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Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Little Rock

1988

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1999

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Notes: music by Michael Rice and scenes by Jack Heifner

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Margo Jones Theatre, Dallas

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1992

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Comedy

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Synopsis: At the beginning of BARGAINS, the female clerks in the local discount store are preparing for a mid-summer sale and gossiping over marked-down goods that nobody wants. Sally, prim and conservative, still lives with her tyrannical mother. Mildred, brassy and funny, lives in a trailer with her brother, Lothar, a failed, colorblind hairdresser who has never found himself. When the department store closes, the world as these women know it comes to an end. Although opposites in all respects, Sally and Mildred become allies and then friends as they rearrange the people who encumber their lives. After much maneuvering with the semi-suicidal Lothar, Mildred sends him off in the trailer to make a new start in California with his lover Dennis, a florist who is allergic to flowers. Sally confronts her domineering mother for the first time in her life and decides to let Mildred come to live in their house. Having inherited Dennis' flower shop, the two friends begin new careers, a new business and new lives.

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West Bank Cafe, NY

1989

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1999

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Broadway Play Publishing 9anthology), NY

1985

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Playwrights Horizons, NYC

1975

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Notes: World Premiere at STAGES in Houston, Texas during May, 1982.

Synopsis:

stage reading Phoenix New Play Festival

2002

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Notes: Ensemble Studio Theare Octoberfest, 2002

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Portland Center Stage, Portland, Oregon

1995

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1999

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Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY

1999

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staged reading Playwrights Project, High Point, NC

2001

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Notes: Key West Theater Festival, Florida, 2002

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Los Angeles

1992

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1999

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Synopsis: After the death of famous gay novelist Jason four of his friends try to discover what happened. There are thinly disguised versions of themselves in the last book he was writing

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staged reading at Bigfork Performing Arts Center, Montana

1990

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1999

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Notes: world premiere Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Little Rock, 1991

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staged reading at Bigfork Performing Arts Center, Montana

1994

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Notes: Key West Theater Festival, Florida, 1998

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New Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco

1999

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Synopsis: Middle aged friends Mel and Tracy are holidaying at a Key West gay resort hotel. Tracy gets drunk at a gay club and bribes the go-go dancer to come back to the hotel with him. Mel meets one of the other guests - Jeff - who has come to the hotel to meet Don a priest to whom he has been chatting on the internet.

Broadway, New York

1985

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Samuel French, NY

1987

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Notes: music and lyrics by Ellie Greenwich, additional material by Jack Heifner

Synopsis:

staged reading at Bigfork Performing Arts Center, Montana

1993

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Notes: Key West Theater Festival, Florida, 1999

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Lion Theatre Company, New York

1978

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Theatrical scrapbook

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Synopsis: drawn from "L'envers due music-hall" by Colette. The play was an adaptation from her writings with the addition of original music

West Bank Cafe, NY

1985

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1985

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Synopsis: TROPICAL DEPRESSION. In a slightly seedy resort hotel on a remote Caribbean island, two high-living Texas housewives, Gloria and Janine, are enjoying a respite from their rich but boring husbands. They are determined to savor their holiday to the fullest, but nature has other plans. First they get burned to a crisp by the tropical sun, then a hurricane imprisons them in their tacky room. In between, however, Gloria defiantly spends a great deal of her absent husband's money on various "art treasures," while Janine (a former Miss Texas) pays for the favors of a handsome lifeguard, an act which jolts them both back to reality and makes them reexamine just who they are and what they really want from life. (2 women.) In the second play, TWISTER, Betty and Roy are apparently the only survivors of a tornado that has destroyed their tiny Texas town and all their worldly goods. After the initial shock wears off Roy sets about trying to restore things to what they were, while Betty, suddenly freed from all the junk she owned, wants to move on and start over. The resulting debate is both hilarious and revealing, as Roy resists the notion that what they had was nothing great while Betty pours out all her hopes and frustrations that have been bottled up for years. In the end it is the dream that triumphs: Betty charges off to catch a bus that may never arrive, and Roy attempts to hold onto the present that is fast becoming the past. (1 man, 1 woman.)

Century Theatre, NY

1978

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1978

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Synopsis: set in the backyard of a middle-class Texas home. Pearl, the younger sister, is preparing a going-away party for her older sister, Jewel, a beautician who is bored with small town life and is heading off hopefully to the big city. As the two bustle about setting out food and putting up decorations, their conversation reveals progressively more and more of their differences and dreams--and of the emptiness which has pervaded both their lives

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Broadway Play Publishing 9anthology), NY

1985

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Century Theatre, NY

1979

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1978

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Synopsis: the two characters are an ill and crotchety old woman and her restless, spinster daughter. As they sit on their ramshackle front porch, complaining of the heat, the meanness of the mother and the aching frustration of the daughter are made vivid through dialogue which, while frequently funny, is also unerring in capturing the quiet desperation which beset them both.

New Dramatists, NY, USA >>>

1982

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1987

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Synopsis: As the play begins, Lilly is pondering which of her designer dresses to burn in the fireplace of her chic if sparsely furnished penthouse apartment. The problem is that it is wintertime, the United States has long since used up its fuel reserves, and if Lilly and her husband, Stephen, are to keep warm there is no alternative. Down in the streets below people are fighting birds for berries, cutting down trees in the parks for fuel, and waiting in endless lines for meager government food handouts. Lilly and Stephen are also preparing for a party, albeit one in which both food and drink will be imagined rather than real. The guest of honor is to be their old friend, David, with whom both once had romantic involvement. When David arrives he is accompanied by his latest conquests, Chloe (a flower child) and Jonathan (a committed Catholic), who, like their predecessors, are competing for David's amoral favors. As the pretend party progresses the antic mood of the play grows increasingly more probing and serious, as questions are raised about the barren platonic relationship which Lilly and Stephen have settled for; David's continued failure to commit himself, sexually or otherwise; and Chloe and Jonathan's obsession with the evils of materialism (her) and gnawing personal guilt (him). In the end human frailty is pitilessly excoriated but, at the same time, hopes are raised that the bitter lessons of the past, and present, will somehow be heeded, and that mankind may yet bring some semblance of order to the chaos and misfortune which his baser instincts have engendered.

New Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco

2004

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Notes: Original Playwright - Arthur Schnitzler

Synopsis: a gay version of La Ronde. Starting and ending with a rent boy and going through the actor, the writer, the producer, the handyman, the professor and the student

Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Little Rock

1993

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Notes: music and lyrics by Don Jones, book by Jack Heifner

Synopsis:

New York

1983

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Notes: Music by Marvin Hamlisch, Lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, Book by Jack Heifer

Synopsis: about teenage beauty pageants

Lion Theatre Company, New York

1980

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Contemporary comedy

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Notes: songs by Janis Ian

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Bigfork, Montana

1991

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Sketches

Sketch

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Synopsis: about beauty contests

Texas Playwrights Festival, Houston

1983

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Disaster comedy

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Texas Playwrights Festival, Houston

1984

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1985

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Comedy

One Act

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Notes: in Natural Disasters

Synopsis: In a slightly seedy resort hotel on a remote Caribbean island, two high-living Texas housewives, Gloria and Janine, are enjoying a respite from their rich but boring husbands. They are determined to savour their holiday to the fullest, but nature has other plans. First they get burned to a crisp by the tropical sun, then a hurricane imprisons them in their tacky room. In between, however, Gloria defiantly spends a great deal of her absent husband's money on various "art treasures," while Janine (a former Miss Texas) pays for the favours of a handsome lifeguard, an act which jolts them both back to reality and makes them re-examine just who they are and what they really want from life.

West Bank Cafe, NY

1984

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1985

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Comedy

One Act

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Notes: in Natural Disasters

Synopsis: Betty and Roy are apparently the only survivors of a tornado which has destroyed their tiny Texas town and all their worldly goods. After the initial shock wears off Roy sets about trying to restore things to what they were, while Betty, suddenly freed from all the junk she owned, wants to move on and start over. The resulting debate is both hilarious and revealing, as Roy resists the notion that what they had was nothing great while Betty pours out all her hopes and frustrations that have been bottled up for years. In the end it is the dream that triumphs: Betty charges off to catch a bus that may never arrive, and Roy attempts to hold on to the present that is fast becoming the past.

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Chelsea Westside Theatre, Off Broadway

1976