Past Performances

A darkly satirical comedy about a high-society dinner party that descends into chaos. Hostess Paige throws a lavish yet twisted celebration for her husband Lars, a modern-day philosopher, serving a grotesque meal designed to humiliate him and unsettle their pretentious guests. As the night unfolds, with topics like murder, truth, and suicide on the menu, civility breaks down and egos are ruthlessly skewered.

Young Anne and her family of four hide from Nazi army which occupies Amsterdam during the holocaust. Along with another family and a bachelor, the Franks take shelter with the aid of friends in a hidden attic, living in cramped quarters and constant fear. Based on the real-life diary of Anne Frank.

When talented young hopeful Ruby arrives in New York City with nothing but a pair of tap shoes in her suitcase, she is determined to break into show business. She stumbles into the cast of troubled show “Dames at Sea”, in which broke and pessimistic producer Hennesey is terrorized by Mona Kent, the aggressive, seductive, and surprisingly shady leading lady. Ruby seems to be in luck, as she makes a friend in clever chorus girl Joan, and falls in love with Dick, a singing sailor with songwriting ambitions, who just happens to be from her own hometown of Centerville, Utah. But things take a turn for the worse when Mona sets her sights — and her claws — on Dick, and Hennesey loses the theatre, which is promptly bulldozed out from under the cast and crew. Can Dick and his pal Lucky save the show by producing it on their battleship? Will the reluctant Captain be persuaded by Mona Kent, who just happens to be his tropical fling from long ago? Will Ruby go out there a chorus girl, but come back a star?

This light hearted 50’s comedy is about what happens when a witch in New York makes a lover of a very conventional man and then has to face the consequences when she really falls in love with him. Gillian Holroyd becomes interested in her upstairs neighbor and tenant and hexes him into falling in love with her. Shep Henderson, her quarry, is mystified, delighted and completely unaware that other worldly forces are at work. Despite the oddness of Gillian’s aunt and brother, themselves an endearingly addled old witch and a fun-loving warlock, Shep is oblivious. He only knows that his life changed when he crossed over Gillian’s threshold. When she realizes that she is falling in love herself, Gillian faces a dilemma: she will lose her considerable powers if she acts on her feelings. Will love prevail?

Shanghai, 1931. Lady Sylvia Allington is the beautiful, young American-born wife of an aged British diplomat. She and her husband travel to Shanghai to persuade a notorious Chinese warlord, General Gong Fei, to donate a priceless antique jade bust to the British Museum. Lady Sylvia, a former carnival cooch dancer from Chicago, falls headlong into a fatal love affair with the mysterious Gong Fei, getting hooked on opium and antagonizing the general’s chief adviser, the elderly Doctor Wu, and his enigmatic mistress, Mah Li. A scandal involving a local bordello madame, Mrs. Carroll, and a cockney drug runner named Pug Talbot leads to tragedy.

The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s comes to life in the three-time Tony award-winning musical revue, Ain’t Misbehavin’. Join five performers on a journey through the timeless music of Thomas “Fats” Waller. You’ll be jumpin’ and jivin’ with memorable songs such as “Honeysuckle Rose”, “Ain’t Misbehavin’”, “Black and Blue”, “This Joint is Jumpin’ ” and “I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling.”

Prudence and Bruce are two Manhattanites looking for love, stability, and sanity. On the advice of his therapist, Bruce places a personal ad in the newspaper; on the advice of her therapist, Prudence answers it. At first, it seems as though the two couldn’t be less suited to each other: Prudence is a perfectionist, cautious and closed off from the world, while Bruce, who lives with his jealous lover, Bob, is emotional and spontaneous. But fate (and their therapists) continue to bring the two together. Much to their surprise, Prudence and Bruce find they might actually like each other. Can they survive neuroses, jealousy, and their crazy therapists?

As Bill anxiously waits for his unfaithful wife and his furniture, he is visited by Jack, a divorced neighbor who suggests the loneliness of life after marriage. At first Jack appears to be a sitcom character—intrusive, needy, boorish—but gradually Bill’s perception of his new “friend” deepens. While it’s true that Jack managed to lose his wife’s trust and his children’s love, Bill discovers that Jack is wrestling with circumstances that would challenge the best of us. A funny and wistful exploration of love, loss, masculinity, and the needs that bring people together and drive them apart.

A freewheeling satire of patriotic 1940’s thrillers like Notorious and Escape, The Lady in Question tells the suspenseful tale of Gertrude Garnet, the most glamorous concert pianist on the international stage. When Gertrude tours Bavaria in 1940, a handsome American professor challenges her colossal self-absorption by engaging her aid in rescuing his mother from a Nazi prison.

A fresh and dynamic new musical based on the story of Turandot, jam-packed with some of the greatest arias from other operas… only this time they are set to a beat that will keep you rockin’.

Late at night, shoeless, in the rain, a film actor playing he poet Yeats turns up drunk at his appointed Sligo digs He is met by the grandmother and they dance together to ‘Lili Marlene’ In the morning they are discovered, sharing a blanket, by Patrick and his three daughters Patrick craves tobacco, whiskey and a date with the local barmaid; the sisters yearn for sensation and escape.

Cecily, Reggie and Wilfred reside in a home for retired opera singers in Kent, England. Each year, on the tenth of October, there is a concert to celebrate Verdi’s birthday. Jean, who used to be married to Reggie, arrives at the home and disrupts their equilibrium. She still acts like a diva and refuses to sing. But the show must go on in this funny and poignant play.

Malibu, California. The present. One hundred and twenty years after his death, Charles Darwin is hanging out in a beach house overlooking the Pacific with a girl young enough to be his daughter. His peace is rudely disturbed when his old friend Thomas Huxley washes up on the beach closely followed by the Bishop of Oxford. And Darwin suddenly finds himself entangled in an enthralling and thought-provoking comedy about God, science and plastic surgery.

Set in the last year or so of Kahlo’s life; she is in a body cast and attended by a nurse, Rosita. She has a painting in the Louvre, Kahlo reminds Rosita, and Diego does not, yet she is known mostly as Diego’s wife. In her 1954 obituary in The New York Time, the second paragraph begins, “She also was a painter.”

After witnessing the murder of his mother’s lover by his father, Tommy is traumatized into a catatonic state. As young Tommy floats through life in post World War II England, he suffers abuse from sadistic relatives and neighbors. In his adolescence, Tommy discovers a talent for playing pinball and is catapulted into stardom. When his mother, Mrs. Walker is finally able to break his catatonic state, Tommy is transformed into an international pinball superstar, inspiring youth around the world. The Who’s Tommy is a 5-time Tony Award-winning musical.

When Michael, a student with literary ambitions, brings his new girlfriend Anita back to the North London family home he shares with his younger brother Jason, a love triangle is formed which, over the next twenty years, will have an incalculable impact on each of their lives. One of Simon Gray’s finest plays, Japes is a unique depiction of love and brotherhood.

As told by a traveling troupe of actors led by the cunning and charming Leading Player, Pippin is the story of a young prince, heir to the throne, who is searching for his own “corner of the sky.” Pippin returns from university certain that he will find a fulfilling purpose in life. As encouraged by the Leading Player, Pippin dabbles in bloody battle, licentious and lusty sexual entanglements, and savvy political maneuvers, only to discover that true happiness is more complicated than he thought.

The ultimate game of cat and mouse is played out in a cozy English country house owned by celebrated mystery writer, Andrew Wyke. Invited guest Milo Tindle, a young rival who shares Wyke’s love for games, declares his intention to run off with Wyke’s wife. The two men devise an elaborate revenge/power game; through their style and cunning, the stakes continue to rise, leading to the play’s inexorable, heart-stopping finish.

