In 1941 London, amid the Second World War, an appeal was brought before the House of Lords challenging the government's right, under a Regulation known as 18B, to detain citizens without charge. This play with the same name explores this landmark case through the friendship of two significant judges, Lord Wright and Lord Atkin. The significance of the regulation to Britain, and the world, comes through in these human embodiments of opposing ideas.

Dr. Thierry Maillard, legal director for ADAGP, a collective rights management society in France, will be at the Playwrights' Center to hear from local playwrights, writers and authors about their concerns and experiences in protecting their creative property. 

Red, White, and Queer: Gay in America is comprised of a trio of one-acts, each one looking at various aspects of LGBT life in which we still, in the 21st century, find ourselves dealing with being in the closet: the three areas of interest here are the closets of politics, religion, and Hollywood.

An exuberant musical comedy that follows the struggles of Louie Leonard, a cranky retired attorney and recent widower, as he resists moving into Best Years Senior Cooperative. His vivacious sister-in-law Marian and stockbroker brother Phil mount an intervention that re-ignites the forgotten dreams of Louie's youth, plucking him from a quicksand of age depression. Along the way, he earns membership in the rarefied ranks of the chronologically enriched.

How many marriages can one nuclear family produce? What is a dowry really? And why is marriage about love again? This is a story about flossing and your father's Russian girlfriend and zaftig women and how bisexuals are just not cool anymore. It's also about a 20-year friendship that turned into a wedding.