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A New Yorker and a tourist from overseas meet on the Staten Island Ferry. The tourist wears a colorful scarf and has lots of questions. The New Yorker has a secret and only some of the answers. They meet again a year later, only this time the tourist is the one with the secret. Nineteen years later, the tourist’s daughter finds the New Yorker and gives him her mother’s scarf — and a pear.

Synopsis: Ira suddenly meets his grandma, Yetta, again after fifteen years and slowly begins
to realize he is on the threshold of the Other Side. Under Yetta’s questioning, Ira he begins to
unfold the story of the car accident that brought him there. In the meantime, two rescue
workers and Ira’s wife, Carla, oversee operations to get the car out of the ditch and Ira out of
the car. Though they cannot see and hear Ira and Yetta, Ira and Yetta can see and hear them,
eliciting discussion of some of Ira’s earthly challenges, including tensions with Carla.
Throughout, Ira is tempted by the glowing light, fantastic colors, and ethereal music, and
believes he has a choice whether to stay or go back. Yetta shows he has another think
coming.

Eloise has died of the measles, but Ava has a plan to bring her back to life and use her to increase American vaccination rates, thereby ensuring she will be accepted to every Ivy League school to which she applies. All she needs is the help of Hazel (whose great-great-great-whatever grandmother was a witch) and Parker (whom Eloise has been in love with since fifth grade, and without whom she refuses to participate in Ava’s plan).

(This isn’t part of the synopsis, but I wanted to mention that even though the play is 51 pages, it DOES run under your 45 min cap time. Most of the pages read faster than a minute/page. I am not trying to pull a fast one on you.)

Two actors play the eleven characters at the funeral of a woman who impacted all their lives.

Final Edition follows the last hours inside a small-town newsroom as four colleagues race a failing press to complete their final paper. Longtime bonds, unspoken tensions, and small-town rituals surface amid the controlled chaos of deadline. As the press makes its final run, they grapple with which stories will disappear when no one is there to record them. The result is a heartfelt look at legacy, community, and the people behind the headlines.

Final Edition follows the last hours inside a small-town newsroom as four colleagues race a failing press to complete their final paper. Longtime bonds, unspoken tensions, and small-town rituals surface amid the controlled chaos of deadline. As the press makes its final run, they grapple with which stories will disappear when no one is there to record them. The result is a heartfelt look at legacy, community, and the people behind the headlines.

Freddie and Chuck confront one of the greatest mysteries of the company coffee station: how can the boss brew wonderful coffee but never leave behind the pods? Driven by Freddie’s ambition and Chuck’s compassion for toy animals, they must enter the forbidden realm of boss’s office to search for the answers they seek. Once they go through that door there is no going back as they come to the attention of Blitzen, the all-seeing toy reindeer who holds the clue that can solve the riddle.

An upscale couple are surprised to find their house was broken into; they are more surprised to find that nothing was stolen; and they are most surprised when the burglars return with a message.

Dan awakens to a new reality where he has been chosen to restart the human race – by an entity wishing to learn how to love.

Three daughters of a witch who tempted Macbeth must decide how to carry on their mother’s legacy. What should they tell Prince Donalbain about their troubled vision of his future?

A real estate salesman, desperate to close the sale of a condo, finds himself trapped between a warring couple: a wealthy attractive trader who’s seeking a place he can stash his mistress and the attractive mistress who’s seeking a place she can stash equity for putting up with the trader.

Lawyer Roger Ellis comes to Mrs. Mendelson’s door with a document demanding
she stop contacting her husband Julius.
Imagine Roger’s surprise when he learns Julius is dead.

Roger knows Mrs. Mendelson can’t be in contact with the dead.
Then why, each time he returns with another legal document, does she know more and more
about his childhood?

Five people on a coastal walk arrive at a cliff top. Jack is just looking for some peace and quiet on his day off, and doesn’t appreciate the presence of irritating strangers. Janice took a wrong turn and is lost, whilst Susie and Amy are trying to ignore the looming difficulties in their lives. But who is the mysterious Grim, and how does he know so much about them? As the fog descends, revelations are shared and bargains are struck, but can any of them affect the inevitable conclusion?

On a winter night in northern Minnesota, Callie and Gabe staff a small-town helpline together for the first time. Callie is steady and experienced, while Gabe is nervous and trying hard to make a good start. Their conversations with callers drift from practical to unexpectedly personal, uncovering small truths the two volunteers have kept tucked away. As the night sky outside begins to glow with the Northern Lights, Callie and Gabe discover moments of understanding and connection that reshape the way they see themselves and their work.

With Shakespeare’s bloody new tragedy Macbeth reeking of flop sweat in rehearsals, the playwright happens upon on a coven of Witches. Will steals the Witches’ incantations to zhuzh up the play. The Wayward Sisters unleash chaos and curse his wretched play for eternity: Curs’d be Macbeth.

SYNOPSIS: Ten days after the death of her husband Maggie has an unexpected visitor, her husband’s first love. The couple had a complicated, heartbreaking history and Maggie’s daughter Lise, slightly neurodivergent, is intrigued by the story she’s never heard. Sis, the visitor, wants a relationship with the young woman, but Maggie is adamant the option is not healthy. The power of history, then healing, for the three women unfolds.

A dark comedy. In an all-too-possible near future, prison over-crowding is eased by turning prisoners into domestic slaves for civil servants….Em and Max trial this scheme, bringing a gentle political cartoonist into their tense and unhappy home. PLAN B won the Scottish Society Of Playwrights 50@50 Stromness Plays Prize in 2024 and has since been staged at TUBUFest Texas.

Red Comet follows GRAY, a logic-driven high school senior rebuilding a 1971 Ford Mercury Comet to stay connected to his late father, and ROSE, his artistic, emotionally guided best friend. As graduation nears, their once-stable friendship strains under jealousy, missed moments, and the fear of being left behind. The Comet becomes a rolling symbol of their shared memories, unspoken feelings, and opposing ways of seeing the world. When ROSE reveals she may be moving across the world after graduation, both are forced to confront what they truly mean to each other. Red Comet explores whether friendship—and love—can survive change, or if some risks must finally be taken before time runs out.

In the play, A 40-year-old man and a 17-year-old girl document their illicit relationship, going back and forth between a police department three years ago and a psychiatrist’s office in the present day.

As Nicholas sits in his living room, lamenting the writing and submission of his “worst poem ever” and promising to himself that he would never ever write poetry, Corstreil arrives. She claims to be a higher spirit and thinks Nicholas is not a human, but Sepi, her Excavate (a spirit out of a deceased human) boyfriend, whom Corstreil has been searching for all eternity. Corstreil wants to drag Sepi out of Nicholas’s human body and
get married to him, even if it means killing Nicholas’s human self! Nicholas must reveal his deepest human nature to prove that he is indeed Nicholas, a human, and not a spirit hiding in and using his body.

Two long-time friends in a hospital waiting room use humour and old Cosmopolitan magazines to distract from their fear as they await the results of a breast biopsy. Beneath the jokes , anxieties about aging, marriage, illness and loss surface. Ultimately the play affirms the resilience and life-saving power of female friendship.

SUICIDE BLONDES is an existential comedy-drama about the afterlife. It is inspired by NO EXIT by Sartre as well as STEAMBATH by Bruce Jay Friedman. There are 6 characters (5 female and 1 male voiceover). All five of the female characters are blonde celebrities who have taken their own lives and are in limbo, awaiting a final judgment.

CHARACTERS:

HELEN is in her thirties, attractive. Tough at times and yet vulnerable at times.
JAKE is in his mid-forties – looks like he lived a hard life.
He too is tough at times, yet sensitive at times.
SHERIFF is in his in his thirties to fifties, all business.
ELAINE is a shrew, not nice at all,in her fifties.

SYNOPSIS:

Helen is alone in a cabin in the middle of nowhere. A strange man, Jake, enters her cabin and refuses to leave. An announcement on the radio states that an escaped convict is on the loose. She tries to get rid of Jake who refuses to leave. She finally gets the upper hand on Jake and hides as the Sheriff comes to door, followed by Jake’s wife, Elaine. It turns out there is no escape.

In Maybe Tomorrow, middle-aged college literature professors Michael and Ellen are friends and colleagues. Michael, a widower, invites Ellen, who has never married, to a family get-together, concerned that she not be alone for the July Fourth holiday. The play begins with Ellen sitting on a bench in the woods in the early evening and reading an email from Phil, whom she has been “dating” and who communicates that he has eloped with his doctoral candidate Kerri while on an archaeological dig in Montana. Ellen does not know that Michael knows that Phil has gotten married. Ellen tries to hide her feelings of being upset from Michael. Michael reveals that his marriage to his late wife, Janet, was stressful and unhappy. Ellen asks Michael why it seems that she always is attracted to men who are afraid of making a commitment, and Michael responds that perhaps it’s because Ellen is unafraid to make a commitment herself. Ellen becomes angry with Michael, and he reveals that he is in love with her, taking her completely by surprise. They both reveal that they have long felt an attraction to each other, but were afraid to reveal their feelings because Michael was married. After some banter, they both tell each other how much they are attracted to each other. Michael asks Ellen if he can kiss her; their first kiss is awkward, but they kiss again and the intensity and depth of their feelings are revealed. Michael asks if he can kiss her again, and she responds, “Maybe tomorrow.” The play closes with Michael and Ellen watching the fireworks.

Jerusalem 40AD. MEMORY is a slave with a mental condition resembling hyperthymia (total recall of all life events and conversations). Memory is owned by JUNIA, the wife of a Roman aristocrat and sister to SAUL. JUNIA wants to be known as an historian and is attempting to write a history of Jewish cults such as Nazarites and Baptists (Dippers). JUNIA sends MEMORY to interview the surviving followers. SAUL attempts to steal her work to aid his persecutions.

In a struggling small town desperate for a miracle, eccentric Professor Winslow unveils a shocking discovery—the last living Quimbly, a rare and completely invisible creature that could put their town on the map. As skepticism turns to hysteria, belief becomes unstoppable, leading to bizarre rituals, mass chaos, and one mayor’s desperate attempt to stop the madness before it’s too late. But in a world where perception is reality, does it even matter if the Quimbly is real?

A couple lost in the mountains struggle to
survive together, while each in their own reality

A Play about star crossed lovers set in modern
time. Romeo (the son of lesbians) and Jules (the child of
Evangelical Christians) meet in geometry class. Afterwards,
Jules shares his secret. Her legal name is Juliet, and his
mother does not know he’s a boy. They fall in love quickly,
giving Jules the courage to tell his mother the truth. It goes
horribly wrong, and Jules prepares to commit suicide, but Romeo
comes to his rescue.

Synopsis: Katelyn is a young woman who has to struggle through one day of being without her cell phone. She navigates the day without a phone while taking the train and dealing with work issues at the office. The absence of her phone is making her miserable until there is an unexpected meeting with a stranger on the train ride at the end of the day. 

: Marcus is a professional writer going through a severe writer’s block. He tries everything to get the juices flowing but no go. Then he is visited by three of his characters that he created. Each character has come to convince Marcus to pick up their story and it will break his writer’s block. First, not sure how to take this surprise he panics and has to be calmed down. After a while with his characters they help him break his writer’s block.

Today, Tom Thomson’s paintings sell for millions of dollars, but his mysterious death on a sunny day on Canoe Lake on July 7th, 1917, remains unsolved. Was his death an accident? Murder? Suicide? In the last week of his life, Thomson learns that his lover, Winnie Trainor is pregnant, is offered his first solo exhibition, and struggles to collect a loan.

A couple struggles to understand why they’re stuck.

Alex, a bail bondsman from Las Vegas, is taking Tony, a mob accountant, across country to his new life and identity under witness protection. They spend the night on the side of the road in the middle of the New Mexico desert among the dangers of the desert life, and learn some interesting truths about themselves and each other.

In the first scene, Charlotte and the heartbroken, tipsy Katie talk on a rainbow-painted bench about Richard leaving Katie at the altar, revealing Charlotte is bisexual before antisemitic strangers vandalize the bench and Katie finds brief comfort with another man.
In the second scene, the bench bears football team colors as Richard is rejected by his ex Margareth, told to do better, and quickly moves on to someone new.
In the third and fourth scenes, the bench becomes split in color as Charlotte clashes with a hungover football fan, Katie and Charlotte are driven away, and Richard later pretends not to recognize Katie while admitting he wanted Charlotte.
In the fifth scene, beneath a large STOP LGBTQIA sign, Charlotte and the football fan confront each other again, ending in a violent assault enabled by Richard.
In the final scene, Katie wakes on the colorful bench to learn it was all a drunken dream—until the football fan reappears and begins repainting the bench once more.

A successful playwright and his estranged actress ex-wife, both struggling with creative block and fear of failure, bicker and clash as they try to overcome their challenges in this witty, sophisticated comedy.

Ornah and Cal are sharing an easy camaraderie in the trenches of early parenthood when a television report on a rape that took place ten years before in the basement of a college dorm intrudes into their evening.Their conversation and interactions until just before their very last exchange of dialogue, sometimes directed to the audience, are played with a vaudevillian comedic energy that belies the serious nature of what is happening between them, fueled by a manic level of exhaustion and a growing unease about how well they know each other. They are highly physical, with outsized gestures, affectionate, with a sexual push and pull and sexual and at times a tension that expresses a dangerous edge between them.

The Cafe on Main is a love letter to community and love. Two couples. one young and one older, explore love in a magical cafe run by a world wise proprietor who has seen it all unfold at one table over the years.

In Police Procedural, Jaworski, possibly a Chicago cop (though this becomes less and less likely
as the play unfolds), arrives at the scene of what he assumes to be a homicide, only to find
nothing under the sheet that usually conceals a body. Concerned that there’s been foul play,
Jaworski frantically tries to prove that something, anything happened. And yet more and
more, as Jaworski accumulates a complete lack of evidence, as witnesses really and truly
prove they’re as clueless as the detective, it seems as if the thing that never happens finally
did: nothing. A parody of police procedural movies and TV shows (especially Law & Order),
Police Procedural explores what happens when we come face to face with the abyss.

In the aftermath of The Calamities, a tiny remnant of survivors takes refuge in the ruins of an old convent. Their mission: to restore the Mother Tongue to pristine purity and perpetuate the writings of three 19th century writers: Mary Shelley, Mary Seacole, and Mary Antin — known hereafter as The Marys, a matriarchal Trinity with the wisdom to re-make a ravaged world. When a lone scrounger plants herself on the convent’s doorstep, the survivors’ rigid beliefs and way of life are thrown into chaos.

Sam Rice made a spectacular catch in the 1925 World Series. Or did he? Some insist that he actually dropped the ball and it should have been ruled a homerun. Years later, after Sam has been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, a reporter tries to uncover the truth behind that controversial play.

“Rice, Sam” will have its debut performance at the Little Theatre of Alexandria in Alexandira, Virginia, in January of 2026.

Old wounds resurface as formerly best friends, Caleb, (white), Shaquille (black) reunite in their home town. Shaquille left town five years earlier for college and to find himself. Caleb stayed in town, married, and lives in a trailer. Shaquille’s return forces the two young men to confront their past and present feelings for each other.

The night before he is to leave for the Continental Congress in 1774, Massachusetts revolutionary leader Joseph Hawley is visited by fear, doubt, and the ghost of his cousin, the fire-and-brimstone Puritan minister, Jonathan Edwards. Together, they will determine whether Hawley is to become a Founder of the nation … or but a footnote to history.

Dancing In The Library is a gay romcom celebrating queer joy in the context of family and social acceptance. Greg and Jeff are university lecturers who meet during a night out, and then run into each other a few days later on campus. Their relationship is seen through the eyes of neighbors and family who want nothing more than the best for them.

A multi-decade spanning drama, “Her Love, Endures” follows two friends, from their meeting in high school, throughout the rest of their lives. Weddings, births, and deaths… all the moments that form a life. It is a celebration of friendship.

In the mountains of Northeast Georgia in August 1941, two young moonshiners aim to race their way out of poverty by winning the 1941 National Stock Car Championship, but first they have one more rum run to make. Roy (Rapid Roy) Hall and Lloyd (Lightning Lloyd) Seay plan to drive their souped-up Ford V8 full of moonshine to the Blue Lantern in Atlanta, unload, and get back home so they can race at Lakewood Speedway the next day. On most nights, this is business as usual, but tonight is different. If they get caught tonight, they are headed for the Old Dawson County Jail, and it will be a black flag on their aim to drive in the National Stock Car Championship. As Lloyd and Roy make their delivery run, they are challenged by car issues, tax revenuers, and their own demons.

A contemporary comedy about a couple in their late twenties who decide to spice things up by venturing into a sex club—because what could possibly go wrong? With equal parts curiosity and awkwardness, they dive into a night of surprises, jealousy, and love. As they navigate their way through new desires and unexpected conversations, they’ll discover if their relationship is ready to handle a whole new level of honesty.

In a major city, surrounded by millions just like him, a resident suffers an identity crisis and begins to question his place in the universe, or at least the city. As he begins to fear he’ll always be another face in the crowd, a friend shows him not only is he unique, but others depend on him to be unique. A play about Cheetos, learning to walk, and realizing that if you feel you don’t have hope, it might be because you ARE hope.

(I wrote the wrong title, and I don’t see a way to go back. This is “A Dying Business.) Marie needs a way to keep her bed and breakfast running. Dana is desperate for any sort of work as a medium. The two conspire together to create a business that won’t die, even if some of the guests might already be dead…

The Big Sneeze (or Much Achoo About Nothing) is a romantic comedy that attempts to answer the question: Can a fractured rib mend a broken heart? A backstage romance between assistant stage manager Pam and Touchstone, played by Larry, seems to be brewing. But Larry is nervous, and a backstage sneeze only makes matters worse. A disastrous pickleball match, a wedding toast gone awry, and two visits to the hospital are all that stand in the way of true love.

After defeating Prussia, Napoleon is imposing a harsh treaty that will halve the size of the kingdom. Queen Louise must exert all her charm to plead for clemency.

On Bobby’s thirtieth birthday, he discovers that his best friend and sister’s fiancé has had a one￾night stand. He’s not happy about that.

Three curious friends uncover a hidden switch that sets off a chain of unexpected consequences, forcing them to question trust, responsibility, and the impact of small choices. As the mystery deepens, they must work together to put things right before events spiral out of control. Blending suspense, humour, and heart, the play explores friendship, problem-solving, and moral decision-making through a fast-paced, accessible story for young performers.

Blue Moon Rising is a tense claustrophobic two-hander. A young woman confronts an older man. One of them is a killer. Who will win?

Cast: Male 50s, Female 30s.
Setting: A normal living room.
Props: A shovel, some secateurs, a bunch of roses.

In January 1967, writer/participatory journalist George Plimpton dreamed up a publicity stunt for heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali. He arranged for him to meet Marianne Moore, decorated American poetess – a showman who creates doggerel rhymes, together with one of the finest true poets in the history of the English language. The pair couldn’t be more opposite – He a gigantic, athletic man of color, at his physical peak, age 25, not formally educated, a Muslim, loud, charismatic, a showman with the burgeoning edge for social causes and advocacy; She, elderly, age 80, pasty white, doggedly Presbyterian, incredibly well educated, shy, frail and a kind of dowager spinster. Ali’s poems, so called, which predicted his fights, were little more than expanded limericks. Moore’s balletic verses and images won her the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal in Literature and almost the Nobel Prize. Their host that day, Toots Shor, was a rough New York man of Jewish descent, who rubbed elbows, hosted, drank with, and incurred the wrath of entertainment giants of the first two-thirds of the 20th Century: Frank Sinatra, Charlie Chaplin, Ernest Hemingway, Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe, etc. The meeting only lasted a few minutes and produced a short poem, “On the annihilation of Ernie Terrell,” Ali’s next title foe. The playwright has expanded the meeting in a deeper way, as a one-act play, using snippets of Moore’s poetry to frame the time, Ali’s immediate and lasting appeal through his pithy quotes uttered over two decades, and foreshadowing his thoughtful future self.

Josephine Rogers Ward is the rightful heir of the Ward family fortune — or is she? Her cousin Hutch claims that since Jo transitioned to female, the estate, historically entailed to a male heir, is actually his. Thus, Jo is confronted with the prospect of denying who she is in order to claim the birthright.

Caught up in the conflict are Jo’s fiancé, Carl Elsner and Hutch’s live-in girlfriend, Amy Fayerweather, who must bring Jo and Hutch to a compromise of mutual self-interest or see the possible dissolution of the Ward family estate at the hands of the Court.

Time To Go takes place in a futuristic retirement community called Presidential City, exploring themes of aging, community, and the concept of life and death within an authoritarian environment. In this world, at age 50 everyone is required to enter a retirement community, a community they can’t ever leave.

Remi is a new resident exploring the facilities and runs into Gabe, gatekeeper of The Pool – a strong mixture of chemicals for when someone decides it is time to go. The characters share personal histories that reveal their struggles with loss, regret, and the search for meaning in their lives.

We watch several people “leave,” including Gabe, finally having found his replacement.

Two married gay men have a cat named Ariel, who’s been meowing too much lately. What is the cat saying, and how does its meowing relate to their complicity in terrible things happening overseas?

Yellow” – Synopsis
Natalie is a shy, average looking woman who has fallen deeply in love with her
extremely handsome and popular coworker, Roger. Understanding that he has no idea of
her feelings, she resolves to tell him, but loses courage in the process. Somehow Roger
gets the idea that Natalie is suffering from terminal cancer, a misinterpretation she does
nothing to correct.

Brief Synopsis: A young woman, Thelma, seems to be helping a man write a story. In the story, set in a park just outside an amusement park, Thelma encounters three different men [each played by the same actor] In the play she struggles to create a future for herself.

Note: This play has not been produced.

Enticed to take human form under the guise of a masquerade, Father Time is captivated by a beautiful young woman who leads him into a trap set by the world’s foremost time researcher. Intent on making him pay for the grief he causes, the researcher unveils her revolutionary method for neutralizing him — a method with consequences as yet unfathomed. For his sake, and perhaps that of all humanity, Father Time struggles to escape.

A lonely businessman encounters a misshapen man during his daily walks to the train station, and discovers the true meaning of beauty.

TJ has stolen Mrs. Ferria’s landscaping stones to create a magical “Stonehenge” in the backyard to surprise Kendra. This “Stonehenge” is an apology for ruining their trip to the real Stonehenge. Mrs. Ferria just wants things to stay the same, in her yard and her life. But the stress of caring for an aging relative is getting to be too much for Jude. These “magic” stones will bring out truth, love and hopefully some understanding.

A tender portrait live on stage of two parents who love their adult child who is addicted to drugs after abusing substances for years to self-medicate his depression and attention deficit disorder. The story captures the herculean effort that families go through to try and save their children. The story is my story, compelled and inspired by its pain and is meant to raise awareness of the brain disease and promote understanding and compassion for the afflicted as well as their families.

Kate, a local resident with no political background or interest, is roped into being appointed Supervisor of a small township. The township has seen its share of political division and upheaval. It is Kate’s job to try and figure things out while learning the new role. Will she succeed? Does she have what it takes?

Medical advancement in the 19th century ushered in a new-found interest in detailed anatomy, but constrained by new laws, scientists are willing to pay a pretty penny for fresh bodies–no questions asked. A pair of amateur body snatchers, Fitz and Hatt, attempt to capitalize on the opportunity in an old church cemetery in the middle of the night. “The Resurrection Men” is a new macabre comedy asking if there’s a price to pay for progress, who gets the bill?

For 15 years, Sara has been known as “the pastor’s wife” at a small, conservative Lutheran church in middle-of-nowhere Iowa. It’s a role she’s wholeheartedly embraced–until tonight. Because tonight, her 15-year-old son has just come out to her. Sara now must wrestle with what she’s been taught vs. what she actually believes. Angry, anxious, and armed with a bottle of red and a well-loved Bible, Sara speed dials the one person she’s been taught to go to in times of trouble: God himself.

Set in The Rendezvous Room, a cozy vintage cocktail bar, a Host kicks things off by recruiting audience volunteers to populate the bar. Smooth talker Jake Tufts and his romantically intense best friend Toby Schiff collide with sardonic waitress Dian, while guilt-ridden Duke and no-nonsense cop Kitty stir the pot. Flirtations and misunderstandings snowball as the volunteers become onstage foils in the bar’s controlled chaos.
In the end, the audience decides whether Jake and Dian seal the night with a kiss — so last call belongs to the crowd.

William (Bill) Houlahan, District Court Judge, Greene County, TN, has built a national reputation for implementing an innovative Addiction Recovery program for drug felons. There are allegations of corruption in the program’s implementation. How will Judge Houlahan deal with these while maintaining order in his court?

After Tricia’s divorce, she decides to contact an old flame. She can’t help but wonder what if?

UNBRIDLED FEAR is a surreal, two-hander in which Ruby, a young bride who faints at the altar, awakens inside a circus tent clutching a frying pan and confronting her terror of commitment. Guided by Wankie, a world-weary clown with a philosopher’s soul, she retraces the moments that led her there and faces the panic beneath her joy. Through wit, absurdity, and unexpected tenderness, the circus becomes a metaphor for love’s risks and rewards. As Wankie reveals his own regrets, Ruby learns to reframe fear not as a warning, but as part of the leap itself. Reclaimed by courage, she returns to her wedding ready to choose love and say “I do.”

You’re invited to a lecture on the life and work of the screenwriter, Henry Frank. From humble beginnings, he became one of Hollywood’s most iconic screenwriters in the 1930s, until scandal and a disastrous failure plunged him into obscurity. From personal interviews, cinematic excerpts, and extensive research, learn what our lecturer has discovered about his illustrious and colorful career, his subsequent, secretive life on the backlots of cinematic history, and his legacy.

In 1923, Gustave Flaubert’s niece, Caroline, now in her seventies, hires Joulbert, a literary agent, to publish a diary written by her Uncle while he was traveling in Egypt. Fighting the pain of migraines with alcohol and medications, Caroline drifts into the past where she envisions Flaubert in the desert visited by his mistress, his mother, and the famous Egyptian courtesan, Kuchuik Hanem. Caroline also recalls Gustave’s sacrifice of her happiness for the sake of his writing, and reflects on the power she now has over his legacy.

It’s the annual post-Christmas meeting of the Local Chapter of Santa Claus Support, International, a support group for people playing Santa Claus during the Christmas season. But their newest member seems a little too familiar…

In the oppressive atmosphere of 18th-century Hagelstein, the impoverished DUCHESS plans to marry off her spirited daughter LADY CLAIRE to the wealthy but gross BARON von STRAUSS. The horrified Claire disguises herself as a man and escapes to the neighbouring land of Rofrania. PRINCE RUDOLF of Rofrania, despite his affair with the worldly COUNTESS OCTAVIA, wants to be loved as an ordinary man and hits the road disguised as a peddler. He meets Claire, thinking she’s a man, and they fall in love instantly. Gender-bending fun ensues and all ends happily for everyone.

A young and ambitious new university Theatre Department Chair moves into the legendary, but deceased, former Theatre Department Chair’s office, only to find out that the rumors are true. It’s haunted by the one and only… LEGEND, herself. And she is quite a force.

Violet and Harris used to share a room, but now they are separated. Violet yearns to understand why things have changed, but Harris, burdened with self-awareness, must maintain the boundary that separates them at all costs. When Violet starts a game of catch, it is not long before Harris cannot avoid answering her questions. Can he keep himself together without tearing what’s left of their bond apart?

Inspired by a true story. A grieving widow finds comfort in the voice of her late husband, whose iconic “mind the gap” announcement plays throughout the day at her London Underground station. When Transport for London upgrades the system and deletes it, she boldly takes on the bureaucratic authorities to restore it.

This short family friendly farcical comedy that uses direct address to mix the magic
of fairy tales with a modern aesthetic. Tiffany, a bubbleheaded Princess, awaits her true love
Prince Sean. Tiffany’s magical babysitter, the good witch Robin, together with the Prince’s valet,
Pete, help to create and then untangle a case of mistaken identity ultimately uniting the two
destined young lovers.

A woman and a man trapped together in a windowless room attempt to come to terms as to why they are in this room and what it means as they discuss their pasts and the “mythological” present that seems to surround them. And where is their unusual location? A mythological murder mystery.

Match.Commoner is a humorous play that takes place in a bar on Ladies Night, where King Henry VIII asks the bartender to help him find women. Or as he puts it, “I’m looking for a maid to wed, and maybe one more for to bed.” The bartender first suggests Mary Boleyn, and later, her sister, Anne. All the while, Catherine of Aragon, King Henry’s first wife, warns the women of the danger if they accept the King’s advances. The piece is written entirely in Dr. Seuss rhyme.

Two veteran actors wait on a set for filming to begin. They are eventually joined by a young woman, also waiting. As they wait, they converse about life, art, and the birds circling overhead.

When a stain unexpectedly appears on the eve of a swanky hotel’s re-opening, Alice is forced to question her life-long assumptions about what is–and what might be.

After a mysterious accident on the school playground, the doctors put Emma into an induced coma. Her parents, Brent and Amy, are desperately trying to make sense of the situation, as the red flags point more and more towards a conspiracy. Now they are being asked to sign legal papers agreeing to a hugely invasive brain operation on their nine year-old girl. It’s a huge decision to make, especially when they think they are being lied to.

Surviving the Narrative is a sharp, adult comedy that reimagines Little Red Riding Hood as a self-aware survival story. As Red navigates a hostile forest armed with sarcasm, improvised traps, and generational trauma, she repeatedly clashes with a charming, menacing Wolf who treats danger like performance art. The play blends physical comedy, meta-theatrical commentary, and modern anxiety as Red refuses to play the passive role the fairy tale expects. When she reaches Grandma’s cabin, the confrontation reveals long-standing compromises, strategic cookie bribes, and an exhausting cycle of survival. Ultimately, the story asks what it takes to stay alive -and sane – when you’re trapped inside a narrative that keeps trying to eat you.

Joan is an introvert artist who feels out of place on a corporate/partying Caribbean trip with Michael. She sits poolside, fishing drowned and half-drowned bugs out of the water. Michael agrees they’re different, but he makes the case that their relationship can work.

In a nation best by political unrest several decades before and now on the verge of it again, former activists, Lia and Dorin, are visited by their former comrade, Alf, when their son is arrested. During the play, Alf insinuates his way into the family as an honorary uncle.

The setting is April 1982, a young woman in Edwardian clothing is found floating unconscious in the North Atlantic with a boarding pass to the RMS Titanic. At a private clinic in Manhattan a psychiatrist recruits a Titanic survivor to disprove the belief that the young woman somehow survived 70 years in the ocean.

In the recreation room of the Shangri-la Senior Living
Community, two residents, BABE and SHEILA, bond over ping pong,
life after death…and Frank Sinatra. Part of the fun of this play
is that the game is played in pantomime, with the actors making
a clicking noise each time their “racket” makes contact with the
“ball.” In fact, there is no table, there are no rackets or
balls. But the women are indeed speaking and playing the game.

Is a second chance a lifeline when it doesn’t feel like your life anymore? Donna is a heart transplant patient with strange cravings and desires, and seems a stranger to her fiancé and herself. Zach, her donor, was a teenage boy who had barely even begun. A story about the struggle for self-acceptance and moving forward with the hand we’re dealt.

It’s hard to be the bard — especially when you’re not actually William Shakespeare, but instead his former mistress, who murdered him for stealing her plays and has assumed his identity as her revenge. Emilia “Lia” Lanier’s first day in Shakes’ shoes isn’t going quite as she expected.

Student Joe is suffering from drug addiction but can’t bring himself to tell anyone has bad it has got. Trying to cold turkey it out by himself, his sister Mia is worried by the change in her brother. From out of the blue, Joe’s great great grandfather war hero Sargent Elliot Cranmore appears with some kindly but firm advice for his descendant. Is Elliot real or is it Joe’s mind playing tricks on him.

“The Beautiful Lie” is a true story that dramatizes one of America’s earliest acts of non-violent resistance. Set in Hebron, Connecticut, in the uneasy years following the American Revolution, an enslaved couple stands on the brink of being sold out of the state. As the nation struggles to define its values, a community grapples with the conflict between morality and the institution of slavery. Can human decency prevail, even if a lie is necessary to achieve it?

Ending a stale relationship is easiest if a dramatic event, such as infidelity, spurs the process. But when a relationship has no such drama, then drama must be manufactured. Allison and Ben find it difficult to admit that their once-torrid love affair is at an end. When a shooting at the neighborhood school reveals their different worldviews, their friend Clark exploits the situation for his own purposes, and Allison and Ben progress inexorably toward the most conclusive way to end their relationship.

Cut Time is a new one-act play based on a real-life letter written from my 5th grade self to my graduating high school self. The play deals with navigating love, family, trauma, and writing—all while under a pressure cooker time limit of 30 minutes.

Three sisters cannot get along. A cataract surgery for their mother brings them together after some painful discoveries and a few laughs.

Caro’s building up courage to tell her sugar daddy she’s catching feelings before she catches the train back to the city after a lovely weekend together in his suburban home. Caro’s roommate/lifemate Dee is en route from campus to visit their dad. They’re both about to find out that Caro’s daddy is Dee’s dad. & he’ll be home any minute.

On an Alaskan Christmas Eve, 1899, three unlikely companions become lost in a snowstorm on the Valdez Glacier. They find shelter in a makeshift cabin, but can it protect them from themselves or from the ghosts calling to them out in the storm?

In her attempt to align the stars and to find her mother, Aubrey, 10 years old, discovers a “true friend” and fellow traveler, and, possibly the mechanics of a perfect “Flight Plan.”

A gay son comes out to his father…12 different ways! Winner of Showtime/Act One One-Act Play festival, 1994; published by Smith and Krauss

Please consider the play SUNDAY, a two-hander with a minimal set. Twenty-three-year-old Elias is two months out of the hospital after nearly dying from an eating disorder. As he attempts to build a relationship with Lara, a woman he met online, he must navigate his mother’s suffocating fear and his own deceptions about recovery, all while the simple act of eating remains a daily battle..

Members Only – On the verge of a breakthrough, Cove is welcomed into an ancient circle she never knew existed. But the bonds of sisterhood are only as strong as we make them, and every club has its rules.

A conservative Christian male dies and finds Egyptian theology is correct. His soul is on trial to either enter the kingdom of bliss or have it be devoured by the demon Ammit.

A doctor of the mind (intensely dedicated to her work yet uncertain she approves of all the uses to which it’s put) : a single session with a patient she is unusually close to in some unspecified manner. Much is mulled over, discoveries with breakthrough potential seem to arise and recede, as do bobbing and sinking hints and suggestions of divers kinds but is anything finally resolved? hmm . . .

Escape is about a forklift operator at a Factory in Long Island in the year 2030 who is trying to save her co-workers from the damages of a hurricane. The factory is about to close down and move, and the owners are concerned with the deadline for the moving schedule rather than the safety of their employees. She alerts the press and her local Congressman, and after her shift is over, returns and gets a plane to land on the island where her co-workers are stranded. Her daughter, a champion swimmer, drowned in the waters of her area, and the hurricane claims the life of her husband. It reveals how turning a blind eye and ear to the environment can destroy the environment.

In this playful comedy, four seasoned sisters are on safari in Botswana to “celebrate” their oldest sister’s divorce. Left alone in their jeep by their driver, and near sunset, these bright women know it’s dinnertime for the thousands of hungry game animals that surround them. How will they survive, who’s in charge, and can the smell of coffee grounds actually deter a ravenous pride of lions? Is it possible for these four sisters, sitting alone in the Kalahari Desert out of their comfort zones, find a way to work together and survive? And, how old is too old to start over?

Pocket Universe is a one-act dramedy set in a late-80s suburban basement filled with relics no one is ready to let go of. Casey, guarded and capable, returns to clear out their childhood home after their father’s death, joined by Riley, a funny and impulsive best friend whose help quickly becomes emotional excavation. When Casey’s sibling Morgan arrives with paperwork and long-buried truths, the clean-out exposes what the family hid during their mother’s long illness. Objects like a dad-joke-filled cootie catcher, a working flip phone, and hidden hospital mementos reveal years of quiet care and unfinished connection. In the end, Casey chooses to reach back instead of staying silent, leaving a message that reopens love rather than closing it away.

Kelly is trying to get pregnant with husband Roger, who is not interested. He is having an affair with Danielle, who is using Roger in order to get the property of Kelly’s mother, Estella, who is in the hospital. Roger tricks Estella into selling her property, pretending she is signing Power of Attorney forms for her daughters Kelly and Irene. Irene finds out the truth, confronts Roger, who also admits his affair with Danielle. Both Kelly and Danielle dump Roger–Estella doesn’t lose her house.

The afterlife home is an alternate dimension for dead classic writers like Elizabeth. Above it lives a present-day wordsmith, Fiery, who is having struggles with her artistic dreams. Upon discovering the trapdoor to the afterlife home, Fiery immediately becomes friends with Elizabeth as they learn from each other. Meanwhile, developer and businessman Crassus introduces Era to the modern world, an artificial intelligence programmed to be the next generation’s universal writer, with an aim to discard human creators. Afterlife Home depicts how AI, under our control, can affect not only our daily lives but also those that came before us.

Join Cloud McCloud as he embarks on his newest adventure to find the legendary Skyward Twilight, a magical talisman, in order to defeat the evil, no do-gooder Vapor Cirrus. Early in the game, long before Cloud can battle Vapor, our hero must travel through the town of Cumulous… This play has nothing to do with any of that. Instead, it is about two random nonplayer characters (NPCs) who happen to reside in Cumulous.

A grad student escapes his toxic family after his wealthy father, a convicted serial rapist, orchestrates his violent kidnapping.

A Happy Child is a dark, poetic monologue told from the perspective of a five-year-old boy whose parents have been executed. Over the course of a single day, he moves through his village, trying to understand events using the logic of childhood, where soldiers are “guests” and violence is just adult work. Searching for “his own people,” he encounters fear, silence, and destruction. Objects and rituals—candies on a Christmas tree, toys, a school planner—become his anchors as he carefully records the day. Through the child’s unprotected voice, the play reveals how war and state violence become normalized and how survival begins with misunderstanding.

MALLORY TALBOT and her chaotic family are visiting her grandmother’s grave when a freak lightning storm changes their lives forever, leaving only MALLORY to bargain with the cemetery’s manager, BEATRIX. In a darkly comedic exchange, MALLORY narrowly escapes a deal with the devil, embracing herself and her family along the way.

An experiment in rational behaviour with lives on the line, is it deal or no deal?
An experiment in rational behavior with lives on the line, is it deal or no deal? Professor Berger
and his Ph.D. student, Elise, are running an experiment utilizing The Ultimatum Game. Elise
interacts with the participants, while Berger records events through a two-way mirror. Tonight’s
participant is Brandon. Brandon doesn’t remember Elise, but Elise recognizes Brandon from a
traumatic, drunken hook-up years ago. Berger views their interaction as career-defining data,
whereas Elise is horrified her private life will be replayed for academic audiences. She attempts to
destroy the recordings. When Berger resorts to force, Elise fights back and wins the day.

Echoes of Blackness through Unbroken Lines is a one-person play tracing the physical pressures imposed on a political activist under authoritarian rule. Through confinement, interrogation, and enforced silence, the performance examines how fear is manufactured, language controlled, and resistance sustained. Rooted in Iran, the work speaks to persecuted voices worldwide.

In 1972, in a small salon at a chateau on the outskirts of Paris, three icons linger after a night
of excess following a masquerade ball: Baroness Marie-Hélène de Rothschild, the surrealist
Salvador Dalí, and a glittering, intoxicated Elizabeth Taylor. What begins as a playful
conversation, soon becomes an unmasking of confession and ego as they confront the cost of
artifice, celebrity, and mortality. Inspired by a true event, Unmasked at Dawn is a one-act
play about performance as survival, and the terror of silence when it ends, that feels
uncannily of our time.

Antonis, a 58-year-old actor, undergoes a psychiatric evaluation following a radical performance piece. In a solo monologue, he reenacts the symbolic “slaughter” of his director, blurring the line between confession, theatre, and identity. His narrative shifts between reality and role, trauma and performance. The play explores themes of power, psychological unraveling, and artistic defiance. It is a minimalist, emotionally charged piece for one actor.

WISHFUL THINKING, a comic mystery, explores one couple’s signs from the universe. Bill and Annette, a young couple in love, experience one weird coincidence after another. However, because neither Bill nor Annette can read the “signs,” they meet a tragic end, and we discover how the hereafter gives you exactly what you wish for, whether you really wanted it or not.

Three older, out-of-shape women and one younger, perky woman go to the gm to help out their friend getting rehab after an accident.