BILLMcMAHON
Plays - full length partial listing
COVER
Two married businessmen become entangled in an unlikely sexual and emotional relationship that challenges everything they know about themselves. In an effort to keep the relationship secret and construct a cover, they inadvertently strip away the veneers that have been holding each of their marriages together, ultimately imploding their lives and the lives of their spouses.
Currently in development with Kierstead Productions for an Off-Broadway production.
WORLD OF TOMORROW
A Fable of New York
Robert Moses, the master builder of New York in the twentieth century, is at the height of his power and influence in the late nineteen fifties, as he plans sweeping changes to the urban landscape. But his carefully cultivated, invulnerable image as “the man who gets things done” begins to show cracks as, for the first time, he encounters serious opposition to his grand plan for the city of the future. Chief among his antgonists is Jane Jacobs, the noted urbanologist, who appears in his dreams and nightmare fantasies, taunting him and even masquerading as his demanding mother, Bella. But Jane is not just Moses' imaginary hobgoblin - she is also a very real person working against his plans in a very real way, as are the newspaper reporters, who are getting bolder in their reports on Moses' corrupt dealings with union officials, politicians and even the mob. And then, there's the young man who wants to write his biography - Robert Caro...
RANDOM
A hit and run accident leaves a young man in a coma, and his mother in a quandary. Helen is forced to wrestle not only with the hospital staff, but with her estranged daughter Maggie as well. Maggie claims to have saved her brother Matthew with a call to 911, but Helen is unconvinced that her daughter has reformed to the degree she claims. Having a history of substance abuse problems, bad behavior, extreme sibling rivalry and even embezzlement, Maggie seems a bad lot. Or does she? And is life, her son's accident, and her daughter's dysfunction just random happenstances in a random universe? Helen is made to question everything, even God - or perhaps, especially God. RANDOM was a finalist for the Mildred and Albert Panowski Playwriting Award.
This is only a partial listing. Bill has several more full length plays and many one-acts. More to come on this site.