Previous Productions

Shaleeha G'ntamobi's stirring new play about an alcoholic black mother and her card sharp son trying to get out of the projects has just been accepted into the nation's preeminent theater festival. Trouble is, Shaleeha G'ntamobi doesn't exist, except in the imagination of wannabe-playwright Danny Larsen, who creates the pseudonym to hide his race. He makes a deal with Emilie, an actor, to pretend to be Shaleeha. But as the lies pile up, everyone dear to Danny must decide whether or not to run for cover as the whole thing threatens to blow up in his lily white face.

It’s 1950, and new colors are being added to the Red Scare. Two U.S. State Department employees, Bob and Norma, have been tasked with identifying sexual deviants within their ranks. There’s just one problem: Both Bob and Norma are gay, and have married each other’s partners as a carefully constructed cover. Inspired by the true story of the earliest stirrings of the American gay rights movement, madcap classic sitcom-style laughs give way to provocative drama as two “All-American” couples are forced to stare down the closet door.

I Dream Before I Take the Stand

by Arlene Hutton

The setting is suggested; it could be a courtroom. It’s clear SHE had been sexually assaulted, and HE appears to be an attorney, questioning her in a way that is victim-blaming and traumatizing.

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They Float Up

By Jacquelyn Reingold

It’s 2011 in still-recovering post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, where recluse Darnell, a young Black man, sits quietly in a bar until Joan, middle-aged, White, from upstate New York, decides he’s the key to her dreams.

Playwright Heidi Schreck’s boundary-breaking play breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans. Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful and achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives.

Themes/Talking Points: politics, women’s experience, immigration, abortion

For any woman who’s ever found herself the secondary character in a male Farce. This side-splitting comedy applauds the women who somehow manage to keep things running in, and out, of the presidential Oval Office. Jump aboard the ridiculous ride in this play as seven brilliant and beleaguered women surrounding the most powerful man on earth, as they increasingly take desperate measures to save face when his scandals spark a global crisis. Join us for this hysterical Tony Award nominated comedy and start off the election year with a smile.

Themes/Talking Points: feminism, politics, gender, media, current events

Betty is rich; Betty is lonely; Betty’s busy working on her truck; Betty wants to talk about love, but Betty needs to hit something. And Betty keeps using a small hand mirror to stare into parts of herself she’s never examined. Five different women named Betty collide at the intersection of anger, sex, and the “thea-tah.” The five Betties clash and connect in this queer fantasia of riotous self-discovery, smeared with sex, rage and solidarity! Can a dinner party, a hand mirror, and a play within a play be the keys for turning solitude into understanding? Even happiness?

Themes/Talking Points: feminism, sexuality, women’s experiences, LGBTQ+ experience