2023 New York Times Critics’ Pick!

In this town, a good myth might as well be the truth.

Johnny “Honeycomb” James comes back home famous, changed, and impossible to explain. The voice is real, but the rumors are loud. In a town that remembers everything and forgives nothing, his return cracks open old stories and new accusations. Soon no one can agree on what’s true, only on what feels true enough to believe.

Covenant is a Southern Gothic thriller about myth-making, moral panic, and the stories people choose when the truth is too inconvenient.

Written by acclaimed playwright and screenwriter York Walker and directed by SpeakEasy Artistic Director Dawn M. Simmons, Covenant upends conventions of the so-called “period drama.” It brings a contemporary voice, supernatural stagecraft, and an exploration of family, faith, desire, legacy, and the power of story once people decide to believe it.