Dating 101: Nina’s Orientation
Death and Peace at Ten in The Morning
the boy in the high heel shoes
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The Long Rail North
by Michael Hagin
February 3 @ 8:45 – Monday
February 7 @ 7 – Friday
February 9 @ 2 – Sunday
Private Thomas Morgan (Xavier Rodney), a former slave,
rescues a young white girl, Molly Barnes (Mary Sheridan),
from her destroyed home. The Long Rail North follows
their arduous journey to evade both Union and Confederate
forces, as Thomas tries to bring Molly to safety. Written
and directed by Michael Hagins, The Long Rail North features
Michael Rehse, Emily Russell and Sam Lopresti
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Reflections
by Nelson Chimilio
February 5 @ 8:45 – Wednesday
February 8 @ 8:15 – Saturday
February 9 @ 6 – Sunday
An urban one act set in the South Bronx. Themes of family,
relationships, death, abuse, self-esteem and self identity.
Getting to the core, the characters are forced to thoroughly
examine the question “Why do some people choose to live
the life they are living?”, or is it because they want to or have
to? The play will integrate live action on stage
with short video segments.
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Love Questionmark
by Katie Mack & Okema T. Moore
February 6 @ 8:30 – Thursday
February 8 @ 9:45 – Saturday
February 9 @ 8 – Sunday
Narrated by Cupid, Boxed Out Productions brings you Love Questionmark.
This collective takes you on a journey of several relationships, and the types
of love they represent. With humor and candor, Cupid takes the audience
on an emotional ride. Fear.Less, Hope.Less, and Love.Less…three tales that
express how four letters can melt a heart, or mangle a mind – L.O.V.E.
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REFLECTIONS IN A DITCH
by Dane Joseph
February 10 @ 8:45 – Monday
February 14 @ 7pm – Friday
February 16 @ 2pm Sunday
In REFLECTIONS IN A DITCH, the Hardin family has gathered to
plan the funeral of a troubled loved one whose body was gruesomely found only
days earlier. As preparations get underway, forgotten memories resurface and
unsettled wounds reopen leading the family to question the true
meaning of love and loss.
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Dating 101: Nina’s Orientation
by Claudia McCoy
February 11 @ 8:45 – Tuesday
February 14 @ 9 – Friday
February 16 @ 4 _ Sunday
After ending a 10 year relationship Nina asks, “What is dating?”
Unsure of the rules, her friends share hilarious gendered
perspectives leaving audiences asking: “Should women pay on dates?
Do women sacrifice too much in relationships?” With blindsided twists,
Nina just might get the closure she need to move on.
Does she even want to? Would you?
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In The Blood
by Suzan-Lori Parks
adapted by Brandon A. Wright
February 12 @ 8:45 – Wednesday
February 15 @ 8:30 Saturday
February 16 @ 6 – Sunday
Sex, money, and loyalty clash in Suzan-Lori Parks’ gripping drama.
Hester lives in extreme poverty with her 5 children; and desperate times
call for equally desperate measures. Fighting ferociously for her family,
Hester discovers those she turns to for help, threaten the stability she’s
struggled to maintain! Will Hester overcome the odds,
or will her story end in tragedy?
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A Word from Mr. Owl: A Fable
by Andrew Horton
February 17 @ 8:45 – Monday
February 21 @ 7 – Friday
February 23 @ 2 – Sunday
Take a journey down a forest path and meet some friendly rodents
who teach us that even rodents have trouble with acceptance and understanding.
Mr. Owl gives the rodents some words of wisdom regarding living in harmony,
which isn’t always easy, especially when one rodent has “an issue” with another.
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Hazard A Little Death
by Sara Fellini
February 18 @ 8:45 – Tuesday
February 21 @ 9 – Friday
February 23 @ 6 – Sunday
Florence and Georges, two burned lovers, re-ignite a tense and charged
affair that conjures up the spirits of the past. An eccentric Résistance fighter,
a searingly hopeful widow, and a spurned and unrequited lover resurrect
to smoke their cigarettes once more while a time bomb
ticks away between the two former flames.
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the boy in the high heel shoes
by Matt Weinstein
February 19 @ 8:45 – Wednesday
February 22 @ 7 – Saturday
February 23 @ 8 – Sunday
the boy in the high heel shoes” tells the story of a young boy and his point of view of the
world from atop a playground slide. The boy deals with the loss of his mother, his alcoholic
father, and a world that doesn’t quite understand him. He encounters many others on the
playground, and finds himself in love with the moon, all within small vignettes leading
eventually to a closing chapter of the boy’s life.
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Carte Blanc
by Stella Perry
February 20 @ 8:45 – Thursday
February 22 @ 9 – Saturday
February 23 @ 4 – Sunday
Take a twisted romp with Madam, Libby and Amador where echoes of Silent
Film Histrionics and the Scottish Highlands meet. A Man-Child and his
housekeeper order the perfect wife from a catalog. Or is she?
Who’s playing who in this saturated melange of maniacal madness?
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hOMAge
by Natanya Silverman
February 25 @ 8:45 – Tuesday
February 28 @ 9 – Friday
March 2 @ 4 – Sunday
Based on real correspondence between an Oma (German for “grandmother”)
and her granddaughter over a 15-year period, hOMAge?? is the story of a woman
sorting through her clutter to find her voice. Through physical images, music,
projections, collaged script and paper, The Clearing’s 14-woman ensemble shares
a meditation on heeding the lessons of the past to create
original, life-affirming expression.
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Brian And Kim
by Adam Delia
February 26 @ 8:45 – Wednesday
March 1 @ 7 – Saturday
March 2 @ 6 – Sunday
When Bryan helps Kim confront a traumatic event from her past,
their relationship faces unforeseen challenges in the present they
never could have predicted. This award winning, critically
acclaimed play features Charlie Gorrilla and Samantha Posey
with the direction of Aimee Todoroff.
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1944 Brent Lane
by Sarah Schultz
February 27 @ 8:45 – Thursday
March 1 @ 9 – Saturday
March 2 @ 2 – Sunday
Meet Toby and Karen, two thirty-something recovering addicts, determined to forge a new life.
When Toby succumbs to the ghosts of his past, his children, Shelby and Sam, along
with Karen, are left to cope with his erratic and destructive behavior.
1944 Brent Lane reveals a family who experiences the strength of hope,
the pain of loss, and the gift of what remains.
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THE BRINK
by Eugenie Carabatsos
March 3 @ 8:45 – Monday
March 7 @ 7 – Friday
March 9 @ 2 – Sunday
Helen and Charlie have witnessed the death of two of their friends. As they try
to figure out what happened and why, they also unintentionally embark on a
journey to reevaluate their own changing relationship.
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Aftermath
by Holly DeMorro
March 4 @ 8:45 – Tuesday
March 7 @ 9 -Friday
March 9 @ 4 – Sunday
Jack and Vivian have no idea where they are, how
they got there, or why they’re there together-since
they’ve been avoiding each other for the last six months.
The only other person there is a mysterious Being who
shows them pieces of their past to help them find their
purpose in life in this suspenseful story of fate vs. free will.
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Manny’s Last Stand
by Ben Monk
March 5 @ 8:45 – Wednesday
Msrch 8 @ 7 – Saturday
March 9 @ 6 – Sunday
Shooting for television the play Manny’s Last Stand. A burlesque club featuring
an alcoholic comedian who achieves greatness through sobriety. Manny Aarons
goes on the wagon. Goes to AA, does yoga, see’s a therapist, meditates.
He works on new material. We end with Manny’s sold out show at Carnegie
Hall. Audience members get orchestra seats and are encouraged to heckle.
You can buy tickets for this event at
https://www.brownpapertickets.
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Immunity
by Shari Umansky
March 6 @ 8:45 Thursday
March 8 @ 9 – Saturday
March 9 @ 8 – Sunday
In 1942 Auschwitz, a deadly game is being played by a by a young SS
Officer and his once beloved teacher, a Jew who now
finds that her most prized pupil has become her tormentor.
Will his plan to make himself immune to his humanity by torturing
her each day succeed or will his humanity betray him?
