Autobahn
Nov 17, 2010
Neil LaBute's collection of one-act plays is set within the confines of the front seat. Each of these vignettes explore the ethos of perception and relationship – from a make-out session gone awry to a kidnapping thinly disguised as a road trip, a ...
The Dining Room
Oct 14, 2010
"The Dining Room," a play by the American playwright A. R. Gurney, Jr., is a comedy of manners, set in a single dining room where 18 scenes from different households overlap and intertwine. Each story is focused on a different family (during differ...
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Apr 01, 2010
In the musical adaptation of Charles Dickens's last, unfinished novel, the audience gets to decide who murdered the mysterious orphan Edwin Drood, with the musical presented in the style of a Victorian music hall. ...
Dido and Aeneas
Dec 11, 2009
This opera, in a prologue and three acts, was written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell. The story is based on Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid. It recounts the love of Dido, Queen of Carthage, for the Trojan hero Aeneas, and her despair when h...
The Country Club
Nov 12, 2009
The plot finds Soos, a young, witty and charmingly neurotic, who retreats from a failed marriage to her upper-class hometown. The type of WASP domain with the houses "that made Martha Stewart forget she was Polish", she says. As party after party unf...
The Rimers of Eldritch
Oct 14, 2009
Set in the mid-20th century in Eldritch, Missouri, a decaying Bible Belt town that once was a prosperous coal mining community, it focuses on the murder of the aging local hermit by a woman who mistakenly thought he was committing rape when he actual...
Little Shop of Horrors
Feb 26, 2009
Based on the 1960 Roger Corman movie, Little Shop of Horrors tells the story of Seymour Krelbourn, a meek florist who makes a Faustian pact with a tiny plant in order to win the girl he loves. ...
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Dec 13, 2008
A poor, crippled boy Amahl and his mother are dazzled by the three kings on the way to Bethlehem on the first Christmas Eve. Amahl's mother welcomes the royal sojourners who rest in the small, bare house where love and faith work miracles during the ...
Couples Counseling Killed Katie
Nov 13, 2008
When poet-songbird Katie Dove is murdered by her manager/husband, the lives of the people surrounding her are deeply affected by the tragedy. Set in a counselor's office and told through the personal accounts of seven different couples, Couples Couns...
A Doll's House
Oct 22, 2008
Written in 1879 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House is a three act play about a seemingly typical housewife who becomes disillusioned and dissatisfied with her condescending husband. ...
