1920s
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Tom JacobsonDescription
Five Southern California art students reenact the history of the famous Bauhaus School in this ambitious exploration of the extraordinary people that brought this extraordinary movement to life.
Tom JacobsonDescription
Five struggling Southern California art students create a dramatic presentation on the founding of the famous Bauhaus school in order to save themselves from being kicked out.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male, flexible casting, doubling, 5 actors of any gender)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Tom JacobsonDescription
Defunded by the city of Weimar, the Bauhaus moves to Dessau and becomes the most influential art school in history.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male, flexible casting, doubling, 5 actors of any gender)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
A R GurneyDescription
BIG BILL captures tennis player William Tilden's turbulent life in a series of scenes that shift back and forth in time... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (1 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Richard Nelson, with a special introduction by Tom CreamerDescription
A stunning play from one of America's best contemporary playwrights, FRANK'S HOME is a lyrical, heartbreaking story about Frank Lloyd Wright, one of our greatest — if less than perfect — visionaries, a man who created a new architectural vocabulary but couldn't create a home for himself and his family.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Anthony Clarvoe, from the novel by F Scott FitzgeraldDescription
F Scott Fitzgerald's great American novel is here realized for the stage by Anthony Clarvoe in a new adaptation suffused with critical insights into the role ethnicity played in Gatsby's struggle... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, doubling, flexible casting, extras possible)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
Inspired by the Moscow Art Theatre's historic tour of America in 1923–1924, where Konstantin Stanislavski's company was awaited with feverish anticipation, OUR LIFE IN ART presents the Russian actors over the course of one day while they are far from home, and political and financial dangers press upon them from all sides.
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (5 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 115 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Ruth WolffDescription
This play depicts the dramatic final year of the Woodrow Wilson White House when, on her husband's urging, his new second wife, Edith (sometimes criticized as being "America's First Female President") hides the gravity of his illness from his Cabinet and the entire country, hoping to keep him in office long enough to achieve his goal: US entry into the League of Nations — in his view the only possible guarantor of future world peace... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Harley Granville Barker, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
Harley Granville Barker's mostly forgotten masterpiece, THE SECRET LIFE (1923), has had only two productions, none in the United States and none during Granville Barker's lifetime... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (5 female, 5 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 150 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Luigi Pirandello, translated by Penelope BussolinoDescription
When six characters suddenly appear during the rehearsal of a Pirandello play and demand to have their story told instead, the director is forced to confront an entirely new theatrical situation, one that cascades into chaos as the characters and the actors collide in surreal twists of comical, philosophical, and tragical confrontation... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (6 female, 10 male, flexible casting, 2 nonspeaking children, extras)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
In 1920, thirty-two-year-old Les Kurbas (the founder of the modern Ukrainian theatre), takes a group of young actors out of war-torn Kyiv into the countryside where they will perform plays, bartering tickets for food... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (6 female)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Angela HanksDescription
Thalia wants to build a farmhouse in the middle of the great big city. Mabel is on a quest to become its first female preacher (although her rampant sexual thoughts are having a real impact on her sermonizing)... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesNeed help?