Current Season
01/26/08The Giant and the Pixie is a contemporary fairy tale set simultaneously in a magical realm and a shopping mall. The story centers on Arthur - a contentious Giant who works by day as a janitor - trying to win the heart of Cipriana, a Pixie who also works in the mall. Sebastian - the hotheaded Knight - is not happy with this and wants to get rid of Arthur, but Arthur's homeless buddy Gregory (the "Troll with a soul") won't have anything of it. All the while, Cipriana's father, the Magician, watches from a distance with an agenda of his own.
NOTE: this reading will be at 3:00 p.m. at the Grove Theatre Center, 1111-B West Olive Avenue. Click here for a map. 02/16/08
Blue Jay Singing in the Dead of Night
by Dale Griffiths Stamos
The story of JAY JARRELL, a once legendary disc jockey from 60's underground radio who finds himself a decade later stuck in the era of less talk, more hits radio. Now in his late forties, he's been relegated to a graveyard shift and to working with a martinet engineer, MAX, who is determined to squeeze him into the mold of the AM DJ, all gloss and no substance. Meanwhile, Jay's much younger songwriter girlfriend, LAURA, whose career he's been nurturing, is wanting to try her own wings, and secretly begins to work with a musician, STEVE, on the side. This relationship satisfies her deepest musical longings, but also inadvertently veers into the romantic. When these two realities converge for Jay, they propel him into a final act that some might call inspiration, others, lunacy, but that is ultimately a proclamation of the self against the odds.
03/15/08We present the third installment of this four act epic story dealing with issues of racism, bigotry, prejudice and hatred in America in the 20th Century and beyond...
04/19/08
Borderline
Kelli McNeal
Two Hispanic brothers, soldiers serving in Iraq, fighting for America, one is shot and killed, the other returns to the states only to find that his family has been deported. Should serving your country give you automatic rights to keep your immigrant family in the USA?
05/17/08
Legacy of Blood
by Neal Alvarez
Unit 751 performed some despicable experiments with human life during World War II. Now an ancestor of one of the men who played a lead role in the experiments must face the ghosts of his past and decide whether or not to forgive his relative for the atrocities that he committed.
06/21/08
Three Lions
by Jon Bastian
In May, 1941, Rudolf Hess, Hitler's right hand, flew solo from Germany to the UK, crash-landing in Scotland. He was captured, and James Bond creator Ian Fleming was put in charge of his interrogation. Fleming contemplated bringing in famed occultist Aleister Crowley to assist, but, officially, he never did. Unofficially, he may have, and "Three Lions" is the story of what could have happened, as three influential men of the 20th century -- and one increasingly liberated woman -- come together to figure out secrets, lies and the meaning of life, all before tea time on a pleasant spring day in London.
08/16/08
Company Woman
by Mark Wild
A strange and twisted tale about a woman who tortures people for a living and her tortured daughter who ends up switching places with her.
10/18/08
Mason's Dilemma
by William Katt
A new musical about a man who is going through one doozy of a mid life crisis. While mason struggles with the hedonistic and artistic parts of himself, the part of him that is a husband and a father fights for its life.
11/15/08
Tarmac
by Maura Knowles
A new musical about passengers stuck on a tarmac for hours, all of whom need desperately to get where they are going. In the madness, they turn their misery into much needed friendships and some even find love!
12/20/08
Killer in Drag
by Mark Knowles
music and lyrics by David g Smith
A new musical based on Ed Wood’s novel about a 1940’s hit man who dresses in drag to do his dirty deeds. During one of his gigs, he finds love with the local town whore and hopes to settle down with her and start a family.