HotCity Theatre

 

 

The Sinker

by Jami Brandli

May 7th – May 22nd

Directed by Annamaria Pileggi

 

 

Josh is an attractive and charming novelist who’s just signed a deal to publish his first novel. George, his childhood friend, and Liz, his literary agent and old college “friend with benefits” are both madly in love with Josh and throw him a big party. Their cozy arrangement is turned upside down when Candi, Josh’s sexy and ambitious writing student and a mysterious gun turn up the next morning. Hostages are held, dark truths are revealed, and eventually a trigger is pulled.

 

 

5th Annual GreenHouse New Play Festival

June 25th - June 27th

 

 

 

 

This national festival takes place the last week in June and is composed of two parts: A week-long workshop and a staged public reading of three selected plays.

 

Three plays "in progress" are chosen from over 250 submitted by playwrights all over the world. Each script is given a workshop that includes professional directors on staff at HotCity, a professional dramaturg (a literary drama scholar) and professional local actors. This workshop provides a springboard for re-writes and culminates in their reading at the festival by professional actors and ajudicated by HotCity artistic staff. At the festival event, each script is given a public reading, followed by a talkback session where patrons can offer their thoughts on the piece and ask questions of the playwright.

 

 

Equus

by Peter Shaffer

Sept. 10th – Sept 25th

Directed by Doug Finlayson

 

 

Winner of the 1974 Tony Award, Equus transports the audience into a world where questions have no easy answers, pain has no easy cure, and the line between aberrance and normalcy is constantly blurred and moving. Playwright Peter Shaffer delves into man’s inherent need to worship distorted by the strict rules of religion and the overwhelming pressures of a so-called civilized society.

 

Slasher

by Allison Moore

Dec. 3rd – Dec. 18th

Directed by Chuck Harper

 

 

When she’s cast as the “last girl” in a low-budget slasher flick, Sheena thinks it’s the big break she’s been waiting for. But news of the movie unleashes her malingering mother’s thwarted feminist rage, and Mom is prepared to do anything to stop filming…even if it kills her.