Comments about shows at the 2024 Contemporary American Theater Festival

As previously shared, I spent July 18-19-20 in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, where I saw all the 2024 offerings of the Contemporary American Theater Festival. My reports on the four productions are now available on my Facebook page, Rick Pender’s Theater Stages & Scenes. Go there to read my thoughts on productions of Harmon dot aut’s TORNADO TASTES LIKE ALUMINUM STING with a binary central character who experiences the world through lenses and synesthesia, Paloma Nozicka’s spooky ENOUGH TO LET THE LIGHT IN, Mark St. Germain’s solo piece about a Holocaust survivor, THE HAPPIEST MAN ON EARTH, and Donja R. Love’s two-part tale about two eras of people of color facing the AIDS crisis in 1986 and 2016, WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ALL THAT BEAUTY?

Here are photos from each of the CATF productions (photos by Seth Freeman).