* by J.B. Alexander * * * * THURSDAY Oct. 27, 2022 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY Oct. 29, 2022 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY Oct. 30, 2022 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb “I’m very glad it’s out there.” — Sir Tom Stoppard on @Vanek.cz New York, 2019 — When 29-year-old Czech wunderkind Vanek Novak wins a prestigious …
FALL/WINTER THEATER FESTIVAL
PRODUCTIONS WINTERFEST
PEONIES (DON’T LEAVE)
* by Chloe Selavka * * * * THURSDAY Oct. 27, 2022 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY Oct. 29, 2022 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY Oct. 30, 2022 @ 8:30 PM * * * Willa and Emory, two girls with wildly different outlooks on life and love, begin a relationship fraught with unconditional love and unmanageable issues. …
JIMMY BRESLIN: HOW TO READ THE NEWSPAPER…BEFORE IT GOES EXTINCT!
* by Michael Rispoli & Gregg Greenberg * * * * WEDNESDAY Oct. 26, 2022 @ 4:00 PM FRIDAY Oct. 28, 2022 @ 6:30 PM SUNDAY Oct. 30, 2022 @ 1:00 PM * * * Blurb JIMMY BRESLIN: HOW TO READ THE NEWSPAPER...BEFORE IT GOES EXTINCT! is a one man show featuring the columns, wit, and wisdom of the …
TALES FROM A PROPHET
* by Sarah Helena * * * * WEDNESDAY Oct. 26, 2022 @ 4:00 PM FRIDAY Oct. 28, 2022 @ 6:30 PM SUNDAY Oct. 30, 2022 @ 1:00 PM * * * Blurb BLURB: In what seems to be a mental hospital, one patient is convinced he is a prophet, and his nurse is the angel sent to guide him. And he might just be …
BLIND JUSTICE
* by Joseph Leone * * * * TUESDAY Oct. 25, 2022 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY Oct. 26, 2022 @ 6:30 PM SATURDAY Oct. 29, 2022 @ 4:30 PM * * * Blurb 3 actresses are tense about the sensation of the play they are in. They quibble backstage just before the first performance. It goes well, after a cast …
PRAIRIE FIRE
* by Randal McHaney * * * * TUESDAY Oct. 25, 2022 @ 6:15 PM FRIDAY Oct. 28, 2022 @ 4:00 PM SATURDAY Oct. 29, 2022 @ 9:00 PM * * * Blurb In Prairie Fire Randal McHaney explores the intersection between two teenage boys and the self-delusion of a spiritual leader in a small West Texas town. …
IDOLS
* by Nicholas Bompart and Stefania Papodopoulos * * * * MONDAY Oct. 24, 2022 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY Oct. 26, 2022 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY Oct. 29, 2022 @ 6:45 PM * * * Blurb A gifted piano prodigy child with ADHD faces problems in school causing an ultimatum of either taking stimulant medication …
IN THE MIX
* by Mikaela Koran * * * * THURSDAY Oct. 20, 2022 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY Oct. 22, 2022 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY Oct. 23, 2022 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb This is a play written in poetic verse about gender exploration. It is an experimental movement piece. THIS SHOW IS 20 MINUTES LONG THIS IS A SHORT …
THE ACCOUNTANT
* by A. B. Wisely * * * * THURSDAY Oct. 20, 2022 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY Oct. 22, 2022 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY Oct. 23, 2022 @ 8:30 PM Blurb The Accountant is carried through life by a monotone current of boredom, work, and a little too much to drink at night until, one day, an unlikely encounter with …
LOST IN THE STARS
* by Ava Lee Dell’Aquila * * * * THURSDAY Oct. 20, 2022 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY Oct. 22, 2022 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY Oct. 23, 2022 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb Early October 1943 (WWII Era). A secluded lake just outside of a small town in upstate New York. It’s around 9pm. Two strangers become acquainted …
E.G.G.
