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The Marsh has announced productions to be performed during its 2009 Winter-Spring season. The currently running No Parole, by Carlo D'Amore, will extend through January 25, under Margarett Perry's direction. The work takes you on a wild journey through the life a flamboyant, live-for-the-moment con artist mother, who has no trouble posing as an attorney, professor, daycare worker, or nun--as seen through the eyes of her young son who acts as her look-out, bail and partner-in-crime.

Next up will be two weeks of workshop performances of Marga Gomez's latest piece, Long Island Iced Latina (January 8-17), which chronicles the monologist's awkward adolescence in Massapequa, Long Island, mixing equal parts cultural confusion, chronic virginity, mother-daughter instability, and a splash of polyester fashion. Brian Copeland's Not a Genuine Black Man will return to celebrate its fifth anniversary at The Marsh, January 16-February 14. The piece explores how surroundings make us who we are.

Marsh Youth Theater's Teen Program will present Fears of Your Life (January 30-February 8), to be directed by Kim Epifano. Based on the book of the same name by Michael Bernard Loggins, an artist with developmental disabilities at Creativity Explored, the piece uses dance, music, poetry, video and huge paper mache puppets to explore our relationship with the sometimes serious and often humorous things that scare us.

Charlie Varon's Rabbi Sam will run February 19-April 5, telling the story of a rabbi who wants to reinvent American Judaism, and the congregation that hires him. Carolyn Doyle's Life as a Refrigerator Mother follows, April 2-25, presenting a serio-comic look at raising a child with special needs. The season will conclude with Dan Hoyle's Right? (May 1-June 6), a 100 day, thirty state journey through small-town and rural America.

For more information, visit www.themarsh.org.