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A R GurneyDescription
A LIGHT LUNCH is a post-Bush cautionary tale about the price paid for legacy. When a young lawyer from Texas invites a literary agent for lunch in a New York City restaurant, more than a production is on the table.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 80 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Dave OsmundsenDescription
Henry Sullivan, 27, single, gay, and autistic, lives his life vicariously through the heroes and heroines of the 19th-century British novels he devours... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (1 female, 4 male, doubling)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Billy AronsonDescription
Four college students pair up in every possible combination while trying to figure out who they are, where they're going, and what they're doing on earth... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Short Comedy (about 25 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Len JenkinDescription
Coconut Joe is looking for the perfect consignment of coconuts for the biscuit factory he works for. His search has taken him to Berlin, where he is double crossed by a beautiful woman and ends up as a prisoner in a nuclear waste plant... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (6 female, 8 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 115 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Edwin SánchezDescription
Lili Marlene knows what's wrong with this country, the lack of glamour.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Allan HavisDescription
In the Garden of Eden and crosscutting to New York, the enactment and re-enactment of Adam, Lilith, and Eve take the stage as the two women confront one another and the very identify of metaphysical woman... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Len JenkinDescription
In the first play in LIMBO TALES, HIGHWAY, a man suddenly decides to drive to his girlfriend's house, which is 200 miles away... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
John StrandDescription
A dark comedy set in present-day Washington, D.C. Francis was a brilliant political staffer who suffered a mental breakdown, convinced he was Abraham Lincoln... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Constance CongdonDescription
The first female president feigns an extramarital lesbian affair to advance the gay rights agenda and bring down the religious right.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 115 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Naomi WallaceDescription
On the docks of late 18th-century Rhode Island, two runaway slaves, Adjua and Dembi, plan a desperate and daring run to freedom... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Alessandro CamonDescription
Beth is a crisis helpline volunteer, who gets on the phone every night to field calls from people feeling lonely, broken, hopeless... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male, flexible casting, up to 6 female and 6 male actors)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Anton Chekhov, adapted by Richard Nelson from translations by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyCollection Description
LITTLE COMEDIES, an evening of five short plays by Anton Chekhov, span the author's career; this version of ON THE HARMFULNESS OF TOBACCO was one of the last pieces he wrote... [read more]
Billy AronsonDescription
A children’s television company blends sweetness with sadism.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Short Comedy (about 25 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Alan BowneDescription
THE LITTLE MONSTERS tells the story of, in the author's words: Maurice, a bald myopic WASP in his late 50s; Kip, a slight, plain, scruffy male in his late teens, of Irish extraction; 3-Yard, a coarse, handsome, well-built male in his late teens, of Italian extraction; and Gooey, a plump, flashy, Jewish female in her late teens — a hitter.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesBilly AronsonDescription
The classic fairytale, thoroughly bastardized.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Short Comedy (about 20 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes