Amy Nicholson

PUTTING ON THE FRITZ

Fourth wall? These two one-acts smash right through it by introducing their characters with a series of smart monologues. When the playwrights repair the wall b...

The Monkey Jar

At a close-knit charter elementary school, a struggling fourth-grader (Josh Ogner) brandishes a gun at his teacher, Mr. Dori (Henry Hayashi). The district's...
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I’m Your Girl

Depressive Catherine (Lori Allen Thomas) drives off a bridge. Her boyfriend, Mantello (Jeffrey Wylie, with a scuzzy mustache), knew Catherine was suicidal. But ...

Sex, Drugs and Minivans

SEX, DRUGS AND MINIVANS The typical Lisa Ann Orkin tale is a monologue you’d overhear at brunch — a stream of consciousness gush that makes room for...

Splatter Pattern

Neal Bell's dirge slowly enthralls. It features a time-bending gimmick: A grieving writer named Dunn (Jim Hanna) rewinds his conversations with everyone fro...
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Bust

"Reveal no personal information," orders an organizer to prison volunteer Lauren Weedman in the return of her hilarious and brutally frank one-woman show. The c...

PROVE IT ON ME

"I don't like crackers with my soup... that kind of appetite will get me killed," insists lesbian blues singer Georgia Brooks (Sweet Baby J'ai) to Linds...

The Marvelous Wonderettes

In their cotton-candy chiffon dresses, songbirds Missy, Suzy, Betty Jean and Cindy Lou (Kim Huber, Bets Malone, Julie Dixon Jackson and Kirsten Chandler) are pl...

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

William Shakespeare's early and utterly average comedy stands out for its climactic scene, where antihero Proteus (Thomas Bigley) attempts to rape sweet, se...