saturday, March 21 @ 2:00 PM
  • Saturday, March 21 @ 8:00 PM
  • Sunday, March 22 @ 2:00 PM **
  • Thursday, March 26 @ 7:00 PM
  • Friday, March 27 @ 7:00 PM
  • Saturday, March 28 @ 2:00 PM*
  • Saturday, March 28@ 8:00 PM
  • Sunday, March 29 @ 2:00 PM

ASL Available
** Talkback following performance

Details about Da

Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill: The Musical


@ Redhouse Arts Center

Lyrics by Alanis Morissette
Music by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballary
Book by Diablo Cody

Inspired by the Grammy-award winning album of the same name and 15-time Tony nominated musical. Mary Jane Healy is a high-achieving homemaker who will do anything for her family, including their adopted African American daughter Frankie, who is struggling to find her place in their lily-white community. But when the Healys’ lives begin to unravel, Mary Jane’s drive to keep her family together threatens to break them apart. 

  • Friday, June 5 @ 7:00 PM
  • Saturday, June 6 @ 2:00 PM
  • Saturday, June 6 @ 8:00 PM
  • Sunday, June 7 @ 2:00 PM **
  • Thursday, June 11 @ 7:00 PM
  • Friday, June 12 @ 7:00 PM
  • Saturday, June 13 @ 2:00 PM*
  • Saturday, June 13 @ 8:00 PM
  • Sunday, June 14 @ 2:00 PM

ASL Available
** Talkback following performance

Details about Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill: The Musical


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Guys & Dolls

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Jagged Little Pill

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