06.16.2026

Thank you to everyone who made our Sunday-evening “With Friends Like These…” show happen! Thank you to our playwrights for their talent and creativity – Dan, Jye, Mark, Craig, Jim, Robert and Marjorie. Thank you to our actors – Koby, Colette, Linda, Randy, Natalie, Andrew, Mark, Abby and Carol – for bringing all the plays’ friends to life. Thank you to our directors – Lorraine, Suzanna and Brenda – for guiding the actors through the plays’ good times and bad times. Thank you to Beth, Jeremy, John, Doug, Bernie and the ushers for making the evening so enjoyable for the audience. Thank you to Vintage Theatre for letting our friends play on the stage. And thank you to the four actors and directors who each contributed a “Message to a Friend” that we read between the plays.  

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Our next show is “The 10-1/2 Commandments”: an evening of plays and stories about virtue, sin, Biblical wrath and modern morality. We are reading scripts and will announce the plays soon. Which Commandments will we feature? Will we covet thy neighbor’s wife or thy neighbor’s goods? Will we bear false witness, or witness false bears? Join us on Sunday night, August 9 at Vintage Theatre to find out!

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06.12.2026

We have wrapped up our rehearsals for our upcoming “With Friends Like These…” evening of staged readings, and we would love to see you at the show on Sunday (June 14, 7:30 p.m. at Vintage Theatre). Join us for these short plays about friendships begun, ended, rewarded and shattered. The show features 9 actors portraying 16 friends (and 1 divorce mediator) in 7 plays. Join us on Sunday night…and bring a friend!

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Here are quotes from two of the friendly plays we’ll be presenting:

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“Oh, everything changes. Even fantasies. Especially fantasies.” - Stranger Than Fiction by Marjorie Williamson

“I'm angry at everything! I'm a mad cow!” – The Prodigal Cow by Mark Harvey Levine

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06.05.2026

We have just finished the first week of rehearsals for “With Friends Like These…” and we are learning so much about friends and friendship: the ups and downs, the good and the bad, and the sweet and the sad. We invite you to join us on Sunday night, June 14 at Vintage Theatre as we share these often comedic, sometimes dramatic, but always friendly short plays! Here are quotes from three of the plays:

 

“Friends for 30 years, and this is what we have to show for it! Lies, and secrets, and plotting behind each other’s backs!” – The Besting of Friends by Craig McNamara

“Playing grownup. Sure. Trying on different masks. Well, masks off, gloves on.” – October Surprise by Robert Weibezahl

“Venom is cool. It's poison you can manage.” – Venom by Jim Moss

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05.26.2026

We are happy to announce the cast of our next One Night Stand Theater show, “With Friends Like These…” Actors Koby Adams, Linda Swanson Brown, Randy Diamon, Natalie Edwards, Mark Ogle and Carol Timblin are joined by our new (to One Night Stand) actors Colette Brown, Andrew Hensel and Abby Prinz.

 

Our stage directors are Lorraine Scott, Brenda Hoskins, Suzanna Wellens and Jim O’Leary.

 

Join us on June 14 at Vintage Theatre as we present seven short plays about friends and friendship.

 

Here are two friendly quotes from the plays we’ll present:

 

“Well, I don’t intend to abandon my best bud just for a bowl of potato salad.” – Friendly Persuasion by Dan Borengasser

“They always say that love is blind. But they never tell you that it’s also very, very deaf.” – The Widow Makers by Jye Bryant

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05.09.2026

We have selected the plays for our next One Night Stand Theater production, “With Friends Like These…” Thank you to the many playwrights and writers who sent in their plays, short stories and poems for our June 14th celebration of friends and friendship. The seven short plays chosen feature both good friends and bad friends:

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• Ellen’s imaginary friend returns one last time in “Stranger Than Fiction” by Marjorie Williamson.

• Beatrice and her friend sabotage her daughter’s wedding in “The Widow Makers” by Jye Bryant.

• A cow and a goat make the best of a bad situation in “The Prodigal Cow” by Mark Harvey Levine.

• Gary gets more than he bargained for when he rights a childhood wrong in “The Besting of Friends” by Craig McNamara.

• Jack and Liz’s friends disrupt their divorce plans in “Friendly Persuasion” by Dan Borengasser.

• Lauren’s college friend threatens to ruin her career in “October Surprise” by Robert Weibezahl.

• Owen teaches Sam a thing or two about beer and life in “Venom” by Jim Moss.