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Rabbit Hole Becca and Howie are a happily married couple living a quiet life in Larchmont, N.Y., when a devastating tragedy -- the accidental death of their 4-year-old son -- throws them into emotional turmoil. Alternately sad and funny, Lindsay-Abaire's realistic drama follows the couple as they grieve -- in very different ways -- and struggle to reassemble their marriage and come to terms with unimaginable loss.
Black Comedy Struggling artist Brindsley Miller and his fiancée Carol are having a party with the aim of impressing Carol’s bombastic father, Colonel Melkett, and millionaire Georg Bamberger, who may buy some of Brindsley’s sculptures. They have borrowed (without permission) the furniture and effects of their fussy neighbor, Harold, to make the flat more presentable. Before the guests arrive the main fuse blows, plunging the flat into darkness; only we, the audience, can see what is happening. What follows is a frantic romp with unexpected visitors, mistaken identities, and surprises lurking in every dark corner! The result, as you might expect, is chaotic, disastrous – and very funny!
Bell, Book and Candle Gillian Holroyd is just your average, modern-day witch, living in a New York apartment with her cat, Pyewacket. Staid, secure publisher, Shepherd Henderson, leads a quiet life until he meets his bewitching downstairs neighbor and her eccentric Aunt Queenie. Enter Professor Sidney Redlitch who wants to write a book on the secret society of witches in the city with the help of Gillian’s mischievous warlock brother, Nicky. Gillian finds herself caught between the worlds of magic and mortals, juggling the antics of her aunt and brother as they continue to practice their craft. A caldron full of laughs and sweetness!
The Lion in Winter "Treachery, lechery, and traitorous behavior. What family doesn't have its ups and downs?" Using smartly written dialogue and comic repartee, this story concerns the interpersonal dynamics and political wrangling of King Henry; his wife Eleanor, whom he has kept imprisoned in a tower for the past ten years; and their three sons, who are vying for the privilege of being named heir to the English throne. Eleanor, who has been let out of prison to celebrate Christmas with her family, favors Richard as heir, while Henry favors John. To complicate matters, the young King Philip II of France has arrived to remind Henry of a treaty he signed many years earlier, promising to marry his heir to Philip’s sister Alais. However, Alais has been Henry’s mistress for the past seven years, and Henry is hesitant to marry her off to any of his sons. With themes exploring the dysfunctional family, political maneuvering, war and peace, as well as aging, death, inheritance, and posterity, the principle characters plot, scheme, conspire, and counter-plot between each other, with the deep-seated emotional ties between them getting played out in the political arena.
Ladies at the Alamo The setting is the lavish reception room of the new multi-million-dollar Alamo Theatre, a regional theatre complex that has grown from a small operation in a converted church to one of the glories of Texas culture. As the action begins, we learn that the leadership of Dede Cooper, founder and artistic director of the Alamo, is being challenged, and the Chairman of the Board, a lady of great wealth and lust for power, is scheming to replace Dede with a fading Hollywood star. As the hour of the decisive board meeting nears, Dede and her supporters maneuver to outflank the opposition, and as the crisis point is reached the verbal battles and shocking revelations build to fever pitch. In the end no one is left unscathed and the scars of battle will, it is clear, be long in healing. This biting, explosive and very funny play examines the behind-the-scenes intrigues and power struggles that beset a famous regional theatre and its long -time artistic director.
Drop
Dead A cast of has-been actors plan to revive their careers in Drop Dead!, a potboiler murder mystery directed by "Wonder Child of the Broadway Stage" Victor Le Pewe (a psychotic eye twitching megalomaniac). At the dress rehearsal the set falls, props break, and the producer and an actor are murdered. During the opening night performance, the murders continue. The remaining thespians must save the show and their careers, solve the mystery and stay alive for curtain calls.
Tea and Sympathy "This story of a forlorn boy at boarding school who is hazed by his classmates because he has played girls' parts in amateur theatricals and because he is very sensitive and played on Broadway for two years. The kidding turns to rumor and finally to persecution. The master of the house joins the boys in their abuse, and even his father cannot understand him. Determined to prove his manliness, the youth goes out for a night on the town with the village strumpet. this is his downfall for he sickens at the sight of the strumpet and runs all the way home. Word gets around quickly. Now he is no longer ridiculed; he is completely shunned. The master's beautiful, kind and understanding wife offers the only sympathy in the delicate final scene."
The Full Monty "In this Americanized version adapted from the 1997 British film of the same name, six unemployed Buffalo steelworkers, low on both cash and prospects, decide to present a strip act at a local club after seeing their wives' enthusiasm for a touring company of professionals. As they prepare for the show, working through their fears, self-consciousness, and anxieties, they overcome their inner demons and find strength in their camaraderie."
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