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  • Various Authors

    Description

    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 Volokhonsky

    Description

    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 Metcalf

    Description

    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 Authors

    Description

    A selection of titles that explore significant civil rights people and events.

  • Yussef El Guindi

    Description

    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 Parsons

    Description

    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 Shelley

    Description

    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 Volokhonsky

    Description

    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 Holmes

    Description

    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
  • Willy Holtzman

    Description

    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 Costumes
  • Allan Havis

    Description

    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 Costumes
  • Christi Stewart-Brown

    Description

    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 Costumes
  • book and lyrics by Nick Salamone, music by Maury R McIntyre

    Description

    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 Costumes
  • Constance Congdon, adapted from VASSA ZHELEZNOVA by Maxim Gorky, translated by Tanya Chebotarev

    Description

    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 Costumes
  • Tom Jacobson

    Description

    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