Short in Collection
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José RiveraDescription
If we suspected everything we said was being recorded, would we act differently?
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 male)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Steve CarterDescription
A tragicomical look at the current state of our country, with a special nod to the American habit of mispronouncing "Nuclear," "Acapulco," "Realtor," and "Inauguration... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Comedy (about 10 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Firesign TheatreDescription
A short history of European expansion and Native American displacement.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (4 male)
Short Comedy (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Tony KushnerDescription
A therapist tries to rid herself of a difficult patient while the pair's lovers hover in the ether.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Short (about 20 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Sherry KramerDescription
First, there was the Gutenberg Printing Press. It made scribes obsolete. Then the Xerox Machine made carbon paper a thing of the past... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Comedy (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Greg LamDescription
Stuck in Los Angeles traffic during a year of disasters, an employee and their boss chat by phone about work, fires, and pandemic precautions — until a zombie outbreak erupts on the freeway.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female, flexible casting)
Short Dark Comedy (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesJosé RiveraDescription
A runaway tiger renders the island of Manhattan impotent.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Eric BentleyDescription
A TIME TO DIE might be regarded as a Sophocles Variation, inspired as it is by the ANTIGONE of Sophocles, and A TIME TO LIVE as a Euripides Variation being inspired by the ANDROMACHE of Euripides... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesEric BentleyDescription
A TIME TO DIE might be regarded as a Sophocles Variation, inspired as it is by the ANTIGONE of Sophocles, and A TIME TO LIVE as a Euripides Variation being inspired by the ANDROMACHE of Euripides... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male)
Short Drama (about 45 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
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
Yussef El GuindiDescription
A deposed ruler defends his record as a man devoted to his people.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Neil LaButeDescription
A man headed downtown from Union Square asks directions from a homeless man and winds up sharing the details of his marriage and the unexpected contents of his lunch bag.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Aishah RahmanDescription
Opal meets a drunk tramp named Psyche on the bus. He strikes up a conversation, and at first she's very wary of him... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male, plus 1 Musician)
Short Drama (about 25 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
David Mamet, based on a short story by Anton ChekhovDescription
Mischievous bureaucrats play a card game (vint) using identity documents in their possession until they are caught redhanded... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (6 male)
Short Comedy (about 15 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes