SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET in a fully realized, found-space production at the historic Our Saviour New York in Rego Park.
EQUITY, A MODERN COMEDY IN ELIZABETHAN VERSE - A new play by Justy Kosek: a Shakespeare-inspired epic comedy about arts activism and what it needs to triumph ! A world just like ours, but here people speak poetry as surely as they breathe and battles of wit rhyme; though that doesn’t make them any less brutal. In this world, the Actors’ Equity Association is not a struggling union, but a pure-intentioned Camelot that rules over Broadway. Now a mysterious evil seeks to destroy it. Can a ragtag cast of Shakespeare lovers prove to the world that the pen is still mightier than the sword?
THE LANCE SERIES - Concert Staged Readings of five extraordinary new plays chosen from our Nationwide Play Search
ALEX & EUGENE - Winner of the New York Innovative Theatre Award for "Outstanding Ensemble", directed by Justy Kosek. A world premiere musical suggested by Alexander Pushkin’s "Eugene Onegin" set in contemporary New York among a group of theatre kids valiantly trying to hang on to friendship, love and idealism while trying to make it in a cutthroat business.
LOVECOURT - What happens when the Book of Love collides with the Book of Rules? A musical version of Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure", reimagined for the contemporary workplace.
AGAINST THE WALL - A new play by Justy Kosek: through the play’s 80 years we meet 8 very different members of the Gould family and watch as their lives intersect and pull apart. This is not the linear story of a family’s rise and fall, but an out-of-sequence journey through the extraordinary love, loss, resilience and disaster of many versions of the same family.
CATCH THE SPARROW - A gripping new drama, written and directed by Alex Mace, about a father and son reaching out to each other before it's too late.
OCCUPATION: DRAGONSLAYER - A reworking of our contemporary musical fable set in a diner at Ground Zero about those who survived 9/11, and those who did not.
IDIOT'S DELIGHT - This remarkable comedy-drama throws into ironic relief the individual human being who, having brought upon himself the obscene idiocy of wholesale destruction by war, wakes up to find that he can do nothing more than make a futile gesture against the forces he himself has set in action. A little too close for comfort, in today’s world.
STILL LIFE - The poignant play that was the source of David Lean's masterpiece, "Brief Encounter".
BLUE SONGS, GRAY SONGS - A dramatic-musical montage of America's Civil War, told through music of the period and authentic writings of the soldiers from the battlefield.
OCCUPATION: DRAGONSLAYER - A modern musical fable of 9/11.
AMERICAN NOCTURNE - A contemporary musical about politics, power and passion on the campaign trial.
OUR TOWN - A rare off-off-Broadway production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning modern classic.
VOYAGE THROUGH THE ISLES - Eight mini-musicals: A unique perspective of our first 12 years of theatrical production.
PRELUDE TO TOMORROW - A rousing retro revue of musical highlights from the first 20 years of Isle of Shoals.
THE RUNNER STUMBLES - Milan Stitt’s drama about a priest accused of murdering a nun is a thrilling murder mystery; an unflinching drama about the cruel mystery of faith.
EDWARD THE SECOND - World Premiere Musical Adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's notorious Elizabethan tragedy, about a medieval king who loses his throne and his life over the man he loves.
FALLING IN LOVE WITH LOVE - Our Valentine's Day musical revue, set in the Manhattan Psychoanalytical Institute for the Romantically Challenged.
AUTUMN LEAVES - An original revue: celebrating songs of Autumn from Broadway musicals and motion pictures.
LIGHTHOUSE - Romantic Musical Adventure based on Henrik Ibsen's "The Lady from the Sea".
TO ROSE - LOVE EDWARD - Passions that cross oceans and transcend time. 1815: a boy, the composer Hector Berlioz, dances with a girl on a summer hill. 1998: an aging musician makes a final stand for dignity with a remarkable woman named Rose. Two rootless young people discover their destiny - to play out their own variation of a story that is age old and forever young: the story of us all.
SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER - STEPS MUST BE GENTLE - A Tennessee Williams double bill.
AN INTIMATE EVE WITH WILL & CHRIS - “Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?” -- Christopher “Kit” Marlowe. From high tragedy to low comedy (and even lower!), this is a rowdy, but also a romantic journey through love (and hate) in all its “infinite variety”.
THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES - Enter if you dare. Into this tangled tale from America’s original macabre Scare Master. A sweeping saga of greed and revenge, which winds its wicked way through the centuries. Beginning with a Wizard’s curse shouted from the scaffold of the Salem Witch Trials, 1692. Generation after generation of two families are haunted by the original sins of their ancestors and are doomed to relive them.
NIGHT MUST FALL - Emlyn Williams' Classic psychological murder mystery.
THAT LADY FROM MAXIM'S - World Premiere Musical Farce based on the bawdy French classic by Georges Feydeau, set in turn of the century Paris, "La Dame de Chez Maxim".
ROMEO & JULIET - New adaptation of Shakespeare's archetypal love story set in 19th Century Verona.
THE SEAGULL - New adaptation of Anton Chekhov's eternal meditation on love and art.
CAFÉ COWARD - A 1930s cabaret tribute to the words and music of Noel Coward.
VOICES THAT ARE GONE: THE STEPHEN FOSTER STORY - The tragic story of America's first professional songwriter, told in his own words and music.
LIGHTHOUSE - Revival of the Romantic Musical Adventure based on Henrik Ibsen's "The Lady from the Sea".
IN THIS FALLEN CITY - A Mystery for Our Times by Bryan Williams. When a Latino teenager is slaughtered by a vengeful racist gang on the front steps of an old man’s house, the man is accused of throwing the youth out of his house. Feeding him to the wolves. A City boils over with rage, stoked by opportunistic politicians and religious leaders playing to the 24-hour news media. I
Our Co-Productions
THE GOOD OF THE TRIBE -
With Phoenix Productions -
A provocative new musical about adoption as straight and lesbian couples struggle over the little girl they both cherish.
A SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS- With Northeastern Theatre Ensemble -
Carlo Goldoni's classic comedy of scheming servants and class warfare in Renaissance Venice.
A HATFUL OF RAIN -
With Little Gem Theatre Company
Michael V. Gazzo's Broadway hit about a WWII vet's troubling return home.
MISS JULIE -
With Valhalla Theatre Company -
A fully restored version of August Strindberg's classic study of perversity.
MEN OF IRON -
With Siracusa Productions -
A new play by Brian C. Russo exploring a violent, old world legacy transported to the new world.