Previous Productions

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

Pablo, a high-powered lawyer, and doctoral candidate Tania, his very pregnant wife, are realizing the American dream when they purchase a house next door to community stalwarts Virginia and Frank. But a disagreement over a long-standing fence line soon spirals into an all-out war of taste, class, privilege, and entitlement. The hilarious results guarantee no one comes out smelling like a rose. Staged reading and talkback.

Themes/Talking Points: border disputes, immigration, adverse possession, property rights, fences, gardening