An actor wearing a yellow delivery uinform and a furry eared hat stands in the threshold of a blue doorway holding a six pack of coke bottles.

WE DO THE SAME THING EVERY WEEK

Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at A.R.T./New York, 2025

DICK AND JANE ARE BORED ON A RAINY SUNDAY AFTERNOON. A SIX-FOOT TALL CAT SHOWS UP, AND HIJINKS ENSUE. LATER, ELSEWHERE, DICK AND JANE ARE BORED ON A RAINY SUNDAY AFTERNOON. A SIX-FOOT TALL CAT SHOWS UP, AND HIJINKS ENSUE. EVERYWHERE, SPACE IS A FALSE VACUUM WAITING TO DECAY. TRY NOT TO THINK ABOUT IT WHILE YOUR BOREDOM GNAWS AWAY AT YOU. WE DO THE SAME THING EVERY WEEK IS A ONE-ACT COMEDY ABOUT REPETITION, BOREDOM, AND THE DELICIOUS, REFRESHING TASTE OF COCA-COLA®. 

“Smart, funny, shocking, dark and brought to you by Coca-Cola… We Do the Same Thing Every Week is an absolute joy!”
— Nicole Jesson, Theatre Beyond Broadway

We Do The Same Thing Every Week WAs made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

  • Written by Robert Leverett

    Directed by Liza Couser

    Featuring Tora Alexander*, Kate Budney, Justin Choi, Robert Leverett, Jessica Nesi*, and Casey Worthington*

    PSM Kelsey Vivian*

    ASM Cassandra Gutterman-Johns

    Substitute SMs Sam Kersnick, Naomi Schwartzburt

    Scenic & Props Design lucas a. degirolamo

    Costume & Puppet Design Olivia Hern

    Lighting Design Christopher Wong

    Sound Design Grace Oberhofer

    Projection Design Piper Hill

    Musical Direction Kristin McGuire

    Choreography Liza Couser & Kate Budney

    Music “Mother’s Theme” by Robert Leverett, Arranged by Liza Couser & Kristin McGuire; “You Simply Have to Get Yourself a Thing” by Robert & Freeman Leverett, arranged by Liza Couser; “A Theme/B Theme” by Grace Oberhofer, Arranged by Kristin McGuire; “Coca Cola Theme” by Grace Oberhofer

    Production Manager Madyson Barnfield

    Lead Creative Producer Kerrigan Quenemoen

    Marketing & Development Producer Caroline Festa

    Line Producer Rachel Lee

    Press Emily Owens PR

    Production Assistants Rebecca & Valentina Messner Medina

    Carpenters Noah Durst, Collin Linnville, Thomas Wagner

    Electricians Roy Chang, Jimmy Dewhurst, Harry Dietrich

    Photography HanJie Chow

    Graphic Design Liza Couser

    Produced in Association with Attractive Nuisance

    *Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production. This is an Equity Approved Showcase.

  • "Directed by Liza Couser, the show shines when it embraces its mad ambition: in its well-made and well-performed musical numbers, hilarious bits of slapstick and situational comedy, witty dialogue, breaks of the fourth wall, even unnerving and scary moments… It all feels remarkably well-crafted and ambitious.”

    - Off Off Online

    "…a clear result of their acting talents as well as Liza Couser’s deft direction, which maximizes on the actors' listening and focus, as well as inventive staging”

    - Theater Scene

    "The writing, the directing, the acting, the puppets and puppeteering, and the design elements are all intelligent, beautifully executed, with a fabulous attention to detail… a complete joy."

    - Show Showdown

    "Leverett brings us this brilliant romp through our youthful joys as if reimagined by David Lynch.“

    - Theatre Beyond Broadway

    “We Do the Same Thing Every Week renders Boredom Riveting…may not cure the existential malaise of waiting through life, but it sure offers a superb distraction in the meantime."

    - Thinking Theater NYC

    “Funny and cute, at times wicked and weird.”

    - Blogcritics

    “zany, surreal, and...disturbingly resonant”

    - @Tyler Nabinger

    “I legit could not stop laughing.”

    - @spoonfulsofbroadway/ @theatrewithselena

  • 2025 Off-Off Broadway Production A.R.T./NY

    2022 Staged Reading Vox Lab, Produced by NICOLLE ALLEN and MATTHEW COHN and FEATURING KATE BUDNEY, DAVID KATZ, OWEN O’LEARY, ROBERT LEVERETT, OMALA SNYDER, and ZAHRA RUFFIN

  • 2024 We Do the Same Thing Every Week was Awarded a $10,000 grant from the New York State Council on the Arts

Two puppeteers holding yellow rod puppets sing and dance on a blue and red stage. The puppets wear gold sequin vests, sparkling top hats and are holding canes.
Six performers are seated and standing around a blue couch. Four are holding nintendo controllers and staring intently behind the camera. Two hold yellow rod puppets and are looking on. One performer is wearing a fish hat.
A woman in a blue dress swings a red baseball bat at a yellow rod puppet operated by a man in a blue shirt and red pants. A piece of the puppet has broken off and the air nearby is filled with red confetti. Another performer with a puppet looks on, s
A performer in a red fish hat and red sweater vest stands with a scooter and a fishbowl and delivers a lecture to a man and woman seated on a blue couch.
A woman in a blue vintage dress and red hair ribbon and a man in a pink sweater and blue shorts stand looking at each other with their hand clasped together as if about to perform a musical number.
Two performers wearing large puppet heads of dinosaurs pose against a dark theatrical backdrop. The green troodon dinosaur stands over the blue parasaurolophus lying on the ground
A performer in a red fish hat and red sweatervest sits at a table covered in a blue tablecloth. She sits beneath a red pendant lamp.
A woman in a blue vintage dress and red hair ribbon stands on a blue stage. Her hair is in a high ponytail flying up behind her as if she is bouncing, and she wear an intense expression. To the right, a man in yellow uniform and furry hat stares into
Blue stage set with two small windows - a circular window containing a yellow red puppet wearing a red cowboy hat, and a rectangular window containing another rod puppet in a blue cowboy hat.
A performer in a red fish hat and sweater vest stands beside a blue couch screaming. She is holding a fish bowl. On the couch, a puppeteer extends a yellow rod puppet toward the fish, also screaming.
A woman in a blue vintage dress and a man in a pink sweater stand left to right wearing dubious expressions. Beside them, two puppeteers look on holding expressive yellow rod puppets.
A theater performer in a light blue vintage-style dress with red hair ribbon sits between two smiling audience members - a woman in a white shirt on the left and a bearded man in glasses and a blue button-down shirt on the right.
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