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  • Tom Willmorth

    Description

    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 Costumes
  • Victor Bumbalo

    Description

    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 Costumes
  • Neil LaBute

    Description

    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 Costumes
  • Alan Bowne

    Description

    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 Costumes
  • Georges Feydeau, translated from the French by Laurence Senelick

    Description

    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 Costumes
  • Jack Gilhooley

    Description

    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 Costumes
  • Anthony Clarvoe

    Description

    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 Costumes
  • José Rivera

    Description


    Production Info

    Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
    Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Erin Lerch

    Description

    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 Costumes
  • Edwin Sánchez

    Description

    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 Costumes
  • Edwin Sánchez

    Description

    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 Costumes
  • Eduardo Iván López

    Description

    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 Costumes
  • Mia McCullough

    Description

    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 Costumes
  • Mac Wellman

    Description

    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 Costumes
  • Brett C Leonard

    Collection 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.