Classics
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Austin Tichenor, inspired by Kafka's The MetamorphosisDescription
Kafka for kids? Is that a good idea? Fortunately, with a slight change in tone, it is. The fantastical elements of The Metamorphosis strike a chord with adolescents who are often experiencing their own struggles with changing bodies... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Georg Büchner, adapted by Robert AulettaDescription
Set during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, the play takes place from March 24 to April 4, 1794, when Maximilien Robespierre was in charge of the Committee of Public Safety that, along with the Revolutionary Tribunal, condemned people to the guillotine... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 26 total (8 female, 18 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Laurence Senelick, based on the novel by Nikolai GogolDescription
A theatrical extravaganza drawn from Nikolay Gogol's comic epic of greed and gluttony in tsarist Russia... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 15 total (8 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Georges Feydeau, translated from the French by Laurence SenelickDescription
A husband and wife stay together by force of habit, their relationship based on nothing solid. The wife's aggression and bitterness and the husband's selfishness and irresponsibility are revealed, and their ferocious animosity unleashes such powerful comedy that it obscures the underlying darkness.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Short Comedy (about 60 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Leo Tolstoy, adapted by Donald FreedDescription
One of Leo Tolstoy's most celebrated pieces of late fiction, ILYCH deals with the tyranny of the bourgeois niceties, the weakness in the human heart, living without meaning, and death... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Molière, adapted by Christopher Bayes and Steven EppDescription
Molière's classic comedy comes to uproarious new life in a clever and contemporary adaptation Christopher Bayes and Steven Epp... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male, doubling)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Kenneth McLeishDescription
Ibsen's groundbreaking tale of a woman awakening to a need for a life of her own. It is a story of domestic revolution, female empowerment, and the journey towards self-liberation and personal fulfillment... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (5 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Molière, translated and adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
With a calloused and lustful heart, Don Juan indulges his sexual appetites with boundless enthusiasm... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (3 female, 8 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Tirso de Molina, translated and adapted by Lynne AlvarezDescription
When the 17th-century Spanish dramatist and monk Tirso de Molina penned EL BURLADOR DE SEVILLA, it was the first time the legendary libertine Don Juan had appeared on stage... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 15 total (5 female, 10 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Mikhail Bulgakov after Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
Mikhail Bulgakov's brilliantly theatrical and highly personal adaptation of Cervantes' classic novel is here translated for the first time into English by the renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (winner of two PEN/Book-of-the-Month Translation Awards) and the playwright/director Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Olivier Award)... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (7 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Eric OvermyerDescription
Eric Overmyer's marvelous tongue-in-cheek salute to Miguel de Cervantes' comedic classic Don Quioxte.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Michael Weller, based on a short story by Anton ChekhovDescription
A spoof fairy tale about a boy and his talking dog, Chatter, who go on a magical journey to recover his lost talent... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (3 female, 8 male)
Short Comedy (about 25 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Burt Grinstead and Anna StrombergDescription
Based on the classic novella, this darkly comic adaptation takes you to the dismal streets of London in the 1860s, where societal pressures silence a gentle doctor's questions about the nature of morality... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (7 female, 9 male, flexible casting, bit parts)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 80 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Burt Grinstead and Anna StrombergDescription
Based on the classic novella, this darkly comic adaptation takes you to the dismal streets of London in the 1860s, where societal pressures silence a gentle doctor's questions about the nature of morality... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 80 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Neil LaBute, based on the novel by Bram StokerDescription
Neil LaBute brings a rich theatricality and his provocative way with language and story to the world of Count Dracula, Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker, and his beloved Mina — this time, with very much a mind of her own — infusing the classic gothic tale of terror, obsession, and pathos with a modern edge... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (5 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes