The Chicago Landmark Project chronicles all twelve short plays produced by Theatre Seven of Chicago as part of a World Premiere theatrical event paying tribute to the people and places of the Windy City. Using distinct locations in zip codes from Rogers Park to the South Side, The Chicago Landmark Project offers twelve diverse snapshots of Chicago life from present day to the distant past. From famous landmarks like Navy Pier to only-in-Chicago places like the Logan Square Farmers Market and Riverview Amusement Park, The Chicago Landmark Project uses location to create an emotional geography...

Four New Yorkers seek shelter, both physical and spiritual, in a variety of temporary abodes and in one another in this dark comedy. "As every young, single New Yorker quickly learns, real estate is destiny in this town, a fact of urban life that Brooke Berman addresses with bracing wit and intelligence in HUNTING AND GATHERING. The four attractive players in this droll comedy think of their fly-by-night housing accommodations as proof of an independent spirit. Little do they realize, until the scribe plays her romantic trump card, that their loose living conditions more accurately expose...

Amy and Isaac are the perfect couple. Amy and Emma are the perfect friends. If everyone is so perfect, why are they so unhappy? A dark comedy about love, growing up and letting go. ..". Armed with her customary flair for brainy-yet-heartfelt banter and an anthropologist's eye for social mechanics ... Berman raises several rich themes - loneliness, sexless infidelity, Gen Xers versus Gen Yers, gender roles and the awful mutability of love ..." -David Cote, Time Out New York "Amusing and poignant ... unerringly captures the confusions that bedevil even the most seemingly secure relationships."...

Twenty-one-year-old It-Girl Abby and her plucky best friend, Clea, embark on a spur-of-the-moment revenge trip to London - Abby, in pursuit of the young novelist who has cannibalized her in his literary debut and Clea desperately seeking Madonna. ..". Brooke Berman's delicious literary comedy ... Twisted obsession is just one of the themes that Berman navigates with skill and humor in this sharp satire. In addition, her eloquent, self-aware characters mull over issues of hero-worship and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, as it relates to fact and fiction: Seeing oneself refracted in a novel...

On the verge of the millennium, a strange teenaged prophetess obsessed with New Wave music invites a suburban family and the raunchy movie star who has crashed in on their holiday to join her as she welcomes The New World. "After her recent success with SAM AND LUCY at the Summer Play Festival, Brooke Berman has proven herself a playwright to watch. Her latest, THE TRIPLE HAPPINESS, doesn't disappoint. It's a slyly funny, thought-provoking piece ... THE TRIPLE HAPPINESS is a home run ..." -CurtainUp "Ms Berman fractures her storyboard with abandon, jump-cutting among characters and between...

Sophy thinks she's the holy whore, Miriam runs from the family, and Justin tries to keep them all together. These three cousins with uncanny psychic abilities embark on a strange road trip in order to say goodbye. Family, mysticism, sex, and Judaism. "Brooke Berman's play UNTIL WE FIND EACH OTHER ... has two important things going for it: an intriguing subject matter (the nature of faith) that rarely gets explored in the theater and a clear understanding of the way time and place can be quickly fractured and collaged in live theater ... it's not often that you want to hear more from a play's...

This collection includes four interrelated short plays: LIDDY AND THE MAD HATTER, REUNION AT THE FIN DE SIECLE, SELF-RELIANCE, and WINTER WITH TAMBOURINE BOY. THE LIDDY PLAYS follow Liddy and Emerson, an enigmatic brother and sister, as they confront the death of their mother, fall in love with dangerous people, learn to meditate, and remember the past. "I am extremely taken and impressed with her work and find everything she writes to be infused with a most intriguing and original voice ... I think Brooke is a first rate talent and will distinguish herself in the American theater."...

A contemporary Calypso on the island of Manhattan learns what family is all about. "I am extremely taken and impressed with her work and find everything she writes to be infused with a most intriguing and original voice ... I think Brooke is a first rate talent and will distinguish herself in the American theater." -Christopher Durang "Ms Berman has a vigorous interest in turning over the rocks in contemporary relationships to find what is growing underneath." -New York Times on A PERFECT COUPLE "Twisted obsession is just one of the themes that Berman navigates with skill and humor." -David...

B F Fs Nicky and Isobel, home from their first year of college, spend the summer on Isobel's rooftop collecting both experiences and people while shooting a dogma-style reality film about their summer. But when they add Rexx to their collection, and their old friend Tiger returns from rehab, will this temporary paradise be lost? "I am extremely taken and impressed with her work and find everything she writes to be infused with a most intriguing and original voice...I think Brooke is a first rate talent and will distinguish herself in the American theater." Christopher Durang "Ms Berman has a...