* Created by Carina Torres and Sarah Morse - Written by Carina Torres - Lyrics by Sarah Morse - Original Composition by Nick Augusta and Meg Short * * * * TUESDAY January 21, 2025 @ 6:15 PM FRIDAY January 24, 2025 @ 4:00 PM SATURDAY January 25, 2025 @ 9:00 PM * * * Blurb Dr. Myers has …
FALL/WINTER THEATER FESTIVAL
PRODUCTIONS WINTERFEST
THE 9 OR 5 THESES OF KAREN SLOANE
* by Darlene Elizabeth Joiner * * * * THURSDAY January 16, 2025 @ 9:00PM SATURDAY January 18, 2025 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY January 19, 2025 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb Karen Sloane, a case manager for Purgahealth, a fortune 500 corporate entity, is livid that her remote job has transitioned back to in …
THE COUCH
* by Cheryl Hughes * * * * THURSDAY January 16, 2025 @ 9:00PM SATURDAY January 18, 2025 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY January 19, 2025 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb When Dave Johnson spends too much time on the couch, his wife, Becky, nags him into submission to get ready for his daughter’s graduation. Becky …
THE LEOPARD AND THE LYNX
* by Michelle Maccarone * THURSDAY January 16, 2025 @ 9:00PM SATURDAY January 18, 2025 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY January 19, 2025 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb Pat Tanner III wrote under several pseudonyms in the 1950s, most famously Patrick Dennis, the writer as well as narrator of Auntie Mame. After …
ACKNOWLEDGING THE ELEPHANT OF MY UNBORN CHILD
* by Lana Scott Stringer * * * * THURSDAY January 16, 2025 @ 6:15 PM SATURDAY January 18, 2025 @ 2:15 PM SUNDAY January 19, 2025 @ 6:00 PM * * * Blurb A woman details the way pregnancy is deteriorating her body as an unknown, yet somehow familiar, stranger slowly approaches her. THIS SHOW …
STACEY BERNADETTE GOES DATING
* by Terry Foster * * * * THURSDAY January 16, 2025 @ 6:15 PM SATURDAY January 18, 2025 @ 2:15 PM SUNDAY January 19, 2025 @ 6:00 PM * * * Blurb Stacey Bernadette is an eccentric NYC woman on the hunt for love. She lives alone in a sparsely furnished apartment with the only other form of …
SINGIN’ IN A RAINSTORM: THE LIFE OF DEBBIE REYNOLDS
* by Ellen Grace Diehl * * * * THURSDAY January 16, 2025 @ 9:00PM SATURDAY January 18, 2025 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY January 19, 2025 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb A jukebox musical about the life of Debbie Reynolds. Debbie sings songs from her career and discusses her fraught romantic history, her …
ELEPHANT & PIGGIE: WE ARE IN A THEATRE FESTIVAL !
* by Sabrina Caputo * * * * WEDNESDAY January 15, 2025 @ 4:00PM FRIDAY January 17, 2025 @ 6:30 PM SUNDAY January 19, 2025 @ 1:00 PM * * * Blurb Gerald and Piggie play pretend, question what we can know, and confront Endings. They interrogate theatre, free will, comedy, and authenticity. …
SHUDDER
* by Mary Grace Epps and Showpeople Theatre Collective * * * * TUESDAY January 14, 2025 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY January 15, 2025 @ 6:30 PM SATURDAY January 18, 2025 @ 4:30 PM * * * Blurb What do you get when you combine the terrifying moralistic horror of the Brothers Grimm and musical …
THE OBITUARY
* by Benjamin D. Smith * * * * TUESDAY January 14, 2025 @ 6:15 PM FRIDAY January 17, 2025 @ 4:00 PM SATURDAY January 18, 2025 @ 9:00 PM * * * Blurb The Obituary is a one act play about a father and son's relationship as they deal the son's sexual identity and deep family secrets. While …
AIN’T THAT THE WAY LOVE’S SUPPOSED TO BE?
