Current Audition

Rumors by Neil Simon
July 17 – August 2, 2026

Directed by Julie Price

At a large, tastefully appointed home in the affluent Hudson River community of Sneden’s Landing, New York, the Deputy Mayor of New York has just shot himself. ​It’s only a flesh wound but Charlie Brock’s self-inflicted injury sets off a chain reaction of panicked improvisation that sends four well-to-do couples into a full-blown attack of farce.

As the Brocks’ tenth wedding anniversary party gets underway, Charlie lies bleeding in another room… and his wife, Myra, is nowhere in sight. The first guests to arrive—lawyer Ken Gorman and his wife, Chris—quickly realize that before anyone else shows up (or worse, the police), they’ll need to get “the story” straight.

What follows is a rapidly unraveling evening of mounting confusions, miscommunications, whispered cover-ups, physical comedy, and increasingly elaborate lies as each new arrival complicates matters further. Doors slam, alibis crumble, and the truth becomes just inconvenient enough to avoid at all costs.