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In a dark (darkly awesome!) future, New York's boroughs have grown too dangerous to police. Shoguns reign, vampires infest Brooklyn, and most terrifying of all, it's still stylistically the '70s. After losing her lover to some undead hoodlums, Dewdrop gets herself a training montage and a sidekick, and sets off for revenge. Explosively funny nonsense ensues. SOUL SAMURAI kicks the Vampire Cowboys recipe up a notch, the script has the complexi...

Remember the excitement of each new production from the Ridiculous Theatrical Company? The company would offer a riff on a classic, shot through with enough satire to stand on its own. Vampire Cowboys Theater Company is channeling that energy in LIVING DEAD IN DENMARK, the hilarious and witty new play by Qui Nguyen. Nguyen, like Charles Ludlam before him, knows his Shakespeare. Using HAMLET as a jumping-off point, Nguyen throws in martial arts...

A Tuscarora woman, who was born outside of her Clan, and therefore outside of Longhouse tradition, struggles to find her place on her very traditional reservation. "...the play is an exploration of who belongs where, and how, and why, told through a tale of family and community tensions...as with any good play, there are no easy answers, only big, complicated questions to wrestle with." Robert A K Gonyo, Go See A Show

Once a veteran fighter pilot, Mel now spends her days hiding from the constant threat of the alien Legion in the basement of an old ranger station, deep in the untouched wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. But when Laione, a winged Legion scout, is shot down right over her head, Mel seizes what could be her last chance to fulfill a lifelong dream. What starts out as an uneasy truce slowly morphs into something more as they race against the cl...

Monsieur Jourdain is a middle class merchant who foolishly believes he can break into the upper echelon of society. Desperate to elevate himself and his station, it seems there is no humiliation too great as he tries to better himself via tutelage from a variety of instructors who are more than happy to relieve him of his money. He also finds himself an easy mark for a penniless nobleman who uses him to fund an extravagant lifestyle. Monsieur ...

When the alien Legion took over, Sheena lost everything. All she has left is one final, unlikely dream: the Rebellion. But when she arrives, it's to a Rebellion shattered by the loss of its leader, pushed to increasingly desperate measures-including working with their alien enemy. As tensions mount, Sheena has to face the question: when you have nothing left, what do you fight for?

Nothing is rotten in the state of Denmark as young Hamlet leaps into action to save the nunnery with Ophelia and Yorick the jester! What could possibly go wrong? This hysterical prequel answers all the important questions, like: Why can't Ophelia take swim lessons? Where the hell is Mrs Polonius? And why does Hamlet's mother spend so much time at his uncle's house? What will young Hamlet grow up To Be? That is the question! A fast, funny, and ...

Maybell has a problem: Guys never stick around after she sleeps with them. She thinks she just needs to adjust her dating radar, but when her court-appointed gynecologist discovers that Maybell's vagina is actually sending her lovers to space, the federal government decides it wants a piece of the action, leading Maybell to ask "Am I Woman, or am I Weapon?

A high-level intelligence officer and his wife welcome a cultural attaché from a foreign country into their home and into their lives. The result is a triangle of danger and passion. A play about secrets and what they do to those who possess them.

No matter where you live, the ups and downs of married life are universal. For a middle-aged American couple traveling to Egypt on a business trip-slash-vacation, their relationship is put to the test when an old connection leads to new temptation. As the eager tourists strive to connect with Egyptian culture in an authentic way, they end up getting more than they bargained for as long-dormant marital issues begin to percolate. Drawing from th...

Jason returns from war to literary glory after writing an international bestseller, but his celebrity is underscored by his marriage to Madeeha, an Iraqi woman he saved. When he reunites with old friends, Amir and Lynn, questions emerge about the veracity of the book and its particular patriotic American gaze. Lust, jealousy, and personal politics bring things between old friends to a boiling point and we are asked "what is the expense of lies...

Medea has abandoned her family and homeland of Colchis for the love of the great hero Jason, and her loyalty, cunning and talents in witchcraft have repeatedly rescued him. Now, after bearing him two fine sons and settling in Corinth, Jason announces that Medea is to be cast aside, freeing him to marry royalty. Finding herself not only abandoned but banished from Corinth and driven beyond madness, a desperate Medea commits an unspeakable act o...

Ellie is an ambitious high school senior who is determined to fulfil one of her life goals: to marry her high school sweetheart. The only problem is, she doesn't have one. However, when a new foreign-exchange student arrives in the last few months of school, Ellie channels the advice of her hero, Eleanor Roosevelt, to try to make her plan come to fruition.

LITTLE COMEDIES, an evening of five short plays by Anton Chekhov, span the author's career, this version of ON THE HARMFULNESS OF TOBACCO was one of the last pieces he wrote. Often presented as short farces or even one-note jokes, these plays are much more. Here characters struggle, are lost, unaware, scared ¿-¿ and always recognizably human. And as with Chekhov's great full-length plays, the "comedy" of these "comedies" is that of being profo...

Tech whiz kid Eddie Fisker joins forces with a new technology leader to create what amounts to a billion dollar house of cards. Surrounded by corporations that remember books as "little paper websites" and remind each other of various characters from the Muppets, the two try to survive the shockwaves, real and imagined, that threaten to topple their new product's success.

Eric Overmyer's cosmic comedy probes the world of international conspiracy, political paranoia, and intergalactic connections. "Paranoia produces profits in the dark, dangerous world created by Eric Overmyer's IN PERPETUITY THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE, a strange, sinister comedy ... Overmyer is a dazzling verbal acrobat as well as a serious student of pop culture. Both linguist and cultural anthropologist get a workout here ... A darker expeditio...

I despaired that any playwright, no matter how skilled, could wrestle this teeming narrative about Buffalo's grand days at the turn of the last century into an effective script for the theater. I needn't have worried. CITY OF LIGHT is a remarkable adaptation. Working closely with Belfer, Clarvoe has managed to condense the 500-plus-page book by focusing tightly on the theme of electricity and how the then-radically new technology spawned eve...

Life's meaning lies in the persistence of its creatures to establish their uniqueness and freedom in confrontation with their environment. The heroes of Sternheim ae not of the traditional cast-good, but not too good. They are, in fact, repulsive, malicious, cynical, morally degenerate creatures who nevertheless seem to win the approval of the author as exemplary representatives of vital principles in the order of things. Carol A Melillo Ste...

Rostand's masterpiece in verse CYRANO DE BERGERAC has enchanted audiences worldwide since the play's 1897 premiere in Paris. The iconic title role has inspired countless actors to light up stages large and small with wit, passion, and swashbuckling bravado. The play has seen thousands of productions in dozens of translations and adaptations and its plot has even found its way to modern Hollywood films and television sitcoms. This unabridged ...

What would happen to our world if anyone could choose to remix and rewrite their memories and personalities? Rich and Gretchen seem to have the ideal marriage, until they learn that it was manufactured by a mysterious biotech company which installed it into their brains. Because they can no longer afford this service, the company must repossess their improvements. REPOSSESSED explores questions of identity, morality, and authenticity amids...