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Erin MallonDescription
Ruth is a 74-year-old woman. Rowan is a 23-year-old man. They're in love. And Ruth's 43-year-old son is freaking the hell out.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Ruth WolffDescription
The scene is the glass-roofed solarium atop a high-rise apartment building. As several seasons pass, the public and private lives of the solarium's pool members unfold before the eyes of the young handsome pool guard... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (6 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Naomi WallaceDescription
Mixing reality and dream, the radical and the mystic, SLAUGHTER CITY is a searing drama about life in the meat-packing industry.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Pierre Carlet de Marivaux, translated from French by Laurence SenelickDescription
SLAVE ISLAND was first produced on Monday, 5 March 1725 by Lelio Riccoboni's troupe and the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, Paris... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male, nonspeaking roles)
Full Length Comedy (about 50 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesPierre Carlet de Marivaux, translated from French by Laurence SenelickCollection Description
SLAVE ISLAND was first produced on Monday, 5 March 1725 by Lelio Riccoboni's troupe and the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, Paris... [read more]
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
Staci SwedeenDescription
A woman struggles with unbearable memories.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (5 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Sherry KramerCollection Description
This collection includes five short plays: CAKE, HOLD FOR THREE, THE DREAM HOUSE, THE WORLD AT ABSOLUTE ZERO, and A THING OF BEAUTY CAN BE COPIED FOREVER... [read more]
Plays in This Collection
Janet NeiprisDescription
Three American professors come to teach in China the summer before Tiananmen Square. The Cultural Revolution is over, but when Remy, the American professor, attempts to bond with her Chinese translator, Sun, the friendship proves to be impossible for political reasons... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (5 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary 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
Brooke BermanDescription
Twenty-one-year-old it-girl Abby and her plucky best friend, Clea, embark on a spur-of-the-moment revenge trip to London — Abby, in pursuit of the young novelist who has cannibalized her in his literary debut and Clea desperately seeking Madonna.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Edwin SánchezDescription
Ernest can't wipe the smile off his face.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 male)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Vickie RamirezDescription
A Tuscarora woman, who was born outside of her Clan, and therefore outside of Longhouse tradition, struggles to find her place on her very traditional reservation.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Brett C LeonardDescription
“Leonard comes at you head on and with no holds barred, like no one that I know of at work presently in the theater... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male)
Short Comedy (about 40 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Yussef El GuindiDescription
A man is casually introduced to an army sniper, and it provokes a deeply discomfiting reaction.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes