Katie Forgette

It's opening night of Death of A Salesman at the Teacup Theatre in New York. Two actors returning to the stage after many years have a lot riding on this bare-bones, off-Broadway production. George Ratcliffe, playing Willy, wants the public to remember him from his theatrical glory days; Joanne Rogers, playing Linda, wants the public to finally meet the talent she mothballed for motherhood. But what happens when life imitates art and one of them suffers a break with reality, hallucinating and conversing with a long-dead relative before the curtain has even gone up? And it's not the guy playing Willy.

The play tells the story of the O'Sheas, a cash-challenged, Irish-Catholic family just trying to get through 1973. Linda O'Shea, our 19-year old narrator, is attempting to re-enact for the audience the most turbulent day of her life, her own, very personal Saturday Night Massacre...but her family keeps interrupting, insisting on telling their side of the story. The 1970s was a time of old school living. No Facebook, no tweets, no texting. A time when public ridicule in a close-knit, hermetically sealed Catholic parish was the ultimate nightmare. When Linda’s mother leaves it to Linda to tell her younger sister about the birds and the bees, the bawdy conversation is somehow overheard by the parish priest...and Father Lovett is not amused. He sets out to confront the family about "the corruption of their eldest daughter's soul."

PUBLISHER: PLAYSCRIPTS, INC.

The wit of Oscar Wilde meets the cunning of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle when Wilde brings his dear friend, Lillie Langtry, to Baker Street. Someone has stolen the highly intimate letters she exchanged with the Prince of Wales and now she is being blackmailed. During the course of the investigation, Holmes will disguise himself
as an early version of Lady Bracknell from Wilde’s latest play, The Importance of Being Forthright; Watson will fall head-over-heels for the Jersey Lily; and Professor Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime, will attempt to bring the Crown to its knees.

An all-staff meeting at an upscale retirement community goes terribly wrong.

PUBLISHER: SAM FRENCH

A Facility for Living is a comedy/drama set in the future after Dick Cheney has been elected President. Social Security and Medicare have gone bust. Under the new Senior Provision Act (SPA) the aged and infirm are housed in Federal nursing homes (converted penitentiaries). The residents of SPA Facility #273 want to put on a little holiday play for their families, but Nurse Claudia has other ideas... Golden Girls meets Cuckoo's Nest.

Meet the Caldwell family: Abigail, investigative journalist; Jane, stay-at-home mom and born-again Christian; and their father, Jack, retired college professor. When matriarch, Mary Caldwell, is killed in a car accident, it opens a Pandora’s box of poisons and blessings. An intimate family story that deals with alcoholism, suicide, imperfect contrition, the ivory-billed woodpecker and man's endless search for redemption.
And don't let that last sentence scare you. There's a lot of humor in this story.

A very free adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's story. Victorian thriller. Dr. Noakes is desperate to save his young daughter's life. With the help of a brilliant medical student and an unscrupulous resurrectionist, he hopes to perform the first successful heart transplant. Things do not go according to plan.

PUBLISHER: DPS
The O'Conner story takes place in 1997 in Minnesota over the Christmas holiday. Tom O'Conner has passed away, and his wife (Sarah) and children (Liz, Martha and Matt) have reunited to excavate his mountain of personal effects. As the family sifts through boxes of papers and bags of clothing, clues to the quiet patriarch's life are discovered, prompting the usual heated arguments and some unusual revelations. As the story of Tom and Sarah's marriage unfolds, the children are forced to reconsider their long-held opinions of their parents. In the midst of this emotional afternoon, a long-lost neighbor pays an unexpected visit. Also on the agenda for this day of upheaval is Catholicism, WWII, old movies, old love, new love, oversleeping, overdrinking, large purple hats and weenie hot dishes.

When acclaimed director Sir Randolph Van Hubris announces that he is holding auditions for Romeo and Juliet, the ladies of the Rella family prepare for stardom. As Mrs. Rella teaches the art of flattery to her spoiled daughters, Sparkle and Sugar, stepdaughter Cindy must overcome her self-doubt if she's going to earn the role of her dreams. She'll get some help from her Fairy Godmother -- a balding construction worker on probation -- in this hilarious tale about Shakespeare, candy addiction, and the art of acting.