by George F. Walker Playwright’s Co-op Great North Artists Matilda and Julia The play is set in 1893. Zastrozzi, the master criminal of all Europe and a self-proclaimed atheist, like the character in the 1810 novel and Shelley himself, has focused for nearly three years on the pursuit of revenge...
James C. Wall Dramatic Publishing Miriam and Vacek Inspired by actual events recounted in inmate diaries, this play tells the story of Jewish pathologist Dr. Isaac Jonah who, along with his wife and daughter, is interred at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 where he is assigned to work in the laboratory...
by Peter Whelan Josef Weinberger Ltd Marlowe and Frizer On May 30th, 1593, Christopher Marlowe was killed in a brawl . . . or was he? In the company of Thomas Kyd, Sir Walter Ralegh and the mysterious Tom Stone, Marlowe sets about writing his finest poem while charges of treason and atheism hang over...
by Ara Watson Dramatists Play Service Jim and Hands The writer of A DIFFERENT MOON and MOONCASTLE brings to life this boy’s thrilling adventure—as reflected upon by his adult self—in search of buried treasure on a distant and mysterious island. This classic coming-of-age story is complete with...
by Tennessee Williams Dramatists Play Service Brick and Maggie THE STORY: In a plantation house, a family celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of Big Daddy, as they sentimentally dub him. The mood is somber, despite the festivities, because a number of evils poison the gaiety: greed, sins of the past...
by Tennessee Williams Dramatists Play Service Stanley and Blanche The play reveals to the very depths the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject—so far as possible—the realities of life with which she is faced and which...
by August Wilson Samuel French King and Elmore Peddling stolen refrigerators in the feeble hope of making enough money to open a video store, King Hedley, a man whose self worth is built on self delusion, is scraping in the dirt of an urban backyard trying to plant seeds where nothing will grow. Getting,...
by August Wilson Samuel French Levee and Toledo 2 scenes It’s 1927 in a rundown studio in Chicago where Ma Rainey is recording new sides of old favorites. More goes down in the session than music in this riveting portrayal of rage, racism, the self hate and exploitation.
by August Wilson Samuel French Bernice and Boy Willie It is 1936, and Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh from the South in a battered truck loaded with watermelons to sell. He has an opportunity to buy some land down home, but he has to come up with the money right quick. He wants to sell […]
by August Wilson Samuel French Cory and Troy This sensational drama starred James Earl Jones as Troy Maxson, a former star of the Negro baseball leagues who now works as a garbage man in 1957 Pittsburgh. Excluded as a black man from the major leagues during his prime, Troy’s bitterness takes its toll...