A seven-year itch induced largely by a writer’s block infects playwright Gaylord Esterbrook. In the presence, if not precisely the arms, of “the other woman,” Amanda, Gaylord’s writing problem seems dispelled. Moreover, instead of permitting him to write trivial comedies, where he displays unquestioned mastery, Amanda inspires Gaylord to write a profound drama. “Rot,” thinks actress-wife Linda Esterbrook, somewhat out of practical concern as she awaits the fourth of her husband’s comedies as her next triumphant vehicle. (Her tolerance had already forgiven him his assumed infidelity.) Better to write successful trivial comedies than shallow tragedies. Why not a comedy based on their own romantic triangle at a time when the world is precariously perched on total chaos, and her husband, masking his need for “experience” with a kind of altruism, wants to run off to join the Spanish insurgents? What better time for comedy than a period when “The more inhuman the rest of the world the more human we. The grosser and more cruel the others, the more scrupulous, the more fastidious, the more precisely just and delicate we.” Her justification? “One should keep in one’s own mind a little clearing in the jungle of life. One must laugh.” Gaylord recognizes the wisdom of his wife’s reasoning and prepares to write his latest comedy based on his experience with Amanda.

Jacqueline is a young Parisian cabaret singer; Andrew is an American in his 50s, both of them recovering from recent ruined love relationships. When they meet at a Paris cafe and then, without quite meaning to, spend the day wandering through the city together, they speak of all the reasons why they shouldn’t fall in love. And so: they do.

An island of storytellers come together to tell a story of love, bravery, and strength…the story of the peasant girl, Ti Moune. An orphan, chosen by the Gods, is taken into a simple and loving family, Though content, she feels like she was destined for something more. After a terrible accident caused by a wicked storm, Ti Moune falls for a handsome, ailing, stranger whom she tries desperately to nurse back to health. She bargains with the Gods for his life, but to do so she must make the ultimate sacrifice. This sets our young peasant girl on the ultimate quest to answer the age old question, can love conquer death?

In October of 1928, the newly orphaned Patrick is sent from Chicago to live with his Auntie Mame in New York City. Only 10 years old, Patrick finds himself in the zany world of Mame Dennis, an eccentric socialite determined to live life to the fullest. From a progressive “clothing discouraged” school to mastering a perfect gin martini, Patrick soon adapts to Auntie Mame’s antics, much to the dismay of his trustee, Dwight Babcock, a humorless man dedicated to conservative principles – the opposite of what Auntie Mame represents. Patrick is taken away and the stock market crashes, leaving Mame scrambling to survive, whether as an actress, an operator, or a department store saleswoman. Throw in a Southern gentleman, an actress pretending to be English, and a sheltered secretary finally learning to live, and Auntie Mame’s world is anything but dull. Through all of her adventures, Mame’s true loyalty lies with Patrick, and his with her – and together, they remind everyone that “Life is a banquet, and most poor sons-of-bitches are starving to death!”

The co-authors, the composer and most of the cast of a comedy destined for Broadway are simultaneously trying to finish and rehearse the play while crossing the Atlantic on an ocean liner.

On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by a series of ghosts, starting with his old business partner, Jacob Marley. The three spirits which follow, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come, show Scrooge how his mean behaviour has affected those around him. At the end of the story he is relieved to discover that there is still time for him to change and we see him transformed into a generous and kind-hearted human being.

It’s Carnival time on the French Riviera, and the “perfect young ladies” of Madame Dubonnet’s Finishing School are all aflutter with excitement at the opportunity to dress in beautiful frocks, dance the Charleston, and acquire that most prized of possessions — a Boy Friend. Sweet young heiress Polly Browne, whose stern father forbids her to encourage men out of fear that they are after her money, is embarrassed to admit her lack of suitors to her friends, and must hide her shame by sending herself love notes. Enter Tony, a kind, romantic, handsome — messenger boy! It is love at first sight for the darling duo, and Polly, pretending to be Madame Dubonnet’s secretary, enjoys for the first time a romance of equals. Confusion arises when Polly’s father, Percival Browne, arrives in Nice, only to discover in Madame Dubonnet a former flame, and rich old Lord and Lady Brockhurst appear in pursuit of Tony, leading everyone to assume he must be a thief.

Two brothers, one woman, and the ways we change each other. An irreverent comedy filled with insights about love, life, death and the family ties that bind us together. Into the quiet, small town life of two brothers enters a grieving woman who is simultaneously trying to bury her Mama and ignite an old flame. Throughout events both uproariously funny and poignantly powerful, decisions are made that change the direction of the characters’ lives forever.

The Lover: The Lover is a quirky, tense, intriguing one-act by Harold Pinter that examines the private intricacies of modern marriage. To all outward appearances, Sarah and Richard are a respectable, conventional suburban couple. Behind closed doors, however, the couple enjoys a surprising and intriguing arrangement: every day, while Richard is at work, Sarah’s lover comes to the house. Richard, meanwhile, frequents a prostitute in the city. Yet, the two speak openly to one another of their extramarital affairs without jealousy, judgement, or anger. As we learn more about Sarah and Richard’s affairs, we see how a modern married couple has found an unconventional way to cope with extramarital temptation.

Bacchanalia: A happy but nervous couple waiting at a railroad station cafe in Salzburg for the arrival of the woman’s husband, Felix Staufner, a great playwright. They plan to tell him about their affair, like civilized people, then run away together, far away. But when Felix (Victor Slezak) arrives, things don’t go as planned.

Set in the clubhouse of the cathedral of baseball, this one-man play recreates the day in 1999 when Yogi Berra returned to Yankee stadium after a 14-year absence to throw the opening pitch – and shows why Yogi Berra is a national treasure and a New York icon.

The time is 1944, and the place is the ornate, deserted Victorian boathouse on the Talley property in Lebanon, MO. Matt Friedman, an accountant from St. Louis, has arrived to plead his love to Sally Talley, the susceptible but uncertain daughter of the family. Bookish, erudite, totally honest and delightfully funny, Sally rebuffs him, but Matt refuses to accept her rebuffs and fears that her family would never approve of their marriage. Charming and indomitable, he gradually overcomes her defenses, telling his innermost secrets to his loved one and in return, learning hers as well. Gradually he awakens Sally to the possibilities of a life together until, in the final, touching moments of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, it is clear that they are two kindred spirits who have truly found each other – two “lame ducks” who, in their union, will find a wholeness rare in human relationships.

In Victorian London amidst a series of theater-related murders. Theater critic Jonathan McCarthy is found dead, and chaos ensues with a missing police surgeon and more murders. Sherlock Holmes steps in to unravel the tangled web of crime filled with real-life literary figures.

Set at the house of writer Charles Condomine, and his wife, Ruth. One evening, Charles invites local eccentric medium, Madame Arcati, to hold a seance at his house. He asks along his friends, Dr. and Mrs. Bradman, intending to gather character inspiration from Madame Arcati for his latest book. Despite initially thinking the seance has been a failure, it soon becomes clear that Madame Arcati has unwittingly brought back Charles’ first wife, Elvira, to haunt him. Once in his house, Elvira is unable to leave and, as she cannot be seen or heard by Ruth, she causes all kinds of mischievous trouble between the married couple. When Elvira unwittingly causes Ruth’s death in her attempts to bring Charles over to be with her, Charles becomes haunted by both of his now-deceased wives. Frustrated by their odd situation, the threesome call on Madame Arcati once more to send Elvira and Ruth back to the other side.

Centered around Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, a small town representing all of human life in its simplicity and profoundness. The Pulitzer Prize-winning work has remained a classic for decades, unfolding in three acts, capturing ordinary moments that shape existence, and highlighting themes of life, love, and death. Through ordinary characters, the audience witnesses the beauty of everyday experiences.

A quartet of black women spanning four generations makes up this heartwarming dramatic comedy. The four, plus the white woman friend of the youngest, come together to celebrate the matriarch’s ninetieth birthday. It’s a wild party, one that is a lovable lunatic glance at the exhilarating challenge of growing old amidst the exasperating trials of growing up.

