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A group of partying American college students and their idealistic professors embark on a literary tour of England. With a crammed itinerary and barely enough time to digest the sites, the students’ behavior devolves from appreciative to appalling while the professors confront the emptiness beyond their idealism in this comedy about what it means to make choices and stick with them.

Some Americans Abroad is supported in part by American Express and The Axe Houghton Foundation.

When a world renowned origami artist opens her studio to a teenage prodigy and his school teacher, she finds that life and love can’t be neatly arranged in this drama about finding the perfect fold. 

Animals Out of Paper was commissioned through the Time Warner Commissioning Program at Second Stage and is the first play to be produced through the program.

All performances take place at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre, Broadway @ 76th Street.

20 years after its acclaimed world premiere, Howard Korder’s BOYS’ LIFE will receive its first major New York remounting. Originally produced in 1988, Boys’ Life is a stinging and candid look at three college buddies making their way in the big city. As they maneuver between life and sex in New York, Korder lacerates the prolonged adolescence that often takes the place of modern manhood.

The recent runaway hit of the Humana Festival will have its NY premiere in early 2009. In BECKY SHAW, a newlywed couple fixes up two romantically challenged friends: wife’s best friend, meet husband’s sexy and strange new co-worker. When an evening calculated to bring happiness takes a dark turn, crisis and comedy ensue in this wickedly funny new play that asks what we owe the people we love and the strangers who land on our doorstep. The New York Times’ Charles Isherwood proclaims Becky Shaw is “suspenseful, witty, studded with scathing one-liners and firecrackers of revelation.”

Meet gossip columnists Mr. and Mrs. Fitch. When the social circuit no longer provides juicy morsels, they find that great celebrity can appear out of thin air. Tony Award nominee Douglas Carter Beane’s (The Little Dog Laughed, Xanadu) wicked new comedy is a scathing look at who is in, who is out and who may not even exist at all.