19th Century
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S Anksy, adaptation by Tony Kushner, translated from Yiddish by Joachim NeugroschelDescription
Considered by many to be the greatest Yiddish drama, A DYBBUK recounts the tale of a wealthy man's daughter possessed by the spirit of her dead beloved.
Production Info
Cast: 18 total (5 female, 13 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Ruth WolffDescription
As the 19th century moves into the 20th century, the Dowager Empress Tzu-Hsi struggles to hold together the proud ancient Chinese empire, which is being assaulted by foreign nations and the technological advances of the age... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, optional extras: court attendants)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
August Strindberg, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
Richard Nelson's critically lauded adaptation of Strindberg's classic, in which a power struggle between husband and wife leads to devastating consequences.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 95 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Honoré de Balzac, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
THE FRAUDSTER follows Auguste Mercadet, a man fighting against his creditors and the ruses he uses to escape them.
Production Info
Cast: 15 total (4 female, 11 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Georges Feydeau, translated from the French by Laurence SenelickCollection Description
This collection includes five long one-act plays: THE AWFUL TOOTH, BLASTED EVENT, DEAD WRONG, POTTY FAVORS, and SHE CAN'T BARE IT! Master Belle Époque farceur Georges Feydeau loosely based these brilliantly funny long one-acts on the failure of his own marriage... [read more]
Ruth WolffDescription
A Play with Music — the music of Frederic Chopin. George Sand had many lovers — but the one to whom she was most attached, and who almost ruined her life, was Frederic Chopin... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 125 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
August Strindberg, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
Ghosts drift through Strindberg's haunted and haunting dreamscape where a student idealizes the inhabitants of a stylish Stockholm apartment building, only to discover that their lives, perhaps even life itself, may be a kind of hell from which salvation can only be achieved through suffering.
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (7 female, 7 male, bit parts)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Henrik Ibsen, translated and adapted by Anthony ClarvoeDescription
Ibsen's 1881 masterpiece finds a fresh interpretation in Anthony Clarvoe's taut adaptation in which a woman has to face her legacy of religious and sexual repression when her grown son comes home to tell her that he has an incurable sexually transmitted disease and asks her to help him die with dignity.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Mildred Inez LewisDescription
Set in the 1850s, New Jersey transplant Bobby Hawkins marries Susannah, the daughter of a leading South Carolina family... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Thomas BabeDescription
Thomas Babe's study of the Gilded Age is, in the author's words, "a little of this, a little of that, part musical, part tragedy, part melodrama... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
The play tells the story of a ragtag troupe of actors as they head West during the Gold Rush, seeking fortune and fame and performing Shakespeare for enthusiastic '49ers... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (4 female, 9 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Nikolai Gogol, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
A new translation of Nikolai Gogol's comic masterpiece by the renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (winner of two PEN/Book-of-the-Month Translation Awards) and the playwright/director Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Olivier Award)... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (7 female, 7 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 135 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Nikolai Gogol, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
Nikolai Gogol's classic and hilarious satire of bureaucratic ineptness and corruption in a first-class translation by Laurence Senelick.
Production Info
Cast: 27 total (6 female, 21 male)
Full Length Drama (about 140 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Eugène Labiche and Marc-Michel, translated by Kenneth McLeishDescription
The classic 1851 farce. Fadinard is on the way to his wedding when his horse eats a straw hat hanging on a bush... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 18 total (6 female, 12 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Anton Chekhov, translated by Stephen MulrineDescription
Set in a country weighed down by political, ideological and spiritual stagnation, Chekhov's compelling early play is rooted in the revolutionary atmosphere of Russia at the turn of the 20th century.
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes