Short in Collection
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Richard NelsonDescription
A comedy set at that epicenter of misunderstandings in 1990, just a year after the Berlin Wall was opened up and as its slow demolition was underway, and a year after the "Velvet Revolution" in Czechoslovakia.
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male)
Short Comedy (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Dorothy FortenberryDescription
Voices from early twentieth-century New Orleans speak to the levees and the floods.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (4 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Neil LaButeDescription
A man attempts to make up with his wife for his bad behavior, tying himself in verbal knots as he seeks to avoid a genuine apology... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Robert AulettaDescription
Amazons have moved in next door to Chaz. It was fine at first, but then came the weird music, the drums, the chanting, the archery... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Victor BumbaloDescription
A working-class couple plots to drug their gay son and his lover to keep them from attending their daughter's wedding.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesRichard NelsonDescription
To the Englishman Harry, Thursday may be a stupid day to have a holiday, but for his wife, Anne, in her eighth month of pregnancy and third year in London, a Thanksgiving dinner is a slightly desperate way to bring America to England... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Betty ShamiehDescription
A short play based on the character of the Architect from the play THE BLACK EYED.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Katharine LongDescription
A romantic fantasy set in the past in a funeral parlor.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Susan Soon He StantonDescription
Two outsiders, Dado and Desiree, have known each other all their lives in a small town on Kauai. But not until they find themselves trapped together in a library basement during a storm do they finally confront their shared childhood, struggling to negotiate their futures while honoring their past.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Billy AronsonDescription
Mid-life love.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Short Comedy (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Greg OwensDescription
Angry youth meets pedantic elder at stoplight. Mutual understanding does not ensue.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Comedy (about 10 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesNeil LaButeDescription
A suburban husband and wife have had to relinquish their foster son, who has turned criminal, to the authorities... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Georges Feydeau, translated from the French by Laurence SenelickDescription
THE AWFUL TOOTH was the last new play of Feydeau to be produced in his lifetime, and its dentist's chair offers a dose of sadistic hilarity... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
Short Comedy (about 45 minutes)
Single Set
Period CostumesGreg OwensDescription
A young girl and her mother watch Evel Knievel fail to jump Snake River Canyon while her dad leaves them both for his girlfriend... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Comedy (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Edwin SánchezDescription
Bea does not want her beloved, May, to marry Jerry, but Jerry's rich, and May has a plan.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes