Historical Figure
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Owen S RackleffDescription
The first celebrity chef, Auguste Escoffier is revealed in all his culinary glory in this delightful one-man show.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Betty ShamiehDescription
Inspired by the life of Hatshepsut, a woman who ruled as a pharaoh in ancient Egypt. Under the guidance of Senenmut, her female lover, Hatshepsut usurps the throne from her son-in-law, Thutmose III... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period 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
Ruth WolffDescription
A Play with Music — the music of Frederic Chopin. George Sand had many lovers — but the one to whom she was most attached, and who almost ruined her life, was Frederic Chopin... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 125 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Anthony ClarvoeDescription
Hounded out of his native England, Joseph Priestley hoped to secure a sanctuary along the banks of the Susquehanna... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, doubling, bit parts)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesRuth WolffDescription
Hallie Flanagan Davis headed the Federal Theater in the 1930s and 40s — until the anti-art element in Congress decided that federal support of what they saw as lazy left-wing artists must end... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Allan HavisDescription
A factual dramatic account of the advancing history of the Brown v. Board of Ed Supreme Court decision in counterpoint with the personal drama of Senator Strom Thurmond's unacknowledged mixed race daughter, Essie Mae Williams Washington.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Nick SalamoneDescription
Part Greek tragedy, part blackest comedy, HILLARY AGONISTES presents the cautionary tale of Hillary Clinton, newly elected President of the United States... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (3 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
It is 1958, and New York City is in the midst of a major building boom; a four-lane highway is planned for the heart of Washington Square; Carnegie Hall is designated for demolition; entire neighborhoods on the West Side are leveled to make room for a new "palace of art... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (5 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Len JenkinDescription
JONAH is a rumination on the story of the man and the sea. Jonah's a man on the run. He hops a Greyhound to Joppa and then grabs a cabin on the ocean-bound Carnival Princess... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesRuth WolffDescription
As he is making preparations to set out on what will become his final sea journey, Joshua Slocum (hounded by an unsympathetic offstage second wife), tells us about his previous Great Adventure when, in 1895, he set out on a three-year journey in his 34-foot sloop the Spray to prove that a man could sail around the world alone... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Jonathan YukichDescription
What happens when football and aliens mix in the American South? Set in 1974, an Alabama family is forced to confront long-submerged truths when sports legend Bear Bryant visits their hometown of Balls... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Michael Sutton and Cynthia MandelbergDescription
This provocative chronicle, interspersed with fantasy sequences from Alice in Wonderland, traces the career of Charles Dodgson (better know as Lewis Carroll) from his first work on the immortal classic to his near downfall when accused of immorality.
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (4 female, 7 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
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
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