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  • 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
  • Len Jenkin

    Description

    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 McLeish

    Description

    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