Author: sundowntheatre

It's Bella's twenty-ninth birthday. Friends and former lovers meet for a drink to celebrate. But as the drinks flow, the bar becomes a battlefield. In the uncivil war between the sexes, what happens when the females have the real fire-power, stockpiles of testosterone, lethal wit, and explosive attitude? And what happens when patriarchy gets personal, when it's your own father who is tragic and terminal? When the only man you really love is dying?

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Othello, a Northern African refugee, becomes general of the Venetian Army; names an untested soldier as his lieutenant; and secretly marries a prominent senator’s daughter. His outsider status and high position irk Venetians under his authority, especially his ensign, Iago. Iago weaves a web of lies, lust, and poisonous jealousy, pushing Othello to his breaking point. By the end, Othello is left to question his own identity – is Othello a saint in a savage world, or vice versa?

True West is a comic nightmare of confrontation. The play is about two brothers: Austin is an ambitious Hollywood screenwriter working on a potential million-dollar deal when an ill wind off the desert blows in Lee, a hobo thief with a six-pack and a case of sibling rivalry. The conflict arises when a film producer offers Lee to write a "true" western. In a role reversal as intricate as it is riveting, the brothers head toward Shepard's outrageous version of the Western movie showdown.

The Eight: Reindeer Monologues is a dark comedy consisting of separate monologues given by each reindeer revolving around a sexual scandal between Santa and Vixen.

Anthony Burgess's stage play of his infamous cult novel and film of the same name, A Clockwork Orange is the story of Alex and his teenage gang, "The Droogs", their life of rape and murder, and "ultraviolence", and the moral dilemma that arises when Alex is brainwashed into good-citizenship.

RUMPELSTILTSKIN - A different spin on the classic fairy tale. A mean sadistic prince. An innocent but not-too-bright girl. A strange creature with an unnatural desire. Who will live happily ever after? It's not who you think. HANSEL & GRETEL - Set in the interrogation rooms of a major metropolitan police department, this show is a tense dark drama where emotions run high and there is a new twist at every turn. HAPPILY EVER AFTER - A troubled woman is trapped in a world where the Brothers Grimm are the ringleaders of a circus featuring all of their psychotic and tortured characters.

Hello, My Name Is is an improvisational comedy fundraiser centralizing on the theme of group therapy consisting of improv games, colorful vignettes, and enough dysfunction to go around.

Adam is a nerdy college student who meets Evelyn at a museum as she is trying to vandalize a statue. A relationship develops and Adam begins a make over under Evelyn's influence which becomes darker and darker and causes rifts in his friendship with his only friends Jenny and Philip.