Far Fetched Fables
A family show Inspired by the classic "Fractured Fairy Tales" cartoons.
Porch Stories II
Elmwood Playhouse our own version of true story telling, Inspired by NP's The Moth Radio Hour.
Porch Stories
Inspired by NPR's The Moth Radio Hour, Elmwood Playhouse presents our own version of this national treasure.
Born Yesterday
A not-so-dumb-blond outwits her bullying boyfriend while finding true love
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
A hilarious modern comedy that turns Chekhov on his head
The Odd Couple
A comedy about two divorced men trying to live together despite their differences.
You Can’t Take It With You
At first the Sycamores seem mad, but it is not long before we realize that if they are mad, the rest of the world is madder. In contrast to these delightful people are the unhappy Kirbys. The [...]
Three Tall Women
It begins as a naturalistic conversation among three women (identified as A, B, and C) from successive generations who meet in a hospital room. Each is undergoing a change from one life phase to [...]
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
Inspired by the playwright’s youthful experience as a staff writer on Sid Caesar’s Your Show of Shows, with all the attendant comic drama as the harried writing staff frantically [...]
After-Play
Set in the newest “in” Manhattan restaurant, the play opens with an ethereal waiter preparing for the arrival of a party of four. Just as the two couples are about to enter, it [...]
Lost In Yonkers
Bella is 35-years-old, mentally challenged and living at home with her mother, stern Grandma Kurnitz . As the play opens, ne’r do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the old [...]
The Sisters Rosensweig
Sara Goode, an enormously successful American woman working as the British representative of a major Hong Kong bank, is about to celebrate her fifty-fourth birthday, and she isn’t exactly [...]
Twelfth Night
In the kingdom of Illyria, a nobleman named Orsino lies around listening to music, pining away for the love of Lady Olivia. He cannot have her because she is in mourning for her dead brother and [...]
Crossing Delancey
Isabel is a modern young woman who lives alone and works in a book shop. When she is not pining after a handsome author, she is visiting her grandmother (Bubbe) in Manhattan’s Lower East [...]
Ladies in Retirement
Miss Fiske, ex-actress, lives in a remote house with her companion, Ellen Creed. Ellen, who has devoted her life to her sisters, Louisa and Emily (simple-minded maiden ladies), invites them to [...]
Noises Off
Called the funniest farce ever written, Noises Off presents a manic menagerie as a cast of itinerant actors rehearsing a flop called Nothing’s On. Doors slamming, on and offstage intrigue, [...]
Lend Me A Tenor
Lend Me A Tenor is set in September 1934. Saunders, the general manager of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company, is primed to welcome world famous, Tito Morelli, Il Stupendo, the greatest tenor of [...]
84 Charing Cross Road
This wonderful show is a dramatization of business letters between a young struggling writer in New York and an antiquarian book store in London. In a sense, these are also love letters. They are [...]
The Man Who Came To Dinner
Sheridan Whiteside, having dined at the home of the Stanleys, slips on their doorstep, breaking his hip. A tumultuous six weeks of confinement follow. The Stanley living room is monopolized by [...]
Beyond Therapy
Bruce and Prudence are deeply into therapy. Prudence’s macho therapist is urging her to be more assertive while Bruce’s wacky female therapist wants him to meet women by placing a [...]
Broadway Bound
Part three of Neil Simon’s acclaimed autobiographical trilogy finds Eugene and his older brother Stanley trying to break into the world of show business as professional comedy writers while [...]
The Sunshine Boys
Al and Willie as “Lewis and Clark” were top-billed vaudevillians for over forty years. Now they aren’t even speaking. When CBS requests them for a “History of [...]
The Memory of Water
Three estranged sisters meet on the eve of their mother’s funeral to argue and misremember in Shelagh Stephenson’s examination of the structures of memory and family.  As they attempt to organise [...]
The House of Blue Leaves
Artie Shaugnessy is a songwriter with visions of glory. Toiling by day as a zoo-keeper, he suffers in seedy lounges by night, plying his wares at piano bars in Queens, New York where he lives [...]
The Foreigner
The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by “Froggy” LeSeuer, a British demolition expert who occasionally runs training sessions at a nearby army base. This time [...]
Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
The creative team responsible for a recent Broadway flop (in which three chorus girls were murdered by the mysterious “Stage Door Slasher”) assemble for a backer’s audition of [...]
Season’s Greetings
Half a dozen friends and relatives are celebrating Christmas with Neville and Belinda. Various children are also there and, though unseen, their presence is always felt. Petty squabbles break out [...]
The Lady’s Not For Burning
Thomas Mendip, a discharged soldier, weary of the world and eager to leave it, comes to a small town, announces he has committed murder and demands to be hanged. A philosophical humorist, Thomas [...]
Romantic Comedy
Arrogant, self centered and sharp tongued Jason Carmichael, successful co-author of Broadway romantic comedies, is facing two momentous events: he is about to marry a society belle and his [...]
Arsenic and Old Lace
We meet the charming and innocent ladies who populate their cellar with the remains of socially and religiously “acceptable” roomers; the antics of their brother who thinks he is [...]
Stage Struck
Robert Simon keeps house for his West End actress wife while amusing himself with various sexual adventures. He is a thoroughly happy man until the clumsy intervention of a psychiatrist destroys [...]
Morning’s at Seven
Aaronetta and Ida Gibbs have lived next door to each other most of their lives and along with Esther, all of the Gibb sisters are an open book to each. Husbands not included. Into the fray comes [...]
Twelfth Night
The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola disguised as a boy falls in love with Duke Orsino, who in turn is in love with the Countess Olivia. Upon [...]
The Odd Couple
A group of the guys assemble for cards in the apartment of divorced Oscar Madison. Late to arrive is Felix Unger, who just separated from his wife. Felix seems suicidal, but it's Oscar with [...]
Philadelphia, Here I Come
On the eve of his departure for Philadelphia, Gar, an Irishman, with his private thoughts in the form of a humorous doppelganger onstage, observes the life ahead and the provincial existence he [...]
A Flea In Her Ear
Raymonde suspects her husband, Victor Emmanuel, of infidelity and she turns to her best friend, Lucienne, to help her gain proof. They concoct a play-based on a perfumed letter-to trap him at the [...]
Whose Life is it Anyway?
Set in a hospital room, the action revolves around a sculptor who is paralysed from the neck down in a car accident and is determined to be allowed to die.
Light Up The Sky
A group of New York theatre-folk who attend the opening of their new play in Boston.
The Good Doctor
The Good Doctor is a comedy with music written by Neil Simon. It consists in a series of short plays, based on short stories and other works of Russian writer Anton Chekhov, framed by a writer [...]
Death Defying Acts
David Mamet’s An Interviewis an oblique, mystifying interrogation. A sleazy lawyer is forced to answer difficult questions and to admit the truth about his life and career. The why and [...]
Chapter Two
Recent widower, writer George Schneider, is encouraged by his younger brother Leo to start dating again. Which sends George into even more depression after a series of bad matches. Then Leo comes [...]
The Waverly Gallery
Gladys, the elderly matriarch of the Green family, has run an art gallery in a small Greenwich Village hotel for many years. The management wants to replace her less than thriving gallery with a [...]
Habeas Corpus
The antics at the Wicksteed home are a satirical merry-go-round. Family, friends and the sexual satisfaction of the "corpus" (body) are the ruling passions in this farcical comedy of ill-manners.
The Real Thing
This intellectually and emotionally engaging backstage comedy portrays an articulate and romantically idealistic playwright whose second wife is trying to merge worthy causes with her art as an [...]
The Gingerbread Lady
Evy Meara, is a popular singer who has hit the skids. After a short stay in rehab, her best friend age-defying Toby, her daughter Polly, and Jimmy Perry, a gay actor try to help her adjust to [...]
Happy Birthday, Wanda June
A woman with a little boy has two suitors: a doctor and a vacuum cleaner salesman. Her husband, a famous big game hunter and adventurer, disappeared years ago in the Amazon. She is about to be [...]
The Gingerbread Lady
Evy Meara, a popular singer, has hit the skids. After a short stay in rehab, her best friend, her daughter, and a gay actor try to help her adjust to sobriety with a birthday party.
The Country Wife
A product of the tolerant early Restoration period, the play reflects an aristocratic and anti-Puritan ideology, and was controversial for its sexual explicitness even in its own time.
Nourish The Beast
Baba Goya is a loudmouth mother who goes through husbands and orphans She presides over a household comprised of a childish orphan, an elderly gentleman, a dying husband, and an errant daughter.
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Middle-aged and married, overworked and overweight, Barney Cashman wants to join the sexual revolution before it's too late.
Don’t Drink The Water
The play takes place inside an American embassy behind the Iron Curtain. An American tourist – a caterer by trade – and his wife and daughter rush into the embassy two steps ahead of the police [...]
Oh Dad, Poor Dad
Described by the author as a "farce in three scenes", the story involves an overbearing mother who travels to a luxury resort in the Caribbean, bringing along her son and her deceased husband, [...]
Entertaining Mr. Sloane
A subversive black comedy of unscrupulous sexual manipulation. It tells the story of Mr. Sloane, a sly young man who works his way into the household of Kath, her brother Ed, and their father.
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
This long running Off-Broadway absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of [...]
As Bees in Honey Drown
Evan Wyler has just finished a photo session with his shirt off. No, he’s not a supermodel; he’s a twenty-something New York writer savoring the success of his debut novel. Defined by [...]
The Boys Next Door
The place is a communal residence in a New England city, where four mentally handicapped men live under the supervision of an earnest, but increasingly “burned out” young social [...]
Barefoot in the Park
Paul and Corie Bratter are newlyweds in every sense of the word. After a six day honeymoon, they get a surprise visit from Corie’s loopy mother and decide to play matchmaker during a dinner [...]
I Hate Hamlet
Andrew Rally seems to have it all: celebrity and acclaim from his starring role in a hit television series; a rich, beautiful girlfriend; a glamorous, devoted agent; the perfect New York [...]
Arsenic and Old Lace
We meet the charming and innocent ladies who populate their cellar with the remains of socially and religiously "acceptable" roomers; the antics of their brother who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt; [...]