April 2024
SEX a.k.a. Wieners and Boobs
Written by: Joe Lo Truglio, Michael Showalter, David Wain
Directed by: Stephanie Houghton
Co-produced by: Renee Brank
Jack Greenberg is the new sheriff of Teaneck, New Jersey. Unfortunately, the corrupt town is run by Tad Theaterman, a crime boss armed with henchmen and a legion of hookers and gigolos. The Mayor and townsfolk fear Tad, but love the money the sinful brothels bring in! When Jack meets Hillary, a recent divorcee, it's love at first sight, but there's a showdown that's closin' in on our hero! Will Jack save Teaneck, get the girl, and defeat Tad? Or will the wieners and boobs prevail?!
DECEMBER 2022
A VERY GADABOUT CHRISTMAS VARIETY SHOW
“Bells On” Written by: Seth Pomeroy
Directed by: Stephanie Houghton
A jolly ol’ evening of sketch comedy, short plays, live music and stand-up.
NOVEMBER 2019
DEER
Written by: Aaron Mark
Directed by: Stephanie Houghton
Upper West Side empty-nesters Ken and Cynthia hit a deer while driving to their weekend house in the Poconos. Cynthia tries desperately to nurse the dead animal back to life, as Ken fights for his first weekend alone with his wife in twenty-five years. As their lifeless, bloody new pet takes over their lives, Ken and Cynthia will either rekindle their love or kill each other. DEER is a grisly, pitch-black comedy about normal people who snap.
JUNE 2019
SWIMMING IN THE SHALLOWS
Written by: Adam Bock
Directed by: Stephanie Houghton
Barb finds out that Buddhist monks in Thailand only own eight things—and wonders if that is all she wants. She starts giving away her things but her husband Bob keeps buying her new ones. Donna wants Carla Carla to marry her, but Carla Carla doesn't like that Donna smokes. Nick meets a shark at the aquarium—they go on a date to the beach and Nick tries not to sleep with the shark too fast. Plus dream sequences. Plus a wedding.
OCTOBER 2018
HOOKMAN
Written by: Lauren Yee
Directed by: Jeremy Holland and Lauren Wilson
Freshman year at college is hard when your roommate is weird, you're feeling homesick, and a hook-handed serial killer is slashing girls' throats. But if Lexi can discover what really happened to her high school best friend on that car ride to the movies, everything will be okay. In this existential slasher comedy, Lexi and her friends learn what it means to grow up—and it's not pretty.
JUNE 2018
MY AIM IS TRUE
Written by: Matthew Hancock
Directed by: Ted Welch and Andy Kanies
The Stranger's aim is straight and dead-on each and every time. See what happens when he comes to town and meets the locals.
FEBRUARY 2018
LOVE IN REVUE: LET ME COUNT THE PLAYS
“Cupid, Save Me” Written by: Josh Inocalla
Directed by: Josh Inocalla and Stephanie Houghton
Celebrating Valentine’s Day with a night of sketch comedy and original shorts.
OCTOBER 2017
TREVOR
Written by: Nick Jones
Directed by: Henry Haggard
Inspired by true events, TREVOR is a subversive comedy about fame, success, and the lies we tell ourselves in order to keep people from taking away an erratic, 200-pound chimpanzee.
At the center of this hilarious and heart-wrenching play are two individuals fighting against a world unable to understand their love: Trevor, a chimpanzee who once performed in commercials with the likes of Morgan Fairchild, and his owner Sandra, who swears he would never hurt a fly...at least not on purpose.
MAY 2017
OFFICES
Written by: Ethan Coen
Directed by: Stephanie Houghton
Hiring and firing are antisocial acts. Workplace pressures make for nasty competition. And the work itself can be meaningless and alienating.
Ethan Coen’s OFFICES is a darkly funny series of three one-act plays offering a brisk, brutal assessment of the contemporary workplace.
NOVEMBER 2016
TALES FROM THE SCRYPT
“Disney Did This” Written by: Josh Inocalla
Directed by: Stephanie Houghton
Spaghetti Theatre, Gadabout Theater Company and Death In Stereo Productions turn the Centennial Black Box Theater into a house of horrors with three creepy original plays. Be there if you dare.
SEPTEMBER 2016
CLOWN BAR
Written by: Adam Szymkowicz
Directed by: Stephanie Houghton
Music by: Lauren Wilson and Jeremy Holland
A clown noir play about a former clown named Happy who has returned to the seedy underground crime world to find his brother’s killer. Will Happy be able to go home again without getting sucked into the seedy clown underbelly of vice and violence?
MARCH 2016
TOO MUCH LIGHT MAKES THE BABY GO BLIND: 30 NEO-FUTURIST PLAYS
Written by: Greg Allen
Directed by: Stephanie Houghton, Josh Inocalla, Gerald Pitts, Lauren Wilson and Daniel Swinney
Having opened in 1988 and still playing today as the longest-running show in Chicago history, TOO MUCH LIGHT MAKES THE BABY GO BLIND is an ensemble experiment in presenting "30 Plays in 60 Minutes." Each two-minute play is performed in random order with an interactive audience. An onstage 60-minute timer keeps everyone honest. This collection of comic, tragic, political, personal, and abstract plays gives audiences the chance to program a deeply unique and immersive evening of 30 Neo-Futurist plays to reflect the lives and experiences of all those performing and attending.
SEPTEMBER—october 2015
GOD
Written by: Woody Allen
Directed by: Stephanie Houghton
Set in an empty Greek amphitheater, this mad play within a play switches back and forth between ancient Athens and modern Broadway.
A Greek actor and a writer are discussing how to end a play. Actors, including Doris Levine from Great Neck, Blanche DuBois, and Groucho Marx, pop out of the audience. Peppered with metaphysical and philosophical questions, the play skids along farcically until the actor and writer conclude that it lacks a beginning as well as an end.
THE DEVIL’S PAROLE
Written by: Eric Giancoli
Directed by: Stephanie Houghton
Once every millennium the Devil has a parole hearing with God to see if he will be released from imprisonment in Hell. This time around the Devil believes he's found a loophole.
APRIL 2015
MR. MARMALADE
Written by: Noah Haidle
Directed by: Stephanie Houghton
Lucy is a four-year-old girl with a very active imagination. Unfortunately, her imaginary friend Mr. Marmalade doesn’t have much time for her. Not to mention he beats up his personal assistant, has a cocaine addiction, and a penchant for pornography and very long dildos. Larry, her only real friend, is the youngest suicide attempt in the history of New Jersey. MR. MARMALADE is a savage black comedy about what it takes to grow up in these difficult times.
AUGUST 2014
POWER PLAYS
Written by: Elaine May and Alan Arkin
Directed by: Stephanie Houghton
Three short plays about the collision of wills.
THE WAY OF ALL FISH looks at the relationship between Ms. Asquith, a wealthy woman in New York, and her secretary, Ms. Riverton. When Ms. Asquith invites her to dinner, the two women literally and figuratively flex their muscles to prove who really has the upper hand in their relationship.
VIRTUAL REALITY follows Lefty as he starts a new job at an undisclosed location. As he meets his supervisor, De Recha, Lefty begins to question what exactly this new job is going to be, but the more he works in the imaginary the more taxing his job becomes.
IN AND OUT OF THE LIGHT is a classic slamming doors farce that follows one dentist's desire to cozy up with his new assistant. The only problem is his son, Harry, desperatley needs to reveal not one, but two hurtful secrets to his father. Not to mention his hyper-anxious patient, Wanda, won't let just anyone give her novocaine.
APRIL 2014
AN ADULT EVENING OF SHEL SILVERSTEIN
Written by: Shel Silverstein
Directed by: Stephanie Houghton
Welcome to the darkly comic world of Shel Silverstein, where nothing is as it seems and where the most innocent conversation can turn menacing in an instant. The ten imaginative plays in this collection range widely in content, but the style is unmistakable.