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Mary Shelley, adapted by Austin TichenorDescription
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1816, and it caught the public imagination almost immediately... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (6 female, 10 male, gender-diverse casting welcome)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
Summer, 1957. The streets of Greenwich Village sizzle with the insistent rhythm of jazz. Accompanied by their grandmother, two teenage sisters from the country visit their married cousin in the city... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (4 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Honoré de Balzac, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
THE FRAUDSTER follows Auguste Mercadet, a man fighting against his creditors and the ruses he uses to escape them.
Production Info
Cast: 15 total (4 female, 11 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Matt PelfreyDescription
On a rainy night in Los Angeles, a young couple get an abrupt visit from two old friends. But they're not stopping by for pleasure but to warn them that someone, or something, from their past is coming for them all …
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 95 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Billy AronsonDescription
Eight iconic characters from different Shakespeare plays wind up on an island. Comedy/tragedy/romance ensues.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Short Comedy (about 45 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Tom JacobsonDescription
Based on the actual minutes of a women's club formed in rural South Dakota in 1934, this poignant comedy charts 70 years of personal and national history, from skinning skunks and julebukking in the '30s to restoring native prairie in the new millennium.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (5 female)
Full Length Comedy (about 140 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Stephane Alison WalkerDescription
You think you know your friends, your neighbors, your spouse, but what happens when you suddenly find out they have a garage full of guns? This new dark comedy explores the complicated issue of gun proliferation when two young liberal couples are forced to confront their assumptions about who should own a gun and why... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Ruth WolffCollection Description
The collection includes nine full-length plays, FAUSTIANA, ARABIC TWO, AVIATORS, THE SHAKESPEARE ROAD, HOTEL VICTORY, BUFFALOES, THE SKY POOL, THE ARDENT PHILANTHROPIST, and THE FALL OF ATHENS, and one long one-act, STILL LIFE WITH APPLES... [read more]
Georges Feydeau, translated from the French by Laurence SenelickCollection Description
This collection includes five long one-act plays: THE AWFUL TOOTH, BLASTED EVENT, DEAD WRONG, POTTY FAVORS, and SHE CAN'T BARE IT! Master Belle Époque farceur Georges Feydeau loosely based these brilliantly funny long one-acts on the failure of his own marriage... [read more]
Phil ReevesDescription
Two men are bivouacked on a snowy peak ready to begin their final ascent of Everest.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male, multiethnic cast)
Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Lope de Vega, translated by Laurence BoswellDescription
A masterpiece by one of the greatest writers of the Spanish Golden Age. When the people of the town of Fuente Ovejuna revolt against their tyrannical overlord and murder him, the authorities attempt to find out who is responsible, leading to one of the most memorable acts of resistance in world drama.
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (4 female, 12 male, flexible casting up to 8 women and 20 men)
Full Length Drama (about 180 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Neil LaButeDescription
A mother picks up her young daughter from rehab. Will it stick? With this girl, well, not a chance.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesBilly AronsonCollection Description
This collection includes 15 comic one-acts: REUNIONS, THE NEWS, LITTLE DUCK, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, NIGHT RULES, LIGHT YEARS, LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD, NEGOTIATION, GUILT, BLEEP THIS BLEEP, OF TWO MINDS, BEATLES FOREVER, AT THE BEACH, FREE WILL, and COMPLETE UNKNOWNS... [read more]
Firesign TheatreDescription
Danger is Firesign's take on the hard-boiled detective character, with first-person narration and crazy adventures that often involve mistaken identity, and of course there's always a dangerous dame... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (4 male)
Short Comedy (about 40 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Rochelle OwensDescription
Farm boy Cyrus is in love with Amanda, a pig, in this parable of nonconformism.
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesNeed help?