Theresa Rebeck Samuel French Edward and Georgie Pygmalion goes awry in this contemporary comedy of manners, which explores sexual harassment, misplaced amour, and the possibility of a four-sided love triangle. The combatants are a sexy, volatile young woman and three Back Bay types: a writer, a lawyer,...
David Rabe Samuel French Al and Chrissy A revised version from the author of Sticks and Bones and Hurlyburly turns his attention to the seedy underbelly of American life. Chrissy is a go-go dancer in the squalid “Boom Boom Room”. Resigned to a life populated by denizens offering little more...
Robert Schenkkan Dramatists Play Service Star and Michael 2 scenes THE STORY: THE COURTSHIP OF MORNING STAR. 1776. Into the hut built on his homestead, Rowen takes a wife by kidnapping Morning Star, a young Indian girl whose tribe has been ravaged by smallpox. To keep her from escaping, he cuts the tendon...
James Saunders Samuel French Man and Woman A series of sketches and vignettes. They are brief, witty and pointed. They are love encounters– the games people play. Here is the idiot way quarrels start up, or the way people meet and fence with one another. After Liverpool is not a play, but a suite...
Steven Sater Musical Theatre International Wendla and Melchior It is Germany, 1891, a world where the grown-ups hold all the cards. The beautiful young Wendla explores the mysteries of her body and wonders aloud where babies come from… until Mama tells her to shut it and put on a proper dress....
RT Robinson Samuel French Weetsie and Sybil Tood, Weetsie, and Sybill are brides in rural Louisiana in 1943. Each married a Cliffert brother. The men are off to war and a local news story about these young wives keeping the home fires burning intrigues Henry Luce. He decides that they belong on the cover...
Jose Rivera Dramatists Play Service Lenny and June THE STORY: Marisol Perez, a young Latino woman, is a copy editor for a Manhattan publisher. Although she has elevated herself into the white collar class, she continues to live alone in the dangerous Bronx neighborhood of her childhood. As the play begins,...
Jose Rivera Dramatists Play Service Lenny and Marisol THE STORY: Marisol Perez, a young Latino woman, is a copy editor for a Manhattan publisher. Although she has elevated herself into the white collar class, she continues to live alone in the dangerous Bronx neighborhood of her childhood. As the play...
John Steinbeck Dramatists Play Service Curley’s Wife and Lennie THE STORY: Two drifters, George and his friend Lennie, with delusions of living off the “fat of the land,” have just arrived at a ranch to work for enough money to buy their own place. Lennie is a man-child, a little boy in the body...
Lib Spry Odyssey Theatre Kalaf and Xi-Wang-Mu The title character, a surpassingly beautiful but cruel princess of ancient China, has declared that she will be the bride of any prince who can answer the three riddles she will propose–but he who fails the trial shall have his head cut off. Calaf,...
