Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II R&H Library Ado Annie and Gertie The first collaboration of famed partners Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Oklahoma! set the American musical theatre standard. Set in Western Indian Territory just after the turn of the 20th Century, the spirited rivalry...
Jose Rivera Dramatists Play Service Woman with Furs and Marisol 2 scenes 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....
Neil Simon Samuel French Florence and Olive Unger and Madison are at it again! Florence Unger and Olive Madison, that is, in Neil Simon’s hilarious contemporary comic classic: the female version of The Odd Couple. Instead of the poker party that begins the original version, Ms. Madison has invited...
by Alex Gottlieb, Tom Taggart and James Reach Samuel French Rochelle and Olga 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...
Paula Vogel Dramatists Play Service Bianca and Desdemona THE STORY: Having slept with Othello’s entire encampment, Desdemona revels in her bawdy tales of conquest. Her foils and rapt listeners are the other integral and reimagined women of this Shakespeare tragedy: Emilia, Desdemona’s servant...
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 Lanford Wilson Dramatists Play Service Carol and Penny THE STORY: At seventeen, Alan visits the California home of his father and his father’s former mistress turned wife. His father’s life now centers around his two young sons, a tiresome job at an aircraft plant, and two teenage girls...
by Lanford Wilson Dramatists Play Service Judy and Rust THE STORY: The setting is an all-night coffee shop on New York’s upper Broadway, where the riff-raff, the bums, the petty thieves, the lost, the desperate of the big city come together. The movement of the kaleidoscopic in effect, a surging...
