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Franca Rame and Dario Fo, adapted by Estelle Parsons
Description
An introduction to the monologue MEDEA.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 5 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesNeil LaButeDescription
A woman tells of her complex and ultimately tragic relationship with her junior high school English teacher... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesBrett NeveuDescription
An industrialist in the near future utilizes every means possible to get an inventor to sign over his revolutionary creation that will inevitably change the world... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesQui NguyenDescription
Three interwoven tales of people with superpowers, including the downfall of America's beloved Captain Justice, the adventures of Brooklyn's Los Hermanos Manos, and the tragic tale of an indestructible man, that ultimately collide inside the walls of a maximum security prison... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary CostumesNeil LaButeDescription
Set on September 12, 2001, THE MERCY SEAT continues Neil LaBute's unflinching fascination with the often-brutal realities of the war between the sexes... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesAnne SextonDescription
MERCY STREET is Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Anne Sexton's only play and incorporates many of the themes that infuse her poetry, the deeply personal, the nature of madness, and the subjectivity of truth.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesNeil LaButeDescription
A husband drives his wife home from the airport. At the conference she's just attended, she may have done some things, drank too much, flirted, participated in an orgy.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesEdwin SánchezDescription
Ray Rivers is a young Puerto Rican man on the way up. Everything is going great for him except he doesn’t believe he deserves it... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 80 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesAdam RappDescription
In small-town America, a young adult novel about teen pregnancy is banned by the local school board, igniting a fierce and violent debate over abortion, religious beliefs, and modern feminism... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (5 female, 4 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary CostumesJune SiegelDescription
Life changes experienced by three women.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesTom JacbosonDescription
In 1948, Los Angeles Tribune reporter Hisaye Yamamoto puts her job at risk when she joins forces with civil rights pioneer Bayard Rustin to desegregate Bimini Baths.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesEric OvermyerDescription
MI VIDA LOCA — My Crazy Life — tells the story of members of a troubled family who are reunited at their home on Washington's Olympic Peninsula as the father begins treatment for drug addiction.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesRichard NelsonDescription
Subtitled CONVERSATIONS DURING DIFFICULT TIMES, this is Part One of The Michaels duology. The play places the audience directly into the kitchen of Rose Michael, a celebrated choreographer... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (6 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesRichard NelsonDescription
With THE MICHAELS and WHAT HAPPENED?: THE MICHAELS ABROAD Richard Nelson brings to a close his twelve play cycle, "The Rhinebeck Panorama," that includes the Apple Family Plays, the Gabriels, and now the Michaels, charting the courses of three families in Upstate New York over the tumultuous events of the last decade.
Sara FarringtonDescription
Mickey's dad and Sage's mom are really, really good friends. So every day after school, Mickey's dad drops Mickey off at Sage's house and the two kids (played by adults) are forced to play together in Sage's tightly fenced-in backyard while the parents are "hanging out... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 60 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes














