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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: 9 total (4 female, 5 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Georg Büchner, adapted by Sean GraneyDescription
Büchner's classic is brought to vivid life in Sean Graney's sensational adaptation.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Greg OwensDescription
Two Yuppies disguise themselves as lepers to try to get a sweet condo.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Short Comedy (about 10 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
José RiveraDescription
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Drama (about 25 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Anthony ClarvoeDescription
It's a simple story, really, about two totally opposite characters falling in love. That's it. That's all.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Neil LaButeDescription
A group of actors addresses the audience. Are they performing a script or sharing personal stories?
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Aeschylus, adapted by Robert AulettaDescription
In THE LIBATION BEARERS Agamemnon's daughter Electra mourns her father's death. Her brother, Orestes, returns to Argos to kill their mother and stepfather, now king, and avenge their father's death... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (6 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Christina MasciottiDescription
In LIBERTY SCRAP, cash is tight, and the goings are tough, but Katya has managed to eke out a living in a scrap metal warehouse by day, and as an artist by night, fashioning sculptures out of debris... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (3 female, 1 male, chorus of 2 females and 2 males)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Brooke BermanDescription
THE LIDDY PLAYS follow Liddy and Emerson, an enigmatic brother and sister, as they confront the death of their mother, fall in love with dangerous people, learn to meditate, and remember the past.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 25 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesBrooke BermanCollection Description
This collection includes four interrelated short plays: LIDDY AND THE MAD HATTER, REUNION AT THE FIN DE SIECLE, SELF-RELIANCE, and WINTER WITH TAMBOURINE BOY... [read more]
Plays in This Collection
Greg OwensDescription
A disillusioned young woman traveling with her hippie mother's ashes. A disillusioned TV star hitch-hiking across America... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (6 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Y YorkDescription
A story about a very poor family and the do-gooder who wants to help them.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Pedro Calderón de la Barca, translated by Jo CliffordDescription
A masterpiece of the Spanish Golden Age. It is foretold that Prince Sigismund will become a tyrant. Alarmed, his father, the king, imprisons him... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Kevin ArkadieDescription
Set in Virginia in the 1980s, A LIKE LIKE THE REST revolves around two cognitively disabled parents whom the state wants to sterilize.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
Burke, a middle-aged college English professor, and his lover, Mia, an unmarried mother in her mid-20s, seem in no way made for each another and yet, it seems, can't live without each other.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes