Young Friends Night

Girl from the North Country

Book by Conor McPherson
Music and Lyrics by Bob Dylan
Directed by Terrence J. Nolen

Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 7:00 PM – Use code: YFARDEN

Tony Award-winning musical

In a run-down boarding house in Duluth, Minnesota, strangers cross paths – experiencing love, loss, and everything in between. Amongst the dust and deep in the throes of the Great Depression, these wayward travelers fill the guesthouse with music, hope, and soul. This Tony Award-winning musical features songs by Bob Dylan, adapted for this production, including “Forever Young,” “Hurricane,” and “Like a Rolling Stone,” to create a moving American story of resilience in uncertain times.

Topdog/Underdog

By  Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Amina Robinson

Pulitzer Prize-winning Play

Thursday, November 19, 2026 at 7:00 PM – Use code: YFARDEN

Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog tells the story of brothers Lincoln and Booth, unfortunately named as a joke by their father, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Now adults, they share a single room passing time telling stories, testing each other, and circling the street con game of three-card monte. Haunted by the hands they’ve been dealt, the brothers reckon with what their futures will entail. Topdog/Underdog is co-produced with People’s Light.

Native Gardens

By Karen Zacarias
Directed by Brett Ashley Robinson

Thursday, February 11, 2027 at 7:00 PM – Use code: YFARDEN

Philadelphia Premiere!

Tania and her husband Pablo think they’ve found the American dream when they move next door to Virginia and Frank, longtime residents with a picture-perfect garden. But a backyard gathering and a question about the fence line quickly ignite a hilarious feud, exposing their clashing ideas of taste, class, and culture.

John Proctor is the Villain

By Kimberly Belflower
Directed by Rebecca Wright

Thursday, March 18, 2027 at 7:00 PM – Use code: YFARDEN

At a rural Georgia high school, a group of juniors are just trying to survive sex ed, hallway gossip, and the chaos of growing up. But when their English class begins reading The Crucible, the classroom becomes a battleground for the truth as the students start asking uncomfortable questions about Salem and the men history calls heroes. Fueled by pop music, humor, and a fierce desire to be heard this new play captures a generation in the middle of reckoning with the past and claiming its own voice.