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Steve CarterDescription
At his funeral, Eustace Baylor and his two families examine the tattered cloth of their lives. They find that if you would take one last look, you should take one first look... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (7 female, 4 male)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Greg LamDescription
Two alien parasites secretly inhabiting human bodies decide to survive on Earth by infiltrating human society... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male, flexible casting)
Short Dark Comedy (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Aishah RahmanDescription
ONLY IN AMERICA is oracular, mythic, wicked satire, with outrageous humor and provocative subject matter... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (3 female, 1 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Tony KushnerDescription
First Lady Laura Bush gives a reading to Iraqi children just prior to the 2003 invasion as an angel watches over the proceedings.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Julie Marie MyattDescription
Combat photojournalist Matthew Milton is charged with flying from Afghanistan to pick up his sister, Lizzie, after a two-month stint in rehab for heroin addiction... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Russell VandenbrouckeDescription
In 1943, something strange is going on in the New Mexican desert. By night, the starkly beautiful canyons of Los Alamos fill with the sound of exploding graphite — and by day, the crackle of scientific brainpower... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (3 female, 8 male, doubling possible, extras)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Anton Chekhov, Wendy Wasserstein, David Mamet, María Irene Fornés, Michael Weller, Samm-Art Williams, John Guare, Spalding GrayCollection Description
This collection includes seven short plays based on Anton Chekhov's short stories: THE MAN IN A CASE by Wendy Wasserstein, VINT by David Mamet, DROWNING by María Irene Fornés, A DOPEY FAIRY TALE by Michael Weller, EVE OF THE TRIAL by Samm-Art Williams, THE TALKING DOG by John Guare, and RIVKALA'S RING by Spalding Gray... [read more]
Plays in This Collection
Reginald EdmundDescription
THE ORDAINED SMILE OF SAINT SADIE MAY JENKINS is the seventh play in the nine-play series The City of the Bayou Collection, Reginald Edmund’s contemporary House of Atreus through an Afro-Surrealist lens... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male, all characters are African American)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Aeschylus, adapted by Robert AulettaCollection Description
This collection includes three full-length plays: AGAMEMNON, THE LIBATION BEARERS, and THE EUMENIDIES, collectively known as THE ORESTEIA... [read more]
Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
After avenging his father Agamemnon's death by slaughtering his mother Clytemnestra, Orestes finds himself tormented by The Furies and pursued by the Argive people who seek to put him to death along with his sister Electra... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male, flexible casting, bit parts, a chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Franca Rame and Dario Fo, adapted by Estelle ParsonsCollection Description
This collection includes nine monologues concerned with sexual and domestic issues and female oppression: A WOMAN ALONE, MAMMA FRICCHETONA (THE FREAK MOMMY), WAKING UP, WE ALL HAVE THE SAME STORY, DIALOGUE FOR A SINGLE VOICE, MEDEA PROLOGUE, MEDEA, MONOLOGUE OF A WHORE IN A LUNATIC ASYLUM, and IT HAPPENS TOMORROW... [read more]
D Lee MillerDescription
The love/hate relationship of an older married couple coming to terms with the husband's death.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Adam SeidelDescription
Who do you step on to get to the top? A young Nuyorican beat maker calls out a rising pop star for ripping off his track... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male, one nonbinary character)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Jeremy DobrishDescription
A rock retelling of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice through the eyes of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, combining elements from Dante's Inferno and Nirvana's lyrics, to explore the essence of faith and love.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 95 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Joe SuttonDescription
In the first years after World War II the author of Animal Farm is chaperoned during an American book tour by a fetching young woman, whose job is to dissuade Orwell from telling Americans why he is a proud socialist.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male, 1 male bit part)
Full Length Drama (about 105 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes