A to Z

ACCORDING TO THE CHORUS

by Arlene Hutton

Comedy/Drama, Full-length

Life is full of angst in the basement quick change room of a long-running Broadway show that may be on its last legs, and the women of the chorus are at war with the wardrobe department. Will the new dresser, with her own sad past and uncertain future, be able to navigate this...

More Info

THE ACTS OF LIFE

by Jonathan Rand

Comedy, One Act

Through a series of metaphorical and literal comedic vignettes, The Acts of Life follows one family across multiple generations as they grapple with those big stages: dating, marriage, childbirth, school, parenthood, and beyond.

More Info

ALLIGATOR MOUTH, TADPOLE ASS

by C. Julian Jiménez

Drama, Full-length

 ALLIGATOR MOUTH, TADPOLE ASS is a twistedly queer memory play about a troubled man in 1986 looking for answers at Miss Chelley's Fortune Shop in NYC. Instead of the answers he craves, he connects with a young man working there whose memory is constantly triggered by their incredibly intense connection. They cruise and dance their way through the past leading them to a dangerous night of improper role play.

More Info

AMERICA IN ONE ROOM

by Jason Odell Williams

Comedy-Drama, Full-length

 When eight strangers receive an invitation to the America in One Room event in 2019, promising robust discussions on a wide range of social and political topics, sparks fly, tempers flare, and comedy abounds. At a time when everyone thinks they’re right, it will take more than political debate to find common ground. Inspired by the real-life convention of the same name, AMERICA IN ONE ROOM is a comedy-drama that tackles our...

More Info

AMERICAN PROM

by Idris Goodwin

TYA

Set in a small-town middle American town called Principal, this is the story of teenage best friends Jimmy T. and Kia B. Jimmy wants to take Kia to prom, but it’s complicated. Jimmy is white and Kia is black, and Principal has been holding racially segregated proms for de- cades. In this contemporary coming of age story, filled with music and magic, rhymes and beats, Jimmy and Kia work to hold fast to their friendship. With a little help from a musical superstar, they both fight to envision a...

More Info

AMERICA'S SEXIEST COUPLE

by Ken Levine

Comedy, Full-length

Two actors, who were “America’s Sexiest Couple” on a popular ‘90s sitcom reunite for the first time in 25 years. They face a lifetime of unresolved issues, longings, resentments, and regrets. Plus, the network wants to reboot the show. Career and personal aspirations collide. Professionally and personally, where do they go from here?

More Info

ANDY WARHOL IN IRAN

by Brent Askari

Drama, Full-length

In 1976, Andy Warhol, who had transformed himself into a sought-after portrait painter for the wealthy, embarks on a journey to Tehran to capture Polaroids of the Shah of Iran's wife. Amidst his exploration of the Crown Jewels and indulgence in room service, Warhol unexpectedly encounters a young revolutionary. This unexpected meeting disrupts his plans and expands the perspective of the pop icon, revealing a world far beyond his own.

More Info

ANOTHER AMERICA

by Bill Rosenfield

Comedy, Full-length

A cross-country pilgrimage on bicycles from Venice, CA to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA. ANOTHER AMERICA is a free-wheeling portrait of the country itself as well as a journey of self discovery for two brothers and their best friend.

More Info

ANTEBELLUM

by Robert O'Hara

Drama, Full-length

This haunting, provocative play sheds light on the similarities between racism and homophobia in Nazi Germany and the American South when a black, gay, transgender prisoner escapes Germany only to find themselves embroiled in the racially-charged hotbed of 1939 Atlanta, Georgia.

More Info

ASKING STRANGERS THE MEANING OF LIFE

by William Missouri Downs

Comedy, Full-length

In the opening scene of this comedy, a writer meets the ghost of Franz Kafka, which sets off an existential chain of events forcing the cast to confront the meaning of life. Through a series of hilarious random encounters, the play questions whether we can understand our existence or is life just one long Zoom meeting interrupted by Amazon and Doordash...

More Info

BABEL

by Jacqueline Goldfinger

Dark Comedy

BABEL is a dark comedy set in the near future. Two couples are having trouble getting pregnant and the lengths they go to in order to have a baby raises the specter of eugenics, explores the societal value of a baby, and asks us what we are willing to risk for love.

If you like Booker’s “Black Mirror,” Ishiguro’s “Never Let Me Go,” or Haley’s “The Nether,” then this play is for you.

More Info

THE BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL

Full-length Drama

by Ifa Bayeza

Original songs by Ifa Bayeza.

The Ballad of Emmett Till dramatizes the final days of Emmett Till, a Chicago teenager who takes a fateful trip to Mississippi in the summer of 1955. It is the story of a quest, Emmett’s pursuit of happiness, of liberty and ultimately of life.

More Info

BARBECUE

by Robert O'Hara

Comedy-Drama, Full-length

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 O'Mallery families, one white and one black. Each appear in different, yet similar scenes that juxtapose to create a dialogue about racial and family politics.

More Info

A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes

by Kate Benson

Full-length 

For those of you just tuning in, Thanksgiving is already in progress here at Wembly kitchen. The stands are nice and full; it’s quite a crowd that’s gathered. They’re in for a real treat.

More Info

BENEVOLENCE

by Ifa Bayeza

BENEVOLENCE is the third play in The Till Trilogy, exploring the epic saga of Civil Rights icon Emmett Louis Till, the Chicago teenager whose fateful trip to Mississippi in the summer of 1955 is believed by many to mark the beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement.

BENEVOLENCE explores the transformation in the Mississippi Delta in the wake of Emmett’s death, the toll of the legacy of enslavement on...

More Info

BERTA, BERTA

by Angelica Chéri

90 Minute One Act

After committing an unforgivable crime, Leroy is granted one final wish: a chance to make amends with his long-lost lover, Berta. Their reunion swells from a quarrelsome conjuring of the past to an impassioned plot to escape their impending fate.

More Info

Bina's Six Apples

by Lloyd Suh

Bina’s family grows the finest apples in all of Korea. But when war forces her to flee her home, Bina is alone in the world with just six precious apples to her name. Can these meager possessions help her find her family? Join Bina on her spirited journey that ranges from...

More Info

THE BINDING

by Tyler Dwiggins

Drama, Full-length

Set in the Midwest, The Binding tells the story of Isaac, a deeply closeted, religious teen whose childhood imaginary friend, Poppy, returns on the eve of his sixteenth birthday. As Poppy begins to unravel Isaac’s tightly wound secrets... 

More Info

BLACK SUPER HERO MAGIC MAMA

by Inda Craig-Galván

Drama, Full-length

Sabrina Jackson cannot cope with the death of herson by a White cop. Rather than herald the Black Lives Matter movement, Sabrina retreats inward, living out a comic book superhero fantasy. Will Sabrina stay in this dream world or return to reality and mourn her loss?

More Info

BLESSINGS FROM THE PANDEMIC

By Rich Orloff

Drama/Uplifting

BLESSINGS FROM THE PANDEMIC, a theater piece in five movements, is a mosaic of poetic reflections exploring our journeys in response to the events of the pandemic: the big, the small, the humorous, the challenging, and even the inspiring.

More Info

BLUE RIDGE

by Abby Rosebrock

Drama, Full-length

At a church-sponsored halfway house in Western North Carolina, the arrival of a charismatic high-school English teacher shakes up the household dynamic, leading to new friendships, routines, and intrigues. As romantic rivalries and racial tensions escalate, the house’s residents and two founders—a taciturn, broad-minded minister and an idealistic social worker—must confront their own failings and the limits of their mission.

More Info

BOCA

By Jessica Provenz

Full-length Comedy

Are you ready for some laughs? Soak up the good life in Boca Raton, a city that offers the fountain of youth. In this Garden of Eden, the sun always shines, the lawns are always manicured, and the weather holds steady at a perfect 75, just like Boca’s well-maintained seniors. Boca is a series of short intertwining comedies that follow a group of retirees in a fictional retirement community, the Boca Oasis, who, between rounds of golf, bridge and botox, discover the...

More Info

BORN WITH TEETH

By Liz Duffy Adams

TRAGICOMEDY

An aging ruler, an oppressive police state, a restless polarized people seething with paranoia: it’s a dangerous time for poets. Two of them—the great Kit Marlowe and up-and-comer Will Shakespeare—meet in the back room of a pub to collaborate on a history play cycle, navigate the perils of art under a totalitarian regime, and flirt like young men...

More Info

THE BOY WHO KISSED THE SKY

TYA Play with Music

A play with music by Idris Goodwin

Lyrics by Idris Goodwin, Divinity Roxx and Eugene H. Russell IV

Music by Divinity Roxx and Eugene H. Russell IV

Inspired by the early life and influ- ences of Seattle native and musical icon Jimi Hendrix. The early era of rock ‘n’ roll music sets the stage as a young Black boy conjures his creativity as a budding guitarist. Guided by the spirit of music itself, the boy learns to find...

More Info

THE BRIGHTEST THING (or, the Squonk Play)

Dramatic Comedy

An American Fable that's tinged with sadness about a girl's imaginary journey in a hot air balloon to rescue her mother.

More Info

BROKEN MACHINE

by Liz Duffy Adams

COMI-TRAGIC FANTASIA

In this climate-chaos comic-tragedy, a burnt-out coder has become a hermit in the wilderness, nursing a broken arm and making lists from memory—of endangered species, moments of Lost Time, Incorrect States of Mind—in company with her only friend, a gray fox with a bad attitude. When wildfires approach, they flee through the wilderness to the sea, pursued by...

More Info

Dark Comedy, Full-length

BRUISE & THORN

by  C. Julian Jiménez

Bruise and Thorn are Nuyorican, queer, and tired af of their jobs at a busted up laundromat in Jamaica, Queens. But not for long: Bruise is saving up to become a chef (like on Chopped!), and Thorn spits bars on street corners, one America’s Got Talent audition away from becoming the Boricua Nikki Minaj. When the laundromat’s basement turns out to be an illegal...

More Info

BUDDY BRO BUBBA DUDE

Comedy by

JONES HOPE WOOTEN

Men in twisted shorts! This roller-coaster ride of hilarious short plays is all about, and starring only, men! In these absurdly funny tales, you’ll meet men who are confident, men who are brave, and men who are as useless as the “g” in “lasagna.” There’s Wade, who, after badgering his widowed father to start dating again, scrambles to stop his dad from...

More Info

THE BURDENS

by Matt Schatz

Adult siblings Mordy and Jane have a problem. Their dreadful, centenarian grandfather is an emotional and financial tax on the family, and he just won’t die. Scheming almost entirely via text messages, the siblings hatch an outrageous plan to relieve themselves of their family's burdens and their own.

More Info

BY THE NUMBERS
Short Play Collection

BY THE NUMBERS is a fun, inventive, and diverse collection of eight short plays inspired by mathematical theorems.

More Info

TYA Play
Adapted by Alvaro Saar Rios

From the book by Matt de la Peña, Illustrated by Christian Robinson, published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers

​It’s Carmela’s birthday, and she’s finally old enough to accompany her big brother on his errands. On their way to the laundromat, past fields of what her Mamí calls “flores de cempazuchitl”, Carmela finds a puffy white dandelion to...

More Info

THE CHERRY ORCHARD

Chekhov Adaptation

by Paul Schmidt

​Madame Ranevskaya, who has spent five years in Paris to escape grief over her young son’s death, returns to her home in Russia ridden with debt. She is obliged to decide how to dispose of her family’s estate, with its beautiful and famous cherry orchard. The coarse but wealthy merchant Ermolai Lopakhin suggests that Mme Ranevskaya develop the land on which the orchard sits. Eventually Lopakhin purchases the estate and proceeds...

More Info

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Adapted from the novella by Charles Dickens by Rob Melrose

Inspired by the original novella, Melrose captures Dickens’ witty wording and evocative style to surprise audiences with parts of the familiar story they didn’t know were there!  A Christmas Carol tells the beloved story of Scrooge and his miraculous transformation. This new production of a holiday tradition is the perfect way for families to recapture the nostalgia of Christmases past and to create memories for many Christmases to come...

More Info

THE CHRISTMAS CAROL FARCE Featuring the Five-Minute Christmas Carol

by Jon Jory & Michael Bigelow Dixon

Comedy, 30-minutes

Charles Dickens’ ghost arranges for a high school production of A Christmas Carol to be broadcast on TV. The cast is ecstatic, until they learn their performance must be cut to one hour. At the TV studio, they discover...

More Info

CINDERELLA THE REAL STORY

by Rayven Craft, John Maclay, Austin Nelson, and Emma Swain

Comedy, 45-minutes

This new take on an old classic tells the forgotten stories hidden in the fairy tale we all know so well. Hilarious, imaginative, and powerful, this play is specifically designed to be performed by young performers and may be adapted to a virtual or in-person performance venue.

More Info

CLICK

by Jacqueline Goldfinger

Drama

A techno-thriller that begins when a young woman is raped at a fraternity and ends in a future where corporations promise a new body with the swipe of a screen, CLICK follows a hacktivist named Fresh who turns industrial espionage into high art. As this virtual Banksy takes over the global imagination, the man who stole her life develops a technology that sends the two of them on a collision course at the heart of...

More Info

THE COAST STARLIGHT

by Keith Bunin

Full-length

A young man armed with a secret that can land him in terrible trouble boards the Coast Starlight, the long-distance train that runs from Los Angeles to Seattle. With the help of his fellow travelers, all of whom are reckoning with their own choices, he has roughly one thousand miles to figure out a way forward. THE COAST STARLIGHT is a smart, funny, and compassionate story about our capacity for invention and re-invention when life goes off the rails.

More Info

COLLEGE COLORS

by Stacie Lents

Drama, Full-length

This four character play follows a pair of black and white male roommates entering college in the 1960 juxtaposed with a pair of black and white female roommates in 2016.

More Info

THE CROSSWORD PUZZLE PLAY (or Ezmeranda's Gift)

by Donna Hoke

Comedy, 1 person show

The Puzzlemaker is holding a workshop to teach you to make a crossword puzzle! As the Puzzlemaker embarks on their creation, they reveal the tricks of the trade, but also something unexpected: there is power in puzzles. Will the Puzzlemaker use their powers for good--or evil? And which choice means making a puzzle that will solve their life?

More Info

CYRANO DE BERGERAC

Classic Adaptation

by David Grimm

CYRANO DE BERGERAC is brand new adaptation in verse of the famous crowd-pleasing tale of love, honor, and panache, by way of a warrior-poet with a huge nose and a huge complex about it.

More Info

DANIEL'S HUSBAND

Full-length Drama

by Michael McKeever

Daniel and Mitchell are the perfect couple. Perfect house,perfect friends—even a mother who wants them married. They’d have the perfect wedding, too, except that Mitchell doesn’t believe in gay marriage. A turn of events puts their perfect life in jeopardy, and Mitchell is thrust into a future where even his love may not prove to be enough. “Daniel’s Husband” is a bold reflection of love, commitment, and family in our perilous new world.

More Info

A DARK SKY FULL OF STARS

by Don Zolidis

Drama, Full-length

A play about a young man, Brandon, who is always in and out of trouble. Until he is shot in the back by a member of his community. Through the perspectives of his family, friends, and girlfriend we learn the circumstances of a young American man's life and how seemingly unrelated events culminate in cutting it short.

More Info

DIDO OF IDAHO

by Abby Rosebrock

Comedy-Drama, Full-length

Nora, a lovelorn musicologist with a drinking problem, schemes to steal the husband of a former Miss Idaho (runner-up). When the extramarital hijinks go brutally awry, Nora flees to the Rocky Mountains, tracks down her estranged mother’s partner, and weasels her way into their wholesome domestic existence. But in her bid for help, Nora risks losing the only family she’s ever had—this time, forever.

More Info

THE DING DONGS

Comedy-Thriller

by Brenda Withers

When a sweet-faced couple shows up on a suburban doorstep, an unsuspecting homeowner finds himself the victim of a surreal home invasion. Using wit and wordplay to mask a more sinister threat, the couple wages a battle over indigenous rights from the living room, and we are asked to examine the brutality that fuels our system of private property.

More Info

Drama, Full-length

A group of high school seniors face their final year learning online with a beloved teacher as a pandemic rages outside. Together they face social isolation, missed milestones, the loss of friends and family, places in the world and what the birth of a new social justice movement means for them.

More Info

DRACULA

New Adaptation from Kate Hamill

In this new adaptation of Dracula from Kate Hamill, the playwright-actor confronts the sexism in Bram Stoker's original work, turning it into a feminist revenge fantasy.

More Info

ENDLINGS

by Celine Song

On the Korean island of Man-Jae, three elderly haenyeos—sea women—spend their dying days diving into the ocean to harvest seafood. They have no heirs to their millennia-old way of life. Across the globe on the island of Manhattan, a Korean-Canadian playwright, twice an immigrant, spends her days wrestling with the expectation that...

More Info

8 MINUTES, 20 SECONDS

by John Yearley

Drama, Full-length

Late one night, a small disagreement erupts into a fight that threatens to end a decade-long marriage. In this 90 minute play, we watch in real time as Ruth and Bo try to get past their disappointments, in life and each other, to answer the question - can you ever really begin again?

More Info

EIGHT TALES OF PEDRO

A Play With Music

​In EIGHT TALES OF PEDRO, two sets of storytellers, some now and some in 17th century Mexico, cross a country - risking everything for a new life. As they tell their tales, their lives and plots combine and intertwine into the same conclusion.

More Info

EL BORRACHO

by Tony Meneses

Raul is sick. Raul has not been taking care of himself. Raul drinks because he always drinks. In his final months, he’s forced to move in with his ex-wife Alma who now has to care for the man she thought she’d never have to see again.

More Info

ELEANOR

by Mark St. Germain

Drama, Full-length

Mark St. Germain brings to life Eleanor Roosevelt, the most influential First Lady the world has ever seen. From her “Ugly Duckling” upbringing to her unorthodox marriage to Franklin, Eleanor puts her controversial life, loves and passions on the stage.

More Info

An Eloquent Fugitive Slave Flees to Ireland

by Psalmayene 24

Full-length Drama

An Eloquent Fugitive Slave Flees to Ireland imagines Frederick Douglass’s meditations on freedom and bondage during his historic visit to Ireland. His encounters with white women are particularly complex as they compare how their two nations oppress or empower them.

More Info

Jane Austen Adaptation by Kate Hamill

Emma Woodhouse prides herself on being a matchmaker with an impeccable track record, much to the chagrin of her dear friend Mr. Knightley. Her latest scheme revolves around the sweet Harriet Smith, whom Emma advises to reject a perfectly good marriage proposal in favor of another eligible...

More Info

COMEDY, Full-length

What happens when those woodland fairies aren’t busy with the business of A Midsummer Night’s Dream? Why, it seems they all have jobs in some of our favorite fairy tales and have very sad love lives—that is, until Puck finds the famous flower touched by Cupid’s arrow. It’s all about love and kindness and accepting change. And it’s funny.

Oh, and it rhymes.

More Info

THE FAR COUNTRY

Full length drama

by Lloyd Suh

An intimate epic that follows an unlikely family’s journey from rural Taishan to the wild west of California in the wake of the Chinese Exclusion Act.

More Info

FINDING VOICE: New Works for Young Theatre Artists of Color

Conceived and Created by The Educational Theatre Association and The Cincinnati Black Theatre Artists’ Collective

Featuring Monologues by Candice Handy, Ariel Mary Ann, Derek J. Snow, and Torie Wiggins

Finding Voice: New Works for Young Theatre Artists of Color features newly created monologues and works from four dynamic Cincinnati Ohio Black playwrights written for use exclusively by High School and Middle School aged students of color.

More Info

THE FOREST

by Lia Romeo

Dark Comedy-Drama

Juliet is losing her marriage. Her mother Pam is losing her memory. And there’s a mysterious forest growing in and around their living room. Is it any wonder Juliet starts sleeping with one of her high school students? A play about weird love and what to do when there aren’t any right answers.

More Info

FORTUNE

Full-length Comedy

by Deborah Zoe Laufer

Maude, a lonely, surly, storefront psychic has accepted that love is not in the cards for her. She can see the future and
knows this to be true. But when Jeremy, a despondent love-hungry accountant threatens to end it all if she sees no
love for him, she must wrestle with fate, and in changing his destiny, change her own.

More Info

FOUR CHILDREN

by Mark Edelman

Drama, Full-length

Based on the diaries of teenagers sharing accounts of life during the Holocaust and genocides in Armenia, Cambodia, and Sarajevo, FOUR CHILDREN reminds us that, without vigilance, tragedies like the ones they experienced can happen again anywhere, anytime...

More Info

4:05 A NOCTURNAL COMEDY

by Ken Levine

Comedy, Full-length

Multiple characters are all awake at 4:05 one morning for different reasons — insomnia, sex, crying baby, ominous phone call, at work, anxiety. Through the course of this comedy these stories intersect. Secrets are revealed, major decisions are made, and lives change all before the sun comes up.

More Info

FOURTEEN

by Amy Crider

One Act

In the near future, a robot named Laura has joined a high school to see if it can learn as humans do. Two girls, Ruth and Teri, decide that the superiority of computers would make Laura the perfect class president. When Laura helps Madison, the school bully, with her math homework, she adopts Laura as her...

More Info

FOXES

by Dexter Flanders

Drama

FOXES follows Daniel, a young black man trying to keep up with his life, which is moving fast. When his relationship with best friend Leon brings an unexpected change it creates turmoil, bringing a taboo into his family home that has the power to tear the closest and most loving relationships apart. Shortlisted for the 2018 Alfred Fagon Award, Dexter Flanders's debut...

More Info

FRANKENSTEIN; or, the Modern Prometheus

by Robert Lewis Vaughan

Full-length Drama

Mary Shelly's masterpiece novel is now fully realized in a faithful stage adaptation from the brilliant story-teller, Robert Lewis Vaughan,

With horror, humor and masterful dramatic adaptation, this Frankenstein is an adventure that will thrill and entrance your audiences with a truly engaging and revealing look at the beautiful and horrible monsters we create all around us...

More Info

FRANKLINLAND

by Lloyd Suh

One Act

The story of growing up as the only son of Benjamin Franklin: the greatest scientific mind in the world, inventor of the lightning rod and the urinary catheter and the glass harmonica and bifocal glasses and, oh yeah, in his spare time the United States of America.

More Info

FUNNYMAN

Full-length, Comedy/Drama

By Bruce Graham

New York City, 1959. Fading vaudeville comic Chick Sherman, along with his long-suffering agent, tries to revive his career with a role in an avant-garde off-Broadway play. While his grown daughter searches for answers from her absentee showbiz father, a lifetime of private and professional struggles rise to the surface, cracking the polished public persona of the world’s favorite former “funny man.”

More Info

GAME SHOW

by Jeffrey Finn and Bob Walton

Full-length, Comedy

Set during a “live broadcast” of a fictional, long-running TV game show, GAME SHOW places the theater audience in the role of the TV studio audience, in which members are picked as the contestants to play the trivia-based game and win actual prizes. In addition to watching and playing during the “broadcast” – where anything can and does happen – the audience also witnesses all the backstage, back-stabbing antics “behind the scenes” that go on during the “commercial breaks” of GAME SHOW.

More Info

GHOST

by Idris Goodwin

Drama

GHOST by Idris Goodwin, based upon the book by Jason Reynolds

Castle Crenshaw, a.k.a. Ghost, has been running his entire life, but for all the wrong reasons. Then one day he meets Coach, an Olympic medalist who sees his unique raw talent. Can Ghost achieve the speed he needs for success, or will his past finally catch up to him?

More Info

GLASSHEART

by Reina Hardy

Dark Comedy-Fantasy

Beauty never showed up. After centuries under the curse, the Beast and his remaining magical servant (a hopelessly optimistic lamp) move into a shabby Chicago apartment, hoping for a lower cost of living and better luck with girls. In the threatening, impossible, completely ordinary world of paying rent and taking public transportation, is a happy ending even possible? A romantic tragicomedy about facing the witch in your head, and finding the wish in your heart.

More Info

GOOD HAIR

by Phaedra Michelle Scott

After getting banned from all school activities for her hairstyle, Florence decides how to make her stand at a small Catholic School in 2017. At the turn of the century, inventor Annie Malone’s hair products revolutionized mobility for Black Women; but her biggest supporter and critic, Sarah Breedlove, believes they are only scratching the surface of success. In a fantasy universe, a struggling leader decides to make a deal with a demon, forcing the...

More Info

GRACE'S LAND 2.0

by Sarah Bierstock

Grace is a teenage Spoken Word champion, but can’t seem to complete a simple poetry homework assignment. Accompanied by her piano playing, hip hop dancing and visual artist girlfriends, she designs a virtual land of her own, Grace’s Land 2.0, where they’re free of fixed identities, of the pandemic, of micromanaging parents, and the need to fit into the boxes assigned by others.

More Info

THE GREAT JHERI CURL DEBATE

by Inda Craig-Galván

Full-length Drama

Veralynn Jackson knows hair, she knows her neighborhood, and she also knows that the invention of the Jheri Curl marks the end of the world. When she takes a job in Mr. Kim’s Korean-owned Black beauty supply store and the posters start talking to her, Veralynn might finally come to know her true calling.

More Info

GUILTY PLEASURES: An Unapologetic Comedy

by Ken Levine

Full-length Comedy

Married couple Larry and Jinx embark on a luxury cruise and encounter a glamorous celebrity couple. A frivolous agreement leads to sex, comic complications, and Larry and Jinx having to resort to infidelity to save their marriage. Guilty Pleasures is a modern version of a sophisticated throwback Noel Coward-type screwball comedy.

More Info

Comedy, 10-minute

#Your #parents #definitely #know #everything #about #social #media.

More Info

THE HEART SELLERS

by Lloyd Suh

COMEDY/DRAMA

Funny and deeply moving, the play gives voice to the Asian immigrant experience in the 1970s when the landmark Hart-Celler Act granted thousands of professional workers a new path to citizenship. But for Jane and Luna, life in the USA with their...

More Info

Drama, Full-length

​A popular online political & social commentator is forced to examine her own legitimacy when agoraphobia prevents her from physically engaging in the very activism she boasts about on the internet. When a boots-on-the-ground community organizer invades her space, they must both deal with manifestations of fear arising from existing in America while Black. Is it just in their heads, or has racism come to their doorstep?

More Info

H*TLER'S TASTERS

by Michelle Kholos Brooks

Dark Comedy

​Three times a day, every day, a group of young women have the opportunity to die for their country. They are Adolf Hitler's food tasters. And what do girls discuss as they wait to see if they will live through another meal? Like all girls, throughout time, they gossip and dream, they question and dance. They want to love, laugh, and above all, they want to survive.

More Info

HOOPLA!

Drama, Short play, One Act

By Cheryl L. West

The fifth-grade talent show is approaching, and everyone at Baldwin Elementary is abuzz. Winston wants to win the show with his cheerleading routine and prove he’s more than the awful nickname everyone calls him: Fishboy. Introverted artist Gina wants nothing to do with the show, and she knows the...

More Info

HOLD ON

By Paul Webb

Full-length Historical Drama

In 1965, the heart of the civil rights struggle in the US was the conflict between Dr. Martin Luther King and President Lyndon Johnson. Both brilliant leaders at the peak of their powers, their personal battle— like the one on the streets of Selma, Alabama—is ultimately decided by King’s greater moral courage. Also central is King’s relationship with his wife Coretta. Her fight for equality in...

More Info

THE HOMBRES

by Tony Meneses

A look at the intimacy of male relationships told through the point of view of Machismo culture, The Hombres follows Julián, a gay Latino yoga teacher, as he clashes with the Latino construction workers working outside his studio, particularly the older head of the crew, Héctor, who seeks from Julián something he never expected.

More Info

HOOK'S TALE

by John Pielmeier

Family Adventure, Full- length

Captain James Hook (née Cook), badly maligned by a certain play and despised by generations of Peter Pan fans, finally gets to clear his name. The good Captain, with the aid of his friend Smee, tells his life-story in this family-friendly play, recounting his friendship with and ultimate betrayal by Peter Pan, his romance with Tiger Lily, his familial relationship with the Darling family, and his adoption of a lovable crocodile...

More Info

HONEY SUGAR LADY DOLL

by Jones Hope Wooten

Comedy

Women in bodacious shorts! This sparkling and raucous comedy offers fast-paced tales about—and starring—strong and sassy females. Women who are intelligent, eccentric, mysterious, baffling, bullheaded and brilliant. As these short plays unfold, you’ll meet Vivacia, a Southern social media star, on a quest to elevate the mediocre standard of American funeral foods. Drop by a Christmas shop where the overworked proprietress unravels as she attempts to...

More Info

HOWARD'S END

by Douglas Post

Drama, Full-length

Based on the novel by E.M. Forster of the same name, this play is set in England in the 1900s. A wealthy family's matriarch has died. She owns a home in the country, Howards End. While in the hospital she has handwritten a note that in addition to the provisions in her will, she wishes to... 

More Info

HOW TO STEAL A PICASSO

by William Missouri Downs

Comedy, Full-length 

A comic-drama set against the bankruptcy of the Motor City. The Smith family doesn't agree on much, but when their son Johnny comes home for the first time in four years, they...

More Info

IBSEN IN CHICAGO

by David Grimm

Comedy, Full-length 

The world premiere of Ibsen’s controversial play Ghosts took place in Chicago, performed by a group of Scandinavian immigrants: a little known fact. Grimm’s play spins a yarn based on this ‘great reckoning in a little room’ and explores the immigrant experience and opportunities for self re-invention against the backdrop of...

More Info

INTERCEPTIONS: Life After the Tigers

by Robert Lewis Vaughan

Full-length Drama

Ten years after a vicious, and ultimately tragic, high school football hazing in the small Texas Panhandle town of Calhoun, a social media frenzy rips open old wounds, pitting brother against brother and pulling those involved back together, whether they like it or not. When truths are exposed, things finally begin to make sense, allowing some to...

More Info

IN THE UPPER ROOM

by Beaufield Berry

Dark Comedy, Drama

Meet the Berrys, a multi-generational Black family living under one roof in the 1970s. Their lives orbit around Rose, a strong-willed matriarch whose superstitions and secrets drive her relatives nuts. Through pointed wit and playful sarcasm, the family elders share fantastical stories about...

More Info

JABARI DREAMS OF FREEDOM

by Nambi E. Kelley

Dark Comedy, Drama

JABARI DREAMS OF FREEDOM is a 45 minute dream, a piece for ages 8 and up, using rap, freedom songs, hip hop dance, history, and humor to tell the story of a young Black boy from the South Side of Chicago who is afraid to leave the house, but learns to dream of freedom.

More Info

JACKED: a beanstalk remix

by Idris Goodwin

TYA, Adventure

Inspired by Jack and the Beanstalk and designed and developed for children, Jacked: a beanstalk remix fuses storytelling and poetry with hip-hop and break-beat music to encourage a dialogue about substance abuse and the overwhelming effects the opioid epidemic is having in our communities.

More Info

JANE EYRE

By Elizabeth Williamson

Adapted from the novel by Charlotte Brontë

A Gothic story of resilience, in which a penniless orphan is determined to craft a fulfilling life for herself, against all odds. When Jane is hired as a governess at Thornfield Hall, she falls passionately in love with her brooding employer, only to discover that he—and his home—are surrounded by dark secrets. When the secrets are revealed, how will Jane preserve her chances for happiness?

More Info

JOURNEY TO THE POLES OF INACCESSIBILITY

A Comic Fantasy

By Craig Pospisil

Comedy, Full-length

Dylan is comfortable with his insular life, working at an insurance company and living with his wheelchair-bound aunt. Then he meets Chris, a young woman of boundless energy, on a quest to gather what magic may remain at the eight Poles of Inaccessibility, the world’s most remote places. Dylan and Chris circle the globe on an epic journey of discovery, comedy, danger, and romance.

More Info

JULIO AIN'T GOIN' DOWN LIKE THAT

by C. JULIAN JIMÉNEZ

Drama, Full-length

It is the morning after the brutal murder of Julio Rivera, a gay Puerto Rican man in Jackson Heights, Queens. The murder became the first gay hate crime tried in New York State during the 1990s. In Julio Ain’t Goin’ Down Like That, the community reacts and is taken on a journey of self-discovery by a fabulously...

More Info

THE LAST WIDE OPEN

by Audrey Cefaly

Comedy/Drama, Full-length

Lina and Roberto’s lives intersect and parallel as three alternate realities unfold. The play renders the near hits and near misses that are the realities of this worn-out waitress and immigrant dishwasher as well as the mystical ways the universe conspires to bring us all together.

More Info

LAW AND ORDER: RHYMES AND MISDEMEANORS

By Jonathan Rand

Comedy, 30-minutes

In the nursery rhyme criminal justice system, citizens are represented by two separate yet equally ridiculous groups: the nursery rhyme police who investigate nursery rhyme crime, and the nursery rhyme district attorneys who prosecute the nursery rhyme offenders. These are their stories.

More Info

LES DEUX NOIRS

Psalmayene 24 (a.k.a. Gregory Morrison), award-winning playwright, director, and actor, delivers a stunning new play with, LES DEUX NOIRS.

Set in the legendary Parisian café Les Deux Magots in 1953, LES DEUX NOIRS reimagines the meeting between Native Son author Richard Wright and essayist/activist James Baldwin. It explores the tension between Baldwin's searing critiques of Native Son and Wright's unbridled indignation in...

More Info

LICKETY SPLIT

by Jones Hope Wooten

Women and men in outrageous shorts! This fast-paced, rollicking collection of short plays combines
some of the best scenes from BUDDY BRO BUBBA DUDE and HONEY SUGAR LADY DOLL
into a laugh-out-loud adventure for all. You’ll encounter women who are brilliant, baffling and know a conscience is what hurts when other parts feel sooo good. And you’ll find men who are confident, strong and who are so brave they dare to drink water... just to surprise their livers.

More Info

LOCKDOWN

by Cori Thomas

Drama, Full-length

A writer agrees to help an incarcerated man with his parole statement and embarks on an unexpected journey confronting her own grief....

More Info

LOT'S WIFE

by Eric Rosen

Full-length Comedy-Drama

When struggling actor Tom Braddle discovers that his former fiancé has written a new play with a part for him. his hopes for reuniting are dashed by a realization that the play is all too autobiographical. Did Adam have a hand in the tragic death of his wife and child? A dizzying constellation of competing stories and interests swirl around the company and then - Adam disappears...

More Info

macbitches

by Sophie McIntosh

Full-length Comedy-Drama

When a freshman is unexpectedly given the coveted role of Lady Macbeth, a few upperclassmen actresses invite her over to “celebrate” her casting and reassert their positions at the top of the theatre department’s hierarchy. As the Fireball and Svedka flow, the girls interrogate their own sense of ambition as well as the...

More Info

THE MAGICIAN'S DAUGHTER

by Lila Rose Kaplan

Full-length Comic Drama

The magician Prospero and his daughter Miranda dazzle their audiences until the day Miranda quits. This funny, bittersweet play dives deep into the ups and downs of a father-daughter relationship. Viewer discretion advised if you have a father or a daughter (or know anyone who does).

More Info

MANKIND

by Robert O'Hara

Comedy, Full-length

Mark and Jason were keeping things casual until Jason got pregnant. But however unplanned the pregnancy was, nothing could be less expected than the chain of events it would set in motion. Robert O’Hara’s audacious, hilarious allegory envisions an uncannily familiar future—one long after women have gone extinct from centuries of mistreatment—where man’s capacity to...

More Info

MARY AND JOSEPH...AND COMPANY

by David Overton

Off-beat Holiday Comedy, Short Play

Mary and Joseph...and Company tells the story of Mary and Joseph as they journey toward Bethlehem to be counted in the census, and their amusing encounterswith characters the whole family will recognize. This fresh (and slightly irreverent) reimagining of Mary and Joseph draws on the comedic styles of Don Knotts, Steve Carell, John Cleese, and Kristen Wiig and provides warmth and laughter during the holiday season!

More Info

MATERIAL GIRLS

by Michael Griffo

Comedy, One Act

Some girls got it and some girls don’t. Materialism that is. They’re the fashionistas, the influencers, the girls who worship at the altar of the Kardashians. The girls who think they have everything they need to succeed in life – but do they?

More Info

A MEASURE OF CRUELTY

by Joe Calarco

Comedy, One Act

The play follows Buddy, a recently returned veteran from the war in Afghanistan, who comes to work in his father’s bar while he nurses wounds both physical and psychic. When father and son become entangled in a local tragedy, they are forced to confront the ghosts of their past, and reckon with the cruelties they have taken part in, both at home and abroad.

More Info

THE MOLE HILL STORIES

by Alvaro Saar Rios

TYA

Based on the work of award-winning children’s author Lois Ehlert, THE MOLE HILL STORIES takes you on a journey with Mole as she discovers, with the help of her friends, that there is more to life than one can see at first glance and that our dreams are within reach if we believe.

More Info

MORNING AFTER GRACE

by Carey Crim

Comedy, One Act

Hilarious and heart-warming, this unconventional new comedy tackles love, loss, and coming to terms with growing old. After hooking up at a funeral, Angus and Abigail find themselves waking up the next morning wrapped in sheets on Angus’ sofa. Strangers just the day before, Abigail thinks she may finally be ready to take another chance on love, but Angus has a few issues to work through first. Enter neighbor Ollie, formerly a baseball player for the...

More Info

MR. PARKER

by Michael McKeever

Comedy, One Act

At 54 years old, Terry Parker finds himself at a crossroads in his life. After the loss of his partner of 30 years, he finds himself suddenly single and unable to adjust to a world that has moved on without him. After a night of heavy drinking, he wakes up with a 28-year-old bartender-slash-Uber-driver. These two very different people begin a tentative relationship, and what starts out as a one-night stand becomes a....

More Info

MRS. HARRISON

by R. Eric Thomas

Full-length 

Mrs. Harrison is about two women and one story. At their 10-year college reunion, Aisha and Holly meet by chance. Is this the first time or has it just been a long time? They can't agree. Aisha is a black, successful playwright; she's on the cover of the alumni magazine. Holly is a white, struggling stand-up comedian; They both have a story that they've been telling themselves about what happened all...

More Info

by Kate Hamill

Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson - Apt. 2B

Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson - Apt. 2B is an irreverent, darkly comic modern take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous sleuth and sidekick – a fast-paced romp that re-examines the classic adventure stories you love with a bold new female lens. In this highly theatrical, small-cast escapade, oddball female roommates Sherlock (yes, it’s also a girl’s name – wait, is it a girl’s name? Is it even a name?) Holmes & Dr. Joan Watson join forces to emerge from the pandemic fog as a deeply codependent, quasi-dysfunctional, Odd Couple adventure duo…

More Info

MUSINGS OF A CRAZY TEXICAN: EIGHT SHORT PLAYS

by Alvaro Saar Rios

Imagine witnessing 500 years of Aztec history in 10 minutes, a commercial for menudo popsicles, auditions for Pancho Villa: The Musical or a jillion texts from a psycho gringa. This “crazy” collection of 8-short plays contains works that have entertained, inspired and sometimes offended. Playwright Alvaro Saar Rios showcases new work, commissioned pieces as well as those developed with the...

More Info

MY GENERAL TUBMAN

by Lorene Cary

John Brown asks Harriet Tubman to fight with him to stop slavery. Her traumatic epilepsy triggered, Tubman moves
through time to a modern Philadelphia prison. She meets Nelson Davis, who falls in love with her. He detains her from
Harper’s Ferry; Furious, she returns to her time to mourn the failed raid. But when she’s recruited to lead the Union Army’s Combahee River Raid, she returns to the prison to
recruit her spies. Davis goes back in time separately to fight
Confederates and TB—and become her second husband...

More Info

NEW VOICES. NEW TRUTHS. NEW DISCOVERIES. Monologues from the Next Narrative Monologue Competition, Volume 1

The Next Narrative™ Monologue Competition, Vol. 1 features newly created works from twenty of America’s leading contemporary Black playwrights that engage students in artful exploration of 21st century themes, while instilling confidence in all to find their voices. The program objectives are to introduce students to today’s leading contemporary Black writers, expose students to acting techniques that enhance their...

More Info

NEW VOICES. NEW TRUTHS. NEW DISCOVERIES. Monologues from the Next Narrative Monologue Competition, Volume 2

The Next Narrative™ Monologue Competition, Vol. 2 features newly created works from twenty of America’s leading contemporary Black playwrights that engage students in artful exploration of 21st century themes, while instilling confidence in all to find their voices. The program objectives are to introduce students to today’s leading contemporary Black writers, expose students to acting techniques that enhance their...

More Info

NOMAD MOTEL

by Carla Ching

Drama, Full-length 

In the not-so-sunny side of California, Alix bounces between motel rooms, taking care of her brothers for her mostly MIA mother. Mason is a budding songwriter trying to keep off the radar of his absent father in Hong Kong. Together, they must learn to scrape by without giving up their dreams.

More Info

OFF PEAK

by Brenda Withers

 Comedy-Drama

When two old flames run into each other on the evening commute, different views of the same past threaten to derail their connection. A new play about forgiving, forgetting, and the healing power of a good delay.

More Info

ON THE FARCE DAY OF CHRISTMAS

by Ken Levine

Comedy, Full-length 

To keep her religious mother from knowing she's divorced, Wendy pays her ex to pose as her husband and go home for the holidays. Havoc ensues.

More Info

OUR SHRINKING SHRINKING WORLD

Full-length, Comedy

By Richard Dresser

Dr. Lyman Hidalgo-Nyquist is the only therapist in a faded New England mill town. His one remaining patient is Teddy, a down-on-his-luck cop, who lost his gun and can only get his job back by seeing a therapist. Another therapist shows up in town, the mysterious Dr. Michael Carver. The two therapists battle each other for the chance to save Teddy and his girlfriend through couples’ counseling with the fate of humanity in the balance.

More Info

THE PAPER DREAMS OF HARRY CHIN

by Jessica Huang

Drama, Full-length 

During the Chinese Exclusion Act, Harry Chin, a Chinese national, entered the U.S. by buying forged documentation. Like other “Paper Sons,” Harry lived the rest of his life keeping
secrets—even from his daughter. Told through the eyes of a middle-aged Chin, The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin reveals
the complicated loves and regrets of this Chinese immigrant...

More Info

[PORTO]

by Kate Benson

Full-length, Drama

A woman walks into a bar. Her name is Porto. She’s a regular. She likes this bar: serious food, serious wine, serious bartender–a staple in a gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood (perhaps Bushwick?). Her friends, her wine, and her artisanal snacks are there; her doubts about being a Modern Woman are...

More Info

PLANTATION BLACK

by Phaedra Michelle Scott

Since 1864, The Loch Dhu Plantation in Cross, South Carolina has been owned by the Prioleau family. They all have the same last name and share common biological ancestors. However, in 2017, their bonds are as deep as the paper claiming half of the Prioleau tree as property.

More Info

PROMAPOCALYPSE!

by Michael Griffo

Comedy, One Act

Ask any high school senior and they’ll tell you that prom night is the most important night of their lives. But thanks to Julian – an evil alien warlord from Rangor posing as an ordinary high school student – prom night has turned into an absolute disaster. And it’s all thanks to Becca. An innocent, college-bound kid, who made the colossally bad...

More Info

PUBLIC SPEAKING 101

by Mark St. Germain

Full-length Comedy

A neurotic amateur actress leads her local community class of off-kilter, terrified adults to compete in their county’s First Annual Public Speaking Competition.

More Info

QUARTER RICAN

by Gabriel Diego Hernández

Music & Lyrics by Rachel Elmer & Gabriel Diego Hernández

Drama, Full-length

A young father in the playground, eleven-month-old baby in tow, engages another parent in the park in a conversation about neighborhoods, parenthood, and culture, processing some of his traumas and insecurities along the way as he tries to predict the factors that will shape his child’s Latinx identity. Meanwhile...

