September 21, 2023
Long before fake news was a trending topic, it was called propaganda. And in the Soviet Union, circa 1938, it was the grease that kept Stalin’s machinery of terror in motion.
Category: Plays
September 21, 2023
They say that Cell 17 is haunted. But is it a ghost that lingers there, or the burning memories of injustice done to an Irish coal miner and his wife?
September 21, 2023
After months of flirtation with Jilly, Marko is ecstatic when she casually agrees to take a ride with him one balmy August night. Their destination: the old mill in the woods, beyond the Host Church, where Marko hopes love will blossom. But then they stumble upon an old man with a story to tell about the price of reckless love …
September 18, 2023
A relationship coach encounters her most difficult client, a real guy kind of guy — the kind of guy who is not shy about being a guy–meaning he’s desperately in need of her counsel, which he’ll probably ignore.
September 18, 2023
Years in captivity strain perceptions of time and metaphors for a long-married couple, but an unexpected delivery triggers a calendar–as well as an attitude–adjustment.
May 11, 2018
The trickle-down theory of pushing people around. A ten-minute play about the way bullying behavior is passed down and passed along – and not restricted to the playground. Commissioned by Dramatic Publishing and included in its anthology, The Bully Plays.
May 11, 2018
“There’s gotta be somethin’ wrong with somebody who can’t make a decent strawberry jam.” A boy who plays go-between discovers the down side of deception in this romantic romp set in 1950s Appalachia.
May 11, 2018
A paroled killer’s return to his home town creates havoc for a neighboring family already struggling with Cold War paranoia.
May 11, 2018
One man would tame a raging river, another his rebellious child. Neither can foresee the consequences. An epic story of love and defiance in World War I Missouri.
May 11, 2018
When Hannah Winter loses her footing in a hotel lobby, the gentleman who helps her up turns out to be the boyfriend she left behind 40 years earlier. Now, after nearly a lifetime of self-sacrifice, Hannah is in the mood to rebel. The Sudden Sixties is adapted by permission of and special arrangement with the Edna Ferber Estate.
May 11, 2018
“He is a man, Madame, and like all men…is only good for one thing—hailing a taxi.”
May 11, 2018
Adam’s immortal, diabolical first wife Lilith makes her appearance again, wreaking havoc among his descendants, now atoning for their sins in Juniata County, Pennsylvania.
May 11, 2018
“What was I supposed to do, send him a telegram?” — Jack Dempsey, on the knock-out punch that floored Jack Sharkey, as he turned to complain about Dempsey’s tactics.
May 11, 2018
“Yeah Rome… they invented the alphabet. And sewers. Where would we be without sewers?”
May 11, 2018
“It’s bargaining. You’re bargaining with the fates.”
Len and Claire sense they are in for some seriously bad karma when his offhand remark at a party inspires the break-up of long-married friends. But when an anonymous sniper appears on the scene, both couples are forced to reconsider the trade-offs they have made in life and love …
May 11, 2018
“She tells me it’s over. I say okay, it’s over—and then somehow it just don’t stick.”
May 11, 2018
D.W. Gregory, author of Radium Girls and Salvation Road. The music and lyrics are by writing team Steven M. Alper & Sarah Knapp, whose musical version of Mark Harelik’s The Immigrant received two Drama Desk award nominations when it was produced off-Broadway.
May 11, 2018
Long before fake news was a trending topic, it was called propaganda. And in the Soviet Union, circa 1938, it was the grease that kept Stalin’s machinery of terror in motion.
May 11, 2018
Two guys. One rusted out Honda. Twenty-four hours to separate a girl from her guru. The road to Hell was never more fun.
May 11, 2018
The original award-winning drama based on the true story. In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage—until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease.