Please support our friends at Chromolume Theatre. Directed by TheatreSourceLA’s Brayden Hade.

If/Then is a contemporary musical stripped of its traditional Broadway sentimentality and reframed as a sharp, psychological exploration of choice, chance, and cognitive fracture. Instead of a charming look at “what might have been,” the narrative functions as a visceral, simultaneous look at one woman’s parallel life paths, painting a deeply moving—and increasingly tense—portrait of the lives we lead versus the haunting weight of the lives we didn’t choose.

Elizabeth, a city planner, moves back to New York to restart her life, attempting to apply rigid, structural design to an inherently chaotic world. When her carefully calculated plans collide with the whims of fate, her reality fractures. The production tracks both timelines simultaneously, tracking a modern woman caught in a brilliant, destabilizing dissociative spiral as the intersection of choice and chance threatens to pull her apart.