Devised from true life experiences of the company members, Escalation D explores the spectrum of consent, from the seemingly innocuous platinums to the life altering deep dark grays. You will laugh, you will cry, you might need a drink --- but our hope is to inspire respectful discourse.

June 16th 1972, Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy have business to tend. Tonight's Mission: Oversee a group of five men sent to repair listening devices they installed five weeks earlier into DNC's Headquarters at the Watergate Complex in Washington DC. What the fuck could possibly go wrong?

In perhaps the first recorded piece of theater in the western canon that passes the Bechdel test, Euripdes tells a story of women stronger than Gods. Using movement, language, and contemporary vision, Project Nongenue’s Trojan Women tackles building community in times of violence.

New American Theatre presents comedy by award-winning playwright Greg Kalleres. Powerless crimefighters Human Fly, Silver Streak, Rhino Man and Leopard Woman share a city-funded apartment Under investigation by an efficiency expert, they face eviction and brand new super-villain.

"Villain" compares the lives of two families who have to deal with the aftermath of the same tragedy, the shooting of a black teenage boy by a white police officer. To live righteously, must we create a villain?

The School of Night is proud to present a Neronean spectacle of poetic bombast, gut-wrenching tragedy, mask melodrama, gladiatorial combat, classical Indian dance, live human sacrifice, toxic masculinity, feminine wrath, murderous insanity and bloody horror. Are you not entertained?!

"He's the victim, Nick, and I'm the drunk girl." After the music has died, the red cups trashed, the gavel’s fallen and the sentence passed down - what remains?

A young office worker, in the midst of her midday malaise, boards an elevator that continues up beyond the office to an enchanted and unknown land. There, she encounters mythical creatures, dastardly villains, and helping hands who show her whether or not the daily grind is what she's meant to do.

Shepard and Chaiken penned these real and imagined moments about romantic love and the closeness and distance between lovers. Savage Love steps through raw, relatable, shared moments— the difficulty of expressing tenderness, the dread of being replaced, or the intimacy of watching a lover sleep.

Amanda, the star of a new play and superstar in her own head improvs, breaks the 4th wall, and drinks on stage in this play within a play. Amanda The Barbarian is a love-letter to the theatre and to all the deluded people we know who hijack every production.

Marty and Joe have worked together at the USPS for nearly thirty years, but when Marty discovers that Joe has been hoarding mail, he starts to question their relationship and the difference between what it means to be a friend or merely an acquaintance.

“Conor McPherson’s play is haunting, inspired, and absolutely glorious.” -The New York Times

As Debbie and Freddie wait in an emergency room for news on their daughter, the couple struggle over who is to blame for her accident, ultimately facing the most important--and divisive--decision of their lives.

Ben, a lonely writer, fears to be alone. Tracy, a ballerina with no balance, fears to be loved. He can´t take actions towards his goals. She destroys everything she touches. All becomes an addictive cycle of killing and giving birth to their true selves. The world is full of sharks, isn´t it?

Best short play winners from the New American Festival of One Act plays, 2017.