Plays

Wondering how she let vibrancy and joy slip out of her life, bored and disillusioned housewife Shirley Valentine finds herself talking to the walls. But when she chances on a trip to Greece, Shirley finds the adventure, hope, laughs and, ultimately, love she had been missing. Starring Mary Gannon Graham (Always…Patsy Cline, Woody Guthrie’s American… Read more »

written by Sheila Stephensen THE MEMORY OF WATER premiered at the Hampstead Theatre, London in 1996 and was first published in 1997. It won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy and was adapted by the author for the 2002 film, ‘Before You Go’, directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Julie Walters, John Hannah, and Joanne… Read more »

Starring Keith Baker, John Browning, Jenifer Cote, and Dana Scott HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR LOVE? Neil LaBute’s bitterly funny, controversial exploration of morality and gender roles in modern America, The Shape of Things, tells the story of Evelyn, a sexy, aggressive artist, and Adam, a shy, insecure student, who become embroiled in an… Read more »

Directed by Elizabeth Craven – Starring Fred Curchack, Laura Jorgensen, Ilana Niernberger, John Craven It is King Berenger’s dying day, also, not coincidentally, the last day of the universe. The older queen, Marguerite, and the Doctor tell the king that everything is falling apart – from the walls of the palace to the workings of… Read more »

Identities are mistaken, engagements are broken and lovers are reunited in Carlo Goldoni’s commedia dell’arte masterpiece. Mayhem erupts when the wily servant Truffaldino hatches a zany scheme to double his wages by serving two masters at once. The virtuosic physical comedy of The Servant of Two Masters is a delight for young and old alike…. Read more »

Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skillful manipulation. He conjures up a mighty storm to lure his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit King Alonso of Naples to the island. There, his magic brings about the revelation of Antonio’s lowly nature, the… Read more »

Written by Teresa Rebeck This marvelously lively and warmly engaging play by Theresa Rebeck is a crowd pleaser. A mad scrabble of smarmy characters scramble to have a piece of the action when two priceless stamps show up in an album of the estate of Jackie’s deceased mother. Jackie insists the collection was left to… Read more »

Written by Kenneth Lonergan Starring Jimmy Gagarian and Lukas Thompson In 1982, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the wealthy, articulate, pot-smoking teenagers who were small children in the ’60s have emerged as young adults in a country that has just resoundingly rejected everything they were brought up to believe in. The very last wave of… Read more »

Adapted by David Templeton WORLD PREMIERE – Sonoma County’s own critically acclaimed playwright and journalist David Templeton (Pinky, Wretch Like Me), takes us on a journey across the universe with this lyrical new stage adaptation of the beloved masterpiece by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The Little Prince is the tale of a stranded airplane pilot whose… Read more »