On a deserted stretch of beach a middle-aged couple, relaxing after a picnic lunch, talk idly about home, family and their life together. She sketches, he naps, and then, suddenly, they are joined by two sea creatures—lizards who have decided to leave the ocean depths and come ashore. Initial fear, and then suspicion of each other, are soon replaced by curiosity and, before long, the humans and the lizards (who speak admirable English) are engaged in a fascinating dialogue. The lizards, who are at a very advanced stage of evolution, are contemplating the terrifying, yet exciting, possibility of embarking on life out of the water; and the couple, for whom existence has grown flat and routine, holds the answers to their most urgent questions. These answers are given with warmth, humor and poetic eloquence, and with emotional and intellectual reverberations that will linger in the heart and mind long after the play has ended.

The story begins in Dartmoor, England at the stylish weekend retreat of the affluent Derek and Janet Taylor, and both adultery and murder are in the air. But we will soon learn that all is never as it seems in this electrifying game of trickery and misdirection. Who is the hunter and who the hunted… and precisely who is the title character of Accomplice?

The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical follows a young group of hippies fighting the establishment, dodging the drafts, getting high, living and loving in New York City. It’s 1967: the Vietnam War raging and the Age of Aquarius is dawning. Claude, his best friend Berger, their roommate Sheila, and their Tribe of friends struggle to balance the demands of the harsh and violent world with their dream for a more beautiful and peaceful world. When Claude receives his draft notice, he must decide whether to join his friends in resisting the draft, or bow to the pressures of society and his conservative parents, thereby sacrificing his ideals and, possibly, his life.

Johnny Checco perceives himself as a superstar of the screen whose soul belongs to the art of the stage in a spoof of America’s idea of royalty found in the entertainment industry.

A lawyer hires an actor to tutor him in recounting to family and friends a story that has long troubled him concerning events that transpired when he attended the funeral of an elderly recluse. There he caught sight of the woman in black, the mere mention of whom terrifies the locals, for she is a specter who haunts the neighborhood where her illegitimate child was accidentally killed. Anyone who sees her dies! The lawyer has invited some friends to watch as he and the actor recreate the events of that dark and stormy night.

Bored and restricted by her middle-class environment, Hedda plays out her own fantasies and psychological games with those nearest to her to an ultimately costly end. The play opens as Hedda and her academic husband, Georges Tesman, return from honeymoon and immediately it is clear that Hedda is neither happy nor satisfied in her new role as Tesman’s wife. She is, however, pregnant. Soon after their return, Hedda is reacquainted with an old school friend, Mrs. Elvsted, and the brilliant but wayward writer Eilert Loevborg. It becomes clear that Hedda has personal history with Loevborg and it is at this point that her machinations begin. Hedda finds pleasure in manipulating Loevborg into drinking again and thus ruining both his career and his relationship with Mrs. Elvsted. Ultimately she persuades the conflicted writer to take his own life. However, Hedda finds herself under the control of their imposing friend, Judge Brack, who makes it clear that he knows she gave Loevborg the gun.

A musical stage show about the life and music of rock and roll singer Janis Joplin, whose feelings are expressed through the use of Janis’s own words shared by three separate “Janises” who embody the masks the musician wore.

Grandpa Vanderhof and his wacky family, the Sycamores, have been happily living their zany lives in his house by Columbia University in New York for many years. This family (and their friends) are a madcap group of eccentrics, marching to the beat of their own drum, with pride and joy. Their hobbies include collecting snakes, building fireworks in the basement, writing a myriad of plays that never get published, and taking ballet lessons. Things like stress, jobs, and paying taxes to the government are for other people, not for them! But, when practical young Alice Sycamore becomes engaged to her company’s Vice President Tony Kirby, the Vanderhof/Sycamore clan must straighten up to meet the new in-laws. Disaster ensues when the Kirbys arrive at the wrong time and, despite the best laid plans, see Alice’s family in all of its crazy glory. The evening ends with everyone in the house getting arrested, and Alice ending the engagement. It isn’t until Grandpa’s wise speech to Mr. Kirby about the importance of living life to the fullest that the two families find a way to accept each other, and love conquers all.