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Playwright: Chelsea Marcantel Rights: Concord Theatricals Cast Size: 3f 3m Synopsis: When an Amish couple’s two sons are killed in a car accident, the family struggles to maintain their faith and cling to their way of life. In an act of unfathomable forgiveness, they take in Eric, the wayward young driver of the car. But… Read more »

Playwright: Lucas Hnath Rights: Dramatists Cast Size: 1m 3f Synopsis: In the final scene of Ibsen’s 1879 groundbreaking masterwork, Nora Helmer makes the shocking decision to leave her husband and children, and begin a life on her own. This climactic event—when Nora slams the door on everything in her life—instantly propelled world drama into the… Read more »

Playwright: Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell and Gordon Farrell Rights: Dramatists Cast Size: 2m 1w Synopsis: Jim Fingal is a fresh-out-of-Harvard fact checker for a prominent but sinking New York magazine. John D’Agata is a talented writer with a transcendent essay about the suicide of a teenage boy—an essay that could save the magazine from… Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »