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  • The Suicide
    Nikolai Erdman, adapted by Richard Nelson

    Description

    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
  • The Summer Winds
    Frank Pugliese

    Description

    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
  • Summerfolk
    Maxim Gorky, translated by Stephen Mulrine

    Description

    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
  • Sumo
    Lisa Sanaye Dring

    Description

    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
  • Super Powers
    Jeremy Dobrish

    Description

    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
  • Suppressed Desires
    George Cram Cook and Susan Glaspell

    Description

    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
  • Surviving Grace
    Trish Vradenburg

    Description

    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
  • Swan Song
    Anton Chekhov, adapted by Richard Nelson from a translation by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

    Description

    “LITTLE COMEDIES finds the sublimity in intimacy and reminds one that the author was, among many things in his too-short life, a master of the short story … by turns riotously funny, deeply sad and quietly contemplative... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 2 total (2 male)
    Short Comedy (about 15 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes
  • Sweet and Sad
    Richard Nelson

    Description

    An Apple family brunch stirs up discussions of loss, remembrance and a decade of change.

    Production Info

    Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Tainted Blood
    Tom Jacobson

    Description

    Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle use logic and religion to fend off a seductive vampire in this fang-in-cheek comedy/thriller.

    Production Info

    Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Period Costumes
  • Taking Care
    Mia McCullough

    Description

    TAKING CARE chronicles the last years of an elderly woman and the mentally ill adult son who has lived with her for almost three decades... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
  • The Talented Ones
    Yussef El Guindi

    Description

    THE TALENTED ONES looks at the thwarted dreams of immigrants eager to make it in their adopted country... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male, doubling)
    Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Tales of the Lost Formicans
    Constance Congdon

    Description

    This witty and passionate play explores the story of a man with Alzheimer's and at the same time turns into "a travel guide to Middle America conducted by aliens from outer space... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Tales of the Lost Formicans and Other Plays
    Constance Congdon

    Collection Description

    This collection includes four full-length plays: TALES OF THE LOST FORMICANS, NO MERCY, LOSING FATHER'S BODY, and CASANOVA... [read more]

  • The Talking Dog
    John Guare, based on a short story by Anton Chekhov

    Description

    While hang gliding in the Catskills, a young woman wonders whether the young man in her company loves her... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
    Short Comedy (about 20 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes