The John & Joyce Ambruster
Play-Reading Series, 2024–2025

A few years ago, we decided we’d like to present more plays to our Rogue audience. Our season schedule was too full to offer more fully-produced plays, so we decided to produce a play-reading series. At the very same time, John & Joyce Ambruster asked to fund a special project at The Rogue.

It was a perfect marriage.

In The John & Joyce Ambruster Play-Reading Series we offer readings of plays that might be of interest to our Rogue audience. Each play is rehearsed by a group of actors for about 12 hours and performed with scripts in hand. Some of these plays will be fully produced in future years, and some of the plays are just interesting to hear once. Either way, you get to taste more plays each year.

The 2024–2025 Season of Play-Readings

This series is made possible by a generous gift from John and Joyce Ambruster.

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

Saturday, July 20, 2024 at 2:00 pm
Sunday, July 21, 2024 at 2:00 pm

Two itinerant farm workers, George and Lennie, take jobs as ranch hands during the Great Depression in this classic and frequently-banned play about dignity and the American Dream.

Sponsored by Sally Krusing

Lemons Lemons Lemons
Lemons Lemons

by Sam Steiner

Saturday, March 29, 2025 at 2:00 pm
Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 2:00 pm

The average person speaks 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. In this thought-provoking romantic comedy, a young couple confronts a state-imposed “hush-law” limiting a person to only speak 140 words a day.

Sponsored by Eloise Gore & Allen Hile

No Man’s Land

by Harold Pinter

Saturday, May 24, 2025 at 2:00 pm
Sunday, May 25, 2025 at 2:00 pm

Two elderly writers, having met in a London pub, continue drinking and talking into the night in this menacing and enigmatic comedy about memory, death, and the limbo outside of connection.

Sponsored by Gian & Marykay Morelli

Single tickets are available for $20.

Season ticket sales have ended for this season.
Season ticket holders are provided reserved seating.