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by Daria Tavana
March 10 @ 8:45 – Monday
March 14 @ 7 – Friday
March 16 @ 2 – Sunday
Ruby stops relying on marriage for satisfaction and finds
short-term comfort between the neighbor’s sheets. When her tense
husband and twisted cousin take arms against fate,
new lines are drawn and old bridges are burned as Ruby struggles
to survive a living nightmare. Can she escape the
clutches of her lovers without losing her grip on reality?
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Behind A Rolling Ball
By Dan Chen
March 24 @ 8:45 – Monday
March 28 @ 7 – Friday
March 30 @ 2 – Sunday
We open on a house for sale. Warren and Jen are looking to buy,
and Nora is looking to sell. But all of their hopes and dreams turn to
nightmares when Warren’s daughter, Danica, and Nora’s husband,
Dave, get involved. The road to happiness is hardly black and
white in this dark allegory about driving on the highway of life.”
Tickets for this event can be bought at
https://www.brownpapertickets.
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Bread and Butter. A situation
by Mary Kelly
March 25 @ 8:45 – Tuesday
March 28 @ 9 – Friday
March 30 @ 4 – Sunday
Anna and Nick are forced to build a home out of a pile of junk
in order to protect themselves from an approaching storm.
Surrounded by 10,000 soldiers they can not see, they struggle
not to get lost in memories of the past, and try to build a home
which can protect and hold their illusion of happiness.
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Ding! Or Bye Bye Dad
by Jayme Kilburn
March 26 @ 8:45 – Wednesday
March 29 @ 7 – Saturday
March 30 @ 6 – Sunday
Two sisters, Hamiere and Boomer, creep silently towards their sleeping father,
one armed with a bat the other with a frying pan. At the sound of a bell we are
swept into a high-pressured speed-dating scenario. Hamiere is a ball of insecurities,
a relationship dunce. Boomer, her sister, serves as a fire-starter and manic
cheerleader. Ding! centers on the father / daughter relationship and what
happens when that relationship is ill-formed.
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Death And Peace At Ten In The Morning
by Carol Billings
March 18 @ 8:45 – Tuesday
March 22 @ 9 – Saturday
March 23 @ 8 – Sunday
Norman was ready to end it all this morning; then he ran into Betty.
She drags him to New York’s seediest coffee shop, where Sheila
the waitress gets more than her usual dose of crazy as Betty fights
to convince Norman that Death and Peace are not the same thing.
A screwball comedy from Upper West Side playwright Carol Billings.
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behind these walls
By Staxx Cordero
April 7 @ 8:45 – Monday
April 11 @ 7 – Friday
April 13 @ 2 – Sunday
A woman in a domestic violence relationship still mourning the death of her
ex-husband. She is struggling with her sanity and the effect that domestic
violence has on her daughter, Autumn. Autumn is smart, sassy and in high
spirits due to the visits from her deceased father and her dance classes.
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Satan VS God
by Deaon Griffin-Pressley
April 8 @ 8:45 – Tuesday
April 11 at 9 – Friday
April 13 @ 4 – Sunday
The time is now. 2014. Satan wants to come back to the kingdom of heaven,
but God is unmoved by Satan’s desperate plea. Finally, Satan begs God
to let him end the world because his earthly children constantly disobey him
and rebuke his bible. Will God change his mind and give
Satan the consent to end the world and return to heaven?
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Sandy’s Rain
by Renee Elizabeth Wilson
April 9 @ 8:45 – Wednesday
April 12 @ 7 – Saturday
April 13 @ 6 – Sunday
Set in a 1950’s brothel, Sandy’s Rain is the story of five women exploring the boundaries of
love and loyalty, in the wake of a super-storm. When the ladies realize one of their own is o
ut in the storm, an exploration of what love means in the journey of attaining
the goals of each of these jezebels ensues.
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At The End of the Century
by Aminta de Lara
April 10 @ 8:45 – Thursday
April 12 @ 9 – Saturday
April 13 @ 8 – Sunday
Is a play about how a man and woman
share their love for the same man. They meet after his death
believing that by doing so they will settle their unfinished legal obligations
for the man they both loved.. Little do they know that this
unfinished business will release a firestorm of personal resentments, fears
of inadequacy, unresolved mourning and a strange unexpected attraction.
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