Amazing Graves at Broadwater Second Stage

Two short comedies set in cemeteries.

In I Hate How You Dress, four individuals in a cemetery get to say things they should have said long ago. Their conservations are monitored by two angels. Not all of the four will leave the graveyard alive.

Beth Polsky is the playwright. Her previous plays include Gorgeous, Charlie, Lucy, The Morning After, Transformation, The Statistician, AND MORE. She has produced thousands of hours of television (Talk Soup, The Gossip Show, Who Wants to Marry My Dad? and more. She is a member of the Producers Guild and the Dramatists Guild.

David Datz directs. His previous directing credits include Balancing Act, Hughie, Exit the King, and The Sandbox. His play Basement Folly was recently produced by Theatre 40. He is also an actor.

The cast for I Hate How You Dress includes AnnaLisa Erickson, Janet Hoskins, Patti Lewis, Amanda Lynne, Tammy Mora and Michael Newton.

In Our Cemetery, former classmates of a Bowling Green, Ohio high school meet fifty years later in their local cemetery. All participated in the 1976 school production of Our Town. They gather to reminisce prior to their official 50th high school reunion later that day. Some friendships are renewed, some rivalries are revived, and deep secrets are revealed, some of them unsettling.

Grant Gottschall is the playwright. His previous plays include Dog Door; Happy Birthday, Little Grace; The World Series of Lunch; 39% Human; and Sex in the Title. He has written and produced many documentaries for television. He is also an actor.

Genny Wilson directs. Her previous directing credits include She Kills Monsters and Dog Door. She is also an actor, with Bill W. and Dr. Bob, What the Constitution Means to Me, and the James Patterson Audible series 10 Rules for the Perfect Murder.

The cast for Our Cemetery includes Debra Kay Lee, Beebe Smith, Leon Acord, Rebecca O’Brien and Michael Dempsey.

Tickets go on sale on May 1.