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Looking for a fresh title to present to your audience? Explore these recent hit plays to spice up your season! | Image: Yen (Joan Marcus)
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Amy and the Orphans
Lindsey Ferrentino
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 4w, 2mAmy and the Orphans
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4w, 2m
A crowded car, 100 miles, three newly orphaned siblings, a chatty stranger, and a whopper of a family secret make for an extraordinarily uncomfortable road trip.
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Antlia Pneumatica
Anne Washburn
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 4w, 2mAntlia Pneumatica
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4w, 2m
"Antliais a sheer joy, elegantly weird and wonderfully vivid with ghost stories and songs." - Time Out New York
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Charles Busch's Cleopatra
Charles Busch
Full-Length Play, Comedy 3w, 5mCharles Busch's Cleopatra
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 3w, 5m
The turbulent life of Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, is told, viewed through the outrageous comic lens of master parodist Charles Busch.
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Farinelli and The King
Claire van Kampen
Full-Length Play, Drama 1w, 6mFarinelli and The King
Claire van Kampen
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 6m
Depressed and plagued by insomnia, King Philippe V of Spain lies awake in his chamber. The Queen, desperate to find a cure, hears of Farinelli - a castrato with a voice so divine it has the power to captivate all who hear it. Even Philippe is astonished when Farinelli sings, and begs him to stay. But will Farinelli, one of the greatest celebrities of his time, choose a life of solitude over fame and fortune in the opera-houses of Europe? And will his extraordinary talent prove to be a curse rather than a blessing?
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Grand Concourse
Heidi Schreck
Full-Length Play, Drama 2w, 2mGrand Concourse
Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 2m
Having dedicated her life to religious service, Shelley runs a Bronx soup kitchen with unsentimental efficiency, but lately her heart’s not quite in it. Her brisk nature masks an unsettling fear that her efforts are meaningless.
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Green Man (Knable)
Jim Knable
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 2w, 2mGreen Man (Knable)
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 2w, 2m
Painter Abigail’s model is a naked man painted green, and her architect husband Ronald’s new intern bears a striking resemblance, though he’s clothed. Their new acquaintance, Genice, is a stone sculptor of gargoyles whose musician fiancé appears in the same hue. Who the Green Man is to each of them is a mystery only they can help each other unravel...
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Log Cabin
Jordan Harrison
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 3w, 3mLog Cabin
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3w, 3m
It’s a faraway age of hope and inclusivity; in other words, it’s 2015. When a tight-knit circle of married gays and lesbians – comfy in the new mainstream – see themselves through the eyes of their rakish transgender pal, it’s clear that the march toward progress is anything but unified. With stinging satire and acute compassion, Jordan Harrison’s pointed comedy charts the breakdown of empathy that happens when we think our rights are secure, revealing conservative hearts where you’d least expect.
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Mary Page Marlowe
Tracy Letts
Full-Length Play, Drama 11w, 6m, 1girl(s)Mary Page Marlowe
Full-Length Play, Drama / 11w, 6m, 1girl(s)
Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright Tracy Letts' remarkable play, spanning 70 years in a woman's life, explores the fragility of a moment and its effects on one’s identity.
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Meteor Shower
Steve Martin
Full-Length Play, Comedy 2w, 2mMeteor Shower
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 2w, 2m
"Mr. Martin is peerless at crafting tiny wit bombs, and always has been...It's definitely funny!" - The New York Times
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Milk Like Sugar
Kirsten Greenidge
Full-Length Play, Drama 5w, 2mMilk Like Sugar
Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 2m
“Kirsten Greenidge's fast-talking, victim-taking New York debut" - Entertainment Weekly
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Perfect Mendacity
Jason Wells
Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy 1w, 4mPerfect Mendacity
Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 1w, 4m
Perfect Mendacity examines the nature of self-deception as a business executive seeks to avoid being implicated in the leak of a sensitive memo during a lie detector investigation.
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Pluto
Steve Yockey
Full-Length Play, Drama 3w, 2mPluto
Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 2m
"Imbuing his ripped-from-the-headlines material with the horrific impulse of Tracy Letts and Martin McDonagh — with a dash of Tony Kushner’s hushed and prophetic intelligence — Yockey delivers an American tragedy as important as it is disturbing." - Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Poor Behavior
Theresa Rebeck
Full-Length Play, Comedy 2w, 2mPoor Behavior
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 2w, 2m
A fierce and funny story about the unexpected ease of betrayal and the fragility of marriage.
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Santos & Santos
Octavio Solis
Full-Length Play, Drama 5w, 8mSantos & Santos
Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 8m
"Exhilarating and provocative, Octavio Solis' Santos & Santosmerits a serious look by regional and Off Broadway stages. An ambitious, wickedly funny melodrama [...] Santos is epic in both plot and its tart, free-swinging perspective." - Variety
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The Antipodes
Annie Baker
The Antipodes
CRITICS PICK! "In-all-ways fabulous...Ms. Baker delivers a complete and confident narative...The Antipodes is also deeply funny, but it’s naturally funny, and if it’s a satire, it’s an organic one. This playwright doesn’t need to exaggerate to elicit what’s absurd in the human condition." - The New York Times
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The Cake
Bekah Brunstetter
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 3w, 1mThe Cake
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3w, 1m
In Bekah Brunstetter's touching and topical dramatic comedy, a vivacious, conservative North Carolina baker named Della faces a crisis of conscience when Jen - whom she loves like a daughter - asks her to bake a cake for Jen's lesbian wedding.
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The Healing
Samuel D. Hunter
Full-Length Play, Drama 5w, 2mThe Healing
Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 2m
Samuel D. Hunter's smart and affecting drama, about a group of disabled adults gathering to mourn the loss of a friend, powerfully exposes hard truths about religion, faith and friendship.
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The Light
Loy A. Webb
Full-Length Play, Drama 1w, 1mThe Light
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 1m
A surprise proposal gift puts the future of Genesis and Rashad's relationship at risk when they are forced to confront a devastating secret from the past. The Light is a 70-minute, real-time rollercoaster ride of laughter, romance, and despair that uncovers how the power of radical love can be a healing beacon of light.
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The Oldest Boy: A Play in Three Ceremonies
Sarah Ruhl
Full-Length Play, Drama 1w, 4mThe Oldest Boy: A Play in Three Ceremonies
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 4m
The Oldest Boy is a richly emotional journey filled with music, dance, puppetry, ritual, and laughter — Sarah Ruhl at her imaginative best. A meditation on attachment and unconditional love, the play asks us to believe in a world in which sometimes the youngest children are also the oldest and wisest teachers.
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The Roommate
Jen Silverman
Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy 2wThe Roommate
Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 2w
Jen Silverman's dark comedy ponders what it takes to re-route your life – and what happens when the wheels come off.
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The Tribute Artist
Charles Busch
Full-Length Play, Comedy 4w, 2mThe Tribute Artist
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 2m
In Charles Busch's hilarious off-Broadway hit, an out-of-work female impersonator assumes the identity of his recently deceased landlady in order to keep her valuable Greenwich Village townhouse.
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This Bitter Earth
Harrison David Rivers
Full-Length Play, Drama 2mThis Bitter Earth
Full-Length Play, Drama / 2m
Intimate, romantic and devastating, this gripping new play about a young black writer and his white lover, a Black Lives Matter activist, asks, "What is the real cost of standing on the sidelines?"
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This Flat Earth
Lindsey Ferrentino
Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy 1w, 2m, 1girl(s), 1boy(s)This Flat Earth
Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 1w, 2m, 1girl(s), 1boy(s)
The unthinkable has happened at a middle school in a seaside town, placing a bewildered community in the national spotlight.
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Tin Cat Shoes
Trish Harnetiaux
Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy 5any gender (adult)Tin Cat Shoes
Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 5any gender (adult)
A madcap odyssey through a wilderness of corporate bureaucracy and crippling human dependencies.