Classics
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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 130 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
Kenny FinkleDescription
Combining the Greek myth of Penelope awaiting the return of her husband, Odysseus, with modern tales of life in Ithaca, New York, Kenny Finkle uses his renowned sense of whimsy and humanity to explore our need to be loved.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Aeschylus, adapted by Robert AulettaDescription
The first surviving play in the history of Western drama, THE PERSIANS represents a courageous act on the part of its author... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 125 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Molière, translated and slightly abridged and adapted by Felicia LondréDescription
Molière's deliciously trifling comedy in a garden setting won the favor of the Sun King in 1661 and set his course to become the most-produced comic writer in the history of theatre... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 15 total (4 female, 11 male, 2 nonspeaking parts)
Full Length Comedy (about 85 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Jean Racine, translated by Julie RoseDescription
Racine's 1677 reworking of Euripides's HIPPOLYTUS, celebrated for its tragic construction and the richness of its language... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (5 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Georges Feydeau, translated from the French by Laurence SenelickDescription
Inspired by Feydeau's wife's obsession with giving the children laxatives, especially his eldest son, Jacques, every character is despicable for their moral cowardice and egoism, providing a hopeless (but hilarious) environment for child-rearing.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male, 1 child)
Short Comedy (about 50 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Jane Austen, adapted by Christopher BakerDescription
Jane Austen's mastery of manners and morals is on full display in Christopher Baker's acclaimed stage adaptation of her beloved masterpiece, Pride and Prejudice... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 18 total (10 female, 8 male, 18 speaking roles or with doubling 14 actors)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesNeed help?