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!”
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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.
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"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.”
"…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”
"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."
"Leverett brings us this brilliant romp through our youthful joys as if reimagined by David Lynch.“
“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."
“Funny and cute, at times wicked and weird.”
“zany, surreal, and...disturbingly resonant”
“I legit could not stop laughing.”
- @spoonfulsofbroadway/ @theatrewithselena
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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
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2024 We Do the Same Thing Every Week was Awarded a $10,000 grant from the New York State Council on the Arts