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

  • 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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