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Molière, adapted by Virginia ScottDescription
Harpagon thinks that his children are costing him too much money and must be married off. He has found an old man who won't demand a dowry for his daughter, Elise, and a rich widow for his son, Cleante... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (4 female, 9 male)
Full Length Drama (about 105 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Richard Nelson, Alexander GelmanDescription
MISHA'S PARTY is set one August night in Moscow: a man attempts to throw himself a sixtieth birthday party, a grandmother attempts a reconciliation with her granddaughter, and one half of the government attempts to overthrow the other half... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (7 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 125 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
August Strindberg, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
In Strindberg's classic, Miss Julie, the daughter of a powerful count, enters into a dangerously flirtatious relationship with a footman on her father's estate... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Jonathan NortonDescription
1963. Jackson, Mississippi. Robert-Earl Monroe wants Civil Rights Activist Medgar Evers off his once quiet street... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Kevin KautzmanDescription
In this darkly comic drama, social media content moderators lose their mind at work as they struggle to perform well enough to get a better job at the Company, whose mission is to "Connect the World" but whose platform is increasingly becoming an unruly tool for global discord and the worst the human Id can devise... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Aishah RahmanDescription
Inspired by the 1973 killing of a ten-year-old boy by New York City police, THE MOJO AND THE SAYSO is both a comic and dramatic study of the ways that people cope with the aftermath of terrible tragedy... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Various AuthorsDescription
Even better than brie and champagne is the inimitable Jean-Baptiste Poquelin de Molière, France's greatest export.
Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
One of the world's great plays about censorship and the oppression of artists is now newly translated by the renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (winner of two PEN/Book-of-the-Month Translation Awards) and the playwright/director Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Olivier Award)... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (6 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Megan Terry and Jo Anne MetcalfDescription
A musical presentation of magical and possible events in the lives of two women born in the 19th century.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male, up to 20+ actors)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Various AuthorsDescription
A selection of titles that explore significant civil rights people and events.
Yussef El GuindiDescription
A ruminative monologue on Palestine.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Franca Rame and Dario Fo, adapted by Estelle ParsonsDescription
A prostitute tells her life story to a psychiatrist.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Neal Bell, from the novel by Mary ShelleyDescription
Adapted from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, MONSTER takes a disturbing yet poignant look at one man's obsession with creating life and the destructive after effects of abandoning his creation.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Ivan Turgenev, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
Ivan Turgenev's beautiful and subtle comedy of love in a new translation by the renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (winner of two PEN/Book-of-the-Month Translation Awards) and the playwright/director Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Olivier Award)... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 170 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Davey HolmesDescription
MORE LIES ABOUT JERZY explores the life of a celebrated Polish writer, who comes under fire when the veracity of his award-winning Holocaust memoir is questioned... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes