NHP Alum Crystal Skillman’s award-winning play OPEN receives its off-Broadway production this summer.

A woman called The Magician appears to perform tricks, but there’s no illusion—she’s attempting the impossible: saving her partner, Jenny. OPEN is a powerful, funny, and deeply moving play about love’s ability to defy hate in magical ways. Just featured in The New Yorker's Summer Culture Preview, Megan Hill returns to the role she orginated, starring as The Magician, under the direction of Jessi D. Hill. The show’s 2019 sold-out run at The Tank earned a New York Times Critics’ Pick, with Elisabeth Vincentelli writing: “Kristen [The Magician] executes magic tricks because she is the one who needs to believe. The miracle this lovely show pulls out is that by the end, she does — and so do we.”

​Sometimes, the most powerful magic is hope.