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A pathologist steals the brain of Albert Einstein; a neuropsychologist embarks on her first romance with another woman; a seizure patient forgets everything but how much he loves his girlfriend. INCOGNITO braids these mysterious stories into one breathtaking whole that asks whether memory and identity are nothing but illusions. Purchase ALL 5 Ubu’s Other Shoe Staged Readings for just $95! Cl...
In 1998, journalist Barbara Ehrenreich went undercover for Harper’s Magazine to see how the other half really lived. The result was her book, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America. Playwright Joan Holden has transformed her book into a humorous and touching tale of the working poor. Purchase ALL 5 Ubu’s Other Shoe Staged Readings for just $95! Click HERE for more information a...
After the attacks and destruction of 9/11, a fire captain enlists a writer to help him write eulogies for the men he lost, exploring themes of grief, connection, and the hidden depths of ordinary people. Purchase ALL 5 Ubu’s Other Shoe Staged Readings for just $95! Click HERE for more information about Season Tickets. June 3: Season Tickets on sale through the BOX OFFICE only. June 24: Sea...
A thought-provoking exploration of how the political can sometimes intersect, collide with and ultimately dismantle the personal. The play centers on a debate between an American Yale professor and former war correspondent, Nadia, and her boyfriend’s father, a British doctor, during a weekend in the English countryside, exploring the clash between American idealism and British pragmatism, pa...
Wallace Shawn’s 1996 play explores the relationship of three intellectuals. The three exist in a near-future, authoritarian state where culture is suppressed. Told through three interwoven monologues, the play chronicles the parallel decline of a marriage and the country’s descent into fascism, exploring themes of art, politics, and survival as the characters grapple with their changing w...
After a routine medical procedure goes tragically wrong, a lawsuit transforms the lives of both the patient’s family and a doctor charged with her care. Two households navigate uncharted waters of loss, anger, humor and longing on their path to healing. A staged reading is a form of theatre without sets or complete costumes and props. The actors read from scripts, sometimes using mus...
When a devoted housewife – from a certain classic American drama – tracks down the woman who is sleeping with her husband, the two discover that they have more in common than society would like them to believe. A staged reading is a form of theatre without sets or complete costumes and props. The actors read from scripts, sometimes using music stands. They may be seated, stand in fixed positi...
“I built you because this is what I do. It’s my job. These are my tools, I used them, and honestly it’s not that hard – you’re basically a chatbot.” In Lauren Gunderson’s Anthropology, a brilliant tech-savvy sister refuses to accept her younger sibling’s mysterious disappearance as a closed case. Using data, digital footprints, and artificial intelligence, she launches her ...
Lee Blessing’s self-described 1991 “metaphysical farce” is a comic interplay of wry literary criticism and contemporary wit which takes up where William Shakespeare’s Hamlet left off. Fortinbras gives us the chance to laugh at just how ridiculous life, truth, authority and leadership can be. A staged reading is a form of theatre without sets or complete costumes and props. The actors read...
When social worker Caroline places an infant with her grandmother instead of the child’s teen parents, she sets off a tense family conflict. Buried secrets surface, trust is tested, and Caroline must make a difficult choice that could change lives forever. Buy UBU Season Tickets! Sign up now for all five fabulous UBU Staged Readings and beat the rush at the door! SEASON TICKETS A staged...
As the British Industrial Revolution dawns, young Ada Byron Lovelace (daughter of the flamboyant and notorious Lord Byron) sees the boundless creative potential in the “analytic engines” of her friend and soul-mate, Charles Babbage, inventor of the first mechanical computer. Ada envisions a whole new world where art and information converge – a world she might not live to see. A music-la...
In this biting and provocative Broadway comedy from Pulitzer Prize nominee Theresa Rebeck, innocence collides with experience as four aspiring young novelists partake in private writing classes with a recklessly brilliant and unorthodox instructor. About Ubu’s Other Shoe & Staged Readings In 2004, Michael Siebrass directed a staged reading of Gore Vidal’s thought provoking political satire...
