Reconstructing by the TEAM

Created by The TEAM (Artistic Director Rachel Chavkin; Producing Director Emma Orme)
Directed by Rachel Chavkin & Zhailon Levingston
Presented by The TEAM and The Tow Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College
As part of Under the Radar Festival® / utrfest.org

Dates: Jan 9-11, 2026
Runtime: approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes, with no intermission.
Late seating policy: limited late seating is available
Tickets range from $20-$55

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Onstage is a two-story house. From one angle, it’s mucked out after a flood. From another, it’s a new development wrapped in Tyvek. And from another, it’s “Tara” from Gone with the Wind being transformed into an Airbnb. The piano can’t be tuned. Someone is quilting in the corner. Come in.

Co-written by 21 Black-, POC-, and white-identifying artists ranging in age from 29 to 99, RECONSTRUCTING is a new work by internationally-renowned theater collective the TEAM that wrestles with how, in the aftermath of slavery, we might move through history together. Propelled by a quilt-like score, this “complex and combustible project” (Sarah Holdren, Vulture) slips between fact and fiction and performance and ritual to tell a story of historical figures and fictional characters seeking and fleeing intimacy—and us as makers doing the same.