Five hundred dollars a week for all the abuse you can take. And maybe sex. That's what four aspiring novelists pay for a ten-week private writing class with the legendary Leonard. It's a smorgasbord of vicious, and very funny, wordplay, as innocence collides with experience in this biting Broadway comedy about power, sex, and art.

This is the second San Francisco Playhouse production of a Theresa Rebeck work. The Scene, which we produced in 2008, was later released as a feature film, Seducing Charlie Barker.