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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 CostumesQui NguyenDescription
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 CostumesJonathan ReynoldsDescription
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 CostumesEduardo De Filippo, English version by Eric BentleyDescription
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 CostumesAdam RappDescription
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 CostumesKermit FrazierDescription
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 CostumesBilly AronsonDescription
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 CostumesGreg OwensDescription
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 CostumesBetty ShamiehDescription
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 CostumesLen 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 CostumesGeorges 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 CostumesTony 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 CostumesDaniel 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 CostumesEdwin 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 CostumesNancy 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














