10 Years of Original Works and Unforgettable Stories
LAB’s annual festival of world premiere comedic shorts from playwrights across the world. The collection of delightful comedies will make you giggle, snicker, belly laugh, and maybe even snort out loud.
Just how well do you know all your "friends" on social media? In this fast-moving comedy, when the grieving Charlie Windsor meets the gregarious Diana Black-White in a New York Theater District bar, they become instant BFFs. Much to the consternation of his closest friend since childhood, Broadway actor Ed McGrath, Charlie is almost immediately hurled into an overwhelming whirl of dark secrets, questionable loyalties, and highly dysfunctional family dynamics; a world for which Charlie is completely unprepared. Especially when Diana’s secret life is revealed and she goes full-on, batshit crazy. Despite the mounting body count, this is a gleefully silly homage to those romantic comedy thrillers of the 1960s, updated to the creepy, contemporary world of social media and information sharing.
Ned Masters is an aging actor trapped by Alzheimer’s and suffering delusions. He lives in an old theater bar with his daughter Maggie, who provides full-time care for him. They get help from lifetime friends Sam and Mary, also old theater vets. When a stranger comes into the bar on the anniversary of Ned’s wife’s death, Ned fights against his ailment to speak the words tripping on the tongue one last time. Secrets are revealed, loyalties are tested, and ultimately family is found, and all show us how to overcome the hardships that this mortal coil can impose upon us.