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By Bess Wohl
Directed by David Buchman
After fifty years of marriage, Bill and Nancy calmly announce their divorce at the Grand Horizons retirement community—stunning their adult sons, Brian and Ben. As the family descends into chaos, Ben’s pregnant wife Jess and Brian’s hookup Tommy are swept into the fray. With secrets unearthed and emotions unleashed, this sharp comedy turns a quiet retirement into a full-blown family reckoning.
Nominated for the 2010 Tony Award for Best Play.
“A clever truth bomb of a play... a terrific comedy.”
– The New York Times
Presented at The Waterworks
184 San Marco Avenue, St. Augustine
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is a comedy about three middle-aged siblings in a dysfunctional family, living in their childhood home in Pennsylvania, whose quiet, resentful lives are upended when their glamorous movie-star sister, Masha, arrives with her young, handsome boyfriend, Spike, stirring up old rivalries, unfulfilled dreams, and a potential plan to sell the family estate, all while paying homage to Chekhov's themes of longing and regret.
Winner 2013 – Tony Award Best Play, Outer Critics Circle Best Play, Drama Desk Best Play
“Breathtakingly funny and quietly poignant…
pure joy from start to finish.”
– Backstage
By Christoher Durang
Directed by Grace Reed
Presented at The Waterworks
184 San Marco Avenue, St. Augustine
By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Dawn Knipe
Gordon is dead, but his cell phone lives on. When Jean, an empathetic museum worker, answers his ringing phone beside her in a café, she becomes comforter and confessor to the man’s grieving friends and family. Before she knows it, Jean is ensnarled in the dead man’s bizarre life. A wildly imaginative comedy, Dead Man’s Cell Phone is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.
Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Plays
"Ruhl's zany probe of the razor-thin line between life and death delivers a fresh and humorous look at the times we live in."
- Variety
Presented at The Waterworks
184 San Marco Avenue, St. Augustine
By Steven Dietz
Directed by Cindy Alexander
Becky Foster is caught in middle age, middle management and in a middling marriage – with no prospects for change on the horizon. Then one night a socially inept and grief-struck millionaire stumbles into the car dealership where Becky works. Becky is offered nothing short of a new life and the audience is offered a chance to ride shotgun in a way that most plays wouldn’t dare. Becky’s New Car is a thoroughly original comedy with serious overtones – a devious and delightful romp down the road not taken.
Steven Dietz, has received prestigious accolades such as the PEN USA West Award in Drama and the Steinberg New Play Award Citation for his body of work.
“Breathtakingly funny and quietly poignant…
pure joy from start to finish.”
– Backstage