All plays, one act performances & musicals appearing in the New York Spring/Summer Theater Festival in the 2015 performance season. 2015 shows listed by Name.
100 Aker Wood by Theodore Wolf August 24, 2015 @ 9pm August 26, 2015 @ 9pm August 29, 2015 @ 3:30pm Sat. When Christopher Robin runs away from freshman year of college and into the Hundred Acre Wood, he finds things aren’t exactly how he remembered them: Piglet’s a shut-in, …
16671 by Frank Canino August 28, 2015 @ 8:45 – Thursday August 29, 2015 @ 6:45 – Friday August 31, 2015 @ 9:30 – Sunday About the play: May, 1941, Auschwitz: Newly arrived Kaziu Wisniewski, a Franciscan brother, works as a secretary in the Commandant’s …
A Promise To Your Mother by Jared Kelner September 17, 2015 @ 6:15pm September 18, 2015 @ 6:15pm September 20, 2015 @ 8:30pm Malcolm made national news when a vengeance-filled father of a girl Malcolm was accused of raping, crashed his car into Malcolm’s, killing Malcolm and his …
After Zero by Frank Cossa September 3, 2015 @ 6:15pm September 4, 2015 @ 6:15pm September 6, 2015 @ 8:30pm In the jingle-jangle aughts a teenager (Ariel) who lost her mother (Jenna) in the WTC attack forms an unlikely bond with Jenna’s former lover (Nick) to the chagrin of her …
And Young Men Die by William Holland September 22, 2015 @ 9pm September 26, 2015 @ 6pm Sat. September 27, 2015 @ 1pm Sun. All Shows at the Hudson Guild Theater http://newyorktheaterfestival.com/the-theater/ To purchase tickets http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1827287
Arbuckle Syndrome by Larry Phillips August 18, 2015 @ 6:15pm August 22, 2015 @ 8:30pm August 23, 2015 @ 1pm Sun. August 30, 2015 @ 8:30pm September 28, 2015 @ 6pm Troy wants more: more fun, more love, more life. He just has no idea how to …
Bottom of the Fifth by Dianna Tucker Baritot July 23, 2015 @ 6:15pm July 24, 2015 @ 6:15pm July 26, 2015 @ 8:30pm Sun. In this new one-act play (written by Dianna Tucker Baritot, directed by Michael Hagins) you will join Howard and Myrtle, a pair of dyed-in-the-wool …
Brother Sou by Victor Vauban July 13, 2015 @ 9pm July 15, 2015 @ 9pm July 18, 2015 @ 3:30pm Sat. A man is on a grueling journey to find his long lost family in America after twenty-two years living abroad. In hopes of reestablishing the relationship with the …
Brush Strokes By Stephen Chinlund and Jim Semmelman September 14, 2015 @ 9pm September 16, 2015 @ 9pm September 19, 2015 @ 3:30pm Sat. September 28 @ 8:30pm BRUSH STROKES reveals the journeys of Virginia and Eric who find new love late in their lives; brought …
Can I Help you By D.A.G. Burgos September 15, 2015 @ 9pm September 16, 2015 @ 6:15pm September 19, 2015 @ 6pm Sat. A man gets on an elevator with his wife, her friend and his two mistress. On the way down the elevator crashes, killing them. They then find …
21.: Musical Festival :. Cassiopeia by Madalyn Pedone September 21, 2015 @ 6:15pm September 25, 2015 @ 9pm September 27, 2015 @ 3:30pm Sun. Mademoiselle is about to marry a man she’s never met in a place she’s never heard of. She gathers directions and clues from dream-like characters …
Crossing Verrazano by Anthony Fusco August 4, 2015 @ 6:15pm August 8, 2015 @ 8:30pm August 9, 2015 @ 1pm Sun. In October 2010, 3 young men from LA visited NYC for a weekend of fun to celebrate their friend Casey Campbell’s 25th birthday. Their first stop …
Dances of Life – and Death By E. Thomalen September 10, 2015 @ 6:15pm September 11, 2015 @ 6:15pm September 13, 2015 @ 8:30pm Dances of Life and Death Dances of Life – and Death is a fusion work of verse, music, and dance. It tells the story after E. A. Poe …
Deliver me by Sam Ciavarella August 10, 2015 @ 9pm August 12, 2015 @ 9pm August 15, 2015 @ 3:30 Sat. “Sometimes to let yourself heal, you have to answer the door.” All Shows at the Hudson Guild Theater http://thespisnytheaterfestival.com/the-theater/ To purchase tickets …
Discovering Magenta Lyrics by James Corey Kaufman Music by Michael Bitterman September 1, 2015 @ 6:15pm September 5, 2015 @ 8:30pm September 6, 2015 @ 1pm Sun. Discovering Magenta is a new psychological musical about happiness amidst tragedy. Henry, a mental health worker, struggles to help Katrina …
