Dramatists Play Service Kia Corthron Jupiter and Prix THE STORY: Fourteen years in the life of Prix, a Bronx native, from her ruthless girl-gang leadership at sixteen through her coming to maturity at thirty. But children do not become violent in a vacuum: As a small child Prix was raped by her mother’s...
Samuel French David Copelin Ma Ubu and Pa Ubu Ubu Rex, David Copelin’s translation of the world’s first absurdist play, Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi, unmasks the savagery just below the surface of “normal” human behavior. The play’s premiere in Paris in 1896 caused a riot....
Dramatists Play Service Pearl Cleage Frank and Minnie THE STORY: Facing problems ranging from the inevitability of long, cold winters, to the possibility of domestic violence, to the continuing spectra of racial conflict, the women of FLYIN’ WEST include Miss Leah, the old woman whose memories...
Cassarotto Ramsay & Associates Caryl Churchill Kit and Angie Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a serminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a world of women’s experience at a pivotal moment in British history. Told by an eclectic group of historical and modern characters in a continuous...
Samuel French Moira Buffini Hal and Paige It’s my creation – like Frankenstein’s monster.’ An artist, a scientist and a sexpot are coming to dinner. Paige, hostess extraordinaire, is celebrating the publication of her husband’s bestseller. The arrival of Mike, marooned in the foggy...
Musical Theatre International Alan Menken and Howard Ashman and Tim Rice Gaston and Belle The classic story tells of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse...
Samuel French Ann-Marie MacDonald Desdemona and Constance In this exuberant comedy – and original revision of Shakespeare’s Othello and Romeo and Juliet – Constance Ledbelly, a drab and dusty academic, deciphers a cryptic manuscript she believes to be the original source for the tragedies,...
Samuel French Ken Ludwig Jim and Hands Based on the masterful adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island is a stunning yarn of piracy on the tropical seas. It begins at an inn on the Devon coast of England in 1775 and quickly becomes an unforgettable tale of treachery and mayhem featuring...
Samuel French Ken Ludwig Black Dog and Bones Based on the masterful adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island is a stunning yarn of piracy on the tropical seas. It begins at an inn on the Devon coast of England in 1775 and quickly becomes an unforgettable tale of treachery and mayhem...
Samuel French Ken Ludwig Flint and Rathbone Based on the masterful adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island is a stunning yarn of piracy on the tropical seas. It begins at an inn on the Devon coast of England in 1775 and quickly becomes an unforgettable tale of treachery and mayhem...
