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Anton Chekhov, adapted by Richard Nelson from a translation by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
“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
Richard NelsonDescription
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
Tom JacobsonDescription
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
Mia McCulloughDescription
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
Yussef El GuindiDescription
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
Constance CongdonDescription
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
Constance CongdonCollection Description
This collection includes four full-length plays: TALES OF THE LOST FORMICANS, NO MERCY, LOSING FATHER'S BODY, and CASANOVA... [read more]
John Guare, based on a short story by Anton ChekhovDescription
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
José RiveraDescription
If we suspected everything we said was being recorded, would we act differently?
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 male)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Tom JacobsonDescription
On the night in 1939 when Count Basie is to be the first black performer at the Palomar Ballroom next door, a pair of Bimini Baths attendants are tasked with cleaning up a stranger fished out of the La Brea Tar Pits.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 60 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Ian TaylorDescription
This delightful small-scale musical is about the life of Gilbert and Sullivan. It is interspersed with some of the best-known songs from the Savoy operas, including THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, HMS PINAFORE, and THE MIKADO.
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (4 female, 7 male, flexible casting)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Molière, adapted by Constance Congdon from a literal prose translation by Virginia ScottDescription
Constance Congdon's witty verse adaptation of Molière's timeless classic, in which a religious conman infiltrates the household of a gullible man and his exasperated family, has lent itself to productions set in modern-day Texas, New Orleans, and even The Sopranos' New Jersey.
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (5 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Tom JacobsonDescription
Is it pornography or is it art? TASTY LITTLE RABBIT tells the true story of a 1936 Fascist Italian investigation of pornography charges in Taormina, Sicily... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Matthew LombardoDescription
TEA AT FIVE captures the fiery spirit of Katherine Hepburn in a one-woman show that recounts her journey from a well-heeled Yankee childhood to being a winner of four Oscars... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Steve CarterDescription
A tragicomical look at the current state of our country, with a special nod to the American habit of mispronouncing "Nuclear," "Acapulco," "Realtor," and "Inauguration... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Comedy (about 10 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes