Classics
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Neil LaButeDescription
An amateur comic struggles with his new routine.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Nikolai Erdman, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
An unemployed "little man" contemplates suicide and is besieged by discontented groups wanting him to turn his suicide into a gesture on their behalf.
Production Info
Cast: 24 total (9 female, 15 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Maxim Gorky, translated by Stephen MulrineDescription
Gorky's magnificent response to Chekhov's THE CHERRY ORCHARD was written in 1904, the year Chekhov died... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 17 total (6 female, 11 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
George Cram Cook and Susan GlaspellDescription
Originally produced by the Provincetown Players in 1915, SUPPRESSED DESIRES satirizes the then-current obsession with dream interpretation: Henrietta is unable to stop overanalyzing the dreams of her husband, Stephen, and sister, Mabel.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Short Comedy (about 30 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
John Guare, based on a short story by Anton ChekhovDescription
While hang gliding in the Catskills, a young woman wonders whether the young man in her company loves her... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Short Comedy (about 20 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Molière, adapted by Constance Congdon from a literal prose translation by Virginia ScottDescription
Constance Congdon's witty verse adaptation of Molière's timeless classic, in which a religious conman infiltrates the household of a gullible man and his exasperated family, has lent itself to productions set in modern-day Texas, New Orleans, and even The Sopranos' New Jersey.
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (5 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Neal Bell, adapted from the novel by Emile ZolaDescription
The story of a young woman forced into an unhappy marriage to her dull, sickly cousin and smothered by her overbearing aunt... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Jean Giraudoux, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
Hector, the peace-seeking leader of the Trojans, attempts to stop a war sparked by his brother Paris taking Helen... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 19 total (7 female, 12 male, doubling possible, bit parts)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
adapted from Euripides by Sara FarringtonDescription
In a flash of modern warfare (Ukraine? Afghanistan? Vietnam? Poland? Hiroshima? Israel? Gaza?), a mother loses her child... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female, or flexible multiplayer casting allowed)
Full Length Drama (about 80 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Alfred Jarry, translated by Kenneth McLeishDescription
The satirical farce acclaimed as the touchstone for the Dada and Surrealist movements, the Theatre of the Absurd, and much of the rest of experimental theatre in the twentieth century.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Anton Chekhov, translated by Stephen MulrineDescription
Vanya and his niece, Sonya, work relentlessly to keep their meagre estate going. Sonya finds relief in her undisclosed love for Astrov, the local doctor... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Anton Chekhov, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
An exhilarating new version of UNCLE VANYA that pairs one of the greatest plays ever written with the world's most celebrated translators of Russian literature... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
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: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesDavid Mamet, based on a short story by Anton ChekhovDescription
Mischievous bureaucrats play a card game (vint) using identity documents in their possession until they are caught redhanded... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (6 male)
Short Comedy (about 15 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
In celebrated playwright Richard Nelson's bold adaptation of Ibsen's classic, profound tragedy and surprising comedy combine to tell the story of the Ekdal family... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (3 female, 8 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes