Paul Linke comes home to PRT having performed his superb “Time Trilogy” here in 1998. “It’s Time”, his remarkable new show, is about our most precious commodity: Time. A funny, heartwarming and profound evening, devoted to his time spent as a widower and his transformative meeting with his second wife, Christine.

The PRT Shakespeare Project: The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good – in spite of all the people who say he is very good. Robert Graves (1895-1985) Shakespeare has inspired writers, poets, actors and directors like no other. His plays are full of high tragedy and low comedy, loud song and dance, forceful fights and naughty bits. No wonder they have survived the centuries!

Touch of a Poet “In drawing the story’s marvelously contradictory hero, O’Neill has distilled themes of Irish drama to something like their pure essence and lent them a sophisticated heartbreak all his own.” – Jeremy McCarter, New York Magazine

Bean wrote ALRIGHT THEN as a companion piece to his 2016 hit, SAFE AT HOME, Winner of the LA Drama Critics “Best Solo Show of the Year” award. Alley Mills (The Wonder Years) joins her husband, veteran of film , stage and television, in their new two person show.

ALRIGHT THEN is the story of how two people, who by all odds should not have wound up together, have “made it”. The play is told through humor, pathos and the occasional song … and is an unforgettable night of theatre. Please join us for the true story and magical journey of these incredible artists.

ART IN ITS MOMENT A Celebration of Theater, Art and Music from the Enlightenment to the Present Day. Featuring the exciting young Colburn Honors String Quartet!!

Set in the 1950s on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, MESHUGAH is a comic-tragic portrait of a community of recent Jewish émigrés living in the wake of the Holocaust. When Aaron Greidinger, an aging novelist and advice columnist, falls in love with the young, mysterious mistress of an older friend from his Warsaw past, dark secrets and bizarre twists threaten to break up the unusual romance. Emily Man brings to swirling theatrical life Singer’s poignant love story of lost souls in a world gone meshugah.

Please join us for a developmental presentation of Love Is A Dirty Word. Our country is riven by lines that separate us into group of identity, affinity, ideology. How does a little black boy born in Jackson, Mississippi make a home outside the lines?

Poetry of the heart ignites powerful desires that can no longer be ignored by Alma. The preacher’s daughter boldly seizes on a chance to follow her heart’s inclinations when John Buchanan returns from medical school to live in their small town where, too often, dreams die quickly. Tennessee Williams’s subtly seductive play centers on the passionately complex and sometimes cruel relationships to which love becomes vulnerable, when we are strong enough to allow it.

I put together a show about my life and performed it for Marilyn Fox, artistic director of Pacific Resident Theatre. Afterwards, she emailed me the following: “Orson, I was so blown away and deeply moved by your show. I keep thinking about it. I was moved to tears often and laughing the rest of the time. I want to produce it here at PRT. I believe it could really go to Broadway.” The upshot: We start previews Oct. 15. The great Guillermo Cienfuegos has agreed to direct it (fresh from his triumphs with Henry V and The Homecoming).

To find “the one” can be a search far and wide, perhaps to other worlds. But when green slime and tentacles become involved, it’s downright hilarious. A new play from the folks who brought you the Fried Meat Trilogy!

Readings of “Hang Up” and “Cigarettes and Chocolate” Directed by Michael Peretzian. Among the films Minghella wrote and directed are: THE ENGLISH PATIENT for which he won the Academy Award as Best Director; TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY; MR. WONDERFUL; COLD MOUNTAIN; and THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY.

AUTUMN AND WINTER examines the relationship of older parents and their two adult daughetrs, during their regular monthly dinner. The play is rich, and powerfully emotional with bursts of humor, “Well worth experiencing if you have a taste for domestic combat.” –Michael Billington, The Guardian.

I put together a show about my life and performed it for Marilyn Fox, artistic director of Pacific Resident Theatre. Afterwards, she emailed me the following: “Orson, I was so blown away and deeply moved by your show. I keep thinking about it. I was moved to tears often and laughing the rest of the time. I want to produce it here at PRT. I believe it could really go to Broadway.” The upshot: We start previews Oct. 15. The great Guillermo Cienfuegos has agreed to direct it (fresh from his triumphs with Henry V and The Homecoming).

23 Hour Play Saturday night, 6 Writers meet and each is randomly assigned a title, actors, and a director. They write all night and on Sunday morning they hand off their scripts to the directors who start rehearsing with the actors. At 7 o’clock that night, the audience shows up and a show is born!