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Thirty-five year old Kate is a professor of Ethics, with only one rule for her students-do not lie to her. She asks her students to answer the question, "Is your greatest ethical responsibility to yourself, or others?" However, as Kate and her husband struggle to have a baby, she finds herself unable to answer it as she faces an ethical dilemma of her own. A new play exploring womanhood, motherhood, and the space between right and wrong. "SECRET HOUR is a masterly, thoroughly involving theatrework; rich in humor and compassion for characters who ring with the authenticity of life."The Berkshire Eagle "Stafford's dialogue is fiery and incredibly smart, peppered with genuine humor, humanity and honest emotion. Funny, smart and engaging. Highly recommended. A gem."The Daily Gazette "SECRET HOUR is quick, funny and smart in an engaging way."Trans Union "Stafford's play is a story of true love and its cost through human nature...a delectable comedy."The Berkshire Edge "The show invites you in, to watch the cracks and lies in their lives burst through their veneers. It is performed with great humor, strong delivery, and a large serving of sadness and deceit. It is engaging, fun, sad, and emotional...SECRET HOUR is a very satisfying time spent at the theatre."Nippertown Review "A wise, perceptive work. It is an enjoyable parable about the search for the authentic life about which Kate teaches. As all parables, the plot is simple, until examined. The success of the play is in the balance playwright Stafford finds in the story. Thankfully, Stafford leavens what could be a dreary work about truth, right and wrong, and authenticity by adding a lot of humor. Though it cannot be called a comedy, you will laugh more than at most plays that do call themselves comedies. SECRET HOUR might not change your life...but it could."Troy Record

Don Juan's sexual conquests have gained him an infamous reputation all over Europe. When the Devil himself begins to drag him to Hell, Don Juan makes a bargain: In exchange for another ten years of life, he will commit to doing the Devil's dark work himself by bedding as many women as possible and leaving them wanting and devastated.A decade later, the Devil catches up with Don Juan in Venice. Through a dizzying melange of puppetry, riddles and mysterious women clad in masks and cloaks, the Devil shows Don Juan that though he believed he was a master at playing romantic and sexual games, in truth he was but a plaything. This translation of one of Rostand's final works is, like the French original, written completely in rhymed couplets.

"This is a show that is definitely worth experiencing... HYSTERICAL! is definitely not the feel-good comedy about cheerleaders one might expect at the outset. Instead, it delves deeper into the lives of these five girls and emerges as quite an unforgettable show." Talkin' Broadway "Stauffer's inspired-by-true-events tale of a cheerleading squad...victim to a mysterious 'hysteria.' There's a dark undertone to the story, which touches on the fragility of youth's fleeting friendships... That's something worth cheering about." Time Out New York "All of us, at one point in our lives, exhibit hysterical behavior. Some, in fact, more than others. ...playwright Elenna Stauffer tackles that issue, and others, in her mind-blowing...HYSTERICAL! ...It's a significant achievement in modern theatre." HamletHub "I was surprised by the incredibly powerful and moving moments embedded within this show... Cheers are cleverly used within the piece, provid[ing] insight into the emotional landscape of the characters... HYSTERICAL! is a fun night out dealing with forgotten but necessary themes in new ways." Theatre is Easy "Join the pep rally that reveals a unique coming-of-age story that you will not soon forget."The Middletown Press

Space Corps is a multi-billion dollar science-fiction film franchise that has fallen upon hard times. After a zeitgeist-defining first three chapters, the most recent entries in the series have proven lackluster, a crime for which most Space Corps fans hold franchise creator and director Bruce Glover responsible. Married couple Gina and Stanley, a pair of Space Corps superfans, decide that in order to keep Bruce from doing further damage to the series they adore they must kidnap him and lock him in their basement until someone else can take over the franchise and return it to glory. What they did not anticipate was that Bruce would end up living in their basement for nine long years, throwing the lives of the couple and their son into disarray. Over the course of those nine years one question arises time and again: who rightfully claims ownership to a work of art, the artist who created it or the fans who love it?

When a desperate, pregnant young woman makes her way to the sanctuary city of New York, Bex and Tish open their home and hearts to her. But an unexpected decision by their houseguest forces them to reckon with the consequences of their best intentions. "THE AUNTIE NETWORK vividly illustrates the complexity and hidden impact of good deeds...Elenna Stauffer's script is familiar, tight, and comes across as very authentic and believable. From the beginning, the dialogue between Bex and Tish immediately conveys a strong friendship and signals to the audience that the story unfolding will be an interesting one. The more dramatic scenes later in the play between the roommates and their young guest, Anne, are well written and, though fast paced, quite impactful."Joseph Harrison, Broadway World

"Two of my guilty pleasures-romantic comedies and baseball-are married in a hilarious one-act play.... LOVE AND BASEBALL is the latest success by...playwright Jerry Montoya. This clever take on gender stereotypes.... LOVE AND BASEBALL tells the improbable love story of Will and Michele. Will is a documentary filmmaker searching for conflict to enhance his stories. Michele is a community college philosophy professor whose idea of rocking out consists of listening to elevator music. After a chance first meeting, it's love at first insult (?), kicking off an hour and a half of witty repartee and a battle of the sexes. Montoya fills the dialogue with innuendo and baseball anecdotes, sparking nostalgia for the Oakland A's of the 80s and delighting...baseball fans.... Despite his allegiance to the Dodgers, Montoya manages to rekindle the thrill that we feel when watching America's pastime.... With some surprising plot twists and smart rhythm, LOVE AND BASEBALL is a rare jewel that has something for everyone. Intelligent, humorous, and (bases) loaded with fun..."Courtney Symes, BroadwayWorld

"The R S C and the Moscow Art Theatre have given us one of the most delightful collaborations of two minds, if not since Beaumont and Fletcher, then since Brenton and Hare were hard at the likes of BRASSNECK and PRAVDA.... A two-hour glasnost extravaganza... Extremely funny."Time Out (London) "MISHA'S PARTY is set in Moscow during the 1991 coup. The play, though isn't political; it simply shows a family of Russians gathering in a hotel restaurant to celebrate the 60th birthday of a man with an untidy past... The spirit of Chekhov is very much alive in the regrets, sadnesses and farcical nature of this interesting new play."The Daily Telegraph "Top notch."Sunday Express "A richly Chekhovian piece about exile and homecoming, and about regrouping of a dysfunctional family in a tottering regime."International Herald Tribune "In his deft, unostentatious way Nelson was written a robust, healing comedy whose subjects include the pull of the past, the power of unreason and the problems of adjusting to an alien culture."The London Times "A forceful...comedy of manners."Evening Standard "Touching and novel, the play brims with the milk of human folly and a sense of the primacy of private feeling over public events. This is a play for thought as well as amusement."New York Post "MISHA'S PARTY is a cause for celebration."Plays and Players

Two young grifters try to strike a deal with the devil during the hottest summer on record. "An ambitious and prodigiously talented writer."Charles Isherwood, Variety "Rapp…shows an exuberant love for the written word… [He] tells stories that encase classical themes-class and envy, ambition and alienation-in blunt terms and in modern settings."Jesse McKinley, The New York Times "One of the more daring young stylists working today."David Cote, Time Out

"Blissfully zany… …it is mainly just a free-wheeling romp that takes off some of the characters, incidents, and ideas in Cervantes's book. It is that form of comedy, known as burlesque or travesty, which achieves its humor by the low and ridiculous transformation of a loftier subject. (Actually, since the original DON QUIXOTE was itself a burlesque of medieval romances, DON QUIXOTE DE LA JOLLA is in effect a travesty of a travesty.) More accurately, DON QUIXOTE DE LA JOLLA is not so much a burlesque of the original book (which few people read anyway) but of the image of the book in the mass mind as fostered by other adaptations, most significantly MAN OF LA MANCHA… DON QUIXOTE DE LA JOLLA is, then, a headlong, hectic, hilarious rush, a frantic comic phantasmagoria on Quixotic themes, that needs no scholar annotations; it is great good fun."George Weinberg-Harter, Drama-Logue

A strangely eccentric family awaits the return of the long gone but not easily forgotten Willie. When he finally returns, he disappoints no one with his bizarre brand of confrontational politics. The ending is both violent and ritualistic. A Midwestern gothic. "Robert Auletta's script is a family drama with a difference…it has a frayed-edge poetry and wild-animal energy that turn its story, about a veterinary student and his feral foster brother, into an event that's half ritual and half nervous breakdown…"Michael Feingold, The Village Voice"The first production of Robert Auletta's WALK THE DOG WILLIE was in 1976 at the Yale Repertory Theater. Sam Shepard's BURIED CHILD was written in 1978 or '79. I'm not suggesting that because of the evident similarity of the two plays Shepard must have borrowed from Auletta or been influenced by him… No, something more interesting is at work here: a cultural confluence, an affinity of consciousness, a resemblance of attitudes, most specifically a shared sense of the heartland American family as rooted in strains of madness and violence, simultaneously sustained and corrupted by myths and bound by a love that more than touches on despair…"from Richard Gilman's introduction