22nd Anniversary!

Axis Company will present the 22nd Anniversary production of its winter show for children, Seven In One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid, beginning December 1st. Adapted from the classic fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, this interactive play with music is conceived by Axis Company and directed by Randy Sharp featuring...

A New Play Written & Performed by Edgar Oliver
Directed by Randall Sharp

Edgar Oliver has been a fixture of the downtown New York theatre scene for over three decades. Axis Theatre Company has served as an incubator and theatrical home for this beloved performer, poet, and storyteller. In deep collaboration with Axis Theatre Company founder Randy Sharp, Oliver has created a body of work that...

A New Adaptation from the Henry James Novel
Written & Directed by Randy Sharp

Axis Theatre Company is proud to present a return engagement of Washington Square, a contemporary take on Henry James' novel adapted and directed by Randy Sharp.

"Exquisite... Sharp has fashioned a gem of a play that may seem to some more present than past." – Theatermania

"Sharp's new...

21st Anniversary!

Axis Company will present the 21st Anniversary production of its winter show for children, Seven In One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid, beginning December 2nd. Adapted from the classic fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, this interactive play with music is conceived by Axis Company and directed by Randy Sharp featuring...

A New Adaptation from the Henry James Novel
Written & Directed by Randy Sharp

Washington Square centers on Catherine Sloper, a wealthy young woman raised in a house of grief by a father bitterly dead to love. Surrounded by a society and family who perceive her as plain and soft spoken, Catherine remains steadfastly committed to her forward-thinking optimism. When Morris Townsend, a mysterious suitor,...

Limited Return Engagement!
Written & Directed by Randy Sharp


"...a uniquely charming, deranged vaudeville act...writer-director Randy Sharp adeptly maneuvers between high and low comedy as she takes on nuclear annihilation, a different kind of rather effective serial killing...and melds Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory, Oppenheimer's Los Alamos, and Holmes's murder hotel into...

Written & Directed by Randy Sharp


Axis Theatre Company returns to in-person events with the world premiere of WORLDS FAIR INN, an absurdist comedy written and directed by Randy Sharp. WORLDS FAIR INN takes inspiration from the failures and genius of three men: "father of the atomic bomb" J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), American serial...

A New Adaptation from the Henry James Novel
Written & Directed by Randy Sharp

Washington Square centers on Catherine Sloper, a wealthy young woman raised in a house of grief by a father bitterly dead to love. Surrounded by a society and family who perceive her as plain and soft spoken, Catherine remains steadfastly committed to her forward-thinking optimism. When Morris Townsend, a mysterious suitor,...

Axis Company's 20th Anniversary Season
The Greatest Play Ever! Now in its 18th Smash Year!

For the eighteenth consecutive season, Axis Company will present its winter show for children, Seven In One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid, beginning December 6th. Adapted from the classic fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, this interactive play with music is conceived by Axis Company and directed by Randy Sharp featuring...

Written & Performed by Edgar Oliver
Directed by Randy Sharp; Music by Paul Carbonara

For over a decade, Axis Theatre Company has served as an incubator and theatrical home for the beloved performer, poet, and storyteller Edgar Oliver, a fixture of the New York downtown scene for over three decades. In deep collaboration with Axis Theatre Company founder Randy Sharp, Oliver has created a body of work that...

Axis Company's 20th Anniversary Season
Written & Directed by Randy Sharp

The Dust Bowl: 1930-1939. While this period in American history has been mythologized for 82 years—the most famous images being bread lines and soup kitchens in the cities, and Henry Fonda in his jalopy, driving to the green fields of California—the truth is more complex and difficult to comprehend. The Great...

Axis Company's 20th Anniversary Season

A small group of puritans arrives in 1613. Unable to venture far inland they build a poorly constructed village on the rocky shore. After two years a ship arrives with more colonists and supplies but the captain goes mad and sets the ship on fire, sinking it just beyond the harbor. Eight years pass, and at last they decide...

The Greatest Play Ever!
17th Smash Year!

For the seventeenth consecutive season, Axis Company will present its winter show for children, Seven In One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid, beginning December 7th. Adapted from the classic fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, this interactive play with music is conceived by Axis Company and directed by Randy Sharp featuring...

16th Smash Year!
Written & Directed by Randy Sharp

For the sixteenth consecutive season, Axis Company will present its winter show for children, Seven In One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid, beginning December 1st. Adapted from the classic fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, this interactive play with music is conceived by Axis Company and directed by Randy Sharp featuring...

Written & Performed by Edgar Oliver
Directed by Randy Sharp

East 10th Street: Self Portrait With Empty House
Thurs.-Sat., October 12-14 & November 2-4, 8pm

In The Park
Thurs.-Sat., October 19-21 & November 9-11, 8pm

Attorney Street
Thurs.-Sat., October 26-28 & November 16-18, 8pm

Axis Theatre served as the incubator...

Written by Sidney Kingsley
Directed by Randy Sharp

A Broadway hit in 1936 Dead End was later made into a film starring Humphrey Bogart which included the first appearance of The Bowery Boys who went on to become the iconic "kid gang" of American movies. DEAD END takes place in a New York where tenement houses and luxury apartments stand side by side and extreme wealth...

15th Smash Year!
Written & Directed by Randy Sharp

For the fifteenth consecutive season, Axis Company will present its winter show for children, Seven In One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid, beginning December 2nd. Adapted from the classic fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, this interactive play with music is conceived by Axis Company and directed by Randy Sharp featuring...

Written & Performed by Edgar Oliver
Directed by Randy Sharp

Edgar Oliver, the singular storyteller and beloved downtown NYC theatre artist, returns to Axis Theatre to perform the world premiere of Attorney Street, the final installment in a trilogy of solo shows, directed by Randy Sharp, charting Oliver's life in New York City. Following 2014's acclaimed In the Park...

Music and Lyrics by Paul Carbonara & Randy Sharp
Directed by Randy Sharp

Henry, a newly arrived immigrant to 1910 New York, finds himself at the center of this story involving a Bowery theatre facing eviction as the dawn of cinema becomes day. As the kinetoscopes that replace them are being installed, the showgirls wonder what will become of them while one dreams of a better life working in...

14th Smash Year!

For the fourteenth consecutive season, Axis Company will present its winter show for children, Seven In One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid, beginning December 4th. Adapted from the classic fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, this interactive play with music is conceived by Axis Company and directed by Randy Sharp featuring...

Written & Directed by Randy Sharp

Although Great Britain and the United States made the slave trade illegal in 1807-1808, other countries carried on the trade as did many illegal British and American traders. After 1818 the British and American navies sent vessels called interceptors to police the Middle Passage, sometimes impounding vessels, arresting...

Written & Performed by David Crabb
Directed by Josh Matthews

Bad Kid is the story of a Goth boy who dreamed of being anywhere but the middle of Texas in 1991. Preferably somewhere in London wearing fishnet gloves and a cape while standing alone in the rain. In this funny and moving examination of rebellion, sexuality and friendship, David Crabb reflects on what it means to...

Written & Directed by Marc Palmieri

After stumbling upon a small outdoor production of a Shakespeare play in Manhattan, Long Island landscaper Bob Malone is inspired to write a play about his troubled marriage. He hires two reluctant New York theatre professionals to spend a week at his home and stage the play in his garage with a cast of colorful locals....

13th Smash Year!
Written & Directed by Randy Sharp

For the thirteenth consecutive season, Axis Company will present its winter show for children, Seven In One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid, beginning December 4th. Adapted from the classic fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, this interactive play with music is conceived by Axis Company and directed by Randy Sharp featuring...

Music & Lyrics by Randy Sharp and Paul Carbonara
Directed by Randy Sharp

On March 25, 1911 the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory on Greene Street was engulfed in flames. On the 8th and 9th floors all the doors were locked form the outside to prevent employees from discussing unionism in the hallways, to discourage suspected theft and to ensure a full days work from the essentially enslaved seamstresses....

Written & Performed by Edgar Oliver
Directed by Randy Sharp

As Edgar Oliver wanders through Prospect Park he guides his audience to hidden landscapes few have seen but he also reveals his innermost longings and regrets. In this most personal of Edgar's monologues, he maps his deepest memories of childhood and experience. In the Park is a journey of loss and hope, joy and...

Written & Directed by Randy Sharp

Nothing on Earth, written and directed by Randy Sharp, examines Houdini's driven crusade to expose fraudulent mediums and his crossing paths with the avid spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Both men are catapulted to the center of The Scientific American Magazine contest to find the first-ever provable clairvoyant,...

12th Smash Year!
Written & Directed by Randy Sharp

For the twelfth consecutive season, Axis Company will present its winter show for children, Seven In One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid, beginning December 4th. Adapted from the classic fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, this interactive play with music is conceived by Axis Company and directed by Randy Sharp featuring...

Written and Created by Asi Wind & William Kalush

William Kalush presents
Asi Wind: Concert of the Mind
Exceeding Human Limits

A fascinating journey into human ability. Asi will perform feats of the mind previously believed impossible.


Asi Wind is originally from Israel and has resided in New York for the last 12 years. He...

Presented by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater & Axis Company
Written by Lucy Thurber | Directed by Caitriona McLaughlin

Trying to escape her painful past, Elizabeth has dedicated herself to finishing her dissertation and building a life with her partner, Claire. Their routine is disrupted by a visit from Elizabeth's brother and her troubled childhood lover, as they threaten to ruin all she's built and pull her back into a cycle of destruction.

Killers...

Written & Directed by Randy Sharp

The Dust Bowl: 1930-1939. While this period in American history has been mythologized for 82 years—the most famous images being bread lines and soup kitchens in the cities, and Henry Fonda in his jalopy, driving to the green fields of California—the truth is more complex and difficult to comprehend. The Great...

11th Smash Year!
Written & Directed by Randy Sharp

For the eleventh consecutive season, Axis Company will present its winter show for children, Seven In One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid, beginning December 4th. Adapted from the classic fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, this interactive play with music is conceived by Axis Company and directed by Randy Sharp featuring...

Written & Directed by Randy Sharp

The Dust Bowl: 1930-1939. While this period in American history has been mythologized for 82 years—the most famous images being bread lines and soup kitchens in the cities, and Henry Fonda in his jalopy, driving to the green fields of California—the truth is more complex and difficult to comprehend. The Great...

Written & Performed by David Crabb
Directed by Josh Matthews

Bad Kid is the story of a Goth boy who dreamed of being anywhere but the middle of Texas in 1991. Preferably somewhere in London wearing fishnet gloves and a cape while standing alone in the rain. In this funny and moving examination of rebellion, sexuality and friendship, David Crabb reflects on what it means to...

10th Smash Year!
Written & Directed by Randy Sharp

For the tenth consecutive season, Axis Company will present its winter show for children, Seven In One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid, beginning December 2nd. Adapted from the classic fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, this interactive play with music is conceived by Axis Company and directed by Randy Sharp featuring...

Written & Performed by David Crabb
Directed by Josh Matthews

Bad Kid is the story of a Goth boy who dreamed of being anywhere but the middle of Texas in 1991. Preferably somewhere in London wearing fishnet gloves and a cape while standing alone in the rain. In this funny and moving examination of rebellion, sexuality and friendship, David Crabb reflects on what it means to...

Conceived & Written by Randy Sharp and Axis Company
Directed by Randy Sharp

Axis Company's episodic play Hospital, about the interior life of a person in a terminal coma, is something of a signature for the company, which has produced a new installment of the drama nearly every year since 1997. Conceived, written and directed by Randy Sharp (Edgar Oliver's East 10th Street: Self Portrait...

9th Smash Year!
Written & Directed by Randy Sharp

For the ninth consecutive season, Axis Company will present its winter show for children, Seven In One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid, beginning December 3rd. Adapted from the classic fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, this interactive play with music is conceived by Axis Company and directed by Randy Sharp featuring...

Written & Directed by Randy Sharp

During 3 months in 1965, a 16 year-old girl was tortured and killed in the Indiana home of the Menckl family. Down There explores how this could have happened and what it might have felt like to the perpetrators as well as the victim.

Casey Kindens and her sister Joyce were boarded at Pat Menckl's house...

8th Smash Year!
Written & Directed by Randy Sharp

For the eighth consecutive season, Axis Company will present its winter show for children, Seven In One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid, beginning December 3rd. Adapted from the classic fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, this interactive play with music is conceived by Axis Company and directed by Randy Sharp featuring...

Written & Performed by Sueli Rocha
Directed by Nena Inoue

New York City is a Glue Trap! The more you move - the more stuck you get. In this dynamic performance piece Sueli Rocha, a Brazilian immigrant working in the city, allows us a glimpse into the extraordinary lives of the most ordinary people, a snapshot that unravels our culture. Walking the line between Sueli's own foreign...

presented by Axis Theatre Company, Brian Barnhart & Richard Jordan Productions Ltd and in Association with David Elliott
Written & Performed by Edgar Oliver | Directed by Randy Sharp

Axis Company presents EAST 10TH STREET: SELF PORTRAIT WITH EMPTY HOUSE, a new play by and about Downtown performance icon Edgar Oliver and directed by Randy Sharp. This look at a life on the fringes of New York's Lower East Side comes on the heels of what could be Oliver's breakthrough role in the upcoming film from...

Conceived and Written by Randy Sharp & Axis Company

A man is adrift in space. His mother ship - EARHEART - is a distant smudge on the void that has no horizon. He sits in the small escape pod - NOMAD - and tries to figure out how he became separated from the ship, his friends and his life. Discovering that he has been dropped off the connector arm and is alone and completely...

Conceived by Axis Company
Directed by Randy Sharp

TRINITY 5:29 centers on J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. When Trinity, the first atomic bomb, was tested at 5:29am on July 16, 1945, Oppenheimer whispered a quote from Hindu scripture, "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Less than a month later, two 20-megaton bombs were dropped on...

Written & Performed by Edgar Oliver
Directed by Randy Sharp

Axis Company presents EAST 10TH STREET: SELF PORTRAIT WITH EMPTY HOUSE, a new play by and about Downtown performance icon Edgar Oliver and directed by Randy Sharp. This look at a life on the fringes of New York's Lower East Side comes on the heels of what could be Oliver's breakthrough role in the upcoming film from...

7th Smash Year!
Written & Directed by Randy Sharp

For the seventh consecutive season, Axis Company will present its winter show for children, Seven In One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid, beginning December 5th. Adapted from the classic fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, this interactive play with music is conceived by Axis Company and directed by Randy Sharp featuring...

Written & Performed by Edgar Oliver
Directed by Randy Sharp

Axis Company presents EAST 10TH STREET: SELF PORTRAIT WITH EMPTY HOUSE, a new play by and about Downtown performance icon Edgar Oliver and directed by Randy Sharp. This look at a life on the fringes of New York's Lower East Side comes on the heels of what could be Oliver's breakthrough role in the upcoming film from...

Conceived, Written & Produced by AXIS COMPANY

New York runs on water. From the steam system that heats and electrifies the five boroughs, to the water that flows from millions of taps, without it there is no city. Until 1970 two ancient tunnels, both at least 73 years old, were the only conduit. As far underground as the Chrysler Building is tall, teams of "sandhogs"...

6th Smash Year!
Written & Directed by Randy Sharp

For the sixth consecutive season, Axis Company will present its winter show for children, Seven In One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid, beginning December 5th. Adapted from the classic fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, this interactive play with music is conceived by Axis Company and directed by Randy Sharp featuring...

Written by Benjamin Baker
Conceived & Produced by Axis Company | Directed by Randy Sharp

Axis Company presents the revival of Benjamin A. Baker's 1848 A Glance at New York. The original production of this vaudeville play following the adventures of Mose The Fireman became the first true American stage blockbuster filling theatres for years. The Axis production is an experimental event adapted by the...

Written by Benjamin Baker | Directed by Randy Sharp
Conceived & Produced by Axis Company in Association with Scamp Theatre

Axis Company presents the revival of Benjamin A. Baker's 1848 A Glance at New York. The original production of this vaudeville play following the adventures of Mose The Fireman became the first true American stage blockbuster filling theatres for years. The Axis production is an experimental event adapted by the...

Conceived, Written & Produced by AXIS COMPANY
Directed by Randy Sharp

In preparation for a production in 2008, Axis Company developed material concerning Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. One of the most successful events in theatrical history, Cody's pageant became a large contributor to the beginnings of our national identity; Buffalo Bill literally created it from his own imagination...

5th Smash Year!
Written & Directed by Randy Sharp

For the fifth consecutive season, Axis Company will present its winter show for children, Seven In One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid, beginning December 5th. Adapted from the classic fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, this interactive play with music is conceived by Axis Company and directed by Randy Sharp featuring...

Conceived, Written & Produced by AXIS COMPANY
Directed by Randy Sharp

Axis Company's episodic play Hospital (a West Village phenomenon every summer) examines the interior life of a man in a terminal coma. Entering this state in a different way every year, the audience travels with him as he lives out his last few days roaming the vast, dark interiors of his own brain. This year a complicated...

A WHAT MAN THEATRE COMPANY PRODUCTION
Written by Marc Palmieri | Directed by George Demas

In the shadow of World War II, architect William Levitt envisioned a new American town in a Long Island potato field. After an extensive and spirited development effort, thousands of Levitt "Cape Cod" homes were built with scrap materials from the War. Each carefully modeled home was designed to serve the needs of the modern...

A Help the Bombardier Production
Written & Directed by Randall Sharp

It is 1887, the dawn of the modern world. Henry May, the golden child of one of New York's finest families, is coming to the end of his long road to self destruction. Running into Henry Long, an old friend who is suffering from a terminal illness, proves to be the beginning of a profound journey for both men.

They...

4th Smash Year!
Written & Directed by Randy Sharp

For the fourth consecutive season, Axis Company will present its winter show for children, Seven In One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid, beginning December 5th. Adapted from the classic fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, this interactive play with music is conceived by Axis Company and directed by Randy Sharp featuring...

Conceived, Written & Produced by AXIS COMPANY
Directed by Randy Sharp

With the country still divided on the Terry Schiavo case, the Center for Disease Control forecasts a major global pandemic of h5N1 Avian Bird Flu in the next 3 to 5 years. Hospital 2005 follows the cerebral journey of one of the many hundreds of thousands of people that will contract this illness. Comatose and near...

Written, Conceived & Produced by Axis Company
Directed by Randy Sharp

After WWI thousands of veterans suffered from a serious mental condition the bewildered medical community labeled Shell Shock. Their complex symptoms tanged from total immobilization or a state of panic at the slightest provocation, to a complete failure even to realize that they had returned home. Doctors were unable...

3rd Smash Year!
Written & Directed by Randy Sharp

For the third consecutive season, Axis Company will present its winter show for children, Seven In One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid, beginning December 3rd. Adapted from the classic fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, this interactive play with music is conceived by Axis Company and directed by Randy Sharp featuring...

Conceived, Written & Produced by AXIS COMPANY
Directed by Randy Sharp

A soldier with a questionable past abandons his post during the last battle of a mid nineteenth century war. Running away in fear, he is blown back into his trench by a massive explosion and is buried in debris. Pulled from the trench and taken to a field hospital in a barn, he falls into a terminal coma and dies alone...

Conceived, Written & Produced by AXIS COMPANY
Directed by Randy Sharp

Notes
During August of 1849 an explosive friendship began between Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. Although it only lasted a year and a half, it was during this time that Melville wrote one of the few American, true masterpieces which he dedicated to Hawthorne with "In token of my admiration for his...

2nd Smash Year!
Written & Directed by Randy Sharp

For the second consecutive season, Axis Company will present its winter show for children, Seven In One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid, beginning December 5th. Adapted from the classic fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, this interactive play with music is conceived by Axis Company and directed by Randy Sharp featuring...

Conceived, Written & Produced by AXIS COMPANY
Directed by Randy Sharp

USS Frankenstein boldly blends fact and fantasy as it examines a mysterious and little-known military incident. In July 1945, a United States cruiser class battleship sailed to the South Pacific to deliver key components of the bomb that later detonated over Japan on August 6th. Known only to the highest military...

Written by Benjamin Baker
Directed by Randy Sharp

Axis Company presents the first off-Broadway revival of Benjamin A. Baker's 1848 melodrama A Glance at New York. Set during a particularly dangerous and smarmy period in New York City history, the play is an unmitigated conglomeration of vulgarity and illiteracy following a burly firefighter named Big Mose. Known...

Conceived, Written & Produced by AXIS COMPANY
Directed by Randy Sharp

Axis Company's episodic play Hospital (a West Village phenomenon every year) examines the interior life of a man in a terminal coma. Entering this state in a different way every year, the audience travels with him as he lives out his last few days roaming the vast, dark interiors of his own brain.

Although Hospital...

Directed by Randy Sharp

Axis Company, the acclaimed Off-Broadway theater group, will present its inaugural show for kids, Seven in One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid, beginning December 13th. Adapted from the classic fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, this interactive play with music is conceived by the Axis Company and directed by Randy...

Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Randy Sharp

Written, Conceived & Produced by Axis Company
Directed by Randy Sharp

Axis Company presents its second annual series of fully produced short plays and videos by emerging writers and directors with Axis Company: Shorter Works. The first cycle runs from March 14 to March 30, and the second from April 4 to April 20. Cycle One: 630PCPBMF - written and directed by Randy Sharp, this...

Written, Conceived & Produced by Axis Company
Directed by Randy Sharp

Axis Company presents its second annual series of fully produced short plays and videos by emerging writers and directors with Axis Company: Shorter Works. The first cycle runs from March 14 to March 30, and the second from April 4 to April 20. Cycle One: 630PCPBMF - written and directed by Randy Sharp, this...

Written, Conceived & Produced by Axis Company
Directed by Randy Sharp

Listen Houdini examines the intricacies of the real life relationship between Houdini and Sir Arthur Doyle, a firm believer in the spiritualist movement.

Conceived, Written & Produced by AXIS COMPANY
Directed by Randy Sharp

Axis Company's episodic play Hospital (a West Village phenomenon every year) examines the interior life of a man in a terminal coma. Entering this state in a different way every year, the audience travels with him as he lives out his last few days roaming the vast, dark interiors of his own brain.

Although...

Written & Directed by Randy Sharp

Axis Company presents 6, two separate cycles of short plays by new writers and directors. Cycle one: February 15-March 3 - Psycho Surgery or the Freeman Watts Standard Procedure, written and directed by Randy Sharp; Mega God by David Guion, directed by Robert Davenport; Guy Said, written and...

Written & Directed by Randy Sharp

Axis Company presents 6, two separate cycles of short plays by new writers and directors. Cycle one: February 15-March 3 - Psycho Surgery or the Freeman Watts Standard Procedure, written and directed by Randy Sharp; Mega God by David Guion, directed by Robert Davenport; Guy Said, written and...

Written by Sarah Kane
Directed by Randy Sharp

Sarah Kane burst onto the London theater scene in 1995 with the controversial premiere of Blasted at The Royal Court. The play's graphic gore and violent content instantly divided critics, theater, scholars and patrons, making Kane one of the most talked about playwrights of the decade. The London Daily Mail famously...

Conceived, Written & Produced by AXIS COMPANY
Directed by Randy Sharp

Axis Company's episodic play Hospital (a West Village phenomenon every year) examines the interior life of a man in a terminal coma. Entering this state in a different way every year, the audience travels with him as he lives out his last few days roaming the vast, dark interiors of his own brain.

Although...

Conceived, Written & Produced by AXIS COMPANY
Directed by Randy Sharp

Fused at a molecular genetic level are three 20th century American icons: Frankenstein, Chicago World's Fair serial killer HH Holmes, and Frank Lloyd Wright. In this unique production, three builders of limitless imagination are contained in a singel architect's body as he struggles to interpret the tremendous personal...

Written by Georg Büchner
Directed by Randy Sharp

Beginning from Büchner's terminal fever while writing the play, Axis replays the story of his common world's transformation into the nightmarish horror of Woyzeck's planet. The population of the author's daily life is re-born in each character of the play: his father becomes the captain who torments him, his wife a prostitute,...

Written by Samuel Beckett
Directed by Randy Sharp

Written by Beckett in 1963, Play tells about three people each trapped in an urn, who are provoked into speech by an inquisitive spotlight. As we learn about the three individuals, we find out how their lives together are intertwined.

Conceived, Written & Produced by AXIS COMPANY
Directed by Randy Sharp

Axis Company's episodic play Hospital that examines the interior life of a man in a terminal coma. Entering this state in a different way every year, the audience travels with him as he lives out his last few days roaming the vast, dark interiors of his own brain.

Although Hospital is a serial...

Conceived, Written & Produced by AXIS COMPANY
Directed by Randy Sharp

What is memory? Does remembered music manifest as seemingly actual sound in our ears? Do remembered events appear to play in front of our eyes? Is it possible for the memories themselves to have ulterior motives in appearing? Do they have reasons of their own for coming into your head? What if, when you remembered...

Conceived, Written & Produced by AXIS COMPANY
Directed by Randy Sharp

In Hospital, a 10-year-old boy falls victim to a devastating fire, putting him in a terminal coma. As he lies in his hospital bed, the boy's brain creates a double, a twin "Ghost Traveller" that attempts to assemble an imagined future, a future where the fire never happened. Both worlds merge to create a nightmarish...

Written by Samuel Beckett
Directed by Randy Sharp

Written by Beckett in 1963, Play tells about three people each trapped in an urn, who are provoked into speech by an inquisitive spotlight. As we learn about the three individuals, we find out how their lives together are intertwined.

Conceived, Written & Produced by AXIS COMPANY
Directed by Randy Sharp

"One need not be a chamber to be haunted, one need not be a house." - Emily Dickinson

Axis provides an artistic twist full of cryptic messages and surrealistic representation of a horrific moment in the life of 1930's convicted serial killer Albert Fish set in present times. The question is posed: what if a...

Conceived, Written & Produced by AXIS COMPANY
Directed by Randy Sharp

Rockland County No Vaudeville by Randy Sharp and Michael Gump is an original play inspired by the tabloid spectacle surrounding the case of a Manhattan art dealer and his assistant who were suspected luring a young male model from a New York nightclub and torturing him to death in a house in Rockland County. The...

Written by Randy Sharp & Michael Gump
Directed by Randy Sharp

Down There is the true story of Casey Likens who was taken in as a boarder by the Menckl family household and systematically tortured to death over a three month period. Mrs. Menckl supervises her children and two neighborhood boys in the graphic destruction of this fifteen year old girl. AXIS found the subject...

Written by Randy Sharp & Michael Gump
Directed by Randy Sharp

King Spike Theatre Company presents four one-acts about the supernatural and the psychologically abnormal: Waxboy, Razorman, D.N.R., Peanut.

Waxboy, about a deranged mental patient who abducts people and dips them in wax. Sharp, also the play's director, notes it's based on...