“Tell Me Something Good” will feature four new plays, performed for the first time. Cefaly’s tenderly crafted stories of ache and longing examine the most ordinary and disparate of characters in high-stakes moments of self-doubt: some life-threatening, some bordering on life-ending, all life-affirming.

Theatre UAB is the performance company of the University of Alabama at Birmingham College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Theatre.

Cefaly employs an innovative structure for “Tell Me Something Good.” The four plays are not presented as separate dramas. Instead, the playwright breaks the individual stories apart and then interweaves the numerous scenes back together into one continuous evening of theater, keeping the audience guessing what is coming next. The playwright examines the universality of human fragility, ache and need for love with empathy and unbounded humor. Audiences will cry, both in sorrow and in joy, and laugh with unexpected abandon, says Director Jack Cannon, MFA.