Eight highly diverse functions in one of America’s most prolific and versatile authors, this collection includes an exclusive dramatization of Oates’ bestselling book American Appetites, two comedic takes on The Perfectionist and The Truth Teller, four brief stories Gulf Battle, Black, THE MAIN ELEMENT and Shade Clusters, aswell mainly because her libretto for Black Water: An American Opera, composed by John Duffy.

American Appetites:

The façade of an affluent suburban couple crumbles under the weight of tragedy and about The Joyce Carol Oates Collection scandal with this exclusive dramatization of Joyce Carol Oates’ best-selling novel.

Cast: Lisa Akey, Keith Carradine, Alastair Duncan, Paul Eiding, Anna Gunn, Dan Lauria, Jean Louisa Kelly, Frank Muller, B.J. Ward, Elizabeth Ward Property Liza Weil and Tegan Western.

THE REALITY Teller:

Joyce Carol Oates’ hilarious take-off on the traditional Southern play starts when liberated Hedda arrives home to visit the family estate, ruled from the family’s tyrannical patriarch, “Tiny” Culligan.

Solid: Charles Durning, Arthur Hanket, Gary Kroeger, Marsha Mason, Priscilla Pointer, William Schallert and JoBeth Williams.

The Perfectionist:

Joyce Carol Oates converts her satiric eyesight to Tobias Harte, a man enthusiastic about perfection in from ethics to egg salad. Rollicking comedy ensues as Harte challenges with his extremely imperfect family and friends.

Ensemble: Barbara Bosson, Annabeth Gish, Harold Gould, Valerie Landsburg, David Schwimmer and David Selby.

Black (one-act play):

In tonite of cocktails and supper, a couple anxiously awaits the arrival of the ex-husband. As your wine eyeglasses are drained, the night time becomes dark and intense, disclosing the true colours of the character types within this eerie love triangle.

Solid: Stephanie Dunnam, Rif Hutton and Joe Spano.

Gulf Battle (one-act play):

An affluent youthful couple, entertains a mature couple for an evening of cocktails and politics during the Gulf War. But mainly because the evening proceeds, the conversation take a bizarre and absurd shade.

Cast: Edward Asner, Stephanie Dunnam, Nan Martin and Joe Spano.

THE MAIN ELEMENT (one-act play):

A hilarious perverse encounter between Melissa, a vacationing suburban housewife, recently separated from her husband, and Edwin, a prosperous businessman.

Cast: Edward Asner, Hector Elizondo, Don Reed, Joyce Van Patten and JoBeth Williams.

Shade Clusters (one-act play):

A chilling tragic-comedy that calls for the form of an interview between a middle-aged, middle-class American few and the mass media.

Ensemble: Edward Asner, Hector Elizondo, Don Reed, Joyce Vehicle Patten and JoBeth Williams.

Black Water – An American Opera:

A tragic and beautiful opera based on the Chappaquiddick scandal. Libretto by Joyce Carol Oates, with music by John Duffy.

Cast: David Lee Brewer, Reid Bruton, Stephanie Buckley, Karen Burlingame, Kimberly Graham, Linda Kerns, Erin Langston, Patrick Mason, John Savarese and Rob Shacklett.