In the late 1960s, Grace has become a teen mom at 16. Her daughter has been taken away from her, against her will. Her boyfriend, the little girl’s father, has been killed on the battlefield while serving in Vietnam. Now, Grace is determined to do whatever is necessary to get her daughter back. First, Grace will have a reckoning with her own mother. The playwright, Sandra Cruze, performs her work as a solo piece. Grace is extracted from a full-length, full-cast (nine) play. Cruze’s previous work includes a short play (She Was Dick’s Tracie),, a short film (The Physics of Killing), a web serie ..read more

Ludlow has been overweight his entire life, from childhood through adulthood. He’s depressed about being fat, but his mom is about to give him an entirely new perspective on things. Yunyi Zhu directs Justice Davis and Zelda Kimbal. F.J. Hartland is the playwright. Based in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, he is the recipient of an M.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University. The prolific writer’s previous plays include Games of the Mind, A Piano Player with Sad Brown Eyes, What the Puck?, Tina, Be a Guest, Smoke and Fire, and more. He is also a director (over 100 credits) and actor. Because the American ..read more

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Two priestesses are debating the beauty of Cleopatra outside her chambers. The discussion ends up being about far more than beauty as the older priestess tries to convince the younger one that sometimes beauty should stay in the eye of the beholder. This is a comedy about power that takes a few sharp jabs at history. Yuniy Zhu directs Goreti da Silva as Akila and Monique Gonsalves as Anat. Kevin Broccoli is the playwright. His most recent play, The Jelly Bean, was a selection at the Pittsburgh New Works Festival. His other plays include American Strippers, Does It Rain on Mars?,, James Franco ..read more

A young sex researcher is conducting interviews with men and women forty years his senior finding many of their answers quite surprising and just a bit unnerving. Bernadette Armstrong directs Joyce Hananel as Mavis and Matthew Scott Montgomery as Alan. Rich Rubin is the playwright. Based in Portland, Oregon, he is a member of the Dramatists Guild and is the recipient of six playwriting awards. His full-length plays include Caesar’s Blood, Costa Rehab, Cottonwood in the Flood, Marilyn/MISFITS/Miller, One Weekend in October, September Twelfth, and many more. Founded by playwright and filmmake ..read more

Martine and Amy are actresses about to open in a Broadway play. Martine is assured. Amy, who lives in a shelter, is fragile. They are friends. The enemy of the title is Paul, a theatre critic with a razor-sharp pen dipped in acid. Are the actresses prepared to face their foe? Dennis Gersten directs a cast that includes Leah Jarvik, Whitton Frank, Peter Bonoff, and Matt Ritchey. Dana Coen is the playwright. He received an M.F.A. from UCLA. He is the Director of the Writing for Screen and Stage program at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill. His previous plays include Bunches of Bett ..read more

Martine and Amy are actresses about to open in a Broadway play. Martine is assured. Amy, who lives in a shelter, is fragile. They are friends. The enemy of the title is Paul, a theatre critic with a razor-sharp pen dipped in acid. Are the actresses prepared to face their foe? Dennis Gersten directs a cast that includes Leah Jarvik, Whitton Frank, Peter Bonoff, and Matt Ritchey. Dana Coen is the playwright. He received an M.F.A. from UCLA. He is the Director of the Writing for Screen and Stage program at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill. His previous plays include Bunches of Bett ..read more

A white police captain, his white wife, and their two adopted Black teen children try to keep their family from being torn apart as their town and the nation become engulfed in protests in the immediate aftermath of the murder of George Floyd. Open-Door Playhouse continues to present plays in podcast form. Whitesville is a full-length, three-act play. Each act will be presented in a separate podcast episode online. Act One will debut on February 13, 2024, Act Two on February 14, and Act Three on February 15 at  http://opendoorplayhouse.org All three acts will continue to be available on ..read more

A white police captain, his white wife, and their two adopted Black teen children try to keep their family from being torn apart as their town and the nation become engulfed in protests in the immediate aftermath of the murder of George Floyd. Open-Door Playhouse continues to present plays in podcast form. Whitesville is a full-length, three-act play. Each act will be presented in a separate podcast episode online. Act One will debut on February 13, 2024, Act Two on February 14, and Act Three on February 15 at  http://opendoorplayhouse.org All three acts will continue to be available on ..read more

A white police captain, his white wife, and their two adopted Black teen children try to keep their family from being torn apart as their town and the nation become engulfed in protests in the immediate aftermath of the murder of George Floyd. Open-Door Playhouse continues to present plays in podcast form. Whitesville is a full-length, three-act play. Each act will be presented in a separate podcast episode online. Act One will debut on February 13, 2024, Act Two on February 14, and Act Three on February 15 at  http://opendoorplayhouse.org All three acts will continue to be available on ..read more