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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 CostumesMegan 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 CostumesVarious 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 CostumesFranca 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 CostumesNeal 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 CostumesIvan 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 CostumesDavey 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 CostumesWilly HoltzmanDescription
Inspired by the true story of concert violinist Erica Morini and her legendary Stradivarius violin, THE MORINI STRAD is a delicate duet between Erica, a difficult former child prodigy, and Brian, a stubbornly independent violin maker she hires to restore and then sell her beloved Strad... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male, Older Actress)
Full Length Drama (about 95 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesAllan HavisDescription
A psychological drama that focuses on three characters — an American Jewish architect, his half-Arab banker wife, and a Moroccan colonel... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary CostumesChristi Stewart-BrownDescription
A very black and hilarious comedy about love in Lydia's Eternal Acres Funeral Home, which is enlivened by two amorous morticians and a couple of really attractive corpses.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male, 1 male and 1 female are corpses)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumesbook and lyrics by Nick Salamone, music by Maury R McIntyreDescription
Three gay actors find themselves on a stage. They have no idea how they got there or why they are there... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesConstance Congdon, adapted from VASSA ZHELEZNOVA by Maxim Gorky, translated by Tanya ChebotarevDescription
An adaptation of Gorky's classic black comedy, VASSA ZHELEZNOVA, A MOTHER concerns a family's stern, penny-pinching matriarch who will do anything for her family.
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (5 female, 4 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary CostumesTom JacobsonDescription
MRS CHRISTMAS explores the journey of a woman who inherits the holiday traditions of her recently deceased, estranged mother... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female, one actor may be either male or female)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes














