The year was 1921 and most of the town's residents were preparing for the month of May's Declaration Day parade and festivities. There were floats, jugglers, amusement rides, the best darn food one could eat and happiness and smiles found on almost everyone who walked down Greenwood Avenue. Dick Rowland couldn't take the day off to escort his new girlfriend Estelle to the parade, instead he found himself riding in an elevator at Renberg's Department store on his way to use the men's room. See, people of color were forbidden to use public restrooms. Sarah Page, the regular elevator operator was working that May 30th but "all I remember was her screaming and then everyone yelling at me. I didn't do anything but that wasn't gone make a bit of difference. Now was it? I ran as fast as I could......but they were coming.....they were coming......
A two act drama based on events surrounding the story about Tulsa Oklahoma's "Black Wall Street
A dirty sexy suicide comedy. Three adult brothers are living together once again in their childhood apartment, struggling to redefine themselves while pursuing their desires and coping with the void left by their parents' deaths. Drastic shifts in their dynamics occur after a neighbor named Stella becomes a part of their lives. A sweet and sour look at the illusions we have about what makes us happy—and what is within our power to change.
"THINGS WE WANT has to have the highest cool quotient of any show in town…[A] thickly whimsical comedy of despair…with sloppy drunk scenes, nervous breakdowns, self-lacerating monologues with poetical flourishes, and a battery of stinging quips. Mr. Sherman has a good ear for mantras of the obsessed…His latest play shares with his earlier works…an imaginative thoughtfulness in considering the urges to self-destruct and self-improve." —NY Times. "The despair is quite riveting…a powerful and hilarious vision of a family that constantly struggles to survive in a world that has not been kind to them…all the characters benefit from Sherman's clever, edgy writing. Sherman's one-liners incite plenty of laughter, too…And then there's the window—that constant, haunting reminder of the turmoil that envelops the room." —Associated Press. "The play is a kind of tone poem—with lots of whoopee-cushion laughs—about boys becoming men, and about the terror and humor of being born male at all…His brief stint as an actor has no doubt contributed to the pleasingly herky-jerky rhythms of his befuddled male characters' speech—he knows how to make language sound urban-sharp, and musical." —The New Yorker. "[A] raucous, sentimental, quick-witted domestic comedy that takes a lot of familiar elements and makes them perilously enjoyable…[A] giddy, dissipated little tragic-comedy that moves like a sitcom but is hipper and sadder…His characters clearly know their way around bottles of Jack Daniels and more esoteric pharmaceuticals. The drugs of choice, however, are disillusionment and desire." —NY Newsday. "…[an] edgy dramedy about loss, longing and recovery…Sherman captures the rhythms and quirks of conversation…with bull's-eye accuracy, whether it's among brothers or between a man and a woman. Sherman covers a lot of ground in the two-hour play, which comes down to basics: Life has lumps and bumps. It's no fluke how he neatly frames the play. It begins with a brother raising the window, saying, ‘It's hot in here.' It ends with him lowering it, saying, ‘It's cold in here.' Life is, after all, about adjusting the window on your world—and, despite all, not leaping out of it." —NY Daily News.
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An impromptu 10 year reunion puts friends under fire when Vince, a pot dealing fire fighter, tries to get Jon, an aspiring film maker, to confess to the past. A suspenseful, high-stakes drama, "Tape" is a look at how perception can color memory and that the past is sometimes not what you remember.
Performed with “Waiting Life” – a new one act about dating in New York City from both sides of the coin.
It’s a night of theatre that looks at relationships from different perspectives – for better and for worse.
Fragments depicts six friends amidst their tumultuous senior year of college. Between Tiffany's 'loving' emasculation of any man nearby, Jay's rampant paranoia that the sexiest girl ever, Melissa, will make him her bitch, and Troy's maniac nightmares of his castrating fiancé, these roommates and the rest of the myriad ensemble throw together a slap dash party to inevitably fulfill their sad destinies through wildly mismatched love affairs, life-altering prank phone calls, and the perpetual misconnection between an ambitious TV journalist-to-be and the guy next door.With a stellar cast (Blake Bradford, Bill Bria, Tanya Fazal, Alixandra Liiv, Kevin Michael Murphy*, and Holly Kay Roberts) directed by Christine Vinh, Fragments invites you to laugh at their misfortune, empathize if you've gone through it too recently, and reminisce on when you were so naïve and fondly wonder.... What the hell was I thinking?!
Fragments depicts six friends amidst their tumultuous senior year of college. Between Tiffany's 'loving' emasculation of any man nearby, Jay's rampant paranoia that the sexiest girl ever, Melissa, will make him her bitch, and Troy's maniac nightmares of his castrating fiancé, these roommates and the rest of the myriad ensemble throw together a slap dash party to inevitably fulfill their sad destinies through wildly mismatched love affairs, life-altering prank phone calls, and the perpetual misconnection between an ambitious TV journalist-to-be and the guy next door.
With a stellar cast, (Blake Bradford, Bill Bria, Tanya Fazal, Alixandra Liiv, Kevin Michael Murphy*, and Holly Kay Roberts) Fragments invites you to laugh at their misfortune, empathize if you've gone through it too recently, and reminisce on when you were so naïve and fondly wonder.... What the hell was I thinking?!
*Actor appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association – Equity approved showcase.