by Tom Stoppard Samuel French Guildenstern and Rosencrantz Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s...
by Alex Gottlieb, Tom Taggart and James Reach Samuel French Joe and Parrish Bill Hastings is hired by the Daily Star as the advice to the lovelorn columnist Aunt Phoebe. Riotous complications ensue when he gets a letter implicating a nightclub owner in a sports scandal. Bill, dressed as Phoebe, goes...
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 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 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...
By Anthony Wood Playscripts Pink Wasp and Mole man The Pink WASP and his long-suffering sidekick Yellow Jacket combat a gang of ridiculous villains in this spoof of TV superheroes like the Green Hornet. The play revels in the thick-headed political incorrectness that permeated society in the early 1960s,...
