Join us for A Night with Obsidian, an evening of cabaret-style performances, drinks, and light hors d’oeuvres celebrating the power of music and theatre to bring people together.

This special fundraiser will feature performances by local artists and supporters of Obsidian Theatre Company, sharing songs that inspire reflection, conversation, and hope.

Proceeds from the evening will help support our upcoming production of Next to Normal, our second annual show and a powerful story about mental health, family, and healing.

Spend the evening with us and help bring meaningful theatre to our community.

For audiences 17+, anyone under the age of 17 must be accompanied by an adult. This show contains strong language, drug abuse, mental health disorders, suicide.

Next to Normal, with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt, explores how one suburban household copes with crisis and mental illness. Winner of three 2009 Tony Awards, including Best Musical Score and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, Next to Normal was also chosen as "one of the year's ten best shows" by critics around the country, including The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone and The New York Times.

Dad's an architect; Mom rushes to pack lunches and pour cereal; their daughter and son are bright, wise-cracking teens, appearing to be a typical American family. And yet their lives are anything but normal because the mother has been battling bipolar disorder for 16 years. Next to Normal takes audiences into the minds and hearts of each character, presenting their family's story with love, sympathy and heart.

This deeply moving piece of theatre provides a wonderful opportunity for performers to explore dramatic material and showcase vocal talents with an energetic pop/rock score. Next to Normal is an emotional powerhouse that addresses such issues as grieving a loss, ethics in modern psychiatry, and suburban life and is ideal for community theatres, as well as colleges and regional theatre companies.

*This production presents session with various mental health professionals and doctors as well as different treatments for pipolar disorder and complicated grief. We acknowledge that treatment varies from individual to individual as does its efficacy and side effects.