SOUTHEAST REGIONAL PREMIERE January 15 - February 7, 2026 Featuring David Whalen, Camille Lowman, Joy Vandervort-Cobb, Sylvia Jefferies, and Journey Townsend From the pen of Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar comes a “brilliant and transfixing new play” about Artificial Intelligence, American ambition, and moral ambiguity. At its center is Jacob McNeal: literary lion, Nobel Prize perennial, and a man whose brilliance is matched only by the size of his blind spots. A new novel looms. An estranged son resurfaces. Old enemies circle. And McNeal - equal parts provocateur, perfectionist, and self-mythologizer - finds himself captivated, even seduced, by the generative power of artificial intelligence. As the lines between creation and replication blur, McNeal faces a crisis both artistic and existential: What happens when the storytelling machine becomes capable of telling your story better than you can?
Directed by Sharon Graci
PURE Theatre is at 134 Cannon Street, Charleston, SC.
Eureka Day (11/6/25-12/6/25)
Covenant by York Walker (10/2/25-10/25/25)
Takes All Kinds (9/12/25-9/13/25)
ZELDA IN THE BACKYARD (7/24/25-8/16/25)
Pleasure Never Lies (4/10/25-5/3/25)
Atwater (10/19/23-11/18/23)
The Chinese Lady (8/24/23-9/23/23)
Septima (3/9/23-4/1/23)
Hangmen (1/12/23-2/4/23)
Clyde's (10/27/22-11/19/22)
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Ernest Hemingway portrayed by John Dennis Anderson
Wade Hampton High School (2/7 - 2/7)
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Hairball Live In Concert
Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium (2/25 - 2/25) | |
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C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters
Koger Center (3/19 - 3/19) | |
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The SpongeBob Musical
Broadway Bound Vista Theatre Project (7/23 - 7/26) | |
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Menopause The Musical 2: Cruising Through ‘The Change’®
Legends In Concert – Broadway at the Beach (1/22 - 2/1) | |
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The Mountaintop
The Warehouse Theatre (4/3 - 4/26) | |
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& Juliet
North Charleston Performing Arts Center (2/22 - 2/22) | |
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Wicked
Koger Center for the Arts (3/25 - 4/5) | |
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