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Tony KushnerCollection Description
TINY KUSHNER finds the inimitable Tony Kushner at his most laconic. Replete with scintillating turns of phrase, rich in wit and wisdom, and branded with his trademark intelligence, TINY KUSHNER reveals that Tony Kushner's mastery of the short form is as pronounced as his mastery of the epic... [read more]
Plays in This Collection
- Dr Arnold A Hutschnecker in Paradise
- East Coast Ode to Howard Jarvis
- Flip Flop Fly!
- G. David Schine in Hell
- Notes on Akiba
- Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy
- Reverse Transcription: Six Playwrights Bury a Seventh
- Terminating or Sonnet LXXV or Lass Meine Schmerzen Nicht Verloren Sein or Ambivalence
Michael BradyDescription
A grieving widower must accept his wife's death to save himself and his relationship with his daughter... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (5 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Bob ClymanDescription
Meg and Jack were childhood sweethearts, who got married, and when their daughter, Hannah, was born, Meg stayed home with her, while Jack worked... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (3 female, 1 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Robert AulettaDescription
The play introduces us to a couple, Dunn and Phia. We see them fight. We hear their pleas and curses... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 35 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Donald FreedDescription
A brilliant young actress, and an immortal diva, search for the secret soul of Lady Macbeth.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Jeffrey M JonesDescription
Virtually all of the dialogue in this play has been constructed out of source material dating from the year 1950, and what it reveals is an America in which perception and reality are frequently at odds.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Matt LyleDescription
In 1692, as the Salem Witch Trials rage in nearby Salem, the residents of Peabody, Massachusetts are going through their own crucible, and they are just, like, really sick of crucibles... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male, doubling, flexible casting, up to 37 actors)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
The Illegitimate PlayersDescription
The most Illegitimate collection of titles ever offered. The Illegitimate Players' irreverent twists on the classics are joyous, knee-slapping fun.
Edwin SánchezDescription
When Papo, a tough-talking Puerto Rican hustler from the Bronx, meets Brian, a frightened young lawyer from the Midwest, Papo begins to glimpse the possibility of a romantic escape from his life on the streets... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Kenny FinkleDescription
Part murder mystery, part unrequited romance, and part absurdist debacle about the denial and transcendence of death, TRANSATLANTICA tells the story of Dr Reginald Reinhold, whose psychoanalytic session with an eccentric patient, Ilyria (of the land of Ilyria), is interrupted by his wife with news that she is dying... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Naomi WallaceDescription
High atop a railroad trestle that spans a bone dry creek, two teenagers plan to race across the bridge against an oncoming locomotive... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Karani Marcia JohnsonDescription
In THE TRIAL OF ONE SHORT SIGHTED BLACK WOMAN VS MAMMY LOUISE AND SAFREETA MAE, Karani Marcia Leslie explodes the plantation myth of Mammy Louise as the protector and nurturer of the Master's family, and her mulatto daughter, Safreeta Mae, the willing sexual toy of the master in a courtroom ritual-drama that has Mammy Louise and Safreeta Mae defending themselves against indictment from Victoria, an upscale, professional Black woman who feels that their images limit her potential to be taken seriously for career advancement.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (6 female, 1 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Brooke BermanDescription
On the verge of the millennium, a strange teenaged prophetess obsessed with New Wave music invites a suburban family and the raunchy movie star who has crashed in on their holiday to join her as she welcomes The New World.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Sally OrdwayDescription
Two women pass their time on the porch of a retirement home by counting passing cars.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Comedy (about 10 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes