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  • Louis Phillips

    Description

    The title says it all.


    Production Info

    Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
    Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Niccolò Machiavelli, adapted by Peter Maloney

    Description

    Machiavelli's 16th-century comedic classic. Callimaco wishes to bed Lucrezia, though she is the wife of the aging Nicia... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 130 minutes)
    Single Set
    Period Costumes
  • Len Jenkin

    Description

    Len Jenkin's noir fantasy entertainment is a cross between a surreal radio melodrama and wacky comedy filled with music and fantasy... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • María Irene Fornés

    Collection Description

    María Irene Fornés, the celebrated playwright, director, translator, lyricist, and seven-time Obie Award winner, has been an influential voice in American theatre for more than four decades... [read more]


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  • Jeff Goode

    Description

    Before Ebenezer Scrooge learned the true meaning of Christmas, another old miser was haunted by the ghosts of his past, present and future... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 15 total (5 female, 10 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes
  • David Wiltse

    Description

    A MARRIAGE MINUET tells the witty tale of two married couples who know the temptations of monogamy all too well... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Pierre Beaumarchais, adapted by Richard Nelson

    Description

    A Count's valet prepares to marry the Countess' chambermaid — until it becomes clear the Count wishes to revive an old law that will allow him to take advantage of the bride before the wedding... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 11 total (4 female, 7 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 110 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Period Costumes
  • Yussef El Guindi

    Description

    An adaptation of Chekhov's classic short comedy with a delightfully distinct Egyptian twist.


    Production Info

    Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
    Short Comedy (about 40 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov, translated from the Russian by Laurence Senelick

    Description

    In St. Petersburg during the 1830s, aristocrat Arbenin and his wife, Nina, attend a masked ball. In a twist of mistaken identity, Arbenin becomes convinced that his wife is involved romantically with Prince Zvezdich... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male, extras)
    Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes
  • José Rivera

    Description

    Set in a small New Hampshire town where seven friends conspire to murder their mysterious neighbor Joe... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 150 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Henrik Ibsen, translated by Kenneth McLeish

    Description

    Originally published in 1892 and first performed in 1893, THE MASTER BUILDER explores the needs of the artist in relation to those of society and the limits of artistic creativity... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Period Costumes
  • Neal Bell, adapted from the novel by Frank Norris

    Description

    Neal Bell's adaptation of Frank Norris's novel tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty, violence, and finally murder as the result of jealousy and greed.


    Production Info

    Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 150 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Period Costumes
  • Eugène Labiche and Èdouard Martin, translated by Laurence Senelick

    Description

    A sardonic comedy about Dutrecy, a man of the most unbridled selfishness, who arranges his life to provide himself maximum comfort... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 11 total (2 female, 9 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes
  • Franca Rame and Dario Fo, adapted by Estelle Parsons

    Description

    A rebellious woman reacts to betrayal by resorting to infanticide.


    Production Info

    Cast: 1 total (1 female)
    Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian Vinero

    Description

    Medea has abandoned her family and homeland of Colchis for the love of the great hero Jason, and her loyalty, cunning and talents in witchcraft have repeatedly rescued him... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 9 total (2 female, 7 male, flexible casting, chorus, bit parts)
    Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes