The Comedy of Hamlet! (A Prequel)

Nothing is rotten in the state of Denmark as young Hamlet leaps into action to save the nunnery with Ophelia and Yorick the Jester! What could possibly go wrong? This hysterical prequel answers all the important questions: Why can’t Ophelia take swim lessons? Where the hell is Mrs. Polonius? And why does Hamlet’s mother spend […]

All In The Timing

Winner of the John Gassner Playwriting Award, this critically acclaimed, award-winning evening of comedies combines wit, intellect, satire and just plain fun. Featuring six diverse but equally hysterical one-act comedies, David Ives’ ALL IN THE TIMING is romantic, absurd, and existentially minded evening of theatre.

Blithe Spirit

It’s summertime in Kent and Charles Condomine is working on his latest novel, The Unseen. As part of his research, he and his wife Ruth host a séance with an eccentric medium known as Madame Arcati and invite their friends to play along. But the evening takes a supernatural turn when Arcati conjures Charles’ deceased first […]

Rosencrantz And Guildenstern are Dead

Hamlet is turned topsy turvy in this brilliant, Tony Award winning comedy that thrusts Shakespeare’s two minor characters to the frontlines with no rules except one: they are destined to die. Trapped in a universe where the flip of a coin always comes up heads and pirates can pop-up anytime, can our hapless protagonists triumph in […]

Hangmen

It’s 1965, and the death penalty has just been abolished in the United Kingdom. Naturally all of Oldham, northern England, wants to know what Harry, the second-best hangman in the country, has to say about it. As the news breaks, Harry’s pub is overrun with locals and reporters looking for a quote, until a visitor […]

She Kills Monsters

She Kills Monsters tells the story of Agnes Evans as she leaves her childhood home in Ohio following the death of her teenage sister, Tilly. When Agnes finds Tilly’s Dungeons & Dragons notebook, however, she finds herself catapulted into a journey of discovery and action-packed adventure in the imaginary world that was her sister’s refuge. […]

The Madwoman of Chaillot

The play is a kind of poetic and comic fable set in the twilight zone of the not-quite-true. At the Cafe Chez Francis, a group of promoters plot to tear up Paris in order to unearth the oil which a prospector believes he has located in the neighborhood. These grandiose plans come to the attention […]

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“The course of true love never did run smooth” Experience Shakespeare like you’ve never seen it before! Mischievous fairy Puck enters our contemporary world and leads a young gamer obsessed with music videos, playlists, and YouTube into Shakespeare’s classic world of mystical wilderness and complicated romances. Deep in the neon lit forest, the gamer encounters […]

Kentucky

Hiro is a self-made woman making it in New York. But she is also single, almost thirty, and estranged from her dysfunctional family who lives in Kentucky. When her little sister, a born-again Christian, decides to marry at twenty-two, Hiro takes it upon herself to do whatever she can to stop the wedding and salvage […]

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

NOTE: This production was cancelled due to Covid. The pictures below are from the final days of rehearsal. A charming rogue contrives to serve a short sentence in an airy mental institution rather than in a prison. This, he learns, was a mistake. He clashes with the head nurse, a fierce martinet. He quickly takes […]