The Village Players Theatre

A timely and funny play, Third tells the story of college professor Laurie Jameson, whose seemingly well-ordered life as wife, mother and daughter is thrown into disarray when she accuses a student, an outwardly stereotypical jock nicknamed ‘Third,’ of plagiarism. Defined by its dazzlingly smart dialogue, crackling wit..., intelligence and wryness, Third is true evidence of what made the late Wendy Wasserstein one of the most prominent female playwrights of the last 20 years.Read More

Take an aging, exceedingly vain actor; his very rich wife; a double dealing, double loving agent plunk them down in an elegant New York duplex and add dialogue crackling with wit and laughs and you have the basic elements for an evening of pure, sophisticated entertainment. Angela, the wife and Ted, the agent, are love...rs and plan to murder Palmer, the actor, during a contrived robbery on New Year’s Eve. But actor and agent are also lovers and have an identical plan to do in the wife. A murder occurs, but not one of the planned ones.Read More

This hilarious play pits a father-in-law against a mother in a comedic succession of squabbles. Jerry Sloan is a successful writer of advertising jingles married to an equally successful lawyer. Living with the happy couple is the not-so-happy Abe (Jerry’s curmudgeon father-in-law). Abe is a funny guy...to the audience..., not to Jerry. The situation is exacerbated when Jerry’s mother Mildred’s house burns down and she needs a place

Needed are Jerry Sloan (late 30's); husband, Alice Sloan (late 30's); wife, Abe Dreyfus (mid 70's); Alice's father, Hector Lopez (any age); handyman, Sol Wasserman (mid 70's); Abe's friend, Mildred Sloan (mid 70's); Alice's Mom and Mrs. Fisher (late 30's to mid 70's); the Nanny.Read More