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Jack Gilhooley
Description
Seven auto-racing freaks in their twenties, restless and resentful from an inability to alter their dead-end existence in a small town, look forward to the return of the local hero (a world champion driver)... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesTony KushnerCollection Description
TINY KUSHNER finds the inimitable Tony Kushner at his most laconic. Replete with scintillating turns of phrase, rich in wit and wisdom, and branded with his trademark intelligence, TINY KUSHNER reveals that Tony Kushner's mastery of the short form is as pronounced as his mastery of the epic... [read more]
Michael BradyDescription
A grieving widower must accept his wife's death to save himself and his relationship with his daughter... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (5 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesBob ClymanDescription
Meg and Jack were childhood sweethearts, who got married, and when their daughter, Hannah, was born, Meg stayed home with her, while Jack worked... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (3 female, 1 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesRobert AulettaDescription
The play introduces us to a couple, Dunn and Phia. We see them fight. We hear their pleas and curses... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 35 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesDonald FreedDescription
A brilliant young actress, and an immortal diva, search for the secret soul of Lady Macbeth.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesJeffrey M JonesDescription
Virtually all of the dialogue in this play has been constructed out of source material dating from the year 1950, and what it reveals is an America in which perception and reality are frequently at odds.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesMatt LyleDescription
In 1692, as the Salem Witch Trials rage in nearby Salem, the residents of Peabody, Massachusetts are going through their own crucible, and they are just, like, really sick of crucibles... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male, doubling, flexible casting, up to 37 actors)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesThe Illegitimate PlayersDescription
The most Illegitimate collection of titles ever offered. The Illegitimate Players' irreverent twists on the classics are joyous, knee-slapping fun.
Edwin SánchezDescription
When Papo, a tough-talking Puerto Rican hustler from the Bronx, meets Brian, a frightened young lawyer from the Midwest, Papo begins to glimpse the possibility of a romantic escape from his life on the streets... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesKenny FinkleDescription
Part murder mystery, part unrequited romance, and part absurdist debacle about the denial and transcendence of death, TRANSATLANTICA tells the story of Dr Reginald Reinhold, whose psychoanalytic session with an eccentric patient, Ilyria (of the land of Ilyria), is interrupted by his wife with news that she is dying... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesNaomi WallaceDescription
High atop a railroad trestle that spans a bone dry creek, two teenagers plan to race across the bridge against an oncoming locomotive... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Period CostumesBrooke BermanDescription
On the verge of the millennium, a strange teenaged prophetess obsessed with New Wave music invites a suburban family and the raunchy movie star who has crashed in on their holiday to join her as she welcomes The New World.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesSally OrdwayDescription
Two women pass their time on the porch of a retirement home by counting passing cars.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Comedy (about 10 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesPeter UllianDescription
In 1986, a band of would-be revolutionaries, made up of a cross-generational amalgam of burned-out sixties radicals and angry punk anarchists, await the return of their leader, Blackbird Flynt, following a failed bank robbery.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (1 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 115 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes