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Stuart SpencerCollection Description
This collection includes three full-length plays: SUDDEN DEVOTION, RESIDENT ALIEN, and IN THE WESTERN GARDEN, composed of three related one-acts... [read more]
Y YorkCollection Description
This collection includes three full-length plays: THE SECRET WIFE, THE SNOWFLAKE AVALANCHE, and GERALD'S GOOD IDEA... [read more]
Tom JacobsonDescription
Dark secrets bubble to the surface as two strangers — one a priest, the other a noted art historian — share a surreal confession at the "exclusive" Bimini Baths, circa 1918... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 60 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Jack CanforaDescription
John Greer has a charmed life: he is a professor at a renowned university, a beloved father, and he is about to be named Poet Laureate... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 80 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Greg OwensDescription
Romance. Longing. Amateur verse of questionable quality. At Bud's I-90 Truck Stop Casino Poetry Discussion Group in western Montana... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Short Comedy (about 15 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
"Poets' Walk is the name of a park, or rather a series of trails that skirt along the Hudson River. Legend has it that Washington Irving got his idea for Rip Van Winkle while walking through this property and gazing out at the Catskill Mountains... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Marion Isaac McClintonDescription
POLICE BOYS explores the conflict and tensions between a group of police officers and the community they're sworn to serve
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (2 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 195 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
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