David Robson

Once two of the most glamorous members of America's privileged class now facing possible eviction from their Newport mansion by the Board of Health, "Big" and "Little" Alice protect, torment, lie and cling to each other. Loosely based on the true, bizarre life of mother and daughter Big and Little Edie Beale, this dark comedy lives somewhere between the longings, loves and delusions of The Three Sisters and Sunset Boulevard.

When a college professor and his student, a military veteran, meet, conflicts arise over issues of purpose, power, and politics.

On the night of the first-ever White House movie screening, First Daughter Margaret Wilson must find a way to break with her past and become her own woman. Yet at the showing of the infamous epic The Birth of a Nation she is forced to fend off advances from a young minister, confront her own racial intolerance, and somehow live up to her duty to her father and to her country without completely losing her mind. After Birth of a Nation is a farcical sendup of politics, piety, racism, and our fractured American experiment.

The night after winning a prestigious award, Lyndon Sykes receives a mysterious letter suggesting he’s not quite who he thinks he is. In an attempt to find his past—which may be linked to controversial 19th century black leader Denmark Vesey—the young editor travels to the Deep South to confront questions of racism and belonging that will lead him to a clearer understanding of himself.

Despite his brilliant design for a capital city along the Potomac River, French immigrant Peter L’Enfant fights an uphill battle to build Washington, DC. Meanwhile, a century later, a distraught son’s discovery may hold the key to finally raising the dormant city and restoring the designer’s reputation. In the vein of Hamilton, American Child takes an intimate look at the courage and conflict that forged a new nation and created one of its greatest cities.  

You may know the King of Rock and Roll, but what about its queen? Hound Dog? Big Mama Thornton sang it first. Before Janis and Aretha, Big Mama blew the roof off of joints from Boston to Paris and everywhere in between. In BALL N' CHAIN, the legendary Big Mama Thornton lays it down and lights it up, singing the blues, telling stories, and providing an intimate look at the life of one of rock and roll's pioneers.

Abortion has been outlawed; law-breakers can be imprisoned, or worse, for the crime of terminating a pregnancy. One desperate woman employs a mysterious young doctor who has agreed to perform the procedure at-home, thereby threatening both of their lives and forcing them to confront the darkest parts of the new American political landscape.

It's 1959. Chris, a local DJ, gets word that legendary jazz and blues musician Lonnie Johnson is working a low-wage job at a Philly hotel, forgotten. Once found, Lonnie, an early guitar hero who influenced the likes of Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, T-Bone Walker, Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian, B.B. King, and Eric Clapton, is reluctant to return to an industry that exploited and segregated his work before casting him aside. As the two men meet, conflicts arise, forcing each to reconcile issues of authenticity, injustice, and legacy. Based on a true story, Blues in My Soul is a celebration of an unsung American legend and the music that inspired generations. *Name, Image and Music of Lonnie Johnson used by permission
from the Estate of Lonnie Johnson

An American political consultant, hired by a shady Russian oligarch, attempts to mold, Pygmalion-style, a Slavic truck driver into a presidential candidate with secret ties to the Kremlin. Meanwhile, an alluring and mysterious Siberian gun enthusiast arrives in the US looking to make in-roads with the NRA and transform American electoral politics before she’s found out. By the Eye is comical look at geopolitics, greed, and the power of self-delusion.

While a child sex abuse scandal swirls around one of his former employees, a legendary college football coach fights accusations that he didn’t do enough to stop the crimes from taking place. Terminally ill and surrounded by his family, the coach must find a way to save his reputation and that of the university he helped build, while also coming to terms with his failures as a husband, a father, and role model before it’s too late.

Lily is on the run in 1970s London. Confused, desperate, and unsure of herself, she breaks into the home of best-selling author Alex Comfort, whose Joy of Sex inspired a generation to embrace unbridled pleasure, seeking advice on love and intimacy. When her boyfriend Jack shows up, Lily is compelled to confront issues of selfhood and independence, and choose between what's expected of her and what she really wants out of life.

Two friends debate the current state of the world before improvising a weird and wacky drama in a local bar.

Jim Gordon was music’s golden child, playing drums alongside many of the greatest artists of the 1960s and 70s, including Eric Clapton, John Lennon, the Everly Brothers, Ike and Tina Turner, the Beach Boys, Harry Nilsson, Carly Simon, George Harrison, and Steely Dan. But on a calm summer night in 1983, after decades of hearing voices, Gordon committed a ghastly crime that shocked the music world and destroyed one of rock’s most storied careers. Based on a true story, Drummer is an electrifying journey through some of the best music ever created and into the mind of the troubled but legendary musician who helped make it possible.

In this comic riff on Oedipus Rex, a powerful CEO must save his business while grappling with his dark and twisted past.

Each Sunday, renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud welcomes his grandchildren into his study for an obligatory audience. When, on one occasion, Sophie is the only grandchild to show, she and her grandfather share tense and awkward moments. Sophie’s troubled home life has left her polite but distraught; Freud is distracted by work and haunted by past trauma. Over time, as their relationship develops, the two Freuds challenge each other’s ideas and debate their country's future, wherein Sophie must choose between a life of devotion to Freud and almost certain destruction before it’s too late. Freud und Freud pits the threat of rising fascism against the powers of intellect, legacy, and family.

This interview from Hell includes a mysterious box, a spatula, and a couple of burly goons.

On trial for religious heresy and fomenting public insurrection, Paul the Apostle must justify his actions or else face banishment or death. Convinced that people can only save themselves by accepting his message of suffering, supplication, and life after death, Paul engages Hebrew scripture and a messianic vision of the world to come. Hammer of God grapples with the divide between vision and delusion, between dedication to a cause and fanaticism that distorts and destroys.

A fledgling writer posts a review of provocateur playwright Neil LaBute´s work, and before long a tit-for-tat turns ugly.

In a cottage on the Danube, a publisher visits an aging, exiled writer, bearing gifts and news of home. The ailing writer has long flaunted his unconventional, even immoral, lifestyle, but tolerance for his predilections has evaporated. Defiant and bitter, the writer is confronted by his friend, and both men are forced to reckon with their lives, legacies, and damaged humanity.

A new adaptation of Genet's classic absurdist play follows sisters Solange and Claire, housemaids who devise intricate sadomasochistic rituals in which they imagine murdering their spoiled and condescending mistress. The two take turns portraying both sides of the dark and twisted power divide, leading to obsession, jealousy, and shocking violence. This new version posits the siblings as mature women, thereby emphasizing festering generational resentments.

Two American doctors travel to a war zone to offer their services to desperate refugees. Into the chaos of the medical camp, a mysterious boy arrives, forcing the doctors to re-examine their actions and the personal ethics that guide them.

What really happened the night actor Mel Gibson got arrested?

Harlem Renaissance writers Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston attempt to collaborate on a Broadway play called Mule-bone, but shifting loyalties to their white patron; explosive conflicts with a close confidante; and smoldering jealousies lead to betrayals that threaten to destroy long-term friendships and budding careers.

Robert Hassan, a Palestine-born American, returns home. There he meets two young lovers whose apparent dedication to the cause of a Palestinian state rekindles his own emotions. When he discovers that one of them is passing secrets to Israel, Robert is forced to reconcile his patriotism and his conscience.

At the funeral of her husband, the former president of the United States, Melania recalls her life before and after meeting Donald Trump. From her childhood in Communist Slovenia to her complicated and controversial stint as first lady, Melania takes us on a kaleidoscopic journey through the joy, and pain, of a life lived alongside the most powerful and dangerous man on earth.

A fictionalized account of the capture and arrest of Leni Riefenstahl, filmmaker and propagandist for the Third Reich during World War II. Her captor, an unnamed Allied soldier, must transport Riefenstahl to a detention center. Riefenstahl, however, believes this “trip through the countryside” is the perfect opportunity to create her cinematic masterwork. Writing and rewriting her story as they travel, Riefenstahl comes face to face with the inescapable truths of war, privation, and death camps. The mystery soldier becomes jailer, confessor, and actor in Riefenstahl’s unending pursuit to produce, direct, and edit each piece of her life—blurring the lines between art and reality, ambition and conscience, innocence and culpability.

Decades ago, NFL star Frank Baker was dubbed “The Assassin” for his brutal tackles. Now, down on his luck, he’s offered the chance of a lifetime — an interview on CBS before the Super Bowl. But just when he thinks his luck has changed, Frank and his interviewer are blindsided by secrets and revelations. Inspired by a true story, this new play tackles the NFL’s thorniest issues: race, hero worship, violence and its repercussions.

The line between loyalty and betrayal is tested as two former school chums try to sell a stolen painting by one of the world’s most famous artists. Their plan for a quick and easy score is complicated by a mysterious appraiser and by the all-consuming greed that drives each one of them.

Past and present collide when a grieving daughter meets the wife of a former factory worker sickened by the toxic chemicals he worked with.

A college student attempts to give a speech but gets off track and instead reflects on what's really important in life.

Based on a one-act play by August Strindberg, The Stronger centers on a Christmas Eve meeting between X and Y at a small cafe. During X's tension-filled monologue, secrets are revealed, including X's belief that Y is in love with her husband, and X attempts to shame her friend and prove that she is the stronger of the two women. But is she?

In this timely and provocative drama, Carmen, the wife of an entertainment legend, is interviewing a nurse, Lisa, to supervise the care of her husband, who is in the final stages of Alzheimer’s. In the process, the questioner becomes the questioned as Lisa confronts Carmen with sexual accusations against her husband and with her complicity in the alleged incidents.

A groom with cold feet gets advice from an (un)expected source.