We don’t know about you, but Youngblood is ready for SUMMER.

It’s the last Sunday Brunch before we go on summer vacation, and we’re wrapping up the brunch season with FIVE new short plays about beach going, sun baking, bug slapping, barbecue grilling summertime. Or some oblique, neurotic, dysfunctional version thereof.

HOT SUMMER INTERNS
by Justin Deabler

directed by Giovanna Sardelli
featuring Devon Berkshire, Jenny Greer and Amy Herzog

DON’T FEAR THE SHARK
by Edith Freni

directed by Mark Armstrong
featuring Florencia Lozano and Grant Shaud

TWO WOMEN SITTING ON A BENCH TALKING ABOUT HOW FRIGGIN HOT IT IS
by Courtney Brooke Lauria

directed by Jordan Young
featuring Catherine Curtin and Julie Leedes

HUCK AND SACKETT IN THE SUMMER SUN
by Daria Polatin

directed by Michael Goldfried
featuring JJ Kandel and Bruce MacVittie

CONTROLLED BURN
by Michael Sendrow

directed by R.J. Tolan
featuring Haskell King, Scott Sowers and Michael Louis Wells

And MUSICAL PERFORMANCES from Matt Schatz and Lucy Alibar!

Youngblood and the EST/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project present SHE BRUNCHDED ME WITH SCIENCE! (the Science Brunch). Four new plays about science and scientists!

A DECEPTIVELY SIMPLE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
by Amy Herzog

directed by Marlo Hunter
with Jason Butler Harner and Keith Reddin

SECOND OPINION
by Sharyn Rothstein

directed by Jordan Young
with JJ Kandel, Grant Shaud and Victor Slezak

THE GENES BELOW
by Emily Chadick Weiss

directed by Michael Goldfried
with Steve Boyer, Matthew Conlon, Polly Lee and Abigail Zealey Bess

UNTITLED ROSALIND FRANKLIN MUSICAL
by Jihan Crowther and Matt Schatz

directed by R.J. Tolan
with Julie Fitzpatrick and Ryan Karels

Youngblood’s BRUNCH MADNESS

Four new short plays about everybody’s favorite brunch-time topic. No, not basketball. Mental illness!

New plays by:

Jesse Cameron ALICK
Robert ASKINS
Annie BAKER
Amy HERZOG

Brand new short plays CO-WRITTEN by the playwrights of Youngblood:

Matt SCHATZ and Rob ASKINS

Amy HERZOG and Lucy ALIBAR

Delaney Britt BREWER and Steven LEVENSON

It’s a brand new year, and Youngblood is depressed.

It’s that time again, when all our hopes and dreams of the old year are mothballed and we all resolve that somehow, this time, things will be better. We’re all going to slim down, hook up, make it happen, pay no attention to that gnawing feeling in the pit of our stomach.

It’s time to watch some new plays and drink and eat bacon.

New plays by:

Lucy ALIBAR
Annie BAKER
Steven LEVENSON
Michael LEW
Michael SENDROW

O Holy Brunch. O Little Brunch of Bethlehem. O Brunch, All Ye Faithful. The Brunch Noel. Joy to the Brunch.

Yep, it’s the holidays again. And Youngblood’s got something to say about it.

Five unique takes on the holidays, with five brand new short plays by the members of Youngblood. Plus some very special musical performances – including “A Very Merry Chekhov Christmas.”

New plays by:

Jesse Cameron ALICK
Delaney Britt BREWER
Amy HERZOG
Courtney Brooke LAURIA
Daria POLATIN

The muckraking rabble rousers of Youngblood enter the political arena.

Determined to take political theater beyond red states and blue states, beyond liberal and conservative, beyond cheap, disrespectful W jokes.

There must be something we can all agree on.

OF COURSE THERE IS:

It’s pancakes. And booze. And bacon. And theater.

And maybe, just maybe, it’s all of them together.

THIS IS YOUR COUNTRY, AMERICA. AND THIS IS YOUR BRUNCH.

POLITICAL PLAY
by Annie Baker

directed by R.J. Tolan
featuring Julie Fitzpatrick and Ryan Karels

SHOE-IN
by Emily Chadick Weiss

directed by Marlo Hunter
featuring Polly Adams and Sarah-Violet Bliss

WHEN THE CLOWNS COME HOME TO ROOST
by Jihan Crowther

directed by Michael Lew
featuring Eric Feldman, Jay Liebman, Gregg Mozgala and Amy Staats

CHILDREN’S LETTERS TO BUSH
by Sharyn Rothstein

directed by Abigail Zealey Bess
featuring Adam Haar

RED, BLUE AND PURPLE
by Justin Deabler

directed by David Ruttura
featuring Kelli Lynn Harrison and Marc Santa Maria

Plus a very special musical performance by MATT SCHATZ!

And the public introduction of our four NEW YOUNGBLOOD MEMBERS!

A first ever – four brand new MUSICALS from the playwrights of Youngblood!

The mighty Youngblood Sunday Brunch is coming back strong for a brand new season, and this month we’re singing about it. Libretto with a side of bacon, tenors swigging bloody marys, and more groundbreaking musical theater than you can shake a pancake at:

GOD SAVE US ALL
book and lyrics by Sharyn Rothstein
music by PJ Cacioppo

directed by Marlo Hunter
featuring: Mitchell Jarvis, Andrew Miramontes, Laura Beth Wells and Erin Wilson

IT’LL SOON BE HERE
book and lyrics by Delaney Britt Brewer
music by Eric Kuehnemann

directed by Robert Ross Parker
featuring: Cathy Curtin, Jenny Greer and Lance Rubin

THIS US
book and lyrics by Edith Freni
music by Michael Sendrow

directed by R.J. Tolan
featuring: Julie Lake and Steve Sanpietro

CO-OP! The Musical
book by Courtney Brooke Lauria
music and lyrics by Matt Schatz

directed by Jordan Young
featuring: Brad Bellamy, Steve Boyer and Julie Fitzpatrick

The Youngblood Sunday Brunch season finale

A Selection of our favorite plays from this season’s brunches, by the playwrights of Youngblood!

Four brand new short plays by the playwrights of Youngblood

YOUNGBLOOD WON! Congrats to Emily Conbere and the whole Youngblood team! Also congrats to Ma-Yi and Youngblood’s Mike Lew, who won the crowd choice award for Ma-Yi Writers Lab.

Partial Comfort Production’s
BATTLE OF THE BARDS!

Come cheer for Youngblood as we take on the hottest young playwrights and theater companies in town in a knock-down-drag-out theatrical death match, in front of celebrity judges and you!

Our entry this year:

ODYSSEUS
by Emily Conbere

directed by R.J. Tolan

Starring: Stacey Cervellino, Bekah Coulter, William Jackson Harper, Allison Jill Posner, Steven Sanpietro

The Judges:

Sigourney Weaver
Josh Lucas
Adam Rapp
Robert Woodruff
Jim Simpson
David Cote

7- 8 PM ~ Free Samuel Adams Beer
(and free Vodka, Wine and Food for all VIPs)
8-10 PM ~ THE BATTLE
10:30 PM ~ Winners Selected

First 100 people in get a gift bag! (general admission)

$10 TICKETS get you: an hour of free beer, $5 drink specials all night
$50 TICKETS get you: access to VIP area, free Charbay Vodka, wine, food & a swanky giftbag
$75 TICKETS get you: all that you get with $50 ticket AND reserved seating
$100 TICKETS get you: all that you get with $50 ticket AND priority seating & sparkling wine from Jacob’s Creek!

@ STUDIO MEZMOR (formerly “crobar”) 530 West 28th Street (10th & 11th)

Four brand new short plays by

Michael LEW
Courtney Brooke LAURIA
Emily Chadick WEISS
Michael SENDROW

and a special musical performance from:
Matt SCHATZ!