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Kevin ArkadieDescription
Set in Virginia in the 1980s, A LIKE LIKE THE REST revolves around two cognitively disabled parents whom the state wants to sterilize.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Naomi WallaceDescription
On the docks of late 18th-century Rhode Island, two runaway slaves, Adjua and Dembi, plan a desperate and daring run to freedom... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Gus EdwardsDescription
Romance in middle age can be complicated while balancing children, ex-spouses, jobs, and ambitions. In this charming tale, a working-class couple falls in love and struggles to maintain a relationship without giving up their old dreams, habits and commitments... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Jonathan NortonDescription
T'Wana Jepson has been bit before. And scratched. And kicked. And punched. And called every dirty word in the book... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Steve CarterDescription
MIRAGE, so like "marriage" in its spelling and some pronunciations, is about how much more interesting mundane situations could be if people would only apply themselves... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Jonathan NortonDescription
1963. Jackson, Mississippi. Robert-Earl Monroe wants Civil Rights Activist Medgar Evers off his once quiet street... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Aishah RahmanDescription
Inspired by the 1973 killing of a ten-year-old boy by New York City police, THE MOJO AND THE SAYSO is both a comic and dramatic study of the ways that people cope with the aftermath of terrible tragedy... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Various AuthorsDescription
A selection of titles that explore significant civil rights people and events.
Charles GordoneDescription
In NO PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY a black bartender in New York City attempts to outwit a white mobster syndicate... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (5 female, 11 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Cassandra MedleyDescription
Wendy, whose secret birth name is Zena, is a negro-identified woman who is passing for white. Suddenly, on a white hot day in August, she crosses paths with her black husband from the past.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesSteve CarterDescription
At his funeral, Eustace Baylor and his two families examine the tattered cloth of their lives. They find that if you would take one last look, you should take one first look... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (7 female, 4 male)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Aishah RahmanDescription
ONLY IN AMERICA is oracular, mythic, wicked satire, with outrageous humor and provocative subject matter... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (3 female, 1 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Reginald EdmundDescription
THE ORDAINED SMILE OF SAINT SADIE MAY JENKINS is the seventh play in the nine-play series The City of the Bayou Collection, Reginald Edmund’s contemporary House of Atreus through an Afro-Surrealist lens... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male, all characters are African American)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Steve CarterDescription
Set "well in the past" on a fictional Caribbean island, the play tells the story of a sorceress who falls madly in love with a shallow womanizer.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (5 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 140 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Anthony ClarvoeDescription
Inspired by true events: on a Tennessee hilltop, heroes in training meet in secret. All are changed. Some change America.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesNeed help?