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CHUTZPAH

*  by Jed Levinson * * * * TUESDAY November 7, 2023 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY November 8, 2023 @ 6:30 PM SATURDAY November 11, 2023 @ 4:30 PM * * * Blurb As Clay is in the final month of preparing for his Bar Mitzvah, his focus becomes directed elsewhere when he joins the “Pro Wrestling …

ONCE MORE

* by CJ Pinheiro * * * * MONDAY November 6, 2023 @ 6:15 PM FRIDAY November 10, 2023 @ 9:00 PM SUNDAY November 12, 2023 @ 3:30 PM * * * Blurb After suffering the loss of their "true love", Kasey, Lover must process the grief of losing their love and themselves as those around them try to do …

Michael

MICHAEL

* by Laura Paganello * * * * WEDNESDAY November 8, 2023 @ 4:00 PM FRIDAY November 10, 2023 @ 6:30 PM SUNDAY November 12, @ 1:00 PM * * * Blurb Diane, a beautiful sex worker in her mid-20's, contacts a co-worker, Rebecca, to try to find a regular client who she hasn't heard from in a few …

I’M HAPPY FOR YOU

* by Jacob Goodman * * * * THURSDAY October  26, 2023 @ 6:15 PM SATURDAY October 28, 2023 @ 2:15 PM SUNDAY October 29, 2023 @ 6:00 PM * * * Blurb Bella, Casey and Alara are princesses and best friends. Well not really. They're paid to be princesses at a very well-known amusement park. And …

DESPERATE DIGITAL DATING DIARY: A TITI TALK

* by Jenny L. Saldaña * * * * WEDNESDAY October  25, 2023 @ 4:00 PM FRIDAY October 27, 2023 @ 6:30 PM SUNDAY October 29, 2023 @ 1:00 PM * * * Blurb Giving in to the cultural pressures of needing a man, your favorite single aunt goes looking for love on all the wrong dating apps. In a …

THE OTHER SIDE STORY

* by Angel Vazquez * * * * WEDNESDAY October  25, 2023 @ 4:00 PM FRIDAY October 27, 2023 @ 6:30 PM SUNDAY October 29, 2023 @ 1:00 PM * * * Blurb An amazing one-man musical comedy show about the history of Puerto Rican people coming to US from 1862 on. Once he enters that apartment, his …

WAITING AT THE GLORY HOLE

*  by Jake Moses * * * * TUESDAY October  24, 2023 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY October 25, 2023 @ 6:30 PM SATURDAY October 28, 2023 @ 4:30 PM * * * Blurb A nonlinear exploration of gay hookup culture, which bring directly into question: the isolation inherent to it, the intergenerational trauma …

When Wajcha Meets Pachamama

WHEN WAJCHA MEETS PACHAMAMA

* by Claudio Carvalhaes * * * * MONDAY October  23, 2023 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY October 25, 2023 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY October 28, 2023 @ 6:45 PM * * * Blurb This play wrestles with the future of our planet. The idea was to create a play that could expose climate disasters in a way that would be …

Soirée At Walter Benjamin’s

* by Henry Sussman * * * * MONDAY October  23, 2023 @ 6:15 PM FRIDAY October 27, 2023 @ 9:00 PM SUNDAY October 29, 2023 @ 3:30 PM * * * Blurb The renowned German-Jewish writer received urgent entreaties to leave Europe, from famous playwright Bertolt Brecht, the philosopher Theodor Adorno, …

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LUCY AND LUCY

* by Tiffany R. Adams * * * * THURSDAY October  19, 2023 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY October 21, 2023 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY October 22, 2023 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb While visiting a lingerie shop for the first time, Lucy Jones gets insight on who she is from an unlikely friend, beginning a journey …

ALL OF HER FRIENDS

* by Sofia Carianna * * * * THURSDAY October  19, 2023 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY October 21, 2023 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY October 22, 2023 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb In this hotel bar, gold-digging is an art and a way of life. Jacob and his friends make their money by wooing wealthy, older women, and …

LOVE ….FATALLY

* by William M Whelan * * * * THURSDAY October  19, 2023 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY October 21, 2023 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY October 22, 2023 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb Two employees at a psychiatric ward come into conflict after allegations are made that someone at the hospital has been having inappropriate …

THE ELEVATOR

* by Ciera Miller * * * * THURSDAY October  19, 2023 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY October 21, 2023 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY October 22, 2023 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb A friendship gone south, a confined space and a real eccentric hat. Can a broken elevator mend a broken friendship? Who's to …

WATCHING YOU

* by Joe Symon   * * * * THURSDAY October  26, 2023 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY October 28, 2023 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY October 29, 2023 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb Meet BEN GOLD. An exasperated piano bar performer, taking requests from drunk patrons. As a last resort, he begins live-streaming his life and …

LAST RITES

* by S. E. Wiseman * * * * THURSDAY October  19, 2023 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY October 21, 2023 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY October 22, 2023 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb Facing death doesn't come easy. A man on death row meets a first-time chaplain in this two-hander about revenge, redemption, and the last rites …

LEGACY ADMISSIONS

* by Michael Gormley * * * * WEDNESDAY October  18, 2023 @ 4:00 PM FRIDAY October 20, 2023 @ 6:30 PM SUNDAY October 22, 2023 @ 1:00 PM * * * Blurb Sam Mortimer is a Brown University student/only legitimate child of the devil who has failed so many courses that the only way her father will …

FOR THEO

* by Robert Klein-Fischetti * * * * WEDNESDAY October  18, 2023 @ 4:00 PM FRIDAY October 20, 2023 @ 6:30 PM SUNDAY October 22, 2023 @ 1:00 PM * * * Blurb Roald Dahl, acclaimed children's author, has writers' block. His anxieties over being able to provide for his family culminate in the …

Humanity Denied

HUMANITY DENIED

*  by Alberta Handelman, Libretto, Daniel Halbstein, Music * * * * TUESDAY October  17, 2023 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY October 18, 2023 @ 6:30 PM SATURDAY October 21, 2023 @ 4:30 PM * * * Blurb In songs angry, playful, proud, sad, and profound, HUMANITY DENIED explores the roots of fear and …

Frank Kafka Presents

FRANZ KAFKA PRESENTS

*  by James Harvey * * * * TUESDAY October  17, 2023 @ 6:15 PM FRIDAY October 20, 2023 @ 4:00 PM SATURDAY October 21, 2023 @ 9:00 PM * * * Blurb A contemporary American family is thrust into the "Kafka Zone," where they confront horrifying bodily transformations, the unforgiving tide of …

Same

SAME

* by Alex Eilen * * * * MONDAY October  16, 2023 @ 6:15 PM FRIDAY October 20, 2023 @ 9:00 PM SUNDAY October 22, 2023 @ 3:30 PM * * * Blurb Friends on the verge of adulthood attempt to deal with their impending reality and with each other as their problems grow up, too. This play explores …

BRUNCH ON 81ST

* by Katherine Hunter * * * * THURSDAY October  12, 2023 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY October 14, 2023 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY October 15, 2023 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb Think Love Actually but with New York's shittier singles. Dirty looks will cast, new romances found, hearts broken, and old flames rekindled …

Bananawood

BANANAWOOD

* by Paula Lima * * * * THURSDAY October  12, 2023 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY October 14, 2023 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY October 15, 2023 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb In a world where bananas can only be bananas, Cady Nana dreams about becoming a Hollywood Star. Her impossible dream suddenly becomes possible …

PRETTY THING

* by Chelyn Cousar * * * * THURSDAY October  12, 2023 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY October 14, 2023 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY October 15, 2023 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb A young woman still dealing with the effects of PTSD from a previous relationship receives a package from a new love interest but doesn't trust …

MUSICAL CHAIRS

* by Steve Fogelman * * * * THURSDAY October  12, 2023 @ 6:15 PM SATURDAY October 14, 2023 @ 2:15 PM SUNDAY October 15, 2023 @ 6:00 PM * * * Blurb Musical theater enthusiast Nadine Lovett desperately tries to keep her marriage as the dream she envisioned, while fellow-enthusiast and …

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