The Real Thing

By Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard's razor-sharp wit burns with passion in this deeply layered play about the overwhelming struggle of finding and knowing love. More than faintly autobiographical, the play's repressed but
magnetic hero, Henry, is a playwright of intellectual prowess who doesn't know how to write about this thing called love. Mr.
Stoppard's most emotionally-charged play exposes two raw and private souls that become one, despite the distance in their public postures.

Big Love

By Charles Mee

Seeking refuge from pre-arranged marriages, fifty sisters flee to an Italian villa with their unrelenting grooms (fifty brothers) in hot pursuit. This wildly entertaining betrothal battle seesaws between comedy and tragedy before culminating in a raucous celebration of broken hearts, broken vows…and piles of airborne wedding cake. Charles Mee is quickly being acknowledged as one of the most important and exciting playwrights in America.

Northanger Abbey

by Lynn Marie Macey

In this whimsical adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, we find our heroine, Catherine, thirsting for adventure and romance which she satisfies in her obsessive reading of Ann Radcliff’s extravagant novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho. Playwright Lynn Marie Macy deftly weaves incidents from the novel, as replayed in Catherine's vigorous imagination, with the comparatively placid, but no less eventful, incidents of Catherine's real life. The result is a delicious Wizard of Oz-like journey through Catherine's two worlds, culminating in her
unexpected visitation to the mysterious estate, Northanger Abbey.

Darkfall

By David Davalos

Defying any easy attempt at categorization, Darkfall is nothing short
of a modern sequel to Milton’s Paradise Lost, portraying a reconciliation between Jesus and Lucifer instigated by their aging
father. Unlike Milton, this story is placed in the modern allegory of a multi-national corporate takeover where the commodity in question is faith – packaged and marketed to the masses. Often disturbing yet
always funny, perhaps it can best be described as an intellectual-comedic-verse-thriller of biblical proportions.

Top Flight

By Bryon Burruss

Top Flight is the new play by the author of the Blue Room smash hit, Wranglers.
Inspired by the now-defunct ballroom that was once a Chico landmark, the play remembers one night at the "Flight" from the perspective of both the men (Act 1) and the women (Act 2). Five actors and five actresses, playing multiple roles (and sexes) relive the same chaotic evening as they dress up, get down, knock 'em back
and stagger forward through kaleidoscopic scenes of hilarity and depravity that vividly bring back the bygone Chico nights of the
1980's.