Production History

Amy's View

March 03 - March 27, 2011

It is 1979. Esme Allen is a well-known West End actress at just the moment when the West End is ceasing to offer actors a regular way of life. The visit of her daughter, Amy, with a new boyfriend, Dominic, sets in train a series of events which only find their shape sixteen years later.

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Broken Glass

March 11 - April 4, 2010

The show is Arthur Miller's Broken Glass. It is November 1938, Brooklyn, New York. Sylvia Gellberg has suddenly mysteriously become paralyzed from the waist down. This happens right after she reads reports in the newspaper on Krystallnacht and an accompanying photograph of two old men forced to clean the streets of Germany with toothbrushes. She feels something should be done to stop the Nazis while most Americans believe the Germans won't allow them to get out of hand. The atrocities in Germany and her husband's denial of his Jewishness and her own realization that she threw her life away have overcome her. Arthur Miller peels away at the layers of the characters' lives in this exploration of what it means to be Jewish and American in 1938.

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Prisoner of 2nd Avenue

March 2009

The Prisoner of Second Avenue is an American comedy which premiered in November of 1971 starring Peter Falk and Lee Grant as Mel and Edna and Vincent Gardenia played Harry, Mel's brother. The play was nominated for a Tony Award for best play .

The story evolves around the escalating problems of a middle aged couple living on Second Avenue on the Upper East Side of New York City. The world that has been so hard on the Edison's is not much different from the upward striving executives and their families of today.

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