Kinky Boots
Detailed Synopsis (Spoiler alert)
ACT I At the Price & Son shoe factory in Northampton, England, young Charlie learns from his father, the factory’s owner, that “the most beautiful thing in the world” is a well-made shoe. Mr….
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Read MoreCipher
Q&A with Playwrights Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths
What inspired you to write this play? Is this story based on, or inspired by, true events? Were the characters, or any aspects of the story, drawn from personal experience? The play is inspired by…
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Read MoreCipher
Detailed Synopsis (Spoiler alert)
ACT ONE 1956: The body of a man that at first appears lifeless suddenly awakens. He (“the Body”) is aboard a ferry approaching Victoria, B.C. He writes cryptic notes inside a small book—the cipher,…
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Read MoreMiss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
Detailed Synopsis (Spoiler Alert)
ACT ONE England, 1815: Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth (Lizzy) Darcy prepare their country estate, Pemberley, to host family and friends for Christmas. Darcy tells his wife that, in addition to their expected visitors, they will be…
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Read MoreIt's a Wonderful Christmas-ish Holiday Miracle
Q&A with playwright Marcus Youssef
What inspired you to write this play? Were the characters, or any aspects of the story, drawn from personal experience? Both my wife and I are from blended families that experienced divorce when we were…
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Read MoreIt's a Wonderful Christmas-ish Holiday Miracle
Detailed Show Synopsis (Spoiler Alert)
Act One: As the play opens, Esther, the ghost of a deceased elderly woman, speaks directly to the audience. She relays her views on death and the holiday season while lining up to gain access…
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Read MoreThe Sound of Music
Detailed Show Synopsis (Spoiler Alert)
ACT ONE On the eve of World War II at an abbey in the Austrian Alps, a free-spirited young novitiate (novice in a religious order), Maria, is assigned by her abbess to temporarily serve as …
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Read MoreCost of Living
Detailed Show Synopsis (Spoiler Alert)
In a bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in December, a man in his late 40s, Eddie, has come because he received a text from his deceased ex-wife’s cell phone number saying she was at this bar….