Playwright: Caryl Churchill Rights: Concord Theatricals Cast Size: 2m Synopsis: Human cloning is the subject of this beguiling hour-long psychological thriller that blends topical scientific speculation with a stunning portrait of the relationship between fathers and their sons. Ratings: Language: 13+ Adult Content: 13+ Violence: All Ages Pay attention to: One Actor plays multiple versions… Read more »
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Autumn
Playwright: Richard Wesley Rights: Dramatists Cast Size: 4m, 3w Synopsis: Franklyn Longley is a veteran big-city mayor who’s in line to become the first black governor of his state—until his godson is tapped by the party to run instead. As a new generation of black politicians comes forward, they must learn there is a price… Read more »
Gloria
Playwright: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Rights: Dramatists Cast Size: 3m, 3w with doubling Synopsis: This funny, trenchant, and powerful play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a notorious Manhattan magazine, each of whom hopes for a starry life of letters and a book deal before they turn thirty. But when an ordinary humdrum workday becomes… Read more »
The Inheritance
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 »
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 »