The Spanish word “asuncion” means assumption, and that word refers precisely to what Edgar and Vinny, the two roommates in Jesse Eisenberg’s refreshingly contemporary social satire, Asuncion, do.

Dark at the End of the Tunnel is a one-man show about a blind man who lost his sight slowly over time, and who is coming to grips with the possibility that he may have just beaten a man to death.

Kiki Baby tells the story of a child prodigy who makes it big.

People have long enjoyed sitting in the dark and listening to other people tell stories.

The OBIE Award-winning National Asian American Theater Company (NAATCO) begins its 22nd season with The Dumb Waiter, written by the Nobel laureate Harold Pinter.

In a relatively liberal and tolerant city like New York, teenage homosexuality is more or less an acknowledged fact of life, but not so in small town, middle America, where James Lantz’s play The Bus unfolds.

Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling, written by Obie Award-winning playwright Adam Rapp, is the story of two upper-crust Connecticut families and their oh-so-interesting lives. They take lavish vacations, indulge in fine wines and ski the slopes like pros. Sounds wonderful, right? However, in this somewhat confusing depiction of aristocratic nonsense, one asks oneself when the other shoe is going to drop.

Under Tea Alagic's brisk direction, the cast of Lidless turns in committed, nuanced portrayals of characters in crisis. Puzzlingly, though, the script, while certainly bold, leaves vast areas of its characters' histories unexplored. The result is an affecting but superficial examination of the aftereffects of the inhumane treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay in the early stages of the War on Terror.

Emmy-nominee Aron Eli Coleite’s The Family Room takes a wry and cynical look at psychiatric culture.

In May, the newest members of this year’s Women’s Work Project Lab at New Perspectives Theatre were asked to create a short work on the theme ‘Justified.’ Developed over the summer, the plays were produced quickly on a low budget, enabling the writers to get an immediate sense of their work on stage. The promising writers’ four short works were presented to the public in two series for the Fourth Annual Women’s Work Original Short Play Festival, held September 26 – October 1.