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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 Costumes
Christina 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
Betty ShamiehDescription
Midway through Albert Camus's The Stranger, an Arab is killed. Leaping from this moment and working backwards through possible histories of tangled romance, ethnic conflict, and random violence, Betty Shamieh has crafted a play inspired by this unnamed character... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Robert ChesleyDescription
Subtitled "An Adventure in Ten Scenes." In the opening scene of Robert Chesley’s STRAY DOG STORY, a "lonely faggot" named Jon wishes out loud that his faithful Buddy were human and his lover... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
A R GurneyCollection Description
This collection includes two short plays: THE GUEST LECTURER and THE PROBLEM. THE GUEST LECTURER: Mona runs a financially strapped regional theatre and takes "diabolical steps" to keep the venue going... [read more]
Frank WintersDescription
What happened at that party? College students become locked in an intense moral argument over how to treat a sexual encounter that happened in their midst.
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (7 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 60 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Frank WintersDescription
What happened at that party? High school students become locked in an intense moral argument over how to treat a sexual encounter that happened in their midst.
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (7 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 60 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Edwin SánchezDescription
This substitute teacher has had enough, and he's going to make sure his students think twice about ever bullying anyone again.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Stuart SpencerDescription
A young man who is dating an attorney feels himself drawn more and more to an older blind man in his search for intimacy... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes