On The Razzle

Two callow shop clerks escape their lives of provincial drudgery for one day in glitzy, sinful old Vienna, where they hope, as one of them puts it, “to acquire a past before it’s too late.” It’s two hours of slapstick shenanigans, mistaken identities, misdirected orders, malapropisms, double entendres, and romantic complications. The play’s title is […]

Othello

Othello (The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in the year approximately 1603, and based on the short story Un Capitano Moro (“A Moorish Captain”) by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565. This tightly constructed work revolves around four central […]

Betty’s Summer Vacation

Betty has fled the city with her roommate Trudy in search of peace and quiet at a summer timeshare on the Eastern seaboard. But it’s obvious from the start that her goal may be elusive. This commentary on our collective obsession with reality television and tabloid journalism won four Obie Awards when it opened off-Broadway […]

Frankenstein

Set in nineteenth-century Switzerland, this classic tale of horror and suspense details the ill-fated experiments of young Dr. Frankenstein as he attempts to fathom the secrets of life and death. Purchasing cadavers from two unsavory grave robbers, he give life to a creature both hideous and touching—and so physically powerful and mentally twisted that he […]

Jesus Hopped The A Train

Stephen Adly Guirgis’ critical and hilarious examination of the judicial system delivers the visceral thrills we expect in prison dramas. Sadistic guards, crusty and burned-out lawyers, psychopathic inmates, and “newbie” convicts who soon become hardened by the system and turns these conventions on their ears. Yet, in its rattling tin-cup heart, “Jesus Hopped” is about […]

The Fantasticks

The Fantasticks is a 1960 musical with music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones. It tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the play The Romancers (Les Romanesques) by Edmond Rostand, concerning two neighboring fathers who trick their children, Luisa and Matt, into falling in love by pretending to feud and by staging […]

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (mechanical), who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. The play is one of […]

Blithe Spirit

Socialite and novelist Charles Condomine invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book. The scheme backfires when he is haunted by the ghost of his annoying and temperamental first wife, Elvira, after the séance. Elvira makes continual attempts to disrupt […]

Iphigenia At Aulis

Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek coalition before and during the Trojan War, decides to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia, to appease the goddess Artemis and allow his troops to set sail to preserve their honor in battle against Troy.

What The Butler Saw

Don’t you love farce? It’s your typical boy-meets-girl story. Only the boy is a wily psychoanalyst married to a nymphomaniac. And the girl is his secretary… once she passes a not-so-routine physical. Decried as scandalous in 1969 for its character’s raging libidos and rampant mockery of morality, this is a timeless tale of sex and […]