2025 Season

Topdog/Underdog

By Suzan-Lori Parks

Directed by Kadeem Ali Harris

May 30th - June 15th

Written in 2001, Topdog/Underdog is a Pulitzer Prize-winning dark comedy about brothers Lincoln & Booth begrudgingly living together. Their father named them as a dark joke. The play explores themes of family, rivalry, race, and destiny through the complex relationship between these brothers. This is the first professional production with two female-identifying actors playing Lincoln & Booth.

DIRECTOR Kadeem Ali Harris (he/him/his) 

returns to Lanes Coven after playing Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2024, and Macduff in Macbeth in 2022. Kadeem is an actor/director/producer from the Bronx, New York. BROADWAY: Thoughts of a Colored Man. REGIONAL THEATER: Suzan-Lori Parks’ new play Sally and Tom at the Guthrie; American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Rep, Cal Shakes, and Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati. He has produced the 2016 Bay Area Artist Festival with the premiere of Obie Award winner Aleshea Harris’ play CRACK. RUMBLE. FLY. Kadeem is a committed teaching artist who has taught in New York City, Cincinnati, and the Bay Area and is the recipient of the Bratt Family Diversity Scholarship and the Litfin Scholarship. TV/FILM: You can see him recur as ‘Brandon’ in the hit Amazon Prime series “Harlem,” starring Megan Good and Season 3 of City on a Hill. MFA, American Conservatory Theater; BFA Tisch School of the Arts for Drama.

LINCOLN, Akilah A. Walker (she/her/hers)

Elated to be making my Lanes Coven debut <3 REGIONAL: Black Cypress Bayou (Geffen Playhouse), The Bluest Eye (A Noise Within Theatre Co.), Marty & The Hands that Could (WACO Theatre Co.) School Girls; Or The African Mean Girls Play (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Detroit '67 (Aurora Theatre Co.),  A Midsummer Night's Dream (Classical Theatre of Harlem). TV/FILM: Currently recurring on Bel-Air (Peacock), upcoming Guest star P-Valley (Starz), The Family Business (BET+). Award-winning writer/director of the short films  'Ivar Tunnel: Shook Ones' which debuted on the REVOLT network, and 'Pedacito de Carne' sponsored by Netflix, and co-founder of Good Mother Films, a production company specializing in personal stories that center women. Fordham University BA, Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre MFA, Acting. @Akthewayy on Instagram, X and TikTok

BOOTH, Adrianna Mitchell (she/her/hers)

an Atlanta native and NYC-based actor, director, and producer. With Lanes Coven: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth. BROADWAY: “Opal” in the Tony-nominated Pulitzer Prize Winning play Fat Ham, after originating the role at The Public Theater. OFF-BROADWAY: What to Send Up When It Goes Down (Playwrights Horizons), runboyrun (New York Theatre Workshop). REGIONAL: (select) Noises Off (Two River Theater); Romeo & Juliet (as “Juliet”) and Taming of the Shrew (Chautauqua Theater Company); Measure for Measure (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); Hamlet (American Conservatory Theater). TV/FILM: Mitchell recurred on a season of Snowfall (FX) and booked a series regular on the pilot Harlem’s Kitchen, opposite Delroy Lindo and Sheryl Lee Ralph (ABC). Select guest roles: Grey’s Anatomy and Queens (ABC); Bull, The Good Fight, and Evil (CBS); The Blacklist and Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector(NBC); and Little America (Apple TV+). Spelman College (BA; Phi Beta Kappa); American Conservatory Theater (M.F.A.); British American Drama Academy.

Presented Indoors in the Chapel

Poster of Love's Labour's Lost, presented by Lanes Coven July 11th - 27th with graphics of a naked Cupid and arrow and lush green and blue flora and fauna

Love’s Labour’s Lost

by William Shakespeare

July 11th - July 27th

Directed by Justin Genna

Indulgent bands of lovers abound; a group of academics think they can swear off love and replace all temptation with rigorous study…good luck!

Harold Bloom, "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world" calls Love’s Labour’s Lost "astonishing" and refers to it as Shakespeare's "first absolute achievement."

Love’s Labour’s Lost is a lyrical farce — romantic nobles meet comedic clowns. Like an early version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream — both titles were private commissions that Shakespeare wrote for the aristocratic Southampton family during the English plague 1592-1593. Another opinion says Love’s Labour’s Lost is the prequel to Much Ado About Nothing (subtitled in some versions as “Love’s Labour’s Won.”)

Financial Accessibility 2025

Theater is for everyone.

If money is ever an issue, and/or if you are an educator, it is Lanes Coven’s policy, since the beginning, that you may reach out and ask for a complimentary ticket.

Card to Culture

We are proud to participate in Mass Cultural Council's Card to Culture program in collaboration with the Department of Transitional Assistance, the Department of Public Health's WIC Nutrition Program, the Massachusetts Health Connector, and hundreds of organizations by making cultural programming accessible to those for whom cost is a participation barrier.

EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare cardholders can use the code C2C5 to purchase a $5 ticket to any performance Lanes Coven offers, excluding fundraisers. This is on a first-come-first-serve basis. Tickets may be reserved online. But we cannot guarantee that walk-ins can receive this discount. We encourage online reservations, as our capacity at Hammond Castle is 75 seats, and at Windhover is 125 seats, and we do sell out. See the complete list of participating organizations offering EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare discounts.

$5 Buck Sundays - 2025 - June 1st at 7PM & July 13th at 7PM

In 2024, $5 Buck Sundays were SOLD OUT! And made possible by ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, Creative County Initiative.

Want your name on the bill as the sponsor for these accessible nights of theater? Reach out to Lily at lanescoven@gmail.com about subsidizing tickets for this program!

Own a business? Want to underwrite admission for audience? REACH OUT! lanescoven@gmail.com

Windhover Center for the Performing Arts

257R Granite St, Rockport, MA 01966

  • Enter where you see the Lanes Coven Sandwich Board / Black Sail / Windhover blue & white sign

  • Performances are outdoors under a large performance tent

  • Parking provided

  • Please bring 1) sunscreen 2) bug spray 3) a layer to stay warm when the sun goes down

  • The performance space and restrooms are ADA accessible

  • Bring Your Own Wine/Beer and Picnic. No alcohol for sale!