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Ruth WolffDescription
This play depicts the dramatic final year of the Woodrow Wilson White House when, on her husband's urging, his new second wife, Edith (sometimes criticized as being "America's First Female President") hides the gravity of his illness from his Cabinet and the entire country, hoping to keep him in office long enough to achieve his goal: US entry into the League of Nations — in his view the only possible guarantor of future world peace... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Jenny StaffordDescription
Thirty-five-year-old Kate is a professor of Ethics, with only one rule for her students — do not lie to her... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Harley Granville Barker, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
Harley Granville Barker's mostly forgotten masterpiece, THE SECRET LIFE (1923), has had only two productions, none in the United States and none during Granville Barker's lifetime... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (5 female, 5 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 150 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Bob ClymanDescription
William Shumway, a young, idealistic cellular biologist with a brilliant new idea for curing cancer, is recruited from a relative obscurity to Hill-Matheson, a major cancer research institute, by its charismatic director, Bob Brock, with the offer of his own lab and all the resources he will need to pursue that idea... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Y YorkDescription
CIA men and their wives. KGB men and their wives. The mystery of King Tut's death. In West Germany in 1972 it is very hard to keep a spy marriage together... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (6 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
David WiltseDescription
Based on a true story, SEDITION follows an innocent man accused of sedition during the war hysteria of World War I.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 115 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Brooke BermanDescription
THE LIDDY PLAYS follow Liddy and Emerson, an enigmatic brother and sister, as they confront the death of their mother, fall in love with dangerous people, learn to meditate, and remember the past.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 25 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Michael BradyDescription
In October 1983 a truck filled with explosives blew up in a Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 242 soldiers... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
José RiveraDescription
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Carlo Goldoni, adapted by Constance CongdonDescription
Goldoni's eighteenth-century masterpiece is an enduring story of love, passion, and mistaken identity... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (3 female, 10 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 115 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Carlo Goldoni, adapted by Constance Congdon, further adapted by Christopher Bayes and Steven EppDescription
Goldoni's eighteenth-century masterpiece is an enduring story of love, passion, and mistaken identity... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male, bit parts)
Full Length Comedy (about 115 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Julie Marie MyattDescription
In the early 1950s, a psychologist sets out to write the definitive book on THE SEX HABITS OF AMERICAN WOMEN... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (5 female, 3 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Michael MitnickDescription
Virginia is getting married. As her wedding day approaches, unwanted ghosts of her mother's past appear, unearthing a shocking past she never knew — nor wanted to... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Adam SzymkowiczDescription
Jane's father, an "important" writer, has just died by suicide, and Jane goes home to her small town to deal with the aftermath... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male, doubling, flexible casting, up to 5F and 5M)
Full Length Drama (about 80 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Evgeny Shvarts, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
In an imaginary, fantastical land a scholar arrives seeking to find a way to make as many people as he can happy.
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (5 female, 11 male, doubling possible, many bit parts)
Full Length Comedy (about 130 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes