A Co-Production with the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Foundation

“It’ll be a quick war,” he says, “I’ll come home right after,” he says. Twenty years later, we need a drink.

With a cocktail in one hand and a microphone in the other, Penelope takes the stage to tell the story of her epic twenty-year wait in her tiny island kingdom of Ithaca while her husband, Odysseus, was off playing at war. This new one-woman musical from Alex Bechtel (The Appointment) and Eva Steinmetz (Poor Judge) combines soulful songs with a wit drier than your favorite martini to tell a story that is both intimate and explosive.