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Euripides, translated by Marianne McDonaldDescription
Hecuba, deposed queen of Troy, has seen her husband humiliated, her son murdered and her daughter sacrificed... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male, doubling, flexible casting, extras)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
As the fires that burned Troy smolder, the once-proud and regal Queen Hecuba finds herself homeless, widowed, and enslaved by the Greek conquerors... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, flexible casting, bit parts, a chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Kenneth McLeishDescription
A selfish, cynical woman bored by her marriage to the scholar Jorgen Tesman, Hedda Gabler's father's pair of pistols provide intermittent diversion, as do the attentions of the ne'er-do-well Judge Brack... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Katy DierlamDescription
The carnival "Fat Lady" delivers a monologue.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Michael McGuireDescription
Chicago, 1940. In the first act, Thomas, a successful playwright, his brother, Hal, with his wife, Helen, and son, Tom, wait out a storm in the playwright's luxurious apartment... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Eric OvermyerDescription
A dreamy, meditative telling of the story of the father of ragtime Scott Joplin's rivalry with fellow musical genius Louis Chauvin... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (5 female, 6 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Tom JacobsonDescription
Torn between his Oklahoma parents and the Beverly Hills owners of an unknown Caravaggio hanging of Judas, Tim rediscovers himself while making the art history discovery of the century... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Seth PanitchDescription
Recently deceased lawyer and all-around schlemiel Simon Ackerman suddenly finds himself desperate to get into Hell, which, God forbid, turns out to be the better place to both visit and spend eternity... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, some doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Don X NguyenDescription
Friends William and Betsy haven't seen each other since high school. They've both followed their dreams, but something is missing: his all-consuming job at NASA doesn't leave time for a family, and she can't bear another unsuccessful round of IVF with her partner Shoshana... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Victor Hugo, adapted by John StrandDescription
HERNANI, Victor Hugo's third play, written when he was 28, was not so much a piece of theater as a bombshell dropped directly into the laps of les classiques, the conservative defenders of French drama and its perfect garden of rules, regulations, and Aristotelian commandments of How Things Must Always and Forever Be... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 150 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Marisa WegrzynDescription
HICKORYDICKORY explores what would happen if we all had an internal clock telling us the time of our death... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 150 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Lynne AlvarezDescription
Set in a cornfield in the Midwest, HIDDEN PARTS depicts the troubled reunion of a young concert pianist, his estranged farmer parents, and their teenage gypsy niece.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Matthew LombardoDescription
When Sister Jamison Connelly agrees to sponsor a 19-year-old drug user in an effort to help him combat his addiction, her own faith is ultimately tested... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Nick SalamoneDescription
Part Greek tragedy, part blackest comedy, HILLARY AGONISTES presents the cautionary tale of Hillary Clinton, newly elected President of the United States... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (3 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
Hippolytus, the illegitimate son of King Theseus of Athens, has invoked the scorn of the goddess Aphrodite by vowing to live a life of chastity and refusing to revere her, while giving the goddess Artemis constant devotion... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male, flexible casting, bit parts, a chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 115 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes