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Federico García Lorca, translated by Jo CliffordDescription
Lorca's extraordinarily powerful drama, the last he wrote before his assassination, explores the darkness at the heart of repression... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (11 female)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Norman LockDescription
A black comedy touched with absurdity and a philosophical bent that puts the torch to middle-class complacency.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 105 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Steve CarterDescription
Two baby-faced would-be criminals decide to rob the home of two women of advanced age who live in contention with their past, their present, their future, and each other... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male, 2 Children)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Tom JacobsonDescription
When Trent brings Felix home to New Orleans to meet his father and homophobic grandfather, the family's demons come slithering into the light... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 105 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Karen SundeDescription
Set in South Lebanon, HOW HIS BRIDE CAME TO ABRAHAM is a soaring love story. When a fleeing refugee encounters a soldier wounded by a roadside bomb, irresistible Palestinian and Israeli characters clash, then ignite a passion that heals... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Len JenkinDescription
HOW IS IT THAT WE LIVE OR SHAKEY JAKE + ALICE traces the arc of the lives of two lovers through the years, from the first kiss to the last goodbye and everything in between... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male, doubling)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Dominic FinocchiaroDescription
A city of millions. Five strangers. One moment that changes everything. When a woman falls to her death from a building in New York City, five bystanders — each lost in the chaos of their own lives — are drawn together in the aftermath... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
The play tells the story of a ragtag troupe of actors as they head West during the Gold Rush, seeking fortune and fame and performing Shakespeare for enthusiastic '49ers... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (4 female, 9 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Donald FreedDescription
This moral thriller unfolds as a mysterious man and woman meet for a tryst on a bench in the garden of an anonymous luxury hotel.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
A R GurneyDescription
Based on A R Gurney's novel Entertaining Strangers, the story is reminiscent of TARTUFFE. Set in academia, at a large technological institute in the Boston area, HUMAN EVENTS follows the rise of a visiting instructor, presumably from England, as he ingratiates himself into the Humanities department and snakes his way up the ladder of success.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Seth RozinDescription
Michaela, an African American dean at a major American university, summons Alan, a renowned professor of cultural psychology, in response to student protest over his controversial paper on female initiation rites in sub-Saharan Africa... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
THE GABRIELS trilogy chronicles a year in the life of a neighboring family who reunite in real time at three different points across 2016 to celebrate, remember, and wait for the world to change... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (5 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Brooke BermanDescription
Four New Yorkers seek shelter, both physical and spiritual, in a variety of temporary abodes and in one another in this dark comedy.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 85 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Peter ParnellDescription
In Hollywood in 1939, an actor/director named Julian Hyde is blackmailed by a gossip columnist known as Hollywood Confidential who threatens to reveal Hyde's homosexuality... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (3 female, 10 male, extras)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Tony KushnerDescription
An epic farce about death and primitive capital accumulation, HYDRIOTAPHIA chronicles the final hours of Sir Thomas Browne, an English physician and writer known for his attempts to reconcile Christian values with scientific knowledge.
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (8 female, 6 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 180 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes