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    Franca Rame and Dario Fo, adapted by Estelle Parsons

    Description

    Maria, a housewife, has been locked up at home by her jealous husband. Come to think of it, all the men in her life have been oppressing her... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 1 total (1 female)
    Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
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    Ludmilla Bollow

    Description

    Angel lives alone in the house on the hill, built by her now-deceased husband, Vernon, the love of her life... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 1 total (1 female)
    Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  •
    Richard Nelson

    Description

    THE GABRIELS trilogy chronicles a year in the life of a neighboring family who reunite in real time at three different points across 2016 to celebrate, remember, and wait for the world to change... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 6 total (5 female, 1 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
  •
    Lynne Alvarez

    Description

    Unemployed mailman Humbert Lavoignet has fallen into a six-month trance. When he awakes, he announces that God has ordered him to do something wonderful, and he sets about building a tower made of junk... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 5 total (1 female, 4 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
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    Anton Chekhov, adapted by Richard Nelson

    Description

    "In the play I portray a disgusting, selfish, provincial fellow who for twenty years has been reading works on art but understanding nothing about the subject — a man who brings despondency and gloom to all those near him, who is not accessible to laughter and music — and who, despite all this, is undoubtedly happy... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
    Single Set
    Period Costumes
  •
    Glen Berger

    Description

    Set in the fantastical, miserable village of Brood, Glen Berger's ingenious play conjures up a marvelously imaginative world peopled by a large cast of dreamers, schemers and would-be lovers... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 140 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
  •
    Y York

    Description

    L J Freeman — beloved quarterback for the current Super Bowl champs, "American hero," husband to a beautiful woman, father to two young children — has made a really terrible, really stupid mistake... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male, Multiethnic Cast)
    Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  •
    Wendy Wasserstein

    Description

    A running commentary on, to, and about a woman's life and her exercise routine.

    Production Info

    Cast: 1 total (1 female)
    Short Comedy (about 5 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  •
    Sherry Kramer

    Description

    On their first date, Didi and Fred desperately try to feel something for each other. But they can’t... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
    Short Comedy (about 45 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
  •
    Bryn Magnus

    Description

    WORLD SET FREE is the story of the top-secret race to produce the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes
  •
    Carl Sternheim, translated from the German by Laurence Senelick

    Description

    When the opportunity arises for lowly musician Paul Schippel to rise in the ranks of society, he takes it... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male, doubling possible)
    Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes
  •
    Georg Büchner, English version by Kenneth Tigar

    Description

    A groundbreaking masterpiece of the modern theatre. The play tells the tale of a poor soldier, a barber in the army, who is overwhelmed by the military and forced to become a human guinea pig for quasi-medical research... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 16 total (4 female, 12 male, doubling, bit parts, children, extras)
    Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes
  •
    Neil LaBute

    Description

    Can someone honestly love a person whom they have deceived for thirty years? This is the central question behind WRECKS, Neil LaBute's latest foray into the dark side of human nature... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 1 total (1 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
  •
    Neil LaBute

    Collection Description

    This collection includes one full-length play, WRECKS, and seven short plays, COAX, FALLING IN LIKE, LAND OF THE DEAD, LIARS CLUB, LOVE AT TWENTY, STAND-UP, and UNION SQUARE... [read more]

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    Jonathan Reynolds

    Description

    Deftly mingling fantasy and reality, the action centers on "Duke" Bronkowski, an aging big-league pitcher trying for a comeback... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 10 total (1 female, 9 male)
    Short Comedy (about 30 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes