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Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers
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Apr-20 2013
Close:
Jun-16 2013
This radically fresh retelling of the JM Barrie classic is a theatrical event not to be missed. Exploring the original ideas and inspirations behind this iconic fantasy, Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers is a dark new retelling of the story of the boy who wouldn’t grow up. This is Peter Pan as you have never seen it before but how it was always meant to be told. |
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Dr. Keeling's Curve
Open:
Sep-21 2012
Close:
Oct-14 2012
Walk into the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.; there you'll find Darwin's finches next to the double helix; and beside that, the Keeling Curve: a graph depicting the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide. Its' message proclaims the most basic fact of climate change: carbon dioxide levels have been climbing, and are continuing to rise at an extraordinary and accelerating pace. Mike Farrell plays Dr. Charles David Keeling in this all too real and often funny one man bio-play that... |
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Sukie and Sue: Their Story
Open:
Apr-21 2012
Close:
Jun-03 2012
Based on actual events, this is the story of two young nurses who have everything to live for: great boyfriends, jobs that actually help people and as much weed as they can smoke. That is until their Raggedy Ann doll becomes possessed and destroys their lives. This creepy yet hysterically funny story will have you laughing in the aisles and checking under your bed for demons with red yarn hair. |
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The Cost of the Erection
Open:
Feb-04 2012
Close:
Mar-18 2012
Wealthy Susu Ziegler has purchased an exclusive Manhattan raw space apartment overlooking the Hudson. She hopes to have her architect husband design this tricky space, but with their marriage virtually on the rocks, she forces him to compete against a younger, hotshot architect. This sexy, funny tale is told in a heightened theatrical style, compressing and playing with time and space and ultimately examines what makes marriages work. Or not work. |
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Dusk Rings a Bell
Open:
Oct-08 2011
Close:
Nov-13 2011
Molly and Ray spent a romantic summer afternoon together when they were teens, but went their separate ways; until they meet, by chance, 25 years later. Both begin to romanticize their reunion, but a renewed connection is disrupted when Ray reveals the sordid details of a crime that left him incarcerated for 10 years. Their encounter reveals two vastly different paths taken and two lonely souls attempting to reclaim a moment of possibility, when they were young and perhaps at their very best. |
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The Temperamentals
Open:
Apr-09 2011
Close:
May-22 2011
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“Temperamental” was code for “homosexual” in the early 1950s, part of a created language of secret words that gay men used to communicate. The Temperamentals tells the story of two men - the communist Harry Hay and the Viennese refugee and designer Rudi Gernreich - as they fall in love while building the first gay rights organization in the pre-Stonewall United States.
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Glitter Beach
Open:
Mar-28 2011
Close:
Mar-28 2011
Hot Surfers, Muscle Men, Mermaids, Sex Wax and Trannies. It’s all at Glitter Beach, Where Glam Began. |
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Waxworks
Open:
Dec-13 2010
Close:
Dec-13 2010
Written by Jeanne Drennan, Directed by Amanda Hallman
With his seventh novel, Izzie Parschak has become a celebrity, with his figure about to go into Poets’ Corner at the Waxworks. But wait. Is he being interviewed by a talk-show host or the secret police? Has he been put in a green room or a holding cell? Why is a youth organization called the Patriots demanding his prosecution under the Decency Statutes? A journey through a comically surreal landscape hiding very real consequences. |
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Dear Murderess?
Open:
Nov-15 2010
Close:
Nov-15 2010
Dear Murderess is a murder mystery about matricide, and madness in an 18th century madhouse. The story is based on real events in the world of those women who served Jane Austen's privileged families and the consequences of the actions of the men who controlled their lives. |
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Turning Night in the Dying House
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Nov-08 2010
Close:
Nov-08 2010
When an older, Pulitzer-Prize winning recluse receives an unexpected visit from a younger destitute writer with a mysterious manuscript and rare disorder, lessons in writing, life and mortality come back years later to haunt them both. |
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It's All About the Kids
Open:
Nov-01 2010
Close:
Nov-01 2010
"It's All About the Kids" is a humorous, biting social satire about suburban parents who live vicariously through their children. The play opens with a dead soccer coach impaled in the belly with a corner flag and through the eyes of one of the mother's, deconstructs the lives and events that lead to that fateful day. |
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No Word in Guyanese for Me
Open:
Oct-04 2010
Close:
Oct-04 2010
"No Word in Guyanese For Me" tells the journey of Ana, who is made to choose between her identity and the support and love of her family and her precious faith. |
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Terre Haute
Open:
Oct-02 2010
Close:
Nov-28 2010
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Did you know that Timothy McVeigh and Gore Vidal were pen pals? What would their conversations have been like if they had ever met in person? Famed fiction writer Edmund White, has imagined just that; four prison house conversations between the nation’s deadliest domestic terrorist and one of the world’s most famous and opinionated gadflies. The names have been changed, the ideas... |
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Hypocrites & Strippers
Open:
Sep-27 2010
Close:
Sep-27 2010
Hypocrites & Strippers is a one-person show that tells the story of a feminist who keeps dating strippers. You're gonna laugh your pants off...okay, maybe that wasn't the best choice of words. |
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See What I Wanna See
Open:
Apr-10 2010
Close:
May-30 2010
SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE is about lust, greed, murder, faith, and redemption based on three short stories that unfold like a Japanese screen painting. In Kesa and Morito, set in medieval Japan, two lovers sing of the ecstasy and torment of their affair. R Shomon, set in 1951 New York City, follows the investigation of a crime of passion and the witnesses’ contradicting versions of the event. Gloryday, set in present day New York, presents a priest during a crisis of faith after a terrible tragedy... |
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