It’s the winter of 2017. Recently divorced and raising her child alone in the town in which she grew up, Julie has returned to Guilford, CT. Upon the mysterious visit of a stranger on a snowy night, