Classics
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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 Costumes
Ivan Turgenev, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
Ivan Turgenev's beautiful and subtle comedy of love in a new translation 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: 10 total (4 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 170 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Constance Congdon, adapted from VASSA ZHELEZNOVA by Maxim Gorky, translated by Tanya ChebotarevDescription
An adaptation of Gorky's classic black comedy, VASSA ZHELEZNOVA, A MOTHER concerns a family's stern, penny-pinching matriarch who will do anything for her family.
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (5 female, 4 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, adapted by Michael BloomDescription
Banned by the Nazis and then produced by dozens of German theatres following the end of World War II, NATHAN THE WISE is a timely and exuberant rebuke of prejudice and intolerance... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Jeremy DobrishDescription
Inspired by Luigi Pirandello's EACH IN HIS OWN WAY, Jeremey Dobrish's NOTIONS IN MOTION sets the action in Manhattan and sparkles with witty and engaging philosophical repartee on the nature of identity and reality... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Sophocles, translated from the Greek by Laurence SenelickDescription
First performed around 430 BCE, Sophocles' OEDIPUS THE KING remains as shocking a tragedy as it must have been to the ancient Greeks... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (1 female, 7 male, doubling, nonspeaking parts)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Aeschylus, adapted by Robert AulettaCollection Description
This collection includes three full-length plays: AGAMEMNON, THE LIBATION BEARERS, and THE EUMENIDIES, collectively known as THE ORESTEIA... [read more]
Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
After avenging his father Agamemnon's death by slaughtering his mother Clytemnestra, Orestes finds himself tormented by The Furies and pursued by the Argive people who seek to put him to death along with his sister Electra... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male, flexible casting, bit parts, a chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Steve CarterDescription
Set "well in the past" on a fictional Caribbean island, the play tells the story of a sorceress who falls madly in love with a shallow womanizer.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (5 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 140 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Kenneth McLeishDescription
The title character, based on a legendary Norwegian folk hero, is a rogue who is saved by the love of a woman... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 28 total (10 female, 18 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes