THE POISONER Kicks Off National Tour at Touchstone Theatre

Overview

Please join us for a limited-run opportunity to see The Poisoner, which had its first run at the historic La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in NYC in April of 2024. We are thrilled to be the first stop on this 7-city touring production.

A universal tale, The Poisoner is an unraveling of the deception, abuse of power, and utter negligence of early 2000s Midwestern water politics. In a neo-noir thriller driven by a determined journalist who returns to his hometown and uncovers more than he bargained for, The Poisoner invites you to question: Are we ever safe?

The Poisoner is a fictional work inspired by the Flint water crisis of 2014 that aims to engage audiences to amplify awareness about the persistent challenges faced in Flint, Jackson, Newark, and other communities grappling with similar crises.

Written by first-time playwright M. M. Haney and directed and developed by two-time Obie Award-winning director Lee Sunday Evans, The Poisoner asks not just how a crisis happened, but whether we have truly done enough to prevent the next one.