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Emily Mann, freely adapted from Anton Chekhov's THE SEAGULLDescription
Emily Mann brings Chekhov's masterpiece into the 21st century with bright contemporary language and a modern Hamptons' setting... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Evgeny Shvarts, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
In an imaginary, fantastical land a scholar arrives seeking to find a way to make as many people as he can happy.
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (5 female, 11 male, doubling possible, many bit parts)
Full Length Comedy (about 130 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period 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
Nikolai Erdman, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
An unemployed "little man" contemplates suicide and is besieged by discontented groups wanting him to turn his suicide into a gesture on their behalf.
Production Info
Cast: 24 total (9 female, 15 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Maxim Gorky, translated by Stephen MulrineDescription
Gorky's magnificent response to Chekhov's THE CHERRY ORCHARD was written in 1904, the year Chekhov died... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 17 total (6 female, 11 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
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: 2 total (2 male)
Short Comedy (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
John Guare, based on a short story by Anton ChekhovDescription
While hang gliding in the Catskills, a young woman wonders whether the young man in her company loves her... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Short Comedy (about 20 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Anton Chekhov, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear, and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
"Mankind used to be busy with wars, filling all its existence with campaigns, raids, victories, but now that has all outlived itself, leaving a huge empty space, and there's nothing to fill it with... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (5 female, 9 male, extras)
Full Length Comedy (about 110 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Anton Chekhov, translated by Stephen MulrineDescription
Vanya and his niece, Sonya, work relentlessly to keep their meagre estate going. Sonya finds relief in her undisclosed love for Astrov, the local doctor... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Anton Chekhov, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
An exhilarating new version of UNCLE VANYA that pairs one of the greatest plays ever written with the world's most celebrated translators of Russian literature... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Period CostumesDavid Mamet, based on a short story by Anton ChekhovDescription
Mischievous bureaucrats play a card game (vint) using identity documents in their possession until they are caught redhanded... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (6 male)
Short Comedy (about 15 minutes)
Single Set
Period CostumesAnton 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: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
Short Comedy (about 20 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Anton Chekhov, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
"In the play I portray a disgusting, selfish, provincial fellow who for twenty years has been reading works on art but understanding nothing about the subject — a man who brings despondency and gloom to all those near him, who is not accessible to laughter and music — and who, despite all this, is undoubtedly happy... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Period CostumesNeed help?