What of the Night
What of the Night is a prophecy about the effects of greed and poverty on American life. A Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1990, today that prophecy feels perhaps more urgent than ever before.
Wine and Pizza
Sisters Melissa and Liz have had a strained relationship over the years, but especially since the death of their father three years ago. “Wine and Pizza” is an examination of the human spirit during one family’s heartache, dysfunction, and survival.
We Are Not Well
We Are Not Well (2019)
By Trish Harnetiaux
A failing cruise line calls on an avant-garde theatre director to adapt Eugène Ionesco’s The Chairs, set to premiere on its new Bahamas route. What could go wrong?
Machinal
A woman struggles to live and love in a modern, technological world. She becomes so overwhelmed with how mechanical and sad life is, she murders her husband.
Spring Awakening
A collaboration between students of NYU Tisch and LSTFI, the hit musical SPRING AWAKENING follows group of teenagers grappling with puberty and sexuality in 19th century Germany.
Old Friends Who Just Met
Old Friends Who Just Met (2018)
By Amy E. Witting
As graduation approaches, nine roommates of Odyssey College’s Class of 2001 learn to navigate their lives and find their voices – all in an ever more complex time in history.
An Enemy of the People
After Dr. Stockmann discovers contamination in the water supply of a small town, he is abused, ignored, and forced into silence when he tries to tell the public about the issue.
Love and Information
A kaleidoscopic play of short scenes addressing contemporary issues about knowledge, technology and communication, and our capacity for love.
Goosey
Growing up, Lucy had to deal with her father’s fame as a comedian and, especially, his most prominent creation: Days in the Hospital – a TV show inspired by her mother’s death.
Millennial Pink Falcon
Millennial Pink Falcon (2018)
By Katie Hathaway
A think tank in a distant but also not so distant future is tasked with one job: finding the best possible way to explain to humankind that there are aliens in their midst.
Harper Regan
Harper Regan – who suddenly walks away from her husband, her daughter and her job to go and see her dying father – finds herself on a journey of disconnection and realism.
Parade
In 1913, Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-raised Jew living in Georgia, is put on trial for the murder of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory worker under his employment.
Twelve Angry Men
A 19-year-old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. It looks like an open-and-shut case—until one of the jurors opens up the facts.
The Time of Your Life
Presented by the NYU Tisch at Strasberg advanced training students, The Time of Your Life follows Joe and the regulars of the local bar. Joe is wealthy and doesn’t need to work, so he spends his days holding court in Nick’s Pacific Street Saloon.
Ajax in Iraq
Past and present collide in Ellen McLaughlin’s mash-up of Sophocles’ classic tragedy Ajax with the modern-day war in Iraq.
GOD OF MARZ
Two astronauts who land on Mars and encounter God, only to have their belief system and way of life challenged. Also, God is not quite who they pictured she’d be. In fact, she’s a Jewish auntie who’s into kink.
The Motherf**ker with the Hat
Jackie, a former drug dealer, has just been released from prison and is living with his high school sweetheart, Veronica. As his relationships to those he loved and trusted most dissolve before his eyes, Jackie has to decide whether he is truly ready to give up his vices in order to move into a brighter future.
East Coast Curriculum
East Coast Curriculum (2017)
By Lucy Thurber
In this modern day riff on Arthur Schnitzer’s La Ronde set in an elite liberal arts college, twelve students’ lives intertwine as they discover the fear and ecstasy of finding yourself.
Radium Girls
Radium is a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage. Until the girl who paint the watch dials begin to die.
Woyzeck
Loosely based on the real figure of Johann Christian Woyzeck, Georg Buchner’s Woyzeck is a naturalist indictment of the dehumanizing effects of the military and science on unsuspecting victims.
Fool for Love
Directed by Shaun Peknic, Fool for Love was selected to participate in the 9th annual ITSelF Festival in Warsaw, Poland. Set in a desolate motel room on the edge of the Mojave Desert, the play displays an alternately tender and violent love-hate relationship.
Urinetown: The Musical
In the not-so-distant future, a terrible water shortage and 20-year drought has led to a government ban on private toilets and a proliferation of paid public toilets, owned and operated by a single megalomaniac company: the Urine Good Company.
Unity (1918)
LSTFI presents Kevin Karr’s Unity (1918) directed by Kareem Fahmy.
A Flea in Her Ear
Raymonde Chandebise is worried that her husband, Victor Emmanuel, is being unfaithful so she devises a plot to test him. Chaos ensues when all the characters meet at a promiscuous hotel.