Stand And Deliver
The compelling true story of a dedicated East Los Angeles teacher who surmounts overwhelming odds in his quest to turn inner-city students into whiz kids. When Jaime Escalante leaves a career in engineering to teach high school math, he is assigned to a barrio school with a reputation for gangs, drugs and dropouts, an ill-funded […]
The Skriker
The story of an ancient fairy who, during the course of the play, transforms into a plethora of objects and people as it pursues Lily and Josie, two teenage mothers whom it befriends, manipulates, seduces and entraps. Whilst speaking English in its human incarnations, the Skriker’s own language consists of broken and fragmented word play. […]
The Crucible
A dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Arthur Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the U.S. government blacklisted accused communists. Miller himself was questioned by the House of Representatives’ Committee on Un-American Activities in […]
Cabaret
“Cabaret” takes place during the time surrounding the rise of Hitler and tells the tale of Clifford Bradshaw. Cliff is an American writer who has traveled to Berlin in the hopes of finding inspiration for his novel which he has yet to start. Along the way he makes acquaintances with Nazis, prostitutes and showgirls. The […]
Fuddy Meers
Fuddy Meers tells the story of an amnesiac, Claire, who awakens each morning as a blank slate on which her husband and teenage son must imprint the facts of her life. One morning Claire is abducted by a limping, lisping man who claims her husband wants to kill her. The audience views the ensuing mayhem […]
Comedy Of Errors
The mistaken-identity farce looks at impending death and the nature of identity. Shakespeare famously ups the ante by offering us two sets of permanently confused twins. Antipholus of Ephesus and Antipholus of Syracuse, and their twin-brother servants, Dromio of Ephesus and Dromio of Syracuse embark series of wild mishaps, including wrongful beatings, a near-seduction, the […]
Alice In Wonderland
A young child living during the mid-Victorian era goes on adventures by falling down a rabbit hole to Wonderland, a fantasy world where she meets peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures, such as The White Rabbit, The Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, The Queen of Hearts, The Caterpillar, and more. Alice grows, she shrinks, she is never the […]
The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot
A trial proceeding, complete with judge, jury, prosecution and defense explore contrasting views of the infamous betrayal of Jesus Christ by Judas Iscariot. Should Judas should be forgiven and allowed to enter the Kingdom of Heaven? On hand are some key witnesses, each offering his or her own unique (and steadfast) interpretation of Judas’ redemptive […]
Urinetown
Urinetown satirizes the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, and municipal politics. The show also parodies musicals such as The Threepenny Opera, The Cradle Will Rock and Les Misérables, and the Broadway musical itself as a form. The characters of Bobby Strong and Hope Cladwell were included on New York Theatre Monthly’s […]
A View From The Bridge
Set in the 1950s in an Italian neighborhood in New York City, A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE tells the story of the Carbone family, which includes Eddie, his wife Beatrice, and their niece Catherine, whom the Carbones took in after the death of her mother, Beatrice’s sister. Eddie, the tragic protagonist, has an improper love […]