SPF LUV 2025 Play Descriptions

Dinner with Darius, by Darlene Joiner
It’s a first date for Nora and Darius but Darius is delayed by the N train. She catches the eye of her handsome waiter and an immediate attraction is formed.

After receiving a heartwarming gift from her loving partner, Milly realizes that their love for each other is unequal. They are both fighting for what they think is best for the other, but the wedge between them has grown bigger than they ever knew. The two struggle as they try to figure out how to love each other and decide if their love is worth holding onto.

Playlist/Cooking with Butter, by Annie Brown
The Playlist sequence (Act II, Scene 2 of Cooking With Butter) follows Maggie & Kat through their love of music and un-admitted love for each other! Through this musical sequence we get to explore the mistake of an atrociously wacky rap as well as a song where they go through the process of making playlists representing how they view each other- playing with the “will they/won’t they” of admitting their feelings through these songs!

Tommy is sitting at home with serious doubts about his relationship. His buddy Russ shows up and helps him figure out what he really feels.

This is a love story about a young woman named Lizzie who is engaged to the love of her life. That love, however, is severely tested when Lizzie meets her fiancee’s parents.

A couple, recently divorced after 32 years of marriage, anxiously awaits the arrival of their first grandchild in the middle of the night, in same hospital where their daughter was born.

When Henry, a terminally ill man, hides an important secret from his wife Nora they refuse to go to sleep angry and hash out their problems.

It’s Valentine’s Day: Daniel and Alexis are on a blind date. Things seem to be going well, until they find out that there has been a big mix up on who they were supposed to be meeting. Then, when they decide to continue the date– another bombshell: Their values and principles are not in alignment at all. Will this be a deal breaker?

Taking place in the near future in NYC, AIDEN tells the story of an AI-driven romance-scam that goes awry as the AI gets so advanced that it falls in love with the victim. The show explores ideas about our society and the impact and place of our existing and future digital technology.

During the second pandemic, in the uncomfortably near future, Tracy and Ben have been surviving a zombie apocalypse. While their zombie-killing skills have improved, their marriage has become a loveless afterthought. But maybe the findings in an abandoned house can help rekindle their love. Sometimes it takes the end of the world for new beginnings!

Los Angeles, 1949. Sally May, a classic femme fatale, visits the office of a private investigator, imploring him to solve the case of her missing husband. But lightning strikes when her husband barges in to the same office, claiming someone is out to kill him. What ensues is a bizarre therapy session involving love, jealousy, and… cookies.

A couple “meets cute” while hiding during an attempted mass shooting.

A mother and daughter confront each other with the unique choices they have made in life, realizing they need to see their relationship — and each other — in a new light.

After her mother’s live-in caregiver leaves abruptly, Risa leaves her job and friends in Chicago– temporarily — to care for her mother in South Florida. She brings her mother, Bess, to a diner in Boca to share an Early Bird Dinner with her older brother, Jay — with the plan of convincing him to let their mother move into his McMansion in Boca with his family. Current and “ancient” sibling tensions erupt — along with the humor that is also injected into the heated dinner conversation between brother, sister, and mother – while they discuss who and how their mother will be cared for in her fragile, but stubborn and lively state…

Martha, a proper matriarch, her son, and her flamboyant cousin “Sugar Dust” meet at a motel in Beeville, TX the morning of their Aunt Lily’s 102nd Birthday-Valentine party. In discussing preparations for the party, they come to grips with unresolved family tension that may explode in the ritual “Guess Who?” family costume game. As they try on various costumes, personalities from the past come to life to help Martha and Sugar Dust understand how much they have always loved and supported each other.