Joe DiPietro
Art of Murder
August 22-September 14, 2008

Edgar Award Winner for Best Mystery Play

“Don’t Question me.  I’m an artist.”   Jack Brooks is one of modern art’s brilliant painters.  However, his best work is behind him.  His flamboyant art dealer claims the only things Jack has left are his rugged good looks and celebrity.  Jack’s looks and fame sell magazines, but his paintings won’t increase in value until he dies.  So Jack and his wife choose his next career move – kill the art dealer!  Artistic egos have never been this chilling or hilarious.  This roller coaster ride will have you laughing and guessing who killed who as the bodies pile up. 

“It is hilarious, suspenseful, surprising
and dazzling in every way.”
—Equinox News.

From the author of Quills comes four spine-tingling plays for adults. A company of actors reenact macabre events. A young violin prodigy skyrockets to international prominence, only to meet a supernatural fate. A neurotic real-estate agent shows a house filled with unspeakable secrets to a buyer harboring a thirst for tabloid atrocities. A woman is unwound when her baby begins to speak early - still inside her womb.  Actors even portray actual audience members in a strange point-of-view twist.

"Four bite-size plays that bite back! Enough chills
to keep fans of The Twilight Zone happy!"
—Variety.

Joan Holden
Nickel and Dimed
February 13, 2009-March 8, 2009

based on Barbara Ehrenreich’s bestselling book Nickel and Dimed, on (Not) Getting by in America. 

Barbara Ehrenreich sets out to experience how one third of America’s working class survives on low wage jobs.  She crosses the country performing double shifts as a chambermaid and waitress.  She lives in tiny rooms, begs from food pantries, and suffers humiliation from young supervisors at Mall-mart.  She learns humility from her gallant co-workers.  They are the homeless waitress pushing fifty, the hotel maid who eats empty hotdog rolls, the nursing home cook who retreats into fantasy, and a house maid who is terrified her pregnancy will end her job and a 50-cent raise. This true-to-life odyssey is real, provocative, funny, maddening, full of attitude and all American. 

Donald Margulies
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE
April 10, 2009-May 3, 2009

At the end of Shiva Mort is grief-stricken over his beloved Shirley, who died after choking on moo shoo pork.  His family attempts to convince him to get on with life.  His teen age son fears he may be loosing his mind, until Shirley shows up, fresh from the grave and very much alive!  They’re overjoyed.  She redecorates. This very Jewish Blithe Spirit takes unexpectant turns on the road to “letting go”.  Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Donald Margulies blends hilarity with the toughest lesson in life.