The Actor's Project NYC Presents: Season 16 Productions - Four fast-paced, all-comedy, full-length industry showcases featuring new actors as well as actors with solid experience in theatre, commercials, film, television, and stand-up comedy. Each amusing production is approached as a one-act comedy with diverse actors performing all original work and original music created by company writers and actors.

Black Tie - The father of the groom simply wants to make a memorable toast, but before he is able to raise his glass, he must defend the time-honored ways of his past, including his attire. Cultures clash when a surprise guest is announced, threatening to throw convention out the window.

Blind - A contemporary re-telling of Oedipus, in which a married couple slowly re-discover the secret they thought they had buried deep within the cavities of their unconscious. The play explores the blindness of two individuals but also the blindness of a culture that now must confront its own folly.

The Bridge Project - Following a critically acclaimed inaugural year, theater and Academy Award-winning film director Sam Mendes will again direct a transatlantic company of actors for the second season of The Bridge Project, a unique three-year series of co-productions by BAM, The Old Vic, and Neal Street Productions devoted to producing large-scale, classical theater for international audiences. Shakespeare's As You Like It and The Tempest run in repertory.

Conviction - In Franco’s 1960s Madrid, an Israeli scholar is detained and questioned for stealing a confidential Inquisition file. Together, interrogator and interrogated become drawn to the file and unravel the ill-fated 15th-century love affair between a converted Spanish priest and his Jewish wife.

Defending the Caveman - The hilarious comedy about the sexes written by Rob Becker, starring Paul Perroni. Couples are sure to exchange nudges and knowing glances. Serious nudging and uncontrollable laughter has been known to take place during the performance.

Fearless Moral Inventory - Frank Blocker’s new solo show introduces 64 characters -- the citizenry of the play -- who have been forced to take complete honest stock of their lives and the lives of those around them.. As they grapple with the truth about themselves, try not to judge them too harshly. The laughter is free.

Forgotten - The play follows our characters between the ages of 80 and 100 who reside in retirement homes around Ireland. 1943 was a curious year for them and their lives have never been the same since. A hauntingly dark and funny work that brings to life the heroic challenges, loves and dreams of these individuals living on the fringe of society.

Romeo & Juliet (BPAC) - Shakespeare's iconic romantic tragedy of innocent young lovers falling victim to family hatred and cruel destiny... swords clash, everlasting love is promised and a treacherous sleeping potion is swallowed in the greatest love story of all time.

The Temperamentals - The story of two men - the communist Harry Hay and the Viennese refugee and designer Rudi Gernreich - as they fall in love while building the first gay rights organization in the United States pre-Stonewall. The play weaves together the personal and political to tell a relatively unknown chapter in gay history. It explores the love between two complex men, as their impossible dream of forming such an unheard of organization becomes a reality in this perilous, unpredictable world.

Yank! - Set during World War II, Yank! chronicles the relationship between two servicemen long before "Don't-ask-don't-tell" was part of the national discussion. With a lively score inspired by the pop sounds of the 1940's, Yank! captures the spirit and exuberance of the era as it explores questions of prejudice, courage and survival.

Yesterdays: An Evening with Billie Holiday - The story is based on Billie Holiday's last performance as witnessed by playwright Reenie Upchurch. Featuring some of Holiday's most memorable songs, including “Strange Fruit,” “My Man,” and  “Yesterdays.” The play also touches upon Holiday's drug problems, New York City's Cabaret License, Artie Shaw, Bessie Smith and historical musicians of the 1940s & 50s.