Theatre Incognita debuted in Fall 2009 with David Mamet’s AMERICAN BUFFALO, then featured local women playwrights in Spring 2010, in three full productions. Beginning in Fall 2010 we introduced Concert Stagings (script in hand) which featured fully rehearsed stagings accompanied by musical guests (these are marked with [CS]); this allowed us to stage event-driven evenings with large casts. Spring Writes (run by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins) programs are lightly rehearsed readings.
From 2017 through 2020 Incognita was on hiatus. On our return in Spring 2021 we offered virtual streamed readings for Spring Writes, which we did again in Spring 2022.
Incognita returned to full, in-person stagings in spring 2024, featuring MACBETH by Shakespeare and THE GLASS MENAGERIE by Tennessee Williams..
| Show | Playwright(s) | Venue | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Buffalo | David Mamet | Art Studio, CSMA | Oct 2009; Nov 2009 |
| The Dodgson Girls* | Natalie deCombray* | Hamblin Hall, CSMA | Jan 2010 |
| queermonster-freaks* | Kit Wainer* | Downtown Ithaca storefront | Mar 21 |
| A Room of Their Own: Plays from 3rd Floor 1996-2006* | Natalie deCombray*, Kathy Kramer*, Kit Wainer*, Caissa Wilmer*, Judith Pratt* | Lobby, CSMA | May 2010 |
| Spring Writes: Plays of Natalie deCombray* | Natalie deCombray* | Tompkins County Public Library | May 2010 |
| Blues for Mister Charlie [CS] | James Baldwin | St Paul’s United Methodist Church | Oct 2010 |
| The Baby Elephant | Bertolt Brecht | Delilah’s on Cayuga/ The Nines/ Hamblin Hall, CSMA | Jan 2011 |
| The Laramie Project [CS] | Moises Kaufman & Tectonic Theatre | Hamblin Hall, CSMA | Feb 2011 |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | William Shakespeare | Hamblin Hall, CSMA | May 2011 |
| The Importance of Being Earnest [CS] | Oscar Wilde | Hamblin Hall, CSMA | Oct 2011 |
| Late: A Cowboy Song | Sara Ruhl | The Space at Greenstar | Nov 2011 |
| Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart (a rave fable) | Caridad Svich | Downtown Ithaca storefront | Mar 2012 |
| Breathe: Michelle Berry and Friends* [CS] | Michelle Berry* | Unitarian Church, Ithaca | Apr 2012 |
| The Way of Water [CS] | Caridad Svich | Cornell | Apr 2012 |
| The Importance of Being Earnest [CS] | Oscar Wilde | Hamblin Hall, CSMA | Oct 2012 |
| Our Town | Thornton Wilder | Fall Creek Studio | Dec 2012 |
| The Necropolis* [CS] | Nathan Hilgartner* | Hamblin Hall, CSMA | Jun 2013 |
| Danny and the Deep Blue Sea | John Patrick Shanley | Risley Theatre | Sep 2013 |
| Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Edward Albee | Hangar Theatre | Dec 2013 |
| Romeo & Juliet | William Shakespeare | Hangar Theatre | May 2014 |
| Our Town | Thornton Wilder | Hangar Theatre | May 2014 |
| The Rimers of Eldritch | Lanford Wilson | Beverly J Martin Auditorium | Apr 2015 |
| Fool for Love | Sam Shepard | Circus Culture | Nov 2015 |
| A Christmas Carol (reading) | Charles Dickens; adapted by Ross Haarstad | Moosewood Restaurant | Dec 2016 |
| A Spring Posy of Local Playwrights 2021* | Mikel Moss*, Ana Florencia Lopez Ullola*, Kristen Wright*, Arthur Bicknell*, Sarah K. Chalmers*, Aoise Stratford*, Saviana Stanescu*, Judith Pratt*, Yvonne Fisher*, Rafael Lopez* | Virtual: Spring Writes | May 2021 |
| Playwrights in Performance 2022* | Kristen Wright*, Aoise Stratford*, Ana Florencia Lopez Ullola*, Judith Pratt* | Virtual: Spring Writes | May 2022 |
| Macbeth | Shakespeare | Hamblin Hall, CSMA | March 2024 |
| The Glass Menagerie | Tennessee Williams | Hamblin Hall, CSMA | May 2024 |