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Inspired by Nicolai Gogol's famous short story, Wolf Mankowitz's The Bespoke Overcoat is by turns a deeply comic and unforgettably poignant reimagining of Gogol's most famous classic tale, The Overcoat. Reset by Mankowitz into the Jewish East End of London, this story about an old clerk who can't afford a new overcoat is a tale of love and resilience told with dignity and humor. Immediately hailed as one of Britain's most exciting young playwrights when the play opened in London in 1953, Mankowitz adapted it into a film that won the Oscar at the 29th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject Film in 1957. The son of a Jewish bookseller in London's East End, Mankowitz was a prolific dramatist, novelist, and screenwriter often know for depicting acts of humanity in a flawed but facinating world.

Storybook Theatre's joyful Cinderella is a funny version specifically created to appeal to young children and the whole family. Complete with a loopy Fairy Godmother and puppets as the stepsisters, kids get the chance to dance with the Prince, try on the glass slipper, and join in the fun.

This award-winning comedy-drama looks at modern love, complicated relationships, working-from-home and a family that is actually functional. Poetic and - at times - starting, this play was voted by the American National Critics Association as the Best Regional Play of 1992. What starts as a delicious, fast-paced romantic comedy, pivots as a medical crisis forces the family members to ask serious questions and not everyone wants to know the answers. This play was actually developed at The Group Rep, premiered at The Colony, and has since traveled the world. This revival promises to be as engaging as it was before the turn of the (last) century.

Meet Juicy, a young, queer Black man with a Shakespearean-sized dilemma. When the ghost of his dead father shows up at his family's BBQ wedding reception demanding his murder be avenged, does the poetic and sensitive Juicy have it in him to do the deed, or will he "to thine own self be true?" See what the New York Times calls "a hilarious yet profound tragedy smothered in comedy," in this Pulitzer Prize-winning take on Hamlet, direct from Broadway to L.A.

The Fountain Theatre presents the world premiere of Fatherland, a riveting true story. A 19-year-old faces the hardest day in his life when he testifies in federal court after informing the FBI of his father's involvement in the Jan 6 attack on Capitol. Fast-moving, powerful, and theatrical, Fatherland erupts verbatim from official court transcripts, case evidence, and public statements.

Trust me, I’m a doctor.” Jonathan Slavin (Santa Clarita Diet, Dr. Ken, Better Off Ted) stars in Freud on Cocaine, an outrageous new comedy based on the documented letters, notes, dreams, and recollections of neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud that attest to his decade-long use of cocaine, both in his practice and personal life.

The sensational Broadway revival dazzles with celebrated classic songs, including "Don't Rain On My Parade," "I'm the Greatest Star," and "People." This bittersweet comedy is the story of the indomitable Fanny Brice, a girl from the Lower East Side who dreamed of a life on the stage. Everyone told her she'd never be a star, but then something funny happened-she became one of the most beloved performers in history, shining brighter than the brightest lights of Broadway.

What happens when boredom turns into rage? When four polygamist sister-wives learn their Prophet (and shared husband) is opening a beautiful embassy to greet visitors from the East, all hell breaks loose in their gilded cage. He needs a hostess, and it will go to his favorite wife… whoever that may be. There can be only one. There will be blood. God help them.

Into the Breeches! is set during World War Two. Oberon Play House's director and leading men are off at war with the Axis. Determined to press on, the director's wife sets out to produce an all-female version of Shakespeare's Henriad, assembling an increasingly unexpected team united in desire, if not actual theatre experience. Together they deliver a delightful celebration of collaboration and persistence when the show must go on!

King Hedley II continues the stories of characters first introduced in Seven Guitars and shows the tragic realities for Black men in 1980's, Reagan-era Pittsburgh. After seven years in prison, King attempts to rebuild his life, peddling stolen refrigerators to get the money to buy a video store. But his self-worth is built on self-delusion, and he plants seeds where nothing will grow.

Poster web.jpgWhen his husband dies, Remy Washington, a Black man, finds himself to be the owner of a drive-in movie theater and a caregiver to his late husband's straight, white teenage son, Pup. United by their love of classic American monster movies, the two have developed a warm and caring familial chemistry - but their relationship fractures when Remy discovers that Pup and his friends have been bullying a gay teen at his school. Told through dueting monologue and playful dialogue, this haunting and humorous tale is about fathers and sons, ghosts and monsters, discovery and resilience while being transported to worlds beyond through the American cinema.

“Nicky and the Angels” follows three teenage theater kids - aspiring actor Nicky, pre-med-tracked singer Courtney and aspiring Broadway dancer Angie - in the spring of 1982 in the City of Angels as they are falling in love with musicals, the big bright world outside of high school, and the wrong people. What they discover about themselves and each other will change everything.

"Ophelia" is an existential dramedy dealing with time-shifting, finding one's destiny and the quest to fix a "broken life."

Power and Light is the story of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla and how the battle for the development of electricity between these two great minds created sparks of tension as they illuminated the world.

Based on the best-selling book by Cheryl Strayed (now an acclaimed Hulu series starring Kathryn Hahn), "Tiny Beautiful Things" follows the relationships between an anonymous advice columnist named Sugar and the many real-life readers who pour out their hearts to her. Academy Award nominee Nia Vardalos ("My Big Fat Greek Wedding") adapts Strayed's book into an enrapturing and uplifting play that surges with emotion and is called by Variety "a theatrical hug in turbulent times." "Tiny Beautiful Things" is about reaching when you're stuck, recovering when you're broken, and finding the courage to ask the questions that are hardest to answer.

Pulled in by the grips of addiction & the allure of the big screen, Nick takes us down the rabbit hole of his delusional quest to be a star.

As told by the New York Daily News, "... is a tragedy in the classic form and I think it is a modern classic... the central character is a longshoreman who, though his mind is limited and he cannot find words for his thoughts, is an admirable man...When two of his wife's Italian cousins — submarines they are, in the waterfront argot — are smuggled into this country, he makes room for them in his home. Gratefully they move in among his wife, his children and the teen-age niece whom he has brought up and whom he has come to love, he thinks, as a daughter. And now the stage is set for tragedy.

This life and death drama detonates within the confines of a witness room in Manhattan Criminal Court as four hardened New York City Police Officers led by a calculating Prosecutor battle each other over charges of corruption, racism, morality, loyalties, and the blue wall of silence.