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Alan BowneDescription
COCAINE & UNDERPANTS tells the story of a small-time drug dealer and his girlfriend, who turns tricks to get by... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 70 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Ian TaylorDescription
COCKS AND HENS examines the myths and nonsense surrounding sex.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Virgilio Piñera, adapted by María Irene FornésDescription
María Irene Fornés' award-winning adaptation of Aire Frío, the masterpiece of Virgilio Piñera, perhaps Cuba's greatest modernist writer... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Yussef El GuindiDescription
A one-woman show about the loneliness in intimacy and consent. Cass, a perturbed actor in a search for truth, welcomes the audience into her bed and her psyche as she rationalizes her thirst for attention with her personal boundaries... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Full Length Drama (about 80 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Pierre Carlet de Marivaux, translated from French by Laurence SenelickDescription
SLAVE ISLAND was first produced on Monday, 5 March 1725 by Lelio Riccoboni's troupe and the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, Paris... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male, nonspeaking roles)
Full Length Comedy (about 50 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
On the deck of his flagship, the expedition commander addresses his men, his voice rising in stirring peroration: "Let us all be new men! Born today! This minute! And with only one purpose in mind! To push forward to triumph! To push forward — to Japan!" That Columbus had a clearer sense of destiny than destination is, even without the facile irony of hindsight, emblematic of the confusion of motives and expectations that inspired him and his companions to undertake their epoch-making voyage... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 18 total (2 female, 16 male)
Full Length Drama (about 210 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Reed Martin and Austin TichenorDescription
Nothing is rotten in the state of Denmark as young Hamlet leaps into action to save the nunnery with Ophelia and Yorick the jester! What could possibly go wrong? This hysterical prequel answers all the important questions, like: Why can't Ophelia take swim lessons? Where the hell is Mrs Polonius? And why does Hamlet's mother spend so much time at his uncle's house? What will young Hamlet grow up To Be? That is the question! A fast, funny, and physical extravaganza filled with scary ghosts, wee Scots, singing nuns, and a mysterious vassal in the castle!
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male, as written; gender-diverse and/or expanded casts)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Adam Long, Reed Martin, Austin TichenorDescription
600 years of history in 6000 seconds … history will never be the same! From Washington to Watergate, yea verily from the Bering Straits to Baghdad, from New World to New World Order – THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF AMERICA (ABRIDGED) is a ninety-minute rollercoaster ride through the glorious quagmire that is American History, reminding us that it's not the length of your history that matters — it's what you've done with it!
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male, as written; gender-diverse and/or expanded casts welcome)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Reed Martin and Austin TichenorDescription
From the high-brow to the low, THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF COMEDY (abridged) covers comedy through the ages, from Aristophanes and Shakespeare and Molière to Vaudeville and Charlie Chaplin to The Daily Show and Anthony Weiner.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male, as written; gender-diverse and/or expanded casts welcome)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Billy AronsonDescription
Ellen has written a play. Molly intends to produce it.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Comedy (about 20 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Adam Long, Daniel Singer, Jess WinfieldDescription
All 37 plays in 97 minutes! Three madcap men in tights weave their wicked way through all of Shakespeare's comedies, histories, and tragedies in one wild ride that will leave you breathless and helpless with laughter... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male, as written; gender-diverse and/or expanded casts welcome)
Full Length Comedy (about 97 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes![The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised]](https://www.broadwayplaypublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/Complete-Works-of-William-Shakespeare-Abridged-Revised-3D-150ppi-500x756.png)
Adam Long, Daniel Singer, Jess WinfieldDescription
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Reduced Shakespeare Company's classic farce, two of its original writer/performers (Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield) thoroughly revised the show to bring it up to date for 21st-century audiences, incorporating some of the funniest material from the numerous amateur and professional productions that have been performed throughout the world... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male, as written; gender-diverse and/or expanded casts welcome)
Full Length Comedy (about 97 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes![The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again]](https://www.broadwayplaypublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/Complete-Works-of-William-Shakespeare-Abridged-Revised-Again-3D-300ppi-500x756.png)
Adam Long, Daniel Singer, Jess Winfield, new revisions by Daniel Singer and Jess WinfieldDescription
The cultural touchstone that is THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) was born when three inspired, charismatic comics, having honed their pass-the-hat act at Renaissance fairs, premiered their preposterous masterwork at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1987... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male, as originally performed; gender-diverse and/or expanded casts welcome)
Full Length Comedy (about 97 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Reed Martin and Austin TichenorDescription
In this merciless but affectionate satire, The Reduced Shakespeare company sets its comic sights on the lunacy of sports... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male, as written; gender-diverse and/or expanded casts welcome)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor, additional material by Dominic ContiDescription
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the theater … the Reduced Shakespeare Company boldly goes where few would dare — Tinseltown! America's "bad boys of abridgement" take on America's largest cultural and economic export (well, except for weapons) in this seriously silly show biz satire... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male, as written; gender-diverse and/or expanded casts welcome)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes