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Richard NelsonDescription
Summer, 1957. The streets of Greenwich Village sizzle with the insistent rhythm of jazz. Accompanied by their grandmother, two teenage sisters from the country visit their married cousin in the city... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (4 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Y YorkDescription
Trapped by a storm in the office of the environmental organization for which they work, Antony and Janna find that their views on race and the environment have the power to send them back in time to discover how closely related they really are.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Ruth WolffDescription
A Play with Music — the music of Frederic Chopin. George Sand had many lovers — but the one to whom she was most attached, and who almost ruined her life, was Frederic Chopin... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 125 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Y YorkDescription
Gladys gets the chance to return to Earth and make something of her life. Sylvia comes along for the food... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Lynne AlvarezDescription
Bathed in music, moonlight, and surf, THE GUITARRÓN is the story of Guicho, a young fisherman, who is transformed by love and music... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Lonnie CarterDescription
THE GULLIVER TRILOGY presents the adventures of its hero, Lemuel Louis Gulliver, Citizen Candidate of the World, an extraordinary everyman, whose picaresque life begins in 1942 on Chicago's great South Side... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesLonnie CarterDescription
THE GULLIVER TRILOGY presents the adventures of its hero, Lemuel Louis Gulliver, Citizen Candidate of the World, an extraordinary everyman, whose picaresque life begins in 1942 on Chicago's great South Side... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesRuth WolffDescription
Hallie Flanagan Davis headed the Federal Theater in the 1930s and 40s — until the anti-art element in Congress decided that federal support of what they saw as lazy left-wing artists must end... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Jeremy DobrishDescription
Loosely based on a Grimm fairy tale, THE HANDLESS MAIDEN weaves together three stories, that of a miller and his wife who have fallen on hard times and whose story includes devils, wizards, and cross-country treks; that of an ambitious New York lawyer who decides to give it all up and travel to Seattle to see Bill Gates' mansion, her magic castle; and that of a man who is about to be married in Seattle but decides he must first see an old lover... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Marie Thomas, music and lyrics by Micki GrantDescription
This play updates the familiar fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm from the 1800s to the 1980s. Hansel and Gretel's stepmother, Irma, has a plan to get rid of them... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (9 female, 5 male, flexible casting)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Michael McGuireDescription
Chicago, 1940. In the first act, Thomas, a successful playwright, his brother, Hal, with his wife, Helen, and son, Tom, wait out a storm in the playwright's luxurious apartment... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesLynne AlvarezDescription
Set in a cornfield in the Midwest, HIDDEN PARTS depicts the troubled reunion of a young concert pianist, his estranged farmer parents, and their teenage gypsy niece.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesMichael McGuireDescription
A young woman, an art teacher, shoots the man who has been stalking and threatening her. The man turns out to be a sculptor and the son of a good friend and colleague... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (1 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Ruth WolffDescription
It is a few years after the end of World War II. Billy Maitland, a young wheelchair-bound ex-Army Corporal is the sole remaining patient in a VA hospital when a new patient, Flight Commander Simon Trevelyan, arrives — accompanied by his American ex-WAAF wife... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Steve CarterDescription
Two baby-faced would-be criminals decide to rob the home of two women of advanced age who live in contention with their past, their present, their future, and each other... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male, 2 Children)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes