The Importance of Being Earnest

By Oscar Wilde - Directed by Christine Vinh Weems

November 5th-16th

Phare Play kicks off its 2008-09 season with a comtemporary take on Wilde's classic. Helmed by Executive Director Christine Vinh Weems, The Importance of Being Earnest will provide NYC audiences with a sexy twist on this classic mistaken identity farce.

Pants on Fire

By Bill Svanoe - Directed by Blake Bradford and Brooklyn Scalzo

November 8th-11th

Love is in the air for Lynne Weiss. Or so she hopes. A "middle aged" lady takes on the scary world of internet dating in the first NYC production of Bill Svanoe's comedy.

Quisisana

By Bill Svanoe - Directed by Blake Bradford

A co-production with Developing Acts Productions

November 28th - December 14th

Jean Peterson returns to Quisisana, her family's summer home, after spending 10 years away from her three siblings. Her return and the family secrets that each member harbors threatens to destroy the very fiber that composes their aristocratic nature.

Trader Jack and the Stinger

By Bill Svanoe - Directed by Blake Bradford

A co-production with Developing Acts Productions

November 29th - December 14th

A battle of wits and words ensues as an Ivy League professor deals with his own issues while trying to reclaim his former glory as a writer by working with an aggressive and talented convict turned writer, who may not be willing to wait to claim fame and fortune.

Mindbleach 2.0

By Blake Bradford, Matt Klan, Jen Spragg, and Michael Weems

Directed by Blake Bradford and Christine Vinh Weems

January 26th, February 9th & 23rd, March 9th

Phare Play's bastard stepchild has a twisted side. It's emerged from a dark, deviant hiding place to entertain you and your friends for four evenings of raunch, fun, and a variety of sordid sketches.

Tape

By Stephen Belber - DIrected by Christine Vinh Weems
A co-production with Little Hibiscus Productions

February 27th - March 1st

An impromptu 10 year reunion puts friends under fire when Vince, a pot dealing firefighter, tries to get Jon, an aspiring film maker, to confess to the past. A suspenseful, high-stakes drama, "Tape" is a look at how perception can color memory and the past is sometimes not what you remember.

I, Undertow

By Blake Bradford - Directed by Kary Thomas

March 26th - April 5th
Wednesdays - Saturdays at 8PM, Sundays at 2PM, NO SHOW March 28th

Everyone has issues. All of Justin's live in North Carolina.

Justin's an up and coming artist thriving in NYC whose world grinds to a halt when the worse thing possible happens to him - he gets the call to come home due to his grandmother's failing health. Slinking back to small town North Carolina with his latest one night stand forced upon him, he finds himself back neck deep in the family issues that he had been avoiding for more than a decade and facing the girl he left behind. In the midst of the culture clash between small town quirkiness and big city society behavior, Justin may actually discover what he had been running from for all of those years. Phare Play Productions is proud to present the world premier of Blake Bradford's newest play - a hard look at the humor and heartache of going home.

Call Waiting

Written and Directed By Nora Vetter, Assistant Directed by Brooklyn Scalzo

March 28th - April 5th
Saturdays at 2PM, Sundays - Tuesdays at 8PM

Welcome to the chaotic world of semi-engaged Samantha and semi-single mom, Jill - best friends attached by their cells. As they stumble along the path of life they get tripped up by James the cheater, nice guy Brian, bubbly Cassie and Steve who is...well, just Steve. Filled with good humor, healthy rage and crab rangoons - these gals discover that they've got a lot of advice, they just aren't the best at taking it...but that's for another phone call. Phare Play Productions premieres this fun new romantic dramedy by Nora Vetter.

A Comedy of Errors

By William Shakespeare - Adapted and Directed by Michael Hagins

May 14th - 24th
Wednesdays - Saturdays at 8PM, Sundays at 2PM

Cartoons meets Classics as Phare Play Productions presents A Comedy of Errors, adapted and directed by Michael Hagins. Using the slapstick style that ran rampant in the cartoons we all grew up with, Hagins brings live animation to this Shakespearean tale of double twins confusing an entire town. The show features lots of pratfalls, slaps, weaponry, chases and love triumphant.

Bludgeon the Lime

By Michael Weems - Directed by Brooklyn Scalzo, Assistant Directed by Gretchen Ferris

May 16th - 24th
Saturdays at 2PM, Sundays - Tuesdays at 8PM

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back, change the locks.

Two couples - a tried and tired doctor and his society wife and a young lesbian couple who aren’t quite revealed to the public, enter couples therapy to save their relationships. They meet Agatha who has instituted "separation therapy" in the hopes of reconnecting her wayward clients. When the therapy goes awry, they each find a certain truth in distance from their significant others, and are faced with the choice of acceptance or breaking the rules to reach their desire. Phare Play Productions is proud to present the world premiere of Bludgeon the Lime, a comical tale that explores these divergent relationships and shows how a little space to breathe can do wonders.

Arsenic and Old Lace

By Joseph Kesselring - Directed by Blake Bradford

July 17th-26th

Set in early 1940's Brooklyn, this dark comedy follows Mortimer Brewster, an up-and-coming theater critic whose intention to marry the next door minister's daughter is thwarted when he finds that his sweet, lovable aunts are hiding a dozen dead bodies in the cellar!

No Sex Please, We're British

By Alistair Foote and Anothony Marriott - Directed by Christine Vinh Weems, Assistant Directed by Sara Towber

July 18th - 26th

Scandinavian pornography abounds when it is mistakenly sent to a bank branch manager and his young bride. They try to keep it safely hidden from his nosy mother who happens to be visiting, his boss whose trying to become family, a bank inspector with insomnia who comes by for an unexpected visit and a tipsy police superintendent. With the help of the chief cashier who is way over his head, they manage to spin the most insane and deliciously fun web of mistaken identities, physical mishaps and hilarious complications resulting in a true classic door-slamming, high energy farce.