Drama

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Report copyright infringementby Kenny Finkle (Author)Part murder mystery, part unrequited romance, and part absurdist debacle about the denial and transcendence of death, TRANSATLANTICA tells the story of Dr Reginald Reinhold, whose psychoanalytic session with an eccentric patient, Ilyria (of the land of Ilyria), is interrupted by his wife with news that she is dying. By coincidence, Ilyria too is dying, as is every subsequent visitor to his home--a parade of increasingly eccentric guests. Wi...

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Report copyright infringementby Christina Masciotti (Author) "Let fly with the virtual confetti, please. RAW BACON FROM POLAND, the poignant new drama... The writer...is Christina Masciotti, a downtown dramatist of rigorous personal style whose following includes a lot of theatergoers who consider Broadway a wasteland... ...Ms Masciotti's distinctively awkward dialogue has never sounded more organic, or more revelatory of character. Ms Masciotti (VISION DISTURBANCE, SOCIAL SECURITY) has an ea...

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Report copyright infringementby Alan Bowne (Author)from Interview, August 1987 by Kevin Sessums: "There's a creature known in the South as a feist dog. Little. Scraggly. High-strung. You know where one lives by a backyard full of barks. The thing'll take on a German shepard--shit, the whole German army--if it thinks its territory is being threatened. But it likes kids too. And it likes the feel of a hand on its underbelly. Playwright and screenwriter Alan Bowne, whose work concerns the scrag...

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Report copyright infringementby Hugh Leonard (Author)Full Length Comedy Hugh Leonard Characters: 4 male 4 female Unit set with combination interior set Those who loved Da will remember Drumm young Charlie's employer. In A Life this intriguing character is at the end of his life and setting his emotional accounts in order. Two casts represent the young and the old Desmond Drumm his simple and loving wife and the one true love of his life who rejected him for a lovable ne'er do well. Now near d...

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Report copyright infringementby Christi Stewart-Brown (Author)A very black and hilarious comedy about love, sacred and profane, in Lydia's Eternal Acres Funeral Home, which is enlivened by two amorous morticians and a couple of really attractive corpses. "In the midst of death, there is life and love--sacred, profane, unrequited and almost always dysfunctional--in Christi Stewart-Brown's very black, five-character comedy (counting two corpses). Scarcely fare for the squeamish, with its excurs...

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Report copyright infringementby Douglas Post (Author) "Douglas Post is one of those rare scribes who is both a serious playwright capable of exploring important themes and an unabashed lover of the thriller genre with a weakness for the ripping yarn. It's a savvy niche. Personal Effects is a play that revels in a good plot twist even as it explores such themes as communal guilt, the limits of revenge and the possibilities of forgiveness." Chicago Tribune "A terrific play...a beautifully craft...

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Report copyright infringementby Neal Bell (Adapted by), Frank Norris (Author)Neal Bell's adaptation of Frank Norris's novel tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty, violence, and finally murder as the result of jealousy and greed. "Frank Norris's novel McTeague is a panorama of the U S at the turn of the century: cowboys, gold mines, the immigrant experience, the advent of electricity and the movies. At the core is a gruesome cautionary ...

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Jacobson (Author) "Good humor, earnestness and lots of heart. Pastor Sorenson ended up in tears and, judging by the sniffles, so did much of the audience." Los Angeles Times "...it can hardly be denied that stage shows and formal Christian worship both revolve around the theatrically purposed performance of a text in front of an audience. Part of what's so exciting about CAPTAIN OF THE BIBLE QUIZ TEAM, the soberly engaging new play by Tom Jacobson...is what...

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony Clarvoe (Author) "As Gunpowder Joe begins, Mary Priestley urges her world-famous husband to flee as a mob approaches their home in Birmingham, England. But the scientist, whose political writings have inflamed his foes previously, isn't perturbed. It will be fine', Joseph Priestley tells his worried wife. They have been content to hang me in effigy for years.' They may be done pretending', Mary retorts. Thus, the world premiere of Anthony Clarvoe's ...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Nelson (Author)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. History and politics, art and culture, love and hate are all on the table as the Gabriels gather in the kitchen of the house they grew up in -- ultimately revealing the deep, human impact of one of the most extraordinary years in American history...

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Report copyright infringementby Alan Bowne (Author)From the author of BEIRUT, "a ROMEO AND JULIET of the boroughs", the story of a white, working-class family that resonates to this day. "Home comes the sailor, home from the sea, which in Alan Bowne's ABLE-BODIED SEAMAN means a hard-drinking lout of a swabby named Roy, showing up unannounced one summer morning at his walk-up in Corona, Queens, and shouting abuse at anyone within earshot. Roy is the kind of guy who may put on a dirty shirt for...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Nelson (Author)Richard Nelson uses the familiar tale of Rip Van Winkle as the basis for his epic study of American agrarian reform, the Industrial Revolution, and the labor movement. "...The play has a smart, engaging premise. Rip Van Winkle's sleep and waking are used to frame a variety of themes: men and women, parents and children, alcoholism, superstition, and, above all, the battle between industry and agriculture in the social history of the Huds...

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Report copyright infringementby Yussef El Guindi (Author)A one-woman show about the loneliness in intimacy and consent. Cass, a perturbed actor in a search for truth, welcomes the audience into her bed and her psyche as she rationalizes her thirst for attention with her personal boundaries. Through intimate, intertwining stories about her experiences with men, the audience gets to know Cass and feel, as she does, the presence of the unnamed collaborator who made all this possible. "Watching C...

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Report copyright infringementby Neal Bell (Author)Journalist Dick Hunter sets out to document the slums of 1890's New York where he discovers harrowing conditions of poverty and abuse. "Neal Bell's play RAGGED DICK is a lurid, poetic and often fascinating study of sex, politics and poverty. ...Bell's landscape painting of urban poverty does not take the form of any ordinary docudrama. Rather, it offers a caustic, stylized impressionistic vision--a kind of film noir for the pre-ragtime era re...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Nelson (Author) "A mirror of our frightened, fallible selves at this very fraught moment in American history... WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? is the second work in the second cycle of plays by Mr Nelson that have quietly emerged as a sui generis triumph of civic theater... [They] inhabit the here and now with an unobtrusive thoroughness I've never encountered elsewhere in the theater." Ben Brantley, The New York Times "By exploring the underwater part of the i...

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Report copyright infringementby Karim Khan (Author)Their souls are on fire because after all these lonely days, they finally found their own. Hema hasn't indulged in sweet treats for years. She wants to be healthier and hopes the Type 2 diabetes course she's been attending will help. Everything seems on track. Then Liaquat shows up. Unapologetic and unafraid to break rules, Liaquat influences Hema to enjoy all the world has to offer and, in return, Hema helps Liaquat get his health under cont...

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Report copyright infringementby Edwin Sanchez (Author)Ray Rivers is a young Puerto Rican man on the way up. Everything is going great for him except he doesn't believe he deserves it. Struggling with the cost of assimilation, he walks a tightrope both at the factory, where he has been recently promoted to management, and with his fiancée. When a recently divorced Cuca joins the assembly line, with the sole purpose of making enough money to return to her beloved Puerto Rico, an unexpected frie...

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Report copyright infringementby Douglas Post (Author)Carter Bartosek, a foreign correspondent stationed in Beirut, returns to his Midwest hometown for the funeral of his best friend, a former congressman who apparently took his own life while high on alcohol and painkillers. Carter discovers that his friend had left the larger political arena in order to run for mayor of this town, which has transformed itself from an industrial community in decline to a high-tech hub, and that his progressiv...

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Report copyright infringementby Moliere (Author), Constance Congdon (Adapted by)In this delightful comedy about the French aristocracy, told with Molière's signature wit, the atmosphere is frivolous, the morals are loose, the egos are larger than life and everyone is looking for love. Constance Congdon's verse version of this intelligent satire is both provocative and funny. "Love is all bad sonnets, big fluffy beds and silly preening in the first half of THE MISANTHROPE... Then the gloves c...

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Report copyright infringementby Henrik Ibsen (Author), Anthony Clarvoe (Author)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. Number of Pages: 98 Dimensions: 0.2 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: April...

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Report copyright infringementby Neal Bell (Author)Claire has a significant relationship with her television: she talks, and it answers her. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, she auditions to participate in a reality TV show so she can fight her "Final Battle" in front of millions of viewers. "A dark comedy with disturbing insights ... funny and provocative." -The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) "The technology of vanity is developing so quickly that NOW YOU SEE ME, the new play by Neal Bell, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Donnie Sharrell (Author)What do you get when a sexy killer for hire and an ex-dope boy meet and fall in love? A deadly combination of passion, danger, and redemption. In "Memphis Flames," Jazzy has a reputation as a ruthless hit-man, taking down targets with precision and ease. But as Jazzy gets to know Keon, she starts to see the real man beneath the surface - strong. loyal, and desperate for a second chance. But their love is a luxury they cant afford.As the...

