Second Stage moves it’s Metamorphoses to Circle in the Square for a Broadway contract. A new play based on the myths of Ovid. Playwright and director Mary Zimmerman weaves a modern sensibility through many of Ovid’s classic tales — King Midas, Narcissus and his reflection, Orpheus and Euridice — to create Metamorphoses, a visually arresting [...]

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Notice for 2009 — We are now updating all of our schedules for the 2009-2010 season. We have no event listings for this organization for one of two reasons: we have requested updates and they will be added as soon as we receive them, or the organization is currently not producing events. (Many [...]

Cocktail Party Fact: The play, written during the Nazi occupation of France, was not put on until after the fall of Germany and the author’s death. Its premiere, with General de Gaulle in the audience, was a national event.

Cocktail Party Fact: The title refers to the English author Virginia Woolf, who descended into depression toward the end of her life and ultimately committed suicide. The husband George taunts his wife Martha by singing it to her.
Here’s The Plot: The play consists of three Acts, each with a subtitle: Act One, Fun And [...]

Cocktail Party Fact: The idea of a shipwreck and the desert island setting was a real life sea disaster in which a shipload of Virginia bound colonists ended up getting shipwrecked on Bermuda in 1609. One survivor wrote about it in a letter which was well known during that time. The name “Gilligan” does not [...]

Cocktail Party Fact: The play, written during the Nazi occupation of France, was not put on until after the fall of Germany and the author’s death. Its premiere, with General de Gaulle in the audience, was a national event.
Here’s The Plot: A group of business presidents, financiers and bankers suspect there is oil in the [...]

Cocktail Party Fact: The fact is you could start quoting witty aphorisms from this endlessly amusing writer today and not be finished for a week, but let it suffice to quote him on the topic of this play. Asked before the premiere performance whether he expected his play to be a success, he replied, “My [...]

Cocktail Party Fact: It was during this play that Moliere, performing the lead role of a hypochondriac, fell deathly ill. He continued the performance and the audience had no idea anything was wrong. He died the next day.
Here’s The Plot: Argan is a wealthy bourgeois who imagines himself plagued with all sorts of ailments and [...]

Cocktail Party Fact: This is not the first play to be called (the) Homecoming. It was also the title of a work of Eugene O’Neill, the first play of the trilogy of plays that make up Mourning Becomes Electra.
Here’s The Plot: This creepy tale concerns an old but controlling man named Max, his weak [...]

Cocktail Party Fact: This is one of a trilogy of plays written by Wilson which deals with the Talley family from Missouri. Talley’s Folly, from 1980, deals with the wooing of the spinster Sally Talley by the nice middle-aged Jewish Matt Friedman. Talley and Son, from 1985, takes the same night that Sally [...]