Events
Stageplays Theatre Company now in its 25th year, presents
a Special Benefit Performance by Invitation Only on August 11, 2024, and
August 12, 2024, to celebrate the publication of its latest collection of one-act plays, "Girl In A Green Dress and Other One-Act Plays by Tomás García."
The Benefit is being held in support of Stageplays´ new play development program.
The presentation for the Girl In A Green Dress Benefit includes a concert reading of two plays from the collection of six one-act plays:
Colloquium of the Painters and 8-Step Basic Sequence. Colloquium of the Painters explores the differing perceptions on racism of two immigrants,
a resident alien from Puerto Rico and a recent undocumented arrival to New York from Mexico City. 8-Step Basic Sequence follows a realtor, his financial analyst daughter,
a florist, a reiki therapist, a hotel bellhop, and a dance instructor as they tango through Los Angeles in a roundelay of encounters leading to insight, understanding and new acceptances.
"Girl In A Green Dress" is being presented at Theater at St. Jean´s, a 200-seat Off Broadway venue, located at Lexington Avenue and 76th Street, in Manhattan (150 East 76th Street). Stageplays´
Artistic Director Tom Ferriter produces/directs. Performances will be Sunday, August 11, 2024 and Monday, August 12, 2024. There will be a book signing with the author
immediately following the presentation on August 11th.
PREVIOUS EVENTS
Stageplays Theatre Company (Stageplays®) now in it's 21st year, presents a
Special Benefit Performance by invitation Only on July 14,
2019, and July 15, 2019, to introduce its next world-premiere play, "Home
Care", a new comedy by Tomás García and Tom Ferriter. The Benefit is
being held in support of Stageplays® latest play development program.
HOME CARE is the story of Dean, a now-retired 62-year old Professor
of Mathematics, recently diagnosed with Parkinson�s disease. Having lived in a faithful marriage
of abstinence for the past 15 years, Dean decides, with the reluctant acceptance of his wife, to
hire a home care worker who will attend to ALL his needs � medical, physical, and intimately
personal. After interviewing qualified candidates, Dean and his wife, Georgina, settle on Candy,
a 23 year-old nurse assistant, and former cheerleader, who is sensitive and empathetic -- and
willing -- to fulfill all duties assigned to her as home care companion to Dean. On learning
that her mother�s role as her father�s caretaker has been superseded by the home care companion,
Gloria, their daughter, plots to re-ignite the embers of passion between her mother and father.
Dean has other ideas; Georgina has her own ideas, and Candy is caught with unexpected feelings
of her own.
"Home Care" is being presented at Theater at St. Jean, a 200-seat Off Broadway venue,
located at Lexington Avenue and 76th Street, in Manhattan (184 East 76th Street). Stageplays�
Artistic Director Tom Ferriter produces/directs. Performances wil be Sunday, July 14, 2019 and
Monday July 15, 2019.
Stageplays Theatre Company (Stageplays®) presents a Special Benefit
Performance by invitation Only on August 5,2018 and August 6, 2018,
to introduce its next world-premiere play, "The Winners", a new comedy by Walter Zuk and Tom
Ferriter. The benefit is being held in support of Stageplays® new play development program,
now in its 20th year.
THE WINNERS is a story set in Southern Florida. Cholly, a con-artist, hustler
and believer in not working, is a man with a dream and a scheme � also a thirst for liquor. His
dream: to re-cover the Silver Platter, a bar/restaurant, lost to a loan shark, that will return
Cholly to respectability. As Cholly builds his stake, his common-law wife, Lois, an on-again,
off-again heroin addict, struggles to get clean. Cholly sets out in pursuit of his next score,
enlisting the aid of Cynthia, Lois's sister, a habitual user secretly in love with Cholly, along
with his cronies Pete and John, sometime winners at cards, two-card monte, and playing the
ponies. Cholly picks the wrong pigeon and ends up in jail, sending Lois into a tail-spin from
which only Cholly can save her. A comedy of character and circumstance, �The Winners� addresses
the heavy toll of drug addiction and alcoholism on the lives of ordinary people seeking to
stabilize themselves and regain their life-footing.
"The Winners" is being presented at Theater at St. Jean, a 200-seat Off Broadway venue, located
at Lexington Avenue and 76th Street, in Manhattan (184 East 76th Street). Stageplays� Artistic
Director Tom Ferriter produces/directs. Performances wil be Sunday, August 5, 2018 and Monday
August 6, 2018.
Stageplays Theatre Company (Stageplays®) presents a 2-performance intimate
benefit concert reading Sunday and Monday, June 12 and 13, 2016, to
introduce its next world-premiere play, "Florinda's Time", a new comedy by
Allen Davis III and Tom Ferriter. The benefit is being held in support of
Stageplays®� new play development program, now in its 18th year.
FLORINDA'S TIME is a coming-of-age story set in a dance studio in 1943.
Florinda, a former ballerina and once the reigning ballroom dance teacher
in North Avondale, struggles to retain students as they defect to the
studio of a younger woman, whose focus in on the jitterbug and swing
dancing. Through coercion, persuasion, and a small bribe, Florinda
convinces her remaining students to continue yet soon realizes she cannot
overcome her circumstances and decides to join the USO. Florinda promises
to return after the war -- and she does -- nearly 20 years later.
"Florinda's Time" is being presented at Theater at St. Jean, a 200-seat
Off Broadway venue, located at Lexington Avenue and 76th Street, in
Manhattan (184 East 76th Street). Stageplays� Artistic Director Tom
Ferriter produces/directs. Performances are Sunday, June 12th at 7:00pm,
and Monday, June 13th at 7:30pm. All seats $35.
Stageplays Theatre Company (Stageplays®) presents a 2-performance intimate benefit concert
reading Sunday and Monday, April 17-18, 2016, to introduce its next world-premiere play, Our
Kind of People, a new comedy by Steve Gold and Tom Ferriter. The benefit is being held in
support of Stageplays®� new play development program, now in its 18th year.
OUR KIND OF PEOPLE is the story of an upper-class African-American family in
Memphis, whose world is thrown off balance when a visitor from the North is revealed to be a
voter registration volunteer. A comedy of circumstance where the hard-won status of the
newly-affluent is challenged by the forces of change at the dawning of the modern civil rights
era in 1962.
Our Kind of People is being presented at Theater at St. Jean, a 200-seat Off Broadway venue,
located at Lexington Avenue and 76th Street, in Manhattan (184 East 76th Street).
Stageplays� Artistic Director Tom Ferriter produces/directs. Performances are Sunday, April 17th
at 7:00pm, and Monday, April 18th at 7:30pm. All seats $35.
Stageplays Theatre Company introduces its next world-premiere play, two-time
Emmy-winner, Harding Lemay's THE OAKLAND SISTERS, in a 2-performance
intimate benefit stage reading on Sunday and Monday, February 28-29, at
Theater at St. Jean.
THE OAKLAND SISTERS is a family drama about four sisters bound by love and
dependence upon each other. When their father dies, the sisters inherit
equal shares in the family timber business. When the youngest sister
marries a French Canadian Catholic, her husband is rejected by the
domineering oldest sister -- whose irrational devotion to her younger sister
leads to the destruction of the marriage and a custody battle over her
children. The two middle sisters must choose whom to defend and whom to
abandon.
THE OAKLAND SISTERS is being presented at Theater at St. Jean, a 200-seat
Off Broadway venue, located at Lexington Avenue and 76th Street, in
Manhattan (184 East 76th Street).
Performances are Sunday, February 28th at 7:00pm, and Monday, February 29th
at 7:30pm. All seats $50.