Show title: Greater Tuna Playwright: Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, Ed Howard Rights: Samuel French Synopsis: What do Arles Struvie, Thurston Wheelis, Aunt Pearl, Petey Fisk, Phineas Blye, and Rev. Spikes have in common? In this hilarious send-up of small-town morals and mores, they are all among the upstanding citizens of Tuna, Texas’ third-smallest town. Rating:… Read more »
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Show title: The Importance of Being Earnest Playwright: Oscar Wilde Rights: Public domain Synopsis: The Importance of Being Earnest is the most renowned of Oscar Wilde’s comedies. It’s the story of two bachelors, John ‘Jack’ Worthing and Algernon ‘Algy’ Moncrieff, who create alter egos named Ernest to escape their tiresome lives. They attempt to win the hearts… Read more »
20th Century Blues
Show title: 20th Century Blues Playwright: Susan Miller Rights: Dramatists Synopsis: Four women meet once a year for a ritual photo shoot, chronicling their changing (and aging) selves as they navigate love, careers, children, and the complications of history. But when these private photographs threaten to go public, relationships are tested, forcing the women to confront… Read more »
Puffs (Or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years as a Certain School of Magic and Magic)
Playwright: Matt Cox Rights: Samuel French Cast Size: 5m, 5f, 1m or f Synopsis: For seven years a certain boy wizard went to a certain Wizard School and conquered evil. This, however, is not his story. This is the story of the Puffs… who just happened to be there too. A tale for anyone who… Read more »
Anne Frank & Me
Playwright: Cherie Bennett Royalties: Dramatic Publishing Synopsis: This multiple national award-winning new American classic, which was a hit in New York, is about the awakening of a modern teen Holocaust denier. Nicole Burns doubts the truth and cares even less, but ultimately comes face-to-face with the hell of the Holocaust, and—in an extraordinary sequence—meets Anne Frank… Read more »
Ragtime
Book: Terrence McNally Music: Stephen Flaherty Lyrics: Lynn Ahrens Royalties: Musical Theatre International Synopsis: At the dawn of a new century, everything is changing… and anything is possible. Set in the volatile melting pot of turn-of-the-century New York, three distinctly American tales are woven together – that of a stifled upper-class wife, a determined Jewish… Read more »
Blackbird
Playwright: David Harrower Rights: Dramatists Synopsis: This intense work was commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival, where it received its world premiere. After years in prison and subsequent hardships, Ray, fifty-six, has a new identity and has made a new life for himself, thinking that he cannot be found. Una, twenty-seven, has thought of nothing… Read more »
Venus in Fur
Playwright: David Ives Rights: Dramatists Synopsis: Thomas, a beleaguered playwright/director, is desperate to find an actress to play Vanda, the female lead in his adaptation of the classic sadomasochistic tale Venus in Fur. Into his empty audition room walks a vulgar and equally desperate actress- oddly enough, named Vanda. Though utterly wrong for the sophisticated part,… Read more »
Blues for an Alabama Sky
Playwright: Pearl Cleage Rights: Dramatists Synopsis: It is the summer of 1930 in Harlem, New York. The creative euphoria of the Harlem Renaissance has given way to the harsher realities of the Great Depression. Young Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., is feeding the hungry and preaching an activist gospel at Abyssinian Baptist Church. Black Nationalist… Read more »
Making God Laugh
Playwright: Sean Grennan Rights: Playscripts Synopsis: Making God Laugh follows one typical American family over the course of thirty years’ worth of holidays. Starting in 1980, Ruthie and Bill’s grown children — a priest, an aspiring actress, and a former football star — all return home, where we learn of their plans and dreams as they embark on… Read more »