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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
Frank WintersDescription
Three years ago, Sarah Kennedy thought she was hired as a translator for a corporate military prison in Baghdad, only to discover that she would be acting as an interrogator instead, retrieving information from prisoners of war — by any means necessary... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (5 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 170 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Eric OvermyerDescription
Among the most imaginative works of the 20th century, Eric Overmyer's ON THE VERGE OR THE GEOGRAPHY OF YEARNING captivates with its abundant invention... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (3 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 95 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Kristen PalmerDescription
After Warren proposes to Josie, she decides she must make one last attempt to find her long-lost father before she walks down the aisle... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Jean Giraudoux, adapted by Dan O'BrienDescription
Traveling through an enchanted forest, the knight-errant Hans falls in love with a water sprite named Ondine, despite his engagement to a woman of the court... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (7 female, 6 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Ludmilla BollowCollection Description
This collection includes three haunting short plays that are among our most popular titles: the monologues THE WOMAN WITH 27 CHILDREN and BELLE OF THE BIJOU and the one act LATE/LATE…COMPUTER DATE... [read more]
Naomi WallaceDescription
By turns hilarious and deeply moving, ONE FLEA SPARE is set in plague-ravaged 17th-century London where social roles and the boundaries that describe them have been thrust into chaos... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
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]
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