Samuel French, Inc latest plays
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Jason Grote - (Tooth) Fairy Tale, A
Rick Hip-Flores - 2 Across
Jerry Mayer - 27 Rue de Fleurus (My Life With Gertrude)
Lisa Koch - 38,000 For A Friendly Face
Kristin Shepherd - 4 Beekman
Ron Clark - 50 Fabulous Classical Monologues For Men
Adapted by Freyda Thomas and Jan Silverman - ABCs of Dating, The
V B Leghorn - Abduction, The
M Thomas Cooper - Abe
Lee Goldsmith - Abstract Expression
Theresa Rebeck - Accent On Youth
Samson Raphaelson - Adding Machine: A Musical
Jason Loewith - Additional Particulars
Ed Simpson - Adrift in Macao
Christopher Durang - Affluenza!
James Sherman - After the Ball
Frederick Stroppel - Airport Play, The
Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros - Aliens with Extraordinary Skills
Saviana Stanescu - All Aboard the Marriage Hearse
Matt Morillo - All Hail Hurricane Gordo
Carly Mensch - All This Intimacy
Rajiv Joseph - Alone Together Again
Laurence Roman - Altos-Like The Sopranos Only Lower, The
David Landau - Amazons and Their Men
Jordan Harrison - American Tales
Ken Stone - Anatomy Of Gray
Jim Leonard Jr - And Send Forth a Raven
Jean Lenox Toddie - Angry Young Women in Low-Rise Jeans. . .
Matt Morillo - Anon
Kate Robin - Apostacy
Gino Dilorio - Appeal, The
Young Jean Lee - Argument, The
Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros - Asymmetry
Rick Robinson - At First Sight
Anne Pie - Avenue A
David Steen - Awesome '80s Prom, The
Ken Davenport - Ayravana Flies Or A Pretty Dish
Sheila Callaghan - Bach At Leipzig
Itamar Moses - Back Back Back
Itamar Moses - Back County Crimes
Lanie Robertson - Baggage
Sam Bobrick - Balkan Women, The
Jules Tasca - Ballad of King Windowglass, The
Jack Kurtz - Barbara's Blue Kitchen
Lori Fischer - Barrio Hollywood
Elaine Romero - Be My Baby
Ken Ludwig - Beachwood Drive
Steven Leigh Morris - Beanie and the Bamboozling Adventure Machine
Roy C Booth - Beanie and the Bamboozling Horror Machine
Roy C Booth - Beaux' Stratagem, The
Ken Ludwig - Bells, The
Theresa Rebeck - Betrayed
George Packer - Betty
Henry Meyerson - Beware The Man Eating Chicken
Henry Meyerson - Biff And Charlie
Chamber Stevens - Big Voice: God or Merman?, The
Jim Brochu - Bill W. and Dr. Bob
Stephen Bergman - Billboard
Michael Vukadinovich - Blanche And Beyond
Steve Lawson - Blind Dating
V B Leghorn - Boar's Head
Don Nigro - Body Awareness
Annie Baker - Books
Stuart M Kaminsky - Boy Who Killed Panch Villa, The
Jack Frakes - Bright Apple Crush
Steven Yockey - Brother
Lisa Ebersole - Bubba the Cowboy Prince
Nancy Cassaro - Bulrusher
Eisa Davis - Cabo San Lucas
Lisa Soland - Callback
Bill Svanoe - Cartoon
Steven Yockey - Cat's Meow, The
Steven Peros - Cell
Judy Klass - Chaps!
Jahanna Beecham - Cherry Smoke
James McManus - China - The Whole Enchilada
Mark Brown - Christmas Pudding, A
David Birney - Cinderella
Paul Reakes - Circuit Breakers
Arthur W French - Circuitry
Andrew Barrett - Class
Henry Meyerson - Cleansed
Thomas Bradshaw - Closure
Ron Blicq - Clothes Encounters
Roger Karshner - Clowns(s)
M Thomas Cooper - Cockeyed
William Missouri Downs - Collective Dating
V B Leghorn - Contempt Of Court
David Landau - Convertible Girl, The
Daniel Simon - Could I Have This Dance?
Doug Haverty - Creative Dating
V B Leghorn - Crooked
Catherine Trieschmann - Dates & Nuts
V B Leghorn - Dating Game, The
V B Leghorn - Dating Service
V B Leghorn - Dead City
Sheila Callaghan - Dead Man's Cell Phone
Sarah Ruhl - Dear Old Golden Rule Days
William Francis - Death and Javier Miguel Lopez Guadalajara Asante
M Thomas Cooper - Defacing Michael Jackson
Aurin Squire - Delightful Quarantine, A
Mark Dunn - Die Mommie Die!
Charles Busch - Diverting Devotion
Mike O'Malley - Dix Tableaux
Mark Dunn - Don't Hug Me
Paul Olson - Don't Hug Me Christmas Carol, A
Paul Olson - Don't Say Goodbye, I'm Not Leaving
Roger Karshner - Doris to Darlene - a Cautionary Valentine
Jordan Harrison - Drag of Dating, The
V B Leghorn - Drunken City, The
Adam Bock - Dust
Billy Goda - Dutch Heart Of Man
Bob Glaudini - Dying Breed, The
Thomas Higgins - Election Day
Josh Tobiessen - End Days
Deborah Zoe Laufer - Every Man
Michael Niederman - Everythings Turning Into Beautiful
Jimmie James - Evil Dead: The Musical
George Reinblatt - Ex, The
Geoffrey Scheer - Exhibit This! The Museum Comedies
Luigi Jannuzzi - Extra Curricular Activity
Jay Hanagan - F*cking Art
Bekah Brunstetter - Faculty Room, The
Bridget Carpenter - Fall
Bridget Carpenter - Family Secrets
Norman Barasch - Fancy Meeting You Here
Jay Hanagan - Farnsworth Invention, The
Aaron Sorkin - Fatboy
John Clancy - Feminine Ending, A
Sarah Treem - Film Chinois
Damon Chua - Final Toast, The
Stuart M Kaminsky - Fire-Breathing Lady and the Sugarplum Fairy, The
Jason Milligan - First Baptist of Ivy Gap
Ron Osborne - Fish Story, A
Jon Tuttle - Fit to Kill
Victor L Cahn - Flamingo Court
Luigi Creatore - Flemming (An American Thriller)
Sam Bobrick - Flight: The Rise And Fall Of Charles Lindbergh
Garth Wingfield - For Better
Eric Coble - Four Of Us, The
Itamar Moses - Fox, The
Allan Miller - Fresh Brewed: Tales From The Coffee Bar
Henry Meyerson - Friar Falstaff
Jules Tasca - From Up Here
Liz Flahive - Front Street
Anne Pie - Frosty The Snowman
William Francis - Frugal Repast, The
Ron Hirsen - Fuente
Cusi Cram - Fugue
Lee Thuna - Gee's Bend
Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder - George And Martha
Henry Meyerson - Getting Sara Married
Sam Bobrick - Gift From Heaven, A
David Steen - Girl
Megan Mostyn-Brown - Glacier Bay
Frederick Stroppel - God Committee, The
Mark St Germain - Going to the Chapel
Donald Steele - Goldman Project, The
Staci Swedeen - Good Book, The
Tiffany Antone - Gorilla Man
Kyle Jarrow - Grave, The
Gabe McKinley - Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals
Young Jean Lee - Gutenberg! The Musical!
Scott Brown - Half And Half
James Sherman - Happy Anniversary, Angel! Love, Gino
Stefanie R Coletti - Happy Birthday
Henry Meyerson - Happy Prince, The
Caroline Dooley - Hat Tricks
Dori Appel - HATS! A Musical for the Rest of your Life
Anthony and Marcia Migrom Dodge - Havana Is Waiting
Eduardo Machado - Hazelwood Jr High
Rob Urbinati - Herr Kutter, The Barbaric Barber
Billy St John - Hierarchy
Henry Meyerson - Him
Henry Meyerson - Hopeful Alice
Henry Meyerson - Huck & Holden
Rajiv Joseph - Humbug
John J Wooten - I Feel Swell
Henry Meyerson - I Used to Write on Walls
Bekah Brunstetter - Identical Same Temptation
Bob Glaudini - Idiot Box
Michael Elaynow - Idiot Box, The
Michael Elyanow - Iliad, The Odyssey and All Of Greek Mythology In 99 Minutes or Less, The
Jay Hopkins - Imaginary Friends
Craig Carnelia - Immigrant, The
Sarah Knapp - In the Continuum
Danai Gurira - In The Rest Room At Rosenblooms
Ludmilla Bollow - Internet Dating
V B Leghorn - It Is No Desert
Dan Stroeh - It's No Crime
Brad Gromelski - Jack Goes Boating
Bob Glaudini - Jasper Lake
John Kuntz - Jewtopia
Bryan Fogel and Sam Wolfson - Joke, The
Sam Marks - Jump/Cut
Neena Beber - Juniper:Jubilee
Janine Nabers - Just Passing
Colin Crowther - Kaputnik
Frank Semerano - Keep Your Pantheon
David Mamet - Kerry and Angie
Gerry Sheridan - Key Lime Pie
Jason Milligan - KickAss Plays For Women
Jane Shepard - Killing Dante
Jan Henson Dow - Kissing Fidel
Eduardo Machado - Kitchen Witches, The
Caroline Smith - Kosher Lutherans
William Missouri Downs - La Gringa
Carmen Rivera - Last Chance Romance
Sam Bobrick - Last Laugh
Jay Hanagan - Last Schwartz, The
Deborah Zoe Laufer - Last Supper, The
Gary William Friedman - Late Nite Comic
Brian Gari - Le Supermarche, or What I Did For Lunch
Ian August - Leading Ladies
Ken Ludwig - Libretto
Robin Rothstein - Life Support
Donald Steele - Lions
Vince Melocchi - Little Murder Never Hurt Anybody, A
Ron Bernas - Living Room in Africa
Bathsheba Doran - Lizards. . .
Megan Mostyn-Brown - Lobelia Lodge
B J Burton - Lookin' for a Better Berry Bush
Jean Lenox Toddie - Looking
Norm Foster - Losing Lawrence
Donna Gerdin - Louie's Daughter
Frederick Stroppel - Love List, The
Norm Foster - Love Song Of Saul Alinsky, The
Herb Schapiro - Love Songs: A Musical
Steve Cagan - Lucy And The Conquest
Cusi Cram - MacDuff Tragedy, The
Jules Tasca - Magic Hands Freddy
Arje Shaw - Maiden's Progeny
Le Wilhelm - Make Me A Match
Laurence Roman - Makeover, The
Patsy Hester Daussat - Man From Earth
Richard Schenkman - Masked
Michael Taub - Matt & Ben
Mindy Kaling - Mauritius
Theresa Rebeck - Meg
Paula Vogel - Men Of Tortuga
Jason Wells - Messiah on the Frigidaire
John Culbertson - Milliner, The
Suzanne Glass - Mom, How Did You Meet The Beatles?
Adrienne Kennedy - Monkey Soup
Don Nigro - Morning Coffee
Henry Meyerson - Mosley Street Melodramas, vol II
William P Johnson and Rosemary Willhide - Mosley Street Melodramas, Vol.1
Tom Frye - Mother, A Daughter, and A Gun, A
Barra Grant - Mother's Day
Donald Steele - Moving
Bernard Slade - Murderous Crossing
David Landau - Mustang Sally
Linda Felton Steinbaum - My Deah
John Epperson - My First Time
Ken Davenport - My Sweetheart's The Man In The Moon
Don Nigro - Natural Dating
V B Leghorn - Natural Selection
M Thomas Cooper - Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom
Jennifer Haley - Nelson
Sam Marks - Nest
Bathsheba Doran - Never Kiss A Naughty Nanny
Michael Parker - New York
David Rimmer - Next Stop, Murder
Frank Semerano - Nice Family Gathering, A
Phil Olson - Night at the Nutcracker, A
Jane Milmore - Night in Provence, A
Robin Hawdon - No Prune
Henry Meyerson - North Pole Winter Woes
M Thomas Cooper - November
David Mamet - Nunsense: The Mega Musical!
Dan Goggin - Occupant
Edward Albee - Octopus
Steven Yockey - ODD
Hal Corley - Oedipus for Kids!
Gil Varod - Oldest Living Confederate Widow: Her Confession
Allan Gurganus - One Way Street
Jason Milligan - Open Heart
Robby Benson - Opening
Matthew Kelly - Other Side, The
Ariel Dorfman - Our Leading Lady
Charles Busch - Out of Sterno
Deborah Zoe Laufer - Outrage
Itamar Moses - Outside The Box
Bo Wilson - Pacific 1860
Barry Day - Panic
Joseph Goodrich - Paradise
Glyn O'Malley - Passengers
Sam Bobrick - Pauls Ghost
Jason Milligan - People vs. MONA, The
Jim Wann - Peter Cottontail
William Francis - Picture Perfect
Harlene Goodrich - Pied-a-Terre
John Anastasi - Pischer
Ted Nusbaum - Plague Of Angels, A
Mark St Germain - Plaid Man, The
M Thomas Cooper - Play #3
Harley Adams - Portrait Of A Queen
William Francis - Position Available
Brad Gromelski - Post Dating
V B Leghorn - Pre-Dating
V B Leghorn - Pretty Theft
Adam Szymkowicz - Prince Lear
Jules Tasca - Proceed To Checkout
Henry Meyerson - Property Known as Garland, The
Billy Van Zandt - Prophet
Thomas Bradshaw - Pullman, WA
Young Jean Lee - Purity
Thomas Bradshaw - Realtionship
Sharyn Rothstein - Receptionist, The
Adam Bock - Right Kind of People, The
Charles Grodin - Rituals
Jason Milligan - Rockin' On The Milky Way
Jean Lenox Toddie - Roosevelt Cousins, Thoroughly Sauced, The
Michael Lew - Rose Colored Glass
Susan Bigelow - Ruby's Story
Ron Osborne - Sacrifice of Dating, The
V B Leghorn - Safety Net, The
Christopher Kyle - Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival, 33rd series
Bekah Brunsletter et al - Scream Queens - The Musical
Scott Martin - Sealed for Freshness
Doug Stone - Secret Lives Of Losers, The
Megan Mostyn-Brown - Secrets of a Soccer Mom
Kathleen Clark - Senior Moments
Frederick Stroppel - Sex Please We're Sixty!
Michael Parker - Sez She
Jane Martin - Shadows On Oak Island
Garnet Hirst - She With A Capital Ess
Jay Hanagan - Ships
Jay Hanagan - Showtime At First Baptist
Ron Osborne - Shrinking Violets and Towering Tiger Lillies
Tina Howe - Shtick
Henry Meyerson - Shylock's Daughter
Jules Tasca - Sick
Bekah Brunstetter - Signs Of Life
Deborah Brevoort - Silver Apples Of The Moon, The
Jean Lenox Toddie - Sin, Sex & The CIA
Michael Parker - Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks
Richard Alfieri - Sixty Miles To Silver Lake
Dan LeFranc - Skin Deep
Jon Lonoff - Skirmishes
M Thomas Cooper - Slice of the Blarney, A
Kitty Burns - Smoke And Mirrors
Joseph Goodrich - Smoke On The Mountain Homecoming
Alan Bailey - Sneeze
Frederick Stroppel - Somebody's Somebody
Gary Richards - Southern Comforts
Kathleen Clark - Speed Dating
V B Leghorn - Splitting Issues
Sam Bobrick - Spooky Dog & The Teen-Age Gang Mysteries
Eric Pliner - Stain
Tony Glazer - Storyville
Ed Bullins - Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist
Thomas Bradshaw - Sugar Witch, The
Nathan Sanders - Sunken Living Room, The
David Caudle - Sunset Park
Elliot Schoenman - Sweet Room, The
Brandon Ramos - Sweet Smell Of Success
Craig Carnelia - Tale Of Two Cities, A
Jill Santoriello - Tall Grass
Brian Harris - Ten Times Two The Eternal Courtship
David Belke - Terre Haute
Edmund White - Theophilus North
Matthew Burnett - Third Story, The
Charles Busch - This Has Been Some Day
Henry Meyerson - Those Singing Sunday Mornings
Jean Lenox Toddie - Thread Men, The
Thomas C Dunn - Three Musketeers, The
Ken Ludwig - Thugs, The
Adam Bock - Time Is The Mercy Of Eternity
Deb Margolin - To Live At The Pitch
Roger Karshner - Tongue, Tied
M Thomas Cooper - Tough Cookies
Edward Crosby Wells - Travelling Companion, The
Tennessee Williams - Treasure Island
Ken Ludwig - Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife, The
Del Shores - Truth And Reconciliation
Etan Frankel - Truth Be Told
Lisa Soland - Two Minutes To Shine: Book V
Pamela Sackett - Two Wives and a Dead Guy
Cynthia Booth - Ugly On The Inside
Steven Boe - Under the Bridge
Kathie Lee Gifford - Up (The Man In The Flying Lawn Chair)
Bridget Carpenter - Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant, A
Kyle Jarrow - Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen
Kathryn Walat - View from 151st Street, A
Bob Glaudini - Vrooommm! A NASComedy
Janet Allard - Waiting
Lisa Soland - Water &;amp Power
Richard Montoya - Water's Edge, The
Theresa Rebeck - Wedding Belles
Alan Bailey - Wedding Play, The
Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros - Wedekind Cabaret, The
Eric Bentley - West Moon Street
Rob Urbinati - What They Have
Kate Robin - When is a Clock
Matthew Freeman - White Buffalo
Don Zolidis - Who Killed The Sausage King?
Roger Karshner - Whole Ninth Floor
Richard Seff - Wild Mushrooms
Anne Pie - Wild Nights! and Grandpa Clemens & Angel fish 1906
Joyce Carol Oates - Woodsman, The
Steven Fechter - World of Pleasure, A
Frederick Stroppel - Young Love
Jay Hanagan
Robin Hawdon | Night in Provence, A |
 : | Ah Provence! The French Riviera. Where the well-to-do rent luxury villas for exorbitant sums in order to get their annual fix of sun, sea, and haute cuisine. However, imagine the crisis if one such sumptuous place was double booked. Worse imagine it triple booked! By a French couple, an English couple, and heaven forbid, an Irish/American couple. Marriages have foundered on less. Add the ingredients of copious champagne, heightened sexual impulses, and ingrained cultural differences, and the European Union could well implode! |
Judy Klass | Cell |
 : | Cell is a murder mystery - to about the same extent that Sophocles Oedipus Rex is a murder mystery. Lieutenant Rodriguez questions Dennis Kadman about his older brother Michael, who has ODd on heroin in Dennis apartment. Dennis wants to know: who gave Michael the drugs? Michael was a cunning, manipulative addict. But he was a diabetic double amputee, placed in his brothers care by the courts and Dennis tried to keep him alive and drug-free. Through flashbacks, we see the fractious relationship between the brothers, and how they interacted with other suspects, including Edith, the Jamaican nurse who believed Michael should be allowed to choose to die; Julie, Dennis fiancée who hated what Michael was doing to Dennis and to their relationship; and Byron, Michaels homeless friend with whom he had lived on the streets. Like Oedipus, while looking for the culprit, Dennis learns far too much about himself. |
Joyce Carol Oates | Wild Nights! and Grandpa Clemens & Angel fish 1906 |
 : | The famously reclusive poetess appears as an uncannily life-like computerized mannequin brought home by a childless, affluent suburban couple in the hope that their disaffected lives will be "enhanced" by a poet-genius in their household. Soon, like generations of literary critics and biographers, the Krims find themselves obsessed by the wraithlike Emily. They spy on her writing her riddlesome poems-they become infatuated with her, in very different ways. Mysterious, cunning, provocative, this "Emily Dickinson" is also very funny, at the expense of her hosts. After an erotic interlude of shocking-and comic-crudeness, Wild Nights! ends on a startling and unexpected romantic note |
Ron Osborne | Ruby's Story |
 : | June 1944, and the world is at war. On a small Appalachian truck farm far away from the front lines, a war of another kind rages: one of prejudice, self-loathing, delusion and fear. And at its core is a long held secret that can destroy teenage Ruby and her family, as they await news of their loved ones overseas. D-Day speeds the dissolution process and Ruby must come to grips with a family falling apart at the seams. |
Lisa Soland | Truth Be Told |
 : | Truth Be Told is a full-length play that consists of eleven, one-person stories shared by a variety of personalities, all focused on getting at the truth. |
Edmund White | Terre Haute |
 : | Shortly before his execution for the Oklahoma bombing,Timothy McVeigh was in correspondence with the celebrated American writet; Gore Vidal. From death row in Terre Haute prison, the award-winning novelist, Edmund White, imagines what would have happened had they ever met face to face.This is a powerful portrait of two fundamentally different men.As the clock ticks on death row, the bond between them grows. Edmund White is the author of the classic novel of gay American life, A Boy's Own Story. |
Richard Montoya | Water &;amp Power |
 : | A hard working immigrant father wants better for his sons, twins named Water and Power. He wants them to be like Mr. Mullholand - deciding where the water flows in this desert pueblo. From the Mother Ditch in Chinatown, to the arroyos and ravines that would become Dodgers Stadium, L.A. re-invents herself faster than a Hollywood soundstage. History is cemented over and stars fade in a blaze of glory, but Water and Power will always be remembered -- all will know how the eastside rolls! Everything the brothers stand for hangs in the balance as they meet in room #13 at the Motel Paradise on the eastern edge of Sunset Boulevard. That's a part of the boulevard you never want to find yourself in on a dark and rainy night. L.A.'s not for everybody. . . |
Ron Osborne | Showtime At First Baptist |
 : | First Baptist of Ivy Gap's 100th anniversary was a smashing success, except for one little thing: a bolt of lightning that struck the sanctuary. To raise spirits and funds for rebuilding, six of the church's leading ladies plan a talent show. Change is in the air as these diverse women challenge institutions as well as each other. Along the way, there are laughs to be shared, battles to be fought, love to be won, relationships to be mended, and losses to be grieved |
Cusi Cram | Fuente |
 : | Something is not right. There is a secret humidity in the air in a town where the breezes have been on strike for two hundred years. Soledad thinks she is Alexis Carrington from Dynasty and feels itchy. Chaparro cant seem to scratch her itch anymore. Esteban might just be the man for the job. And Adela watches it all unfold as if it were a soap opera on TV. Maybe it is? Anything is possible in Fuente, an almost-real town, somewhere between where North America ends and South America begins. Fuente is a magically-real comedy set in a remote desert town about love, revenge, escape, and the perilous powers of Aquanet hairspray. |
William P Johnson and Rosemary Willhide | Mosley Street Melodramas, vol II |
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Jennifer Haley | Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom |
 : | In a suburban subdivision with identical houses, parents find their teenagers addicted to an online horror video game. The game setting? A subdivision with identical houses. The goal? Smash through an army of zombies to escape the neighborhood for good. But as the line blurs between virtual and reality, both parents and players realize that fear has a life of its own. |
Aaron Sorkin | Farnsworth Invention, The |
 : | The Farnsworth Invention centers around the bitter conflict that pitted Philo T. Farnsworth, a boy genius who invented television as a high school student in 1927, against David Sarnoff, the head of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). The legal battle between Farnsworth and RCA would later become known as one of the great, tragic examples of legal and industrial force combining to crush a rightful patent owner. In a race that would change humanity forever, two men battle one another for honor, glory, and a place in the history books |
John Clancy | Fatboy |
 : | John Clancy's satire on modern America's insatiable appetites, where the population gobbles pork chops, sex and consumer durables while the government gobbles up small nations, is big, broad and brash. The word "subtle" does not enter its theatrical vocabulary. This is a world where Fatboy is a great big bully who, like the US, takes "what I want" and destroys the rest. Played as a zany Punch and Judy show, a theatre within a theatre, the piece has some very nice touches, particularly in its play on theatrical conventions. The best moments come in a courtroom scene where Fatboy is on trial for war crimes. The justice system proves itself incapable of standing up to his bullying tactics, and he outlines his plans for world domination "leading a coalition of the weak and willing". - Guardian |
Jon Lonoff | Skin Deep |
 : | In Skin Deep, a large, lovable, lonely-heart, named Maureen Mulligan, gives romance one last shot on a blind-date with sweet awkward Joseph Spinelli; she's learned to pepper her speech with jokes to hide insecurities about her weight and appearance, while he's almost dangerously forthright, saying everything that comes to his mind. They both know they're perfect for each other, and in time they come to admit it. They were set up on the date by Maureen's sister Sheila and her husband Squire, who are having problems of their own: Sheila undergoes a non-stop series of cosmetic surgeries to hang onto the attractive and much-desired Squire, who may or may not have long ago held designs on Maureen, who introduced him to Sheila. With Maureen particularly vulnerable to both hurting and being hurt, the time is ripe for all these unspoken issues to bubble to the surface. |
Bryan Fogel and Sam Wolfson | Jewtopia |
 : | tells the story of two 30-year-old single men, Chris O'Connell and Adam Lipschitz. Chris, a gentile, wants to marry a "nice Jewish girl" so he'll never have to make another decision. After forming a secret pact, Adam promises to help Chris shed his gentile-ness and bring him undercover into the Jewish world. |
Christopher Durang | Adrift in Macao |
 : | Adrift in Macao is a madcap musical parody of glamorous films noirs, in which the leading lady can always get a job singing in nightclubs no matter how she sings, and the leading man is always mysterious and can't go home for murky reasons he won't explain. From the opium dens of China to the lowlife bars of New York, Durang and composer Melnick take us on a hilarious tour through the post-WWII years complete with intrigue, silliness, and a playfully melodic score. |
Billy Goda | Dust |
 : | Dust is a power play. One man is an executive with money and a paunch. The other is an ex-con with street smarts and a minimum-wage position. One man says "jump." The other wont say "how high," but defiantly asks "why?". What starts off as a battle of wills over who will do the dusting escalates into a war for respect, the upper hand and survival. Who will be standing when the dust settles? |
Doug Haverty | Could I Have This Dance? |
 : | Woodie Guthrie had it. Arlo may have it. It's usually hereditary, but not always passed on to every offspring. The symptoms do not normally appear until a person reaches their mid-forties. Referred to as 'The Dance of Death,' Huntington's Disease is a complete degeneration of the nervous system. Recently, medical researchers developed a blood test to determine if the disease is present in young people. The question is: Should we know? There are over 100,000 people in the U.S. that are currently 'at risk.' Of these people, only 500 have actually taken this test. Could I Have this Dance? is about two sisters in their 30's: Monica and Amanda. Their mother, Jeannette, has Huntington's and lives with her daughters. The action takes place in the Los Angeles office/home where the girls run a thriving public relations firm, Grapevine, which was started by their mother. During the course of the play, we come to understand the time bomb these two sisters live with. Their possible fate is dramatically evidenced in the characterization of Jeannette which is interpreted through dance. The effects of the disease are 'visible' to those onstage, but 'invisible' to the audience, except in a few rare instances where the actualization of the disease is revealed. The other characters in the play are the men in these women's lives. Jeannette's husband (and the girls' father), Hank, has come to accept his wife and still loves her very much. Both Monica and Amanda have shunned long-term romantic relationships because of their unknown fate; bitter Monica plays it safe and vibrant Amanda takes every chance with young, one-night-stands. Yet the girls and their father never lose their sense of humor. As the play unfolds, both women have met men they'd like to get serious with and the knowledge of the test both repels and attracts them: Amanda, desperate for the answer and Monica, in morbid fear of it. Could I Have this Dance? is ultimately about love and cherishing what life we are given. This is a deeply romantic play about difficult choices. As the once-murky medical crystal ball becomes clearer, the universal question remains: Are we better off not looking at what the future holds? |
Vince Melocchi | Lions |
 : | Its the 2007 NFL season and the Detroit Lions are on a winning streak unfortunately out of work steelworker John Waite is not. With humor and humanity, playwright Vince Melocchi offers a glimpse into The Tenth Ward Club, where the patrons place their hopes on their team, and attempt to escape the creeping demise of their city and of their way of life. |
Kate Robin | Anon |
 : | Trip and Allison meet in a chance encounter when he hires her as a therapist for his morose, misbehaved cat. Little do they realize in their first meeting that they'll end up thrust into an intense relationship in which their desire to save each other and the need to save themselves may become mutually exclusive choices. |
Kate Robin | What They Have |
 : | Connie and Jonas are a successful industry couple. Their friends Suzanne, a struggling painter, and Matt, a struggling musician, cant afford to fix the roof. But stay tuned because in this funny, poignant and always truthful new play, lives can change in a heartbeat, and things arent necessarily what they seem. |
Samuel Shem and Janet Surrey | Bill W. and Dr. Bob |
 : | story of the men and their wives who pioneered Alcoholics Anonymous in the thirties |
Ken Stone | American Tales |
