Help us celebrate at EST next Sunday for nine new plays about themselves by this year's graduating writers of Youngblood as well as pancakes, bacon and (young)bloody marys
When a group of former college roommates gather to celebrate one of their own, they test their increasingly superficial connection, and force each other to face what is really going on in their grown-up lives.
Say Brunch again. I dare you. I double dare you MotherBRUNCHer.
While all those other people are enjoying an early brunch with their mothers, come enjoy brunch with us. Or bring your mother along for the ride, why not.
Either way, celebrate your own personal matriarch in the best of ways, come to EST next Sunday for five new plays about mothers by the writers of Youngblood as well as pancakes, bacon and (young)bloody marys!
Brunch begins at 12:30pm, plays begin at 1pm!
Featuring new plays by Chiara Atik, Amanda Keating, Catya McMullen, Andrew Massey, Christina Quintana
To catch a notorious international drug lord, CIA Agent Kate Taylor has to use the one weapon they didn't teach her in training: musical theater
By Leah Nanako Winkler
Directed by Morgan Gould
Hiro has to stop her baby sister from marrying a man she hardly knows, but that means returning to Kentucky and the home she’s put behind her. Hiro’s quest will confront forgotten friends, former flames, and the family she fled. Will she save her sister and escape back to Manhattan, or will years of therapy be undone by a single wedding weekend back in her old Kentucky home?
...but it was all a dream.
...but they were on Earth all along.
...Keyser Söze was always in the room.
...and maybe Bruce Willis was dead the whole time.
"Mope": /mōp/ (noun): The lowest-level male performer in the adult film industry. An anonymous stunt-penis. The guy in that porno you watched who was wearing sunglasses and socks. A dreamer. Example: "Trevor is a mope."
Kora and Minnie are best friends. And honors students. And are plotting something involving a lot of money and a little blood. When their volatile relationship is threatened by Minnie’s friendship with awkward YouTube sensation Megan, all bets are off.
Maybe it's been one of those weeks where you've axed an old pawnbroker, you're on the run from a detective, and your sister is marrying into the bourgeoisie. We've all been there, and it sounds like you need some brunch
By Anna Ziegler
Directed by Linsay Firman
Inspired by a true story. Anna Ziegler's Boy explores the tricky terrain of finding love amidst the confusion of sexual identity, and the inextricable bond between a doctor and patient. In the 1960’s, a well-intentioned doctor convinces the parents of a male infant to raise their son as a girl after a terrible accident. Two decades later, the repercussions of that choice continue to unfold.
by Frank Basloe
Directed by William Carden
Yale, early 1960s. Professor Stanley Milgram's "obedience experiments" test how cruel people can be when they are just following orders. Milgram gets the data he needs, but the lab assistant who conducted the experiment is left to grapple with his own responsibility. Weaving in an historically separate incident, playwright Frank Basloe dramatizes a campus scandal in order to burrow deeper into the ways conformity can push us to act against our conscience.
Sunday morning brings that special feeling of walking home in your clothes from the night before, needing a Gatorade and a bagel, and also needing some new plays to cheer you up and distract you from the terrible decisions you made last night.
First Lights Reading is a series of readings starting December 7th.
The holidays. Bleh, amiright?
What better to get you in the spirit than the holiday brunch! It's five new YB plays about the most wonderful time of the year, including pancakes, bacon and (young)bloody
What happens after the curtain falls? EST's monthly late night cabaret mix tape!
Music! Comedy! Dance! Magic! Hip Hop! Sketch! Poetry! Improv! Burlesque! Storytelling! Clown! Anything Can Happen!
An alcoholic musicologist competes with a former Miss Idaho for the love of a married English professor.
It's the near future and a young couple is having some relationship problems. A perky delivery boy arrives with a pill that may offer a solution to all their romantic woes. But all solutions come with their own side effects.
Las Vegas, the land of excess, proves to be unluckily lucky for one young couple who wins big. Under the gaze of Lady Luck, mayhem, big media and murder run rampant.
The absolute best way to cure a Halloween hangover while simultaneously avoiding feeling guilty about not running a marathon is to watch five new plays about dead people by the writers of EST/Youngblood. It's The Brunch of the Dead!
Do you smell that in the air? It's not the whiff of pumpkin spice and fresh hay bales. It's trouble. A ten minute play festival with 26 brand new plays over four separate nights of theatre- October 13-17th. Only by the writers of EST/Youngblood.
Do you smell that in the air? It's not the whiff of pumpkin spice and fresh hay bales. It's trouble. A ten minute play festival with 26 brand new plays over four separate nights of theatre- October 13-17th. Only by the writers of EST/Youngblood.
Do you smell that in the air? It's not the whiff of pumpkin spice and fresh hay bales. It's trouble. A ten minute play festival with 26 brand new plays over four separate nights of theatre- October 13-17th. Only by the writers of EST/Youngblood.
Do you smell that in the air? It's not the whiff of pumpkin spice and fresh hay bales. It's trouble. A ten minute play festival with 26 brand new plays over four separate nights of theatre- October 13-17th. Only by the writers of EST/Youngblood.
There comes a time when we all have to wonder, where did we come from? Where did this all start? This month, our Youngblood writers tackle origin stories - from Krypton to the Garden of Eden.
