Under Construction 3 “The Play You Want is a product of The Road Theatre Company’s playwriting workshop, Under Construction. I don’t know their formula, but whatever’s happening in...
Continuing the success of Under Construction 1-3, Carlyle King, Jessica Broutt, and Mackenna Goodrich went on a search for the playwrights for Under Construction 2023 (UC4). The Road...
Introducing the Playwrights of Under Construction 6. After reading and evaluating 250 wonderful submissions by playwrights from all over the country, we are proud to announce the Playwrights...
ABOUT UNDER CONSTRUCTION In 2019 Carlyle King and Jessica Broutt brought together a group of eleven playwrights, both emerging and established writers, to meet with the sole purpose...
Enjoy this special encore presentation by the Road Theatre of Jason Karasev’s “Death House”. On the night a death-house chaplain must hand over the reins to the confident...
The Road Theatre Company has produced over 100 mainstage productions, off-Road events, and workshop presentations in its 29-year history. Feel free to read more about our past productions...
Join us here from January 22-31, 2021 to watch Under Construction: The Full Lengths! All plays will run for three weeks on this page. Produced by: Carlyle King...
Join us here from September 23rd to October 3rd, 2021 to watch Under Construction: The Full Lengths – LIVE! Producer: Carlyle King Associate Producers: Meeghan Holaway, David...
Please join us on December 7th, 2020 at 7 PM for a virtual reading of Shelagh McFadden’s Connected directed by Bree Pavey and produced by David Meyers & Bart...
Please join us on Monday, May 24th at 6 PM PST for a special presentation of Lia Romeo‘s The Forest (virtual reading + conversation) directed by Diana Wyenn. This...
Produced by: Carlyle King & Meeghan Holaway Dramaturge: Jessica Broutt Assistant Dramaturge: Mackenna Goodrich
Produced by: Carlyle King & Meeghan Holaway Dramaturge: Jessica Broutt Assistant Dramaturge: Mackenna Goodrich
In a quiet bar, an aging flibbertigibbet recounts her (possibly apocryphal) celebrity encounters with each member of the Rat Pack. Her stories are met with encouraging acceptance from...
When Jacob, a newly assigned census taker, makes a home visit to Gloria and attempts to get clear answers to the standard questions on the government form he’s...
Ahmad is the groundskeeper at a cemetery in Afghanistan. When a local mother visits the cemetery, she befriends Ahmad and unearths a troubling secret that unites them both....
An innocent question posed at the start of a family dinner leads to a variety of unexpected conversations, confessions and one or two life-changing decisions. Also, there are...
Tells the story of two New York women arguing and grieving and recovering from the pandemic. Their clash raises sparks, conjures magic and comedy, and perhaps suggests a...
After three thousand years as the reviled monster with snakes on her head, Medusa persuades Athena that it’s time for a re-evaluation. A play in verse for a...
Sarah Boyd is going to save the earth from our self inflicted plastic disaster. The only thing standing in her way is the truth.
Jim Geoghan’s cat Shadow has spent thousands of hours teaching him the ups and downs of cat care and Jim has learned nothing. Development Interview With a Cat...
A comedy about negotiations, acceptance and belonging, The Big Red Naugahyde Booth (or, Would-be Elks) tracks the cocktails and confessions of a group of women who regularly meet...
Sakinah, an Arab American woman, undergoes a mental health evaluation to determine what led to the violent crime she committed against Emily, a rich heiress. The play explores...
Four Latino boxers with world title aspirations try to make a better life for themselves and find the entrance to Heaven. To reach Heaven, however, requires they fight...
An adult fairytale about grief, isolation, motherhood, and autonomy, Tilly Birdbones tells the story of a family’s final year with its youngest daughter, as recounted by the tutor...
1978. The first two female longshoremen at the Port of Los Angeles are trapped by their male co-workers in the cargo hold of a container ship just as...
Two people meet for a first date post pandemic. It isn’t easy.
What happens when a white Jewish family finds out that it’s not? White or Jewish. And if everyone involved, including a Black spouse and a Black best friend,...
A busy suburban mom communicates via text with her family about school fundraisers, the dinner menu, and all manner of logistics. Just as she masters her teen’s text...
The boatman of the underworld is having a career crisis. And when he meets a young woman who refuses to be ferried to the land of the dead,...
Two impoverished teens Robbin and Juan, are catapulted into a world of excessive wealth. Robbin attempts to level the playing field though Juan disagrees with her questionable methods....
Lewis, an aging White, progressive artistic director of a theater in Tulsa, Oklahoma has hired a Black Englishwoman to direct him in his swan song production of “King...
Three people at three different stages of life. A world that is too much. A existential desire to connect.
Two competing restaurateur immigrant families grapple with their rapidly changing world as the triple threats of gentrification, haute cuisine and high school graduation loom near.
Focusing on the issue of poverty and the inability to get ahead for working class people and people of color in the United States, this play focuses on...
The stars? The past? The future? Our own limits? Set in three different time periods, Singularities or the Computers of Venus, looks at the lives of women astronomers...
Hairy and Sherri (Sharon) are an “adorkable” interracial couple living in gentrified East Austin. When they very graciously and very publicly open their home to Ryshi, a 12-year-old...
Set during the summer of 2000, against the backdrop of the presidential race between Bush and Gore, at the dawn of reality television, when the Twin Towers stood...
Over the course of one year, two elderly friends meet for alcohol-fueled tea parties where they reminisce, argue, trade insults, and hash over the questions we all torment...