Can submitting cartoons to the New Yorker magazine result in true love or a dream career? Two cartoonists are about to find out in this middle-aged romantic comedy complete with projected cartoons for a unique theatre experience.
Length: Full-Length
A full-length play or musical, in one act or two, that is 75 minutes or longer.
Boop!
Betty Boop’s signature charm, humor, and heart have captivated audiences for nearly a century, but beneath her famous “boop-oop-a-doop,” she’s ready to discover who she really is. Longing for one ordinary day away from fame, Betty is launched from her black-and-white cartoon world into vibrant, modern-day New York City and embarks on an extraordinary adventure filled with color, music, and love. It’s a story bursting with heart, imagination, and timeless style.
With show-stopping songs by Grammy® winner David Foster and Susan Birkenhead, and a heartfelt book by Tony® winner Bob Martin (THE PROM and HALF TIME), BOOP! The Musical is a joy-filled celebration of finding your voice and embracing your true colors. With its perfect blend of nostalgia and contemporary flair, BOOP! promises to be a crowd-pleaser for audiences of all ages.
Pirates!
PIRATES! THE PENZANCE MUSICAL is a jazzy and joyous reimagining of the beloved Gilbert & Sullivan crowd-pleasing classic. Transporting the pirates from Penzance to 1800s New Orleans, this outrageously clever romp sizzles with Caribbean rhythms and French Quarter flair with brand-new orchestrations as well as a brand-new book by Tony Award® winner Rupert Holmes (CURTAINS). With a tongue-twisting Major General, a rabble-rousing Pirate King, romance, swordplay, wordplay, and off-the-charts fun, there’s a shipload of musical comedy delights on board to dazzle first-timers and Gilbert & Sullivan aficionados alike. Straight from Broadway in Roundabout Theatre’s rousing and rollicking revival, this version is ideal for all schools, community and professional theatres, and will bring joy to actors and audiences alike.
All Nighter
It’s finals week at a small liberal arts college in rural Pennsylvania. A tight-knit group of roommates pull one last all-nighter to complete their final assignments. Holed up in an old ballroom, the hours pass, the pressure mounts, the adderall flows, and the truths that have always bound this group together are put to the test. What will be left when the sun rises?
Grey House
After a brutal car wreck in the mountains of Oregon, a young couple seeks shelter from a blizzard in a small cabin. But the cabin’s seemingly innocent inhabitants: four children and their minder, quickly start to expose the couple’s secrets, unmake everything they know about themselves, and hurl them towards a potentially sinister destination. GREY HOUSE is a new horror play about the gravity of the past and the cruel inevitability of its pull.
Swept Away
In 1888, four men aboard a whaling ship—Mate, a haunted soul; a guilt-ridden Captain; Little Brother, an adventurous romantic; and his devout sibling, Big Brother—are shipwrecked off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Stranded on a lifeboat, they are forced to confront their pasts, moral choices, and the limits of human endurance as they fight for survival. Their story unfolds through the poetic book by John Logan and the hauntingly beautiful and raw music of The Avett Brothers, with a gripping narrative that explores themes of sacrifice, forgiveness, brotherhood, and redemption. Performed in one act, the show keeps audiences immersed and emotionally on edge throughout the harrowing journey.
The Flatlanders
After fourteen years of living together, Ronnie and Michael decide to get married at an inn in the Pocono Mountains. They are forced to break into a stranger’s cabin when their car slides off the road in a blizzard. With no phone, internet, or television they are forced to do something they haven’t done in years: actually talk to each other. During the course of the evening they begin to question whether or not to actually go through with the wedding.
The Magnolia Ballet
Z, a gay teenager, and his father live together in a crumbling old house in rural Georgia. When Z discovers a trove of mysterious love letters among his late grandfather’s belongings, he goes on a journey of self discovery that just may have the power to wake the dead. THE MAGNOLIA BALLET is a Southern Gothic fable about a Queer Black boy, his father, and the ghosts that live in the walls of their old family home.
At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen
Courtney Berringers would like to welcome you to her wake! But—make no mistake—this ain’t your grandma’s funeral. AT THE WAKE OF A DEAD DRAG QUEEN is an imaginative one-act play that uses magical realism, mythology, drama, and drag to tell the story of a pair of drag queens living (and dying) in rural Georgia in 2004. From African Gods and Goddesses to Trina and Whitney Houston, AT THE WAKE OF A DEAD DRAG QUEEN explores identity, illness, and the celebration of Black, queer life in the rural south. Come party at the wake. Bring your own heels!
Creditors
CREDITORS is the suspenseful tale of two men who meet at a seaside resort in Sweden—a sculptor and a mysterious stranger—only to discover that they have something unexpected in common; a woman. In Wright’s adaptation of Strindberg’s forgotten masterwork, all three characters engage in a deadly game of wits, opening old wounds and inflicting fresh ones. Written in 1888, the play still bears its ferocious sting, and is reminiscent of the most contemporary erotic thrillers with its blend of toxic desire and wicked intent.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
When Agatha Christie invites you to spend the summer at an estate in the English countryside, you know you won’t be sipping tea and playing croquet. Indeed, when John Cavendish invites his dear old friend Nick Hastings to Styles Court, murder ensues. And who better to solve it than Hercule Poirot, in his debut? Come along as Poirot and Hastings unravel the delicious and mysterious affair at Styles.
Pen Pals
PEN PALS is an epistolary play that tells the story of the extraordinary friendship between two ordinary women. Bernie, from Newark, New Jersey, starts writing to Mags, who lives in Sheffield, England, when she’s 14-years-old and their correspondence continues for the next five decades.
The play is essentially an extended flashback where the women read the letters they sent to each other over the past 50 years. Without the aid of costumes, make-up, or wigs, the actors age before the audience’s eyes as they tell the stories of their lives.