Politics
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Tony KushnerDescription
In the first part of Tony Kushner's epic, set in 1980's New York City, a gay man is abandoned by his lover when he contracts the AIDS virus, and a closeted Mormon lawyer's marriage to his pill-popping wife stalls... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 180 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Tony KushnerDescription
In the second part of Tony Kushner's epic, the plague of AIDS worsens, relationships fall apart as new ones form, and unexpected friendships take form.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 220 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
Stephane Alison WalkerDescription
You think you know your friends, your neighbors, your spouse, but what happens when you suddenly find out they have a garage full of guns? This new dark comedy explores the complicated issue of gun proliferation when two young liberal couples are forced to confront their assumptions about who should own a gun and why... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
JoAnne AkalaitisDescription
JoAnne Akalaitis' exploration of America as an immigrant and refugee society is complex, timely, and highly theatrical: a collage of images and events, documentary and testimony, that asks us to look again at the pressures and liberties of life in a foreign culture... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (5 female, 6 male, Multiethnic, Flexible Casting)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Victoria StewartDescription
What happens when news becomes entertainment and politics become a performance? Virginia Eames, an aspiring political pundit, attempts to negotiate her way through the constantly shifting landscape of cutthroat commentary and learns what it takes to be a star.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Tony KushnerDescription
In HOMEBODY/KABUL, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Tony Kushner, author of ANGELS IN AMERICA, has turned his penetrating gaze to the arena of global politics to create this suspenseful portrait of a dangerous collision between cultures... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (3 female, 8 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 215 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
THE GABRIELS trilogy chronicles a year in the life of a neighboring family who reunite in real time at three different points across 2016 to celebrate, remember, and wait for the world to change... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (5 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Various AuthorsDescription
A selection of titles that explore significant civil rights people and events.
Kyle WarrenDescription
No politician is as beloved as New York City Mayor John Kendrick, the four-term hero who triumphed during crisis and eliminated homelessness... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary 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
Frank WintersDescription
Three years ago, Sarah Kennedy thought she was hired as a translator for a corporate military prison in Baghdad, only to discover that she would be acting as an interrogator instead, retrieving information from prisoners of war — by any means necessary... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (5 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 170 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Anthony ClarvoeDescription
Inspired by true events: on a Tennessee hilltop, heroes in training meet in secret. All are changed. Some change America.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Rogelio MartinezDescription
Based on the true events surrounding the groundbreaking table tennis tournament that marked a decisive new chapter in US–China relations, PING PONG is the story of the extraordinary young man who played the game that changed the world and the political actors who were playing him... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, doubling, bit parts)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
The Apples reflect on the state of their family and discuss memory, manners and politics as polls close on mid-term election night 2010 and a groundswell of conservative sentiment flips Congress on its head.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes