Past Productions
We are committed to producing purposeful, challenging, and unique theater experiences including the best of contemporary drama, exciting new works, plays for young audiences, and boldly reimagined classics.
2021-2022
The Secretaries
By The Five Lesbian Brothers
Directed by Josh Hitchens
Patty Johnson is thrilled to join the secretarial pool at the Cooney Lumber Mill, but she soon begins to feel that all is not right – lumberjacks keep disappearing and the secretaries might be a cult!.
Dearly Departed
By David Bottrell and Jessie Jones
Directed by Dakota Adams
In the Baptist backwoods of the Bible Belt, the beleaguered Turpin family proves that living and dying in the South are seldom tidy and always hilarious.
Real Women Have Curves
by Josefina Lopez
Directed by Mark Branche
Set in a tiny sewing factory in East L.A., five full-figured Mexican-American women race to meet nearly impossible production deadlines in order to keep their business from going under.
Life Sucks
By Aaron Posner
Directed by Robert Bauer
In this brash reworking of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, a group of old friends, ex-lovers, estranged in-laws, and lifelong enemies gather to grapple with life’s thorniest questions—and each other.
2020-2021
Eurydice
By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Shannon Hill
Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love in this reimagining of a classic Greek myth.
Deathtrap
By Ira Levin
Directed by Ryan Walter
Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a dry spell when he receives a script from a student that could be good enough to kill for.
The Weir
By Conor McPherson
Directed by Josh Hitchens
In a bar in rural Ireland, the local men swap spooky stories in an attempt to impress a young woman from Dublin who recently moved into a nearby “haunted” house.
A Body of Water
By Lee Blessing
Directed by Robert Bauer
Moss and Avis, a middle-aged couple, wake up one morning in an isolated summer house high above a picturesque body of water – and neither of them can remember who they are.
2019-2020
The Insanity of Mary Girard
By Lanie Robertson
Directed by Mariangela Saavedra
In this haunting and highly theatrical piece, Mary Girard, committed to an insane asylum in 1790, envisions dancing “furies” who impersonate people from her past.
Stop Kiss
By Diana Son
Directed by Leigh Jacobs & Lauri Jacobs
After Callie meets Sara, the two unexpectedly fall in love and their first kiss provokes a violent attack that transforms their lives in a way they could never anticipate.
The Philadelphia Story
By Philip Barry
Directed by Noel Hanley
This smash Broadway comedy, about an eventful wedding weekend at the estate of a wealthy American family, inspired an Oscar-winning film and the hit musical High Society.
Keely and Du
By Jane Martin
Directed by Scott Grumling & T. Patrick Ryan
Du, a right-to-life activist, and Keely, a pregnant rape victim Du is confining, transcend their circumstances and the ideological issues that separate them.
2018-2019
The Country
By Martin Crimp
Directed by Robert Bauer
Richard and his wife Corinne have moved to the country to start a new life, but with the arrival of an unexpected visitor It gradually emerges that all is not as it seems.
Sabrina Fair
By Samuel Taylor
Directed by Noel Hanley
This version of the Cinderella fable is set on Long Island in the 1950s, and deals with the involvement of a very rich family with Sabrina Fairchild, the daughter of their chauffeur.
Over the River and Through the Woods
By Joe DiPietro
Directed by Marilyn Yoblick
A hilarious family comedy centered around Nick, a single Italian-American guy from New Jersey who has to tell his grandparents he has a dream job offer in Seattle – and the news doesn’t sit so well.
26 Pebbles
By Eric Ulloa
Directed by Scott Grumling & T. Patrick Ryan
This play, based on interviews conducted with the community of Newtown, Connecticut, explores the devastating ramifications of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.
The Bible: The Complete Word of God (Abridged)
By Adam Long, Reed Martin, & Austin Tichenor
Directed by Mariangela Saavedra
An affectionate, irreverent roller-coaster ride from fig leaves to Final Judgment – Whether you’re spiritually inclined or not you will be tickled by this romp through old-time religion.
2017-2018
The Grapes of Wrath
By Frank Galati
Directed by Josh Hitchens
Reduced to poverty by the loss of their farm, the Joad family piles their few possessions on a battered old truck and head west for California, hoping to find work and a better life.
Rasheeda Speaking
By Joel Drake Johnson
Directed by Scott Grumling & T. Patrick Ryan
This tense workplace thriller examines the realities of so-called “post-racial” when two co-workers—one black, the other white—are driven apart by the machinations of their boss.
You Can’t Take It With You
By George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart
Directed by Noel Hanley
One of the most popular and successful plays of modern times, You Can’t Take It With You is Kaufman and Hart’s hilarious, delightful portrait of a charmingly eccentric family.
The Most Deserving
By Catherine Trieschmann
Directed by Nancy Kreider
In this comedy about gossip, politics, and opinions about art, a small town arts council has $20,000 to award to a local artist with an “under-represented American voice” and must decide who gets it
I Hate Hamlet
By Paul Rudnick
Directed by Mariangela Saavedra
A young and successful television actor relocates to New York to play Hamlet – a role and play he hates – and is surprised to find himself haunted by the intoxicated ghost of John Barrymore!
2016-2017
Rapture, Blister, Burn
By Gina Gionffrido
Directed by Maurizio Giammarco
After grad school, Catherine and Gwen chose polar opposite paths, but decades later, unfulfilled in polar opposite ways, each woman covets the other’s life.
Rumors
By Neil Simon
Directed by Noel Hanley
When they gather to celebrate a tenth wedding anniversary, four New York power couples experience confusions and miscommunications that drive them into farcical hilarity.
And Then There Were None
By Agatha Christie
Directed by Josh Hitchens
Ten strangers with wicked secrets are summoned to a remote island, and as the weather turns bad they are murdered one by one in accordance with the lines of a sinister nursery rhyme.
An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein
By Shel Silverstein
Directed by Mariangela Saavedra
These ten short plays welcome you to the darkly comic world of Shel Silverstein, where nothing is as it seems and where the most innocent conversation can turn menacing in an instant.
Betrayal
By Harold Pinter
Directed by Robert Bauer
The play begins with the meeting of Emma and Jerry, whose adulterous affair of seven years ended two years earlier – and then each scene moves backward in time up to the affair’s beginning.
Community Voices
In 2020 and 2021, Allens Lane Art Center presented Community Voices, a series of one night, interactive talks by people within our Philadelphia Community.
Watch Past Events:
October 2021, Authors and Storytellers
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April 2021, Local Radio and Musicians
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March 2021, Locally Owned Businesses
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February 2021, Historic Germantown
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October 2020, Sisters in Music and Poetry
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