Russian
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Anton Chekhov, adapted by Richard Nelson from a translation by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
“LITTLE COMEDIES finds the sublimity in intimacy and reminds one that the author was, among many things in his too-short life, a master of the short story … by turns riotously funny, deeply sad and quietly contemplative... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Short Comedy (about 20 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period 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
Anthony Clarvoe, based on the novel by Fyodor DostoevskyDescription
This literary masterpiece by one of the world's greatest authors is brought to vibrant life in this new adaptation... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 140 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Anton Chekhov, adapted by Tom DonaghyDescription
Tom Donaghy's adaptation of Chekhov's beloved and richly bittersweet comedy about a world in transition preserves the economy and humor of the original while highlighting the lyricism and stylistic ambition of the master playwright's final work... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (6 female, 8 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Maxim Gorky, translated by Stephen MulrineDescription
A Chekhovian family drama, first staged in Russia in 1905. In a prophetic echo of the coming revolution, the play looks at the lives of the privileged intelligentsia and of the workers, advocating an alliance between the two.
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (7 female, 9 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Laurence Senelick, based on the novel by Nikolai GogolDescription
A theatrical extravaganza drawn from Nikolay Gogol's comic epic of greed and gluttony in tsarist Russia... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 15 total (8 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Leo Tolstoy, adapted by Donald FreedDescription
One of Leo Tolstoy's most celebrated pieces of late fiction, ILYCH deals with the tyranny of the bourgeois niceties, the weakness in the human heart, living without meaning, and death... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Mikhail Bulgakov after Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
Mikhail Bulgakov's brilliantly theatrical and highly personal adaptation of Cervantes' classic novel is here translated for the first time into English by the renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (winner of two PEN/Book-of-the-Month Translation Awards) and the playwright/director Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Olivier Award)... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (7 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Michael Weller, based on a short story by Anton ChekhovDescription
A spoof fairy tale about a boy and his talking dog, Chatter, who go on a magical journey to recover his lost talent... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (3 female, 8 male)
Short Comedy (about 25 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Evgeny Shvarts, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
A town ruled by a dragon and compelled to pay it tribute is rescued by Sir Lancelot, at a terrible price to himself... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (5 female, 5 male, Flexible Casting)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesMaría Irene Fornés, based on a short story by Anton ChekhovDescription
A surrealist playlet in which a man performs suicides for a fee.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
S Anksy, adaptation by Tony Kushner, translated from Yiddish by Joachim NeugroschelDescription
Considered by many to be the greatest Yiddish drama, A DYBBUK recounts the tale of a wealthy man's daughter possessed by the spirit of her dead beloved.
Production Info
Cast: 18 total (5 female, 13 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesSamm-Art Williams, based on a short story by Anton ChekhovDescription
Set in Baton Rouge in 1919, the defendant of a criminal trial meets the judge who, unbeknownst to him, is to try him the following day... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Nikolai Gogol, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
A new translation of Nikolai Gogol's comic masterpiece by the renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (winner of two PEN/Book-of-the-Month Translation Awards) and the playwright/director Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Olivier Award)... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (7 female, 7 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 135 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Nikolai Gogol, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
Nikolai Gogol's classic and hilarious satire of bureaucratic ineptness and corruption in a first-class translation by Laurence Senelick.
Production Info
Cast: 27 total (6 female, 21 male)
Full Length Drama (about 140 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes