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Brooke BermanDescription
THE LIDDY PLAYS follow Liddy and Emerson, an enigmatic brother and sister, as they confront the death of their mother, fall in love with dangerous people, learn to meditate, and remember the past.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 25 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Jon KleinDescription
For the North Carolina family in Jon Klein's hilarious comedy WISHING WELL, the weekend of a hurricane will see the jaw-dropping secrets that define their lives revealed... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Adam RappDescription
In WOLF IN THE RIVER, Adam Rapp explores love and neglect, the challenges of poverty, the dangerous cost of shiftlessness, the simple notion of leaving a place behind, and the value of a girl.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male, ensemble chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 105 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Darcy Parker BruceDescription
Max, recently separated, has just moved into the rundown Shady Pines motel at the edge of a national park... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (1 female, 4 male, also 5 wolves in the wolf pack, all roles may be cast as trans/nonbinary)
Full Length Comedy (about 75 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Franca Rame and Dario Fo, adapted by Estelle ParsonsDescription
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
Ludmilla BollowDescription
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 NelsonDescription
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 AlvarezDescription
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
Anton Chekhov, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
"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 BergerDescription
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 YorkDescription
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 WassersteinDescription
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 KramerDescription
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 MagnusDescription
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 SenelickDescription
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