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Different Strokes! Performing Arts Collective presents

Dear God

Thursday–Saturday, August 7–23, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, August 24, 2025 at 3 p.m.

(Previous dates: October 3–20, 2024 and February 6-23, 2025)

WORLD PREMIERE written by Lisa Langford

Aliens have arrived from space, and they are turning Rev. Vonnie Braxton’s world upside down. Her congregation is freaking out; her husband is distant, and her faith is challenged. When someone from her past shows up, Vonnie must choose between the way things are and her commitment to social justice. Dear God is part of the Emerging Black Playwrights New Play Series and first debuted in the development phase, as a staged reading in November 2023.

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