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adapted from Euripides by Sara FarringtonDescription
In a flash of modern warfare (Ukraine? Afghanistan? Vietnam? Poland? Hiroshima? Israel? Gaza?), a mother loses her child... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Full Length Drama (about 80 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Adam RappDescription
A religious Southern clan cite God's will as justification for torturing each other.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Karen SundeDescription
TRUTH TAKES A HOLIDAY asks what happens in the White House in the first 24 hours after a presidential sex scandal breaks?
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Allan HavisDescription
This stark, disquieting drama depicts the eleventh-hour effort of a hired tutor to transform the life of a very bright, self-destructive teenager before a Columbine tragedy occurs in San Diego.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Tom JacobsonDescription
The true story of two actors who hired themselves out to the Long Beach Police Department in 1914 to entrap "social vagrants" in public restrooms... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Abdelfattah Abusrour, Lisa Schlesinger, and Naomi WallaceDescription
When Fawaz, a young Palestinian-American, travels to Israel and the Occupied West Bank for the wedding of his estranged brother, he finds only Hala, his fiery fiancée, abandoned at the altar... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male, 1 female child, flexible casting)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Tiffany AntoneDescription
After her estranged parents' phone line has been disconnected, Moira Lane begrudgingly returns to the home she abandoned eight years ago only to find things far worse than she could have feared... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Michael BradyDescription
A group of people visit a ranch in New Mexico to observe mysterious lights that appear on the walls of a nearby canyon... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Mac WellmanDescription
TWO SEPTEMBER is set in post-WWII Vietnam, when Ho Chi Minh had visions of a free country and a newly formed House UnAmerican Affairs Committee blacklisted a young, female American writer who believed in truth, justice, and a humane social order.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
Based on a true story. The year is 1849, the place New York City. Two arch rivals — the English star William Macready and the American matinee idol Edwin Forrest — tempt fate when both perform the Scottish Play on the same night in neighboring downtown theaters... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 24 total (7 female, 17 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Yussef El GuindiDescription
A deposed ruler defends his record as a man devoted to his people.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Alfred Jarry, translated by Kenneth McLeishDescription
The satirical farce acclaimed as the touchstone for the Dada and Surrealist movements, the Theatre of the Absurd, and much of the rest of experimental theatre in the twentieth century.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Reed Martin and Austin TichenorDescription
Welcome to the Annual Holiday Variety Show and Christmas Pageant at St. Everybody's Non-Denominational Universalist Church, where all faiths are welcome because we'll believe anything... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male, as written; gender-diverse and/or expanded casts welcome)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary 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 Costumes