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The Apple Tree is a story of love and temptation. Divided into three acts, the musical explores the costs of getting the thing you desire most. The first act, based on Mark Twain’s The Diary of Adam and Eve, offers a twist on the story of the first couple. The second act, adapted from Frank R. Stockton’s short story The Lady or the Tiger? takes us to a kingdom that has a very unique system of justice. The young princess must make a difficult decision that will ultimately end in the loss of the man she loves. Finally, the third act tells Jules Feiffer’s story of the chimney sweep Ella who gets her wish and becomes a beautiful Hollywood starlet. Fame, however, comes at a cost. The Apple Tree tells the problems of desire.

The third play written by English playwright Patrick Marber, Closer premiered at the Royal National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre in London in 1997, and made its North American debut at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway on 25 January 1999. Only four characters appear in
Closer, two women and two men. Alice is a young lost soul, a self-described waif who works as a stripper. One-time would-be writer Dan writes obituaries. Anna is a photographer. Larry is a dermatologist. Closer follows their relationships over an extended period, leaping ahead months and even years in almost each of the twelve scenes to the next decisive meeting or confrontation.

In this musical comedy, six young people encountering the tribulations of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who wish they could revisit childhood themselves, learn that winning isn’t everything and that losing doesn’t necessarily make you a loser. This hilarious tale of overachievers’ angst chronicles the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. This unlikeliest of hit musicals features the unlikeliest of heroes: a quirky yet charming cast of misfits for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they truly feel they belong.

The Laramie Project is a play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project about the reaction to the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming gay student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming. The murder is widely considered to be a hate crime motivated by homophobia. The play draws on hundreds of interviews conducted by the theatre company with inhabitants of the town, company members' own journal entries and published news reports. It is divided into three acts, and eight actors portray more than sixty characters in a series of short scenes.