Different Stages continues its 2022-2023 season with The Art of Martyrdom (A Comedy) by Rita Anderson. Born 500 years before Shakespeare, the first female playwright of the …

This rollicking melodrama, first produced in the 1920's, is set in (obviously) a tavern on a "dark and lonely road in the middle of the …

  Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned from Iraq and is working at Subway while trying to jump-start his acting career. Scattered throughout the world …

Conor McPherson’s Shining City is a brilliant, haunting play from the multi-award-winning author of The Weir. Ian has left the priesthood to become a therapist. John …

When Ellie Dunn joins a house party at the home of the eccentric Captain Shotover, she causes a stir with her decision to marry for …

Different Stages presents a reading of the first play by a woman to win the Pulitizer Prize -- Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale.   In small …

 Ah, Thanksgiving, that most American of holidays: when families gather to bask in the bounty of the harvest, football, giant balloons — and a legacy …

In the Zone, written in 1917, is based on O’Neill‘s own experiences aboard the British shipS.S. Ikala.  This play is one of four sea dramas concerning the crew of a …

John Millington Synge’s comedy In the Shadow of the Glen is a tale of a tramp seeking shelter from a storm who finds a wife tending …

Different Stages announces its first Zoom reading of 2021. Charles Dickens’ The Cricket on the Hearth adapted by Norman Blumensaadt, with the assistance of Karen Jambon, Katherine …

In the summer of 1969, three generations of seemingly ordinary women begin to uncover secrets about themselves even as the extraordinary events of the Apollo …

Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant and ambitious young student, discovers the secret of creating life from the remains of the dead. But elation at his triumph …

  Different Stages continues its 2018- 2019 season with Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, adapted by Frank McGuinness. The play, hugely controversial when first published and performed …

  Ah, don’t act surprised. Why should book clubs be different from all the other small groups we humans belong to: families, committees, PTAs, spy …

  The title "The Magic Fire" refers to the circle of fire that the Norse god Wotan erects to shield and entrap Brunnhilde, in Wagner's …

Different Stages opens its 2018 – 2019 season with Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, adapted by Barbara Field. Dickens’ classic work centers around the adventures of Pip, the orphaned …

For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again is Tremblay's homage to his mother, who nurtured his imagination, his reclusive reading habits and his love for the …

  Different Stages continues its 2017- 2018 season with Amy and David Sedaris's The Book of Liz. Sister Liz is a cheese ball maker from the “Squeamish” …

  Just when you thought you'd heard every crazy 9/11 conspiracy theory, a guy walks into a bar and orders two beers, one for himself …

The Helliwells, the Parkers and the Soppitts are highly respected pillars of their community … but not for much longer. Married on the same day …

    Different Stages opens its 2017 - 2018 season with Carson McCullers' beautiful adaptation of her novella The Member of the Wedding.  It's 1945 in …

   ‘Sir’, the last of the great but dying breed of English actor managers, is struggling to keep a grip on his sanity and complete …

 Different Stages continues its 2016 - 2017 season with Jeffrey Hatcher’s Mrs. Mannerly. It is 1967… the Summer of Love. But for five children on the second …

Different Stages continues its 2016 - 2017 season with Carlo Goldoni’s The Noisy Neighbors or Il Campiello. Written for the Venetian Carnival, of 1756, Goldoni’s comedy recounts …

Different Stages opens its 2016-2017 season with Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Set in the twenty-fourth century, Fahrenheit 451 is a gripping tale at once disturbing and poetic about a firefighter, Guy …

Different Stages closes its 2015-2016 season with Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman.  It is the all too timely tale of a man who was once wealthy, powerful …

After suffering a major loss while he was on a cross-country bike trip, 21 year-old Leo seeks solace from his feisty 91 year-old grandmother Vera …

Different Stages continues its 2015 - 2016 season with Noel Coward's Fallen Angels.  When a pair of stylish London socialites learns that a mutual long-ago …

This new adaptation by Steven Dietz restores the suspense and seduction of Bram Stoker's classic novel to the stage. As Count Dracula begins to exert …

Different Stages opens its 2014-2015 season with When the Rain Stops Falling by Andrew Bovell. The story takes place between two worlds, between a prediction in 1959 and …

Oxford students Jack and Charley can''t court their sweethearts without a chaperone. Charley's aunt is on her way from Brazil and will fit the bill …

Different Stages continues its 2013 - 2014 season with Theresa Rebeck's Mauritius. Two estranged half-sisters sisters are mourning the recent loss of their mother. However, …

Based on the 1961 novella by Muriel Sparks, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is the story of an uncommonly progressive schoolteacher at an uncommonly …

Different Stages closes its 2013-2014 season with Pygmalion, Shaw's most popular modern masterpiece, perhaps best known as the inspiration for the musical My Fair Lady. …

Different Stages continues its 2013 - 2014 season with Preston Jones's comedy The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia.  A fraternity of Bradleyville's "good …