FIRST READING SERIES
Monday, September 20
7PM
The Ocean Around Us
by David Lavine
Christopher Rose, a young artist whose paintings are destroyed in a studio fire on the eve of a possible breakout solo show, struggles to piece together a chain of life-changing events. His older brother, Lawrence, a psychiatrist, tends to him while facing his own transgressions from years past. A powerful, haunting play that is searing with regret and disconcertingly erotic, and told entirely in reverse.
Monday, September 27
7PM
Swimming Uptown
by Cheryl Davis
The story of Samantha Alexander, a highly educated African-American woman with a stellar job, an immaculate apartment, and an apparently wonderful life. Samantha has her world turned upside down when her sister is imprisoned and she must look after her teenaged (and ghetto-raised) niece Tiya. In attempting to cope with the chaos her life has become, Samantha is forced to reconnect with her family -- and herself.
Monday, October 4
7PM
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by Cheri Magid
Bobo and Costis have just received one invitation too many. Sick of feeling that their lives are being overtaken by other people, the two use a Facebook app to alert 998 of their nearest and dearest that they are actively de-friending them. A domino effect of retribution occurs, with both comic and tragic effect.
Thursday, October 7
2PM
Hollywood Nurses
by Sheila Head & Peter Michael Marino
Nurse Jenny Tyler is running from her past. Nurse Suzanne Medford is running from her present. When their secret worlds collide at Holly View Hospital they ignite forbidden passions, erupting into a dangerous scandal that even the most modern medicine cannot cure. A comic homage to the lesbian pulp novels of the 1950s.
STAGED READING SERIES
There are no staged readings scheduled at this time.
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