3:15 PM MARCH 3, 2012

TED LoRUSSO:  "The Rise And Fall Of Kathy The Flying Moose"

A middle-aged woman and her son are on a journey across the country on a bus, escaping life with a dysfunctional family and heading to an unknown situation. In the confines of the bus seat, mother and son share and learn about each other’s fears and hopes of the past and the future.

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KEVIN BROFSKY:  "La Crosse"

In June 1953, Sally and Sidney have lived seven years in Seattle, waiting for the divorce that will free Sidney from his loveless marriage.  When it is granted, they marry and return to their home in Philadelphia.   Crossing a continent in the tight confines of a Nash Rambler, the pressures of family and society gnaw at the foundations of the couple's happiness.  Their discontents mirror the adjustments America experiences as it moves into a new era.

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3:30 PM March  17, 2012 

SUELLEN RUBIN:  "I?"

"'You wake up one morning and are the opposite gender.'  This piece reflects my idea of what life would be like if I were male."

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MARJORIE CONN - Three Plays:

Two vignettes that take place in a pinball arcade.  Three people who are strangers to each other meet in a pinball arcade on a boardwalk by the ocean after a huge snowstorm and they are the only people in the place.  Even the management has disappeared.

                                         "Dawning"- A nun and a beachcomber meet over and over before dawn.

                                         "Saving" - 2 nuns and a woman encounter each other as well as a baby squirrel.

                                         "Healing" - A nun and a woman have a healing session.

A woman is going to scatter her husband's ashes in her backyard.  Two guardian angels, a Nun and a Rabbi, materialize to assist her.

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4PM MARCH 24, 2012

KATHLEEN WARNOCK:  Plays That Go Two Ways: Two Romances

"That's Her Way"

Stuckey and Ferro have never quite been able to decide what they are to each other, in high school, or as adults. Stuckey stayed behind in his small hometown while Ferro went off to discover her own future. Now she's back in town to care for her ailing mother, and the conversation continues. Will it ever end?

"What To Throw Out"

Allison can't move, so she hires a professional to go through her things. Mandy helps her out, in a way Allison did not expect. When you clear away the clutter, you find out what's really there

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SY LENTZISDETH: "The Value Of Money"

As bankrupt socialite Harriet Hewitt braces herself for a loveless marriage with a rich but boring suitor, the gigolo who abandoned her returns to claim her as his bride.  Can tulips flourish in a roof garden that is no longer green?

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3:30 PM MARCH 31, 2012

CAROL POLCOVAR:  "Zarah!"

Though tall, a brunette and a Swede, perhaps even of Jewish heritage, Zarah Leander was the most popular star of German film during the Third Reich. This play is based on the making of the most successful film of the Nazi Era and the intrigue around it.

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