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Frank WintersDescription
An existential thriller in one act, THE GREAT FILTER is an exploration of everything that could possibly go wrong on the way to a bright new something — and why it's probably a good idea to try getting there anyway.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 male, or 2 female, flexible casting)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Anthony Clarvoe, from the novel by F Scott FitzgeraldDescription
F Scott Fitzgerald's great American novel is here realized for the stage by Anthony Clarvoe in a new adaptation suffused with critical insights into the role ethnicity played in Gatsby's struggle... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, doubling, flexible casting, extras possible)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Glen BergerDescription
Battling obstacles both grand and trivial in eighteenth-century France, two little-known scientists strive mightily to advance humanity's understanding of life and the universe at the heady height of the Age of Enlightenment.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Various AuthorsDescription
Mimesis, catharsis, peripeteia. Oedipus, Ajax, Antigone. The Greeks gave us both the building blocks of Western drama and some of its most epic heroes.
Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
Of the approximately 46 plays that have survived from ancient Greece, Euripides' works account for 19 of them... [read more]
JoAnne AkalaitisDescription
JoAnne Akalaitis' exploration of America as an immigrant and refugee society is complex, timely, and highly theatrical: a collage of images and events, documentary and testimony, that asks us to look again at the pressures and liberties of life in a foreign culture... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (5 female, 6 male, Multiethnic, Flexible Casting)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Lia RomeoDescription
Karen is a 38-year-old philosophy professor who suffers from a rare chromosomal disease that makes her look like a 13-year-old girl... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Robert AulettaDescription
A man in the wilderness comes upon an audience that forces him to confront the terror and the pain of the past that haunts him... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
A R GurneyDescription
Mona runs a financially strapped regional theatre and takes "diabolical steps" to keep the venue going.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male, Piano Player)
Short Drama (about 60 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Billy AronsonDescription
Someone is guilty of something.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Short Comedy (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Brett C LeonardDescription
A visceral, violent, and stunning riff on Büchner's classic WOYZECK. Jose Solo is an Iraq War veteran trapped in post 9/11 New York in this modern American tragedy.
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Lynne AlvarezDescription
Bathed in music, moonlight, and surf, THE GUITARRÓN is the story of Guicho, a young fisherman, who is transformed by love and music... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Lonnie CarterDescription
THE GULLIVER TRILOGY presents the adventures of its hero, Lemuel Louis Gulliver, Citizen Candidate of the World, an extraordinary everyman, whose picaresque life begins in 1942 on Chicago's great South Side... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesLonnie CarterDescription
THE GULLIVER TRILOGY presents the adventures of its hero, Lemuel Louis Gulliver, Citizen Candidate of the World, an extraordinary everyman, whose picaresque life begins in 1942 on Chicago's great South Side... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Anthony ClarvoeDescription
Hounded out of his native England, Joseph Priestley hoped to secure a sanctuary along the banks of the Susquehanna... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, doubling, bit parts)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesNeed help?