Short in Collection
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Edwin SánchezDescription
Tomas's father was a busboy at Windows on the World.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Georges Feydeau, translated from the French by Laurence SenelickDescription
Inspired by Feydeau's wife's obsession with giving the children laxatives, especially his eldest son, Jacques, every character is despicable for their moral cowardice and egoism, providing a hopeless (but hilarious) environment for child-rearing.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male, 1 child)
Short Comedy (about 50 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Louis PhillipsDescription
Inanimate objects take on a life of their own.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
A R GurneyDescription
A husband and wife learn of each other's extramarital affairs.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Franca Rame and Dario Fo, adapted by Estelle ParsonsDescription
The introduction to ORGASMO ADULTO ESCAPES FROM THE ZOO.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 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
Robert AulettaDescription
A couple, who not so long ago had everything, realizes that they have irrevocably lost it. And that they have nothing at all to replace it with... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Yussef El GuindiDescription
A Muslim man prepares to board a plane under the suspicious eyes of his fellow passengers.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
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: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 25 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Susan MillerDescription
Finishing a basement is either a neurotic retreat from reality or a way of patching up the cracks.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Naomi WallaceDescription
THE RETREATING WORLD concerns an Iraqi bird keeper from Baghdad and his address before the International Pigeon Convention.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
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: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 25 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Billy AronsonDescription
Graduates return to show off the incredible things they’ve become.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male)
Short Comedy (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Tony KushnerDescription
Six playwrights gather to illegally bury a seventh in an exclusive cemetery on Martha's Vineyard.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
Short Comedy (about 20 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesYussef El GundiDescription
A writer's relationship is on the line when his work reveals perhaps more about his own biases than he realizes.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes