A mixed-race daughter dreams of escaping her small, white town to sing like Lauryn Hill. One of her two dads dreams of a life that could have been, and rekindles a high-school flame. The other dreams of happy, suburban stability. In the world premiere The New Englanders, Jeff Augustin sidesteps the American dream and instead asks where dreams come from and what keeps them from becoming realities. —C.J.F.