Short in Collection
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Robert AulettaDescription
VIRGINS is a fantasia inspired by the robbery in New York of an armored car in which two policemen and a guard were killed... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Firesign TheatreDescription
A mad Kafkaesque journey that takes a confused tourist into a shadowy world of Byzantine fascists... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (4 male)
Short Comedy (about 30 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Franca Rame and Dario Fo, adapted by Estelle ParsonsDescription
A working-class woman prepares for work while taking care of her baby. Meanwhile, her husband sleeps... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Sybille PearsonDescription
A play within a play set in a veterinarian's office.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesSally NemethDescription
The rain will not stop. Rising seas reclaim the land. In a loft barely above the water line, scientist Evangeline tracks the deluge, while locked in a love triangle with fellow researchers Jack and Dresden... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 25 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Jennifer TuckettDescription
What would you do if you woke up one day before school and discovered you just happened to be a superhero? Impress your friends or save the world? Two ordinary schoolgirls, Yasmin and Katie, try to make sense of this crazy and confused world in this honest and powerful play.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Drama (about 40 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesFranca Rame and Dario Fo, adapted by Estelle ParsonsDescription
A woman's double is a doll who says four-letter words to attract men.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 45 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: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
Short Comedy (about 20 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesLaura QuinnDescription
A math major, a biology major, and an economics major explore feminist poetry with the help of several pitchers of beer.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Single Set
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: 2 total (1 female, 1 male, plus a choir of men and women)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesLauren FeldmanDescription
An estranged mother visits her daughter in college in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Greg OwensDescription
A trailer park, a tattered bathrobe, a sixteen-year-old pregnant daughter, pork rinds, and … a winning lottery ticket?
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Short Comedy (about 10 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Robert ChesleyDescription
Dog and Buck, former lovers, run into each other at a bar. Both now have AIDS. Buck's disease is in the advanced stages, and Dog refuses to recognize and acknowledge their shared past and, inevitably, their shared future... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 male)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
José RiveraDescription
A young girl bears the child of a fabled flying man.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (3 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
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: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 25 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes