Short in Collection
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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
Billy AronsonDescription
Four female fans have a ticket to ride with The Beatles.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Short Comedy (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: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Ludmilla BollowDescription
Tonight Belle has come to clean out her movie memorabilia accumulated over the years in the ticket taker booth in the now closed Bijou Theatre... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Neil LaButeDescription
A grad-school teaching assistant and his undereducated girlfriend are parked on lover's lane, making out... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Lee HunkinsDescription
Two women sharing a hospital room cope with breast cancer, husbands, and racial barriers.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 55 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Naomi WallaceDescription
BETWEEN THIS BREATH AND YOU takes place after hours in the waiting room of a clinic in West Jerusalem, where a Palestinian father confronts a nurse's aide, a young Israeli woman, about the meaning of the loss of his son and the impact it had on her life.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Kermit FrazierDescription
Two Black male figures search for purpose and companionship in a disruptive, destructive, principally white world.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 male)
Short Drama (about 25 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Yussef El GuindiDescription
A mother's son has made the ultimate sacrifice.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Betty ShamiehDescription
Four Arab women from across the ages meet in the afterlife. As these characters — who include the Biblical Delilah and a secular modern Arab-American — struggle to come to terms with their lives and their choices, this shockingly funny play skewers traditional views on sex, family, and terrorism.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (4 female)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Georges Feydeau, translated from the French by Laurence SenelickDescription
Trapped in a misalliance, a husband is set upon by his wife, his in-laws, and the midwife.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)
Short Comedy (about 50 minutes)
Single Set
Period CostumesBilly AronsonDescription
Four people who seem to be in a reality show seem to share certain basic values until they seem to start strangling one another.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Short Comedy (about 20 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesConstance CongdonDescription
Three short plays about apartment dwellers, with an epilogue by their landlady.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Short Comedy (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesBrett 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: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Louis PhillipsDescription
A spoof about the ultimate snake-pit, Hollywood, with a nod to David Mamet's SPEED-THE-PLOW.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes