Ray’s swum his way to the eve of the Olympic trials. If he makes the team, he’ll get a deal with Speedo. If he gets a deal with Speedo, he’ll never need a real job. So when someone’s stash of performance-enhancing drugs is found in the locker room fridge, threatening the entire team’s Olympic fate, Ray has to crush the rumors or risk losing everything. A sharp and stylish play about swimming, survival of the fittest, and the American dream of a level playing field—or of leveling the field yourself.  

It's December 2010. Infirm Maxine thinks her daughter is paying Nurse Tina to gently nudge her into the grave before the new year. Maxine thinks Tina's doing this so her daughter doesn't have to pay hefty estate taxes, taxes that take effect on January 1. Nurse Tina adamantly denies Maxine's accusations, but when Maxine offers Tina a portion of her sizable estate on the condition that she lives until the 1st, Tina changes her tune. But of course, the plan doesn't go according to plan.

To understand light and optics better, young Isaac Newton inserted a long needle "between my eye and the bone, as near to the backside of my eye as I could." Why take such a risk? Lucas Hnath reimagines the contentious, plague-ravaged world Newton inhabited in Isaac's Eye, exploring the dreams and longings that drove the rural farm boy to become one of the greatest thinkers in modern science.

A play about work. A play about play. A play about plays.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to tech. Around you, a company of 14 is engaged in the very peculiar—and peculiarly impossible—task of making a new play. You’ll have a seat next to the sound designer as he mixes cues. You’ll eavesdrop on backstage gossip as it happens over headset. You’ll watch the director struggle to contain the uncontainable.

Anne Washburn took notes during her tech rehearsals over the years. Directed by Les Waters, 10 out of 12 is a wry and absorbing look at how work forms us and deforms us. A Soho Rep commission.

Do you ever have the feeling that there is something right behind you? There's a chill on your neck . . . a floor creaks in the next room . . . something catches your eye. Combining whispers of dread, slivers of Macbeth, dining demons, and a muder that may or may not have happened, Apparition is about the feeling that something is coming to get you, and there is nowhere to hide.

The Trojan war is over. Orestes and Electra have killed their mother. The city wants them dead. Just when it seems like they have nowhere to turn, their best friend comes up with a plan . . . Ironic, desperate, humorous, and highly entertaining, this potent satire on the Oresteia myth, which Washburn describes as a "transadaptation," brings this marvelous play to new life. Currently available in an acting edition from Playscripts, the play will also be included in Mr. Burns and Other Plays (TCG, forthcoming in summer of 2015).

Chet writes science fiction. His book is going well, but his magnets no longer adhere to the refrigerator, there’s that ant problem and the young woman who popped up on his doorstep won’t tell him her last name. Washburn’s tantalizingly trippy play explores the addiction, power and danger of dwelling in the imagination.