BITS & PIECES, 2005 a festival of short plays
September 8 - 24, 2005
Opening Night Reception 7pm, performance 8pm
PHOTOS

All new one-act plays for 2005 to celebrate the opening of our fifth season.

2^nd Street Theater opened it’s doors with a one-act festival in the fall of 2001.  Since then, the one-act festival has become a very popular production each year.  To celebrate our fifth anniversary, we present an evening of nine new and wonderful short plays.

Agatha Christie and Monty Python meets Abbott and Costello.

When Mavis Templeton-Hollister decides to kill her newlywed husband, the results are both suspenseful and hilarious. Resorting to more drastic measures than originally planned, Mavis contends with a runaway cat, a snoopy housekeeper, the unexpected arrival of her stepdaughter, and a policeman who seems more than a little familiar.

Auditions - August 22 & 23, 7pm
3 men, 3 women

YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
December 1 - Dec 18, 2005  
Opening Night Reception 7pm, performance 8pm
PHOTOS

Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Winner of the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.  One of the most successful and beloved comedies of American theater.

The Sycamores are a happily mad family of misfits and refugees from normal society.  Trouble rears its head when the daughter wishes to marry a young man from an uptight, wealthy family.  The resultant culture clash is a houseful of fun.  A classic comedy from Broadway’s golden age. 

Auditions - October 10 & 11, 7pm
9 men, 7 women

HAIR
January 26 -  18, 2006      
Opening Night Reception 7pm, performance 8pm
PHOTOS

Book and Lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Radno
Music by Galt MacDermot

Produced by special arrangement with Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc..

The classic American rock musical.

Phenomenal musical numbers include Aquarius, Good Morning Starshine, I Believe In Love and Hair.  This show is a glimpse into the revolution in music and mores that took place in the 1960’s and 70’s and is totally relevant to today’s youth.  Totally! 

Some performances are sold out. Call now for tickets

THE GIN GAME by D.L. Coburn
March 16  - April 1, 2006 
Opening Night Reception 7pm, performance 8pm
PHOTOS

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

Winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

A scathingly funny battle of wits is played out as Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey, two feisty nursing home residents, start a game of gin rummy to combat their loneliness. The game becomes a metaphor for their lives in a play filled with hope and bittersweet disappointment.  Poignant and punchy humor.*

* Contains adult language.

POLISH JOKE by David Ives
April 27 - 13, 2006          
Opening Night Reception 7pm, performance 8pm
PHOTOS

Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc..

A comedy about ethnic identity and the eternal American search for “roots”.

Jan “Jasiu” Sadlowski is reluctant to accept his ancestral destiny that allows him few career options beyond janitor.  His quest to reinvent himself takes him through different names and national origins in a series of hilarious and sometimes surreal encounters.  In the end, by trying to get away from his ethnic background, Jasiu discovers who he truly is and what it means to be a "Pole."

I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE
June 1 - 24, 2006 Note schedule changes—
Opening Night Reception 7pm, performance 8pm
No shows: Friday, June 16 - Sunday, June 18
Adding shows: Tuesdays June 6, 13, 20 at 8pm
PHOTOS

Sex, dating, marriage and infidelity are just some of the issues that are hilariously skewered in I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. Everything you've secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives, and in-laws, but were afraid to admit, is celebrated in this musical joyride through the jungle of the modern-day mating game.

Written by the team of Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts, it became the longest running musical review of all time, breaking the record set by Smokey Joe's Cafe. Its’ New York run surpassed the runs of Hello, Dolly!, My Fair Lady, Annie, Man of La Mancha, Oklahoma!, and South Pacific, among others. The show is still running Off-Broadway and has just celebrated its’ 4000th performance. DiPietro's other well-known work is the play Over the River and Through the Woods, which was produced by 2nd Street Theater in 2003.

Four actors take on the lives of over sixty characters as they face the trials and tribulations of dealing with the opposite sex. Directed by Patrick Kmiec and featuring Bill Gardner, Holly Hamilton, Briana Hinchliffe and Wade Walton. The show is structured like a relationship, Act 1 deals with dating and Act 2 deals with marriage, parenthood, and the death of a spouse.

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change is a wonderful date show that will have you laughing and singing even after you leave the theater