Tickets for Ro Reddick’s COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE are on sale now! The Summerworks 2025 Critic’s Pick, directed by Knud Adams, will return for an extended run co-produced by MCC Theater, Clubbed Thumb and Page 73. Friends of Clubbed Thumb have access to $45 tickets throughout the run – CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS & INFO
A very warm welcome to the incoming writers and directors taking part in Clubbed Thumb’s Early-Career Writers’ Group and New Play Fellowship!
Directors Terrence I Mosley, Liz Peterson and Hanna Yurfest will work on newly commissioned plays by Max Mooney, jose sebastian alberdi and Emma Horwitz respectively – stay tuned for a Winterworks announcement.
And we’re looking forward to getting to know Alyssa Haddad-Chin, Doug Robinson, Dylan Guerra, Jan Rosenberg, Jen Diamond, Nadja Leonard-Hooper, Sarah Grace Goldman and Yulia Tsukerman in this year’s writers’ group!
Thanks to everyone who joined us to honor Crystal, Susannah, and Miriam, and to everyone who contributed to make it a truly special night.
We were moved by the warmth and generosity in the room on Monday October 6th — lots of hugs, laughter and a even few happy tears. These three are the real deal and we are lucky to know them; we’re excited to keep celebrating them and working with them for many years to come.
Actors are at the heart of what we do, and it’s not too late to support them with a gift to our 2025 gala! DONATE HERE
Whether it was your first Summerworks or your 28th, we are so pleased you could join us. CLICK HERE for some photos and essays from this season.
We’ll be spending the summer incubating and planning for the fall, but we have lot of news to share, so watch this space!
In the meantime, we’re pleased to announce that our outgoing board chair will match donations up to a total of $25,000 to support future remounts of Summerworks shows (like this season’s Deep Blue Sound). He wants us to keep it up – and so do we! CLICK HERE TO JOIN THAT EFFORT
Spending the last two months with Deep Blue Sound has been a joy and a balm. We are deeply proud of the work, and humbled by the talent and dedication of this company of artists.
The show played for six sold-out weeks and we added as many shows as we could – but sadly, we closed this weekend. Thank you to the over 4,000 people who came to visit our island. And thank you to all the artists, staff, funders and friends who made it possible. This was a special one.
Our “devastatingly beautiful” production from Summerworks 2023 returns for a limited engagement, in residence at the Public Theater. Now playing! CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS
Thank you to the hundreds of people who joined as at Playwrights Downtown for the 10th annual Winterworks. We were so proud of the work these amazing artists made — and we managed to cram everyone in to share it. Congratulations especially to Directing Fellows Iris McCloughan, NJ Agwuna and Laura Dupper – read more HERE
We’ve been eager to put out a second anthology since Funny, Strange, Provocative was published in 2007, and the last year finally provided us with the time to take on this long-awaited project. We are thrilled to announce that Unusual Stories, Unusually Told, published by Bloomsbury/Methuen, is now available!
In it you’ll find seven Clubbed Thumb plays that span 18 years of our history, as well as essays and interviews about the work, and the often atypical processes that led to their productions.
Read more about the book and get your discounted copy (and our first anthology) HERE
by Lisa D’Amour
directed by Anne Kauffman
With Mel Jurdem, Meghan Love, John McAdams, Robert Alexander Owens, Mary Shultz, and Maria Striar,
Sets by Alexander Dodge
Costumes by Miranda Hoffman
Lights by John-Paul Szczepanski
Sound by Matthew Burton
Jane Withers, former kindergarten teacher and certified lifeguard, crosses the earth hunting down a powerful magnate, his cosmopolitan wife, and their jaded daughter at the behest of a mysterious “panel”.
May 3 – 25, 2002
by Erin Courtney
directed by Ken Rus Schmoll
With Effie Johnson, James Urbaniak, John Wellmann, Nina Hellman, Brian Quirk, Anna Hayman and Abigail Savage
Sets and Lights by Garin Marschall and Paul Olmer
Costumes by Kelly Hanson
Sound by Todd Griffin
An American writer relocates to England with her husband, has difficulty assimilating, and finds her alienation taking on the supernatural form of a cigar-chomping garden gnome.
May 6 – 9, 2002
by Adam Bock
directed by Drew Barr
With Meg MacCary, Kate Hampton and Tim McGeever
Sets by David Morris
Costumes by Kim Gill
Lights by Juliet Chia
Sound by Kai Harada
May 13 – 16, 2002
by Liz Duffy Adams
directed by Jonathan Silverstein
With Dan Sturges, Austin Jones, Ami Shukla, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Keith Davis, Maria Porter, Mark Leydorf, Gibson Frazier and Ryan Shogren
Sets by David Morris
Costumes by Alysia Raycraft
Lights by David Zeffren
Sound by Mark Huang
The Reckless Ruthless Brutal Charge of It
January 11- February 2, 2002