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WEEK ONE:

 

Tuesday, January 10

7:00pm:  Under Milk Weed by Nick Pernice
A comedic literary, socio-political satire based on Dylan Thomas’s famed ‘Under Milk Wood.’

Wednesday, January 11

7:00pm:  The Judge’s Decision by Michael Goldstein
Former Olympic sprinter Candace Meriwether pleads with the audience, her family, field judges and ultimately with Death itself for just one more shot at the gold.

8:00pm Billionaire$ by Michael Sargent
Billionaires "play" each other for love and money in exotic locales. 

Thursday, January 12

7:00pm:  Only Say The Word by Colin Mitchell
A red state family tries to survive an ever-enclosing sea of blue when two brothers and an unexpected guest return for the youngest daughter's graduation from high school.

9:00pm:  Human Services by Tom Baum
A pop star gets sentenced to a halfway house. 

Friday, January 13

7:00pm:  Asylum by Chuck Rose
A mysterious man changes the lives of people he meets in a mental home.

9:00pm:  House & Home by Charlie Parks
A son returns home to find his parents literally in shambles.

Saturday, January 14

1:30pm:  Carrying by Melissa Jane Osborne
A lesbian couple finds an unlikely surrogate in a middle-aged artist.

3:00pm:  Night for Day by Nicholas Kazan
Bad boy comes home.

6:00pm:  House of Stone by Richard Martin Hirsch
A self-proclaimed “Jew in atheist’s clothing” finds his sanity in doubt after an important woman in his life has died. 

8:30pm:  Agnes Under The Big Top by Aditi Brennan Kapil
This tall tale explores the intersecting lives of four immigrants in America—a Liberian home care worker, a former Bulgarian ringmaster and his wife, and an Indian call center escapee—a bedridden recluse and an itinerant subway busker in a matrix of identity and reinvention.

Sunday, January 15

12:30pm:  The Luckiest Girl by Kitty Felde
Ten year-old Tahira moves from California to Holland and to the horror of her grandmother, becomes smitten with the politically incorrect Dutch holiday character in blackface, Zwarte Piet.

2:00pm:  The Contract by James Webb
An African-American pastor of a large Southern mega church has a sexual liason with a young male grad student at the behest of his wife, and as a result endangers the entire enterprise.

4:00pm:  Total Power Exchange by Edith Freni
Interconnected individuals face the fall-out of the sex industry.

6:30pm:  Artifice by Anne Flanagan
A classic farce, where telling lies gets everyone into deep trouble.

8:30pm:  Morgenstern in Vienna by Alan Goodson
An American author living in Vienna deals with his estranged daughter, a fan/journalist, and a glacier that will change his life forever. 

 
WEEK TWO:
 

7:00pm:  The Happy Slave by Jonas Oppenheim
A comedy about how history is taught—and mistaught—in America.

8:15pm:  Moments Before Medicine by Brian James Polak
Trapped inside a mobile home with a baby on the way and her doctor as her sugar-daddy, Betsy relies on her fantasies of an idyllic life with Cody until the moment comes when they both realize there may be no such thing.

Wednesday, January 18

8:00pm:  Memorizing Rome by Richard Martin Hirsch
Four women—and one unwilling fifteen year-old—vacation in Rome.

Thursday, January 19

7:00pm:  The Annual Meeting of the American Society of
Lone Fisherman Who Have Found Dead Bodies
by T.S. Cook
A man goes fishing and catches some unexpected truths.

9:00pm:  The Devil’s Sonata by Marek Glinski
A violinist composes a sonata with the help of Satan.

Friday, January 20

7:00pm:  Accidentally, Like a Martyr by Grant James Varjas
In a bar, men from different generations while away a winter evening revealing secrets, opening old wounds, and meeting new visitors in a funny and poignant manner.

9:00pm:  The Suck by Chris Merrill
The void left in the Andrews' household from daughter Nicky's departure for Hollywood is temporarily filled when an unsuspecting vacuum cleaner salesman comes knocking. 

Saturday, January 21

12:00pm:  Watching OJ by David McMillan
On October 3rd, 1995, a group of friends and coworkers watch the infamous O.J. Simpson verdict—revealing racial tensions, differences of perspective, and secrets that will change their lives forever.

2:30pm:  Deus Ex Machina by Tom Jacobson
Archaeologists fulfill an ancient Roman prophecy that ends the world. 
[Part of a triolgy that also includes Clytemnestra and The Rosy Fingers of Dawn, both showing on Saturday January 28] 

5:00pm:  Match by Jennifer Maisel
A journey into the underbelly of bartering for your organs…and perhaps for your soul.

7:30pm:  Like a Silica Milkshake by Karen Rizzo
Two couples, two different lifestyles, two dead birds, and one feral cat.

9:00pm:  Boundaries by Chris diGiovanni
An artist's plans are thwarted when a rancher becomes inquisitive.

Sunday, January 22

1:00pm:  A Scream by Gina Barnett
A capricious look at art forgeries, authenticity, and legitimacy.

4:00pm:  Mixquixtal by Jacqeline Wright
Ann decends into the world of the dead to revenge her daughter’s death.

6:00pm:  Live Girls by Tim Cummings
A disillusioned young woman haunted by her sister’s death takes a job in a rundown porn theater in a seedy port city.   

8:00pm:  The Blood Poems by Garrett M. Brown
A daughter's poems, a father's pain, colliding at a Sunday p.m. poetry read.

 
WEEK THREE:
 

Tuesday, January 24

8:00pm:  Inconnu Special Event: Species Native to California by Dorothy Fortenberry
Inspired by Anton Chekov's classic play The Cherry Orchard, the play is epic and messy and features 8 beautiful actors speaking 2 languages.

Wednesday, January 25

7:30pm:  We Are The Great Granddaughters of Patrick Sarsfield Rail by Carole Real
Two sisters, a cousin, and a dead ancestor regroup after a family reunion.

8:00pm:  The Fourth Estate by Colin Mitchell
A disgraced journalist gets a second chance to redeem himself fifty years later, when a student researching his story goes missing.

Thursday, January 26

7:00pm:  Andrea Lane by Steve Serpas
A comedy about personal values, mid-life awakenings, and the limits of friendship.

8:30pm:  Shiner by Christian Durso
Two thirteen year-old kids who bond over grunge music decide to make a pact to commit suicide after going to their hero's concert.

Friday, January 27

6:00pm:  Family Planning by Michelle Kholos Brooks
A broken family is forced to live together again.

8:00pm:  Rescuers by Tom Baum
Two lovers struggle to free themselves from their families.

Saturday, January 28

1:00pm:  Idols of the Cave by Keliher Walsh
A family of cross-dressing, agoraphobic, ex-TV stars, holed up in the Valley, are confronted with the shame of the past and the whacky possibilities of the future.

3:30pm:  Lucy’s Wedding by Randolyn Zinn
The women of the family gather for the youngest daughter's wedding.

5:30pm:  Clytemnestra by Tom Jacobson
Electra told from Clytemnestra's point of view; an irreverent revision.
Written by Tom Jacobsen

8:00pm: The Rosy Fingers of Dawn by Tom Jacobson
A Roman family stages a fake Greek play in Pompeii in 79 AD.

Sunday, January 29

1:00pm:  The Great 11 by Lea Floden
A twisted family comedy about the descendants of a mysterious 1920s cult.

3:30pm:  Bela Lugosi’s Dead & Late Snow (two one-act plays) by James MacDonald
1986-three young guys; a NYC apt./2011-three middle-aged people; a chance encounter. 

5:00pm:  Apocrypha by Stephen Dierkes
A spirtied and comedic romp through religious perception and history.

6:30pm:  Ees Story Uff Poor Sea Village Gerl by Mara Lathrop
Can poor gerl from teenytiny sea village become rich and faymoose, someday find happiness, maybe even luff? Please to join gerl -- ees veryvery excitement!

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