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Characters: 8 male 4 female Unit set. This play moves back and forth between 1809 and the present at the elegant estate owned by the Coverly family. The 1809 scenes reveal a household in transition. As the Arcadian landscape is being transformed into picturesque Gothic gardens complete with a hermitage thirteen year old Lady Thomasina and her tutor delve into intellectual and romantic issues. Present day scenes depict the Coverly descendants and two competing scholars who are re

Craig LucasFull Length Comedy/DramaCharacters: 3 male 4 femaleUnit set.A long running Off-Broadway hit by the author of Reckless and God's Heart. Before during and after a Manhattan dinner party the guests are revealed with touching comic irony as a cross-section of modern day humanity. The colorful cast includes a narcissistic actor a parachute instructor an aspiring songwriter a secretary and a lesbian couple."The function of the piece

ComedyCharacters: 3 male 1 female A laugh-out-loud romantic comedy exploring the sexual dynamics that surface around race when an attractive Korean American woman moves to town. The play is a politically edgy examination of inter-racial dating and identitythrough irony humor and social commentary. Travis Park is a high school English teacher and the only Korean American man living in a dusty cowboy town known as Breakneck Wyoming. When a gorgeous whip-smart Asian American woman mo

William Gibson Comedy Characters: 1 male 1 female Interior Set This is the long-run Broadway hit that gained stardom for Anne Bancroft in the role of girl from the Bronx whose love for a lonesome lawyer brings a few months of happiness into their lives. The lawyer is married to a beautiful well-to-do girl in the midwest whose family sets the pace in local society and intends to run his marriage and his career as well. He has rebelled come to New York and

Comic drama Characters: 1 male 2 female Interior Set Gardner and Fanny Church are preparing to move out of their Beacon Hill house to their summer cottage on Cape Cod. Gardner once a famous poet now is retired. He slips in and out of senility as his wife Fanny valiantly tries to keep them both afloat. They have asked their daughter Mags to come home and help them move. Mags agrees for she hopes as well to finally paint their portrait. She is now on the verge of

Comedy Characters: 3 male 3 female Exterior SetWinner as a part of Norman Conquests! - Outer Critics Circle Outstanding Revival of a Play 2009 Round and Round the Garden is part of 'The Norman Conquests Trilogy'. In this play Sarah's desperate attempts to have a nice civilized week end culminate not surprisingly in disaster. Ruth Norman's wife is summoned but Norman still contrives to cause havoc involving finally all three

Comedy/Drama Characters: 1 male 1 female Exterior SetThis winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize which originally starred Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn and later revived with Julie Harris and Charles Durning uses a game as a metaphor for life. Weller Martin is playing solitaire on the porch of a seedy nursing home. Enter Fonsia Dorsey a prim self righteous lady. They discover they both dislike the home and enjoy gin rummy so they begin to play and to reveal intimate d

Characters: 4 male 2 femaleFull Length FarceInterior SetDr. Prentice a psychiatric doctor in an exclusive private clinic is attempting to interview (and seduce) an attractive would-be secretary Geraldine. Unwttingly surprised by his wife he hides the girl. The affairs multiply as Mrs. Prentice being seduced and blackmailed by young bellhop Nicholas Beckett has promised him the secretarial post. When a government inspector arrives chaos underpants and cross-dressing lead

DramaCharacters: 6 male 2 female w/ doubling Unit set The Elephant Man is based on the life of John Merrick who lived in London during the latter part of the nineteenth century. A horribly deformed young man victim of rare skin and bone diseases he has become the star freak attraction in traveling side shows. Found abandoned and helpless he is admitted to London's prestigious Whitechapel hospital. Under the care of celebrated young physician Frederick Treves Mer

Full Length, Comedy / Characters: 3 male, 4 female Scenery: InteriorNeil Simon's first Broadway comedy smash. Alan Baker, a 30-ish swinging bachelor with time, money and women to spare, welcomes rebellious and eager 21-year brother Buddy into his den of iniquity while their horrified parents can only watch and pray. This farcical 60's romp became a hit movie starring Frank Sinatra. "A slick, lively, funny comedy."-The New York Times

"Comedy / Characters: 2 males, 4 females Scenery: Interior Mel Edison is a well paid executive of a high-end Manhattan firm which has suddenly hit the skids and he gets the ax. His wife Edna takes a job to tide them over, then she too is sacked. Compounded by the air-pollution killing his plants, and with the walls of the apartment paper-thin, allowing him a constant earfull of his neighbors private lives things cant seem to get any worse ... then hes robbed and his psychiatrist dies with $23,000 of his money. Mel does the only thing left for him to do-he has a nervous breakdown and its the best thing that ever happened to him."--Back cover.