After searching 27 years for the hand that was taken from him in a bizarre railroad accident, Carmichael finds himself waiting for his long lost appendage in a sleazy motel room with a hostage in the closet, a nosy front desk clerk, and five gallons of gasoline. Martin McDonagh creates unforgivable characters in unforgettable situations in this 2010 comedy.

Blocked from their aspirational yuppiedom by their two children, Brian and Stacey decide to sell them to clear the way for a better life. Freedom and wealth mingle with regret and guilt in this slick pitch-black comedy that exposes not only the darker underside of material excess, but the darker insecurities of living beyond boundaries.

Following the success of A Sweet & Saucy Soiree, Karen Gruber Ryan returns to Theater Schmeater for a two-night only show. This time around, she's got Wanderlust on the brain and another set of jazz standards and musings in her rucksack to share with you. Making the soundtrack for this journey oh-so-sweet is an amazingly talented band including Branden Romans, Aimee Zoe Tubbs, Larry A. Ryan, and Steve Newton. Don't be an Easter Bunny Fool and miss your ticket for this trip!

Theater Schmeater’s annual offering of TV’s most compelling series includes something for die-hard fans and Zones novices. From cold war paranoia, to playful space invaders, to tyrannical societies devouring their citizens, The Twilight Zone: Live! presents three episodes sure to ignite memories for some and nightmares for many.

Episodes:
I Shot An Arrow Into the Air
It’s a Good Life
Night of the Meek

Hijinks transpire as Bunyip Bluegum, a koala, meets up with Bill Barnacle the sailor and Sam Sawnoff the penguin and their magic pudding, Albert. Family fun abounds when the pudding gets stolen, is lost, and then found again in this rollicking misadventure that is sure to delight hearts from 8 to 80!

Set during a live broadcast of a fictional long running television quiz show, Game Show puts the audience front and center amid a backstage story of sex, envy and deception. In other words, show biz! Come ready to laugh, cry, or win a prize!!!

Originally Produced at Signature Theatre, Arlington, VA, October 2010, Eric Shaeffer, Artistic Director, Maggie Boland, Managing Director

Set in a swank golf clubhouse, Ludwig�s farce mixes love, lust, and rusty niblicks into a hilarious mix of hijinks on the links. Old scores get settled, new talents get exposed, and simmering passions end up a hole in one in this juicy homage to British farces of the 1940s and 50s.

Agatha Christie meets Roger Corman in this new murder mystery from the author of The Schmee's smash hit Live! From the Last Night of My Life! It’s 1958 on a Sci-Fi B-Movie set populated by aspiring starlets, philandering  filmmakers, sleazy sleuths and snooping secret agents! A hilarious whodunit full of what-gets- done-to-who laughs.