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A grad student's personal ad lures a randy journalism coed to his subterranean lab, where he studies fish sleep cycles for signs of the apocalypse. Will their "intensely significant coupling" lead to another big bang, or is mankind's fate in the hands of someone watching from outside the fishbowl? Learn more...

Riffing on Homer's Odyssey, playwright Melissa James Gibson flip-flops genders to create a dazzling tale about the ultimate working mom. When photojournalist Pen heads off to cover the war in Troy, stay-at-home dad Od struggles to maintain his fidelity and raise a child in his wife's absence. Learn more...

How much could someone learn about you if they found your cell phone--and started answering your calls? In this mythic love story, a lonely woman answers a stranger's cell phone and finds herself the guardian of his memory. Traveling literally to hell and back, this quirky comedy is set in a world where technology is swallowing our souls and everyone is desperate to make connections. Learn more...

Called "the master storyteller" by The New York Times, Mike Daisey spins tales both historically epic and caustically personal. His new comic monologue, If You See Something Say Something, takes aim at one of America's best-kept secrets: the history of the Department of Homeland Security. Learn more...

Virtuosic performer Rick Miller performs 85% of the Bard's original text delivered by more than 50 familiar voices from The Simpsons. This sublimely silly multimedia update of Shakespeare's chilling tragedy has been a smash hit with sell-out crowds across North America and around the globe. Learn more...

Stuart fights to keep the lid on his mother's and aunts' simmering angst. But the family's secrets channel themselves into a bizarre shapeshifter that guzzles soda and chatters German verse. Friedrich Schiller's classic tale of warring queens inspires a macabre romp into all that suburban America tries to repress. Learn more...

Josie is a dominatrix who feels ready to hang it all up, and she's dreading her 40th birthday--so her favorite client Lionel throws a party with a special musical guest! The real surprise: a ghost from the past barges in, propelling this outrageous mix of edgy comedy, heart-throbbing humanity, and sheer ridiculousness into a play that's about the sort of love that gets you all shook up! Learn more...

In David Grimm's naughty Restoration comedy, Sir Peter Lustforth has had enough of his wife's amorous ways and casts his eye on the virginal Hermione--setting off a series of chaotic chases and couplings among a womanizer, a transvestite, a puritanical dame and a helplessly romantic valet. Learn more...

Writer/performer Charles Ross spent too much of his childhood in a galaxy far, far away -- and adulthood has been no different. In this high-energy 75-minute solo piece, Ross plays all the characters, re-creates the effects, sings the music, flies the ships and fights both sides of the battles from the original "Star Wars" trilogy. Learn more...

In this gender-bending romp by one of New York's most innovative writer/performers, an actress schemes to woo back her estranged female lover by playing Orlando opposite her lover's Rosalind in a summer-stock production of Shakespeare's As You Like It. Multiple romances ensue among a cast of characters including an archeologist/lighting designer, a director, several actors and the director's assistant. Learn more...

Sixteen year old Lily knows nothing beyond the Syrian-Jewish community in Brooklyn where she lives a cloistered life with her much older husband. Soon an unlikely relationship with her enigmatic African-American maid opens Lily's world to new possibilities - but at a big price. David Adjmi's daring new work shifts from caustic satire to violent drama as it exposes the ways we invent and defend our identities in the melting-pot of America. Learn more...

See what goes wrong when a wealthy entrepreneur, a pair of Christian charity workers and a flamboyant government official arrive in a remote African village with an overzealous vision of saving the village from itself. Their missionary zeal and the surprising results make for a biting social satire in this scathingly funny and provocative new work. Learn more...

This long-running late-night sensation from the Chicago-based Neo-Futurists (continuously running since the Reagan administration) is an ever-changing attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes! The Neo-Futurists are masters of creating funny, personal, abstract, political and poignant plays--and with audiences deciding on the random order of those plays, every performance is a unique experience. Learn more...

It's hard to let go of the ones we love--that's the premise of this daringly inventive and provocative new work. A woman clings to her dead husband's talkative soul and aggressively active body, even while she struggles to be intimate with someone new. The result is a juggling act of the heart and mind, by turns humorous, tender and deep. Learn more...