2012 Annual One-Act Festival
August 9 - 26, 2012
An exciting collection of mostly original one-act plays, many by local playwrights. A special new feature of one weekend with 10 minute plays—all original and short enough to showcase humor and passion.

Farragut North
by Beau Willimon
Directed by Bridget Muehlberger
September 14 - October 6, 2012
Whip-smart inside look into a tight presidential primary race where a wunderkind press secretary's meteoric rise makes him a target for backroom politics. A timely story about the lust for power and the costs one will endure to achieve it. “You will find yourself drawn into supremely entertaining dissection of the machinations behind getting elected.” — Associated Press

These Shining Lives
by Melanie Marnich
October 26 - November 17, 2012
Powerful true story of the strength and determination of women working in a clock factory in 1920's Chicago exposed to toxic chemicals. Theirs is an inspirational story of survival and fight to prevent other workers from being endangered. “Humanistic glow… clockwork precision… an initially comic and ultimately tragic look at how individual women find employment within a system more concerned with profit than safety.” — Variety

Holiday Show
A Christmas Carol
Adapted by Michael Hardwick
December 7 - December 16, 2012
The holiday classic of Ebenezer Scrooge visited by the Ghosts of Christmas to reveal his past, present and future if he continues miserly ways. A short version of the family favorite that will delight audiences of all ages!

Expecting Isabel
by Lisa Loomer
January 11 - February 2, 2013
Brilliant comedy of a New York couple and the adventures they experience trying to have a baby. Their difficulties in conceiving lead them on an odyssey through the booming baby business as they negotiate the fertility trade, the adoption industry and their own families. “Uses laughter to soothe the ache of infertility… a savvy comedy.” — LA Times

The Real Thing
by Tom Stoppard
February 22 - March 16, 2013
Two-time Tony Award winning intellectually and emotionally engaging comedy about a playwright whose second wife is trying to merge her support for a political prisoner with her work as an actress. Through hilarious situations, the play tests the concepts of love, marriage and fidelity. “So packed with wit, ideas and feelings… Stoppard's most moving play and the most bracing play anyone has written about love and marriage in years.” — NY Times

Frost/Nixon
by Peter Morgan
April 5 - 27, 2013
Engrossing dramatization of how the then-washed up talk-show host David Frost convinced the disgraced Richard Nixon to be interviewed for television. The two men play cat and mouse on whether or not Nixon will apologize for the Watergate scandal. “Television mows down a titan, the briskly entertaining play… but let it be proclaimed that theater decisively trumps television.” — NY Times

The Little Dog Laughed
by Douglas Carter Beane
May 17 - June 8, 2013
Ripped from the tabloid headlines, this comedy dishes the adventures of a movie star who could hit big if it weren't for one teensy-weensy problem — he’s gay. His devilish agent tries to help him navigate Hollywood's choppy waters to a happy ending. “Devastatingly funny, with dizzy, irresistible writing that brings down the house.” — NY Times

Red Herring
by Michael Hollinger
June 28 - July 27, 2013
Note: NO performances July 5-7 due to the holiday weekend.
A side-splitting comedy of three love stories, a murder mystery, and a nuclear espionage plot set in 1952. A detective has to find out who dumped the dead guy in the Harbor—or else lose out on a honeymoon in Havana in this blunt-nosed, sharp-eyed look at love and tying (and untying, and retying) the knot. “It's a knock-out—a surprising, clever comedy that keeps you laughing and even thinking all the way.” — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette