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 »
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Barbeque
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 »
Bootycandy
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 »
End of the Rainbow
Playwright: Peter Quilter Rights: Concord Theatricals Cast Size: 3m, 1w Synopsis: A play with music about the final years in the life of Judy Garland, “End of the Rainbow” triumphed in London’s West End in 2010/2011 and on Broadway, at the Belasco Theatre, in 2012. A musical drama of Judy Garland’s “come-back” concerts Christmas 1968:… Read more »
An Infinite Ache
Playwright: David Schulner Rights: Dramatists Cast Size: 1m, 1w Synopsis: This is a fresh and heartfelt play about love, time and the infinite directions in which two lives can travel. Hope and Charles are a pair of lonely twenty-somethings about to end a supremely uninteresting first date. But just as they say good night, the… Read more »
The Whipping Man
Playwright: Matthew Lopez Rights: Concord Theatricals Cast Size: 3m Synopsis: It is April, 1865. The Civil War is over and throughout the south, slaves are being freed, soldiers are returning home and in Jewish homes, the annual celebration of Passover is being celebrated. Into the chaos of war-torn Richmond comes Caleb DeLeon, a young Confederate… Read more »
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
Playwright: Anna Deveare Smith Rights: Dramatists Cast Size: 1f or flexible cast (both in number and breakdown. Synopsis:Acclaimed as “an American masterpiece” (Newsweek), TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES, 1992 is a stunning new work of “documentary theatre” in which Anna Deavere Smith uses the verbatim words of people who experienced the Los Angeles riots to expose and… Read more »
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 »