Classics

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  • Neil LaBute, based on the novel by Bram Stoker

    Description

    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 Chekhov

    Description

    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 Neugroschel

    Description

    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 Walton

    Description

    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 Walton

    Description

    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
  • Henrik Ibsen, translated and adapted by Richard Nelson

    Collection 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 Nelson

    Description

    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 Costumes
  • Henrik Ibsen, translated by Richard Nelson

    Description

    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 Nelson

    Description

    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 Auletta

    Description

    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 Costumes
  • Samm-Art Williams, based on a short story by Anton Chekhov

    Description

    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 Nelson

    Description

    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 Clifford

    Description

    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 Wolff

    Description

    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
  • Eric Overmyer, an adaptation of Pierre Beaumarchais and Ödön von Horváth

    Description

    Eric Overmyer's sparkling adaptation and synthesis of Beaumarchais's THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO and Ödön von Horváth's FIGARO GETS A DIVORCE... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 17 total (6 female, 11 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Period Costumes