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Charlie is happily surprised when his long absent daughter unexpectedly visits with joyful news of her pregnancy. However, as cracks begin to appear in her story and she is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, Charlie is forced to confront a family secret that he has, until now, refused to see.
While researching a book she’s doing on a well-known psychotherapist, now deceased, the writer makes a disturbing discovery about his relationship with a former patient.
Divine Providence follows the joy of hopeful transformation, the bleak horizon of loss, and how the two play and intertwine.
“We are two strangers who got married and created a third.” This is Cheryl Simon’s hopeless description of her family. Her 15-year old son Sebbie has been expelled from his private school and now spends his days locked away in his bedroom playing LAKE OF ETHOS, an online virtual reality game. Her aloof husband, Bruce, an investment banker is staging the biggest deal of his career. When Cheryl decides to leave the family and hole up in her dental office, she creates a vacuum that lures the three of them into the quest to reach ETHOS. What they find there will change their lives forever.
SINGLETON explores issues of family, memory and identity through the lenses of race and dementia. An estranged father, his half-forgotten son, and the lonely caregiver caught between them struggle to unravel a disappearing past and find meaning in an uncertain present.
When your world collapses, does your life end or begin?
Charlie is happily surprised when his long absent daughter unexpectedly visits with joyful news of her pregnancy. However, as cracks begin to appear in her story and she is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, Charlie is forced to confront a truth that, until now, he has refused to see. A Peregrine Falls is a play about a family on the brink of collapse and the stories they tell each other to try to stay together.
Two actors -- PETER TARMICHAEL, an older successful soap opera actor, and JOANNA BLITZ, a struggling young actor -- meet onstage at a regional theatre for the first read-through of The Unknown God, a new two-character play. He will be playing a priest teaching theology at a university; she will be playing the student with whom he becomes romantically, and tragically, involved. While rehearsing the play and in performance, Peter and Joanna develop a complicated off-stage relationship; they become mirrors of each other's hopes and regrets...past and future.
It’s another “Big Chill”, this time 30 years later as a gathering of friends in their 60’s, with a young millennial in their midst, experience an evening of strong emotions, unbridled joys and deep longings.
What these “aging hippies” have gone through in life brings about a multitude of revelations for themselves as well as their new young friend. Over the course of a long night each character accepts the “thorns” in their lives as they begin a journey toward the perfect way to age to perfection.
A poignant, and often humorous celebration of growing old and all the wonders and mysteries that go with it.
A young girl from Indiana in 1938 goes to Europe in search of adventure. She undergoes many adventures beginning with a shipboard romance on the way to France and ending seven years later with the fall of Berlin.
A serial killer who douses her targets with red wine, a math professor who falls in love online with a mysterious Russian opera singer, a Thanksgiving dinner done in by Donald Trump, and a world where falling is an unpardonable sin: it all happens in this evening of Ben Alexander's old and new one-act plays.
The true story of Rich's adventures in underground therapy, with MDMA (a.k.a. Ecstasy) and psilocybin mushrooms, inspired by cutting-edge experiments to help people heal from deep psychological wounds. A tale of one person's journey towards reconciliation with the soul, with a slight detour for an appendectomy. And maybe a few wise-ass comments along the way.
A veteran CIA station chief, forced into retirement after the murder of a defecting Russian spy, is visited by his successor a year later when revelations about a possible mole inside the Agency are revealed. With careers on the line and reputations to protect, what ensues is a cat and mouse tête-à-tête of intrigue and betrayal about who murdered the defector and why.
This reading will be held on the WorkShop Main Stage.
Charlie is happily surprised when his long absent daughter unexpectedly visits with joyful news of her pregnancy. However, as cracks begin to appear in her story and she is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, Charlie is forced to confront a family secret that he has, until now, refused to see. Charlie rushes to repair the relationship with his daughter before she vanishes again. A Peregrine Falls is a play about a family fighting to stay together.
When bisexual polyamorous Vanessa meets a charismatic stranger with a new view of life, her feminine and masculine sides become divided, and she must grapple with whether he's her soulmate or a Machiavellian puppeteer.
Four people participate in an experiment to perfect and enhance the human body with microscopic, robotic technology.
PLAYING DOCTOR is a trio of outrageously comedic one-acts set in a hospital, including the bawdy tale of a couple on their first date who become stuck together during a passionate moment, the bawdier tale of a lonely janitor who leaves his fly open during a nuclear accident and ends up with a three-foot penis, and a comic fantasia about a VERY pregnant woman who gives birth to her fears about childbirth and motherhood. Rated RF for Really Funny.
Hearts in the City, a play with music, considers how neighbors and friends, living like “eggs in a crate” in adjacent, rent-controlled apartments in a West Village walk up help each other through personal trials, discover a new kind of strength, a new definition of family, and a way to “be not afraid to love.”
A matriarchal story about 3 generations of women (grandmother, 2 adult daughters and 2 grand-daughters) attempting a reunion. “Same as a Singed Cat” is an old Maine saying referring to the cat who seeks warmth under the stove only to wake up singed from being too near the fire. Likewise, the women in this play attempt the warmth of closeness but experience combustion when their past is reignited.
When bisexual polyamorous Vanessa meets a charismatic stranger with a new view of life, her feminine and masculine sides become divided, and she must grapple with whether he's her soulmate or a Machiavellian puppeteer.
Overnight is an exploration of the impact on the friendship between two women--Lisa whose marriage is troubled and Barbara whose is grievously ill. What happens when the superficial gestures of support aren't enough. The play explores the unknown regions of a deeper companionship.
Adapted by Tony Sportiello
The year is 1888, the place is England, and the head of Birlstone Castle, John Douglas, is brutally murdered. The clues include a missing wedding ring, a hammer, a bloody footprint and a single dumbbell. So complex is the situation that Britain's leading consulting detective is called to investigate. Taken from the Sherlock Holmes novel, The Valley of Fear is a taut whodunit which will have audiences guessing until the end.
Time stops on disparate characters as we travel back and forth through tales of sexual equality, life and death, and the meaning of art in this cultural battleground of America.
Based on Jules Verne’s immortal adventure story, MICHAEL STROGOFF, Courier of the Tsar follows the newest member of the elite Imperial Courier Corps, young Michael Strogoff, as he races to Siberia’s remote capital Irkutsk to foil the assassination of the Tsar’s favorite brother. To accomplish his mission, he must maintain a disguise, brave Tartar invaders, and elude a ruthless Russian traitor... who happens to be a master of disguise himself.
A modern take on a brilliant cult film that's been neon animated by Jack Feldstein. Annemarie Hagenaars plays a contemporary woman of the #metoo era, taking over the role of the 1960's woman in the film and giving the female protagonist today's pro-active stance.
Curious what our show is about? CARNIVAL OF SOULS: THE NEON ANIMATION plus LIVE ACTION is captured perfectly in this interview http://bit.ly/2E3UVnQ
by Thornton Wilder
directed by Thomas Coté
Day in and day out, Grover’s Corners is Any Town, USA. Join us as the Stage Manager guides us through an elegant portrait of the remarkable joys and sorrows that define our lives.
honoring two time Tony Award winner and star of War Paint, Grey Gardens, 42nd Street, etc — Christine Ebersole
GO DOWN, MOSES tells the story of two old friends - and civil rights warriors - whose comfortable lives in academia are thrown into chaos by the arrival of a female student who embodies everything they fought for when they were young.
A SPECIAL FIVE NIGHT EVENT! THE 2018 FIFTEENTH ANNUAL WILL-A-THON: A 454TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH-BARD-STRAVAGANZA Conceived and Directed by CHARLES E. GERBER, consisting of two separate shows all at 7:00 p.m. in the Jewel Box
OBIE and DRAMA DESK AWARD WINNING as well as TONY AWARD NOMINATED, STEPHEN MCKINLEY HENDERSON to be Special Guest ofWILL'S PLAYSHOP MASTER CLASS
20 plays over 5 nights
19 Writers, 48 actors
written and performed by Rich Orloff
The true story of Rich's adventures in underground therapy using MDMA (a.k.a. Ecstasy) and psilocybin mushrooms, inspired by cutting-edge experiments to help people heal from deep psychological wounds.