Historical Figure
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Ruth WolffDescription
Why, having become Queen in childhood, would Christina of Sweden give up the throne? Confused about her sexual identity and religious beliefs, and thwarted in love, she decides to abdicate, convert to Catholicism, and throw herself, for life, on the hospitality of the Vatican... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 140 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Megan TerryDescription
Simone Weil, a French girl of Jewish extraction whose death in 1943 was caused primarily by self-imposed starvation, is the subject of this striking theatrical exploration into the nature of faith and spirituality... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (6 female, 10 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Karen SundeDescription
On the eve of his departure from Paris, Benjamin Franklin and his French contemporaries avoid goodbyes by engaging in charades and parlor games... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Tom JacobsonDescription
Christopher Marlowe, sixteenth-century author, was murdered at the age of 29. This tragicomedy speculates that his death was tied to his scandalous play about the relationship between Jesus and the disciple John.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 105 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
A R GurneyDescription
BIG BILL captures tennis player William Tilden's turbulent life in a series of scenes that shift back and forth in time... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (1 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Rogelio MartinezDescription
Two of history's most enigmatic leaders — Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev — meet to halt the arms race... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male, plus ensemble of 6 actors)
Full Length Drama (about 135 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Michael Benjamin WashingtonDescription
In the political and racial upheaval of 1963, Bayard Rustin — the brilliant proponent of nonviolent civil resistance — is pushed to orchestrate an unprecedented march on Washington D... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (1 female, 4 male, bit parts: a chorus of ancestors)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Constance CongdonDescription
The life of Casanova as told through the scintillating prism of Constance Congdon's imagination... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (6 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 180 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Charles EveredDescription
The often hilarious, bawdy, and adventuresome story of Celadine, coffeehouse proprietor, writer, and sometime spy, during the reign of Charles II in London.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
On the deck of his flagship, the expedition commander addresses his men, his voice rising in stirring peroration: "Let us all be new men! Born today! This minute! And with only one purpose in mind! To push forward to triumph! To push forward — to Japan!" That Columbus had a clearer sense of destiny than destination is, even without the facile irony of hindsight, emblematic of the confusion of motives and expectations that inspired him and his companions to undertake their epoch-making voyage... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 18 total (2 female, 16 male)
Full Length Drama (about 210 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
The country you love and the values it represents are being destroyed by a misguided leader. You can continue to live in relative comfort by not involving yourself, or you can take action to save the democracy you love... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 140 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Donald FreedDescription
DEVIL'S ADVOCATE captures an agonizing struggle between General Manuel Noriega and Archbishop Laboa on Christmas Eve, Panama, 1989.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Adam LongDescription
A fast-paced musical comedy in which a cast of five Dickens devotees bring hundreds of his best-loved characters to life in 90 minutes of madcap Dickensian mayhem... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (5 female, 5 male, or any combination of males and females totaling 5)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesRuth WolffDescription
The sweep of Eleanor's entire life — from her early marriage to Louis VII, King of France, through her marriage to Henry II of England, to her imprisonment, reign and death — is encompassed in this action-packed, highly literate drama... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (5 female, 11 male, doubling possible)
Full Length Drama (about 140 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesRuth 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