Playwright: Heidi Schreck Rights: Concord Theatricals Cast Size: 1f 1m and 1 girl(s) Synopsis: When she was fifteen years old, Heidi Schreck started traveling the country, taking part in constitutional debates to earn money for her college tuition. Decades later, in What the Constitution Means to Me, she traces the effect that the Constitution has had… Read more »
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The Four of Us
by: Cat Rondeau What did you dream about doing with your life when you were younger? What are your dreams now? And what would you do if all of those dreams actually came true? For your best friend. Playwright Itamar Moses tackles that question – and all of the comedy and drama in between –… Read more »
Annapurna
Playwright: Sharr White Rights: Dramatists Cast Size: 1f 1m Synopsis: After twenty years apart, Emma tracks Ulysses to a trailer park in the middle of nowhere for a final reckoning. What unfolds is a visceral and profound meditation on love and loss with the simplest of theatrical elements: two people in one room. A breathtaking… Read more »
Dead Mans Cell Phone
Playwright: Sarah Ruhl Rights: Concord Theatricals Cast Size: 2m, 4w Synopsis: An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man – with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur “Genius” Grant… Read more »
The Motherf@*&er with the hat
Playwright: Stephen Adly Gurgis Rights: Dramatists Play Service Cast Size: 2m, 2w Synopsis: Struggles with addiction, friendship, love, and the challenges of adulthood are at the center of the story. Jackie, a petty drug dealer, is just out of prison and trying to stay clean. He’s also still in love with his coke-addicted childhood sweetheart, Veronica…. Read more »
Sojourners
Playwright: Mfoniso Udofia Rights: Dramatists Cast Size: 2m, 2w Synopsis: SOJOURNERS is Part One of the Ufot Cycle, Udofia’s sweeping, nine-part saga which chronicles the triumphs and losses of Abasiama Ufot, a Nigerian immigrant, and her family. Abasiama came to America with high hopes for her arranged marriage and her future, intent on earning a… Read more »
Sea Wall
Playwright: Simon Stephens Rights: Cast Size: 1m Synopsis: There’s a hole running through the centre of my stomach. You must have all felt a bit awkward because you can probably see it. Sea Wall is a delicate monologue, completely devastating and beautifully powerful. Alex’s story, spoken directly to the audience, begins full of clear light and… Read more »
Wolves
Playwright: Steve Yockey Rights: Concord Theatricals Cast Size: 1f 3m Synopsis: In Wolves, two men’s folie à deux overtakes their small apartment and spills out onto city streets. When ex-boyfriend Jack brings a strange man home to woodland-obsessed Ben’s apartment, the Narrator can barely keep a lid on the looming violence. This “deconstruction” of the Little… Read more »
Imogen Says Nothing
Playwright: Aditi Brennan Kapil Rights: Concord Theatricals Synopsis: A revisionist comedy in verse and prose featuring Imogen, a character who only appears in the first folio of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, speaks no lines, and is probably a typo. A feminist hijacking of Shakespeare that investigates the voices that have been absented from our… Read more »
Oleanna
Playwright: David Mamet Rights: Dramatists Cast Size: 1f 1m Synopsis: A college student, Carol, drops by her professor’s office in an effort to gain his help to do better in class. John, the professor, in the midst of buying a house to celebrate his nomination for tenure, at first seems distant. As the first meeting… Read more »