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  • Michael Bradford

    Description

    Marcus, his father Leon, and grandfather Bernard confront a history of absence, mistakes, mistrust, and broken promises as they strive to redefine themselves as fathers and sons.


    Production Info

    Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Jo Clifford

    Description

    A fresh, performable version of Goethe's "unstageable" masterpiece. God and Mephistopheles vie for the mortal soul of Dr Faust... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 12 total (5 female, 7 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 240 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Period Costumes
  • Ruth Wolff

    Description

    To expiate his guilt over the misdeeds of his past, Faust decides, with the aid of Sly (alias Mephistopheles), to build the Ideal City... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 5 total (1 female, 4 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Contemporary Costumes
  • María Irene Fornés

    Description

    One of Off-Broadway’s best-loved plays, originally directed by the author. The audience follows the lives of eight women... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 8 total (8 female)
    Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Contemporary Costumes
  • María Irene Fornés

    Description

    One of Off-Broadway’s best-loved plays, originally directed by the author. The audience follows the lives of eight women... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 8 total (8 female)
    Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Naomi Wallace

    Collection Description

    Subtitled "Three Short Visions of the Middle East," this collection includes three thematically related short plays, A STATE OF INNOCENCE, THE RETREATING WORLD, and BETWEEN THIS BREATH AND YOU, collectively entitled THE FEVER CHART... [read more]

  • Eric Overmyer, an adaptation of Pierre Beaumarchais and Ödön von Horváth

    Description

    Eric Overmyer's sparkling adaptation and synthesis of Beaumarchais's THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO and Ödön von Horváth's FIGARO GETS A DIVORCE... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 17 total (6 female, 11 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Period Costumes
  • Qui Nguyen

    Description

    The sci-fi spectacular FIGHT GIRL BATTLE WORLD blends stage combat, puppetry, and multi-media to create a uniquely cinematic experience for the live stage.


    Production Info

    Cast: 9 total (5 female, 4 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Jonathan Reynolds

    Description

    The war against weight is the subject of Jonathan Reynolds's comedic take on consuming passions and our insatiable appetite for television talk shows... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 7 total (5 female, 2 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Eduardo De Filippo, English version by Eric Bentley

    Description

    In Eduardo De Filippo's classic Neapolitan tale, Filumena, a former prostitute, has been living with with shopkeeper Domenico for 25 years... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 13 total (5 female, 8 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Adam Rapp

    Description

    In this freakishly funny and vividly imagined absurdist nightmare for our time, the inert occupants of an East Village apartment — members of a band once called "Lester's Surprise," now remembered simply as "Less" — are going numb... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 5 total (5 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Kermit Frazier

    Description

    With an important piece of legislation pending, treatment for a serious illness about to begin, and engagement to a woman half his age in the balance, a first-term City Councilman in Washington, D... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Billy Aronson

    Description

    A sly, funny, twisted, and surreal sex farce in which the parents of schoolchildren ponder how to spend a day free from work and the duties of parenthood.


    Production Info

    Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Greg Owens

    Description

    A woman dreams of catching swimming babies from a tank with a plunger.


    Production Info

    Cast: 1 total (1 female)
    Short Comedy (about 10 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Betty Shamieh

    Description

    Inspired by the life of Hatshepsut, a woman who ruled as a pharaoh in ancient Egypt. Under the guidance of Senenmut, her female lover, Hatshepsut usurps the throne from her son-in-law, Thutmose III... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Period Costumes