He considered himself the superman. She allowed him to believe it! Wealthy heiress Charlotte Payne-Townshend sets her sights on confirmed bachelor and philanderer Bernard Shaw.

“Engaging Shaw is a charming romantic comedy featuring four razor-sharp tongues. If there’s a minute of the play that’s less than clever, you’ll be hard pressed to find it.”  --Ken Jaworowski, THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Exactly the type of work that nonprofit theaters dedicated to producing new plays and musicals should be doing--arresting, intellectually stimulating." --Stephen Wells, THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Engaging Shaw is exactly that. ...a spirited and intelligent combat of words and sparkling banter."   --Robert L. Daniels, VARIETY

"So brilliantly has John Morogiello brought Shaw to life, with such flashing wit and wisdom, that I felt I was in the very room with the genius." --Joseph E. Persico, Author: Franklin and Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherford and the Other Remarkable Women in His Life.

A Yankee lies about breaking a priceless statue of Stonewall Jackson at the Confederate heritage museum owned by his fiancee's family, setting in motion a series of comic misunderstandings that eventually lead to a televised exorcism.

Stonewall's Bust won the Mountain Playhouse International Comedy Playwriting Contest in 2007.

“Stonewall’s Bust delivers moments of pure hilarity.  I heartily recommend you seek out this little bit of comedic genius by John Morogiello.”  --Tim Treanor, DC THEATRE REVIEWS

"Stonewall's Bust is a light and silly romp about the perils and pitfalls of telling the truth and inventing lies." --Alice T. Carter, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Adapted from the Puccini opera. When it is discovered that wealthy patriarch, Buoso Donati, left all his money to the church, his family hires a local peasant to pose as the dead man and dictate a new will.

"If you like zany farces with bawdy jokes, high-flyin' slapstick comedy and nonstop 100 mph action, Gianni Schicchi is the best tonic for your summer doldrums. ...There was never a point in the show when someone wasn't laughing hysterically." --Leonard Hughes, The Washington Post

"...a consistently entertaining model of its genre." --Sonya Sobiesky, Playwright's Horizons

"By far the most interesting aspect of Morogiello's version is the title character's ambiguity, which stretches the tale beyond the dimensions of farce." --Thomas May, The Review

What happens when you put a neurotic couple in the same room with a zealous psychodramatist, a mad German, a confused lesbian, and an idiot-savant who is constructing a machine to reveal the meaning of life? The Answer is here!

"Must be good for the circulatory system, dashing in and out of all those doors." --Alvin Klein, The New York Times

"The Answer by local playwright John Morogiello is an entertaining farce. ...quite funny..." --David Cannon, The Montgomery County Sentinel

"...many moments of laughter, even a few of comic lunacy..." --Susan Berlin, The Gaithersburg Gazette

A play that bites the hand that feeds us! A literary intern struggles to attain a full-time job at a major regional theater in New England without becoming jaded about the submission process.

"A little gem of a comedy.  Morogiello clearly knows his milieu.  Anyone who threw out Blame It On Beckett made a big mistake.”  --Sandy MacDonald, Theatermania

"Blame It On Beckett doesn’t disappoint.  We get all the delicious trappings of archetypes in modern dress plotting to the death to get close to success.  Playwright, John Morogiello, has seen to it that each character’s actions personify who he or she is, some knowingly, others with less self-awareness.  Dialogue is clever, knowledgeable, funny, and always human.  The environment is spot-on; the story plays out with engaging details and several surprises.  It’s the trip that counts and the trip is enjoyable.“ --Alix Cohen, Woman Around Town

“John Morogiello’s dramatic comedy is a witty parody of the non-profit theater company.  There’s a ton of pithy industry humor and a prodding, formulaic breakdown of how non-profits structure their performance lineups and suck up to subscribers.”  --Eugene Reznick, The L Magazine

If a man spends his youth committing evil, and the rest of his life atoning for that evil, should he be forgiven? According to Judeo-Christian tradition, the answer is yes. But is that forgiveness always granted by contemporary American society?

Todd Under Mitleidigen was Runner-Up for the 1997 Stanley Drama Award. 

"Todd Under Mitleidigen is outstanding: original in conception, solid in execution, and it has vision." --Bill Bly, Stanley Drama Award

An epic, based on the Civil War battle. The downfall of Joe Hooker. The tragedy of Stonewall Jackson. Robert E. Lee's greatest victory, but at what cost? Chancellorsville was developed at Canadian Stage Company in Toronto and at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. 

"I enjoyed...Chancellorsville very much indeed. ...[John Morogiello has] done a great deal of hard work re-creating it and how the commanders responsible behaved. Many congratulations."

--Romulus Linney

A raunchy adaptation of Alfred Jarry's 1898 political satire UBU ROI, updated and Americanized to simultaneously skewer a certain president and avant garde theater.

"Brainy playwright John Morogiello had an intellectual field day. So many clever references, you had to respectify it." --Celia Wren, The Washington Post

A man who has everything risks it all in an attempt to win his brother's fiancee.

"...compellingly crafted and skillfully executed." --Robert Davenport, Playwrights Horizons

"...fast paced and enjoyable." --Jeanette Plourde, Long Wharf Theatre

"Crystal Rain is a very well written script and clearly demonstrates [John Morogiello's] talent as a playwright. ...I think an audience would be very receptive to the play." --Marcia Gardner, Signature Theatre, Virginia

Two days before the wedding, a woman learns that her fiance was the interrogator at a CIA black site.

(formerly titled Young Turg)

A hilarious retelling, in commedia dell’arte style, of the true rivalry between Carlo Goldoni (The Servant of Two Masters) and Carlo Gozzi (Turandot) in the 18th Century.