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 »
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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 »
Meteor Shower
Playwright: Steve Martin Rights: Concord Theatricals Cast Size: 2f 2m Synopsis: Corky and Norm are excited to host Gerald and Laura at their home in the valley outside Los Angeles to watch a once-in-a-lifetime meteor shower. But as the stars come out and the conversation gets rolling, it becomes clear that Gerald and Laura might… Read more »
Love Alone
Playwright: Deborah Salem Smith Rights: Dramatists Cast Size: 2m 4f Synopsis: When Helen’s lesbian partner of twenty years dies unexpectedly in minor surgery, Helen and her daughter want answers. Confused by the hospital’s silence around the death, they bring a lawsuit against the doctors. Now Dr. Becca Neal must confront her feelings about losing her… Read more »
Tiny Beautiful Things
Playwright: Nia Vardalos Rights: Concord Theatricals Cast Size: 1w 3f or m Synopsis: Based on the best-selling book by Cheryl Strayed and adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos, Tiny Beautiful Things personifies the questions and answers that “Sugar” was publishing online from 2010-2012. When the struggling writer was asked to take over the unpaid, anonymous position… Read more »
The Book of Will
Playwright: Lauren Gunderson Rights: Dramatists Synopsis: Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words… Read more »
Cadillac Crew
Playwright: Tori Sampson Rights: Concord Theatricals Cast Size: 4w Synopsis: On the day of a much-anticipated speech by Rosa Parks during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, four activists working in a Virginia civil rights office wonder whether the proclamation of equality amongst mankind includes women. With remarkable insight and unexpected humor, Cadillac Crew reclaims the… Read more »
Church & State
Playwright: Jason Odell Williams Rights: Dramatists Cast Size: 2m 2w Synopsis: Three days before his bid for reelection, in the wake of a school shooting in his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina, a Republican U.S. senator makes an off-the-cuff comment to a blogger that gets leaked on “the Twitter,” calling into question the senator’s stance… Read more »
Red
Playwright: John Logan Rights: Dramatists Cast Size: 2m Synopsis: Master abstract expressionist Mark Rothko has just landed the biggest commission in the history of modern art, a series of murals for New York’s famed Four Seasons Restaurant. In the two fascinating years that follow, Rothko works feverishly with his young assistant, Ken, in his studio… Read more »