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Carl Sternheim, translated by Eric BentleyDescription
In THE UNDERPANTS, she is waiting in the crowd — Berlin, circa 1910 — craning her neck forward to see the Kaiser pass by... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Lynne AlvarezDescription
Set in Denmark in the early 1890s, Nina, the Snow Queen, has migrated south yet once again to find her "boy" for the season... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 60 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Y YorkDescription
A Native American family and an African American family find communion with one another and with the beleaguered natural world... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Yussef El GuindiDescription
A battle-scarred peace activist struggles with her calling.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Christina MasciottiDescription
June, a retired pretzel factory worker, finds herself deaf after 40 years with machines, widowed, and stranded in the urban muck of Reading, PA... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Tammy RyanDescription
Before heading off to war in Iraq, Casey Johnson neatly organizes her life into a box of lists, envelopes, and registration forms for her son's activities... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
A group of American college professors and their students is making an annual summer pilgrimage to London and indulging in an orgy of theater-going (28 plays in 28 days!) The group's itinerary has been programmed for the Complete British Experience... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (5 female, 6 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 130 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Neil LaButeDescription
Your career as a writer is blossoming, your beautiful, young fiancée is waiting to get married and rush off to Cancún by your side — so what is your natural reaction? Well, if you're a man, it's probably to get nervous and start calling up old girlfriends... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (4 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 115 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
James Edward LuczakDescription
Set in rural Alabama in the late 1960s, the play is a bittersweet tale of a middle-aged waitress whose ability to love and be love is rekindled by her chance encounter with a young drifter.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Douglas PostDescription
SOMEBODY FOREIGN is a political drama about Liz Fletcher, a human rights activists and professor of Middle Eastern Studies at a private college in a small town outside of Chicago... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Willy HoltzmanDescription
This play tells the story of a notorious '60s radical who has served nearly 30 years in prison for her part in the accidental killing of a police officer during an explosive war protest... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Neal BellDescription
SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC takes place on a troop ship at the end of World War II. The ship's captain is haunted by the death of his son in battle, and the young marines under his command are terrified and restless as they are stalked by an invisible enemy.
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (9 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Cassandra MedleyDescription
On the occasion of his sister's wedding, Craig struggles with haunting flashbacks to the war and the bomb he dropped on a wedding party... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (3 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 40 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
José RiveraDescription
SONNETS FOR AN OLD CENTURY examines what it means to be alive at this particular time and place and what traces each of us will leave behind... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male, up to 12 actors, flexible casting)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Sean GraneyDescription
In THESE SEVEN SICKNESSES, Sophocles' seven surviving plays — OEDIPUS, IN TRACHIS, PHILOKTETES, IN COLONUS, AJAX, ELEKTRA and ANTIGONE — combine with music and food to create a stunning portrait of the human condition, where the intermingling of chance and fate yields disquieting results... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (5 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 220 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes