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Tom Willmorth
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A laugh-out-loud parody par excellence of Shakespeare's tragedies. Wickedly whimsical, delightfully devious, with six blended tragedies, thirty-one parts, forty location changes and one enormous sword-swinging battle of twenty thousand men.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesVictor BumbaloDescription
The newlyweds are ensconced in the Shangri-La Motor Inn for their wedding night. While the groom is anticipating the evening ahead, the bride is discussing the annulment of her not-yet-consummated marriage with the gay motel clerk.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesNeil LaButeDescription
How far would you go for love? For art? What would you be willing to change? What price might you pay? Such are the painful questions explored by Neil LaBute in THE SHAPE OF THINGS... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary CostumesAlan BowneDescription
Sharon and Billy, sister and brother, are typical adolescents growing up in a tract home in 1950's Southern California... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesGeorges Feydeau, translated from the French by Laurence SenelickDescription
What to do about a wife going around the apartment in her nightie until lunchtime?
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (1 female, 4 male)
Short Comedy (about 40 minutes)
Single Set
Period CostumesJack GilhooleyDescription
Lou and Barry work for the Russian mob as hitmen. The job happens to be the boss's daughter's boyfriend... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary CostumesAnthony ClarvoeDescription
An explosion in a classroom during Show and Tell leaves 24 students dead.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesJosé RiveraDescription
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesErin LerchDescription
When the alien Legion took over, Sheena lost everything. All she has left is one final, unlikely dream: the Rebellion... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (4 female, 1 male, 2 nonbinary actors)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary CostumesEdwin SánchezDescription
Robin is not speaking to Sandy, and it's driving Robin crazy.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesEdwin SánchezDescription
Sandy's not speaking to Robin, and Robin makes a meal out of it.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesEduardo Iván LópezDescription
A Okinawan girl teaches an Hispanic American solider a bittersweet lesson about love.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesMia McCulloughDescription
SINCE AFRICA chronicles the relationship between a Dinka refugee from Southern Sudan and three Americans — a North Shore socialite, her daughter, and an African American Deacon — who help him acclimate to Chicago's unfamiliar urban surroundings... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesMac WellmanDescription
Two profane aliens have landed in the Southern town of Hillsbottom. Is God watching? Does he care? Is God a He? Mac Wellman addresses these and other questions in this Obie Award–winning play that skewers the social malignancy of ignorance.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Comedy (about 70 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesBrett C LeonardCollection Description
This collection includes six one-act plays: SNAPSHOT; THE BRONX TO THE 'BU: BRUCE LEONARD — WARTS AND ALL; WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR; BOBO AN' SPYDER; REBUTTAL; BEAUTY AND LIGHT.
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