 : | Act I, The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton, is from Mark Twain's story of two people falling in love at a great distance with the aid of that brand-new invention, the telephone. Alonzo in Maine and Rosannah in California meet by the accident of crossed wires and each falls in love with an imagined ideal of the other. So complete is their self-deception that even when brought face to face they cannot recognize each other. Love is found, lost, and found again. Played as period melodrama, but the relevance to 21st century dating habits is clear. Act II, Bartleby, the Scrivener, is dramatized from Herman Melville's slyly funny but ultimately tragic story. Building on the theme of human connections made and missed, this act takes a darker turn, looking at people who occupy the closest of quarters and yet don't really communicate at all. Bartleby, employed as a copyist in a law office of the 1840s, inexplicably begins to refuse to work, forcing his colleagues to ask themselves the transforming question that ends the play: What do we owe to the people who come into our lives? |
Staci Swedeen | Goldman Project, The |
| : | This drama explores the lingering legacy of the Holocaust as an aging survivor is forced to confront the shattering secrets of her long buried pastsecrets that have kept her emotionally distant from her middle aged son and only child |
Jules Tasca | Balkan Women, The |
 : | meditation on the horror of war set in 1990 brings the spirit of Euripides to a Serbian detention camp for Muslim women |
Gil Varod | Oedipus for Kids! |
 : | Unfolding in real-time, Oedipus for Kids! turns the audience into attendees of the latest performance of the Fuzzy Duck Theatre Company, a three-person troupe dedicated to performing the classics for children. Having had success with previous offerings such as Uncle Tommys Cabin, company founder Alistair has decided that the next logical step is tackling Sophocles Oedipus Rex with songs such as Whats It Like When Ya Get The Plague? and A Little Complex. But all is not as pleasant as it seems with the Fuzzy Ducks: Alistair is in the middle of a bitter divorce with troupe member Catalina, who suspects something is up when she learns that tonights audience includes the executives from sponsor Beanz! Coffee for Kids. Evan, the third troupe member, is a newly-trained recent hire with questionable acting methods. He uses these to play Oeddy, a little boy a lot like you, who runs away from home when he finds out that he is destined to do something terrible to his Mommy and Daddy. On his journey, he meets a shady Baklava dealer named King Laius, a magical mythological coffee-drinking puppet named Sphinxy, and the Theban Queen, Jocasta, who wants to marry him regardless of their disproportionate age difference. While King Oedipus tries to solve the exciting mystery of who murdered the former king, the off-stage disagreements between the cast members spill onstage. The three insult each other, inflict flesh wounds, and fornicate during intermission. When Catalina learns that her ex-husband has bought her share in the Fuzzy Ducks only to sell it to Beanz! Coffee for ten times net value, Catalina decides to sabotage the production. What was once a misguided--albeit--educational theatrical experience swiftly spirals into a Charybdis-like whirlpool of suck, and Catalinas revenge leads to a darkly comic denouement. Please note: this play is not for young audiences. |
Janet Allard | Vrooommm! A NASComedy |
 : | This satiric spoof of Americas fastest sport reveals how our competitive edge gets corrupted by our relentless drive for commercial success. When a female driver takes the lead in the NASCAR season standings, sabotage and scandal dent the polished reputation of this high-octane enterprise. A primarily female cast portrays the all-male universe of NASCAR daredevil anticsin an all-out race for love and money with some crazy gender-fender-benders. |
Bridget Carpenter | Up (The Man In The Flying Lawn Chair) |
 : | Up invites us into the life of Walter Griffin, a failed inventor obsessed with Philippe Petits famed 1974 wire-walk between the twin World Trade Center towers. Walters greatest moment of glory a flight on a lawn chair festooned with helium balloons is now long behind him, though Walter dreams of inventing something wonderful once more. His wife, Helen, has become disillusioned and frustrated at being the familys only breadwinner. Their teenage son, Mikey, harbors dreams of his own: after befriending Maria, a pregnant girl in his class, Mikey becomes involved in her familys phone sales business, with surprising results. When Walter finally takes a job, Mike keeps his a secret, and Helen allows herself to dream of a more secure life. But when Helen discovers the truth about Walters employment, it becomes clear to this family that life itself is lived on a wire not unlike Petit's, this one strung between happiness and sadness. |
Luigi Creatore | Flamingo Court |
 : | This three part slice of life takes place in three different condos and has audiences laughing at the truth they see in what might be their own neighbors - only zanier. Flamingo Court has ten characters. In the New York production, five actors played all the roles. Producers may want to follow the above pattern, or cast up to ten actors. In any case, audiences respond to this trilogy with uproarious laughter and leave feeling they have experienced great entertainment. |
Ken Davenport | My First Time |
 : | My First Time features four actors in hysterical and heartbreaking stories about first sexual experiences written by real people. In 1998, a decade before blogging began, a website was created that allowed people to anonymously share their own true stories about their First Times. The website became an instant phenomenon as over 40,000 stories poured in from around the globe that were silly, sweet, absurd, funny, heterosexual, homosexual, shy, sexy and everything in between. And now, these true stories and all of the unique characters in them are brought to life by four actors in this acclaimed 90 minute play from Ken Davenport |
Anthony and Marcia Migrom Dodge | HATS! A Musical for the Rest of your Life |
 : | Hats! concerns a 49.999-year-old woman, MaryAnne, who reluctantly faces the inevitable 50th birthday. In the production, MaryAnne warms up to her 50th once she meets several remarkable women who show her about fun and friendship after 50.Hats! is based on the ideas of The Red Hat Society" and features songs by Doug Besterman, Susan Birkenhead, Michele Brourman, Pat Bunch, Gretchen Cryer, Anthony Dodge, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Beth Falcone, David Friedman, Kathie Lee Gifford, Carol Hall, Henry Krieger, Stephen Lawrence, Melissa Manchester, Amanda McBroom, Pam Tillis and Sharon Vaughn. |
Tony Glazer | Stain |
 : | Stain follows 15-year-old Thomas through his quickly-crumbling life and the secrets his family tries to keep at bay. In this darkly comic piece about the complexities of family, Thomas is confronted with a choice that will either save or mark him forever. |
Steven Leigh Morris | Beachwood Drive |
 : | Beachwood Drive tells the story of Nadya, a Ukrainian woman brought to America and enslaved as part of a prostitution ring. In this compelling tale based on an actual police case, a single mother, Nadya becomes squeezed between her Russian Mafia protectors and the LAPD detective who arrests her in a sting operation |
Itamar Moses | Back Back Back |
 : | Does greatness always come with a price? Can only someone with nothing to lose tell the whole truth? From Itamar Moses, the writer of The Four Of Us and Bach at Leipzig, comes a new drama about America's favorite pastime. Back Back Back follows the turbulent careers of three very different teammates in baseball's steroid era whose clubhouse secrets bring them under federal scrutiny |
Michael Parker | Sex Please We're Sixty! |
 : | Mrs. Stancliffe's Rose Cottage Bed & Breakfast has been successful for many years. Her Guests (nearly all women) return year after year. Her next door neighbor, the elderly, silver-tongued, Bud 'Bud the Stud' Davis believes they come to spend time with him in romantic liaisons. The prim and proper Mrs. Stancliffe steadfastly denies this, but really doesn't do anything to prevent it. She reluctantly accepts the fact that 'Bud the Stud' is, in fact, good for business. Her other neighbor and would-be suitor Henry Mitchell is a retired chemist who has developed a blue pill called 'Venusia,' after Venus the goddess of love, to increase the libido of menopausal women. The pill has not been tested. Add to the guest list three older women: Victoria Ambrose, a romance novelist whose personal life seems to be lacking in romance; Hillary Hudson a friend of Henry's who has agreed to test the Venusia: and Charmaine Beauregard, a 'Southern Belle' whose libido does not need to be increased! Bud gets his hands on some of the Venusia pills and the fun begins, as attempts to entertain all three women! The women mix up Bud's Viagra pills with the Venusia, and we soon discover that it has a strange effect on men: it gives them all the symptoms of menopausal women, complete with hot flashes, mood swings, weeping and irritability! When the mayham settles down, all the women find their lives moving in new and surprising directions. |
Marley Sims | Sunset Park |
 : | Sunset Park is a contemporary comedy/drama that takes place in Brooklyn, New York. The main character is Evelyn Horowitz, a widow in her seventies who lives by herself and is a part-time teacher. Her apartment building is going co-op, but she cant afford to buy in and cannot, by law, be asked to leave. When, her middle-aged children, Carol and Roger, hear about it, they realize that theres money to be made in the long run: a long-term tenant has to be offered the apartment at a below market-value price and, eventually, the place can be flipped for a sizable profit. And thats when the problems start when money enters the picture, conflicts arise and old secrets come out. |
Catherine Trieschmann | Crooked |
 : | Coming-of-age drama with sideways glance at evangelical and Sapphic love. 'I mean, the fact that Jesus chose to turn the water into wine, rather than just decontaminating it, proves that drinking alcohol is not a sin.' Fourteen-year-old Laney arrives in Oxford, Mississippi, an outsider with a twisted back and only her writing to keep her company. When she befriends the hapless born-again Maribel, Laney's penchant for story-telling soon spirals out of control. A hilarious chain of events is set in motion, sparking a spiritual and sexual journey that infuriates her mother and threatens to tear their fragile world apart. A gloriously sideways glance at evangelical and Sapphic love way down south |
Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder | Gee's Bend |
 : | Gee's Bend depicts the turbulent history of African-Americans in the 20th century by focusing on a single family in the real community of Gee's Bend, AL, which is now famous for the beautiful quilts created by the women that grew up there. Gospel songs weave in and out of this hauntingly beautiful work |
Mark Brown | China - The Whole Enchilada |
 : | An irreverent slapstick race through 4000 years of Chinese history in 90 minutes. Three guys speed from Chairman Mao to infected fowl, the greatest wall to the largest mall, Genghis Khan to Fu Manchu-han. It's a musical of Olympic proportions. www.chinathewholeenchilada.com 2h 15m, Musical, Comedy |
Bridget Carpenter | Fall |
 : | Lydia and her parents are at a three week dance camp. Lydia is not interested in dancing at all until she notices Mr. Gonzales |
Lee Goldsmith | Abe |
 : | Abe is a new musical about the early life of Abraham Lincoln. The show explores his youth as a flatboat pilot on the Mississippi, his early love for Ann Rutledge, his troubled marriage to the difficult and mentally fragile Mary Todd, and his attempt to be a good father to his sons. The story follows Abe from his earliest attempts at self-improvement through the 1860 election which made him the 16th president of an already fracturing United States. The score is fully orchestrated and uses bold, melodic and traditional musical theatre styles that embrace the story's period and Americana roots. It can be produced fully staged or as a concert performance. The musical features a large cast and requires strong singers: baritone, soprano, mezzo-soprano, 3 adult male singing roles, 3 male children singing roles, male/female chorus with many speaking roles. |
Scott Martin | Scream Queens - The Musical |
 : | A hotel ballroom, 1998, and six voluptuous B-movie "Scream Queens" revive their fading acting careers by presenting a musical revue for their fans at a science fiction and horror film convention. From young newbie to seasoned grand dame, the Queens strut their stuff in song and dance to prove "I Got All of the Talent I Need." For 90 minutes of hilarious musical mayhem, they take the audience into the world of no-budget movies with awful scripts, fake monsters and gooey "Special FX." They even involve the audience in a screaming contest and zombie talent search. As each Queen reveals her personal story, we share their hopes and dreams, from Tonya's love of her idol "Fay Wray" to Alexis' advice that "Everybody Starts at the Bottom" to DeeDee's secrets of Scream Queen longevity: "Don't Open That Door." British screen veteran Nadine savors her joy of being "Still In Demand" while Bianca celebrates the lifetime achievements of "Roger Corman" and Richelle laments her own elusive "Happy Endings." They also screen original clips from their direct-to-video "scary movie" spoofs such as "Revenge of the Psycho Bimbos" and "Malibu Vampire Vixens," all hoping to attract the attention of a popular young horror film director lurking in the audience. |
Itamar Moses | Four Of Us, The |
 : | What happens when your biggest dreams come true. . .for your best friend? When Benjamin's first novel vaults him into the literary stratosphere, his friendship with David, a struggling playwright, is strained. Can Benjamin help David gain professional connections? Does career success coincide with personal happiness? Who should pay for lunch? A two-hander with a misleading title about success, jealousy, and growing up |
Elliot Schoenman | Sunset Park |
| : | Sunset Park is a contemporary comedy/drama that takes place in Brooklyn, New York. The main character is Evelyn Horowitz, a widow in her seventies who lives by herself and is a part-time teacher. Her apartment building is going co-op, but she cant afford to buy in and cannot, by law, be asked to leave. When, her middle-aged children, Carol and Roger, hear about it, they realize that theres money to be made in the long run: a long-term tenant has to be offered the apartment at a below market-value price and, eventually, the place can be flipped for a sizable profit. And thats when the problems start when money enters the picture, conflicts arise and old secrets come out. |
Jason Wells | Men Of Tortuga |
 : | Negotiation, conspiracy, and assassination: four power-brokers will stop at nothing to wreck a historic meeting. But when one of them takes a young idealist under his wing, his long-dormant conscience begins to reawaken |
Alan Bailey | Wedding Belles |
 : | our garden-club ladies meet a young girl who has come to their little Texas town to marry an infantryman before he ships off for World War II. The women impulsively decide to throw the girl an elaborate wedding, and their lives and friendships are thrown into turmoil as they race to accomplish the nuptials in one frenzied afternoon. |
Roger Karshner | Who Killed The Sausage King? |
 : | The police are baffled after Wilbur Smith, The Sausage King, is strangled with a roll of his own sausage. After several months, the authorities, unable to unscramble the dilemma, call in the services of Farlow Cranston, ace private investigator and renowned solver or arcane cases. Cranston, with unflappable grandiloquence and fractured logic, unravels the mystery via a farcical route that leads to its conclusion. Expect the unexpected in this delightful melange. |
Deborah Zoe Laufer | Out of Sterno |
 : | Dotty's life in Sterno with her husband Hamel is absolutely perfect! It's a fairy tale, it really is. True, in their seven years of marriage Hamel has forbidden her to leave their tiny apartment or speak to anyone, but Dotty is so very happy to spend her days watching video re-enactments of the day they first met. When a phone call from a mysterious woman threatens to tear her world asunder, Dotty must venture out into the vast city of Sterno, and try to discover what it is to be a "real" woman. "Out of Sterno" is a coming-of-age play in an Alice in Wonderland world. It explores the triumph and heartbreak of growing up and the contradictory societal pressures women face just trying to make it across town |
Henry Meyerson | Proceed To Checkout |
 : | 10 Death Affirming Plays, Sketches and Monologues. DOG YEARS (2, gender neutral) If dogs years are seven to one of Man. . .arf. COMRADES (2m) What are comrades for if not to try to cheer each other up in a time of distress? Dostoevsky would appreciate the irony. THE SUITCASE (2m, 2f) Bereavement maybe painful, but be sure to have your credit card. THE STRUGGLE (1m) The sound of the beeeeeeeeep means dinner is off. LUCKY MAN (2m, 1f) Mr. Smith might have been cured had he survived the autopsy. REHEARSAL (1m, 1f) A long rehearsal for a one shot performance. PUMPS (1, gender neutral) There are many kinds of pumps, but only one really matters. THE FINE PRINT (2m, 1f) Everything is on loan and you have to pay up when you go. SILENCE (2m, 1f) Could there be something worse than surviving the Holocaust? POP GOES THE WEASEL (4, gender neutral) Life may be a game, but be sure to hold on to your chair. "The best of Program A includes author Henry Meyerson's Silence, a touching essay about two Russians who survived the Holocaust and meet shortly after immigrating to New York following World War II." - South Florida Sun-Sentinel; "In Henry Meyerson's Silence, a deeply moving piece about elderly Holocaust survivors trying to make sense of the too-early death of their beloved only son. Fierce and heartbreaking." - Miami Herald; "Pop Goes the Weasel - -a sharp, very original piece uses musical chairs as a metaphor for the way we live now; it takes on a surprising added resonance in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attack&a smart and interesting work." - NYTheatre.com. |
Henry Meyerson | Shtick |
 : | Helen's life became complicated after her husband Murray's stroke and her sister Gladys's revelation, wanting to set the record straight in case Murray should die, that she and Murray had been having an affair. Helen suspected Murray was no angel when she married him. After all, as a stand-up comic he was always on the road and she knew comics could be loose cannons. Helen knew she was trading the risk Murray would bring to any relationship, let alone marriage, for the excitement of the gamble. While Helen might have been willing to adjust to Murray and his new stroke induced limits, the stakes were raised and the game was changed by Gladys's admission of the affair. So now Helen is left on the horns of dilemma: How can she be a nurturing caretaker for a man who has deceived her (with her own sister, yet) while knowing he is a snake with no visible conscience? |
Jim Wann | People vs. MONA, The |
 : | Set in Tippo, Georgia (population 8,000), The People vs. Mona is a love story, courtroom drama, musical comedy, and fate-of-a-small-town-hanging-in-the-balance all rolled into one. Mona Mae Katt, owner of the wildly popular musical hangout the Frog Pad, stands accused of killing her husband on their wedding day. If convicted, Mona will go to jail, and her beloved Frog Pad will be turned over to developers. Mona's fate (and the Frog Pad's) rests in the hands of everyman local defense attorney Jim Summerford, who has never won a case against charismatic prosecutor and majoral candidate Mavis Frye. . .who also happens to be his fiancée. As the trial unfolds amidst a rollicking Southern-roots score, the town's many secrets are revealed, and Jim and Mona recognize a budding attraction between them. |
Annie Baker | Body Awareness |
 : | It is 'Body Awareness Week' at bucolic Shirley State College in Vermont, and all must go according to plan. But when photographer Frank Bonitatibus shows up with his passel of photographs of naked women, things start to go awry. |
Ron Bernas | Little Murder Never Hurt Anybody, A |
 : | It-s New Year-s Eve at the Perry mansion, and Julia and Matthew Perry seem to have it all. But Matthew wants something more -- to be rid of his wife Julia so he can have some real fun! He resolves to murder Julia by the new year-s end, and tells her so. She vows to stay alive, and tells him so. And so the game begins -- a hilarious year-long match of wits and the witless. While Julia cleverly dodges Matthew-s devious murder attempts, the Perry friends and staff are dying off mysteriously. It seems Matthew is successful in murdering everyone but Julia. As the bodies are falling, dim-witted daughter Bunny contemplates calling off her wedding to unwitting Donald since all the intended gift-bearing guests are dying. Enter Detective Plotnik -- a Sam Spade reincarnation who suspects everyone, but hasn-t a clue. That is, not until Donald stumbles upon Julia and gentlemanly butler Buttram in what Donald mistakenly perceives as a compromising situation. Donald jumps to the conclusion that Julia is the murderer -- trying to murder Matthew! |
Eisa Davis | Bulrusher |
 : | In 1955 Boonville, California, a multi-racial abandoned baby girl (Bulrusher) is found floating in a basket on the river. Growing up in an isolated predominately white town with its own homespun language, Bulrusher only questions her origins and investigates her identity when prompted by the arrival of a stranger. In a town where the unusual is normal (a brothel run by an aloof madam, a school run by a silent teacher), Bulrusher is still an outcast due to her painfully accurate clairvoyance |
Gino Dilorio | Apostacy |
 : | A successful middle-aged businesswoman reaches a crossroads in her life leading her to question her faith and to turn to a charismatic evangelist for guidance. Her only daughter is greatly threatened by her mother's new relationship and abandonment of her previous way of life. |
Matthew Freeman | When is a Clock |
 : | When Gordons wife disappears, the only clue to her whereabouts is a dog-eared copy of an odd book called 'Traveling to Montpelier'. Pursued by police as a potential homicide suspect, and perpetually nagged by his smart-ass teenage son, Gordon takes off to a strange Pennsylvania town to search for his missing wife. Did Gordon commit an unspeakable crime? Or does this bizarre book, with its cult-like missives, have a hand in her disappearance |
Jason Grote | 1001 |
 : | 1001 spins themes and variations from the classic 'A Thousand and One Arabian Nights' to explore the incarnations of love, sex, religion, cruelty and war from ancient Baghdad to the post-9/11 era. Playwright Jason Grote combines savage wit, political insight, Borgesian time-warping, and theatrical ingenuity in a dazzling tour de force that Sheherezade herself would envy. |
George Packer | Betrayed |
 : | In early 2007, The New Yorker writer George Packer published an article about the desperate situation of the Iraqis who had risked their lives to help the American effort in their country and were being hunted down as a result, with little or no U.S. protection. The article helped draw national attention to a humanitarian crisis and a moral scandal. Betrayed, Packer's first play, based on his interviews in Iraq and other countries, tells the story of three young Iraqistwo men and a womanwho are motivated by hope to go work for the Americans, until they begin to wonder who, if anyone, can be trusted |
Steven Peros | Cat's Meow, The |
 : | Based on the true story of a mysterious Hollywood death, The Cat's Meow offers a fascinating cross section of Jazz Era characters who intersect for one notorious weekend on board William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924. The play was adapted for film in 2002, with a screenplay by the author, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, and starring Kirsten Dunst, Eddie Izzard, and Edward Herrmann. Weekend guests include: Charlie Chaplin, who has been carrying on with movie star Marion Davies, a secret known to Davies' paramour, the married - and much older -- Hearst; and movie mogul Thomas Ince, who is hoping to revive his flagging fortunes by forming a partnership with Hearst. Playing with fire, Ince tries to convince Hearst that he can handle both Marion's movie career& and her private life as well. During its 1997 Los Angeles premiere, audiences and critics were both entertained and moved by this darkly comic morality play, laced with clandestine romance, Hollywood excess, and steadily heating tensions, which erupt in a shocking act of violence. |
Jane Shepard | KickAss Plays For Women |
 : | Award-winning new playwright Jane Shepard comes to print with four powerful short plays for women. Edgy, original, and with a darkly funny humanity, here are four pieces that give new muscle to actresses, providing roles of exceptional range. All successfully produced on the New York stage, each play features two-woman casts, with age-open roles, in work that explores our tender, brave, and sometimes brutal search for meaning. Includes both comedy and drama, with a variety of settings and running times. An excellent introduction to the playwright, KickAss Plays For Women is a vital text for actresses of any age, or anyone hungry for compelling new plays. Nine (2f) Two women held in a life-threatening situation and the mind games they play to keep one another alive. Held in a cell and chained apart, their only currency is words, and balance of power is everything when a single word becomes the hanging point between life and death. Commencing (2f) The beautiful Kelli can-t wait for the blind date her friends have set her up on. Until it turns out to be one very disappointed lesbian named Arlin. Mutually appalled, yet appallingly intrigued, they proceed to pull the screws loose on both straight and gay women-s culture, to find the common ground beneath in the search for love & self. Friend of the Deceased (2f) An embittered widow lies in wait at her husband-s grave for the appearance his mistress, and encounters a soulful teen. Unable to extract a confession from the girl, the widow offers to buy one, and finds that she has purchased a deeper truth. The Last Nickel (2f and 2 pupeteers) Theatrical, funny & touching, It-s another long night for Jamie, with an obnoxious sister & a trio of sardonic puppets to keep her awake. Tinged with fun & sisterly nostalgia, the merriment comes inevitably to focus on the cause of Jamie-s self destruction, and the loss that has brought her to the edge. |
Ron Blicq | Closure |
 : | Donald Barlow, who lives in Nottingham, England, decides to search for his father who, he has discovered, was a visiting Canadian serviceman during World War II. Following his mother's death, Donald engages a search agency to find his father (Gordon Devereaux) and establish contact. But when the agency does find Devereaux, the elderly man vehemently denies his involvement with Donald's mother and categorically refuses to meet the man who claims to be his son. Donald's journalist daughter Claire refuses to give up and, using her married name, flies to Canada to meet and interview Devereaux. She takes her nine-year-old son with her (who actually is Devereaux's great-grandson) and a unique and unexpected friendship develops between the crusty old man and the boy. Although Claire had not intended to reveal the connection between them, she now privately telephones her father and suggests he fly to Canada. Yet her secret plan is shattered when the boy tells Devereaux things about his family, from which the old man deduces the connection and recognizes he has been duped. This sets in motion a vicious and seemingly irreversible conflict between Claire and Devereaux. The two men do eventually face each other, but both are angry and unforgiving. |
Saviana Stanescu | Aliens with Extraordinary Skills |
 : | A dark comedy about a clown from the 'unhappiest country in the world', Moldova, who pins her hopes on a US work visa. Chased by Homeland Security, a deportation letter deflates Nadia's enthusiasm and a pair of spike heels might be all it takes to burst her American Dream (or turn it into a nightmare...). New York City, with its special energy, seems like the perfect solution for her problems, but is it really? Luckily, Nadia is not alone in her journey: A Russian illegal immigrant, Borat, her fellow clown, tries to find his own path in the Big Apple, by working as a cab driver. Lupita, her Latina roommate, an exotic dancer and wanna-be actress, shows Nadia the tough side of the city. Meanwhile, Bob, an American washed-up musician finds himself in the relationship with the Moldovan girl. Aliens with Extraordinary Skills is based on true stories of immigration explored and fictionalized by a playwright who tries to understand her own story. The moral of the 'fable' might be that - regardless our passport and native language - we are all 'aliens' in search for love, understanding and a place to call 'home'. |
Michael Taub | Masked |
 : | An explosive play about three Palestinian brothers, Masked tackles the cultural divide at the heart of the Middle East conflict. Masked depicts the tragedy of one family torn between obligations, kinship, principles and survival. It is the first play by an Israeli playwright about the Intifada (Palestianian uprising) |
Bathsheba Doran | Living Room in Africa |
 : | UK transplants Edward and Marie relocate to remote African village, intent on opening an art museum. Weeks after arriving, they are stuck with the realization that they have settled in an area devastated by poverty and AIDS. In turn, questions about personal and political responsibilities surface and they are forced to confront what the experience in Africa means to them, and what they mean to each other |
Adrienne Kennedy | Mom, How Did You Meet The Beatles? |
 : | about Adrienne Kennedy's search for fame and fortune in 1960s London, where she encountered Laurence Olivier, James Baldwin, Ricki Huston, various British writers and, of course, The Beatles. |
David Mamet | Keep Your Pantheon |
 : | n Keep Your Pantheon, an impoverished acting company on the edge of eviction is offered a lucrative engagement. But through a series of riotous mishaps, the troupe finds its problems have actually multiplied, and that they are about to learn a new meaning for the term "dying on stage." |
Sam Marks | Nelson |
| : | Nelson is the story of a young man caught between two worlds. By day, he works as a low-level assistant to a film talent agent. By night, Nelson is the camera man for an underground, gang-related videotape series. As the videos become increasingly dangerous and popular, Nelson develops an overwhelming obsession with a C-List actress. Eventually, Nelsons two worlds collide with disturbing, unsettling results. The play is a darkly comic look at the guilt dream of a man trying to find something authentic in a world of two very different kinds of film. |
George Reinblatt | Evil Dead: The Musical |
 : | musical based on film director Sam Raimi's 1980s cult-classic horror movies of the same title. As the press release puts it: "Boy and his friends take a weekend getaway at abandoned cabin, boy expects to get lucky, boy unleashes anicent evil spirit, friends turn into Candarian Demons, boy fights until dawn to survive. As musical mayhem descends upon this sleepover in the woods, 'camp' takes on a whole new meaning in uproarious numbers like 'All the Men in My Life Keep Getting Killed by Candarian Demons,' 'Look Who's Evil Now,' and 'Do the Necronomicon.'" |
Carmen Rivera | La Gringa |
 : | La Gringa is about a young womans search for her identity. María Elena Garcia goes to visit her family in Puerto Rico during the Christmas holidays and arrives with plans to connect with her homeland. Although this is her first trip to Puerto Rico, she has had an intense love for the island and even majored in Puerto Rican Studies in college. Once María is in Puerto Rico, she realizes that Puerto Rico does not welcome her with open arms. The majority of the Puerto Ricans on the island consider her an American a gringa -- and María considers this a betrayal. If shes a Puerto Rican in the United States and an American in Puerto Rico María concludes that she is nobody everywhere. Her uncle, Manolo, spiritually teaches her that identity isnt based on superficial and external definitions, but rather is an essence that she has had all along in her heart. This play is published in a bilingual edition, if you are applying for licensing rights please state which version (English or Spanish) you wish to produce. |
Sarah Ruhl | Dead Man's Cell Phone |
 : | Gordon is dead, but his cell phone lives on. When Jean, an empathetic museum worker, answers his ringing phone beside her in a café, she is soon playing unwitting comforter and confessor to the mans grieving friends and family. Before she knows it, Jeans ensnarled in the underbelly of the dead mans bizarre life. |