More Info

RED BIKE

by Caridad Svich

Drama, Full-length

What kind of future will you have living in these here United States? Remember when you were eleven years old and you had a bike, one that made you dream about a world bigger than the one in which you live? This is that memory. Except it is now. This is the first play in the AMERICAN PSALM seven-play cycle.

More Info

REVERBERATION

by Matthew López

After a personal tragedy, Jonathan has withdrawn from the world, with little social life beyond the men he meets online. When charming, flighty Claire moves into the apartment upstairs, she tries to coax him out of his shell. They forge a tenuous connection, but the past reverberates into the present, threatening what happiness they’ve found.

More Info

THE REVOLTING TEENS OF SHERWOOD

by John Maclay and Joe Foust

75-minute Play, Comedy

A funny, frolicking, fresh look at the timeless tale of the legendary hero Robin Hood. When Robin, LittleJohn and Friar Tuck are captured, it falls to Marianand the Merry Men-in-training to come to the rescue.Full of swashbuckling adventure, breathtaking daring-do,and laughs aplenty, this new take on a classic tale is suitable for the entire family.

More Info

RIGHT BEFORE I GO

by Stan Zimmerman

Drama, Full-length

Stan Zimmerman (The Golden Girls, Roseanne, Gilmore Girls) brings to life the last words written in letters by individuals lost to suicide — including celebrities, veterans, kids that were bullied, LGBTQ, and the clinically depressed — and those who have survived suicide attempts. The play has traveled across the country, raising awareness and offering hope for suicide prevention.

More Info

ROMEO AND JULIET WALK INTO A BAR

by Joe Foust and John Maclay

Comedy, Full-length

A small midwestern college decides to stage Shakespeare’s classic tale of young star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet with an all female cast. Add in a mysterious guest director with dubious credentials and a bizarre show concept, and anything might happen. Can the students rescue the bard from being hijacked? A smart, hilarious, thoroughly contemporary...

More Info

SAGITTARIUS PONDEROSA

by MJ Kaufman

Dramatic Comedy, Full-Length

Archer (still Angela to his family) doesn’t want to move back to his childhood home in eastern Oregon when his father falls ill. But at night under the oldest Ponderosa Pine, he meets a stranger who knows the history of the forests and the sadness of losing endangered things. As Archer accepts big changes in his family he discovers...

More Info

THE SALONNIÈRES

A Play by Liz Duffy Adams

Dramatic Comedy, Full-Length

In pre-Revolutionary Paris, a young girl fresh from the convent is promised in marriage to an older nobleman to pay off her father’s debts. She flees to the literary salon of her late mother’s friends, aristocratic women who conceal radical politics within reinvented folk tales. But which of them is her fairy godmother, and which the cruel stepmother? Is the duke a Prince Charming or...

More Info

SANCTUARY CITY

by Martyna Majok

Drama, Full Length

In post-9/11 Newark, NJ, two teenagers who were brought to America as children become one another’s sanctuaries from harsh circumstances. When G becomes naturalized, she and B hatch a plan to marry so that he may legally remain in the country and pursue the future he imagines for his life. But as time hurtles on and complications mount, the young friends find that this act challenges and fractures the closest relationship either has ever had.

More Info

SCAB

Full-length Drama

by Gino Di Iorio

Gilda is a middle-aged American worker and life-long union member. After her factory moves to Mexico, she is tasked with training her replacement, a young Mexican man named Eduardo. The union stands firmly against this retraining butit is the only way Gilda can receive her small, but necessary,payout. Scab is a story of two mismatched workers struggling for survival in modern industrial America.

More Info

THE SEAGULL

by Anton Chekhov

Translation by Paul Schmidt

The main characters, all artists, are guests at a country estate. They are Mme Arkadina, a middle-aged actress; her lover, Trigorin, a successful writer; her son Konstantin, a writer; and Nina, a young aspiring actress whom Konstantin loves. Mme Arkadina, jealous of Nina’s youth and promising career, acts cruelly and hatefully toward Konstantin, belittling his new play and...

More Info

SELLING KABUL

by Sylvia Khoury

Drama, Full Length

Taroon once served as an interpreter for the U.S. military in Afghanistan. Now it is 2013, and the Americans — and their promises of safety — have begun to withdraw. Taroon spends his days in hiding, a target of the increasingly powerful Taliban. On the eve of his son’s birth, he must remain in his sister’s apartment, or risk his life to see his child. With shattering precision, Sylvia Khoury’s tense drama traces the human cost of U.S. immigration policy and the legacy of our longest war.

More Info

SENIOR LIVING

by Tor Hyams and Lisa St. Lou

Comedy

SENIOR LIVING is a play with music about people dying to live.

At Riverdale Manor, a retirement community in the Bronx, seniors contemplate the possibility of dying from a broken heart, if divorce is even worth it at a certain age, and when is the right time to have sex again. A talent show, with the promise of cake for dessert, sets the scene for a series of life-changing vignettes that debate what to do with the time we have left.

More Info

SENSITIVE GUYS

by MJ Kaufman

Dramatic comedy, full-length

The Men’s Peer Education group at Watson College is dedicated to unpacking and exposing male privilege. These “sensitive guys” believe that through increased self-awareness they can end sexual violence on campus; but when a shocking rumor surfaces, the group is shaken to the core. Sensitive Guys features a cast of women and gender nonconforming...

More Info

SEPARATE ROOMS

by Joe Calarco

Full-length Comedy

In this funny, moving and wistfully haunting play, a deceased man guides us through his past and present, as his apartment fills to the brim with family, friends, friends of friends, and even total strangers. As the guests grapple, both with his loss and with each other, the action weaves from room to room, jumping through time by minutes and years. Separate Rooms is a stunning meditation on loss, friendship, and the traces of ourselves we leave behind. A Big Chill for the 21st Century.

More Info

THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS

By Carlo Goldoni 

In a New Translation by Rob Melrose

Identities are mistaken, engagements are broken, and lovers are reunited in this world premiere adaptation of Carlo Goldoni’s commedia dell’arte masterpiece. Set in Venice, mayhem erupts when the wily—and chronically hungry—servant Truffaldino hatches a zany scheme to double his wages (and his meals) by serving two masters at once. 

More Info

17 MINUTES

by Scott Organ

Drama, Full-length

17 MINUTES is the length of time Sheriff’s Deputy Andy Rubens stood outside of a school while a shooter was inside. The play 17 Minutes explores the communal and residual effects of a shooting through Andy, a man who struggles with his own complicity in the tragedy, and who seeks meaning in the wake of the shooting.

More Info

SHAKESPEARE YOUNG@PART®: SOME COMEDIES

by Carol Pugliano-Martin

30-60 minutes

Shakespeare Young@Part®: Some Comedies, introduces the audience to six of Shakespeare’s comedies. The shortened comedies that are included are Two Gentlemen of Verona, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and The Taming of the Shrew.

More Info

SHAKESPEARE'S DEAD DAMES

by David Overton

20-40 minute, comedy

6F, 1M

After their in-performance deaths, six female Shakespearean characters find themselves in a holding area until the play they are a character in gets revived by another Shakespeare company so that they can (re)live their tragedy over (and over) again. It’s a comic romp that evokes Jean-Paul Sartre’s “No Exit” meets Luigi Pirandello’s “Six Characters in Search of an Author” meets “Monty Python’s Flying Circus.”

More Info

SHAKESPEARE'S DEAD DUDES

by David Overton

(7 Actors) Flexible, non-gender specific casting. 

After their in-performance deaths, six Shakespearean characters find themselves in a holding area until the play they are a character in gets revived by another Shakespeare company so that they can (re)live their tragedy over (andover) again. It’s a comic romp that evokes Jean-Paul Sartre’s“No Exit” meets Luigi Pirandello’s “Six Characters in Search of an Author” meets “Monty Python’s Flying Circus.”

More Info

SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE ELUSIVE EAR

by David MacGregor

Full-length Mystery

The notorious and as-yet undiscovered genius, Vincent Van Gogh, presents Sherlock Holmes with a most unusual case. Aided by his partner Dr. Watson and his paramour Irene Adler, the trio embark on a rousing adventure and find themselves confronting the evil daughter of Professor Moriarty. With a helping hand from Oscar Wilde, the world's greatest detective attempts to solve one of the most audacious crimes of the Victorian era and uncover a Post-Impressionist conspiracy.

More Info

SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE FALLEN SOUFFLÉ

by David MacGregor

Full-length Mystery

It’s the day before Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, and her son, the playboy Prince of Wales, arrives at 221B Baker Street pursued by Anarchist assassins. The greatest chef in the world, Auguste Escoffier, also arrives, his career about to be shattered by blackmail and scandal. This action-filled tale of royal debauchery, priceless gems, and gourmet food will provide Dr. Watson with the material for Sherlock Holmes’ most bizarre and tastiest case.

