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Tom JacobsonDescription
Defunded by the city of Weimar, the Bauhaus moves to Dessau and becomes the most influential art school in history.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male, flexible casting, doubling, 5 actors of any gender)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Tom JacobsonDescription
After Hitler shuts down the Bauhaus, some of the faculty emigrate to Los Angeles, where scores are settled between the founder Walter Gropius, his ex-wife Alma Mahler and composer Arnold Schönberg.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male, flexible casting, doubling, 5 actors of any gender)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Edwin SánchezDescription
Bea does not want her beloved, May, to marry Jerry, but Jerry's rich, and May has a plan.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
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: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Short Comedy (about 20 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Jenny StaffordDescription
Steve and Marty Martin are two brothers on the brink of closing their failing pet funeral home, "A Nice Farm Upstate with Plenty of Room to Run Around... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male, one role doubles)
Full Length Comedy (about 95 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Billy AronsonDescription
Four female fans have a ticket to ride with The Beatles.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Short Comedy (about 20 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Laura Shaine CunninghamDescription
An avant garde baby shower runs amok in a downtown New York loft. Hilarious and moving, the women friends confront one another at a pivotal moment in their lives.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (6 female)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Brett C LeonardDescription
“Leonard comes at you head on and with no holds barred, like no one that I know of at work presently in the theater... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Alan BowneDescription
Set in an apocalyptic future where a young man named Torch has been quarantined to a dark, squalid room on the Lower East Side of New York City, after testing positive for a nameless, sexually transmitted disease... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Ludmilla BollowDescription
Tonight Belle has come to clean out her movie memorabilia accumulated over the years in the ticket taker booth in the now closed Bijou Theatre... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Tom JacobsonDescription
Christopher Marlowe, sixteenth-century author, was murdered at the age of 29. This tragicomedy speculates that his death was tied to his scandalous play about the relationship between Jesus and the disciple John.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 105 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Neil LaButeDescription
A grad-school teaching assistant and his undereducated girlfriend are parked on lover's lane, making out... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Joe PintauroDescription
When we meet Mary, she is living on an island off the coast of New England. She lives alone in a house surrounded by fog that is so close to the highway that she can hear the cry of animals as they are hit by passing cars... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Lee HunkinsDescription
Two women sharing a hospital room cope with breast cancer, husbands, and racial barriers.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 55 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
BETWEEN EAST AND WEST portrays a middle-aged Czech émigré couple struggling to adapt to a new country.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes