Pictures at an Exhibition by Don Nigro is a collection of nine interrelated plays tracing the triangular relationship between two married artists and a model who starts out as the husband’s model, then becomes both their models, and then … neither.
Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, but set in London’s Soho. With Kurt Weill's unforgettable music - one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce jazz to the theatre - it became a popular hit throughout the western world.
The Big Bang, by Jed Feuer and Boyd Graham features 75 minutes of frenetic entertainment and historical hilarity. With John Burstein as Jed and David Troup as Boyd and Paul Budd on Piano
Join us at the Farnsworth Art Museum for a dramatic reading of this long-running, off-Broadway, absurdist comedy by actor Steve Martin.
Join us at the Farnsworth for a series of short dramatic readings by playwright Don Nigro.
A Doll’s House, Part 2 explores, in uproarious fashion, the emotional chaos that results when Nora Helmer returns to the home from which she exited fifteen years earlier. Long-simmering resentments boil over in an intellectual and comedic slugfest about ideas, love – and the rights of women in the modern world.
Part memoir, part social commentary, Hold onto Your Hat! is a one-woman show written from the perspective of youth through old age, delivered all in rhyme and a bit of song with a lot of humor.
Maude, a fifty-something unemployed bartender living in a trailer park, has bought a painting for a few bucks from a thrift store. Despite almost trashing it, she’s now convinced it’s a lost masterpiece by Jackson Pollock worth millions. But when world-class art expert Lionel Percy flies over from New York and arrives at her trailer home in Bakersfield to authenticate the painting, he has no idea what he is about to discover.
Museum takes place on the final day of a group show of three fictional contemporary American artists being exhibited in a major museum of modern art. In the course of the day some forty people walk through the show: art lovers, skeptics, international visitors, students, lost souls, fellow artists, and of course, museum guards.
All She Must Possess is a highly theatrical celebration of Etta Cone's extraordinary life. Works of art come alive and her one-time lover, Gertrude Stein, sings her praises as we watch her journey from society laughingstock to doyen of Modernity.
Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a fictional, small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade in the 1930s. The satirical allegory combines Brecht's Epic style of theatre with black comedy and overt didacticism.
At the end of World War II, Matt Friedman, a Jewish immigrant who has spent his life keeping others at a distance, returns to the small town where he first met Sally Talley. Nothing like her conservative Protestant family and neighbors, Sally is a nurse with deep misgivings about the country’s future. After a lifetime of believing they’ll never truly belong in the world around them, Matt has worked up the courage to ask Sally for her hand, and convince her that they do belong—together.
Whether they end poorly or well, relationships always leave a mark… In this uncommon love story, Andy, a high school teacher and avid fan, pressures the reclusive Ilana, a world-famous origami artist, into becoming an unwitting mentor to a troubled teenage prodigy named Suresh. These three intriguingly flawed characters begin to reshape and mold each other’s lives in much the same way they fold and crease their paper art.
Italian Renaissance painter Sofonisba Anguissola traveled to Spain to be court painter for Philip II for twenty years. The play opens with Sofonisba on the ship to Spain, and closes with her on the ship returning home to Italy
A fifty-something unemployed bartender living in a trailer park, has bought a painting for a few bucks from a thrift store. Despite almost trashing it, she’s now convinced it’s a lost masterpiece by Jackson Pollock worth millions. But when world-class art expert Lionel Percy flies over from New York and arrives at her trailer home in Bakersfield to authenticate the painting, he has no idea what he is about to discover. Inspired by true events, this hilarious and thought-provoking new comedy-drama asks vital questions about what makes art and people truly authentic.
Written by Gore Vidal, The Best Man tells the story of the 1960 Democratic National Convention, Kennedy’s nomination, but could have been written about the 2016 Democratic National Convention.
Chatting with the Tea Party tells the story of one New York Liberal playwright’s journey around America to speak to, learn about, understand and find common ground with Tea Party leaders across the country. It is both humorous and controversial
A parody based on the film by Warner Bros.,this will be a hilarious night of film-noir antics that will have you repeating "Here's looking at you, kid" for the next three months.
The charismatic and controversial tabloid columnist Mike McAlary covered the scandal- and graffiti-ridden New York of the 1980s. This play dramatizes the story of his meteoric rise, fall and rise again.
Sarah and James, a photojournalist and a foreign correspondent try to find happiness in a world that seems to have gone crazy.
The Bear, The Evils of Tobacco, and The Proposal feature a wide variety of recognizable characters who find themselves in the throes of absurd misunderstandings and intentions gone awry
When a newcomer to this Shaker community begins experiencing visions, the older members begin to question their own devotion to the Way, as they haven't had any such visions.
Vanya and Sonia have never left their childhood home while their sister Masha is a successful actress. A surprise visit from Masha and her 20-something boy toy, Spike, throws the normally quiet household into utter upheaval.
A soldier, returning home from war, chances upon a stranger who offers to buy his violin, the stranger is none other than the devil.
"What do you see?" Famed abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko asks his young assistant, Ken, the loaded question. What's art? And who gets to decide anyway?
Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. RABBIT HOLE charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day.
Four short plays on the theme of photography, performed at CMCA within the setting of MENTOR: 40 Photographers/40 Years, an exhibition honoring the spirit of collaboration between master artists and their students fostered by Maine Media Workshops & College.
A lonely widow wants to return to her hometown of Bountiful but is thwarted by her overbearing son and bossy daughter-in-law.
Scandal erupts at the North Pole when one of Santa's eight reindeer accuses him of sexual harassment. As mass media descends upon the event, the other members of the sleigh team share their perspectives, and a horrific tale of corruption and perversion emerges, which seems to implicate everyone from the littlest elf to the tainted Saint himself.
When an art lover buys what is in essence a pure white painting for a horse-choking sum, his best friend goes ballistic. Yet a third friend gets squeezed in the middle
