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The Last Resort proves that love not only can germinate, but can grow and flourish even in the most deathly environments.Marjorie Kendrick, a widow half paralyzed by a stroke, is dumped into a posh Long Island nursing home by her son. Most of the other elderly patients she meets in the home's recreation room are kept docile and cooperative by the use of drugs. The only exception is Henry Downs, who, as Marjorie soon learns, avoids the diet of ...

It's 1934, and the clever and combustible Lucille Wiley, Manager of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company, is ready to welcome world-class soprano Elena Firenzi for her one-night-only starring role in Carmen. Alas, Elena arrives late, her impassioned husband Pasquale has a fit of jealousy, and it remains to be seen whether Mrs. Wiley's mousy but determined assistant Jo can save the day.Based on Ken Ludwig's Tony Award-winning Lend Me A Tenor, this...

Winner! 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Drama Winner! 2023 Obie Award for Best New American Play It's 2008, and four Iranians assemble triweekly in a TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) class in Karaj, Iran. The students are led by Marjan, an anglophile who abolishes Farsi from her classroom. They translate Ricky Martin and endure major preposition confusion, they discover how to be funny in English and ponder what they will lose in the pro...

A deeply moving, tenderly insightful play about friendship, memory, and the small moments that can change the course of our lives forever. Over one fateful summer, an unlikely friendship develops between Diana, a fiercely iconoclastic artist and single mom, and Alice, a free-spirited yet naive young housewife. As the Bicentennial is celebrated across the country, these two young women in Ohio navigate motherhood, ambition, and intimacy, and he...

Samantha and Leo are a team-best friends and roommates, fat girl and gay guy against the world-until a new friend upends their cozy co-dependent diet of mutual self-loathing and Grey's Anatomy marathons. An ode to the complications of friendship in its many fucked-up forms, with a special nod to a kind of love that sometimes looks a lot like rage.

Cheryl is a widow of two years, Stan is newly divorced. After failed blind dates, their best friends, Lori and Dave, convince them to try online dating with the new dating website, "Friends, Love or Whatever." With the worst dating advice in the world from their friends, Cheryl and Stan set out to find happiness and true love-online. All the trials and tribulations of online dating come to the forefront, including overcoming heartbreak and rej...

Mariela and José were once the golden couple of the Mexican artists' inner circle. Together they built a family and an artist colony to host friends Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Rufino Tamayo. But now their daughter has grown up and run away, their friends are too famous to call, and artistic inspiration has been strangled by isolation and lies. Set in the northern Mexican desert in 1950, Mariela in the Desert is a deadly mystery-a layered ye...

A thoughtful and meditative two-hander, Samuel D. Hunter's extraordinary play is both intimate and expansive as it explores themes of parenthood, financial insecurity and empathy.A Case for the Existence of God unfolds in a cubicle where two seated people unexpectedly choose to bring one another into their fragile worlds. Keith, a mortgage broker, and Ryan, a yogurt plant worker seeking to buy a plot of land that belonged to his family many de...

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames reinvents Shakespeare's masterpiece with his new drama, a delectable comic tragedy. Juicy is a queer, Southern college kid, already grappling with some serious questions of identity, when the ghost of his father shows up in their backyard, demandingthat Juicy avenge his murder. It feels like a familiar story to Juicy, well-versed in Hamlet's woes. What's different is Juicy himself, a sensitive and...

A charming devil arrives in the quiet village of Edmonton to bargain for the souls of its residents in exchange for their darkest wishes. Elizabeth should be his easiest target, having been labeled a "witch" and cast out by the town, but her soul is not so readily bought. As the devil returns to convince her - and then returns again - unexpected passions flare, alliances are formed, and the village is forever changed. An inventive retelling of...

Nicole is smart, successful, married to a hot guy-and unapologetically fat. But her formerly fat, now obsessively thin mom, Helen, fixates on Nicole's weight. When Nicole visits her hometown for her best friend's baby shower and reveals that she's also pregnant, mom and daughter are forced to confront how Helen's difficulty accepting Nicole's body-and her own-has shaped their relationship. A deeply felt, irreverent comedy about motherhood, ant...

This sprightly version of Snow White ran over three years at New York's Theatre East, a record unprecedented in the history of children's theatre. It has played to the delight of children of all ages from Toronto to Los Angeles to Miami. The exceptional score and the caring relatedness of the young girl and the dwarfs distinguishes this version.

Ernestine Ashworth spends her 17th birthday agonizing over her insignificance in the universe. Soon enough, it's her 18th birthday. Even sooner, her 41st. Her 70th. Her 101st. Five generations, an infinity of dreams, and one cake baked over a century. This poignant and funny play will take you through the highlights, heartbreaks, and extraordinary moments that make up one woman's ordinary life.

This award-winning one-act comedy is perfect for competition, college, high school and community theater production. With seven female characters (and one optional male cahracter), and a simple unit set, In Juliet's Garden can be produced in a wide variety of settings. The show is suitable for round, threequarter- round, and proscenium production. Juliet Capulet invites four other heroines of Shakespeare's classics (Katharina, Portia, Opheli...

Happiness tells the stories of a dozen harried New Yorkers stuck in the morning rush hour on a stalled subway car, where they are required by the spectral trainman to recall and reenact the happiest moment in their lives before they can continue their travels... and travails. Happiness celebrates those fleeting moments in everyday lives - typically unanticipated, largely overlooked, always ephemeral - that upon reflection become people's fonde...

The Old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation - in the breeze, in the cotton fields...and in the crack of the whip. Nothing is as it seems, and yet everything is as it seems. Slave Play rips apart history to shed new light on the nexus of race, gender, and sexuality in 21st-century America."Slave Play is the single most daring thing I've seen in a theater in a long time." - Wesley Morris, The New York Times"Uncomfortably funny and gruesom...

This scathing new comedy about small-town politics and real-world power, from the author of August: Osage County, exposes the ugliness behind some of our most closely-held American narratives while asking each of us what we would do to keep from becoming history's losers."Certain to be the single work of art that best represents, but will also survive, the Trump era." - Variety"Explosive... Deftly captures the tension of patriotic grandiosity ...

The disappearance of a young boy casts suspicion on his newly-hired au pair, as well as on the wealthy parents who have hired her. As the parents seek revenge upon one another, the young au pair is hatching a plot of her own. How a Boy Falls is a psychological thriller with a dark comic edge about the way in which past events can be weaponized to shape the present.

Bell and Roe live isolated lives in a postapocalyptic wasteland, Bell with her books and Roe with her guns. When they happen to meet, Bell shows Roe a game: take o your gas mask and see if you can breathe. Taste this plant and see if you survive. Do more than just not-die. When Bell brings vegetables from her garden to trade, she is trapped in Roe's shelter by a sudden acid rainstorm. A tenuous friendship develops, nurtured by Bell's endless s...

Finalist! 2019 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist! 2019 American Blues Theater Blue Ink Playwriting Award 72 miles. It's the distance between Tucson, Arizona and Nogales, Mexico - and the distance between deported immigrant Anita and her American-born husband and children. 72 Miles to Go... follows one family over a decade as they come of age, fall in love, ght in wars and ght for each other - against the backdrop of deportation, DACA and ...