Tartuffe
Tartuffe, also known by its full title Tartuffe, or the Imposter, is a comic play that follows Tartuffe, Tartuffe, a pious fraud (and a vagrant prior to Orgon’s help), as he tries to manipulate the Orgon family into signing their worldly possessions over to him, including their house. He must be stripped of his power […]
Stand And Deliver
The compelling true story of a dedicated East Los Angeles teacher who surmounts overwhelming odds in his quest to turn inner-city students into whiz kids. When Jaime Escalante leaves a career in engineering to teach high school math, he is assigned to a barrio school with a reputation for gangs, drugs and dropouts, an ill-funded […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]