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Edwin SánchezDescription
Lou's ex, Celeste, shows up at his wedding.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Comedy (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Fernando de Rojas, translated by Jo CliffordDescription
Celestina, madam of the local brothel, is commissioned by a nobleman to help him seduce a beautiful young woman... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (5 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 150 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Mia McCulloughDescription
To live in Chagrin Falls, Oklahoma is to be in the killing business. The town's major employers are a cattle slaughterhouse and a penitentiary where lethal injection is administered... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Solange CastroDescription
A man and a woman meet for the first time on an Internet date. Nearby another man and woman meet to end their marriage... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 70 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
José RiveraDescription
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesJosé RiveraCollection Description
This collection includes twelve short and very short plays: CHARLOTTE, LIZZY, PAOLA AND ANDREA AT THE ALTAR OF WORDS, PHONE CALL IN THE RAIN, THE SHOWER, YELLOW, LESSONS FOR AN UNACCUSTOMED BRIDE, LOUISA, IMPACT, THE BOOK OF FISHES, SERMON FOR SENSES, and THE FALL OF A SPARROW.
Oren SafdieDescription
CHECKS & BALANCES tells the story of a young music student who comes to New York to attend a prestigious music conservatory and gets a part-time bookkeeping job with the founder, a woman well into her 80s who appears to be losing her memory... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Anton Chekhov, adapted by Tom DonaghyDescription
Tom Donaghy's adaptation of Chekhov's beloved and richly bittersweet comedy about a world in transition preserves the economy and humor of the original while highlighting the lyricism and stylistic ambition of the master playwright's final work... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (6 female, 8 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Aishah RahmanDescription
Subtitled "a light and dark skin comedy," CHIAROSCURO is set on a cruise ship peopled by black singles where "pretty" means light-skinned, and all the men are dark, and Papa Legba, the African trickster spirit, is disguised as a ship steward.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Maxim Gorky, translated by Stephen MulrineDescription
A Chekhovian family drama, first staged in Russia in 1905. In a prophetic echo of the coming revolution, the play looks at the lives of the privileged intelligentsia and of the workers, advocating an alliance between the two.
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (7 female, 9 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Stanley RutherfordDescription
A play with an absurdist edge, this 80-minute monologue explores the depths of human isolation with humor and poignancy... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 80 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Tom JacobsonDescription
Based on historical incident, the play chronicles the first race riot in Los Angeles history: the 1871 lynching of 18 Chinese men by a mob of 500 "people from all nations... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (4 female, 10 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Phil BosakowskiDescription
CHOPIN IN SPACE begins during Chopin's own lifetime, exploring his friendship and rivalry with the painter Eugene Delacroix, before launching into 20th-century confrontations with Hitler, the Roosevelts, and Lech Walesa... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (2 female, 8 male)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Charles Dickens, adapted by Jerry PatchDescription
Nineteenth-century London comes to life in Jerry Patch's delightful adaptation of Dickens' timeless classic along with Tiny Tim and the Cratchit family, the Fezziwigs, the Ghosts of Christmas past, present, and yet-to-come, and of course Ebenezer Scrooge.
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (5 female, 11 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Various AuthorsDescription
Deck the halls with jingle bells and sugar plums as you take a wild sleigh ride through our Christmas Collection... [read more]