by Stephen Belber
Directed by Elliot Cruz
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7pm
and Friday at 11pm
By Nicky Silver
Directed by Jon Manganello and Derek Joseph Tran
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7pm
and Friday at 11pm
Jon, an aspiring filmmaker on the verge of hitting it big, hooks up for the weekend with his best friend from high school, Vince, a volunteer fireman who makes his money selling dope. Jon's new film is being shown at a festival in Lansing, Michigan, and Vince has come from Oakland to see it. Over the course of the evening, Vince finally gets Jon to admit that ten years ago he date-raped Amy Randall, a girl whom they both dated in high school—only then to reveal that he's taped their entire conversation. And not only that, he's invited Amy to have dinner with them that night. Beneath its sus-penseful, high-stakes surface, TAPE examines questions of motive, memory, truth and perception.
THE ALTRUISTS revolves around a dedicated, if disorganized and demented, group of young radicals. These are the kids who protest. They protest arts funding and arms funding. They protest school cutbacks and AIDS cutbacks and welfare cutbacks. They march for gay rights and children's rights and Women Against Drunk Drivers. But their morality is put to the test one day when Sydney, a shallow, anorexic soap-opera actress, fires a gun into the hulking body of her sleeping boyfriend. Terrified, she looks to her brother, Ronald, the center of this merry band of radicals, for help.
by Stephen Belber
Directed by Billy Jackson
Thursday 7 and 11
Friday 7 and 11
by Declan Sheahan
Directed by Nicole Gellman and Declan Sheahan
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7pm
and Friday at 11pm
Exquisitely written, affecting and often humorous, Wit follows a brilliant and exacting poetry professor as she undergoes experimental treatment for cancer. A scholar who devoted her life to academia, she must now face the irony and injustice of becoming the subject of research.
A tale of love and hate (mostly hate), Gap Yah follows four British seniors as they daringly make a choice to take a year off from studying and travel. They set off leaving behind a world of academic disappointment, a bitch girlfriend (or is she?), unsupportive parents, and wonky teeth (or are they?)... thankfully they didn't leave their tiddlywinks behind! What they discover will re-define their relationships with themselves, each other and beyond (God?). Can they Keep Calm and Carry On? Will this journey be the cure to their hopeless home-lives back in Blighty?
By Annie Baker
Directed by Ruby Grammatico
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7pm
and Friday at 11pm
By Tom Stoppard
Directed by Scott Kloosterman
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7pm
and Friday at 11pm
When four lost New Englanders who enroll in Marty's six-week-long community-center drama class begin to experiment with harmless games, hearts are quietly torn apart, and tiny wars of epic proportions are waged and won. A beautifully crafted diorama, a petri dish in which we see, with hilarious detail and clarity, the antic sadness of a motley quintet.
Feuding theatre critics Moon and Birdfoot are swept into the whodunit they are viewing. In this hilarious spoof of Agatha Christie-like melodramas that follows, the body under the sofa proves to be the missing first string critic. As the mist rise about isolated Muldoon Manor, Moon and Birdfoot become dangerously implicated in the lethal activities of an escaped madman.