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 […]
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 […]