Classics
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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
María Irene Fornés, based on a short story by Anton ChekhovDescription
A surrealist playlet in which a man performs suicides for a fee.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
S Anksy, adaptation by Tony Kushner, translated from Yiddish by Joachim NeugroschelDescription
Considered by many to be the greatest Yiddish drama, A DYBBUK recounts the tale of a wealthy man's daughter possessed by the spirit of her dead beloved.
Production Info
Cast: 18 total (5 female, 13 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Euripides, translated by Marianne McDonald and J Michael WaltonDescription
Euripides' version of the Ancient Greek myth of revenge on a murdering parent. Electra's brother Orestes returns to avenge the murder of his father, Agamemnon, by his mother Clytemnestra.
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male, doubling, flexible casting, extras)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Sophocles, translated by Marianne McDonald and J Michael WaltonDescription
A tragic tale of duty, retribution and fate. King Agamemnon, on returning from the Trojan Wars, is murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, doubling, flexible casting, extras)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
Following his triumphs during the Trojan War, the great Greek warrior Agamemnon is slaughtered by his crafty wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male, flexible casting, bit parts, a chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Henrik Ibsen, translated and adapted by Richard NelsonCollection Description
This collection includes two versions of Henrik Ibsen's AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, a translation and an adaptation... [read more]
Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
Ibsen's classic of social realism concerns a village doctor, Dr. Stockmann, who discovers that the town's spa is polluted... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (2 female, 9 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesHenrik Ibsen, translated by Richard NelsonDescription
Ibsen's classic of social realism concerns a village doctor, Dr. Stockmann, who discovers that the town's spa is polluted... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 15 total (4 female, 11 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Luigi Pirandello, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
Nobel Prize–winner Luigi Pirandello's ENRICO IV concerns a passionate and despairing 20th-century man who imagines himself to be an 11th-century king.
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (2 female, 11 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Aeschylus, adapted by Robert AulettaDescription
In THE EUMENIDIES Orestes, trying to escape the vengeance of the Furies, is rescued by the gods and ordered to stand trial in a democratic court in Athens... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (6 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesSamm-Art Williams, based on a short story by Anton ChekhovDescription
Set in Baton Rouge in 1919, the defendant of a criminal trial meets the judge who, unbeknownst to him, is to try him the following day... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
August Strindberg, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
Richard Nelson's critically lauded adaptation of Strindberg's classic, in which a power struggle between husband and wife leads to devastating consequences.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 95 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Jo CliffordDescription
A fresh, performable version of Goethe's "unstageable" masterpiece. God and Mephistopheles vie for the mortal soul of Dr Faust... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (5 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 240 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Ruth WolffDescription
To expiate his guilt over the misdeeds of his past, Faust decides, with the aid of Sly (alias Mephistopheles), to build the Ideal City... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (1 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes