The Season

Grand Sponsors: Lee Moore & Dee Whited
Playwright Sponsor Darlene Arnold
Networking Sponsor Naomi Bloom

Florida Repertory Theatre’s PlayLab Festival of New Works takes place May 1– 4 in the Historic Arcade Theatre. The 2025 PlayLab lineup includes five plays reflecting Florida Rep’s mission to produce a wide variety of work by emerging and well-established writers.

Tickets are $35 per reading and $25 for panel session, or $170 for an all-access pass that includes admission to all five readings plus the playwright’s panel. A VIP all-access package is also available for $185 and includes complimentary concessions at each reading – please call the Box Office at 239-332-4488 to order the all-access package. 

Emma is a renowned film producer and college professor. When a student complains about her decision to include a film produced by a #MeToo-outed man in the course curriculum, Emma must interrogate her own guilt for something she did in 1999. The play explores the intersection of three women’s lives in the wake of trauma and grapples with what to do with the films of the 90s in light of recent sexual allegations, posing questions about artistic production, academic freedom/danger, and power.