9th Play - Tip by Maya Ortega
“A woman dies and finds out in the afterlife that her fate is based on her internet search history.” New Play Exchange
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Laura Sturm is a theatre artist based in Chicago, Illinois
“A woman dies and finds out in the afterlife that her fate is based on her internet search history.” New Play Exchange
Read More“The Hamptons. The dead cold of March. A giant beach mansion burns down--and someone local will take the blame. Economic and racial tensions rise, a witch-hunt begins, and the lives of five local Long Island families start falling to pieces (if they were ever whole). Each actor plays an entire family in this love-hate letter to a complicated community.” New Play Exchange
Read More“Greg and Kate have moved to Manhattan after twenty-two years of child-raising in the suburbs. Greg’s career as a financial trader is winding down, while Kate’s career, as a public-school English teacher, is beginning to offer her more opportunities. Greg brings home a dog he found in the park—or that has found him—bearing only the name ‘Sylvia’ on her name tag. A street-smart mixture of Lab and poodle, Sylvia becomes a major bone of contention between husband and wife. She offers Greg an escape from the frustrations of his job and the unknowns of middle age. To Kate, Sylvia becomes a rival for affection. And Sylvia thinks Kate just doesn’t understand the relationship between man and dog. The marriage is put in serious jeopardy…A modern romantic comedy about a marriage and a dog.” Dramatists Play Service
Read More“In [the] play … people do lunch, parties and sex less for fun than as a routine verification that they still exist. But what really quickens their pulse is gossip--that peculiarly recondite and virulent kind of cold war diplomacy known here as friendship. Life among these white pseudo-sophisticates in the canyons and caves of present-day New York City is as perilous and thick with intrigue as the rarefied 18th-Century world inhabited by the sexual jousters of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses.” And Keith, the entitled extra man … everybody’s helpful friend and a mystery figure who purports to write books and have a lover named Katherine, is at least as treacherous as “Les Liaisons’ ” aristocratic Valmont. Unlike Valmont, Keith does not seduce young virgins for the hell of it, but he does other unspeakable things. His specialty is voyeurism--the manipulation of other people’s lives for whatever gratification he vicariously derives from the resulting havoc. The world … drips with a pious hypocrisy that infects and engulfs the lives of the circle of friends we meet--Keith, his attractive young editor Laura, her husband Daniel, their friend Jess--and the ones that we only hear about, but who are surprisingly present in a snippy, cartoonish way.“ Sylvie Drake, LA Times Stage Review
Read More“We've all heard of couple's counseling to keep a relationship together but what happens when you go to counseling to break up? An interracial couple, a thruple and two best friends all come together with one goal in mind: to break up. Break asks the question: How badly do we want to change and where's the line between what we say we want and what we actually want?” New Play Exchange
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