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Frank Wedekind, English version by Kenneth Tigar and Clayton KoelbDescription
Possibly the ultimate coming-of-age drama. The play follows a group of high-school friends in Victorian-age Germany who begin to experience their first sexual desires in a world where even talking about sex is taboo... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 25 total (7 female, 18 male, some doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
María Irene FornésDescription
The eternal story of love and betrayal.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Gregg OstrinDescription
What happens when a James Bond–like spy gets sent to rehab because of his drinking, gambling, womanizing and anger issues? You get THE SPY WHO WENT INTO REHAB... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male, doubling)
Full Length Comedy (about 80 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Martin JonesDescription
A diverse group of homeless people, from a pregnant teenager to a thirty-year-old mental patient to a street musician in his forties, struggle to survive.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 105 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Neil LaButeDescription
An amateur comic struggles with his new routine.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Elaine Lee with Susan Norfleet Lee and Dale PlaceDescription
Star Trek and Star Wars step aside, because women are in command in this fantastic vision of the future... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (8 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 140 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Naomi WallaceDescription
A STATE OF INNOCENCE is set in Rafah, Palestine, and features a Palestinian woman, an Israeli architect, and an Israeli soldier.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Dennis J ReardonDescription
Set in rural Kansas, STEEPLE JACK tells the story of a young girl, Jill, her father, Jay, and the two transients who enter into their lives... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 115 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesChristina CocekDescription
A comedy about getting it together.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Comedy (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Carl Sternheim, translated by Eric BentleyCollection Description
This collection includes three full-length plays: THE UNDERPANTS, THE SNOB, and 1913. In THE UNDERPANTS, she is waiting in the crowd — Berlin, circa 1910 — craning her neck forward to see the Kaiser pass by... [read more]
Ruth WolffDescription
A husband tries to escape to an empty attic room but his wife follows announcing the imminent arrival of a "cousin" whom neither can remember... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male, plus 2 males who carry furniture)
Short Drama (about 50 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Adam SzymkowiczDescription
STOCKHOLM SYNDROME: OR, REMEMBER THE TIME JIMMY'S ALL AMERICAN BEEFSTEAK PLACE WAS TAKEN OVER BY THAT GROUP OF RADICALS? That mouthful of a title is set, appropriately, at Jimmy's All American Beefsteak Restaurant — a fictional chain (the kind you love to hate) — whose employees and patrons suddenly find themselves in the midst of a hostage crisis … and a love story.
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (6 female, 6 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Adam RappDescription
A pinball wizard for the twenty-first century, Wynne Ledbetter is surrounded by despair. His father is wasting away on workman's comp, his mother is a double-shift waitress obsessed with the lives of the saints, and his sister is a dropout junky... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 135 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Jonathan ReynoldsDescription
While leading a tour of the haphazardly restored home of the Confederate general, a young African American docent suddenly has a revelation... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Trish HarnetiauxDescription
STRAIGHT ON ’TIL MORNING captures the recklessness of youth, unrequited love, best friends, fierce enemies, loyalty, and commitment as it provocatively deconstructs one young man's zest for life while battling his past, his present, and — god forbid — his future... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes