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 […]
Batboy The Musical
Based on a story in The Weekly World News, BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL is a musical comedy/horror show about a half boy/half bat creature who is discovered in a cave near Hope Falls, West Virginia. For lack of a better solution, the local sheriff brings Bat Boy to the home of the town veterinarian, Dr. […]
Rumors
Charley and Myra Brock are celebrating their 10th anniversary and have invited all their good friends. Chris and Ken Gorman, a legal couple, are the first ones to arrive. They show up only to find that Myra is missing and Charley has “accidentally” shot himself in the ear. Charley is unconscious and so unable to […]
The Clash And Celebration Of American Culture
A series of seven plays representing the clash of American identities in the 21st century: Molly Brant: A Play in Voice by Alan Steinberg — Native American Molly Brant’s attempts to motivate her tribe to hold on to their ancestral land. The Miraculous Day Quartet by Mary Steelsmith — four people simultaneously tell their excuses […]