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By Sandy Rustin
-June 4- June 21, 2025
Fresh from Broadway, this brand-new, side-splitting romp is an outrageous tale
of sex, betrayal, and desire as one woman decides to expose her latest affair to
both her husband — and to her lover’s wife. The true meaning of fate and faith,
identity and infidelity, love and marriage are all called into question as a
surprising and hilarious web of secrets unravels in this ridiculously funny
romantic comedy.
From the playwright Sandy Rustin who was an adaptor on last year's smash hit
Clue. Theatre Workshop is ready for the side splitting laughs as this farce on
the scale of “Noel Coward meets Boeing Boeing” leaps onto the stage.
“…[a] sidesplitting screwball comedy…The Cottage is a fresh and fiercely fun play
that’s firing on all cylinders, with Rustin’s excellent script.” —Entertainment Weekly.
“…a naughty romp…Amid the old-fashioned trappings, Rustin nestles a welcome
modern sensibility to the plot’s skirmishes of the sexes…”
—Time Out New York.
“…positively delightful…frothy and effervescent.” —TheaterMania.
Co-Author: Colin Escott
Co-Author: Floyd Mutrux
July 9 to August 25, 2025
The Tony Award-nominated musical Million Dollar Quartet is set on December
4, 1956, when an extraordinary twist of fate brought Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee
Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley together at Sun Records in Memphis for
what would be one of the greatest jam sessions ever. Million Dollar Quartet
brings that legendary December night to life with an irresistible tale of broken
promises, secrets, betrayal and celebrations that is both poignant and funny.
Theatre Workshop will relive the era with the smash-hit sensation featuring
an incredible score of rock ‘n’ roll, gospel, R&B and country hits, performed
live onstage by world-class actors and musicians. Showcased hit songs
include “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Fever,” “Walk the Line,” “Sixteen Tons,” “Who Do
You Love?,” “Great Balls of Fire,” “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Whole Lotta Shakin’
Goin’ On,” “Hound Dog,” and more.
“Audiences will most likely enjoy Million Dollar Quartet for the same reasons
they’ve been flocking to Jersey Boys since its opening.” —New York Times
By Jonathan Tolins
July 25 to August 16, 2025
Alex More has a story to tell. A struggling actor in L.A., he takes a job working in the
Malibu basement of a beloved megastar. One day, the Lady Herself comes
downstairs to play. It feels like real bonding in the basement, but will their
relationship ever make it upstairs? BUYER & CELLAR is an outrageous comedy
about the price of fame, the cost of things, and the oddest of odd jobs.
Winner of the 2014–2015 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show.
“Jonathan Tolins has concocted an irresistible one-man play from the most peculiar of
fictitious premises—an underemployed Los Angeles actor goes to work in Barbra
Streisand’s Malibu, Calif., basement—allowing the playwright to ruminate with delicious
wit and perspicacity on the solitude of celebrity, the love-hate attraction between gay
men and divas, and the melancholy that lurks beneath narcissism. This seriously funny
slice of absurdist whimsy creates the illusion of a stage filled with multiple people, all of
them with their own droll point of view.”
—The New York Times.
“A fantasy so delightful you wish it were true.” —The New Yorker.
“Hilarious! Beyond brilliant. This show will go down like butta'!”
—Entertainment Weekly.
“Fantastically funny.” —New York Post
A.R. Gurney
September 10 - October 3, 2025
Greg and Kate have moved to Manhattan after twenty-two years of child-raising in
the suburbs. Greg’s career as a financial trader is winding down, while Kate’s career,
as a public-school English teacher, is beginning to offer her more opportunities.
Greg brings home a dog he found in the park—or that has found him—bearing
only the name “Sylvia” on her name tag. A street-smart mixture of Lab and poodle,
Sylvia becomes a major bone of contention between husband and wife. She offers
Greg an escape from the frustrations of his job and the unknowns of middle age.
To Kate, Sylvia becomes a rival for affection. And Sylvia thinks Kate just doesn’t
understand the relationship between man and dog. The marriage is put in serious
jeopardy until, after a series of hilarious and touching complications, Greg and Kate
learn to compromise, and Sylvia becomes a valued part of their lives.
A modern romantic comedy about a marriage and a dog.
“Dramatic literature is stuffed with memorable love scenes, but none is as immediately
delicious and dizzy as the one that begins the redeeming affair in A.R. Gurney’s new
comedy, SYLVIA…” —The New York Times.
“I can only call it one of the most involving, beautiful, funny, touching and profound
plays I have ever seen…” —New York Daily News.
“Gurney’s mad comedy is the most endearing good time to trot down the pike in many a
moon. Howlingly funny…” —BackStage.
By William Goldman
September 12 - October 4, 2025
Misery follows successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon, who is rescued from
a car crash by his “number one fan,” Annie Wilkes, and wakes up captive in her
secluded home. While Paul is convalescing, Annie reads his latest book and
becomes enraged when she discovers the author has killed off her favorite
character, Misery Chastain. Annie forces Paul to write a new Misery novel, and
he quickly realizes Annie has no intention of letting him go anywhere. The
irate Annie has Paul writing as if his life depends on it, and it does.
“There are no lulls in famed screenwriter William Goldman’s 90-minute stage
adaptation of the Stephen King story, which Goldman himself translated into the
1990 film… Exposition that took a dozen pages in paperback and at least several
minutes on screen plays out…faster than snow piling up in a Colorado blizzard.” —
WNBC NY
By Philip Grecian
November 25 - December 14, 2025
Humorist Jean Shepherd's memoir of growing up in the midwest in the 1940s
follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB
gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case before his mother,
his teacher and even Santa Claus himself at Higbee's Department Store. The
consistent response: "You'll shoot your eye out!" All the elements from the
beloved motion picture are here, including the family's temperamental
exploding furnace; Scut Farkas, the school bully; the boys' experiment with a
wet tongue on a cold lamppost; the Little Orphan Annie decoder pin; Ralphie's
father winning a lamp shaped like a woman's leg in a net stocking; Ralphie's
fantasy scenarios and more. A Christmas Story has become a theatrical
holiday perennial.
"A Christmas Story is still ... one of the more enchanting ways to be transported to
a world beyond our own. Yet it also serves to remind us how lucky we are to live a
culturally rich life ... and Philip Grecian's thoughtful stage adaptation preserves the
old ... references." —Plain Dealer
"Classics bloom quickly in modern times ... you don't have to have grown up with
9-year-old Ralphie Parker and his ache for an air rifle under the tree to think of A
Christmas Story as a Christmas must. And [this] version is just as kindly and just as
cockeyed as A Christmas Story is meant to be."
—Orlando Sentinel
"Grecian's script retains Shepherd's wry, tongue-in-cheek humor."
—Orange County Register
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