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 »
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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 »
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 »