One Night Stand Theater is looking for short plays, short stories, and poems for our JUNE 2, one-night-only evening of staged readings called “ALL GREEK TO ME.” We’re looking for comedic and dramatic pieces about the mythology and theater of Ancient Greece. The pieces can be about Greek gods and goddesses (like Zeus, Athena, and Ares), heroes (like Hercules, Odysseus, and Achilles), theater characters like Oedipus or Medea, satyrs, sprites, Muses, Hydra, Persephone, Athens, Sparta, the Mediterranean…there are many stories and characters to choose from. The pieces can take place in ancient times or modern times, and can be faithful to the stories and characters or just be loosely based on them.
The DEADLINE for submissions is Monday, April 22; send them to Tickets@OneNightStandTheater.org. If we feature your play, story, or poem in the show, we offer a small honorarium and two comp tickets for the performance (at Vintage Theatre in Aurora, Colorado). Plays can be new or old; there are no restrictions on whether the pieces have been previously produced.
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR'S NOTES - James O'Leary
04.08.2024
As our “Sleuths and Spies” show fades mysteriously and secretly into the past, we want to thank those who made it a great evening: playwrights and poets Dave B., Leroy, David L., Jeffrey, Bill, Dave U. and Sean; actors Bryan, Linda, Adrian, Joi, Kurt, Emily, Mark, Maria, Mauro, Doug, Suzanna and Guy; directors Matt, Brenda and Lorraine; and production staff Beth, Bernie, Jeremy, John and the ushers. Thank you all!
Thanks also to Vintage Theatre for hosting us and our great audience (along with Colorado Free University for one of our rehearsals).
And welcome to our newest 7Night Stander, whose “Sleuths and Spies” play, “The Curious Case of the Teen Detective,” marks his seventh work for One Night Stand Theater: Jeffrey O’Leary.
Our next One Night Stand Theater show is “All Greek to Me” on June 2: an evening of theater inspired by the mythology and theater of Ancient Greece. The deadline for submitting short plays, short stories or poems for the show is April 22. Send them to Tickets@OneNightStandTheater.org.
04.05.2024
We have finished rehearsals for “Sleuths and Spies” (so much mystery, deception, and intrigue) and we are almost ready to unleash our show on Sunday night, April 7. Join us for an evening of brilliant detectives, shady private eyes, and sinister secret agents. Here are two final quotes from our featured plays:
"Not being a patient man, I will throw a pinecone at you, which, I deduce, will bounce off your nose.” – Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Vacuity by Leroy Leonard
“I believe in zombies as much as the next girl detective.” – The Curious Case of the Teen Detective by Jeffrey O’Leary
03.29.2024
We are halfway through our rehearsals for “Spies and Sleuths” and are looking forward to sleuthing and spying with you on Sunday night, April 7 at Vintage Theatre! We’ll have 6 short plays, 1 poem, 12 actors and 24 characters to share with you. Here are quotes from three of the pieces we’ll be presenting:
“Code name Helicopter: death by ceiling fan. Code name Acme: death by anvil. Code name Sudoku: death by trial and error.” – Spies! by Dave Ufford
“He went where he pleased; he saw all the action. Try crossing him, you’ll wind up in traction.” – Sammy the Sleuth by Bill Thompson
“I’m gonna die next to an absolute moron as the result of an even bigger moron.” – Bind… John Bind by Sean Wellengard
03.18.2024
We are happy to announce the cast of our April One Night Stand Theater show, “Sleuths and Spies”! Our actors are Bryan Anderson, Linda Swanson Brown, Adrian Hart, Joi Hiatt, Kurt Keilbach, Emily Koehler Mathena, Mark Ogle, Maria Ortiz, Mauro Segura, Doug Tisdale, Suzanna Wellens and Guy Williams. The directors are Brenda Hoskins, Matthew Davis, Lorraine Scott, and Jim O’Leary. We look forward to rehearsing our mysterious plays (and poem) about brilliant detectives, shady private eyes, and sinister secret agents.
Here are quotes from two of the plays we’ll be presenting on April 7:
“Don’t worry. I’ve been through the same song and dance with ol’ Sherlock and Watson there many times before.” – Modus Operandi by David Lipschutz
“I instantly realized that I had just opened Pandora's mystical can of worms.” – Accidental Sleuth by Dave Brandl
03.09.2024
Here’s the roster for our upcoming “Sleuths and Spies” evening of detectives, private eyes and secret agents. We proudly present the following six short plays and one poem for our April 7 show:
—Leaving the spy business is harder than you think in “Spies!” by Dave Ufford.
—Art meets artlessness in “Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Vacuity” by Leroy Leonard.
—A police interrogation takes a strange turn in “Modus Operandi” by David Lipschutz.
—A shamus goes legit in “Sammy the Sleuth” by Bill Thompson.
—A suave secret agent is no team player in “Bind…John Bind” by Sean Wellengard.
—A world of intrigue is as close as the outer office in “Accidental Sleuth” by Dave Brandl.
—A brilliant shrink unravels “The Curious Case of the Teen Detective” by Jeffrey O’Leary.