Classics
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Jean Giraudoux, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
Originally written to protest thoughtless urban renewal, THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT has remained remarkably up-to-date... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (6 female, 6 male, Flexible Casting)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Wendy Wasserstein, based on the short story by Anton ChekhovDescription
Varinka is a free spirit in love with the older Byelinkov, the most proper man in town. But his inhibitions and worries about how he and Varinka are perceived when she boldly rides a bicycle about town threatens to unravel their impending marriage... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Comedy (about 15 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Niccolò Machiavelli, adapted by Peter MaloneyDescription
Machiavelli's 16th-century comedic classic. Callimaco wishes to bed Lucrezia, though she is the wife of the aging Nicia... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 130 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Pierre Beaumarchais, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
A Count's valet prepares to marry the Countess' chambermaid — until it becomes clear the Count wishes to revive an old law that will allow him to take advantage of the bride before the wedding... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (4 female, 7 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 110 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Yussef El GuindiDescription
An adaptation of Chekhov's classic short comedy with a delightfully distinct Egyptian twist.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Short Comedy (about 40 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov, translated from the Russian by Laurence SenelickDescription
In St. Petersburg during the 1830s, aristocrat Arbenin and his wife, Nina, attend a masked ball. In a twist of mistaken identity, Arbenin becomes convinced that his wife is involved romantically with Prince Zvezdich... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male, extras)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Kenneth McLeishDescription
Originally published in 1892 and first performed in 1893, THE MASTER BUILDER explores the needs of the artist in relation to those of society and the limits of artistic creativity... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Neal Bell, adapted from the novel by Frank NorrisDescription
Neal Bell's adaptation of Frank Norris's novel tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty, violence, and finally murder as the result of jealousy and greed.
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 150 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Eugène Labiche and Èdouard Martin, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
A sardonic comedy about Dutrecy, a man of the most unbridled selfishness, who arranges his life to provide himself maximum comfort... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (2 female, 9 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
Medea has abandoned her family and homeland of Colchis for the love of the great hero Jason, and her loyalty, cunning and talents in witchcraft have repeatedly rescued him... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (2 female, 7 male, flexible casting, chorus, bit parts)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Molière, adapted by Constance CongdonDescription
In this delightful comedy about the French aristocracy, told with Molière's signature wit, the atmosphere is frivolous, the morals are loose, the egos are larger than life and everyone is looking for love... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Molière, adapted by Virginia ScottDescription
Harpagon thinks that his children are costing him too much money and must be married off. He has found an old man who won't demand a dowry for his daughter, Elise, and a rich widow for his son, Cleante... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (4 female, 9 male)
Full Length Drama (about 105 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
August Strindberg, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
In Strindberg's classic, Miss Julie, the daughter of a powerful count, enters into a dangerously flirtatious relationship with a footman on her father's estate... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
One of the world's great plays about censorship and the oppression of artists is now newly translated 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: 12 total (6 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Neal Bell, from the novel by Mary ShelleyDescription
Adapted from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, MONSTER takes a disturbing yet poignant look at one man's obsession with creating life and the destructive after effects of abandoning his creation.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesNeed help?