ONE NIGHT STAND THEATER

08.13.2024

Thank you to everyone who was a part of our “By Popular Demand” show! The evening of short plays with themes suggested by audience members during the past five years was a success thanks to our playwrights Dan, John, Tami, Judy, Steven, Leroy, V.B. and Robert; actors Koby, MaryAnn, James, Matt, Mary, Randy, Kaity, Joi, Emily, Bethany and Dave; directors Suzanna, Lorraine, and Jim; and production staff Beth, Bernie, Jeremy, John, Doug and the ushers. Thanks also to Vintage Theatre for hosting us and our great audience.

Our next One Night Stand Theater show is “Doctor Crypt’s House of Terror” on October 13: it’s an evening of old-time radio thrills and chills. The deadline for submitting radio plays for this show (or plays and stories that can be adapted to radio plays) is September 3; send them to Tickets@OneNightStandTheater.org.

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​​​08.09.2024

We have finished rehearsals for “By Popular Demand” and we’re looking forward to sharing our short plays about robots, seniors in love, powerful women, Hamlet, soap operas and more, based on themes suggested by our audience the past few years! Join us for a fun evening with our talented actors, playwrights and crew this Sunday night, August 11 at Vintage Theatre. Here are two final quotes from the show:

“My amnesia has worn off! I remember everything!” – A Real Soap Opera by Tami Canaday (theme of Soap Operas)

“Every executive in the film industry, and everyone out there working a crappy McJob, should feel like she’d have a chance to get it on with Toy Boy.” – Take Down by Judy Klass (theme of Powerful Women)

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08.02.2024

We are halfway through our rehearsals for “By Popular Demand,” working on the short plays with themes suggested by our One Night Stand Theater audiences. We look forward to seeing you at our show on Sunday night, August 11 at Vintage Theatre! Here are quotes from three more of the plays we’ll be presenting:

 

“I feel like Kenneth Branagh’s going to jump out of the curtains and stab me.” – Perchance to Act by V.B. Rankin (theme of How Hamlet Could Have Ended)

 

“The only thing which seems to motivate you in any way is a dog cookie.” – Man’s Next Friend by John Busser (theme of Robots)

 

“Who goes to the movies to read?” – Next Stop by Robert Weibezahl (theme of Senior Citizens in Love)

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07.23.2024

We are happy to announce the cast of our August One Night Stand Theater show, “By Popular Demand”! Our actors are MaryAnn Amari, James Crapes, Mary Campbell, Matt Davis, Randy Diamon, Kaity Gray, Joi Hiatt, Emily Koehler Mathena, Bethany Lillis Tisdale and Dave Ufford, along with new-to-One-Night-Stand actor Koby Adams. The directors are Lorraine Scott, Suzanna Wellens and Jim O’Leary. We look forward to rehearsing our plays with themes suggested by our One Night Stand audiences.

Here are quotes from three of the plays we’ll perform on August 11:

 

• “In the beginning was the word. And the word was ‘No!’” – The Gospel According to Bowser by Dan Borengasser (theme of Talking Cats and Dogs)

• “Our moms never had to deal with this kind of thing; they could just have a nice pleasant acquaintance with people and never have to find out what total crazies they really are.” – I Saw What You Said by Steven Korbar (theme of Grocery Store Meetings)

• “Who actually plunges the john doesn’t matter, so long as the john gets plunged.” – Moment of Meaning by Leroy Leonard  (theme of Rock Paper Scissors)

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07.11.2024

Congratulations to the playwrights of our next production, “By Popular Demand”! Thank you to everyone who sent in their plays, stories, and poems on unusual and eclectic themes suggested by our One Night Stand Theater audiences. Our August 11 show features eight of those themes: powerful women, senior citizens in love, grocery store meetings, robots, soap operas, talking cats explain their perspective on life, rock paper scissors, and how Hamlet could have ended:

 

• Amnesia is no match for romantic passion in “A Real Soap Opera” by Tami Canaday.

• Two elderly strangers connect on a city bus in “Next Stop” by Robert Weibezahl.

• A family pet’s faith in human beings is shaken in “The Gospel According to Bowser” by Dan Borengasser.

• The local children’s theater does Hamlet in “Perchance to Act” by V.B. Rankin.

• The tables are turned when women run Hollywood in “Take Down” by Judy Klass.

• The game of rock, paper, scissors takes on its greatest challenge in “Moment of Meaning” by Leroy Leonard.

• Two mothers clash in the grocery store in “I Saw What You Said” by Steven Korbar.

• An artificial life form sizes up the competition in “Man’s Next Friend” by John Busser.