Tonight, in a living room not far from you, an HOA board convenes after an act of vandalism takes place at Meryl’s house. What begins as neighborly concern turns volatile as questions become accusations and the room fractures, exposing the invisible borders of class and power. In this community, where territory is everything, decency is just another performance. Welcome to the neighborhood.
After being captured by Americans during WWII, a group of young foot soldiers from the German army are transported to a P.O.W. Camp in Algona, Iowa where they are recruited to join a Drama Club led by Sgt. Hank Cole. Inspired by actual events, Calamity West’s play explores the hypocrisies of the war machine, the dangers of nationalism, and the magic of theater.
INSIDE THE WORLD
OF SOMEWHERE ELSE
Eleanor just wants to be left alone. After a humiliating fallout at work, she retreats to her one-room apartment and tries to vanish from the world. But silence refuses to cooperate. Her Phone tattles. Her feeds distort. Her memories crowd the room. What begins as a short escape turns into a warped hall of mirrors where fantasy and reality trade places. Here, Eleanor must decide if she will return to the living or disappear into the glittering echo chamber of somewhere else for good.
FEAST!
Carol just got fired. Her husband Michael has already paid for the company’s $12,000 holiday dinner. Instead of canceling, they decide to go through with it - to host the meal no one asked for and prove they still belong at the table. But when no guests arrive, the night spirals into a brutal showdown over money, marriage, and the cost of holding on, where the only thing left to swallow is the truth. FEAST! is a darkly comic pressure cooker about privilege and power.
A LOVE STORY
Olga Knipper and Anton Chekhov are caught in a brief and blazing romance, swept up in a Moscow bursting with artistic rebellion and possibility. Letters fly across provinces as Olga steps into the spotlight of a rising theatre movement while Anton confronts the stark isolation of rural Russia. What begins as curiosity erupts into devotion as two souls fight to create something that might outlast them both.
ENGINES AND INSTRUMENTS OF FLIGHT:
A FANTASIA IN THREE ACTS
Calamity West is thinking about writing a new play. A fantasia. She imagines that it's 1986, and The Playwright is writing his next play. Or, rather, struggling to write it. Or, rather, struggling to start it. After an ugly breakup with his boyfriend, The Playwright is left to face his own creative inertia as his best friends grapple with freshly-exposed feelings of romance, sexuality, and heartbreak. Caught inside a maelstrom of secrets, lies, and ghostly premonitions, he begins to find inspiration for his new work ... but it starts to look a little too familiar for his friends' tastes. In writing a play that might just make it big, The Playwright must untangle the conflicting responsibilities that come with being an artist and being a friend.
IN THE CANYON
Spanning from 2007 to 2067, In The Canyon traces the long shadow of the attack on Roe v. Wade and the unraveling of a society in decline. As the world fractures and the sun begins to set on what once felt permanent, the canyon itself awakens. Its rocks and walls come alive, carrying voices of the past, bearing witness to survival, and birthing a story of resistance.
HINTER
Whispers and rumors had been swirling around the Gruber family farm long before the bodies were discovered on that cold April day. It's 1922, and a remote community in Bavaria is reeling in the aftermath of World War I: gender roles are shifting, a generation gap is emerging, and farmers are battling poverty in the shadow of a growing urban intelligentsia.
GIVE IT ALL BACK
In a swank French hotel room in the mid-1960s, an artist hides out from a world that's turned on him. As a cavalcade of familiar faces tries to break down his door, he smokes, talks, drinks, and tries not to think about acoustic versus electric. But when a prime career opportunity lands on the table, he has to decide which version of himself he wants to be, and how to keep the past from bubbling up beneath him. Calamity West delivers a hilariously sardonic examination of how you hold on to your art when everyone else thinks that it's theirs.
