Jewish
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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
Tony KushnerDescription
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of ANGELS IN AMERICA comes this powerful portrayal of individual dissolution and resolution in the face of political catastrophe.
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (5 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
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
Sholem Asch, translated by Richard Nelson with Robert MarxDescription
BBC correspondent David Mazower (Sholem Asch's great-grandson) described THE GOD OF VENGEANCE as "admired, translated, parodied, panned, banned, prosecuted, withdrawn, forgotten, revived, celebrated... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (7 female, 5 male, bit parts)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Mark Harelik, conceived by Mark Harelik and Randal MylerDescription
Rural Central Texas, 1909. A young Russian-Jewish immigrant, newly arrived in America through the port of Galveston, pulls his banana cart into the hamlet of Hamilton... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Jack CanforaDescription
Several years after tragedy impacted their lives, a family comes together once again for Thanksgiving dinner... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 95 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Allan HavisDescription
A promising Ethiopian soccer star in Israel is courted by an American sports agent. The athlete is involved with another Ethiopian who risks being deported... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Mark HarelikDescription
Rural Central Texas, 1962. Dave, still lives in the old family home that his father built. The family is still the only Jewish family in this isolated country town... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Allan HavisDescription
In the Garden of Eden and crosscutting to New York, the enactment and re-enactment of Adam, Lilith, and Eve take the stage as the two women confront one another and the very identify of metaphysical woman... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Alan GlassDescription
A love story and a murder mystery, LOVE IN A THIRSTY LAND uses materials from an actual case, the first trial of a Jew for murder in the New World, 1875... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
A R GurneyDescription
O JERUSALEM centers around an American State Department official who becomes entangled in Middle Eastern politics before and after September 11, 2001... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Oscar Wilde, translated by Matt DiCintioDescription
Inspired by symbolist poetry and the frequent appearance of Salomé in contemporary art and literature, Oscar Wilde wrote SALOMÉ in French during a Paris stay in 1891–92... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 17 total (2 female, 15 male, bit parts)
Full Length Drama (about 60 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Glen BergerDescription
In this gripping ghost story an eccentric librarian discovers a weather-beaten book in a return bin — 113 years overdue... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 65 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Glen BergerDescription
In this gripping ghost story an eccentric librarian discovers a weather-beaten book in a return bin — 113 years overdue... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Full Length Drama (about 65 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Alan BrandtDescription
A delightful seriocomedy about a prominent civil rights attorney who is a schlemiel on the home court in his relationships with his intractable aging father and budding lawyer son.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes