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Tainted Blood

July 24, 2020 10:59 pm Published by

The play is a comic fantasy set in 1878 off the shore of Lough Corrib, Ireland. Jacobson’s plot is fiendishly clever. It involves three literary icons in their...

The Merchant of Venice

July 24, 2020 10:05 pm Published by

Antonio, an antisemitic merchant, takes a loan from the Jew Shylock to help his friend to court Portia. Antonio can’t repay the loan, and without mercy, Shylock demands...

Yuletidings!

July 24, 2020 9:49 pm Published by

A humorous and heartwarming compilation of short stage works that celebrates the holidays of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and New Year’s.

An American Romance

July 23, 2020 4:46 pm Published by

1841. Brook Farm, one of America’s first utopian communities. There, Nathanial Hawthorne and his friends attempted to establish a rational society but were led astray by their own...

Idle Wheels

July 23, 2020 4:10 pm Published by

Idle minds are the devil’s workshop in this story of a Texas trailer park transplant stuck in the frozen Alaskan tundra.

Balm in Gilead

July 5, 2020 10:27 pm Published by

The setting is an all-night coffee shop on New York’s upper Broadway, where the riff-raff, the bums, the petty thieves, the lost, the desperate of the big city...

Pirates

July 12, 2020 3:00 pm Published by

Helen, a soon-to-be single parent and history professor at a small East Coast college, grapples with her conservative colleagues while researching a book-length project on infamous pirate Anne...

Akela

July 12, 2020 3:51 pm Published by

A pair of very old, close friends find their lives changed forever after a seemingly innocent weekend camping trip turns tragic in an instant.

Merlin

July 12, 2020 4:03 pm Published by

Why can’t the humans just get their act together? Must history repeat itself again and again? And can the human race exist in a completely recycled world? To...

Aesop’s Fables

July 12, 2020 2:58 pm Published by

A children’s theatre project presenting 30 Hazeltine Elementary School students’ adaptations of Aesop’s Fables.

The Walkers

July 11, 2020 6:21 pm Published by

Life in Suburban “Anytown, USA” takes its toll on this not so typical American family, a family as different as day and night. Traditional family values take a...

Vig

July 11, 2020 5:40 pm Published by

In the backroom of a small Boston bar, Irish and Italian, black and white, men and women, meet to drink and gamble. The local car plant has been...

Mooncalf

July 11, 2020 5:26 pm Published by

Timmy works in a tanning factory. He is a mooncalf. Timmy transforms his bleak existence through starling and unnatural fantasy. But when two amoral drifters enter Timmy’s life,...

Why Things Burn

July 11, 2020 5:18 pm Published by

It’s the fall of 1952. A second-rate circus disbands on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Inside a trailer, the strong man makes love to the trick pony rider....

The Suicide

July 11, 2020 4:56 pm Published by

Unemployment is skyrocketing. Corrupt politicians are eroding rights of free speech. Soon, even our bodies will belong to the state. Welcome to Russia, circa 1930, as the Road...

I-land

July 11, 2020 4:40 pm Published by

It’s November 8, 1988 and the reign of King Ronnie and Queen Nancy is coming to an end. The scepter of power is soon to be transferred to...

Carlyle King

Are the Arts Important?

May 13, 2020 6:39 pm Published by

By Carlyle King Road Artistic Board Member Dear Road Family and Friends of the Arts, I am sure that I speak for the majority of us but I can’t wait...

Bisexual Sadness

July 30, 2023 4:19 pm Published by

BISEXUAL SADNESS is about what it sounds like. Faye is getting married to a man, and though she really truly loves him, she wishes he was a woman....

Scintilla

February 19, 2020 10:44 pm Published by

Michael and Nora travel to visit his mother Marianne, a reclusive artist who lives at the edge of the woods in California’s Wine Country. As a raging wildfire...