Playwright: Alice Childress Rights: Concord Theatricals Cast Size: 3w, 6m Synopsis: A talented and experienced Black actress has been cast in Chaos in Belleville, an anti-lynching play set to open on Broadway. She’s paid her dues throughout the years, playing stereotypical supporting roles in second-rate shows, and is ready for her star turn. Chaos in Belleville, written… Read more »
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Paradise Blue
Playwright: Dominique Morrisseu Rights: Concord Theatricals Cast Size: 3m, 2w Synopsis: Blue, a gifted trumpeter, contemplates selling his once-vibrant jazz club in Detroit’s Blackbottom neighborhood to shake free the demons of his past and better his life. But where does that leave his devoted Pumpkin, who has dreams of her own? And what does it mean… Read more »
Skeleton Crew
Playwright: Dominique Morrisseu Rights: Concord Theatricals Cast Size: 2m, 2w Synopsis: Dominique Morisseau’s powerful and tense play, the third in her Detroit cycle trilogy, concerns workers at an auto stamping plant at the start of the Great Recession. Ratings: Language: 16+ Adult Content: 13+ Violence: 13+ Pay attention to: Characters are race specific. Flexibility: All changes… Read more »
Detroit 67
Playwright: Dominique Morrisseau Rights: Concord Theatricals Cast Size: 2m, 3w Synopsis: Morisseau’s powerful play unfolds an explosive moment in our history – the race riots that ravaged the city of Detroit in 1967 – set to a vibrant soundtrack of the day’s music. Ratings: Language: 16+ Adult Content: 13+ Violence: 13+ Pay attention to: This play… Read more »
American Son
Playwright: Christopher Demos-Brown Rights: Concord Theatricals Cast Size: 3m, 1w Synopsis: An estranged bi-racial couple must confront their feelings about race and bias after their son is detained by the local police following a traffic stop incident. Ratings: Language: 16+ Adult Content: 16+ Violence: 13+ Pay attention to: The play deals directly with race relations between… Read more »
Barbeque
Playwright: Robert O’Hara Rights: Theatrical Rights Worldwide Cast Size: 2m, 8w Synopsis: Barbecue centers on around the O’Mallerys, a dysfunctional group of siblings who come together for a park barbeque in order to stage an emergency intervention for their sister Barbara, whose drug habit has gotten out of hand. However, there are in fact two… Read more »
Bootycandy
Playwright: Robert O’Hara Rights: Concord Theatricals Cast Size: 3m, 2w Synopsis: Robert O’Hara’s semi-autobiographical subversive comedy weaves together scenes, sermons, sketches, and daring meta-theatrics to create a kaleidoscopic portrayal of growing up gay and Black.Ratings: Language: 16+ Adult Content: 16+ Violence: 13+ Pay attention to: Innuendo throughout the piece. This play deals with sexuality and… Read more »
End of the Rainbow
Playwright: Peter Quilter Rights: Concord Theatricals Cast Size: 3m, 1w Synopsis: A play with music about the final years in the life of Judy Garland, “End of the Rainbow” triumphed in London’s West End in 2010/2011 and on Broadway, at the Belasco Theatre, in 2012. A musical drama of Judy Garland’s “come-back” concerts Christmas 1968:… Read more »
An Infinite Ache
Playwright: David Schulner Rights: Dramatists Cast Size: 1m, 1w Synopsis: This is a fresh and heartfelt play about love, time and the infinite directions in which two lives can travel. Hope and Charles are a pair of lonely twenty-somethings about to end a supremely uninteresting first date. But just as they say good night, the… Read more »
The Whipping Man
Playwright: Matthew Lopez Rights: Concord Theatricals Cast Size: 3m Synopsis: It is April, 1865. The Civil War is over and throughout the south, slaves are being freed, soldiers are returning home and in Jewish homes, the annual celebration of Passover is being celebrated. Into the chaos of war-torn Richmond comes Caleb DeLeon, a young Confederate… Read more »