More Info

SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE GHOST MACHINE

by David MacGregor

Full-length Mystery

London: November, 1905. England and the world are changing. As civilization edges towards the horrors of World War I, every day brings new tensions in Europe and technological advances that make Victorian England feel like a distant dream. Into the rooms of Sherlock Holmes come Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison—with new inventions that will alter the course of human history—only both inventions have gone missing. Can Holmes, Watson, and Irene Adler somehow unravel the...

More Info

SILVER FOXES

by Stan Zimmerman and James Berg

Full-length Mystery

Inspired by Gen Silent, a 2010 documentary about LGBT seniors, Silver Foxes is described as a gay version of "The Golden Girls." Benny and Chuck, two older gay men, rescue their dear friend Cecil from a homophobic senior living facility and bring him to live with them in Palm Springs. From the comic-writing duo Stan Zimmerman and...

More Info

SINGLES IN AGRICULTURE

by Abby Rosebrock

Comedy/Drama, Full-length

A South Carolina army widow angles for romance with an Oklahoma fundamentalist at a dating convention for farmers.

More Info

SHOT: CAUGHT A SOUL

by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

Short Play

Kareem, a Black teen, waits for the bus, at night, in a suburban White neighborhood. He is approached by O’Donald, a White police officer. They struggle. A shot rings out. Kareem is dead. O’Donald says he feared for his life. The Police Union’s representative defends the shooting as self-defense. Kareem’s Aunt Janice protests her nephew’s death as racial profiling. There are no witnesses, but the truth will...

More Info

SMALL ENCHANTMENTS

by Lila Rose Kaplan

Dark Comedy

60-70 minutes

12 Princesses sneak out to a Ball every night. Or so they say. You see, their father locks them in the palace. Some say he’s overprotective, others say he’s evil. Either way, 12 young women are trapped. And where is their Mother, you might wonder? Oh, their Mother is a dying tree and their aunt a moody river. But these are 12 most unusual young women. These are fierce Princesses unlike...

More Info

SMILE LINES

Short play, One Act

By Joe Calarco

This groundbreaking and emotionally charged play immerses you in the fervor, intensity, determination, and selflessness of the Silent Sentinels protest at the White House in 1917. A century later, do we appreciate the sacrifices and convictions made by those brave individuals? SMILE LINES delves deep into the National Woman’s Party’s historic protests, connecting them to the ongoing struggle for all voices in today’s world.

More Info

SMOKE GETS IN YOUR HOUSE

by Ken Levine

Comedy, 90-minutes

The lives of two couples are thrown into upheaval when a brushfire threatens their upscale Southern California homes. They must confront what’s really important to them — Material items? Careers? Relationships? SMOKE GETS IN YOUR HOUSE treats the natural disaster seriously while still finding enough absurdity to make this play a genuine dark comedy.

More Info

THE SMUGGLER

by Ronán Noone

Drama

Tim Finnegan is an Irish immigrant trying to make it as a writer on Amity, an affluent summer colony in Massachusetts, where tensions flare between the migrant and local communities after a fatal car crash. When he loses his job as a bartender, Tim gets drawn into the dark underbelly of the island. The play examines how far one man will go to restore his self-respect and asks, “What does it mean to be an American citizen?” Winner of the Best Playwright Award at Origin Theatre’s 1st Irish Festival. 

More Info

SOMEWHERE

by Matthew López

Drama

It’s 1959 and the new musical West Side Story is a smash hit on Broadway. In their tiny family apartment in the San Juan Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, the young Candelaria siblings dream of glamorous careers in show business. When the opportunity arises for this talented Puerto Rican family to audition for roles in the film version of West Side Story itself, all their dreams seem poised to come true – until a neighborhood-wide eviction abruptly threatens everything they have worked for.

More Info

THE SPOKEN WORD

Short play, One Act

By Joe Calarco

Germany in 1943. America in 2033. This charged play follows young adults separated by time and place, united by their resistance to the government oppression they’re surrounded by. In 2033, a group of protestors in hiding begin receiving cryptic text messages. Is it possible that they’re somehow being sent from 1940s anti-Nazi activist Sophie Scholl and other members of the famed White Rose resistance group? And if they are receiving these messages, why?

More Info

TALES FROM RED VIENNA

by David Grimm

Drama

Set as an enormous political tide is turning throughout Europe, Tales from Red Vienna explores the effects of war on women, the circumstances that control their lives, and the dreams that set them free.

More Info

TARTUFFE

by Molière

Freely Adapted by Charles Edward Pogue

This free but faithful adaptation of Molière’s classic comedy TARTUFFE follows the original plot of a theological flimflammer insinuating himself into a life of comfort and ease at the expense of his gullible benefactor’s family. It is both funny and resonant, addressing many of the issues of our day – religious, political, and human hypocrisy as well as the extremism in which our frequently fractured society can find itself entrenched and how we often willingly conspire in our own duping.

More Info

Drama/Dark Comedy, Full-length

Abby, a precocious emo-goth teenager, orchestrates a surprise reunion for her mother Tanya and birth father Tom, with the help of her mom's fiance/healer John. Hoping to provoke long-lasting reconciliation between her parents before her high school graduation, Abby's plans completely derail when Tom arrives with his new...

More Info

TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD

by Audrey Cefaly

Drama, Full-length

Four tenderly crafted stories of ache and longing examine the most ordinary and disparate of characters in high- stakes moments of self-doubt: some life-threatening, some bordering on life-ending, all life-affirming.

More Info

THAT SUMMER IN SUMNER

Full-length Drama

by Ifa Bayeza

THAT SUMMER IN SUMNER is the middle drama in The Till Trilogy, a three-play cycle exploring the epic saga of Emmett Till. While the first play, The Ballad of Emmett Till, is the story of the boy, That Summer in Sumner explores the 1955 trial of his killers. While drawing upon trial transcripts, contemporaneous news accounts, and the...

More Info

THIRST

Full-length Drama

by Ronán Noone

THIRST is a witty Irish drama wrapped in humanity. Set during Eugene O’Neill’s classic Long Day’s Journey Into Night, failure, denial, and passion roil as two Irish servants and an American chauffeur pass the day in the kitchen of the Tyrone family’s residence in 1912. As tensions rise and the past rears its head, a search for love and belonging becomes the search for “home.”

More Info

THREE SISTERS

Chekhov Adaptation

by Paul Schmidt

Three Sisters is set in a small, remote town dominated by an army base. The action takes place in the Prozorov family home over a span of several years.

Born and bred in a thriving metropolis, the Prozorovs came to this small town when their father was made commander of the local army brigade. Now, the Prozorov...

More Info

The Three Sisters Brontë

Full-length Drama

by Arlene Hutton

On the Yorkshire moors of the 1840s, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë struggle with the harsh realities of male-dominated society. The sisters live in the rich worlds of their imaginations, dreaming of life in London, until they are forced to take their destinies into their own hands. As their brother descends...

More Info

THRICE UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR

by David Overton

Off-beat Comedy

 30-40 minutes

Thrice Upon a Midnight Clear gives audiences a peek into the unlikely—but hilarious—conversations of The Three Wise Men, The Three Wise Women, and The Three Not-So-Wise Shepherds in this traveling triptych as they follow the Star of Bethlehem contemplating its wonder, its mystery…and a good game of golf!

More Info

12 MILLION FOOTSTEPS

One Act

By Joe Calarco

January 28, 2017. An executive order signed by the President sends three complicated and lost individuals wandering on their own homebound odysseys. As one searches for his lost father, another searches for his detained uncle, and another searches for connection to her faraway home. Searching for hope and for home, their lives become entwined with Homer’s ancient text in beautiful and life-altering ways.

More Info

12 OPHELIAS (a play with broken songs)

by Caridad Svich

Full-length Drama

In this play with broken songs, Shakespeare’s Ophelia rises out of the water dreaming of reclaiming her life. She finds herself in a neo-Elizabethan Appalachian setting where Gertrude runs a brothel, Hamlet is a Rude Boy and nothing is what it seems. In this mirrored world of word-scraps and cold sex, Ophelia cuts a new path for herself.

More Info

twenty50

by Tony Meneses

In the year 2050, Latinx people have been assimilated into the (white) majority of the United States, but race issues are far from resolved. In this tricky political environment, Andres Salazar is running for office and must decide whether losing some of his own identity is worth the potential social benefits. When a mysterious stranger appears at his house, Andres’s family must rally around him to save his imperiled campaign.

More Info

TWO DEGREES

by Tira Palmquist

Full-length, Drama

Emma Phelps is a paleoclimatologist, focusing on ice in Greenland. In drilling and studying ice core samples, she sees first hand the symptoms of our changing planet, which makes the need to act all the more crucial and urgent. In addition, Emma, as a recent widow, experiences grief that compounds itself with each passing month. Now she's been asked to testify in Washington D.C. in a senate committee regarding climate change legislation, and in this intersection of...

More Info

295N

by Joe Calarco

One Act

Six young Northern Virginia students find themselves thrust into a complex world, a world made of poetry, reenactments, the guiding words of Frederick Douglass, and the personal experiences of the students themselves. The heart of this complex world is the death of Freddie Gray, an event that forces each of these students to confront their own relationships with issues of race. As one young African American student, Jasen, finds himself compelled to seek justice, the others are forced to confront how close to home the...

More Info

TRW PRESENTS: SHORT PLAYS Volume 1

Short Play Collection

Edited by Craig Pospisil

TRW is pleased to publish this sparkling new collection of ten short plays - comedies and dramas, absurdist and naturalistic - from a wide-ranging group of exciting playwrights.

More Info

TRW PRESENTS: SHORT PLAYS Volume 2

Short Play Collection

Edited by Craig Pospisil

TRW is pleased to publish this sparkling new collection of ten short plays - comedies and dramas, absurdist and naturalistic - from a wide-ranging group of exciting playwrights.

More Info

TRW PRESENTS: SHORT PLAYS Volume 3

Short Play Collection

Edited by Craig Pospisil

TRW presents ten compelling short works—heroes and villains, from earthly issues to supernatural ones—by established and emerging playwrights in this third volume of our popular series.

More Info

THE TWO KIDS THAT BLOW SHIT UP

by Carla Ching

Drama, Full-length 

Diana and Max meet at 9 years old, the day their parents start having an affair. In the ensuing decades, they see each other through highs and lows, trying not to make the same mistakes their parents did. A play about trying not to fall in love with your best friend so you end up hating them.

More Info

UNCLE VANYA

Chekhov Adaptation

by Paul Schmidt

UNCLE VANYA portrays the visit of an elderly professor and his glamorous, much younger second wife, Yelena, to the rural estate that supports their urban lifestyle. Two friends—Vanya, brother of the professor's late first wife, who has long managed the estate, and Astrov, the local doctor—both fall under Yelena's spell, while...

More Info

THE UNFORTUNATES

by Aoise Stratford

Drama

80-minutes

In this intimate ghost story, Mary Jane Kelly has a problem. She’s a pound forty behind in her rent, her window is broken, she has lost her key, and her boyfriend just moved out. And it’s 1888—not a good time to be poor and “unfortunate” on the streets of London. Somewhere out there in the foggy shadows, Jack the Ripper, one of the world’s most notorious criminals is at work. Mary only has two ways to secure her own...

More Info

UNRESIGNED

by Joe Calarco

One-Act

Alejandro has revolutionized student government at his
Pennsylvania high school and changed it for the better, so when he unexpectedly resigns from being student body president halfway through his senior year, the entire school is shaken. Who will take over? Who should take over? This exciting play looks at the ways we contribute to our
community, the power of the vote, and what it means to be a
United States citizen.

More Info

THE VAGRANT TRILOGY

by Mona Mansour

Mona Mansour, award-winning playwright and alumna of The Public’s Emerging Writers Group, delves into the Palestinian struggle for home and identity in THE VAGRANT TRILOGY, a single epic story told in three parts. In 1967, Adham, a Palestinian Wordsworth scholar, goes to London with his new wife to deliver a lecture. When war breaks out at home, he must decide in an instant what to do—a choice that will affect...

More Info

Comedy

Comedy, One Act

It’s vampires vs. teenagers in this epic battle to stop graduation from turning into a bloodbath. Caitlin’s really, really smart and is class valedictorian. But she’s also been acting really, really weird lately. So weird that Carly thinks she’s a vampire...the kind that wants to destroy all her classmates and turn them into an army of...

More Info

THE VELVETEEN RABBIT

by Patrick Flynn, based on the book by Margery Williams

TYA

Margery Williams’s classic toy story gets a vibrant retelling in this brand new adaptation. When the Child gets the Rabbit for Christmas, she is at first disappointed in her gift. But as the two quest and adventure through her storybooks, both Rabbit and Child grow and care for each other. And they discover that love is the greatest force in the Universe and can make impossible things...

More Info

WARSAW

By Paul Webb

Full-length Drama

72 year-old Krystyna fights for life in a hospital as four peo- ple wait—and reveal the reasons why her survival is vital to them. Rachel is a driven young doctor whose brother Jona- than died in the Trade Center; financier David is Rachel’s adoring ex-fiance, rejected in the fall-out from Jonathan’s death; Nicolas is the truck-driver who, distracted, wrecked Krystyna’s car; and Klaus is a...

More Info

WASHINGTON SQUARE

By Randall Sharp

Based on the novel by Henry James

DRAMA/ADAPTATION

Catherine, a wealthy young woman, was raised by father dead to love. Surrounded by a society and family who perceive her as plain and soft-spoken, Catherine remains optimistic. When a mysterious suitor makes a bid for her heart, she’s torn between her instincts and the warnings of her cruel father. Set in a fashionable New York of the late 19th century...

More Info

WELCOME TO PARADISE

By Julie Marino

FULL-LENGTH DRAMA

Evelyn contemplates that this solo journey to her Caribbean beach house might be her final one, with old age looming and her children's interventions on the horizon. Meanwhile, Rory, a seasoned traveler, seeks a welcoming refuge. Accepting Evelyn's invitation for a brief stay, maybe one or two nights, Rory gradually finds himself feeling increasingly at ease in Evelyn's home. Surprisingly, Evelyn is delighted to have a pleasant and helpful young companion. As they spend time together, they both discover that...

More Info

WELL MET BY MOONLIGHT

An adaptation of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

By Joe Calarco

This eight-person adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream places us at Hermia’s wedding rehearsal dinner, where she is trapped into marrying Demetrius, threatening to tear her away from her true love Lysander. When dressmaker Bottom fits her into her wedding gown, Hermia faints and awakens in a magical landscape—part frolic, part dream, part nightmare. In her Wizard of Oz-like hallucination her parents transform into...

More Info

WET or, Isabella the Pirate Queen Enters the Horse Latitudes

By Liz Duffy Adams

Four survivors of a storm-sunken pirate ship—the legendary Isabella, Neptune’s bastard daughter; pirates Jenny (a runaway whore) and Sally (an electrified girl); and the Viscountess Marlene (a drag queen)—seize a half-wrecked ship crewed only by Captain Joppa and two sailors, young Jack and ex-slave Horatio. Joppa is determined to get back to the war. Isabella has other...

More Info

WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU

By James Hindman

A witty, contemporary comedy that follows one man’s journey through a heart attack, a gay marriage, an obsession with Cher, and a trip to a concentration camp. So, yes, it’s a comedy!

More Info

WHICH WAY TO THE STAGE

by Ana Nogueira

Comedy-Drama, Full-length

The year is 2015 and Jeff and Judy are right where they’re supposed to be: waiting outside the stage door of If/Then to get an autograph from the star. But the experience they have while they wait will change the course of their decades-long friendship forever.

More Info

WITCH HUNT or, a Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World

By Liz Duffy Adams

Ten years after Abigail Williams, instigator of the witch trials, disappeared from Salem, she turns up at the tavern of her fellow ex witch-hunter, Mercy Lewis. About to leave the colonies forever, it’s her last chance to understand the madness that overtook them. But with war threatening northern New England yet again, Mercy and her fellow townspeople are in no mood for...

More Info

Full-length Comedic Drama

Mitch wants to be a carpenter. Heather wants to be a woodcarver. The wolf wants to be an intellectual. Ruby wants to escape the wolf. The woodcutter wants to escape the narrator. A fable-inspired play about love and wood and finding your purpose.

More Info

Full-length Comedy

Four former Jeopardy! champions meet for a weekend to prepare for the Tournament of Champions. When the front-runner is murdered, it becomes a game of cat and mouse between three brainiacs and a wily detective. Comedy, clues, and surprises await.

More Info

YES, VIRGINIA

Comedy-Drama, Full-length, 75 minutes

The story of two older women navigating the perils of aging in suburban Detroit.

Virginia Campbell was a longtime housekeeper for Denise Miller and her family, helping Denise raise her children during a difficult divorce. But when she shows up for work, Denise is very confused. Especially since she thought she had let her go several months ago. When an accident in the kitchen keeps Virginia from being able to walk, Denise offers to care...

More Info

ZOEY'S PERFECT WEDDING

Comedy

by Matthew Lopez

Saying “I do” was the easy part – this hilarious commentary on commitment is every bride’s worst nightmare. Disaster after disaster follows her down the aisle, from brutally honest boozy speeches to a totally incompetent wedding planner and friends too preoccupied to help with the wreckage around them. A wildly funny play about love, relationship, expectations, and the courage it takes to find what truly makes us happy.

More Info

ZOMBIE: THE AMERICAN

Drama, Full-length

The Future. The United States is in crisis: The East Coast has Flooded, the Capital has moved to Mount Rushmore, Cotton XP has been found in the hills of the West, Civil War is upon us again, African Peacekeepers are here to insure our Presidential Elections, and there are Zombies in the Basement.

More Info