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  • Adam Rapp

    Description

    On the night of a terrible storm, a single mother and her younger son await the arrival of the older son, who has broken out of prison... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
  • José Rivera

    Collection Description

    This collection includes six short plays: FLOWERS, TAPE, A TIGER IN CENTRAL PARK, GAS, THE CROOKED CROSS, and THE WINGED MAN... [read more]

  • Mildred Inez Lewis

    Description

    Set in the 1850s, New Jersey transplant Bobby Hawkins marries Susannah, the daughter of a leading South Carolina family... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
    Single Set
    Period Costumes
  • Naomi Wallace, Bruce McLeod

    Description

    In this witty adventure for young audiences by MacArthur "genius" award winner Naomi Wallace, a young girl called Noil finds herself in a strange new place, and must accomplish three and a half magical tasks before she can return home... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male, Flexible Casting)
    Full Length Comedy (about 85 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Jonathan Reynolds

    Description

    GIRLS IN TROUBLE is a striking and ferocious play which dares to explore the controversial history of abortion, through its life-changing affect on women across several generations... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male, Multiethnic Cast)
    Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Contemporary Costumes
  • The Illegitimate Players, Doug Armstrong , Keith Cooper, Maureen Morley

    Description

    Tennessee Williams gets the illegitimate treatment as THE GLASS MENDACITY hilariously parodies his work in this "magnolia operetta... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 85 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Sholem Asch, translated by Richard Nelson with Robert Marx

    Description

    BBC correspondent David Mazower (Sholem Asch's great-grandson) described THE GOD OF VENGEANCE as "admired, translated, parodied, panned, banned, prosecuted, withdrawn, forgotten, revived, celebrated... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 12 total (7 female, 5 male, bit parts)
    Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
    Single Set
    Period Costumes
  • Adam Rapp

    Description

    The steel mill has closed in the town of Gompers. While prejudice, poverty, and crime are rampant, there are signs of hope when a Blue Jesus is seen walking on water, a golden greyhound is found under a tree, and riverboat gambling is promised... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 10 total (2 female, 8 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Dorothy Fortenberry

    Description

    Responsible Meg has always taken care of her bipolar younger brother Matt. But when she decides to get pregnant — and have her embryos screened for bipolar disorder — is she taking the idea of "being responsible" too far? A funny and surprising play about bioethics, siblings, and the limits of unconditional love.


    Production Info

    Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Edwin Sánchez

    Description

    Hijo is leaving his family to pursue being an actor in New York.


    Production Info

    Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
    Short Comedy (about 10 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Richard Nelson

    Description

    Set against the chaotic aftermath of World War II, this play intimately explores the fragility of family relationships... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Megan Terry, music Lynn Herrick, structured Jo Ann Schmidman

    Description

    A comic, gymnastic extravaganza about family.


    Production Info

    Cast: 10 total (6 female, 4 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Jonathan J Samarro

    Description

    When Thomas D'Angelo pays a long overdue visit to his Italian grandparents, he soon finds himself caught in the middle of the ongoing, if farcical, war between the two... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 50 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Oren Safdie

    Description

    Capturing teenage angst in all its passions, insecurities and foibles, GRATITUDE starts out as an innocent love story and snowballs into a life changing moment for three coming of age boys and one girl... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male, all characters high-school age, female character Middle Eastern or Indian)
    Full Length Drama (about 80 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Thomas Babe

    Description

    Thomas Babe's study of the Gilded Age is, in the author's words, "a little of this, a little of that, part musical, part tragedy, part melodrama... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Period Costumes