Shameless Plug Sunday

We announce our 2022 season, a St. Patrick's Day Write Loud event, and, oh yeah, we're throwing a festival!

Folks,

January through March were supposed to be our quiet months where we could reset, retool and prepare for the rest of 2022. It ended up being not very quiet, but we did line up a whole lotta stuff for the rest of ‘22.

And now we can talk about most of it.

Let’s start with our 2022 Staged Reading Season. We’re expanding on our 2021 readings and adding more dates and more shows. So mark your calendars accordingly and get your tickets now - they are “pay what you can” and there’s only 16 of them available for each performance!

All in the Timing by David Ives

• 2 April • 9 April • 23 April • 30 April

If you give monkeys enough time, can they really write Hamlet? How did Leon Trotsky actually react to finding an axe embedded in his head? What does it take for two strangers to fall in love without screwing it up? Are you having a bad day or are you simply stuck in a "Philadelphia"? It's an evening of fast and funny staged readings featuring the whimsical comedy of David Ives.

Art by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton

• 7 May • 14 May • 21 May • 2 June

Back by popular demand after last year’s performance! Serge, indulging his penchant for modern art, buys a large, expensive, completely white painting. Marc is horrified, and their relationship suffers considerable strain as a result of their differing opinions about what constitutes "art". Yvan, caught in the middle of the conflict, tries to please and mollify both of them. Winner of both Olivier and Tony Awards.

Meteor Shower by Steve Martin

• 11 June • 18 June • 25 June • 2 July

Another favorite that begged an encore after last year’s performance! Corky and Norm are excited to host Gerald and Laura at their home in the valley outside Los Angeles to watch a once-in-a-lifetime meteor shower. But as the stars come out and the conversation gets rolling, it becomes clear that Gerald and Laura might not be all that they appear to be. Steve Martin, using his trademark absurdist humor, bends the fluid nature of time and reality to create a surprising and unforgettably funny play.

Deathtrap by Ira Levin

• 9 July • 16 July • 23 July • 30 July

Comfortably ensconced in his charming Connecticut home, Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a dry spell which has resulted in a string of failures and a shortage of funds. A possible break in his fortunes occurs when he receives a script from a student in the seminar he has been conducting at a nearby college—a thriller that Sidney recognizes immediately as a potential Broadway smash. Sidney’s plan, devised with his wife’s help, is to offer collaboration to the student for co-credit. Or is it? Deathtrap provides twists and turns of devilish cleverness, and offers hilariously sudden shocks in abundance until the very last moment.

Admissions by Joshua Harmon

• 10 September • 17 September • 24 September • 1 October

Sherri Rosen-Mason is head of the admissions department at a New England prep school, fighting to diversify the student body. Alongside her husband, the school’s headmaster, they’ve largely succeeded in bringing a stodgy institution into the twenty-first century. But when their only son sets his sights on an Ivy League university, personal ambition collides with progressive values, with convulsive results. A no-holds-barred look at privilege, power, and the perils of hypocrisy.

The 39 Steps Adapted by Patrick Barlow from the novel by John Buchan

• 8 October • 15 October • 22 October • 29 October

Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! This two-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (played by a ridiculously talented cast of four), an onstage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers, and some good old-fashioned romance!

Good Evening (Peter Cook & Dudley Moore)

• 5 Nov • 19 Nov • 3 Dec • 10 Dec

Legendary comedy duo Peter Cook and Dudley Moore first performed Good Evening in 1973, yet it remains timelessly hilarious. Featuring a series of sketches about unlikely subjects, it includes a one-legged actor applying for the role of Tarzan, an in-depth interview with an unimpressed shepherd who witnessed the Nativity, and a French singer who misunderstands an Anglo-Saxon vulgarity and composes a song around it.

And then, because that clearly isn’t enough to justify an entire shameless plug…

This Thursday, March 17 at 9pm EST, we will host our second Write Loud event on Instagram Live, this time to commemorate St. Patrick’s Day with a selection of poetry and prose fitting for the occasion. Expect to get a 360-degree view of the holiday - as anyone that saw the Valentine’s Day show knows, the selections are rarely predictable, yet do still remain thematically linked.

And lastly…have you gotten your tickets for the Savage Wonder Festival while they are still FREE? They won’t be after April 1!

We’ve been grateful to have a slew of sponsors come on board for the festival in our first six days. If you are a supporter of veterans’ causes and/or love to support the arts - or want to appeal to those that do - check out our sponsorship page and let’s talk.

Have a great week,

Chris