1960s
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Michael Benjamin WashingtonDescription
In the political and racial upheaval of 1963, Bayard Rustin — the brilliant proponent of nonviolent civil resistance — is pushed to orchestrate an unprecedented march on Washington D... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (1 female, 4 male, bit parts: a chorus of ancestors)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Ike HolterDescription
It's the summer of '69, and the death of music icon Judy Garland has emboldened her gay followers. A routine police raid on an underground Greenwich Village hotspot erupts into a full-scale riot, the impetus of the modern gay rights movement... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Rogelio MartinezDescription
It's 1961. Fidel has turned Havana upside down. Veronica's family has fled the country, leaving her behind to find a new family... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 115 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Dennis J ReardonDescription
Set in 1963, LAST DAYS OF THE HIGH FLIER is the story of a young man waiting for his life to begin, the mysterious ex-pilot who enters his life, and the intricate dance of friendship, betrayal, and forgiveness that takes place between the two men... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Mark HarelikDescription
Rural Central Texas, 1962. Dave, still lives in the old family home that his father built. The family is still the only Jewish family in this isolated country town... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Matthew LombardoDescription
LOOPED depicts an actual 1965 recording session in which an intoxicated Tallulah Bankhead required eight hours to dub a single line from her final movie Die! Die! My Darling! while antagonizing the film editor assigned to the job.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Various AuthorsDescription
A selection of titles that explore significant civil rights people and events.
Martin JonesDescription
It is Armistice Day, 1962. Three veterans of the World Wars exchange army stories, lament the vagaries of age, and wait for the arrival of Harry, their old army buddy... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male)
Short Drama (about 50 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
In 1962, on location in Rome, a fading movie star and his wife are entangled in an unraveling web of secrets, lies, and sexual impropriety that threatens to tear apart their family.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
José RiveraDescription
In the Bolivian jungle, Che Guevara is captured and held in a one-room schoolhouse. For two days neither the Bolivian President nor the U... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Willy HoltzmanDescription
Memory and song converge as Judy Holliday, the “dumb blonde” with a genius IQ, charts her experiences from Greenwich Village to Broadway and beyond with notable show business alums, including Leonard Bernstein and Marilyn Monroe.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male, doubling)
Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Megan TerryDescription
Through the use of dialogue, music, chant, dance, pantomime, and image, the play satirizes attitudes toward the Vietnam war... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (6 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Donald FreedDescription
Adolph Eichmann in Jerusalem for the trial of the century.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Constance Congdon, based on the novel by Henry JamesDescription
I have always loved the story in Henry James' novel, Washington Square, and I needed to find something for a young Hispanic actress I wanted to work with, so with Ron Bashford's help, we adapted the story... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes