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John Pielmeier
Description
A radio talk-show host is menaced by a threatening caller in this psychological thriller.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesFiresign TheatreDescription
A mad Kafkaesque journey that takes a confused tourist into a shadowy world of Byzantine fascists... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (4 male)
Short Comedy (about 30 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesFiresign TheatreCollection Description
This collection includes two short plays: WAITING FOR THE ELECTRICIAN, OR SOMEONE LIKE HIM and TEMPORARILY HUMBOLDT COUNTY... [read more]
Plays in This Collection
Julie Marie MyattDescription
It is 1970 and Virginia Moore is in love with Glenn, and she is ready to change the future by marching against the war in Vietnam, and for equal rights for women... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary CostumesFranca Rame and Dario Fo, adapted by Estelle ParsonsDescription
A working-class woman prepares for work while taking care of her baby. Meanwhile, her husband sleeps... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesRobert AulettaDescription
A strangely eccentric family awaits the return of the long gone but not easily forgotten Willie. When he finally returns, he disappoints no one with his bizarre brand of confrontational politics... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesAnthony ClarvoeDescription
Couplehood and infidelity are subject to scrutiny in Anthony Clarvoe's oblique ode to LA RONDE.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 80 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesTom JacobsonDescription
A soon-to-be-married couple, Schiller and Arjay, take Schiller's parents on their first trip to Europe... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male, flexible casting, up to 4 women and 1 man or 4 men and 1 woman)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesSherry KramerDescription
The perfect rent-controlled New York City apartment has one fatal flaw — the roommate from hell. The play takes place on the day the newest roommate can't take it anymore... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesNaomi WallaceDescription
Three young Texans spend their nights patrolling the Mexican border to earn a $10 bounty for every Mexican they catch crossing it... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesSybille PearsonDescription
A play within a play set in a veterinarian's office.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesSally NemethDescription
The rain will not stop. Rising seas reclaim the land. In a loft barely above the water line, scientist Evangeline tracks the deluge, while locked in a love triangle with fellow researchers Jack and Dresden... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 25 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesJennifer TuckettDescription
What would you do if you woke up one day before school and discovered you just happened to be a superhero? Impress your friends or save the world? Two ordinary schoolgirls, Yasmin and Katie, try to make sense of this crazy and confused world in this honest and powerful play.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Drama (about 40 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesFranca Rame and Dario Fo, adapted by Estelle ParsonsDescription
A woman's double is a doll who says four-letter words to attract men.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesStephen BelberDescription
When Beau, a directionless 19-year-old, discovers that his mother was involved in a decade-old unsolved crime during her time as a military contractor, he seeks out the Afghan victim's daughter in California... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes