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Neal BellDescription
Claire has a significant relationship with her television: she talks, and it answers her. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, she auditions to participate in a reality TV show so she can fight her "Final Battle" in front of millions of viewers.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male, 2 offstage voices)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Bernardo Solano and Allan HavisDescription
A fabulist comedy-drama of a future city-state made up of Tijuana and San Diego after a great California earthquake... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (6 female, 4 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 110 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Kyle WarrenDescription
No politician is as beloved as New York City Mayor John Kendrick, the four-term hero who triumphed during crisis and eliminated homelessness... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
A R GurneyDescription
O JERUSALEM centers around an American State Department official who becomes entangled in Middle Eastern politics before and after September 11, 2001... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Glen BergerDescription
O LOVELY GLOWWORM is about the history of the world as perceived by a stuffed goat who remembers his life from his perch at the edge of a domestic trash heap behind a derelict cottage in rural Ireland, circa 1918... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
George SapioDescription
Three-year-old Billy leads a charmed life; he stays home all day, gets his diapers changed, sleeps in a crib... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Megan TerryDescription
A lyrical study in the ways, perhaps misguided, that He and She love.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Nancy RhodesDescription
A young woman recovers her childhood during an afternoon on the beach.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Sophocles, translated from the Greek by Laurence SenelickDescription
First performed around 430 BCE, Sophocles' OEDIPUS THE KING remains as shocking a tragedy as it must have been to the ancient Greeks... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (1 female, 7 male, doubling, nonspeaking parts)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
The Illegitimate Players, Doug Armstrong, Keith Cooper, Maureen MorleyDescription
In the words of The Chicago Reader, "The witty script supplies the one thing Steinbeck lacked: a sense of humor! … OF GRAPES AND NUTS dogs its original like a comic bloodhound... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Billy AronsonDescription
A mother and her teenage daughter become involved with the same man.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Short Comedy (about 35 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Brett NeveuDescription
Shrouded in mystery, the circumstances surrounding six ordinary people grappling with the emotional casualties of war unfold.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Martin JonesDescription
It is Armistice Day, 1962. Three veterans of the World Wars exchange army stories, lament the vagaries of age, and wait for the arrival of Harry, their old army buddy... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male)
Short Drama (about 50 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Lynne AlvarezDescription
ON SUNDAYS concerns a single day in the life of a young female dancer whose existence is surrealistically intertwined with fifty years of the life of a man who has become obsessed with her.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Anton Chekhov, adapted by Richard Nelson from a translation by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
“LITTLE COMEDIES finds the sublimity in intimacy and reminds one that the author was, among many things in his too-short life, a master of the short story … by turns riotously funny, deeply sad and quietly contemplative... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Comedy (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes