BLUE MONDAY by C. Denby Swanson
Sunday February 24, 2008
State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave.

C. Denby Swanson’s, Blue Monday, a new play that she is adapting from the medieval morality play EVERYMAN.

C. Denby Swanson is the TCG/NEA Playwright in Residence at Zachary Scott Theater Center and the former Artistic Director of […]

Chasin’ the Bird by Jason Tremblay
Sunday January 27, 2008
State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave.

Set in Kansas City, Chasin’ the Bird is the story of the first recording that Charlie Parker ever made. Moving between 1936 and 1996 the play focuses on William Owens who at 15 made the recording […]

Eskandar by Allan Baker
Sunday, October 28th at 6:30
State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave.

Eskandar is a modern re-telling of the opera Carmen, set in today’s Afghanistan. Joe is a gay Afghan-American, who has returned to Afghanistan as part of a shadowy military unit. There he meets Eskandar, an Afghan boy […]

Sunday, September 30 at 6:30 pm
The State Theatre
719 Congress Ave.

HOLLYWOOD MELODY OF 1933
by Louise Richardson

Hollywood Melody of 1933 is both a tribute to and an updating of the movie musicals of Warner Brothers and RKO from the 1930s. An old-time vaudeville performer, made rich and famous by his stereotypical portrayals […]

Sunday, May 20 at 6:30 pm
The State Theatre
719 Congress Ave.

A Perfect Circle
by Tom Cointer

In A Perfect Circle, a small boy with a mesmerizing power is endangered by the adults around him and their confidence that they will be able to protect him, no matter what.

Tom Coiner is a playwright […]