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The Style of Weil
Written and Performed by Mary Martello
March 4 @ 8PM, March 12 @ 3PM
Princeton chanteuse and actress Mary Martello returns this season with a look at the life of Kurt Weill, the stage composer of “Mack the Knife” and “September Song.” Mary dives into the passion of his musical and collaborative journeys from Berlin to Broadway. This intimate portrait in song and story of a complicated man and musician brings little known aspects of his career into the limelight.

Tales from the Bawdy House
Written & performed by Terry Waldo
March 5 @ 8PM, March 6 @ 3PMRagtime pianist and raconteur Terry Waldo will return with this brand new show, delighting audiences with stories and songs from America’s most famous red-light districts: New Orleans’s Storyville, New York’s Tin Pan Alley, St. Louis’s Rose Bud Café and more. Thanks to Terry, Passage audiences will get a full-course sound feast of the music and spirit of the once-legal underworld of some of America’s most colorful cities.

Draw the Circle
Written & performed by Deen, directed by Chay Yew
Special Workshop Reading: March 11 @ 8PM
Deen’s moving and hilarious story of one transgender man's journey from female to male, told entirely from the point of view of those closest to him -- including his strict Indian immigrant parents and his politically active femme lover. Laid bare is one family's struggle with a child who continuously defies their most basic expectations of what it means to have a daughter... and one woman's commitment to unconditional love.

No Parole
Written & performed by Carlo D'Amore, directed by Margarett Perry
March 12 & 19 @ 8PM, March 27 @ 3PM
Carlo D’Amore will roar into Trenton with a wry, energetic adventure play about his real-life flamboyant, live-for-the-moment con artist mother, who has no trouble posing as an attorney, professor, daycare worker, or diplomat, as seen through the eyes of her young son, who acts as her look-out, bail bondsman, and partner-in-crime. D’Amore showcases his indomitable spirit and unique theatrical style. Part Inca, Indian, Italian, French and Spanish with a healthy splash of zany, D’Amore has delighted both audiences and critics across the country.

Forgive to Forget
Written & performed by chandra thomas
March 17 @ 8PM
What do you do when police find your father walking through Harlem in shorts and a tee-shirt on the coldest day in January? If you’re Brenda, you throw a party. Actor/writer chandra thomas poeticizes, sings, dances and speechifies (yes, “speechifies”) through the entangled memories of Brenda and her father as they learn what to remember and what to forget.

Wanderlust
Written & performed by Martin Dockery, directed by Jean-Michele Gregory
March 18 @ 8PM, March 20 @ 3PM
An award-winning, comic, true story: After more than a decade of temping, both at work and in relationships, a man embarks on a solo trip deep into Africa, trekking from the Atlantic to the Sahara. There he demands an Epiphany. Any Epiphany. Some proof that though we’re temporary, we’re more than mere temps.

Black Comedy: The Wacky Side of Post?-Racism
Written & performed by Nancy Giles
March 25 & 26 @ 8PM
If you were fortunate enough to have seen Giles at Passage in 1998 … she is Black by Popular Demand…but with an Obama era spin!