Plays

Plays by Dan Landon

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1-  HAPPY DALE!

Winner of the 2023 New Play Festival.
Due to outlandish behavior following his wife’s
death, retired English teacher Ben Lieberman is
remanded to “Happy Dale,” an assisted living
facility. Lieberman is a natural rebel, and he
quickly upsets Happy Dale’s dull routines and
staff, turning his new friends and frenemies into
accomplices and confidants.
Can Happy Dale provide Ben with the education
he doesn’t think he wants?

2- GATSBY

Woodstock Playhouse

Book & Adaptation by Daniel Landon

Music & Lyrics by Lawrence Rosen

Adapted from the Great American Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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3- The Dry Dry Desert of the Mind – An ode to Sam Shepard –

Joe owns a gas station that does auto repairs in rural east Texas (Odessa) and he’s the older cousin of Tommy, a screw-up who works there when he’s not getting into trouble. Tommy returns to tell Joe about his latest misadventure, which he calls “a topper.” Joe doesn’t want to hear it because he knows it’ll be trouble for him too, but there’s no stopping Tommy. Blood is thicker than water – even in the desert. A comedy in one act.

4- PUNCHY

Set in Sunnyside Gardens in the mid 1970’s, an old, broken-down boxer fights a last fight surrounded by his family.

Produced Off-Broadway at the West Side Theatre in 1982 it starred Dan Lauria and Craig Sheffer.

5- The Night the Lights Went Out

On an October night in 1965, the night of the Great Blackout, two teenage  boys, who live with their extended family in an old row house in Queens, ask if this is the beginning of a Russian sneak attack? Or an invasion by Space Aliens?  Or simply the end of the world?    All will be revealed before the morning light.

6- Two Detectives

IN 1999 a beautiful strange woman enters a Private Eye’s Office and hires him to find her missing Garment District father.   A Crime Noir for the stage. 

7-  Basic Training

 Master Chief Mahan and female Petty Officer Kowalski are career Navy, and know all the tricks of survival, as the young recruits test their own skills.

TWO DETECTIVES

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