All plays, one act performances and musicals appearing in the New York Fall/Winter Theater Festival in the 2016 performance season. 2016 shows listed by Date.
BROKE OR BANKROLLED
BROKE OR BANKROLLED By Danton Spina January 4, 2016 @ 9pm January 6, 2016 @ 9pm January 9, 2016 @ 3:30pm – Saturday A family feels trapped as they struggle to connect during a financially tumultuous time. Their trust issues escalate into a warped spectacle where …
A BITTER PILL
A BITTER PILL By Gayle Damiano Waxenberg January 5, 2016 @ 6:15pm January 9, 2016 @ 8:30pm January 10, 2016 @ 1pm – Sun. What happens when Big Pharma pushes a new mental health diagnosis for children and their dangerous drugs to treat it? “A Bitter Pill” follows one …
HOUSE OF SEVERAL STORIES
HOUSE OF SEVERAL STORIES By A. John Boulanger January 5, 2016 @ 9pm January 6, 2016 @ 6:15pm January 9, 2016 @ 6pm – Sat A family bound by the tradition of stories (and scotch) begins to unravel as their stories start to take on lives of their own. …
USED TO BE BONANZA
USED TO BE BONANZA By Michael Rendino January 7, 2016 @ 9pm January 9, 2016 @ 1pm Sat. January 10, 2016 @ 6pm – Sun. A couple struggles to cope with a painful loss by inhabiting an absurd world of their own creation. Reality, however, seeps in like …
SHATTER
SHATTER By Anderson Cook January 11, 2016 @ 6:15pm January 15, 2016 @ 9pm January 17, 2016 @ 3:30pm Sun. The story of five 20 year-olds at the party that was never supposed to happen, SHATTER, dissects the lives of the newest wave of young adults as they deal with …
UNTURNING
UNTURNING By Gloria Makino January 11, 2016 @ 9pm January 13, 2016 @ 9pm January 16, 2016 @ 3:30pm Sat. A mixed race young woman is caught at the center of a love triangle inflamed by social prejudice, racial bias and family pressures. Adapted from Thomas Hardy’s classic novel …
WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME
WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME By A.S. Freeman January 12, 2016 @ 9pm January 13, 2016 @ 6:15pm January 16, 2016 @ 6pm Sat. Three Sisters meets civil war hymns and stories of what happens during long occupations in foreign lands in this meta-theatrical experience which dives deep into the …
SECOND SEAT
SECOND SEAT By S. Karlan January 14, 2016 @ 6:15pm January 15, 2016 @ 6:15pm January 17, 2016 @ 8:30pm March 9, 2016 @ 8:30 A young assistant district attorney assisting a homicide trial, finds more answers than she needs to. A glimpse into a modern world …
STILLWATER
STILLWATER By Jeffrey L. Richards January 14, 2016 @ 9pm January 16, 2016 @ 1pm – Sat. January 17, 2016 @ 6pm Sun. Beckoned by his dying mother, Elijah returns home to Stillwater, Oklahoma after a 25 year estrangement. Old wounds bleed fresh as mother and son seek truths …
WAITING FOR THE SUN
WAITING FOR THE SUN By Stephanie C. Lyons-Keeley And Wayne J. Keeley January 18, 2016 @ 6:15pm January 22, 2016 @ 9pm January 24, 2016 @ 3:30pm – Sun. A college student named Justin, afflicted with the terminal disease Becker muscular dystrophy, receives a special birthday present from …
THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN
THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN By Matthew McLachlan January 18, 2016 @ 9pm January 20, 2016 @ 9pm January 23, 2016 @ 3:30pm – Sat. When Frank Fatico arrives to the last day of his court ordered anger management counseling, things come to a head when his counselor, Crispin Abbott, refuses …
YES
YES By Tim Realbuto January 19, 2016 @ 6:15pm January 24, 2016 @ 1pm January 31, 2016 @ 1pm Sun. Yes is a drama about Patrick Ness, a fading star in his 30’s who now teaches private acting lessons in NYC, and the relationship that forms with his new teenage student Jeremiah. What begins …
THE FIELD GUIDE TO MATING
THE FIELD GUIDE TO MATING By Sam Graber January 19, 2016 @ 9pm January 20, 2016 @ 6:15pm January 23, 2016 @ 6pm – Sat. “Paul, a male homosapien experiencing a dry spell, receives assistance from a Field Guide to increase chances of mating. A riotous and …
IN THE TIME OF NY
IN THE TIME OF NY By Gabriel Torres January 21, 2016 @ 9pm January 23, 2016 @ 1pm – Sat. January 26, 2016 @ 4pm You are closer to your dreams than what you expect, your demons will always wait for you to realize them, they’ll torture you …
CAPTURE
CAPTURE By Emily Dinova January 21, 2016 @ 6:15pm January 22, 2016 @ 6:15pm January 24, 2016 @ 8:30pm Anna has only one night to recall her dark past from ten years prior and to put her old self to death as well as the man who tried to …
BEFORE THE END
BEFORE THE END By Derek Dean January 25, 2016 @ 6:15pm January 29, 2016 @ 9pm January 31, 2016 @ 3:30pm – Sun. Mark secretly gambles his families’ life savings away and returns home to discover his family has hired an addiction therapist for an intervention. When his …
AN APARTMENT IN PURGATORY
AN APARTMENT IN PURGATORY By Matt Nestor January 25, 2016 @ 9pm January 27, 2016 @ 9pm January 30, 2016 @ 3:30pm – Sat. In a parallel universe, Manhattan is Heaven, Mississippi’s Hell, and Purgatory is somewhere off the L train in Brooklyn. When Luke learns his boyfriend is …
MURRAY HILL
MURRAY HILL By Rob Belchere January 26, 2016 @ 9pm January 27, 2016 @ 6:15pm January 30, 2016 @ 6pm – Sat. To purchase Tickets http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2461524 At The Hudson Guild Theater http://newyorktheaterfestival.com/the-theater/
GIGANTIC DETAILS
GIGANTIC DETAILS Show canceled By Malú Huacuja del Toro January 26, 2016 @ 6:15pm January 30, 2016 @ 8:30pm January 31, 2016 @ 1pm – Sun. Gigantic Details” is a rendition of “Don Quixote” – only in female version. It takes place at the backstage of …
OLD MAID
OLD MAID By Leah Alfieri January 28, 2016 @ 9pm January 30, 2016 @ 1pm – Sat. January 31, 2016 @ 6pm – Sun. It’s Christmas morning, and estranged sisters Sydney and Lucy are trying to navigate the rocky terrain surrounding their history, and whether or not they can stomach …
NEW DAWN
NEW DAWN By Aaron Michael Krueger January 28, 2016 @ 6:15pm January 29, 2016 @ 6:15pm January 31, 2016 @ 8:30pm – Sun. Aa high school football captain Joey Johnson’s life begins to fumble out of his control, he struggles to keep up the facade of his perfect “All-American” …
GO ON FOREVER
GO ON FOREVER By Michael Bradley Block February 1, 2016 @ 9pm February 3, 2016 @ 9pm February 6, 2016 @ 3:30pm – Sat. Go On Forever follows two young men who are exiled from their family and their religion after they announce they are gay. Told in a nonlinear structure, …
SOLDIERS AND OTHER LIVING THINGS
SOLDIERS AND OTHER LIVING THINGS By Michael Boyd February 1, 2016 @ 6:15pm February 5, 2016 @ 9pm February 7, 2016 @ 3:30pm – Sun. Set in the pre-“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” era of the Vietnam war, two wounded soldiers return home to confront issues of patriotism, survival, …
THE RISE OF MEDIOCRITY
THE RISE OF MEDIOCRITY By Larry Phillips February 2, 2016 @ 9pm February 3, 2016 @ 6:15pm February 6, 2016 @ 6pm – Sat. March 8, 2016 @ 6pm Sawyer Weston’s debut novel was an overnight smash hit, with rave reviews and millions in sales. Her sophomore effort, bombed; critically …
THE HALLS OF IMPORTANCE
THE HALLS OF IMPORTANCE By Steven McCasland February 2, 2016 @ 6:15pm February 6, 2016 @ 8:30pm February 7, 2016 @ 1pm – Sun. Critically acclaimed playwright Steven Carl McCasland (Little Wars, What Was Lost, Neat & Tidy) weaves an original tale inspired by a photograph discovered 66-year-old photograph. …
MY BACKYARD
MY BACKYARD By Leonard Goodisman February 4, 2016 @ 6:15pm February 5, 2016 @ 6:15pm February 7, 2016 @ 8:30pm This witty play, a metaphor for the struggles facing our world, takes place one evening, somewhere in the USA. “My Backyard” is a comic cautionary tale addressing environmental issues. Neighborhood …
LAME DUCKS
LAME DUCKS By Anthony Fusco February 4, 2016 @ 9pm February 6, 2016 @ 1pm – Sat. February 7, 2016 @ 6pm – Sun. After a break-up, Kyle places an ad on Craigslist to take in a new roommate. As the two men learn to live together, dark secrets …
JOURNEY TO THE SEA OF PALESTINE
JOURNEY TO THE SEA OF PALESTINE By Bob Kornhiser February 8, 2016 @ 6:15pm February 12, 2016 @ 9pm February 14, 2016 @ 3:30pm – Sun. A contemporary Romeo and Juliet for the Middle East. An Israeli surgeon falls hopelessly in love with a Palestinian nurse.. They fantasize of …
JACK & COCONUTS
JACK & COCONUTS By Corey Kwoka February 8, 2016 @ 9pm February 10, 2016 @ 9pm February 13, 2016 @ 3:30pm During one family’s unorthodox wedding in Paradise, hopes for their happily-ever-after are threatened by the untimely return of their past. The eye of the storm: one concierge’s struggle to …
TAILSPIN !
TAILSPIN ! By Zach Stephens February 9, 2016 @ 6:15pm February 13, 2016 @ 8:30pm February 14, 2016 @ 1pm – Sun. Assistants at Babylon Pictures, a major Hollywood studio, are left to handle damage control when their latest film incites fury from North Korea. In order to avoid nuclear holocaust …
BAG LADIES AND BABIES
BAG LADIES AND BABIES By Mary Ryzuk February 9, 2016 @ 9pm February 10, 2016 @ 6:15pm February 13, 2016 @ 6pm – Sat. “New York City streets. The sound of soft jazz from a nearby cafe. Two bag ladies, One is a bit “off” who believes she is …
THE REAL PRESTON PORTER
THE REAL PRESTON PORTER By John DeBenedetto February 11, 2016 @ 6:15pm February 12, 2016 @ 6:15pm February 14, 2016 @ 8:30pm Joe is addicted to a gay TV soap opera. His life gets turned upside down when the soap’s characters appear and confuse him with the show’s main character, …
LOVE YA LIKE A SIS
LOVE YA LIKE A SIS By Aaliyah Habeeb February 11, 2016 @ 9pm February 13, 2016 @ 1pm – Sat. February 14, 2016 @ 6pm – Sun Love Ya Like A Sis (LYLAS) is a love story between best friends, Alima and Jade; two late twenties, …
THE WAR MACHINE
THE WAR MACHINE By Johnny Alspaugh February 15, 2016 @ 6:15pm February 19, 2016 @ 9pm February 21, 2016 @ 3:30pm – Sun. A veteran, saddled with debt, enters a Faustian bargain after agreeing to return to Iraq circa 2010 under contract with a Private Military Company. …
A DECADENT VOID
A DECADENT VOID By Alex Aguirre February 15, 2016 @ 9pm February 17, 2016 @ 9pm February 20, 2016 @ 3:30pm – Sat. This metaphysical tragicomedy of manners finds its elemental thrust in the story of Stewart, a poet/philosopher who lives in an imaginative paradise. He conducts cosmic investigations with …
GOING SOLO
GOING SOLO By Robert Gately and Drew Keil February 16, 2016 @ 6:15pm February 20, 2016 @ 8:30pm February 21, 2016 @ 1pm – Sun. “Obsessively exiled to the confines of her own home, an agoraphobic mother struggles to reunite with her estranged daughter, whose return home to play at …
ON THE EVE
ON THE EVE By Amy Frey February 16, 2016 @ 9pm February 17, 2016 @ 6:15pm February 20, 2016 @ 6pm – Sat. Joan of Arc. Rumplestiltskin. Romeo and Juliet. Each name conjures up stories heard since childhood: tales of heroes, villains, and star-crossed lovers. But what …
THE DAY I ALMOST DIED
THE DAY I ALMOST DIED By Raul Hernandez February 18, 2016 @ 6:15pm February 19, 2016 @ 6:15pm February 21, 2016 @ 8:30pm Young adults discovering their humanity through a series of unforeseen circumstances, revealing both the very best and worst within each of them To …
LOVING SUSAN
LOVING SUSAN By David Potashnik February 18, 2016 @ 9pm February 20, 2016 @ 1pm – Sat. February 21, 2016 @ 6pm – Sun. The only way a struggling writer can get back the love of his life is with help from his guardian angel, Gabriel…and God, …
UNTIL DEATH DO US PART
UNTIL DEATH DO US PART By Catherine Hurd February 22, 2016 @ 6:15pm February 26, 2016 @ 9pm February 28, 2016 @ 3:30pm – Sun. Combine sacred marriage vows, lost love, dementia, eccentric daughters, a mystery writing detective, and an ex con bent on revenge, add a love triangle with …
WHO’S THERE?
WHO’S THERE? By Kerry Kazmierowicztrimm February 22, 2016 @ 9pm February 24, 2016 @ 9pm February 27, 2016 @ 3:30pm – Sat. After a near fatal accident, portrait artist Anna finds herself diagnosed with Prosopagnosia, also known as “face blindness.” Anna’s new disability leads her down a path of self-discovery …
THE OVERDEVELOPMENT OF SCOTT
THE OVERDEVELOPMENT OF SCOTT By Sharon Fogarty February 23, 2016 @ 6:15pm February 27, 2016 @ 8:30pm February 28, 2016 @ 1pm – Sun. Funny, dark, sci-fi musical comedy. Two technicians/lovers assist seven human labrats towards overdevelopment, a time when labrats go to pasture. In real life, overdevelopment means unnecessary …
CALDWELL’S BOMB
CALDWELL’S BOMB By Bill Rogers February 23, 2016 @ 9pm February 24, 2016 @ 6:15pm February 27, 2016 @ 6pm – Sat. March 9, 2016 @ 6pm In this dark comedy, gentle, slow-witted Caldwell is working on “REDEMPTION,” a sculpture made of materials he rescues from garbage …
GILLIGAN’S SURVIVORS
GILLIGAN’S SURVIVORS: A TRAGICOMEDY IN 2 ACTS By Valerie Ni Loinsigh February 25, 2016 @ 6:15pm February 26, 2016 @ 6:15pm February 28, 2016 @ 8:30pm Set in the dystopian landscape of an institution for spiritual healing, we encounter a whole host of zany characters, some of whom …
BROOKLYN TIDES, DRIFTWOOD
BROOKLYN TIDES, DRIFTWOOD by Rick Charles Mueller February 25, 2016 @ 9pm February 27, 2016 @ 1pm – Sat. February 28, 2016 @ 6pm – Sun. Alexandra, a liberal, successful, black woman, is sexually obsessed with her separated husband: a bigoted, homophobic cop, also black, who …
MRC – THE NEMESIS EFFECT
THE NEMESIS EFFECT By Sarah Taylor February 29, 2016 @ 6pm To purchase Tickets http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2492616 At The Hudson Guild Theater http://newyorktheaterfestival.com/the-theater/
MRC – THE WILL TO GET MARRIED, ACT III
THE WILL TO GET MARRIED, ACT III By Steven W Rodgers February 29, 2016 @ 7:30pm Molly and George have the perfect marriage—except that they’re already divorced! When a farmer stops by to use the bathroom, Molly enlists his help in rekindling their romance, mistaking him for the sex therapist she’d …
MRC – LOVING CUCKOLD
LOVING CUCKOLD By Edmund Miller February 29, 2016 @ 9pm Lord Cokeworthy thinks he has a marriage of convenience but alienates both his wife and his mistress, each lady objecting that he spends too much time with the other. His attempt to distract his wife with foppish men goes awry while his …
MRC – JACK RABBITS OF THE WILD INTERIOR
JACK RABBITS OF THE WILD INTERIOR By Michael Rendino March 1, 2016 @ 6pm It is 70 years in the future. Humans live safely and comfortably in their dwelling units. The “interlink” enables each individual to have full control of an environment where all their needs are satisfied. A rare interruption …
MRC – CORPUS
CORPUS By Jordan Stovall March 1, 2016 @ 7:30pm Two strangers form an unlikely kinship in a shoddy Manhattan nail salon, exposing battles with the ghosts from their pasts to once again find freedom and happiness To purchase Tickets https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2492719 At The Hudson Guild Theaterhttps://newyorktheaterfestival.com/the-theater/
MRC – MUSIC 4 THA LADIES
