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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
Jon KleinDescription
Dating on the job and Internet dating — both exciting and risky. But mix the two together — WOW! A dark comedy.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Nikolai Erdman, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
An unemployed "little man" contemplates suicide and is besieged by discontented groups wanting him to turn his suicide into a gesture on their behalf.
Production Info
Cast: 24 total (9 female, 15 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Frank PuglieseDescription
For every success, there are dozens, perhaps hundreds of failures. In THE SUMMER WINDS, Frank Pugliese's moving collection of short pieces and monologues, we hear from New Yorkers who have striven for success in their endeavors but have failed... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Maxim Gorky, translated by Stephen MulrineDescription
Gorky's magnificent response to Chekhov's THE CHERRY ORCHARD was written in 1904, the year Chekhov died... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 17 total (6 female, 11 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Lisa Sanaye DringDescription
Step into the sacred world of sumo wrestling. Entrenched in an elite sumo training facility in Tokyo, six men practice, eat, love, play, and ultimately fight... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (6 male, up to 4 additional male cast members)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Jeremy DobrishDescription
A car crash. Three people dead. One of them naked. It's up to a detective and a police officer to figure out what happened in this supernatural upside-down mystery.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
George Cram Cook and Susan GlaspellDescription
Originally produced by the Provincetown Players in 1915, SUPPRESSED DESIRES satirizes the then-current obsession with dream interpretation: Henrietta is unable to stop overanalyzing the dreams of her husband, Stephen, and sister, Mabel.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Short Comedy (about 30 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Trish VradenburgDescription
A witty and touching play, inspired by the author's mother's battle with Alzheimer's.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes