Donna Sorbello

An older actress a younger lover, she in Ny, he in LA -caught in two places during the pandemic, (work situations, pets to deal with) . Their nightly ritual is their Zoom call until they can be together again. She' susing her time in old movies and thought, he's holding dwn the fort and working on his own endeavors. But somethig is different in this conversation, which has an outcome neither expected until the momenet it happens.

A comic look at a Zoom FIrst Date. Two middle-aged people (a male, a female( are both new to zoom technology and to on-line dating. After initial hesitancy, some comic and shocking information is revealed. Each has their own agenda, but with a surprise at the end -- will either one get what he or she wants?

A young, insecure teen, awaits her older sister's date. The cool boy--a member of a high school rock band-- arrives and is greeted awkwardly by Alice. As he waits for the sister to descend from upstairs, Alice awkwardly talks about listening to his musical practices outside the school gym, while he learns that Alice, shy and very uncool, has a killer vinyl collection. As the time goes by, Alice is forced to reveal a secret that makes her sister's date angry and annoyed. By the end of their encounter, Alice leaves a little stronger and a lot wiser.

@10 minutes. Two sisters visit in Ellen, the younger sister's kitchen, sharing coffee and conversation while Ellen irons. vA casual visit ultimately evokes admission and decision for one, while the other, inwardly, faces her own truth.

A raw look at the underside of relationships, Placed in present day or recent years, the opening scene, almost out of Noel Coward, is a deception; the surface facade atop the layers of interactions between five characters. It is intended to parallel the false surface in much of our politics, business dealings, and ultimately what has become acceptable human behavior. What drives these five, what are their dependencies and what ultimately, do they have to face in themselves? Vera and Charles live a privileged life in NY, the golden couple, so it seems, but the tragedy of the death of their young daughter years before, has dictated the twisted form their relationship has taken. The other involvements each is drawn to outside of their marriage, ultimately reveals a truth each of these five characters must face.

1918, Bournemouth Resort Hotel. Two Brits, one stolid and stuffy, one superior and stuffy, meet on a bench on the glorious grounds of he hotel, while the orchestra plays on in the ballroom off stage. Each man is waiting for his wife - one fiery, one seemingly more reserved, both beauties. What ensues is an increasing competition of male virility, British style -- that is -- through wit and pomposity. A throw back to Noel Coward's combination of use of language and physicality.

Synopsis: Two unlikely women share a jail cell. One is conservative, contained. The other is a prostitute. As the life experience of each unfolds, roles and judgements get reversed. One man enters this picture. We are left to wonder which of the two is more needy and which of the two is more wise.

In this ensemble piece, adapted from Tillie Olsen's novella, Tell Me A Riddle, Eva and her husband, David, are longtime immigrants to the USA, escaped from Olshana, a place where Jewish people were hounded, imprisoned and worse. Set primarily in Eva's later years, the internal battle comes to light when David wants a life, finally, of retirement and socializing in Florida while Eva wants nothing more to do with society, Eva is searching for greater discoveries. The couples conflict growing over the years, involve their many grown children, all with their own families and opinions, all anting something of grandmother. But these are the external influences. The true story is how Eva's life has affected her and brought her to her search now. As pieces off her past arise in her thoughts and come to life on stage, we view moments of heartbreaking poignancy in the shame of her poverty, or in what she has viewed as a child. The constant conflict with her husband over-rides all as we realize she has always had a struggle to be heard n her marriage.a struggle to be true herself. As Eva gets sick, and all the family tries their cures for her comfort and state of mind, continually baffling them, she keeps battling to find her way back to her original ideals, to find all that's in her, that has made up who she is, in order to discover the true worth of a life; one based on one's original ideals, hopes and beliefs. The journey in this play is primarily an internal one, with lots of opportunity for creative work by the ensemble. It appears complicated, but the script breaks down all shifts, doubling of characters, etc, into smooth transitions.

A woman sits alone in room. A small boy at her feet. He presses her to tell him a story. She does so, finally, reluctantly, but each sentence poses more questions from him, more revelations from her. Ultimately we see the conflict this woman is in, though we are left to ponder how it will be resolved.

An actor has died. His memorial service is held in a small theatre. An irreverent look at various secrets and theatrics presented as only those in the theatre or those who want to be in the theatre, can do, (Think Monty Python) A short parade of Theatre colleagues and folks from the actor's past, all have something to offer, while the emcee tries to curb some of the enthusiasm, and the wife of the deceased sits, helpless, subjected to pieces of a life she didn't know. All in satiric fun, but not for those not in a mood to find humor in this exaggerated situation related to death.