It’s Showtime!

Comfort, a new play by award-winning writer Neil LaBute, one of America’s most distinguished
playwrights and filmmakers, follows the complicated, love-hate relationship between a mother
and son as they barrel towards the unknown, battling over ownership of a treasured manuscript.

In 1933, Charlie, a Polish-born Jew who emigrated to America a decade earlier, returns to his hometown of Rovno in search of a bride. There Charlie meets Chava, who works at a hat shop and hopes to become a scholar. However, Chava’s ambitions for the future and the growing clouds of European anti-Semitism and persecution threaten both their dreams.

Four small-time grifters meet at an isolated cabin in Washington State to pull off a heist that has all the earmarks of a disaster-in-the-making. 

Devoted daughter, Allain, has the painful responsibility of dropping off her stubborn, elderly mother, Delphina, at the Deer Lakes Assisted Living Facility in Las Vegas, NV. When Delphina refuses to stay, mother and daughter must grapple with the issues that led them both to Deer Lakes in the first place.

Join us on Mondays for for the Monday night Salon Readings. Enjoy stage readngs of a wide assortment of new plays, sometimes even joining the playwright and cast for a talk-back after the reading. And you never know, one might end up in next season!  You can say, “I was here at the beginning!”

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