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Len JenkinDescription
FIVE OF US deals with the parallel lives of New York tenement dwellers, who live next door to each other but whose paths do not cross until one fateful moment, which spells disaster for them all... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Georges Feydeau, translated by Kenneth McLeishDescription
This classic French farce was written in 1907. It is, perhaps, Feydeau's best known play, and its intricate choreography draws together two classic farce plots — that of the suspicious wife who sets a trap to expose her faithless partner, and the venerable comic device of mistaken identity.
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (5 female, 9 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 200 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Tony KushnerDescription
Lucia Pamela, Miss St. Louis 1926, and the Queen of Albania, convene on the moon. As the evening progresses, naturally a musical comedy play is born.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Daniel TherriaultDescription
Set in the elevator lobby of a wholesale warehouse in Manhattan, four workers struggle to understand themselves and their world.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (4 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Edwin SánchezDescription
Reality and fantasy collide as a son, just out of a mental institution, and his mother, a former hooker, now a fortune teller, battle for the truth regarding the death of a daughter who may never have existed... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Nancy HastyDescription
FLORIDA GIRLS, takes place in Crestview, Florida circa 1965 and focuses on the upheaval in a middle-class family when two daughters compete in a high-school beauty pageant.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
José RiveraDescription
Lulu's acne must have some cosmic meaning, perhaps punishment for her vanity, but when the acne morphs into hibiscus flowers, she believes she is cursed... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Neena BeberDescription
Two women are starving for something, anything, that might provide fulfillment.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Comedy (about 5 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Alan BowneDescription
FORTY-DEUCE explores the homosexual prostitution scene around 42nd Street in the 1980s, where a toxic mix of drugs, sex, and money make survival a brutal struggle.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Dominic FinocchiaroDescription
In the Pacific Northwest live Norma, a professional cuddler and reluctant dog-rescuer, and Norm, an amateur ribbon-dancer and attentive barista... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Laura ShamasDescription
Four Native American women are desperate to find missing friends and relatives in the face of apathetic sheriffs and dwindling clues... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (4 female)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Y YorkDescription
Joanie wants recognition for her paintings; her crime-boss husband, Nick, can ensure that she gets it... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Julie Marie MyattDescription
For many urban dwellers, daily life includes walking the dog surrounded by strangers and neighbors with whom you have only a passing acquaintance, whose personal stories you can only guess, imagine, or project upon them through the various waves hello, small talk about the weather, or random gestures of kindness... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male, one dog)
Full Length (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Frank Langella, an adaptation of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de BergeracDescription
Frank Langella's gritty, minimalist adaptation of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, based on Brian Hooker's translation.
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (3 female, 9 male)
Full Length Drama (about 115 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Richard Nelson, with a special introduction by Tom CreamerDescription
A stunning play from one of America's best contemporary playwrights, FRANK'S HOME is a lyrical, heartbreaking story about Frank Lloyd Wright, one of our greatest — if less than perfect — visionaries, a man who created a new architectural vocabulary but couldn't create a home for himself and his family.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesNeed help?