Classics
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Aeschylus, adapted by Robert Auletta
Description
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 CostumesSophocles, 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 CostumesHenrik Ibsen, adapted by Eric OvermyerDescription
Eric Overmyer's remarkable adaptation of Ibsen's PEER GYNT, set in the Pacific Northwest and in South America.
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (6 female, 8 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesEric Overmyer, Moliere, Heinrich von Kleist, Jean GiraudouxDescription
A comical, anachronistic, and witty retelling of the Greek myth, composed "after Kleist by way of Molière with a little bit of Giraudoux... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesSophocles, adapted by Gregory MosherDescription
Kreon, the king of Thebes, has decreed that his nephew, the rebel soldier Polynices, will lie where he died in battle, as food for the birds and dogs... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male, Chorus 1 to 16)
Full Length Drama (about 55 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesAlexandre Dumas, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
"ANTONY is not a melodrama, ANTONY is not a tragedy, ANTONY is not a stage play. ANTONY is an acting-out of love, jealousy and anger in five acts... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (6 female, 9 male, extras)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesMaurice Hennequin and Pierre Vebér, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
This classic and hilarious French farce commences when a customs official barges into newlyweds Robert and Paulette's train compartment at a most inopportune moment on their wedding night, rendering the poor fellow impotent... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (5 female, 7 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 130 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesJules Verne, adapted by Laura EasonDescription
Jules Verne's classic adventure tale is reimagined for the stage in this enchanting adaptation.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesGeorges Feydeau, translated from the French by Laurence SenelickDescription
THE AWFUL TOOTH was the last new play of Feydeau to be produced in his lifetime, and its dentist's chair offers a dose of sadistic hilarity... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
Short Comedy (about 45 minutes)
Single Set
Period CostumesRichard NelsonDescription
Inspired by the Bertolt Brecht play BAAL, Richard Nelson's BAL concerns a thoroughly amoral man who destroys the lives of those around him.
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (5 female, 9 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary CostumesFederico García Lorca, translated by Jo CliffordDescription
García Lorca's passionate, lyrical tale of longing and revenge: a twentieth-century masterpiece... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (7 female, 3 male, bit parts)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesMolière, adapted into English Verse by Brian VineroDescription
Monsieur Jourdain is a middle-class merchant who foolishly believes he can break into the upper echelon of society... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male, flexible casting, doubling, bit parts)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesAnthony 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 CostumesReiner Prochaska from the tales by Geoffrey ChaucerDescription
This adaptation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales explores the bawdy humor of "The Miller's Tale," "The Merchant's Tale," "The Nun's Priest's Tale," and "The Wife of Bath's Prologue... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male, doubling)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Period CostumesFernando de Rojas, translated by Jo CliffordDescription
Celestina, madam of the local brothel, is commissioned by a nobleman to help him seduce a beautiful young woman... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (5 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 150 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes