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Ruth WolffDescription
Why, having become Queen in childhood, would Christina of Sweden give up the throne? Confused about her sexual identity and religious beliefs, and thwarted in love, she decides to abdicate, convert to Catholicism, and throw herself, for life, on the hospitality of the Vatican... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 140 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Alan BowneDescription
Roy, a merchant marine, is home after a six-month stint at sea. He drinks heavily and argues with Rita, his neighbor and sometime lover, and with his sixteen-year-old daughter, Fay... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Sherry KramerDescription
Human spontaneous combustion is not something that most people worry about, but Amalia Parker does, and that's why she won't sleep with Rob... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Len JenkinDescription
Abraham Zobell is a man like other men. No better, not much worse. But, unlike other men, he has a vital need to lay flowers on an ocean grave before it's too late... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (6 female, 8 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Lydia StrykDescription
A woman is run over and critically injured. The driver appears at her bedside. There are encounters in life that take you somewhere you've never been and never meant to go.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Charles EveredDescription
Burned-out actor Hugh Pendleton, not-so-fresh from playing Scrooge one too many times in the backwater community theatre where his once promising career has met its unglamorous end, is surprised to encounter three spirits of his own in this quirky and compelling ode to the holiday classic.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male, flexible casting, up to 17 actors)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Victor BumbaloDescription
At the height of the AIDS crisis, Adam searches for answers, comfort, and a new place for sexuality as he witnesses the decline and inevitable loss of his beloved best friend.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Charles EveredDescription
A self-involved New York couple adopt a young sailor from Arkansas during Fleet Week.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
José RiveraDescription
Set against the backdrop of Puerto Rico's struggle with the issue of statehood, a young woman, who speaks no Spanish, moves in with her 105-year-old great grandmother who speaks no English... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Christina MasciottiDescription
When Stanley invites his estranged 18-year-old daughter to spend her first winter break from college with him in his recently robbed row home that doubles as a gun shop, he is stunned by a stray jolt of the unfamiliar: a home suddenly alive with disquiet, and a shocking glimpse at a life with potential.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
A comedy set at that epicenter of misunderstandings in 1990, just a year after the Berlin Wall was opened up and as its slow demolition was underway, and a year after the "Velvet Revolution" in Czechoslovakia.
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male)
Short Comedy (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Dorothy FortenberryDescription
Voices from early twentieth-century New Orleans speak to the levees and the floods.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (4 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Aeschylus, adapted by Robert AulettaDescription
Agamemnon, having sacrificed his daughter, Iphigenia, to win the battle of Troy, returns to Argos... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Janet NeiprisDescription
A satiric comedy about separation. A husband and wife, cheered on by their respective lawyers, hastily and hilariously divide the spoils of their marriage... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 60 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Sophocles, adapted by Robert AulettaDescription
A modern adaptation of AJAX set at the Pentagon with corrupt, power-mad generals who censor information and revel in blood.
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (2 female, 8 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes