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Pterodactyls

By Nicky Silver
October 13 - November 24

"An absurdist black comedy about the demise of the Duncan family, and by extension, the species. Dysfunction takes on new meaning and we laugh throughout as we watch the family disintegrate and finally realize the seeds of this dysfunction lie within us all."…Pterodactyls struck me as the flip side of The Skin of Our Teeth, Thorton Wilder's antic celebration of mankind's ability to muddle through." - The New York Times

"There are times-not all that many, admittedly-when a critic wishes he had never used the word 'brilliant' before, so he could offer it fresh minded and glittering to something new. And different…" - The New York Post

"Clever is the word for Pterodactyls…clever, sharp, witty-it's a play that takes aim at the main-streamed, moneyed, conventional American family and buries it under one satiric jibe after another." - Theater Week

Romance

by David Mamet
January 12 - February 23

"Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet's Romance is an uproarious, take-no-prisoners courtroom comedy that gleefully lampoons everyone from lawyers and judges, to Arabs and Jews, to gays and chiropractors. It's hay fever season, and in a courtroom a judge is popping antihistamines. He listens to the testimony of a Jewish chiropractor, who's a liar, according to his anti-Semitic defense attorney. The prosecutor, a homosexual, is having a domestic squabble with his lover, who shows up in court in a leopard-print thong. And all the while, a Middle East peace conference is taking place. Masterfully wielding the argot of the courtroom, David Mamet creates a world in microcosm in which shameless fawning, petty prejudices and sheer caprice hold sway, and the noble apparatus of law and order degenerates into riotous profanity. "It made me weep with delight…Romance is funny. Extremely funny." - Wall Street Journal

Freakshow

by Carson Kreitzer
April 6 - May 18

At the turn of the last century, a traveling Freakshow grinds to a halt. Things are changing. The anger of being stared at, trapped, caged, is at war with the comfort of knowing your place in the universe. But the growing defiance of the freaks is no act. Will the Dog Faced Woman break her bonds from the show, collapsing the fragile bubble of sustaining interdependence? Can the jaded Ringmaster, a profoundly broken man, find redemption through his love for the Woman With No Arms and No Legs? In this poetic, gritty world, there may only be one way out. "Kreitzer proves herself an author of exceptional compassion, everywhere revealing the humanity behind apparent monstrosity." - Alexis Soloski, The Village Voice