Winner of the 2003 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical and the second work by the Tony Award winners of RAGTIME. 

The tender and beautifully woven tale of love, friendship and coming to terms with one’s identity takes place in Dublin in 1964.  Alfie Byrne, a middle-aged bachelor living a quiet life with his spinster sister, spends his days as a bus conductor and his nights as a community theater impresario dedicated to the plays of his hero, Oscar Wilde. A modest and quiet man, Alfie has always found his greatest satisfaction as the artistic director of the St. Imelda's Players, an amateur theatrical group housed in the local church. When Alfie declares that, instead of their usual production of The Importance of Being Earnest, the troupe will next present Wilde's provocative Salome, the church authorities balk at the play's "immodest dancing" and his safe little world begins to crumble. 

Have you ever wanted to help Pandora program the new season?  Here’s your chance!

Now entering Phase 2 of a three phase process, the Pandora New Play Project began its metamorphosis as an idea three years ago.  Throughout Phase 1, Pandora put out a national call for new original plays featuring GLBTQ themes.  We received 98 submissions, of which nine semi-finalists were presented to Pandora's Artistic Director, who then selected four finalists.  Now in Phase 2, you, the audience, get to see staged reading excerpts from the four that made the final cut.  At the conclusion of the evening you get to choose which one of these plays is most deserving of a full production and will become part of our 2012-2013 Season lineup (Phase 3).  The final four are:

Book, music and lyrics by Richard O'Brien.

Dammit Janet…now it’s a Pandora Tradition!  Time to do “The Time Warp” again, this year with new Sets & Choreography!

You’ve danced to it in your living room, performed it at parties, dressed as the characters for Halloween, now live it in the theater as Pandora presents its Third Annual production of this cult classic! The Rocky Horror Show is the madcap story of an ordinary, middle-class couple and one unforgettable night at the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a mad scientist from the planet Transexual. Lead characters Brad and Janet have arrived on a very special night, that of the creation of Dr. Furter's ‘beautiful creature’ Rocky, the Adonis humanoid created specifically for the release of the good doctor’s “tension”.  A non-stop, action-packed package of twisted romance, thrills and chills, and 16 sensational songs including “Dammit Janet,” "Sweet Transvestite," "Whatever Happened To Saturday Night?” and the karaoke anthem, "The Time Warp".

GAYS IN TOYLAND

A Pandora Original

A Gay & Glittery Gift for the Holidays! 

An original holiday production that will help you remember the magical feeling from childhood when dreams of something wonderful beneath the tree were all you could think about for months before that special day.  As Christmas approaches, things are going fine at Babes In Toyland, a toyshop owned and operated by an old toymaker.  This toymaker is different, he takes in old and rejected toys, specialty toys that have been either discarded by boys and girls or toys that weren't put together quite like the more popular ones.  Not knowing or caring that they are different, an assortment of toys enjoy a nice life together with the toymaker, singing, dancing and performing skits and sketches until one day the toyshop is vandalized and the cruelties of the outside world begin to threaten their existence.

During the 1950s ‘temperamental’ was a code word for gay when homosexual witch hunts were at their peak.  Many young men and women were taken by their families to mental institutions to endure forced lobotomies in an effort to 'cure' them.  At the center of this eye-opening chunk of forgotten gay political history from the pre-Stonewall '50s, are Communist activist Harry Hay and fashion designer Rudi Gernreich (infamous for designing the topless swimsuit), clandestine lovers in Hollywood.  Through this love story emerges one of the first ever gay rights organizations in history.  Knowing the toll that oppression was taking on their own love, the two attempted to find others to create the Mattachine Society where they would seek an idealistic world of freedom for themselves and others like them.  Joined by a small group of dedicated souls, we watch them walk through darkness and unbelievable fear to seek that better place. 

Book by Jon Hartmere, Jr. and Damon Intrabartolo, Lyrics by Hartmere and Music by Intrabartolo.

Reminiscent of Rent and Spring Awakening as issues of social acceptance, sexual identity, questioning of religion and adults, experimentation with illegal substances, and raging hormones are all explored in this 'pop opera'. 

At the center of this tale, set in a Catholic boarding school are altar boy Peter who is in love with his roommate Jason, one of the most popular kids in school. Carrying on a closeted romance, Peter wants to go public with their affair, at least to his mother, whom he loves dearly.  Jason isn't so keen on the idea, as he feels that his entire world would crumble if word of the relationship got out. Things get more complicated when classmate Ivy makes a play for Jason. Her rejected suitor Matt discovers the secret that Peter and Jason have been keeping and it's only a matter of time before things start to spin out of control.  As they struggle to come to terms with who they are, and who the world thinks they should be, they seek answers from their Church, their friends, and ultimately, from within themselves. 

By Anthony Wilkinson.

A bawdy, big-haired romp, Brooklyn-style!

Anthony is a romantic who only wants to celebrate his handsome boyfriend and love, Andrew, with the whole world…or at least the entire borough of Brooklyn.  Anthony is Italian so he wants his wedding ceremony to be filled with an abundance of food, fanfare, more food, music, and even more food!  So what’s the big deal?  Anthony’s gay and he wants the blessing of his Italian Catholic parents.  While he insists on a big, traditional Italian wedding, his over-bearing momma has a few stipulations of her own, not the least of which is that the family priest perform the ceremony.  Add to the mix bickering relatives, a crazed wedding coordinator and a jealous ex-boyfriend who wants nothing more than to ruin the whole thing, and you've got one hell of a wedding party!  What follows is a hilarious sequence of events as the boys' extended families try to make the wedding a day they will all never forget.