The 2020's
Photography by Doug Abdelnour
The 2020’s are a decade of dynamic change and resiliency for The Schoolhouse Theater, as we overcame the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and came back bigger than ever before. Throughout the pandemic, The Schoolhouse produced one hundred and thirty Zoom readings with our Pandemic Players, expanding our outreach to a global scale. With the hiring of our current Artistic Director, Owen Thompson, and our return to in-person productions in 2023, The Schoolhouse Theater emerged from the pandemic committed not only to producing new work (such as smash hit What Keeps Us Going, the highest grossing play in our history), but also to producing critically acclaimed revivals like John Logan’s Red and Athol Fugard’s “Master Harold”...and the boys (with both combining to win 16 BroadwayWorld Awards in 2023 and 2024 respectively). We've also hosted legendary figures like Alan Arkin, Robert Klein, Blythe Danner, Austin Pendleton, Karen Ziemba, Tina Fabrique, Victor Slezak, and Seret Scott.
2025
Satchmo At The Waldorf by Terry Teachout, directed by Bram Lewis
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton directed by Owen Thompson
Jeeves and Wooster in 'Perfect Nonsense' by the Goodale Brothers, directed by Owen Thompson
2024
What Keeps Us Going by Barbara Dana, directed by Austin Pendleton (World Premiere)
“Master Harold”...and the boys by Athol Fugard, directed by Owen Thompson (Winner of 7 BroadwayWorld Awards, including Best Play)
Faith Healer by Brian Friel, directed by Owen Thompson
2023
Red by John Logan, directed by Owen Thompson (Winner of 9 BroadwayWorld Awards, including Best Play)
mis(Understanding) Mammy: The Hattie McDaniel Story by Joan Ross Sorkin, directed by Seret Scott
3-Way Stop by James Sheldon, directed by Owen Thompson
Pandemic Players
When the 2020 COVID pandemic shut down live theater, The Schoolhouse Theater’s Pandemic Players replaced it with an unprecedented series of Zoom Matinees. Throughout the Pandemic we presented no fewer than 130 LIVE performances every Saturday afternoon: something we feel sure no other company in America (and probably the world) can claim!
What are the Pandemic Players? Well, in the time of COVID-19 they were the Schoolhouse Theater’s slightly cheeky, slightly rude fist in the face of all we fought against and continue to fight. Every week professional Broadway actors perform a cold reading: unrehearsed and for the first time LIVE. The viewer experiences the charm, the uncertainty and the dynamic creative energy that gifted actors go through on the first day of rehearsal in what is known as The First Reading.
At the end of 2020, producing director Bram Lewis was named a Westchester local hero for his work creating the Pandemic Players, which lasted from 2020 until our return to live performance in 2023.
2023
What Keeps Us Going by Barbara Dana January 28, 2023 (starring Blythe Danner)
The Mistress of the Inn by Carlo Goldoni March 11, 2023
cardenio by Charles Mee and Stephen Greenblatt March 18, 2023
Trelawny of the 'Wells' by A.W. Pinero March 25, 2023
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, adapted by Will DeVary April 1, 2023
2022
The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giradoux January 8, 2022
God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza January 15, 2022
Otherwise Engaged by Simon Gray January 22, 2022
Fireflies by Matthew Barber January 29, 2022
The Philadelphia Story by Philip Barry February 5, 2022
The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder February 12, 2022
Savage in Limbo by John Patrick Shanley February 19,2022
La Bête by David Hirson February 26, 2022
Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense by The Goodale Brothers March 5, 2022
Betrayal by Harold Pinter March 12, 2022
Outside Mullingar by John Patrick Shanley March 19, 2022
Deathtrap by Ira Levin March 26, 2022
A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller April 2, 2022
Skylight by David Hare April 9, 2022
The Subject was Roses by Frank D. Gilroy April 16, 2022
Butley by Simon Gray April 23, 2022
(mis)Understanding Mammy: The Hattie McDaniel Story by Joan Ross Sorkin April 30, 2022
The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan May 7, 2022
Wooing and Wedding (Chekhov and Shaw One Acts) May 14, 2022
Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward August 6th, 2022
Two by Beckett (Krapp’s Last Tape and Happy Days) May 21, 2022
Faith Healer by Brian Friel May 28, 2022
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet July 30th, 2022
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me by Frank McGuinness August 13th, 2022
Reparations by James Sheldon August 20th, 2022
Rope by Patrick Hamilton August 27th, 2022
The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek by Athol Fugard September 10th, 2022
Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman September 17th, 2022
London Assurance by Dion Boucicault September 24th, 2022
Mrs. Klein by Nicholas Wright October 1st, 2022
4000 Miles by Amy Herzog October 15th, 2022
Not About Heroes by Stephen MacDonald October 22nd, 2022
Dracula by Bram Stoker adapted by John L. Balderston, and Hamilton Deane October 29th, 2022
What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Shreck November 5th, 2022
A Man's Man by Daniel Gerroll November 12th, 2022
Twelve Angry Jurors by Reginald Rose and Sherman L. Sergel November 19th, 2022
Barrymore by William Luce December 3rd, 2022
An Afternoon with T.S Eliot December 10th, 2022
Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey December 10th, 2022
2021
This Wonderful Life by Steve Murray, Frances Goodrich, Mark Setlock January 2, 2021
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare January 9, 2021
Cry It Out by Molly Smith Metzler January 16, 2021
Educating Rita by Willy Russell January 23, 2021
Art by Yasmina Reza January 30, 2021
A View From The Bridge by Arthur Miller February 6, 2021
Shooting Star by Steven Dietz February 13, 2021
An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley February 20, 2021
All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren March 6, 2021
This is Serious by Joan Ross Sorkin March 13, 2021
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde March 20, 2021
Vietnam... through my lens by Stu Richel March 27, 2021
Morning's at Seven by Paul Osborn April 3, 2021
Grant and Twain by Elizabeth Diggs April 10, 2021
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune by Terrence McNally April 17, 2021
Equus by Peter Shaffer April 24, 2021
Buyer and Cellar by Jonathan Tolin May 1, 2021
Scapino by Moliere May 8, 2021
Lettice and Lovage by Peter Shaffer June 5, 2021
Tartuffe by Moliere July 17, 2021
Three Hotels by Jon Robin Baitz Aug 14, 2021
Lion in Winter by James James GoldmanMay 15, 2021
Is He Dead? by Mark Twain and David Ives May 22, 2021
Blood Wedding by Lorca May 29, 2021
Below the Belt by Richard Dresser June 12, 2021
Side Man by Warren Leight July 24, 2021
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding June 19, 2021
Proof by David Auburn July 10, 2021
Filumena by Eduardo De Filippo July 31, 2021
The Crucifer of Blood by Paul Giovanni August 7, 2021
True West by Sam Shepard August 21, 2021
The Box Show by Dominique Salerno August 28, 2021
Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare September 4, 2021
Other People's Money by Jerry Sterner September 18, 2021
Collected Stories by Donald Margulies September 25, 2021
Tight Five by Jennifer Downes and John Peña Griswold October 2, 2021
The Amazing Randi! and Virtual Reality by Alan Arkin October 9, 2021 (starring Alan Arkin, Robert Klein, and Jon Richards)
Present Laughter by Noel Coward October 16, 2021
Red by John Logan October 30, 2021
Rounding Third by Richard Dresser November 6, 2021
A Doll's House Part 2 by Lucas Hnath November 13, 2021
The Gin Game by D.L. Coburn November 20, 2021
You Can't Take it With You by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman November 27, 2021
Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams December 4, 2021
Shadowlands by William Nicholson December 11, 2021
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel December 18, 2021
2020
Endgame by Samuel Beckett June 28, 2020 (starring Tim Jerome and Austin Pendleton)
The Odd Couple (Gender Swapped) by Neil Simon July 24 & 25, 2020
Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang July 31, 2020
Two by Irish (Sean O'Casey's Bedtime Story and James Joyce's Molly Bloom's Night Dreams) August 7, 2020
Whose Life Is It Anyway? by Brian Clark August 15, 2020
Sullivan & Gilbert by Ken Ludwig August 21, 2020
Night Must Fall by Emlyn Williams August 28, 2020
Vieux Carré by Tennessee Williams September 4, 2020 (starring Austin Pendleton and Ginger Grace)
We Got This (Solo mom stories of grit, humor and heart) by Marika Lindholm September 10, 2020
Sylvia by A.R. Gurney September 18, 2020
The Color of Light by Jesse Kornbluth September 25, 2020
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Arthur Miller October 2, 2020
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton October 23, 2020
The Russians Are Coming! (Shaw’s Great Catherine: Whom Glory Still Adores and Chekhov's Lady with the Lapdog) October 30, 2020
The Ghost’s Share by Matthew Wells November 6, 2020
Scramble! By David Wiltse November 13, 2020
The Trip to Bountiful by Horton Foote November 27, 2020
Dylan Thomas’ A Child's Christmas in Wales & O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi December 5, 2020
A Tuna Christmas by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard December 12, 2020
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol December 19, 2020
The Man Who Came to Dinner by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman December 26, 2020