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Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov, translated from the Russian by Laurence SenelickDescription
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 RiveraDescription
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 McLeishDescription
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 NorrisDescription
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 SenelickDescription
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 ParsonsDescription
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 VineroDescription
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 CostumesFranca Rame and Dario Fo, adapted by Estelle ParsonsDescription
An introduction to the monologue MEDEA.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 5 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Neil 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 Costumes
Brett 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 Costumes
Qui 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 Costumes
Neil 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 Costumes
Anne 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 Costumes
Neil 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 Costumes
Edwin 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 Costumes