*COVID SAFETY INFORMATION*We will only be selling a limited number of seats to enable social distancing – so get your tickets soon! In order to be admitted entry into the theater, all patrons MUST show either proof of vaccination, or proof of a negative COVID-19 test result in the 48 hours prior to the show time.Audience members will also be asked to wear masks during the performance. *Not in NYC, or not comfortable going to a theater yet? A few of our performances will be able to be viewed online. Stay tuned for when we release those details this week.
PRIDE & PREJUDICE
Friday, July 30th at 7:30pm
A Musical Adaptation by Sam Caps & Annie Dillon
It’s the classic story so many know and love — five sisters navigate courtship in a socially restrictive Regency world. Lizzy hates Mr. Darcy at first, but learns that she can’t always trust first impressions. Jane and Bingley fall in love, fall apart, and fall back together. Chaos ensues, but love triumphs in the end — for some.
SCAR TISSUE
Wednesday, August 4th at 7:30pm
By Victoria Fragnito
Directed by Francesca Di Cesare
Time does not heal all wounds. Best friends Jessica and Sam each have scars from their pasts that have not healed. Jessica has never been able to get past an extremely damaging romantic relationship from her formative years in college, while Sam has been ignoring a painfully fractured relationship with her sister. After years of denial, an impromptu lunch date and a surprise overnight guest forces them both to confront these wounds and face what they didn’t want to see head on.
Content Warning: This play deals with themes of emotional and physical abuse, as well as rape.
POUF!
Thursday, July 29th at 7:30pm
By Lou Clyde
Directed by Jessica Francis Fichter
What happens when you mix hairspray, headlice and a little dab of Elvis? Hairlarity. The year is 1958 and Betty finds herself unfulfilled as a housewife. She and her husband have been unsuccessful in starting a family and her husband will not “permit” her to get a job. With the encouragement of her sister, Betty secretly sets up an in-home salon, leveraging her prowess with hairspray and bobby pins. Betty begins to change the lives of neighborhood women by “poufing” their hair. Pouf! is an “uplifting” comedy with big hair and even bigger laughs.
over easy
Saturday, July 31st at 7:30pm
By Abaigeal O’Donnell
Directed by Julia Atkin
Donating eggs is not always what it’s cracked up to be.
Sperm donation can happen with a magazine and a cup, but for people attempting to donate their eggs, things are not so easy. Through awkward moments, hormonal daydreams, dance parties, and the not-fun-kind-of-shots, over easy follows four egg donors from recruitment to extraction.
INTENTIONS
Thursday, August 5th at 7:30pm
By Allison Svagdis
A young woman struggles to find her happy ending when trouble from her past keeps resurfacing. After a traumatic sexual assault experience as a teen, Girl tries to move forward but college, boys and herself get in the way of coping.
Content Warning: Sexual Assault, Depression, Suicide, Profanity
girl power sex positive joy ride
Wednesday, July 28th at 7:30pm
By Zoe Kamil
girl power sex positive joy ride is a new play by Zoe Kamil, writer of the 2020 SheNYC Festival’s Fatchley.
Best friends Mary and Karla are teachers at the same middle class suburban high school they attended together. When straight-laced, insecure Karla sends a tasteful nude that ends up in the wrong hands, old dynamics are called into question and a pair of teens have some very grown-up decisions to make.
STARTUP
Friday, August 6th at 7:30pm
By Larissa Kruesi
Directed by Florence Zebas
Beth is creative, Eva is super smart, and both are deeply frustrated at their corporate jobs. Determined to put their untapped talents to work, they create a Kickstarter to launch their own company, where they can make the rules. But as the company quickly grows, they find their definitions of success and friendship constantly put to the test in ways they never expected.
PLAGUE DOCTOR!
Sunday, August 1st at 7:30pm
A Brand-New Full-Length Play by Charlotte Ahlin
It’s an ordinary night in for roommates Cosmo, Casey, Roz, and Filomena. They bicker over chores, surf Netflix, and fend off the medieval Plague Doctor who haunts the corners of their apartment. But tonight, they’ve found a new way to relieve the monotony: a storytelling contest with perilous stakes. As they spin their tales, genres weave together and fictional worlds spring to life—and the good Doctor wants in.
This piece is a very, almost irresponsibly loose retelling of The Decameron, a 14th Century series of novellas about a bunch of twenty-somethings swapping stories while quarantined in the Italian countryside. They, too, are waiting out a plague. In this version, of course, the stories are updated. The characters are less concerned with the foibles of the clergy than they are with their own stagnant careers and social lives and the dismal state of the world. But the spirit remains the same: storytelling is humanity’s refuge in dangerous times, and bird masks are properly creepy.
DIPPED IN HONEY
Tuesday, July 27th at 7:30pm
Written & Directed by Cristina Martinez
DIPPED IN HONEY is a bilingual surreal poem of a play about the loss of innocence between three children and their parents as they come to terms with the sad realities in their world. Set in Los Angeles, this play deals with the dichotomy of the Latinx experience.
DIPPED IN HONEY premiered digitally in 2020 as a part of the SheLA Summer Theater Festival. In 2021, it will be coming to the East Coast as a part of the SheNYC Festival!
