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A R GurneyDescription
The very proper, well educated Connecticut wife and mother Margery Farnsworth signs up for a writing course with the intent of penning a tell-all book about the President, with whom she has shared a shady past... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Emily MannDescription
Illinois, 1861: Without proof of insanity, Elizabeth Packard is committed by her husband to an asylum... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
María Irene FornésDescription
A play in 17 scenes. Mae seeks to escape the basic life she has been living with Lloyd through education... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 70 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Marisa WegrzynDescription
A high school pot dealer abandons his prom night to crash the hotel-room reunion of three flight attendants (all old enough to be his mother)... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (3 female, 1 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Jack GilhooleyDescription
Every New Years the Mummers dress up in colorful costumes for the Mummers Parade in Philadelphia, one of the oldest folk traditions in America... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Tim KellyDescription
This chilling whodunnit is about a woman who runs "Mystery Weekend Tours" at Coldblood Cottage, her ancestral home... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (6 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Jo M Van Ijssel de Schepper-Becker, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
A domestic comedy whose homosexual character is part of an ordinary family that views his sexual orientation as unnatural... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Brian WatkinsDescription
MY DAUGHTER KEEPS OUR HAMMER follows two estranged sisters, one needy mother, and one intolerable sheep... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Len JenkinDescription
Uncle Sam was a novelties salesman who died one night, alone and broke, in a Pittsburgh hotel. But he was also a larger-than-life figure, a mythic hero, to his nephew — who now seeks to discover his uncle's true story... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (5 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Julie Marie MyattDescription
MY WANDERING BOY tells the story of Emmett, who has gone missing, though nobody is sure why. A great athlete, an exceptional student, charming and charismatic, he dropped off the radar after college, and now his parents have hired a retired cop to find him... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Sherry KramerDescription
Nicki drives her 84-year-old grandmother down to Florida every year. But this year will be the last trip they take... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, adapted by Michael BloomDescription
Banned by the Nazis and then produced by dozens of German theatres following the end of World War II, NATHAN THE WISE is a timely and exuberant rebuke of prejudice and intolerance... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Eric OvermyerDescription
In a futuristic city, one man tells it like he sees it — Hungry Mother! He's the DJ with a strong pulse but a weak signal... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Janet NeiprisDescription
A sophisticated, contemporary comedy about a single woman in her fifties who plans a romantic retreat to France, but is thwarted when her three grown daughters boomerang home unexpectedly, with their partners and agendas in tow.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Marvin CohenDescription
NECESSARY ENDS involves two couples who tangle in a philosophical farce about love, language, sex, time, and death.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes