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6 YES’S, 1 NO

* by Paul Pallotta * * * * THURSDAY January 23, 2025 @ 9:00PM SATURDAY January 25, 2025 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY January 26, 2025 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb 7 distinct characters sit in jury duty, trying to decide the fate of Michael Tate. What seems to be an easy decision, all it takes is one Juror …

LOGOCENTRICITY IN DETROIT

* John F. Sarno* * * * THURSDAY January 23, 2025 @ 9:00PM SATURDAY January 25, 2025 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY January 26, 2025 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb On December 16th, 1811, the largest recorded earthquake in U.S. history struck and shook much of the continent. Its epicenter was in New Madrid, MO. …

PARTY FAVORS

  * by Daniel A Martinez * * * * THURSDAY January 23, 2025 @ 9:00PM SATURDAY January 25, 2025 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY January 26, 2025 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb A young woman attends a party at a university. She is underage and has an allergic reaction to a large mixed drink at the party. …

UNITED IN LOVE, UNTIL DEATH

* Amanda Thomas * * * * WEDNESDAY January 22, 2025 @ 9:00 PM FRIDAY January 24, 2025 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY January 25, 2025 @ 6:45 PM * * * Blurb Two lovers, vowing they never would part, open their eyes to eternity together. With nothing but time, there are still questions to be answered and …

ASCENSION DAY

* by Dan Moretti * WEDNESDAY January 22, 2025 @ 4:00PM FRIDAY January 24, 2025 @ 6:30 PM SUNDAY January 26, 2025 @ 1:00 PM * * * Blurb An 18 year-old Texas State diving champion has just returned home from a trip to New York City to visit her grandparents. As the story unfolds, her mother …

GHOST STORY

* by Victoria Baroody * WEDNESDAY January 22, 2025 @ 4:00PM FRIDAY January 24, 2025 @ 6:30 PM SUNDAY January 26, 2025 @ 1:00 PM * * * Blurb A one-person play about identity, motherhood, and death. Two personalities, one body. Life is full of tears, laughter, blood and sweat. Ghost Story is …

SIXTY NINE SEVENTY

* by Paul Dederick * * * * TUESDAY January 21, 2025 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY January 22, 2025 @ 6:30 PM SATURDAY January 25, 2025 @ 4:30 PM * * * Blurb SIXTY NINE SEVENTY deals with the social & political events between 1969 and 1970 that lead to the infamous protest at Buffalo State …

PSYCHO GYNO!

* Created by Carina Torres and Sarah Morse - Written by Carina Torres - Lyrics by Sarah Morse - Original Composition by Nick Augusta and Meg Short  * * * * TUESDAY January 21, 2025 @ 6:15 PM FRIDAY January 24, 2025 @ 4:00 PM SATURDAY January 25, 2025 @ 9:00 PM * * * Blurb Dr. Myers has …

THE 9 OR 5 THESES OF KAREN SLOANE

* by Darlene Elizabeth Joiner * * * * THURSDAY January 16, 2025 @ 9:00PM SATURDAY January 18, 2025 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY January 19, 2025 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb Karen Sloane, a case manager for Purgahealth, a fortune 500 corporate entity, is livid that her remote job has transitioned back to in …

THE COUCH

* by Cheryl Hughes * * * * THURSDAY January 16, 2025 @ 9:00PM SATURDAY January 18, 2025 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY January 19, 2025 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb When Dave Johnson spends too much time on the couch, his wife, Becky, nags him into submission to get ready for his daughter’s graduation. Becky …

THE LEOPARD AND THE LYNX

* by Michelle Maccarone * THURSDAY January 16, 2025 @ 9:00PM SATURDAY January 18, 2025 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY January 19, 2025 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb Pat Tanner III wrote under several pseudonyms in the 1950s, most famously Patrick Dennis, the writer as well as narrator of Auntie Mame. After …

ACKNOWLEDGING THE ELEPHANT OF MY UNBORN CHILD

* by Lana Scott Stringer * * * * THURSDAY January 16, 2025 @ 6:15 PM SATURDAY January 18, 2025 @ 2:15 PM SUNDAY January 19, 2025 @ 6:00 PM * * * Blurb A woman details the way pregnancy is deteriorating her body as an unknown, yet somehow familiar, stranger slowly approaches her. THIS SHOW …

STACEY BERNADETTE GOES DATING

* by Terry Foster * * * * THURSDAY January 16, 2025 @ 6:15 PM SATURDAY January 18, 2025 @ 2:15 PM SUNDAY January 19, 2025 @ 6:00 PM * * * Blurb Stacey Bernadette is an eccentric NYC woman on the hunt for love. She lives alone in a sparsely furnished apartment with the only other form of …

SINGIN’ IN A RAINSTORM: THE LIFE OF DEBBIE REYNOLDS

* by Ellen Grace Diehl * * * * THURSDAY January 16, 2025 @ 9:00PM SATURDAY January 18, 2025 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY January 19, 2025 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb A jukebox musical about the life of Debbie Reynolds. Debbie sings songs from her career and discusses her fraught romantic history, her …

ELEPHANT & PIGGIE: WE ARE IN A THEATRE FESTIVAL !

