Classics
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Aeschylus, adapted by Robert AulettaDescription
Agamemnon, having sacrificed his daughter, Iphigenia, to win the battle of Troy, returns to Argos... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Sophocles, adapted by Robert AulettaDescription
A modern adaptation of AJAX set at the Pentagon with corrupt, power-mad generals who censor information and revel in blood.
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (2 female, 8 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
The God Apollo has tricked the Fates into sparing King Admetus when it is his time to die. Yet in exchange, Admetus has to find another mortal to take his place in the Underworld... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (2 female, 7 male, flexible casting, bit parts, a chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Eric OvermyerDescription
Eric Overmyer's remarkable adaptation of Ibsen's PEER GYNT, set in the Pacific Northwest and in South America.
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (6 female, 8 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Eugène Brieux, translated by Felicia LondréDescription
Misunderstandings arise when a bumptious but well-meaning American, Captain Smith, tries to bring Yankee innovation to a tradition-bound French family in a decaying ancestral home in Burgundy... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (4 female, 6 male, 1 child, doubling possible)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Eric Overmyer, Moliere, Heinrich von Kleist, Jean GiraudouxDescription
A comical, anachronistic, and witty retelling of the Greek myth, composed "after Kleist by way of Molière with a little bit of Giraudoux... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
In the aftermath of the Trojan War, the royal-born Andromache finds herself in far-off Greece enslaved by the family of the man who killed her husband and forced her into the role of concubine... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male, flexible casting, bit parts, a chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Sophocles, adapted by Gregory MosherDescription
Kreon, the king of Thebes, has decreed that his nephew, the rebel soldier Polynices, will lie where he died in battle, as food for the birds and dogs... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male, Chorus 1 to 16)
Full Length Drama (about 55 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Alexandre Dumas, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
"ANTONY is not a melodrama, ANTONY is not a tragedy, ANTONY is not a stage play. ANTONY is an acting-out of love, jealousy and anger in five acts... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (6 female, 9 male, extras)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Maurice Hennequin and Pierre Vebér, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
This classic and hilarious French farce commences when a customs official barges into newlyweds Robert and Paulette's train compartment at a most inopportune moment on their wedding night, rendering the poor fellow impotent... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (5 female, 7 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 130 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Jules Verne, adapted by Laura EasonDescription
Jules Verne's classic adventure tale is reimagined for the stage in this enchanting adaptation.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Georges Feydeau, translated from the French by Laurence SenelickDescription
THE AWFUL TOOTH was the last new play of Feydeau to be produced in his lifetime, and its dentist's chair offers a dose of sadistic hilarity... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
Short Comedy (about 45 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
Inspired by the Bertolt Brecht play BAAL, Richard Nelson's BAL concerns a thoroughly amoral man who destroys the lives of those around him.
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (5 female, 9 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Federico García Lorca, translated by Jo CliffordDescription
García Lorca's passionate, lyrical tale of longing and revenge: a twentieth-century masterpiece... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (7 female, 3 male, bit parts)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Molière, adapted into English Verse by Brian VineroDescription
Monsieur Jourdain is a middle-class merchant who foolishly believes he can break into the upper echelon of society... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male, flexible casting, doubling, bit parts)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes