Historical Figure
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Various AuthorsDescription
A selection of titles that explore significant civil rights people and events.
Davey HolmesDescription
MORE LIES ABOUT JERZY explores the life of a celebrated Polish writer, who comes under fire when the veracity of his award-winning Holocaust memoir is questioned... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Joe SuttonDescription
In the first years after World War II the author of Animal Farm is chaperoned during an American book tour by a fetching young woman, whose job is to dissuade Orwell from telling Americans why he is a proud socialist.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male, 1 male bit part)
Full Length Drama (about 105 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period 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 Costumes
Ruth WolffDescription
In this comedy about the nature of marriage, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley battle out their relationship at the gates of Heaven and Hell... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Rogelio MartinezDescription
Based on the true events surrounding the groundbreaking table tennis tournament that marked a decisive new chapter in US–China relations, PING PONG is the story of the extraordinary young man who played the game that changed the world and the political actors who were playing him... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, doubling, bit parts)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Tom JacobsonDescription
Dark secrets bubble to the surface as two strangers — one a priest, the other a noted art historian — share a surreal confession at the "exclusive" Bimini Baths, circa 1918... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 60 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
Richard Nelson uses the familiar tale of Rip Van Winkle as the basis for his epic study of American agrarian reform, the Industrial Revolution, and the labor movement.
Production Info
Cast: 22 total (7 female, 15 male)
Full Length Drama (about 210 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Oscar Wilde, translated by Matt DiCintioDescription
Inspired by symbolist poetry and the frequent appearance of Salomé in contemporary art and literature, Oscar Wilde wrote SALOMÉ in French during a Paris stay in 1891–92... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 17 total (2 female, 15 male, bit parts)
Full Length Drama (about 60 minutes)
Single Set
Period CostumesRuth WolffDescription
Sarah Bernhardt made her lasting fame in America. This tour de force for one actress takes Bernhardt from her first American tour, in her thirties, to her last, when, with leg amputated, she toured the country at age seventy-two... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period 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 CostumesRuth 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
José RiveraDescription
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period 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
Ian TaylorDescription
This delightful small-scale musical is about the life of Gilbert and Sullivan. It is interspersed with some of the best-known songs from the Savoy operas, including THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, HMS PINAFORE, and THE MIKADO.
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (4 female, 7 male, flexible casting)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes