A new musical about how a band of hippies, mystics and visionaries changed the world. Set in 1973, in the formative years of the ecology movement, Project Ahab converts Melville’s classic story of a man bent on killing a whale, to that of a man determined to stop the killing of whales; or, “Ahab goes after the whalers.” Building on the success of Central Works' musical epic, Red Virgin, writer Gary Graves, and director John Patrick Moore teamed up with musical director Ben Euphrat to put together this rollicking musical adventure with an urgent ecological theme.

God save us from the hapless enmity of Fate.

Ed King is a mail carrier for the US Postal Service. He’s been married to his wife, Jo, for over twenty years. She works the swing shift at the local Bob’s Big Boy. They’re a hard working couple, struggling to maintain a modest home in the San Bernardino Valley. And they’ve gone deep into debt in order to get their daughter into college.

But there’s a problem. There’s something growing in the basement. Some kind of mold? Whatever it is, it’s spreading. And it’s eating away at the foundation, threatening to bring the whole house down. Ed vows to figure out what the hell it is, and to get rid of this hideous blight on his home – whatever it takes.

Edward King: a new comedy, based on a very old story.

A trilogy of plays about Richard the Lionheart’s ill-fated crusade in the Holy Land at the end of the 12th century—a warrior king’s quest for absolution from a dark, primal sin. 3 plays, 6 actors.

Part 2: Lionheart. Richard hatches a daring peace plan with the Sultan’s brother, and enlists a mysterious chronicler to immortalize his heroic journey. But the crusade stalls when Richard finally reaches the gates of the Holy City.

A new play based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale of good and evil: In a cottage on the stormy English seacoast, “Louis” wakes from a terrifying fever dream. Finally, the author of Treasure Island has an idea for a new novel. The story has come to him from the deep unconscious recesses of his mind, fully formed, as a dark, ghastly dream. He reveals the story in intimate detail to Fanny, his beloved wife, and a formidable critic in her own right. Fanny is horrified by the monstrous tale. She pleads with her husband to abandon the fiendish allegory that threatens to unhinge Louis completely. All hangs in the balance as these two enter into the dark tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

A contemporary re-imaging of the Iliad focusing on a curious threesome at the heart of the ancient epic. Achilles is a seemingly invincible soldier on the field, with a mysterious relationship to his trusted lieutenant, Patroklos. When the two take up with an illegitimate daughter of the king of Troy and set up house in a villa on the Aegean coast, life seems a sun-drenched beach party. But can they escape the catastrophic malignancy of the war that slogs on just across the plain? “This is gloves-off stuff, hard words, hard sounds, hard lighting. It follows Homer enough to satisfy the scholarly, while addressing certain questions anew. This is not your high school Homer, all rosy-fingered dawn and wine-dark sea. Intensely realized, funny, and very sad by turns, Achilles and Patroklos is a complex, modern love story”—East Bay Express

A new musical about the tumultuous events of the great socialist uprising known as the Paris Commune of 1871. Red Virgin tells the story of Louise Michel, one of the most incendiary revolutionaries in the history of France, with music from the period. In the spring of 1871, the government of France surrendered to Germany at the end of the Franco-Prussian War. But the working people of Paris refused to accept their government’s surrender, and instead ignited an insurrection that sent the French government fleeing from the city, and led to the establishment of a new socialist, revolutionary government. They called it the Paris Commune. The rebels held the city for two months, and instituted a wave of socialist changes, before the government forces recaptured Paris and crushed the rebellion in a horrific act of carnage known as the “Bloody Week,” when some 20,000 communards were put to death. Public trials, further executions, and a wave of deportations to far off penal colonies followed. One of the most remarkable figures to emerge from these tumultuous events was Louise Michel, whom history remembers as “the Red Virgin.”