Classics
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Bo List, freely adapted from the play by Karel ČapekDescription
In 1920, Karel Čapek's early science fiction classic R.U.R. coined the term "robot" and looked ahead to the wonders and dangers of artificial intelligence decades before it was cool to worry about such things... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (5 female, 4 male, doubling)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Arthur Schnitzler, adapted by Eric BentleyDescription
Eric Bentley's adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's classic LA RONDE.
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (5 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Eric BentleyDescription
Eric Bentley's gay adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's LA RONDE set in 1970's New York.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (8 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Oscar Wilde, translated by Matt DiCintioDescription
Inspired by symbolist poetry and the frequent appearance of Salomé in contemporary art and literature, Oscar Wilde wrote SALOMÉ in French during a Paris stay in 1891–92... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 17 total (2 female, 15 male, bit parts)
Full Length Drama (about 60 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Molière, translated and adapted by Matt DiCintioDescription
When two misers return from abroad, their sons find their romances with two mysterious women in peril... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Kelli Tatum, based on The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneDescription
In today's world of reduced privacy, increased bullying, intensified peer pressure, and the pursuit of notoriety, toxic societal pressures are everywhere... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (7 female, 7 male, flexible casting, up to 18 performers and 1 to 4 children)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Emily Mann, freely adapted from Anton Chekhov's THE SEAGULLDescription
Emily Mann brings Chekhov's masterpiece into the 21st century with bright contemporary language and a modern Hamptons' setting... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Carlo Goldoni, adapted by Constance CongdonDescription
Goldoni's eighteenth-century masterpiece is an enduring story of love, passion, and mistaken identity... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (3 female, 10 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 115 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Evgeny Shvarts, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
In an imaginary, fantastical land a scholar arrives seeking to find a way to make as many people as he can happy.
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (5 female, 11 male, doubling possible, many bit parts)
Full Length Comedy (about 130 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Luigi Pirandello, translated by Penelope BussolinoDescription
When six characters suddenly appear during the rehearsal of a Pirandello play and demand to have their story told instead, the director is forced to confront an entirely new theatrical situation, one that cascades into chaos as the characters and the actors collide in surreal twists of comical, philosophical, and tragical confrontation... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (6 female, 10 male, flexible casting, 2 nonspeaking children, extras)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Pierre Carlet de Marivaux, translated from French by Laurence SenelickDescription
SLAVE ISLAND was first produced on Monday, 5 March 1725 by Lelio Riccoboni's troupe and the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, Paris... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male, nonspeaking roles)
Full Length Comedy (about 50 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesPierre Carlet de Marivaux, translated from French by Laurence SenelickCollection Description
SLAVE ISLAND was first produced on Monday, 5 March 1725 by Lelio Riccoboni's troupe and the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, Paris... [read more]
Carl Sternheim, translated by Eric BentleyDescription
In THE UNDERPANTS, she is waiting in the crowd — Berlin, circa 1910 — craning her neck forward to see the Kaiser pass by... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Sean GraneyDescription
In THESE SEVEN SICKNESSES, Sophocles' seven surviving plays — OEDIPUS, IN TRACHIS, PHILOKTETES, IN COLONUS, AJAX, ELEKTRA and ANTIGONE — combine with music and food to create a stunning portrait of the human condition, where the intermingling of chance and fate yields disquieting results... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (5 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 220 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Frank Wedekind, English version by Kenneth Tigar and Clayton KoelbDescription
Possibly the ultimate coming-of-age drama. The play follows a group of high-school friends in Victorian-age Germany who begin to experience their first sexual desires in a world where even talking about sex is taboo... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 25 total (7 female, 18 male, some doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes