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Comedy / Casting: 4m 3f w/doubling / Scenery: 2 exteriorsThe time-shifting comedy by the author of Top Girls created a sensation Off-Broadway directed by Tommy Tune. Here we are in 1880 darkest but British Africa as portrayed in old movies plays and novels. Only with a difference. Both parody and spoof of the Victorian Empire and its rigid attitudes especially towards sex. There is Clive a British functionary his wife Betty (played by a man) their daughter Victoria (a rag doll) Clive's

Book by Richard Nelson. Lyrics by Tim Rice. Music by Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny AnderssonMusical / 9m 2f 1f child plus ensemble / Scenery: Var. sets.The collaborators on Chess are giants of rock music and rock musicals and they have created a complex rock opera that played to full Broadway houses and standing ovations. Here the ancient game becomes a metaphor for romantic rivalries competitive gamesmanship super power politics and international intrigues. The pawns in this drama form a

Full Length, Comedy / 5m, 2f / Scenery: Interior Al and Willie as "Lewis and Clark" were top-billed vaudevillians for over forty years. Now they aren't even speaking. When CBS requests them for a "History of Comedy" retrospective, a grudging reunion brings the two back together, along with a flood of memories, miseries and laughs. "It's ham on wry...Simon's sure footed craftsmanship and his one liners are as exquisitely apt as ever."-New York Post "Delicious and oddly affecting."-The New York Times "Another hit for Simon in a shrewdly balanced, splendid and rather touching slice of the show biz life."-New York Daily News

Comic trouble with Unger and Madison-- Florence Unger and Olive Madison, that is.

This long running Off-Broadway absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. In his first comedy for the stage, the popular actor and screenwriter plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortun, e as well as other fanciful topics, with infectious dizziness. Bystanders, including Picasso's agent, the bartender and his mistress, Picasso's date, an elderly philosopher, Charles Dabernow Schmendimen and an idiot inventor introduce additional flourishes of humor. The final surprise patron to join the merriment at the Lapin Agile is a charismatic dark haired singer time warped in from a later era.

Short Plays / Comedy / 2m 3f / 3 ints.This long-running Off Broadway hit features the work of three gifted playwrights. David Mamet's AN INTERVIEW is an oblique mystifying interrogation. A sleazy lawyer is forced to answer difficult questions and to admit the truth about his life and career. The why and where of the interrogation provide a surprise ending to this brilliant twenty minute comedy. In HOTLINE by Elaine May a neurotic woman with enough urban angst to fill a neighborhood calls a

Comedy / 4m 4f / Int. Nominee! Best Revival of a Play - 2010 Tony(R) Awards!This night in September of 1934 is the biggest in the history of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company world famous tenor Tito Morelli is to perform Otello his greatest role at the gala season opener. Saunders the General Manager hopes this will put Cleveland on the operatic map. Morelli is late; when he finally sweeps in it is too late to rehearse with the company. Through a hilarious series of mishaps Il Stupendo

Full Length Musical / Characters: 9m 8f Here is Rydell High's senior class of 1959: duck-tailed hot-rodding "Burger Palace Boys" and their gum-snapping hip-shaking "Pink Ladies" in bobby sox and pedal pushers evoking the look and sound of the 1950s in this rollicking musical. Head "greaser" Danny Zuko and new (good) girl Sandy Dumbrowski try to relive the high romance of their "Summer Nights" as the rest of the gang sings and dances its way through such songs as "Greased Lightnin'" "It's

Adapted from the novel by Muriel SparkComedy /4m 15f / Platform setMiss Brodie is a teacher a formidable figure who molds young minds to her form. And what is more she is so intensely interesting that the girls admire her above all else. But Miss Brodie is not honest. She prevaricates and then tells the girls to do as she tells them not as she does herself. She is having an affair with the music teacher and has had one with the art teacher and this is not the most exemplary conduct. A

Full Length, Comedy Characters: 2 male, 2 female Complete interior set Recent widower, writer George Schneider, is encouraged by his younger brother Leo to start dating again. Which sends George into even more depression after a series of bad matches. Then Leo comes up with Jennie Malone and she's a keeper. Still, it's a bumpy trip on the road to Dreamland for these not-so-young lovers. George and Jennie stumble on, overcoming both their hesitation on the rebound and emotional neediness. In a hilarious, farcical subplot, Leo has a fling with Faye, Jennie's neurotic married friend. "A sure smash!"-Variety "Lovely whimsical and touching and always funny...most of the time downright hilarious."-New York Post

An outspoken woman takes on New York's judicial system, modern psychiatry, her personal demons and anyone who gets in her way.

Originally published: London: Nick Hern Books, 2010.

It's eleven o'clock in the morning in a council flat on the Walworth Road in London. In two hours' time as is normal three Irish men will have consumed six cans of Harp fifteen crackers with spreadable cheese ten pink biscuit wafers and one oven-cooked chicken with a strange blue sauce. In two hours' time as is normal five people will have been killed. A remarkable play about what can happen when we become stuck in the stories we tell about our lives. Visceral and tender The Walworth Farce combines hilarious moments with shocking realism.

Simon Mostyn has recently married Kay Ridgeway a rich woman having thrown over his former lover Jacqueline. The couple are on their honeymoon on a paddle steamer on the Nile accompanied by a bevy of memorable characters. Among those present are Canon Pennefather Kay's guardian and Jacqueline who has been dogging their footsteps all through the honeymoon. During the voyage Jacqueline works herself into a state of hysteria and shoots at Simon wounding him in the knee. A few moments later Ka