• PlayLab | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS DRANK HERE by Kenneth Jones


    Historic Arcade Theatre

    In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, members of the Hardy family gather to fix the damage to their world-famous Mississippi restaurant. When progressive niece Samantha blows into town with audacious ideas about the future, she further shakes the foundation of the beloved institution. Buried secrets, dubious family mythology and bad behavior are all on the […]

  • PlayLab | HALFS by Dominic Finocchiaro

    Historic Arcade Theatre

    For a brief moment, Ray was on the verge of music stardom, but then it all went up in flames. Ten years later and struggling just to survive, he's forced to face his past and wrestle anew with his demons when his teenage half-brother Simon comes to stay with him. A play about family, new […]

  • PlayLab | THE LAST GREAT ESCAPE ARTIST by Stephen Spotswood

    Historic Arcade Theatre

    Sidney Malter was once the world's premiere escape artist. He broke out of Fort Knox, escaped Alcatraz, and dug his way out of his own grave. These days, he's happy to pester the cable company from his fifth-floor apartment in the East Village. That is until seventeen-year-old Eleanor comes knocking on his door asking him […]

  • PlayLab | MONARCHS by Kelundra Smith


    Historic Arcade Theatre

    It’s the fall of 1935 Mae and John Monarch join millions of African Americans who are leaving sharecropping in the South for bigger, brighter horizons in the North just before their second baby is due. However, life in Chicago is not what they thought it would be, and when their teenage son gets in trouble […]

  • PlayLab | AHOY-HOY: A Play About That Relatable Feeling When Someone Else Invents the Telephone Three Hours Before You Do


    Historic Arcade Theatre

    It’s 1876 and also, right now. Elisha Gray is this close to inventing the telephone. He’s brilliant, anxious, and ready to make history… if Alexander Graham Bell doesn’t beat him to it. Spoiler: He kind of does. Two oversized egos. One telephone. A battle of beards and bell tones. Ahoy-Hoy is a deliriously unhinged, unapologetic sprint […]