1980s
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Tony KushnerDescription
In the first part of Tony Kushner's epic, set in 1980's New York City, a gay man is abandoned by his lover when he contracts the AIDS virus, and a closeted Mormon lawyer's marriage to his pill-popping wife stalls... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 180 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Tony KushnerDescription
In the second part of Tony Kushner's epic, the plague of AIDS worsens, relationships fall apart as new ones form, and unexpected friendships take form.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 220 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
BETWEEN EAST AND WEST portrays a middle-aged Czech émigré couple struggling to adapt to a new country.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Rogelio MartinezDescription
Two of history's most enigmatic leaders — Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev — meet to halt the arms race... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male, plus ensemble of 6 actors)
Full Length Drama (about 135 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Marie Thomas, music and lyrics by Micki GrantDescription
This play updates the familiar fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm from the 1800s to the 1980s. Hansel and Gretel's stepmother, Irma, has a plan to get rid of them... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (9 female, 5 male, flexible casting)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Allan HavisDescription
An interrogation tale inspired loosely by the detention of Colombia's Patricia Lara in the mid-1980s... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (1 female, 4 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
A displaced American translator, Michael Milick, meets a Polish writer exiled in London to discuss translating one of his novels into English, but all is not as it appears.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)
Short Comedy (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Brett C LeonardDescription
Three generations of an Italian-American family gather to mourn the death of their matriarch.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (1 female, 4 male, Child Actor)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Anthony ClarvoeDescription
Silicon Valley greed is the subject of Anthony Clarvoe's PICK UP AX, a reference to a command in a computer game... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Joe SuttonDescription
Cold fusion, long a dream of nuclear scientists, able to generate enough electricity to power entire cities from water, has at last been achieved... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (1 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Michael BradyDescription
In October 1983 a truck filled with explosives blew up in a Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 242 soldiers... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Tony KushnerDescription
A fantastical/political/historical exploration of life in the Soviet Union in the earliest dawn of Perestroika... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 80 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
An environmentalist group learns that in order to prosper they must compromise their principles.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesRichard NelsonDescription
A couple begins to consider the future of their five-month-old child.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesRichard NelsonDescription
A man talks to his son about the work he and his mother did in Harlem when they were younger.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes