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Maurice Hennequin and Pierre Vebér, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
This classic and hilarious French farce commences when a customs official barges into newlyweds Robert and Paulette's train compartment at a most inopportune moment on their wedding night, rendering the poor fellow impotent... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (5 female, 7 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 130 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Various AuthorsDescription
Five apocalyptic and dystopian plays portending calamitous events, some of which treat the future with discomfiting seriousness, some of which tickle the funny bone, all of which provoke rich contemplation of both our present and what lies ahead.
Richard NelsonDescription
In THE APPLE FAMILY: CONVERSATIONS ON ZOOM: A PANDEMIC TRILOGY, after six months of self-imposed pandemic isolation, the Apple siblings again gather on Zoom for an evening of dinner, conversation and performance, while the world continues to sputter more and more out of control, amidst anger, loss, death and a coming election.
Richard NelsonDescription
This compelling quartet of plays is about family, politics, change, and the way we live today. They resonate with remarkable immediacy and relevance... [read more]
Russell DavisDescription
The play is about Richard, a young man in trouble, who cannot remember his past, and Louise, a friend, who comes to visit.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Megan TerryDescription
Simone Weil, a French girl of Jewish extraction whose death in 1943 was caused primarily by self-imposed starvation, is the subject of this striking theatrical exploration into the nature of faith and spirituality... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (6 female, 10 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Ruth WolffDescription
In this comedy, a young couple, Peter and Polly, married five years, cheerfully greet the audience with "Welcome to a divorce! Since you were all there at the beginning, at the wedding, we invite you back to witness the end... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Betty ShamiehDescription
A short play based on the character of the Architect from the play THE BLACK EYED.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesRuth WolffDescription
The story of a prominent Washington family whose personal problems and rivalries threaten to undermine their efforts to save their late head of the family's reputation as it comes under attack by a journalist of formidable power... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Laura EasonDescription
Set in a dystopic future, in a culture of fear, where the trees are being stripped and burned and ashes rain from the sky, a family deals with the aftermath of a woman being swallowed by the sea... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (5 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Katharine LongDescription
A romantic fantasy set in the past in a funeral parlor.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Jules Verne, adapted by Laura EasonDescription
Jules Verne's classic adventure tale is reimagined for the stage in this enchanting adaptation.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Rogelio MartinezDescription
Cuba. Two brothers, both writers, meet again after a long absence. What follows is a fierce and hilarious fight to determine who has the right to tell the family's story... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Allan HavisDescription
An urban family of three is faced with a medical crisis upon a second financial crisis. Structured as a memory play, this story for four actors highlights the surfacing identify of a young man caught between filial loyalty and freedom... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Stephanie Alison WalkerDescription
When Melissa receives a mysterious invitation to brunch from her mother after a two-year estrangement, she returns to a home where nothing is as it seems... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes