Playwright: Matthew Lopez Rights: Dramatists Cast Size: 14m, 1w Synopsis: Decades after the AIDS epidemic, three generations of gay men grapple with the tragedy of their past and what it means for their future. Eric is a New York City lawyer trying to keep his family’s apartment; his husband, Toby, is a successful but abrasive… Read more »
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An Octoroon
Playwright: Brandon Jacobs Jenkins Rights: Dramatists Cast Size: 10m, 5w (doubling) Synopsis: Judge Peyton is dead and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton’s handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful octoroon. But the evil overseer M’Closky has other plans—for both Terrebonne and Zoe. In… Read more »
The Niceties
Playwright: Eleanor Burgess Rights: Concord Theatricals Cast Size: 2f Synopsis: Zoe, a black student at a liberal arts college, is called into her white professor’s office to discuss her paper about slavery’s effect on the American Revolution. What begins as a polite clash in perspectives explodes into an urgent debate about race, history, and power…. Read more »
Choir Boy
Playwright: Tarell Alvin McCraneyRights: DramatistsSynopsis:The Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys is dedicated to the creation of strong, ethical black men. Pharus wants nothing more than to take his rightful place as leader of the school’s legendary gospel choir. Can he find his way inside the hallowed halls of this institution if he sings in… Read more »
Meet Our Village: Ed Thompson
As we celebrate lots of new things on the Live Arts Theatre horizon, we are highlighting various people who make up the village we like to call the Live Arts Theatre family. This series will focus on the many actors, directors, techies, stage hands, members, and even our regular theatre-goers who make Live Arts Theatre… Read more »
Meet Our Village: Mike Yow
As we celebrate lots of new things on the Live Arts Theatre horizon, we are highlighting various people who make up the village we like to call the Live Arts Theatre family. This series will focus on the many actors, directors, techies, stage hands, members, and even our regular theatre-goers who make Live Arts Theatre… Read more »
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
Playwright: Lynn Nottage Rights: Dramatists Cast Size: 3m, 4w (doubling) Synopsis: In a new comedy from the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright of Ruined, Lynn Nottage draws upon the screwball films of the 1930s to take a funny and irreverent look at racial stereotypes in Hollywood. BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK is a seventy-year journey through the life… Read more »
The Boys in the Band
Playwright: Mart Crowley Rights: Samuel French Synopsis: In his Upper East Side apartment, Michael is throwing a birthday party for Harold, a self-avowed “thirty-two-year-old, pockmarked, Jew fairy,” complete with surprise gift: “Cowboy,” a street hustler. As the evening wears on – fueled by drugs and alcohol – bitter, unresolved resentments among the guests come to light when… Read more »
Rest
Playwright: Samuel D. Hunter Rights: Samuel French Synopsis: A retirement home in northern Idaho is being shut down, and only three residents and a bare-bones staff remain. When a record breaking blizzard blows into town and an elderly resident disappears into the storm, everyone is brought to face their own mortality. Ratings: Language: 16+ Adult Content:… Read more »
A Great Wilderness
Playwright: Samuel D. Hunter Rights: Samuel French Synopsis: Walt has devoted his life to “curing” teenage boys of their homosexuality at his remote Idaho wilderness camp. Pressured to accept one last client, his life begins to unravel with the arrival of Daniel. Ratings: Language: 10+ Adult Content: 13+ Violence: All Ages Pay attention to: Flexibility: All… Read more »