Waiting for the Parade, by John Murrell

This warm, wise and winning play by a leading Canadian playwright is about World War II from the point of view five women left behind to wait and to work for their men. Produced at New York's Hudson Guild Theatre, it shows the walking wounded are not always at the front.

"An honest play that captures precisely the texture of ordinary hopes and despair." - The London Guardian

"A small masterpiece." - The Ottawa Citizen

Unnecessary Farce, by Paul Slade Smith

Two cops. Three crooks. Eight doors. Go. In a cheap motel room, an embezzling mayor is supposed to meet with his female accountant, while in the room next-door, two undercover cops wait to catch the meeting on videotape. But there's some confusion as to who's in which room, who's being videotaped, who's taken the money, who's hired a hit man, and why the accountant keeps taking off her clothes.

"A smash hit! Two hours of non-stop laughter. The plot weaves you through mix-ups and mayhem you won't believe. This is one funny show you don't want to miss!"

Jim Fordyce, ABC 53 (Michigan)

"Nonstop hilarity. Gets us laughing in the show's first minute. Unnecessary Farce? Don't you believe it! Nothing could be more necessary for your well-being."

Kate O'Neill, The Lansing State Journal (Michigan)

"Can a playwright re-invent the comic shtick of in-one-door, innuendo, out-the-other-door? In the case of Unnecessary Farce, the answer is yes. Smith's play is dazzlingly funny, with one silly bit overlapping the next... The Marx Brothers updated in tempo and relevance for today's world."

Tom Helma, City Pulse (Michigan)

"The laugh-out-loud comedy has everything one can hope for in a modern-day farce: two likeable cops operating way out of their league, a supposedly crooked mayor with impeccable timing, his innocent-acting wife, a shy accountant with a penchant for dropping her drawers, a nervous double agent who's like to get IN those drawers, a Scottish hit man whose brogue gets thicker the angrier he gets, two adjoining hotel rooms, simmering sexual tension and eight doors a slammin'."

Donald V. Calamia, Between the Lines (Michigan)

"A fast and furious new farce."

Kenneth Jones, Playbill