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
2017 StrasbergWORKS Selection
Two astronauts land on Mars and encounter God – only to have their entire belief system and way of life challenged.
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.
Love Letters to My Children
2016 StrasbergWORKS Selection
Tensions erupt in the Salvadi family, a tight-knit Italian Jewish clan, as they face the rise of Fascism in pre-World War II Milan.
Our Lady of 121st Street
After the death of the beloved Sister Rose, a group of her former students return to their Harlem neighborhood to pay respects. But at the funeral home, there’s a problem: her dead body has been stolen.
Ugly Little Sister
Ugly Little Sister (2016)
By Charlotte Miller
Wonder what would happen if the Kardashians were in a Greek tragedy? A group of sisters seek divine intervention in their human schemes and utter chaos ensues.
The Wild Party
Lovers Queenie and Burrs decide to throw the party-to-end-all-parties in their Manhattan apartment. As the drama is reaching a climax, the gun is fired. But who’s been shot?
Pulp Vérité
Pulp Vérité (2015)
By Crystal Skillman
A team of filmmakers return to the States from Syria to finish a documentary. But what begins as a story about creating art to survive turns deeply personal as they attempt to bring their last crew member home.
Wayward
Wayward (2015)
By Steve DiUbaldo
At a nature camp for troubled teens, Wanda finds herself immersed in a world of conflicting truths battling for salvation.
Balm in Gilead
Set in Frank’s Cafe, a greasy diner in NYC, the play focuses on the relationship between Joe, a drug dealer indebted to a kingpin named Chuckles, and Darlene, a naive girl who has just moved to the city.
EMILIIE: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight
18th century scientific genius Emilie du Châtelet is back and determined to answer the question she died with: love or philosophy, head or heart?
I Remember It Well
2015 StrasbergWORKS Selection
I Remember It Well tells the true story of famous French actor, singer, and entertainer, Maurice Chevalier.
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
In a small Oklahoma town we find Rubin, a traveling salesman for a harness firm, Cora, his sensitive and lovely wife, Sonny, their little boy and Reenie, their teenage daughter.
Middletown
As a friendship develops between longtime resident John Dodge and new arrival Mary Swanson, the lives of the inhabitants of Middletown intersect in strange and compelling ways.
Blue Window
Commitment is pictured as the blue window that skydivers see when they get ready to jump from a plane. Some people jump. Others hesitate, some to be pushed, some to never leave the plane.
Red Light Winter
Directed by Laura Savia, Red Light Winter will be traveling to Warsaw, Poland to represent the United States in the ITSelf Festival in Summer 2015.
Merrily We Roll Along
LSTFI and NYU Tisch at Strasberg present Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along!