* by Sabrina Caputo * * * * WEDNESDAY January 15, 2025 @ 4:00PM FRIDAY January 17, 2025 @ 6:30 PM SUNDAY January 19, 2025 @ 1:00 PM * * * Blurb Gerald and Piggie play pretend, question what we can know, and confront Endings. They interrogate theatre, free will, comedy, and authenticity. …

SHUDDER

* by Mary Grace Epps and Showpeople Theatre Collective * * * * TUESDAY January 14, 2025 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY January 15, 2025 @ 6:30 PM SATURDAY January 18, 2025 @ 4:30 PM * * * Blurb What do you get when you combine the terrifying moralistic horror of the Brothers Grimm and musical …

THE OBITUARY

* by Benjamin D. Smith * * * * TUESDAY January 14, 2025 @ 6:15 PM FRIDAY January 17, 2025 @ 4:00 PM SATURDAY January 18, 2025 @ 9:00 PM * * * Blurb The Obituary is a one act play about a father and son's relationship as they deal the son's sexual identity and deep family secrets. While …

AIN’T THAT THE WAY LOVE’S SUPPOSED TO BE?

* by Mattie Tindall * * * * MONDAY January 13, 2025 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY January 15, 2025 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY January 18, 2025 @ 6:45 PM * * * Blurb Al and Charlie have returned to summer camp after a year apart – a little bit older and not at all wiser. On their first day back, Al meets a …

STIGMATA MARTYR

STIGMATA MARTYR

* by Horatio McLaughlin  * * * * THURSDAY Jul. 25, 2024 @ 6:15 PM SATURDAY Jul. 27, 2024 @ 2:15 PM SUNDAY Jul. 28, 2024 @ 6:00 PM * * * Blurb Stigmata Martyr deals with themes of the corporeal and the spiritual as Cassius, a trans, tradgoth funeral director (with crippling emotional …

AN UNNECESSARY STAIN ON SILENCE

* by Chandler Burns * * * * TUESDAY JuL. 23, 2024 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY JuL. 24, 2024 @ 6:30 PM SATURDAY JuL. 27, 2024 @ 4:30 PM * * * Blurb An Unnecessary Stain on Silence experiments with the concepts of reality and perception. 4 characters plunge into trying to find out where they exist …

THE VOTE

* by Neville Grusd * * * * TUESDAY Jul. 23, 2024 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY Jul. 24, 2024 @ 6:30 PM SATURDAY Jul. 27, 2024 @ 4:30 PM * * * Blurb A church executive board must vote whether or not to fire the Pastor. The meeting is heated but then the stakes escalate. THIS SHOW IS 20 MINUTES …

A SHAVE AND A CUT

  * by Andi Kolodny * * * * TUESDAY Jul. 23, 2024 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY Jul. 24, 2024 @ 6:30 PM SATURDAY Jul. 27, 2024 @ 4:30 PM * * * Blurb Sparks fly during a conversation between a hairdresser and her long standing client. THIS SHOW IS 10 MINUTES LONG THIS IS A SHORT PLAY THAT …

WHO KNOWS WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING THESE DAYS

* by Peyton Strong and Katia Rozenberg  * * * * WEDNESDAY Jul. 24, 2024 @ 4:00 PM FRIDAY Jul. 26, 2024 @ 6:30 PM SUNDAY Jul. 28, 2024 @ 1:00 PM * * * Blurb Ava moved to New York City with the expectation that everything was going to happen exactly as she had imagined it. Instead, Ava’s …

A TOKEN TO LIVE

* by Dominique Nadeau * * * * THURSDAY Jul. 18, 2024 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY Jul. 20, 2024 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY Jul. 21, 2024 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb Robbery gone wrong? Or terribly right? THIS IS A 10 MINUTES SHORT PLAY THAT WILL BE PERFORMED WITH OTHER SHORT PLAYS WITHIN A 90 MINUTE TIME …

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