Some people don’t slide their way to the bottom, sometimes the bottom reaches up and knocks them out. Actress, writer and director Jill Turnbow (Between Iraq and a Hard Place) brings her latest one-woman show to the SLO REP stage and keeps us laughing all along the way. Finding the hilarious moments in family trauma and learning to be specific in her life’s plans, Jill shares the intimate de...
In Molly Sweeney, thrilling Irish playwright Brian Friel has created a story moving and unforgettable, offering just the kind of magnified, cathartic experience that makes our staged reading series so vital and alive. Molly is a new bride – happy, content. And blind. And now, she has a chance to see. For Molly’s husband, restoring her sight is his latest cheerful obsession. For her surgeon, a ...
POSTPONED All 3 performances of FORTINBRAS originally scheduled for September 20-21 have been postponed. The play will be rescheduled for the 2025-2026 Season. Stay tuned. Lee Blessing’s self-described 1991 “metaphysical farce,” FORTINBRAS, is a comic interplay of wry literary criticism and contemporary wit which takes up where William Shakespeare’s Hamlet left off. Young Fortinbras ente...
Ubu’s season finale show is a world premiere of a challenging and thought-provoking new play. FORGET TOMORROW follows a family through a day in crisis as a rare and degenerative brain disorder has struck them for a third time. Relationships and family roles are redefined by one paradoxical question: If the disease comes for you, what will you remember? How will you remember? Leave yourself a...
This spellbinding, romantic journey begins with a simple encounter between a man and a woman. But what happens next defies the boundaries of the world we think we know—delving into the infinite possibilities of their relationship and raising questions about the difference between choice and destiny.
Constellations will run approximately 75 minutes with no intermission.
Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris. This grand and dream-tweaked comed...
It’s nearing midnight in Wyoming, where four young conservatives have gathered at a backyard after-party. They’ve returned home to toast their mentor Gina, newly inducted as president of a tiny Catholic college. But as their reunion spirals into spiritual chaos and clashing generational politics, it becomes less a celebration than a vicious fight to be understood. On a chilly night in...
Keely and Du is a 1993 play by Jane Martin that is just as relevant and thought-provoking today as it was 30 years ago. The story centers on Du, a right-to-life activist, and Keely, a pregnant rape victim whom Du is confining. Through the course of the play, the two women transcend their circumstances and the ideological issues that separate them to forge a relationship, but one without any easy a...
Two half-sisters, Jackie and Mary, inherit a stamp collection which might be worth a fortune and become involved with three men, including the owner of a stamp store Phillip and Dennis. Each try to out-do each other in attempting to reap possible rewards from the stamp collection. About Ubu’s Other Shoe & Staged Readings A staged reading is a form of theatre without sets or full costumes and...
Set in the Berkeley hills after a major fire, Jane Anderson’s 2007 play introduces us to Jeannette, an earthy, high-spirited woman whose husband, Neil, is dying of cancer. When her cousin Dinah from Ohio comes for a visit with her husband, Bill, the two couples — one solidly on the left, the other resolute in their conservative Christian beliefs — are made to confront their huge dissimilarit...
THIS SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELED After making every effort to find a way for the “show to go on”, we are sorry to announce that this show has been canceled due to a positive COVID infection within the cast and crew. If you have already purchased tickets, you will be contacted regarding exchanging, donating or receiving a refund. We hope to reschedule this show at a future date. ABOUT THE SHOW Set i...
We regret to inform our patrons that this show has been CANCELLED due to the Covid-19 emergency. Please see our COVID-19 Update page for more information and helpful links. Anne Washburn’s imaginative dark comedy propels us forward nearly a century, following a new civilization stumbling into its future. After the collapse of civilization, a group of survivors share a campfire and begin to piece...
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