* by Emile Aslan Lacheny * * * * THURSDAY Oct. 20, 2022 @ 6:15 PM SATURDAY Oct. 22, 2022 @ 2:15 PM SUNDAY Oct. 23, 2022 @ 6:00 PM * * * Blurb In an apocalyptic future, four survivors find themselves in a cave to survive. There, they find something impossible: a little girl protecting a …
BREAKFAST
* by William Shuman * * * * THURSDAY Nov. 10, 2022 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY Nov. 12, 2022 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY Nov 13, 2022 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb "Does 50 plus years of marriage improve communication?" THIS SHOW IS 10 MINUTES LONG THIS IS A SHORT PLAY THAT WILL BE PERFORMED WITH OTHER SHORT PLAYS …
MONARCH’S ROW
* by Stephanie Kallos * * * * THURSDAY Oct. 20, 2022 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY Oct. 22, 2022 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY Oct. 23, 2022 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb Two British soldiers forge a deep friendship in an unusual setting on a bitterly cold night in 1917. THIS SHOW IS 15 MINUTES LONG THIS IS A SHORT …
THE JOINT ROAD
* by Victor Cuenca * * * * WEDNESDAY Oct. 19, 2022 @ 4:00 PM FRIDAY Oct. 21, 2022 @ 6:30 PM SUNDAY Oct. 23, 2022 @ 1:00 PM * * * Blurb Two brothers struggling to keep up with one another both literally and figuratively. THIS SHOW IS 30 MINUTES LONG THIS IS A ONE ACT PLAY THAT WILL BE …
PENANCE
* by Michelle Giusto * * * * WEDNESDAY Oct. 19, 2022 @ 4:00 PM FRIDAY Oct. 21, 2022 @ 6:30 PM SUNDAY Oct. 23, 2022 @ 1:00 PM * * * Blurb E finds himself in Purgatory, unable to remember the details of his life or death. His "transitional agent", Mildred O. Purgatory, assigns him his …
THIRTEENTH NIGHT
* by Minh-Anh Day * * * * TUESDAY Oct. 18, 2022 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY Oct. 19, 2022 @ 6:30 PM SATURDAY Oct. 22, 2022 @ 4:30 PM * * * Blurb Moments after the closing lines of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, the apparent “happy ending” starts to unravel. THIS SHOW IS 75 MINUTES LONG PURCHASE …
THE DIAGNOSIS
* by Natasha Cobb * * * * MONDAY Oct. 17, 2022 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY Oct. 19, 2022 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY Oct. 22, 2022 @ 6:45 PM * * * Blurb Faced with her own biases towards people suffering from a mental illness a woman never imagines that people close to her could be suffering without her …
OUT OF BODY/ON A TRAIN
* by Erin Moughon* * * * MONDAY Oct. 17, 2022 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY Oct. 19, 2022 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY Oct. 22, 2022 @ 6:45 PM * * * Blurb Leah wakes up on a subway car with a hangover with a stranger Holly. However, Holly tells Leah that they aren't really on a train, and she's not …
2:15
* by Latifa Hinds * * * * MONDAY Oct. 17, 2022 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY Oct. 19, 2022 @ 9 PM SATURDAY Oct 22, 2022 @ 6:45 PM * * * Blurb Nia confronts her conflicted feelings for Ian THIS SHOW IS 7 MINUTES LONG THIS IS A SHORT PLAY THAT WILL BE PERFORMED WITH OTHER SHORT PLAYS WITHIN A 90 …
I WISH IT WAS FUNNIER
* by Calla Selicious * * * * MONDAY Oct. 17, 2022 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY Oct. 19, 2022 @ 9 PM SATURDAY Oct 22, 2022 @ 6:45 PM * * * Blurb Two twentysomething friends meet at a loft apartment for a day of collaborative Adderall-fueled songwriting. They pursue creative inspiration to little …
HAD IT BLUE
* Book and Lyrics by Paul Pecorino Music by David Nehls * * * * MONDAY Oct. 17, 2022 @ 6:15 PM FRIDAY Oct. 21, 2022 @ 9:00 PM SUNDAY Oct. 23, 2022 @ 3:30 PM * * * Blurb HAD IT BLUE tells the story of The Barman. The Barman is our hero, but a hero flawed. Claiming to be The Barman’s biggest …
THE GREAT DIVIDE
* by Joseph DiMona * * * * THURSDAY Oct. 13, 2022 @ 6:15 PM SATURDAY Oct. 15, 2022 @ 2:15 PM SUNDAY Oct. 16, 2022 @ 6:00 PM * * * Blurb The Great Divide is set in 1961-62 in New York City and Southern California and points in between. It is an homage to the ethos of Jack Kerouac’s On the …
ACTRESS
* by Catie Chan * * * * THURSDAY Oct. 13, 2022 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY Oct. 15, 2022 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY Oct. 16, 2022 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb An actress laments her disappointed dreams. A generous demon offers her an opportunity, but everything is not as it seems. Inspired by Noh theater and Butoh …
LAST LONG NIGHT IN HELL
* by Robert Cantillon * * * * THURSDAY Oct. 13, 2022 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY Oct. 15, 2022 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY Oct. 16, 2022 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb "Friend" Johnny and Devilish Dan split a raucous night between Hell and a Moe's Southwest Grill. Their chaotic, frat boy behavior slowly gives way to …