MUSIC 4 THA LADIES By Natorya Nicole March 1, 2016 @ 9pm Drama-romance showing how Corsia Shock uses music helping her emotionally, with ups / downs of her new relationship. Sincere, with producer, Blu, is the Sexy voice behind South Florida’s #1 nightly music show. Successful attorneys in mid …
MRC – PRINCESSES OF THE BAR TABLE
PRINCESSES OF THE BAR TABLE By Sana Keith It’s tough balancing a career and love life for the modern woman, now trying adding wicked step-mothers and rage-prone husbands. For Cinderella, Belle, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White it’s all another reason to share in whiskey and fairy tales. But will old rivalries and lost inhibitions be the only things to turn up when the check comes due? March 2, 2016 @ 6pm To purchase Tickets http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2492742 At The Hudson Guild Theater http://newyorktheaterfestival.com/the-theater/
EDDY’S
EDDY’S By Sean McKay March 3, 2016 @ 6:15pm March 5, 2016 @ 3:30pm – Sat. March 6, 2016 @ 8:30pm A deteriorating dive bar struggles to survive in a fading Southern town. It’s inhabitants are forced to face their own irrelevance, and ward off their self-hatred with stories, …
STILL NOT
STILL NOT By Harrison Bryan March 3, 2016 @ 9pm March 5, 2016 @ 1pm – Sat. March 6, 2016 @ 6pm – Sun. Inspired by the surrealistic worlds of Waiting for Godot and Zoo Story, STILL NOT is an honest, comedic, skewed-romantic, exploration into the traps of waiting for love – …
CLASS MOTHER
CLASS MOTHER By Rachel Mann March 4, 2016 @ 6:15pm March 5, 2016 @ 8:30pm March 6, 2016 @ 1pm – Sun. March 8, 2016 @ 8:30pm What exactly did the kids see on the internet? When Cindy spreads rumors, Eva retaliates on her popular blog. With …
LIGHTBULB
LIGHTBULB By Ben Miller March 4, 2016 @ 9pm March 5, 2016 @ 6pm – Sat. March 6, 2016 @ 3:30pm Sun. “This one act comedy is an original play made up of some not so original ideas. John, an out of work playwright, is desperately trying to come up with something …
MRC – LIGHT MY FIRE
LIGHT MY FIRE By Carol W Berman March 7, 2016 @ 9pm The rise and fall of the sixties through the eyes of two young Californian women headed for Berkeley. They fall in love with the same man, join the student revolution, lose their virginity, and try the drugs of …
MRC – COMIC BOOK
COMIC BOOK By Tom Block March 7, 2016 @ 6pm To purchase Tickets http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2493080 At The Hudson Guild Theater http://newyorktheaterfestival.com/the-theater/
MRC – THE SADDEST WORD IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
THE SADDEST WORD IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE By Karina Cochran March 7, 2016 @ 9pm To purchase Tickets http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2493008 At The Hudson Guild Theater http://newyorktheaterfestival.com/the-theater/
MRC – JOHNNY
JOHNNY By Robert Kiernan March 7, 2016 @ 7:30pm During WWII. The war raged on the home front as well. The rationing of food, gas and raw materials was more than an inconvenience. For many the horrors of war were learned too late. To purchase Tickets http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2493092 At The Hudson Guild Theater http://newyorktheaterfestival.com/the-theater/
HOLE IN THE WALL
HOLE IN THE WALL by Montana Rock January 30, 2017 @ 9PM February 1, 2017 @ 9PM Feb. 4, 2017 @ 3:30PM – Sat. Richie and Nick have found a deal too good to be true. Fix up a rundown apartment, …