When the cold matriarch of a rural Maine family dies, she leaves her fortune and estate to a grim step cousin, stranding her three grasping and entitled eldest children. To compound the injury, the new heiress refuses them any assistance, and she takes on as a hand the black sheep of the family: their ne’er-do-well brother on the run from the law. She proves a stern task-master; he a resentful partner, yet they begin to envision a better future in spite of themselves. But nature will out in a play that asks whether our habits and fears will always defy our highest aspirations.

To be or not to be…
Rollo Webster is a man with one sole ambition…to play Hamlet on Broadway. With an inheritance and an acting company, he has two thirds of what he needs to realize his dream. If only he had any talent. A delightful comedy from 1920 by songwriter and playwright Clare Beecher Kummer that celebrates vaunting ambition, Society folly, and thespian excess.

The political bosses of an American Great City are ready to put careless playboy Alwyn Bennett into the mayor’s mansion–provided he will do their bidding in office. An inspired campaigner, he wins the people’s mandate with surprising ease.

When a crooked bill lands on his desk, his choice to sign or veto is not just between cronies and constituency, but between his political fortunes and his family’s reputation, and in the balance lies the faith of the woman he loves.

But when a man has earned the trust of the people, can he so easily reward the men in the backroom?