The Pillowman
THE PILLOWMAN was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Foreign Play, and two Tony Awards in 2004-2005. With echoes of Stoppard, Kafka, and the Brothers Grimm, THE PILLOWMAN centers on a writer in an unnamed totalitarian state who is being interrogated about the […]
The Taming Of The Shrew
Sweet-tempered daddy’s girl Bianca can have her pick of suitors, but not until her sister, the fiery-tongued Kate, is married off. Rising to the challenge is fortune-seeking Petruchio, but can he match Kate jab for jab? Shakespeare’s outrageous comedy introduces one of the theatre’s greatest pairs, a couple hell-bent on confusing and outwitting each other […]
Picasso At The Lapin Agile
This long running Off-Broadway absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. In his first comedy for the stage, Steve Martin plays fast and loose with […]
Oedipus El Rey
With Chicano swagger and a sly sense of humor, Luis Alfaro tears Sophocles’ timeless Greek tragedy out of its mythic past and catapults it into the vivid, vicious reality of today’s L.A. barrios. Here Oedipus does hard time for ripping off a Costco, Jocasta splashes on the cheap perfume while glued to “All My Children”, […]
Zombie Prom
This girl-loves-ghoul, rock-and-roll, Off-Broadway musical is set in the atomic 1950’s at Enrico Fermi High. Pretty senior Toffee has fallen for the class bad boy, Jonny, who spells his name without the customary “h”. Family pressure forces her to end the romance, and he charges off on his motorcycle, hurling himself into the nuclear waste […]
The Children’s Hour
Set in the 1930’s, THE CHILDREN’S HOUR centers around two women who run a boarding school for girls. A malicious youngster out for revenge starts a rumor about the two women which quickly turns to scandal. Understanding the power she wields, the young girl sticks by her story which precipitates tragedy for the women.
Prince Hamlet Of Denmark South Carolina 1881
Murder, melancholy, and madness are at the center of this Shakespeare classic. The death of Hamlet’s father and his mother’s hasty remarriage leave the Prince of Denmark in suspicious mourning. When his father’s ghost appears to him demanding revenge, Hamlet obeys, putting into motion a plan of vengeance that will have devastating consequences for the […]
Six Degrees Of Separation
When Ouisa and Flan Kittredge let an injured young man into their home in the middle of the night, they open the door on a new and enticing world. But is it really what it seems?. John Guare’s play scratches beneath the surface of a world obsessed with money and fame and asks the question, […]
Noises Off
Michael Frayn’s multi award-winning comedy, NOISES OFF, is hailed as one of the greatest comedies ever written. This celebrated play serves up a riotous double bill – a play within a play. Hurtling along at breakneck speed, it follows the backstage antics of a touring theatre company as they stumble their way through rehearsals, to […]
The Grapes Of Wrath
Winner of the 1990 Tony Award for Best Play, THE GRAPES OF WRATH is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, and one man’s fierce reaction to injustice. Set during the Great Depression, the story follows the Joad family, Oklahoma farmers driven from their home by […]