by Brett Michael Bullard The play normalizes the queer population with common issues such as commitment and career troubles, to more uncommon problems like drug overdoses. The goal is for the audience to almost …
PRODUCTIONS 2018 SPRING/SUMMER FESTIVAL
THE WINTER’S FAIL
by Phil Schiff and Elizabeth Rose Sehring In their hilarious adaptation--comedy, crazy antics and climate control help The Silly Shakespeare Company® figure out if William Shakespeare picked the best …
SUICIDAL LIFE COACH
by R. K. Rich It's life coach Fred Sigman's wedding day. His fiancée is histrionic, mercurial, and already planning their annulment! No wonder he's depressed! Believing that laughter is, indeed, the best …
THE HAPPENING
by Roy Ruiz What if aliens are entering our dreams? What if you're just going crazy? What if your wife found out? What if you had no other choice than to hire a maniac to help you make sense of this happening? …
LACK OF MILK
by Ivan Faute This is a dark, surreal comedy about loss and family. When GUS's father dies, he negotiates with mother BARBARA who seems unmoved. As the years pass, they force their anger, sorrow, and …
ELLIPSES
by Natalie Hunter This play is an exploration of how the roles of gender and communication impact today's dating world. The play consists of vignettes which explore the application of these themes to stalking, …
A DAY IN THE LIFE
by Uzunma Udeh This show is simply 24 hours with a black woman. Even through the ups and downs, she stays optimistic and proves her resilience. The show exaggerates art forms (rap, haiku, etc.) as a tool to …
FIGURING OUT WILL
by Alec Kerr In a world full of emotional pitfalls, one geeky teen will join forces with his two best friends to face his insecurities and escape the friend zone by realizing it never even existed in the first …
MARY 4 MARTHA 3 NO FOOTNOTES
by Cate Belleveau This play explores the lives of the Hemingway women, his four wives, mother, granddaughter, and the female literary critics. The pinching masks of fame, mental health and alcoholism's impact …
WAIT (ESPERA)
by Veronica Picone and Jenifer Badamo An act of fate reunites Veronica with her familia after a thirty-year estrangement. She soon discovers her mother’s forgiveness is due to Alzheimer’s memory loss, and her …
CANARSIE
by Andrew Barnes Being in your mid twenties and living in New York City trying to figure out who you are is hard enough. To make it just a bit harder, Eileen is diagnosed with Leukemia and decides she doesn't want …
A LOVELY DAMAGED QUALITY
by Mackenzie McBride In A Lovely Damaged Quality, Jody descends into the dark depths of her imagination as she tries to make sense of her father's suicide. Overwhelmed with grief, she finds herself in a chaotic and …
JOHNNY
by Tal Shashoua I finally understand what you mean now about giving back. It’s . . . fulfilling. I’m making people feel alive.” Bereft at the loss of the one person who truly understood him, our protagonist …
CONSCIOUS
by Kimberly Singleton Conscious, a young thriving poet, tries to come to terms with living with HIV. Those closest to him do not know that he has the disease and he must confront the one responsible. Through the …
IN YOUR DREAMS!
by Matt Sanders and Ariel Aliza Sanders Poor Addie and Stan! All this married couple wants is to get a good night’s sleep--- for a change. But, alas, that’s not in the cards. As soon as they …
A NEW PLAY FROM WILL GREEN
by Daniel Park Will Green is a frustrated playwright trying to come up with a new play. He conjures up an imaginary girl, Olivia, who in turn tries to convince Will to quit writing. A short dark meta …
NEWSIE BLUES
by Marcus Shacknow Two young men sit in their small shoe box apartment waiting to hear back from a crush. While planning and discussing and navigating the anxieties that come with potential romance, the boys …
PILLS
by Jack Sabido J.R. and Danny, two best friends with a rampant opiate habit, spend their days navigating the delicacies and indelicacies of their friendship and the constant search for the next high. The doldrums …
SIGN OF THE TIMES
by Howard Zuckerman Richard Deeds II has become the president of a New York City co-op board and furthers his self-aggrandizement by creating a building sign that is both enormous and enormously expensive. …
RAP’T
by Tom Hoefner Jesus Christ appears at the apartment of two guys from Queens, NY, to let them know that 1.) he's bringing about the apocalypse, and 2.) it's all their …
COULD HAVE BEEN
by Rita Posillico Daisy decides to leave her past and move to NYC to pursue a career in acting. Escaping from the comfort of home in North Carolina, she has a slew of new experiences at a theater company in …
CROCS! THE MUSICAL
.: Musical Festival :. by Kelly Flatley and Maddie Powell Crocs! The Musical This Musical is the zany story of Jordan, a young man recently inspired by the beauty of Crocs. He meets and quickly falls in love with Kate, a girl who …
CALIGULA
by Jake Gonnella A portrait of the infamous third emperor of Rome, Gaius Caesar, better known as Caligula. This play portrays Caligula not as an insane tyrant, but as a young man at the mercy of forces far …
CORIOLANUS
by Peter Hargrave 1 man. 5 characters. 35 minutes of Shakespearean rap. In a Hamilton style musical format, Tullus Aufidius leaps out of William Shakespeare's Coriolanus to examine the similarities of 2018 …