Brokers
Please join us for one of three plays in the New Works Festival Year 2 that features exciting and diverse new works by the School of Dramatic Arts’ second-year MFA Dramatic Writing students.
2013/14 Season of Plays
Disappearing Act
Please join us for one of three plays in the New Works Festival Year 2 that features exciting and diverse new works by the School of Dramatic Arts’ second-year MFA Dramatic Writing students.
La Ronde
Scrutinized upon its publishing in 1900 for its hypersexual content, La Ronde bares the interwoven tale of a risque roundelay of love affairs.
Tartuffe
The story takes place in the home of the wealthy Orgon, where Tartuffe – a fraud and a pious imposter – has insinuated himself. He succeeds magnificently in winning the respect and devotion of the head of the house and then tries to marry his daughter and seduce his wife and scrounge the deed to the property.
Trojan Women
Inspired by the Euripides classic, this modern version of the epic story was created by the company of actors in a creative collaboration with director David Bridel. Movement, music and original text combine to forge a contemporary, smart and powerful tale.
The Time of Your Life
Among the denizens of Nick’s Pacific Street Saloon, Restaurant and Entertainment Palace at the foot of Embarcadero, San Franscisco circa 1939 are Joe, a melancholy regular, and his friend Tom, an eager-to-please disciple of Joe’s philosophies who carries a torch for Kitty Duval, a fragile streetwalker.
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
When Pericles deciphers a riddle that reveals a dark secret about the king of Antioch, his solution puts his life in danger and sends him on a long journey of adversity and adventure.
Fortinbras
The quick-witted, comical continuation of Hamlet in which a young Fortinbras enters the mass murder scene and devises a plan to ascend the throne of Denmark.
Grand Hotel, The Musical
A group of eccentric guests spend a lavish weekend at the opulent Grand Hotel in 1928 Berlin – when the Roaring Twenties are in high…