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Martin JonesDescription
In Nebraska in 1972, three members of the Peak family, father, mother, and teenage daughter, were murdered... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 115 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
Stubbs, a United States senator, writes his memoirs and in so doing exposes to us the discrepancies between the actual events that took place and his recounting of them, which he freely reshapes to his own benefit... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 75 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Megan TerryDescription
Through the use of dialogue, music, chant, dance, pantomime, and image, the play satirizes attitudes toward the Vietnam war... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (6 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Victor L CahnDescription
When Claire returns home from an afternoon of shopping, she discovers one of her packages is missing... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 female)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
David Mamet, based on a short story by Anton ChekhovDescription
Mischievous bureaucrats play a card game (vint) using identity documents in their possession until they are caught redhanded... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (6 male)
Short Comedy (about 15 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Robert AulettaDescription
VIRGINS is a fantasia inspired by the robbery in New York of an armored car in which two policemen and a guard were killed... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Christina MasciottiDescription
Two lost souls in Reading, Pennsylvania converge: Mondo, a Greek immigrant whose eyesight suffers from a grueling divorce, and Dr... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
John PielmeierDescription
A radio talk-show host is menaced by a threatening caller in this psychological thriller.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Firesign TheatreDescription
A mad Kafkaesque journey that takes a confused tourist into a shadowy world of Byzantine fascists... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (4 male)
Short Comedy (about 30 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesFiresign TheatreCollection Description
This collection includes two short plays: WAITING FOR THE ELECTRICIAN, OR SOMEONE LIKE HIM and TEMPORARILY HUMBOLDT COUNTY... [read more]
Plays in This Collection
Julie Marie MyattDescription
It is 1970 and Virginia Moore is in love with Glenn, and she is ready to change the future by marching against the war in Vietnam, and for equal rights for women... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Franca Rame and Dario Fo, adapted by Estelle ParsonsDescription
A working-class woman prepares for work while taking care of her baby. Meanwhile, her husband sleeps... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Robert AulettaDescription
A strangely eccentric family awaits the return of the long gone but not easily forgotten Willie. When he finally returns, he disappoints no one with his bizarre brand of confrontational politics... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Anthony ClarvoeDescription
Couplehood and infidelity are subject to scrutiny in Anthony Clarvoe's oblique ode to LA RONDE.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 80 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Tom JacobsonDescription
A soon-to-be-married couple, Schiller and Arjay, take Schiller's parents on their first trip to Europe... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male, flexible casting, up to 4 women and 1 man or 4 men and 1 woman)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes