Playwright: Molly Smith Metzler Royalties: Samuel French Cast Size: 2m, 3w Synopsis: When Devon visits Simone for an end-of-summer sibs fest on Martha’s Vineyard, she finds her little sister changed beyond recognition. As personal assistant to wealthy and demanding trophy wife Michaela Kell, Simone enjoys a lavish beachfront lifestyle that these girls never could have… Read more »
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The Book Club Play
Playwright: Karen Zacarias Rights: Dramatic Publishing Cast Size: 3m, 3w (doubling) Synopsis: Loads of laughter and literature collide in this smart hit comedy about books and the people who love them. Ana is a Type A personality who lives in a letter-perfect world with an adoring husband, the perfect job and her greatest passion: Book Club. But… Read more »
Marie Antoinette
Playwright: David Adjmi Rights: Samuel French Cast Size: 3f, 6m, 1boy Synopsis: How’s a queen to keep her head in the middle of a revolution? Marie Antoinette delights and inspires her French subjects with her three-foot tall wigs and extravagant haute couture. But times change and even the most fashionable queens go out of style…. Read more »
Don’t Drink the Water
Playwright: Woody Allen Rights: Samuel French Synopsis: A cascade of comedy and a solid hit on Broadway, this affair takes place inside an American embassy behind the Iron Curtain. An American tourist – a caterer by trade – and his wife and daughter rush into the embassy two steps ahead of the police who suspect them of… Read more »
Dot
Playwright: Colman Domingo Rights: Samuel French Synopsis: In the Shealy house, Christmas means a time for family gatherings. Only this holiday, Dotty and her three grown children gather with more than the holiday spirit in mind. As Dotty struggles to hold on to her failing memory, her children must fight to balance care for their mother and… Read more »
The Cake
Playwright: Bekah Brunsetter Rights: Samuel French Cast Size: 1m, 3w, 1m (V.O.) Synopsis: Della makes cakes, not judgment calls – those she leaves to her husband, Tim. But when the girl she helped raise comes back home to North Carolina to get married, and the fiancé is actually a fiancée, Della’s life gets turned upside down. She… Read more »
Drag Queens on Trial
Playwright: Sky Gilbert Rights: Playwrights Guild of Canada (start here) Synopsis: Rating: Language: 16+ Adult Content: 16+ Violence: 13+ Pay attention to: Flexibility: All changes must be approved in advance. Production notes:
Zastrozzi
Playwright: George F. Walker Rights: Contact the playwrights agent renazimmerman@gnaminc.com Synopsis: This play is not an adaptation of Shelley’s Zastrozzi. The playwright read a brief description of this novella in a biography of Shelley, and that provided the inspiration for Zastrozzi: The Master of Discipline, something quite different from Shelley’s work. Rating: Language: 16+ (no adult language, but… Read more »
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Abridged and Revised
Playwright: Adam Long, Daniel Singer, Jess Winfield Rights: Broadway Play Publishing Synopsis: All 37 plays in 97 minutes! Three madcap men in tights weave their wicked way through all of Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, and tragedies in one wild ride that will leave you breathless and helpless with laughter. An irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard’s… Read more »
The Hot L Baltimore
Playwright: Lanford Wilson Rights: Dramatists Synopsis: The scene is the lobby of a rundown hotel so seedy that it has lost the “e” from its marquee. As the action unfolds, the residents, ranging from young to old, from the defiant to the resigned, meet and talk and interact with each other during the course of one day…. Read more »