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Robert ChesleyDescription
A trilogy of interconnected one-act plays, whose subject matter is the AIDS epidemic. In (WILD) PERSON, TENSE (DOG) Dog and Buck, former lovers, run into each other at a bar... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Kenneth McLeishDescription
Ibsen's groundbreaking tale of a woman awakening to a need for a life of her own. It is a story of domestic revolution, female empowerment, and the journey towards self-liberation and personal fulfillment... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (5 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Molière, translated and adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
With a calloused and lustful heart, Don Juan indulges his sexual appetites with boundless enthusiasm... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (3 female, 8 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Tirso de Molina, translated and adapted by Lynne AlvarezDescription
When the 17th-century Spanish dramatist and monk Tirso de Molina penned EL BURLADOR DE SEVILLA, it was the first time the legendary libertine Don Juan had appeared on stage... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 15 total (5 female, 10 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Mikhail Bulgakov after Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
Mikhail Bulgakov's brilliantly theatrical and highly personal adaptation of Cervantes' classic novel is here translated for the first time into English 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: 13 total (7 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Eric OvermyerDescription
Eric Overmyer's marvelous tongue-in-cheek salute to Miguel de Cervantes' comedic classic Don Quixote.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Firesign TheatreDescription
DWARF is the story of the five ages of Man and in particular, the five ages of one George Leroy Tirebiter, a man named after a dog.
Production Info
Cast: 15 total (6 female, 9 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 75 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Michael Weller, based on a short story by Anton ChekhovDescription
A spoof fairy tale about a boy and his talking dog, Chatter, who go on a magical journey to recover his lost talent... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (3 female, 8 male)
Short Comedy (about 25 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
David MametDescription
A sketch included in David Mamet's VERMONT SKETCHES.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 male)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Tony KushnerDescription
Dr Arnold Hutschnecker, psychotherapist of record to one Mr Richard Milhous Nixon, undergoes his own psychotherapy session … a year after his death in Paradise.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Clare CossDescription
W. E. B. Du Bois and Mary White Ovington, two courageous leaders across the color line, co-founders of the NAACP, find themselves unexpectedly alone in their New York City office on a Sunday morning, June 1915... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Burt Grinstead and Anna StrombergDescription
Based on the classic novella, this darkly comic adaptation takes you to the dismal streets of London in the 1860s, where societal pressures silence a gentle doctor's questions about the nature of morality... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (7 female, 9 male, flexible casting, bit parts)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 80 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Burt Grinstead and Anna StrombergDescription
Based on the classic novella, this darkly comic adaptation takes you to the dismal streets of London in the 1860s, where societal pressures silence a gentle doctor's questions about the nature of morality... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 80 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Neil LaBute, based on the novel by Bram StokerDescription
Neil LaBute brings a rich theatricality and his provocative way with language and story to the world of Count Dracula, Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker, and his beloved Mina — this time, with very much a mind of her own — infusing the classic gothic tale of terror, obsession, and pathos with a modern edge... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (5 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Jeff GoodeDescription
When Doc Frankenstein and the Count fall for the same showgirl, you're in for an evening of showdowns and hoedowns that could turn Tombstone into a ghost town... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (6 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes