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The Illegitimate Players, Doug Armstrong , Keith Cooper, Maureen MorleyDescription
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 MarxDescription
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Asch's great-grandson) described THE GOD OF VENGEANCE as "admired, translated, parodied, panned, banned, prosecuted, withdrawn, forgotten, revived, celebrated...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 RappDescription
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 FortenberryDescription
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 SánchezDescription
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 NelsonDescription
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 SchmidmanDescription
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 SamarroDescription
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 SafdieDescription
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 BabeDescription
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
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]