Winner of the 2023 New Play Festival. Due to outlandish behavior following his wife’s death, retired English teacher Ben Lieberman is remanded to “Happy Dale”, an assisted living facility. Lieberman is a natural rebel, and he quickly upsets Happy Dale’s dull routines and staff, turning his new friends and frenemies into accomplices and confidants. Can Happy Dale provide Ben with the education he doesn’t think he wants?
An interview with Steven H. Butler, director of Pass Over By Amanda Heisey Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu is a gripping, emotional and lyrical piece
The new Sidebar Series, held in The Players Studio Black Box continues with the riveting piece, Winter Flowers, by Lily Rusek. Running Oct. 20-29, this production covers some heavy material so we sat down with director Jalex Scott to discuss the show.
Pass Over reimagines Beckett’s Waiting for Godot through the eyes of two inner-city Black men. Moses and Kitch stand around on the corner – passing the time and hoping that maybe today will be different. As they dream of their promised land, a stranger wanders into their space with his own agenda and derails their plans.
For most of her life, Delphie has been taking care of her adult younger sister Rosie, who has the mental ability of a five-year-old. Delphie, now dying of stomach cancer, must provide for her sister’s future, and had decided to place them both in a nursing home. However, Rosie refuses to leave their family home, forcing Delphie to make a new plan.
Ralph and Louise are in their 60s. They have been married for 37 years. They have no children. They are retired and lead a quiet life. They never talked about what life would be like after, you know, it happens … But it happened. And now, three years later, Ralph is still struggling with widowhood and the consequences of past decisions.
An interview with the writer and director of Lateral Moves By Amanda Heisey, Marketing Director The winner of the 2022 New Play Festival, Lateral Moves by
Interview with The Mantle playwright, Jalex Scott By Amanda Heisey, Marketing Director The Players New Play Festival is just around the corner running July 11
