About Stageplays

Background

In full production, Stageplays has premiered Kathleen Anderson Culebro's The Crying Woman/La Llorona, a cross-cultural drama on international misunderstandings, Off Broadway at the Beckett Theatre; Paul Enger's In The Air, a love story set during the Great Flu epidemic of 1918, Off Broadway at Theatre 315; Frank O'Donnell's psycho-sexual drama Twisters, and Diane Leslie's and Mary Orr's environmentally themed family musical, Enchanted Afternoon, on New York's Theatre Row; Marlene Shyer's First Wife, a serious comedy about divorce, at the Emelin Theatre; Harding Lemay's World War-II drama of complicity, From A Dark Land, at the National Theatre of Romania; and James MacGuire's Nanny, a comedy of extended families, at the Nottara Theatre-Bucharest.

In workshop, Stageplays has presented: Bloodlife, Dennis Jordan's drama on urban terrorism (Marilyn Monroe Little Theatre); Mary Orr's living-room comedies, Never Too Old (Theatre at Saint Peter's Church), and False Alarm (Nat Horne Theatre); Dale Johnson's Black and White, a depiction of racism in professional sports (Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts); Lloyd Pace's Sweet Hanging Time, a melodrama of obsessive love (Drama League); Tom Bissinger's studies on show business, True Stories Trilogy (New Works Project); Wanda, Go Away, Tedd Smith's courtroom examination of childhood sexual abuse (Nat Horne Studio); Belva, Dear, Patrick Nolan's evaluation of women's rights pioneer, Belva Lockwood (Villanova Theatre); Harding Lemay's Scrutiny, an ironic comedy of marriage (New Dramatists), and Look At Any Man, an accounting on the irresponsibility of celebrity biographers (Emelin Theatre); Alex & Morris, Michael Elkin's comedy of old friends (Jewish Repertory); 61 Mott Street, Doug Wornell's Chinatown thriller (Tribeca Film Center); Bernard Mendillo's romantic comedy, I Love You, Frank Sinatra (National Arts Club); Thunder & Lightning, Taylor Hallman's tale of the Negro Baseball Leagues (Pelican Studio); DeVellus Glover's Sistah Songs: Nine Black Women Who Changed America (New Perspectives); Allen Davis III's Barbershop Duets, an ode to post-war Americana (Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre); and Al Meglin's October Stories, three plays chronicling aging in America (The Lambs).

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