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Mallory Jane WeissDescription
A Wild West: A world where men ride horses and women ride bicycles. A world that is changed forever when Ruthie's husband, Jack (biggest pistol in town), wins three larger-than-life stallions in an auction... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Lynn NottageDescription
The laws of the universe tumble when a meek woman finally speaks up.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Len JenkinDescription
A roller-coaster ride through the American scene, from the Fascination Parlor to Leroy Smiles the Crab-boy, and from the movie set to the tattoo parlor to Frankie the Finn... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (1 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Edwin SánchezDescription
Tomas's father was a busboy at Windows on the World.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Len JenkinDescription
Subtitled "A History of Science (A Chronicle of Folly, Wisdom, and Madness)," PORT TWILIGHT has been described as "an end-times extraterrestrial vaudeville... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (6 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
A R GurneyDescription
POST MORTEM is set in the not-too-distant future when the Christian Right holds power. Alice, a lowly lecturer in drama at a faith-based state university in the Midwest, and Dexter, an enthusiastic student more interested in his teacher than the theatre, become embroiled in the discovery of a play by an obscure late 20th century playwright named A R Gurney... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Georges Feydeau, translated from the French by Laurence SenelickDescription
Inspired by Feydeau's wife's obsession with giving the children laxatives, especially his eldest son, Jacques, every character is despicable for their moral cowardice and egoism, providing a hopeless (but hilarious) environment for child-rearing.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male, 1 child)
Short Comedy (about 50 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Stephen BelberDescription
When TV anchor Charlie Duff begins to sign off each broadcast with a prayer, a growing crowd of believers becomes glued to their TV sets — wondering when their prayers will be answered... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male, doubling, characters on video)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Paul GrellongDescription
Distinguished Harvard professor Charles Nichols finds himself in hot water after inviting an incendiary white nationalist to speak at his annual symposium... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Louis PhillipsDescription
Inanimate objects take on a life of their own.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Robert AlexanderDescription
A PREFACE TO THE ALIEN GARDEN takes a hard look at the gangsta lifestyle in present-day Kansas City.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Richard Brinsley Peake, edited by Jeffrey N Cox, based on the novel by Mary ShelleyDescription
This original adaptation for the stage of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus was first performed at the English Opera House in London in 1823.
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (4 female, 10 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Jane Austen, adapted by Christopher BakerDescription
Jane Austen's mastery of manners and morals is on full display in Christopher Baker's acclaimed stage adaptation of her beloved masterpiece, Pride and Prejudice... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 18 total (10 female, 8 male, 18 speaking roles or with doubling 14 actors)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
In PRINCIPIA SCRIPTORIAE, two young writers meet in prison under an unnamed right-wing Latin American regime... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Allan HavisDescription
A kinky, deranged comedy built on the sale of a vintage Ford Mustang and an unidentified body in the car... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 80 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes