Outcry Theatre’s professional branch will present the regional premiere of acclaimed playwright Rajiv Joseph’s Describe the Night, directed by Becca Johnson-Spinos and stage managed by Elizabeth Cantrell. The show features set design by Kennedy Smith, costume design by Kathy Wright, lighting design by Jacob Kaplan, sound design by Jason Johnson-Spinos, and special effects by Isa Flores. The show will be performed at Theatre Three in Dallas, on the Norma Young Arena Stage, from August 23-31, 2025. This marks Outcry Theatre’s first production at the historic Theatre Three.
The show features Dylan Weand as Isaac, Connor McMurray as Nikolai, Katelyn Yntema as Yevgenia, Bradford Reilly as Vova, Whitney Renée Dodson as Mariya, Chase Di Iulio as Feliks, and Marcy Bogner as Urzula.
In 1920, the Russian writer Isaac Babel is a war correspondent with the Red Cavalry. Seventy years later, a mysterious Stasi agent spies on a woman in Dresden and falls in love. In 2010, an aircraft carrying most of the Polish government crashes in the Russian city of Smolensk. Set in Russia and East Germany over the course of ninety years, this thrilling and epic play traces the stories of seven people connected by history, myth, and conspiracy theories…