Our Mission

WEEK ONE:

Thursday, January 31
7pm: Closely Related Keys by Wendy Graf
An ambitious lawyer learns of her Iraqi half sister.

Friday, February 1
8pm: RPG by Chuck Rose
Two soldiers in an endless war meet during a rare moment of peace.

8:45pm: Mattresside by Chris Merrill
A contemporary, deranged fairytale of two competing sisters, a dying mother and a mattress with something to hide.

Saturday, February 2
1pm: All There is to Know by Tom Baum
A son comes to terms with his father's past.

2:30pm: The Gentle Brutality of Courtship by Andy Harmon
The story of the last living patient of Sigmund Freud. A scientific fairy tale.

5pm: Here’s to October by Lisa Bishop
A mother and daughter face life's challenges.

6pm: White Coyote Dreams by Keliher Walsh
An artist is haunted by Skin Walker visions.

8pm: Day Trader by Eric Rudnick
A failed writer plots to escape his family and run away with millions.

Sunday, February 3
1pm: Do Unto Others by Tom Lazarus
Two estranged sisters return home and resume the family nightmare.

WEEK TWO:

Monday, February 4
8pm: Feverish by Steve Yockey
A retelling of Phaedra and Hippolytus through a modern lens.

Tuesday, February 5
8pm: Lost Causes by Tony Pasqualini
In the wake of the Gabrielle Gifford shooting, a retired professor takes on a right wing radio host.

Thursday, February 7
7pm: The Long and Short of Long Term Memory by Cecil Castellucci
A brain scientist who specializes in memory is haunted by what he cannot forget.

8pm: YVY Featuring The Classroom by Wes Walker
Inverted Y and Y by Jacqueline Wright
Three pieces exploring words, story and compulsive behavior.

Friday, February 8
8:0pm: Ten Mile Lake by Tira Palmquist
It's hard to go home when your father doesn't like you …

Saturday, February 9
1pm: Heterophobia by Tom Baum
How not to open a restaurant.

2:30pm: Blood Replacement by Jennie Webb
A comedy about authenticity and drama and finding stand-ins.

4pm: Prozac & Other Miracles by Sheri Graubert
Bipolar next-door neighbor thinks he has the healing power of Jesus.

6pm: The Catch by Alison Tatlock
A father's secret mysteriously connects the lives of two teen girls.

8pm: Good Guys & Bad Guys by Will McFadden
A teacher must solve a mystery to clear his student's name.

Sunday, February 10
1pm: Time of the Troubles by Kitty Felde
Personal & political upheaval on the eve of a Kenyan election …

3:15pm: Blue Kiss by Stephen Fife
Two people -- a teacher and his student -- are plagued by shared secrets.

4:30pm: Wicked Johnny Mac/Girls Be Good by Elizabeth Logun
An American girl in an English girls boarding school in the 1970s.

6pm: The Gentleman Caller by Martin Hunter and & James Cunningham
A young hustler visits Tennessee Williams on the last night of his life and the lines between past, present and fiction blur.

8pm: Snake Wine by Tom Jacobson
An art exhibition in Thailand goes hilariously awry.

WEEK THREE:

Monday, February 11
8pm: Sizzle Sizzle by Stephen Fife
A dark comedy about an aspiring novelist losing his bearings.

Thursday, February 14
8pm: SPECIAL EVENT: The Vagina Monologues Charity Benefit
Produced and Directed by Sheena Metal

Friday, February 15
8pm: SPECIAL EVENT: The Vagina Monologues Charity Benefit
Produced and Directed by Sheena Metal

Saturday February 16
2pm: I Love Satan by Andrew Barrett
A true story of bullying in Queens, New York.

4pm: Los York by Tom Jacobson
A young man must choose between NY and LA … and his gay uncles.

8pm: SPECIAL EVENT: The Vagina Monologues Charity Benefit
Produced and Directed by Sheena Metal

Sunday, February 17
1:30pm: Five Hundred Goodbyes by Jeff Guenther
A man finds hope sensing wheels turning beneath his mother's senility.

2pm: Spitting Image/The Host by Eric Boles
Two black comedies:
Spitting Image a Dark Romantic Comedy
The Host a Psychological Thriller

3pm: Natasha’s Dream by Yaroslava Pulinovich
Adapted by Susan Franklin Tanner
A teenage orphan pleads for her freedom and dreams of being loved.

4pm: Maintaining the House by Carole Real
Cheryl and Tom try to get Cheryl's elderly mom on board regarding repairs.

4:30pm: Going Home by Ed Napier
Homecoming in West Virginia for his mother's funeral becomes a family drama for now New Yorker Tony Meredith.

7pm: Rembrandt’s Wife by Garrett M. Brown
Two painters ponder success and failure in front of a Rembrandt self-portrait.

WEEK FOUR:

Monday, February 18
7:30pm: Two Virgins In Togas Chained to a Rock by Heather Robinson
A dark comedy about two virginal sacrifices in ancient Greece waiting to die.

8pm: Heterodoxy by Stephen Dierkes
A sex farce set against the backdrop of the heresy wars of 451 A.D.

Thursday, February 21
8pm: The Autopsy of Honeybees by Stevie Stern
A young woman struggles to keep her life from spiraling downward.

Friday, February 22
7:30pm: Eve Subject by Aïda Mashaka Croal
An unlikely couple grasps for happiness in the midst of a dystopic world.

8pm: Flawed Words and Stubborn Sounds by The EST/LA Affiliates

Saturday, February 23
12pm: … And the Two Romeos by Jennifer Maisel
Stacy is plagued by the ghosts of the two boys who killed themselves in a suicide she was supposed to be part of.

2pm: That Men Do by Chad Beckim
Sophie has a problem: her mother Alma is marrying the seemingly benign George, but Sophie’s Scrabble game has begun to whisper secrets that make her desperate to rid her life of her impending step-father once and for all.

4pm: Nightlands by Sylvan Oswald
August 1964: sparks fly between two women and ignite an entire city.

8pm: Flawed Words and Stubborn Sounds by The EST/LA Affiliates

Sunday, February 24
12pm: The Perfect Spot for a New World by Jennifer McKenna
An intimate, unconventional glimpse into a fantasy world created out of the confines of grave illness and how it affects the relationship between a young husband and wife.

1:45pm: Descend by Tony Foster
A modern Richard II in the world of 70’s high-end newspaper publishing.

4pm: Hail by Edward Riche
Four men face comeuppance for a past crime.

6:30pm: El by Tim Lopez Perez
As death approaches, Fidel Castro revisits his rise to power.

Monday, February 25
7:30pm: The Johnson Chronicles by Peter J. Harris
A bold, funny, sensual, historical, and conversational ‘body memoir’ in the spirit of The Vagina Monologues.