* by Mattie Tindall * * * * MONDAY January 13, 2025 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY January 15, 2025 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY January 18, 2025 @ 6:45 PM * * * Blurb Al and Charlie have returned to summer camp after a year apart – a little bit older and not at all wiser. On their first day back, Al meets a …
*** WINNERS AND NOMINEES OF THE FALL/WINTER FESTIVAL 2023 ***
The New York Theater Festival 2023 Spring/Summer Festival Awards Ceremony NOMINEES IN GREEN WINNERS IN RED FALL/WINTER THEATER FESTIVAL 2023 BEST PRODUCTION WINNER $3,500 PARADISE – by Michael David Stoddard. NOMINEES: I’M HAPPY FOR YOU – by Jacob …
THE SQUEAL
* by Jake Tammara * * * * THURSDAY December 14, 2023 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY December 16, 2023 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY December 17, 2023 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb The Squeal follows the journey of Leo and Maria, an immigrant couple from Mexico pursuing a better life in the United States. Leo works at …
FRUIT
* by Ella Talerico * * * * THURSDAY December 14, 2023 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY December 16, 2023 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY December 17, 2023 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb Alma is a soul struggling to understand and cope with the evil inside of herself, and the evil surrounding her. An abstract, poetic, and …
PS306
* by Josh Romeo * * * * MONDAY December 11, 2023 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY December 13, 2023 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY December 16, 2023 @ 6:45 PM * * * Blurb Seven students are in a college psychology class. On the day of the final, instead of a blue book exam they are posed with a challenge. The …
SISTAH SISTAH OH MY SISTAH
* by Carmen Davis Hall * * * * THURSDAY December 14, 2023 @ 6:15 PM SATURDAY December 16, 2023 @ 2:15 PM SUNDAY December 17, 2023 @ 6:00 PM * * * Blurb Modern day for colored girls. A depiction of colored women . Written from my personal life, but every woman can see her in the story. …
WELCOME TO CHAOS
* by Dean Tyler K * * * * WEDNESDAY December 13, 2023 @ 4:00 PM FRIDAY December 15, 2023 @ 6:30 PM SUNDAY December 17, 2023 @ 1:00 PM * * * Blurb A writer and podcaster comes home from a party. A few drinks in, we watch as they continue to drink and spiral as they take us through their …
MINSTREL
* by Jabari Elzie * * * * WEDNESDAY December 13, 2023 @ 4:00 PM FRIDAY December 15, 2023 @ 6:30 PM SUNDAY December 17, 2023 @ 1:00 PM * * * Blurb Minstrel, a skit-based play rooted in satire observes how common-day black media is told from the white person's perspective. Inspired by the …
OUR HOUSE
* by Julia Wosiak * * * * TUESDAY December 12, 2023 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY December 13, 2023 @ 6:30 PM SATURDAY December 16, 2023 @ 4:30 PM * * * Blurb After her cancer diagnosis, Grace invites her children back to their family home, to decide which one of them deserves to inherit the …
THE LIMITS OF ADMIRATION
* Barry Jay Kaplan * * * * TUESDAY December 12, 2023 @ 6:15 PM FRIDAY December 15, 2023 @ 4:00 PM SATURDAY December 16, 2023 @ 9:00 PM * * * Blurb With an undercurrent of triangulation & the rhythm & dialogue of a brisk comedy, THE LIMITS OF ADMIRATION asks if friendship can stand …
DOROTHY DANDRIDGE! THE MUSICAL
* Conceived by N’Kenge, Book and Lyrics by Trey Ellis, Music and Lyrics by Shelton Becton * * * * MONDAY DECEMBER 11, 2023 @ 6:15 PM FRIDAY December 15, 2023 @ 9:00 PM SUNDAY December 17, 2023 @ 3:30 PM * * * Directed by Tamara Tunie, Dorothy Dandridge! The Musical is a joyous, …
THE H WORD
* by Kerry Jules * * * * THURSDAY December 7, 2023 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY December 9, 2023 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY December 10, 2023 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb The H Word, is a play where the audience is placed directly in the center of what is known as "the final seven minutes” of brain activity, prior …
TO THE FAIREST
* by Miles Messier and Showpeople Theatre Collective * * * * THURSDAY December 7, 2023 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY December 9, 2023 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY December 10, 2023 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb Most of us will have a vague idea of what the Trojan War was, but how did it all start? Our …
WHISPERS
* by Tony Barone * * * * THURSDAY December 7, 2023 @ 6:15 PM SATURDAY December 9, 2023 @ 2:15 PM SUNDAY December 10, 2023 @ 6:00 PM * * * Blurb A comedy about a struggling theater owner attempting to recruit a famous retired Broadway star to a gala to save his theater. When he visits her, …