Dora Maar by Michele Farbman September 8, 2015 @ 9pm September 9, 2015 @ 6:15pm September 12, 2015 @ 6pm Sat. In Paris, 1935, Pablo Picasso began a passionate affair with young photographer, Dora Maar. As Picasso began to integrate her photographic techniques into his painting, a new phase of …
F$cking for Love By Milo Shucavage September 17, 2015 @ 9pm September 19, 2015 @1pm Sat. September 20, 2015 @ 6pm Sun. A 14-year-old runaway is looking for love and protection, and finds it with a pimp. He manipulates her with promises of a “white picket fence” future, …
Find the Golden Bird by Larry R. Yates and Emily Rose Simons July 14, 2015 @ 6:15pm July 18, 2015 @ 8:30pm July 19, 2015 @ 1pm Sun. August 2, 2015 @ 8:30pm Find the Golden Bird is a new musical fantasy from an old …
Forgetting Dick and Jane by Jake Kevrick August 3, 2015 @ 9pm August 5, 2015 @ 9pm August 8, 2015 @ 3:30pm Sat. Two of the most popular children’s book characters are trapped in the remains their storybook world. A world that feeds off the power of memory. With nothing but their own memories left, …
Forty Nine Years by Jeffrey L. Hollman September 3, 2015 @ 9pm September 5, 2015 @ 1pm Sat. September 6, 2015 @ 6pm Sun. Abandoned by a wife more dedicated to career than home, Sam remains the steadfast, albeit reluctant, father of Robbie who battles him over the …
Garrett, The Blue Giraffe by Coni Koepfinger July 20, 2015 @ 6:15pm July 24, 2015 @ 9pm July 26, 2015 @ 3:30pm Sun. https://www.facebook.com/groups/science.adviser/937339599651906/ Garrett the Blue Giraffe is tender tale of self-discovery that explores the very essence of being alive. Like all us, when Garrett …
Heretics by Richard Zinober August 6, 2015 @ 6:15pm August 7, 2015 @ 6:15pm August 9, 2015 @ 8:30. Lisa, a member of a new religious group, is being held by two deprogrammers hired by her family. As they try to get her to reveal the secrets of the group …
Horseshoes by Mike Sockol August 25, 2015 @ 6:15pm August 29, 2015 @ 8:30pm August 30, 2015 @ 1pm Sun. No one said it would be easy for Adam on the eve of his family’s annual horseshoe tournament. His brother is dead, his father is losing his mind, …
In Case Of Emergency by Adrienne Schaffler August 3, 2015 @ 6:15pm August 7, 2015 @ 9pm August 9, 2015 @ 3:30pm Sun. Three men need to escape their lives and end up doing so in a nearly incomprehensible way. Each finds himself inexplicably transported to an alternate …
It’s All Relative! by Kimberly “Q” July 23, 2015 @ 9pm July 25, 2015 @ 1pm Sat. July 26, 2015 @ 6pm Sun. Seniors/alcohol, children/lovers, friends/reality. How did planning a birthday surprise wind up bringing past and present calamities to the forefront? Enter into the world of, It’s …
Lily, Casually by Morgan Edwards July 28, 2015 @ 6:15pm August 1, 2015 @ 8:30pm August 2, 2015 @ 1pm Sun. September 29, 2015 @ 8:30pm Lily White lives in the modern age, where romance is the façade of loneliness. When a rape attempt leads …
Mary Howling, Queen of the Crazy Ones by Brian P. Vadimsky August 11, 2015 @ 9pm August 12, 2015 @ 6:15pm August 15, 2015 @ 6 Sat. To a child the school bully is a monster those who overcome their monster become a hero to …
Mend The Envelope by Jason Lasky September 21, 2015 @ 9pm September 22, 2015 @ 6:15pm September 26, 2015 @ 3:30pm Sat. Henry and Joanie had it all: respect, success, and family, and in one fiery instant, everything was torn away. Join them, one year later, as they take a …
Mourning Has Broken by Pab Sungenis August 27, 2015 @ 9pm August 29, 2015 @ 1pm Sat. August 30, 2015 @ 6pm Sun. A dark comedy from the creator of The New Adventures of Queen Victoria and the author of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Columbine. Six …
Night Moths on the Wing By Kimberly Kalaja September 7, 2015 @ 9pm September 9, 2015 @ 9pm September 12, 2015 @ 3:30pm We all recognize the monsters in stories, but could you spot one in real life? Face-to-face with captured terrorist “General” Maylor, the National Army’s chief interrogator Michael Shaw believes he …
Not with Haste by Stephen Dobbins July 21, 2015 @ 9pm July 22, 2015 @ 6:15pm July 25, 2015 @ 6pm Sat. All Shows at the Hudson Guild Theater http://thespisnytheaterfestival.com/the-theater/ To purchase tickets http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1644114
Now, Then, Later by Maddie Grubbs August 10, 2015 @ 6:15pm August 14, 2015 @ 9pm August 16, 2015 @ 3:30 Sunday August 22, 2015 @ 6pm Saturday Now, Then, Later tells the moving story of five students as they mature into adults and learn what it …
Objects In The Mirror by Tom Parks July 27, 2015 @ 9pm July 29, 2015 @ 9pm August 1, 2015 @ 3:30pm Sat. This rambunctious love letter to the theatre offers a dramatic mix of laughter, tears and deception as an amateur playwright loses control of the stage to his …
Olivia’s Roses By Joanne De Simone September 14, 2015 @ 6:15pm September 18, 2015 @ 9pm September 20, 2015 @ 3:30pm Sun. At the close of WWII, three brothers return, and any hope of a peaceful future is shattered, as life in their home-sweet-home house becomes a battlefield …
Out At Third by Joe Simonelli July 27, 2015 @ 6:15pm July 31, 2015 @ 9pm August 2, 2015 @ 3:30pm Sun. A disillusioned, unemployed advertising executive slowly descends into depression spurring a visit from his brother and estranged daughter as family bonds and obligations …
Parking Lot 63 by Carol W. Berman August 13, 2015 @ 9pm August 15, 2015 @ 1pm Sat. August 16, 2015 @ 6pm Sun. It’s 1963. Sara, 13, is growing up in an atmosphere of huge changes in the world. Immediately, Sara has to deal with a pervert father, an …
Petty Cash by Mary Ryzuk August 31, 2015 @ 9pm September 2, 2015 @ 9pm September 5, 2015 @ 3:30pm Sat. The play deals with a dangerous symbiotic relationship between a very wealthy woman and her younger lover. Coming home from a three month vacation that did not go well, the relationship, appears …
Red Roses and Domestic Acid by Pilar Quarzel August 17, 2015 @ 6:15pm August 21, 2015 @ 9pm August 23, 2015 @ 3:30pm Sun. Rosa , raped by her husbands cousin , is convinced into committing suicide by her husband himself. When she fails he tries to strangle her and …
Screams And Love by Lucille Shames July 20, 2015 @ 9pm July 22, 2015 @ 9pm July 25, 2015 @ 3:30pm Sat. Screams and Love is a lively story of hectic relationships. Winnie’s life is empty, and she is going nowhere in life. She thinks a …
Serendipity by Lynn-Steven Johanson August 4, 2015 @ 9pm August 5, 2015 @ 6:15pm August 8, 2015 @ 6pm Sab. A hospital waiting room may be a strange place to find romance. James has agreed to donate an organ to his twin brother while Gisele is there about breast augmentation surgery. As …
Sweet Texas Reckoning by Traci Godfrey September 24, 2015 @ 6:15pm September 25, 2015 @ 6:15pm September 27, 2015 @ 8:30pm Award Winning actresses, Jane Summerhays and Michelle Hurd, Stage, TV, and Film veteran Anne Richardson, and Onion Regular Robb Pruitt, in Sweet TexasReckoning. A new …
Taconic Parkway by Sudipta Bhawmik July 16, 2015 @ 6:15pm July 17, 2015 @ 6:15pm July 19, 2015 @ 8:30pm Sun. A visiting Indian actor, a wannabe filmmaker and a beautiful woman battle their demons on the fringes of the Taconic Parkway. The unsuspecting visitor falls into a dark …
Tell Tale by Tyler Milliron July 14, 2015 @ 9pm July 15, 2015 @ 6:15pm July 18, 2015 @ 6pm Sat. September 29 @ 3:30pm ‘Tell Tale’, a modern adaptation of Poe’s thrilling short story, “The Tell Tale Heart”. Hear the story of …
That Was Then by Arnold S. Wolfe August 31, 2015 @ 6:15pm September 4, 2015 @ 9pm September 6, 2015 @ 3:30pm Sun. Artie & some of his college mates discover “Soul” in the mid-1960s. But wanting to play it full-time might not only cost him his girl, Sandy: Playing full-time …
The Bipartisan by Joey Rasmus August 6, 2015 @ 9pm August 8, 2015 @ 1pm Sat. August 9, 2015 @ 6pm Sun. A musical comedy so silly it has been likened to actual congress; The Bipartisan follows Independent Congressman Evan Williams’ fight against partisan divisions in Washington. Will Williams successfully spread …
The Cloak Of Horus by Mike Mariano September 24, 2015 @ 9pm September 26, 2015 @ 1pm Sat. September 27, 2015 @ 6pm Sun. In an Egyptian tomb, a royal Captain seals himself alive in order to protect the Cloak of Horus—a relic of the True King of …
The Danaid by Thomas Michael Quinn August 20, 2015 @ 6:15pm August 21, 2015 @ 6:15pm August 23, 2015 @ 8:30pm September 29, 2015 @ 6pm Joan and Claire are sisters that have shared a secret for more than thirty years, a child that was given up for adoption. One sister …
The Deacon by Anne Johnson August 27, 2015 @ 6:15pm August 28, 2015 @ 6:15PM August 30, 2015 @ 8:30pm Ron Cleveland is a well respected deacon in the church, a successful attorney and wonderful husband and father. His life is turned upside down when he surprisingly learns of his wife April infidelity. …
The Moyles Musical By Alexander Miskin Bryan O’Malley, and Dylan Kahn September 10, 2015 @ 9pm September 12, 2015 @ 1pm Sat. September 13, 2015 @ 6pm Sun. The Moyles Musical is a glimpse into the life of an escaped circus certified freaky funk band called The …
The Prince Of Rikers Island by Mike Meadors July 21, 2015 @ 6:15pm July 25, 2015 @ 8:30pm July 26, 2015 @ 1pm Sun. Jonathan Zeleznik, an Oscar-Nominated actor, has been sentenced by the court to direct a production of HAMLET with a small group of inmates at …
The Second Sun By James Patrick Nelson September 8, 2015 @ 6:15pm September 12, 2015 @ 8:30pm September 13, 2015 @ 1pm Sun. “Love is worth surviving for. Two strangers meet at midnight in a run-down empty bar. Their night together has all the makings of a …
The Summerhouse by Harry Neyens August 20, 2015 @ 9pm August 22, 2015 @ 1pm Sat. August 23, 2015 @ 6pm Sun. August 28, 2015 @ 6:15 pm On a Hamptons estate, in a garden folly, Adrian seeks sanctuary from a world beyond his control. All Shows at the …
The Swordsman’s Lady by Alex John Gilbey August 17, 2015 @ 9pm August 19, 2015 @ 9pm August 22, 2015 @ 3:30pm Sat. In the turmoil of London in the 1790s, Marianne becomes the unwilling target of a debauched aristocrat. Saved by the intervention of the enigmatic swordsman …
The Unbreaking Sound of Breaking by Michael Feder July 30, 2015 @ 6:15pm July 31, 2015 @ 6:15pm August 2, 2015 @ 8:30pm Sun. All Shows at the Hudson Guild Theater http://thespisnytheaterfestival.com/the-theater/ To purchase tickets http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1654486
The Yogi G Spot by Geoffrey Paul Gordon August 11, 2015 @ 6:15pm August 15, 2015 @ 8:30pm August 16, 2015 @ 1pm Sun. Yogi G, founder of the Kahmic Yoga cult, disappeared from public view after performing in Amsterdam in 2011. NBC called him “So funny!” WPIX said …
Ugly is a Hard Pill by Andrea J. Fulton July 16, 2015 @ 9pm July 18, 2015 @ 1pm Sat. July 19, 2015 @ 6pm Sun. Keef AND Lena are “on the down low”, and their love lives are scandalous! However, what happens in the bedroom proves to be …
Very Good American Love Story by Amanda Scherker July 13, 2015 @ 6:15pm July 17, 2015 @ 9pm July 19, 2015 @ 3:30pm Sun. Rose, a disillusioned college writing major, meets Shaikh, an Indian man who moved to America to pursue his dream of writing a …
Welcome to Paradise by Julie Marino July 28, 2015 @ 9pm July 29, 2015 @ 6:15pm August 1, 2015 @ 6pm Sat. St. Sebastian is a sleepy Caribbean island that caters to “bland suburban honeymooners” and adults whose wild party days are well behind them. But unexpected and life-changing encounters …
Welcome To The Hard Luck Cafe By Karin Ringheim September 15 @ 6:15pm September 19 @ 8:30pm September 20 @ 1pm Sun. September 29 @ 1pm Welcome to The Hard Luck Café, a soulful contemporary new musical set in a Cafe where the coffee is strong and …
You Just Don’t Get It – Do You? By Anthony Inneo September 7, 2015 @ 6:15pm September 11, 2015 @ 9pm September 13, 2015 @ 3:30pm Sun. Americans are still reeling from the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression and have watched their homes and retirement accounts vanish. It is …
Young Benjamin Banneker by Juan Villegas August 25, 2015 @ 9pm August 26, 2015 @ 6:15pm August 29, 2015 @ 6pm Sat. Benjamin Banneker, “the first African American man of Science”, achieved notoriety as an astronomer and mathematician, who constructed a wooden clock, published reputable Almanacs, and assisted in surveying …