Miguel Pinero A Mermaid Dramabook Longshore and El Raheem This powerful drama of prison life is set in a house of detention where a group of young convicts-predominantly black and Puerto Rican-taunt, fight, insult, and entertain one another in an attempt to preserve their sanity and to create a semblance...
Robert Schenkkan Dramatists Play Service Patrick and Michael THE STORY: 1792. Michael Rowen returns home from Louisville with news that Kentucky has become a state and with a young black slave woman he has bought with the idea of breeding a second family. Morning Star fears his treachery, remembering...
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....
John Rustan and Frank Semerano Samuel French Thug and Spuds A slime-ball named Coins Fontaine has cashed in. When his account is closed, there’s evidence of foul play. Who would want to kill Coins? Everybody! The fingers of suspicion especially point to Coins’ hot young widow, a woman with...
Sarah Ruhl Samuel French Stranger and Jean An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man – with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and Pulitzer...
Sarah Ruhl Samuel French Lorenzo and Frank Tilly’s melancholy is of an exquisite quality. She turns her melancholy into a sexy thing, and every stranger she meets falls in love with her. One day, inexplicably, Tilly becomes happy, and wreaks havoc on the lives of her paramours. Frances, Tilly’s hairdresser,...
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...
