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Cal and Ellen are the owners and sole staff of a small, elegant gourmet restaurant. Cals main preoccupation is paying back the $75,000 it cost to start it up, and that means packing in the customers. Chef Ellen is preoccupied with the foods quality and stopping Cal from sampling the ingredients. The diners act out their own private dramas over dinner and their conversations are exquisite burlesques of contemporary attitudes. Theres a sensual middle aged couple who go into paroxysms of ecstasy just reading the menu and then theres three crass chic young career women. Finally, theres Elizabeth, a maladroit, shy and neurotic writer whos dining with her prospective publisher. Her actions and conversation are unintentionally hilarious and a delicious example of how not to act and what not to talk about while dining.

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. Over the course of the day some forty people walk through the show: art lovers, skeptics, foreigners, students, lost souls, fellow artists, and of course, museum guards. The play is about the movement and yearning of these people.

Comic drama Characters: 1 male, 2 female Interior Set Gardner and Fanny Church are preparing to move out of their Beacon Hill house to their summer cottage on Cape Cod. Gardner, once a famous poet, now is retired. He slips in and out of senility as his wife Fanny valiantly tries to keep them both afloat. They have asked their daughter, Mags, to come home and help them move. Mags agrees, for she hopes as well to finally paint their portrait. She is now on the verge of

At ninety Mabel Tidings Bigelow insists on celebrating her daughter and granddaughter's annual visit with an archaic croquet party. As it unfolds she relives vignettes from the last eighty years that subtly interleave past and present to reveal the precise moments of opportunity lost and love rejected that define her life. A vibrant portrait of Mabel takes shape: her flashes of wit and humor resilience disappointments youthful spunk and geriatric willfulness. Her Boston blue-blood family expected daughters to applaud from the sidelines but Mabel had one shining moment of achievement: she was the first woman to swim the English Channel. However her willfulness did not extend to rejecting a socially ideal fianc for love. Pride's Crossing is a rewarding challenge for a talented cast.

Comedy / 3m, 2f / Int. Newly revised! Recently produced in 2006 at the Atlantic Theatre Company in New York City, this witty and sophisticated satire by the author of One Shoe Off and other popular comedies, this play takes place during a child's fourth birthday party. The boy's parents have invited another couple, anthropologists renowned for their international studies of childhood behavior. The adults become so involved in debating various theories of child rearing and telling each other s

Seven Brief Plays About Women in Distress To go through life as a woman is to be in distress most of the time, so these short plays alight on situations that are inherently distressing -- doctor visits, photo shoots, looking for the right dress and navigating around swimming pools. Since we're blessed with uncanny reserves of strength and imagination, we tend to emerge triumphant. One way or another these are comedies about transformation. Plays include: Appearances The Divine Fallacy Through a Glass Darkly Teeth Water Music Milk and Water Skin Deep

Comedy Characters: 3 males, 4 females Interior Set In Tina Howe's comedy, Chasing Manet, a rebellious painter from a distinguished family in Boston and an ebullient Jewish woman with a huge adoring family form an unlikely bond. Inside the confining walls of Mount Airy Nursing Home, the two plot an escape to Paris aboard the QE2. But can they possibly pull it off amidst the chaos of their surroundings? The tension and comedy grow as they struggle to take wing for the last time. "Chasing Manet has an inspirational message at its core concerning the potential that lives in us all, no matter what the barriers, to defy expectations and take action to attain our dreams." -NYTheatre.com

Where Women Gois a series of three short one-acts for a diverse cast of women of various ages. Tina Howe's eccentric plays explore the humor and absurdity of women's daily lives as they visit the dermatologist eat at Subway and go shopping.To the Dermatologist(7f 1m voice Comedy) - It's 2021 at Your Reflections Dermatology office and Zilla learns that the growth on her legs is lichen planus a type of algae that develops into something more akin to spices and vegetables. One year later the dermatology office now transformed into "Spicy Zilla's Cafe " is selling Zilla's leg spices by the bottle.To the Dermatologistexplores the relationship between patients their partners health care staff and diagnosis.To Subway(5f Comedy) - Hannah a regular at her local Subway sandwich shop brings her reluctant friend Clara to Subway for the first time. Eager employees Pudding and Sal greet them enthusiastically but things go awry when actress Alida Valli enters playing the zither. Finally Clara settles on her order: a combo of Black Forest eel rotisserie-style canary and raw eagle legs with a sprinkling of mule ears on the side.Shopping(8f 2m Comedy) - At Ed Singh's clothing stand on the Upper West Side in 2022 at the height of the COVID pandemic seven women shop and fight over gloves earmuffs and other winter wear. Suddenly a man crashes into the shop wearing a parachute and everyone finds themselves in heaven.

Red Bull Theater - New York City's "most exciting classical theater" (Time Out NY) - offers the fourth volume of curated plays from its popular annual Short New Play Festival. This collection features 16 ten-minute plays of heightened language and classical themes from today's hottest writers, including commissions from established playwrights Tina Howe, Arthur Kopit, Dael Orlandersmith, and Doug Wright, along with winning entries by writers such as Rachel Leopold, Amanda Quaid, Anya Martin, and Christian Simonsen, chosen from a competition that receives nearly 300 submissions each year. In the hands of great playwrights, the ten-minute play is a highly entertaining dramatic form. These delightfully compact works - some downright silly, and others powerfully moving - are from the seventh and eighth years of Red Bull Theater's Short New Play Festival. Dive in and enjoy Authors include: Charlotte Ahlin, Uriah Celaya, Frederick Dennehy, Justin Aaron Halle, Tina Howe, Arthur Kopit, Rachel Leopold, Anya Martin, Dael Orlandersmith, Jason Gray Platt, Amanda Quaid, Aubrey Saverino, Christian Simonsen, Samara Weiss, Daniel Wilson, Doug Wright.