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Report copyright infringementby Megan Terry (Author), Jo Ann Schmidman (Director)"I was skeptical, I'll admit. When a director tells me she's doing a comedy about torture, my first thought is that the show must be a little sick. My second is that the play will surely be in bad taste. After all, nice people don't laugh at things like that. But BRAZIL FADO is neither sick nor sickening. It's a nicely done piece of unusual theater. And it's funny. BRAZIL FADO is a whirlwind of action. At least t...

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan J. Samarro (Author)When Thomas D'Angelo pays a long overdue visit to his Italian grandparents, he soon finds himself caught in the middle of the ongoing, if farcical, war between the two. His grandmother, intent on plumping him up with home cooking, is sure she'll win him over to her side. His grandfather, meanwhile, surreptitiously schemes to make Thomas his ally. Never mind that Thomas has come, in part, to seek advice over the strained relationship ...

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Report copyright infringementby Matt Pelfrey (Author)NO GOOD DEED revolves around the interconnecting stories of three troubled heroes, including a Richard Jewell-like security guard; a firefighter who has rescued a toddler from a well; and lonely teen Josh Jaxon, a budding graphic novelist whose "Hellbound Hero" comes to life as his alter ego. "In a lot of ways, I want to hold this production up to the producers of SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK and say, 'This is how you put a graphic novel o...

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Report copyright infringementby Euripides (Author), Laurence Senelick (Translator)Of the hundred or so plays Euripides wrote in his lifetime only nineteen survive. Not all of them won first prize at the festivals, but BAKKHAI did. "From the outset, it is essential to understand that in Greek theater, as in fact in Shakespearean theater, the self that is really at stake is to be identified with the male, while the woman is assigned the role of the radical other." -Froma I Zeitlin "Intoxicating...

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Report copyright infringementby Brett Neveu (Author)"Anxiety courses quietly throughout WEAPON OF MASS IMPACT, but not so quietly that it won't haunt you indefinitely." TimeOut Chicago "...[a] thoroughly compelling new play... ...You come to see that we're probing the definition of terrorism here. You get the sense that [Neveu] is observing that the traumas of our individual lives can impart just as much individual misery as those mysteriously absent weapons of mass destruction that preoccupy...

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Report copyright infringementby Malinda Guerrero Castoreno (Author)The things one child saw, others did not. Twelve-year-old Malina, a shy timid child seemed to always be afraid. The sound of his voice would send her into a frenzy. How could such an incredibly handsome man be such a terror of a human being? The fear of a gangster father, the love of the most beautiful woman in the world, her mother. A mother with such rare beauty, she should have been a movie star, a celebrity, a model, anyth...

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Report copyright infringementby Marisa Wegrzyn (Author)"Both violence and wackiness continually threaten to erupt in Marisa Wegrzyn's macabre comedy. Dowdy Wisconsin housewife Valerie may have butchered her husband in hopes of canoodling with his brother. Her lesbian pharmacist daughter, Midge, sells meth to middle schoolers with the tacit approval of Aunt Gail, the bumbling sheriff who gets high to research her antidrug lectures. And so on. It's all smarter, funnier, and truer than it sounds...

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Report copyright infringementby Jon Klein (Author)Travel to Sherwood Forest for some swashbuckling fun in this rousing new version of the classic adventure story. Long before he robbed from the rich to give to the poor, the famed archer was just another teenager honing his skills. The King is off on the Crusades and Nottingham is at the mercy of the corrupt Sheriff, who twists the law and persecutes the poor. When his dad is falsely imprisoned, Robin must step up and orchestrate a rescue miss...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Chrisler (Author)TEATIME AT GOLGOTHA is "a heady, wittily self-effacing drama" about the unenviable search for meaning in what is - in all likelihood - a cold, cold world. Following the stories of Longinus after the crucifixion, the last hours in the life of astronomer Tycho Brahe, and a modern day hostage situation, TEATIME leaps back and forth through the millennia, drawing meanings, parallels, and conclusions that the characters themselves characteristi...

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Report copyright infringementby Allan Havis (Author)An intriguing thriller in Haiti, showcasing an American doctor who experiments with a new infant feeding formula and along the way is coerced by CIA operatives to treat the commanding Haitian General who has only a few months to live. "... Havis's web of ironies - the lure of the rational Gold to the spiritual, decadent Le Croix; a mission of life turned to one of death; assassination as apolitical tool - is fascinating." -L A Weekly "Havis ...