OCTOBER 2024: COMING UP

THE FERBER TRILOGY, a series of one-act plays based on the short stories of Edna Ferber by Marisa Smith, Julie Weinberg and Julie Gilbert is receiving an invitation-only reading directed by Lynnette Barkley at The Lambs Club in NYC on October 10th. The collection will star Maureen Silliman, Kelly Gibson, Richard Kent Green and Brian Sheppard. Marisa's featured one-act titled 'That's Marriage' originally produced by New Jersey Repertory Company can be purchased on Amazon as part of Five by Ferber.

AUGUST 2024: COMING UP

Urban Stages (259 West 30th Street, NY, NY  10001) is doing a reading of Marisa's play OUTRAGE on Monday, August 19th at 7pm. 

Admission is FREE!

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OUTRAGE by Marisa Smith 

Directed by Trazana Beverley

Starring Mary Bacon, Susan Barrett, Nora O'Donnell, Brian D. Hills and David Mason. 

Now. A small midwestern college. Frederick is a young African-American professor up for tenure.  His Chairman invites him and his wife for dinner. A surprise guest arrives and the party of five takes on the issues of a bruised and battered America with hysterical, dead serious, and sometimes dangerous results.  A state of the nation play.

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WORLD PREMIERE of Marisa's adaptation of THE GIFT OF THE MAGI comes to Cape May!

The Gift of the Magi: A modern adaptation of the O. Henry story

by Marisa Smith

directed by Roy Steinberg

WORLD PREMIERE PLAY – Written exclusively for Cape May Stage.

Cape May Stage

November 20, 2024 through December 29, 2024

Wednesday – Saturday at 7 PM

Sunday at 3 PM

Playwright Marisa Smith won the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award.

Based on O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi,” a short story set in Victorian times, this modern adaptation updates the tale of love and sacrifice to the modern day. O. Henry wrote about disadvantaged young people living in New York City. In this version, Lucia and Rocky are a young married couple living in the city who love each other very much though they have different ideas of what to spend money on for this Christmas. Rocky would like to go cross country on his motorcycle and Lucia wants to save for the down payment on a house. When a baby comes into the picture, everything changes. This is a play celebrating love and sacrifice. Told with heart and humor, this play is a real holiday treat.

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