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Deer Play

Playwright: Daryl Lisa Fazio Rights: Contact the Playwright’s agent Susan Gurman Gurman Agency LLC 14 Penn Plaza Suite 1407 New York NY 10122-1405 212-749-4618 susan@gurmanagency.com Cast Size: 3f 2m, possible 3rd m Synopsis: (from the playwright) When Mississippi good ol’ boy and champion deer hunter, Oscar Moak, one day isn’t able to shoot, he and… Read more »

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

Playwright: August Wilson Rights: Concord Theatricals Cast Size: 6m, 5w Synopsis: Set in a black boarding house in Pittsburgh in 1911, this drama by the author of The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars, and Fences is an installment in the author’s series chronicling black life in each decade of this century. Each denizen of the boarding house has a different… Read more »

The Late Wedding

Playwright: Christopher Chen Rights: Concord Theatricals Cast Size: 6 any gender Synopsis: Inspired by the writings of Italo Calvino, The Late Wedding is a fractured portrait of a fractured marriage, as told through a series of interconnected fables, including an anthropological tour of fantastical tribes and their marital customs. Ratings: Language: 16+ Adult Content: 13+ Violence: 13+… Read more »

Straight White Men

Playwright: Young Jean Lee Rights: Dramatists Cast Size: 4m Synopsis: When Ed and his three adult sons come together to celebrate Christmas, they enjoy cheerful trash-talking, pranks, and takeout Chinese. Then they confront a problem that even being a happy family can’t solve: When identity matters, and privilege is problematic, what is the value of being… Read more »

The Headlands

Playwright: Christopher Chen Rights: Concord Theatricals Cast Size: 4m, 3w Synopsis: In Christopher Chen’s contemporary noir mystery, an amateur sleuth and true crime aficionado in San Francisco sets out to solve the ultimate case: the unsolved murder of his father. Ratings: Language: 16+ Adult Content: 16+ Violence: 13+ Pay attention to: Adult language is minimal…. Read more »

Parfumerie

Playwright: EP Dowdall Rights: Playscripts Cast Size: 8m, 7w, 3 either Synopsis:This new adaptation of the play that inspired several movies is a warm, gentle comedy that follows the tangled tale of Parfumerie employee George Horvath. Just days before Christmas, George’s boss fires him after mistakenly suspecting him to be the lover of his unfaithful… Read more »

People, Places and Things

Playwright: Duncan Macmillan Rights: Dramatists Cast Size: 5m, 5w doubling , flexible casting Synopsis: Emma was having the time of her life. Now she’s in rehab. Her first step is to admit that she has a problem. But the problem isn’t with Emma, it’s with everything else. She needs to tell the truth. But she’s smart… Read more »

Christmas Over the Tavern

Playwright: Tom Dudzik Rights: Broadway Licensing Cast Size: 1m, 2w, 2b, 1g + ensemble Synopsis: In this holiday musical we meet the Pazinskis, 4 kids and 2 parents living over a saloon in lower-middle class Buffalo, NY. Christmas 1959 is not very merry for the Pazinskis. Dad is going through a mid-life depression and refuses… Read more »

Laughs in Spanish

Playwright: Alexis Scheer Rights: Contact the Playwright Cast Size: 1m, 4w Synopsis: It’s Art Basel and the stakes are high for the gallery Mariana runs in the Wynwood Arts District in Miami. And when Mariana’s movie-star mother tries to help out, things get even more complicado. A fast paced, cafecíto-induced comedy about art and success—and mothers… Read more »

Water by the Spoonful

Playwright: Quiara Alegria Hudes Rights: Dramatists Cast Size: 4m, 3w Synopsis: Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned from Iraq and is struggling to find his place in the world. Somewhere in a chat room, recovering addicts keep each other alive, hour by hour, day by day. The boundaries of family and community are stretched across continents… Read more »