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A young female activist brings an older man - a famous political hacker and journalist - home to her Brooklyn apartment to spend the night. But as they start to expose each other's secrets, personal and political desires collide, testing the limits of privacy in the modern world.
Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors. A portrait of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for nine American girls who just want to score some goals.
Little Bo-Peep looks after Fanny Fairacre's flock of sheep on Fairacre Farm. The malevolent Lady Sneering is jealous of her relationship with Fanny's son Freddie, so she instructs evil magician Mefisto - from Cindy Sparkle's travelling show - to make the pretty shepherdess disappear.
A simplified version in modern English of the medieval morality play. Everyman, when he is summoned by Death, finds that, of all the friends, companions and possessions he has known on earth, not one will accompany him except Good Deeds and Knowledge.|Large flexible cast
2014 Lucille Lortel Award NominationsOutstanding Choreographer, Marguerite DerricksOutstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, Barrett Wilbert Weed2014 Drama Desk Awards NominationsOutstanding Actress in a Musical, Barrett Wilbert WeedOutstanding Music, Kevin Murphy and Laurence O''Keefe2014 Off Broadway Alliance Awards NominationBest New MusicalHeathers The Musical is the darkly delicious story of Veronica Sawyer, a brainy, beautiful teenage misfit who hustles her way into the most powerful and ruthless clique at Westerberg High: the Heathers. But before she can get comfortable atop the high school food chain, Veronica falls in love with the dangerously sexy new kid J.D. When Heather Chandler, the Almighty, kicks her out of the group, Veronica decides to bite the bullet and kiss Heather''s aerobicized ass... but J.D. has another plan for that bullet.Brought to you by the award-winning creative team of Kevin Murphy (Reefer Madness, "Desperate Housewives"), Laurence O''Keefe (Bat Boy, Legally Blonde) and Andy Fickman (Reefer Madness, She''s the Man). Heathers The Musical is a hilarious, heartfelt and homicidal new show based on the greatest teen comedy of all time. With its moving love story, laugh-out-loud comedy and unflinching look at the joys and anguish of high school, Heathers will be New York''s most popular new musical. Are you in, or are you out?
In a West End synagogue, three septuagenarians, Sophie, Hetty and Magda meet every Tuesday to play the card game Kaluki. But all this is about to change when their synagogue is to be sold to a strip club owner. These intrepid ladies decide to take direct action. Can they succeed or will their constant bickering put paid to their plan?
Past and present violently collide when Lotte, an English tourist who repairs dolls, is captured while on a tour of current-day Troy and flung back into the ancient camp of Euripides' Trojan Women.Part contemporary drama, part homage to Euripides' Trojan Women, Trojan Barbie recasts the legendary fall of the city of Troy against the vivid reality of modern warfare. Poetic, compassionate, and tinged with great warmth and humor, Trojan Barbie is an epic war story with a most unlik
Comedy / Characters: 1 male, 2 femaleScenery: InteriorIt's a hot summer evening and Julie Rodgers has had a bad day. Her boss made a pass at her and she said no so she got a pink slip with her check. Julie's broke and disillusioned, so she drinks and turns on the stereo full blast to make the pain go away. Then her roommate comes home in the midst of an eating frenzy; her boyfriend has gone back to his wife so Alice has turned to food to forget. Julie suggests another way to vent their man
As the children walk in with their lighted candles, and the Storyteller takes us back to a small Russian village, the scene is set for this magical Christmas story. Papa Panov, the old shoemaker, now almost too blind to thread a needle, has a dream that Jesus will visit him on Christmas Day. All day he waits for him, but the only visitors he has are a tramp, a roadsweeper and a woman with a baby. Selflessly he gives them his coat, his money and his soup. As he falls asleep in the evening, tired, ridiculed and disappointed, he has another dream in which it appears that his special visitor did come after all... This adaptation of a story by Leo Tolstoy, narrated by a Storyteller and involving an unlimited cast of children, is a perfect play for Christmas.
Hitting Town opens with Ralph, a student drop-out from Birmingham University, dropping in unexpectedly on his sister, Clare, in her Leicester bed-sit. Together they decide to "hit the town". But against a background of commercial radio, city-centre precincts, Wimpy Bars and dangerous practical jokes, the incestuous relationship that develops between them seems the only way of affirming their vitality...|2 women, 1 man
Characters: 6 male, 2 female, plus extras (w/doubling)Multiple SetsA man who has everything. Money, friends, a beautifulhome. And then - pfft! It's all vanished. Max Reinhardt,one the greatest impresarios of theatrical history, had alifelong ambition - to dissolve the boundary betweentheatre and the world it portrays. Each year at theSalzburg Festival he directed a famous morality play,Everyman, about God sending Death to summon arepresentative of mankind for judgment. The vict
Dramatic Comedy / Characters: 3 male, 5 femaleScenery: Interior The award winning author of 6 Rms Riv Vu, The Fan and Kate & Allie delves into the nature of laughter and pain in this, his most telling play. There is a once in a lifetime bravura role in Sally, the mother of a mentally handicapped boy who uses her wickedly funny tongue to hold at bay a world that has the legal right, and intention, of taking him from her. The play moves gracefully from the present to the past and back again,
Characters: 3 male, 2 female Interior with insert. Andy has a sweet Catholic mother, a sour Catholic father and a severely retarded younger brother named Mickey. When he brings his Jewish atheist fiance to meet the folks on Christmas Eve, his worst fears about family blow ups are realized. But Mickey, whose entire vocabulary is "oh boy" and "wow," suddenly says "Greetings!" An ancient, wise and witty spirit who is set upon healing the family has borrowed Mickey's body. Though a
1m, 3f / Drama / Simple set Gee's Bend depicts the turbulent history of African-Americans in the 20th century by focusing on a single family in the real community of Gee's Bend, AL, which is now famous for the beautiful quilts created by the women that grew up there. Gospel songs weave in and out of this hauntingly beautiful work. "Gee's Bend is a lovefest -- between the characters in the play and the land they live on, between the actors and the characters they're portraying, between the play and the audience." -Orlando Sentinel "Touching, lovely, and true." -Chicago Sun-Times
Dramatic Comedy / Characters: 1 male (can be voiceover), 1 femaleAdrienne Kennedy relates her bizarre and star-studded experience of moving to London and working on THE LENNON PLAY: IN HIS OWN WRITE. Her absolute astonishment at being thrust in among the rich and famous of the theater and film world is really refreshing and charming. This is a great story well told.
A sensitive, wryly humorous study of a middle-aged widow who finds the courage to break with the past. June keeps a diary in the form of private conversations with her late husband Sam, a national newspaper editor. Her stepdaughter, Pauline, determines to keep an eye on June. Likewise, Eric Grant, an ex-colleague of Sam's. But June strikes out on her own and befriends Duggie, who, like June, is lonely. June, however, discovers that Pauline, Eric and Duggie have their own hidden agenda.2 women, 2 men
Ralph, in his seventies and terminally ill, has two final missions: to be reconciled to his long-abandoned son Michael, and, secretly, to ensure he is not a burden to his younger, devoted wife Anna as he goes "into that good night". But Ralph wrecks all hope of reconciliation when he picks a fight with Michael's girlfriend. Later, alone, Ralph receives the "Visitor" whose services he has hired to provide the painless ending. But the visitor plays a devastating trick.|2 women, 3 men
Cecily, destined to spend her life in a wheelchair following an accident, is the centre of the universe for Sheila (her mother) and Ellen (Sheila's sister). A gripping, masterfully written play that will haunt you.|3 women
Tony Wendice has married his wife, Margot, for her money and now plans to murder her for the same reason. He arranges the perfect murder. He blackmails a scoundrel he used to know into strangling her for a fee of one thousand pounds, and arranges a brilliant alibi for himself. Unfortunately...the murderer gets murdered and the victim survives.-1 woman, 4 men
Geoff Tippet has arranged a special birthday treat for his old friend, Bob. The treat is a hotel room for the night, a double-bed which folds up into the wall and an attractive girl called Mimi. Add a shy Kate who anxiously awaits her computer agency date - Dick, who has been shown into the wrong room; Bob''s wife Liz, who believes she is dining with Geoff, and a connecting door between the two rooms and you have the recipe for a fast-moving and hilarious comedy.|2 women, 3 men
A pathetic Yorkshire greengrocer flees to Europe in defiance of his domineering wife where he is both mistaken for an Olympic athlete from whom big things are expected in the 5,000 meters and entangled in espionage. A wild comedy appropriate for all groups.|4 women, 5 men
When an upwardly mobile African-American couple wants to buy a home in an all-white neighborhood in 1950's Boston, they pay a struggling Irish family to "ghost-buy" a house on their behalf.
A Christmas Carol meets The Government Inspector meets Noises Off in this hilarious hit from Seattle.
The author of A Thousand Clowns brings us another set of the particular creatures that are New Yorkers.
Diane, Georgia, and Joanne are three modern women living very different lives. Unbeknownst to them, they are all pining after the same young man, Trevor: sexy, stoned, oblivious; a surfer on a rad, rad philosophical journey.
Four flawed but likeable lower-middle-class New Yorkers interact in a touching and warmhearted play about learning how to stay afloat in the deep water of day-to-day living.
Two strangers, a man and a woman, board a San Francisco BART train at 4:30 a.m. They're alone in the car, each is married, both are doing the New York Times crossword.
Matt & Ben depicts its Hollywood golden boys - before J-Lo, before Gwyneth, before Project Greenlight, before Oscar...before anyone actually gave a damn.
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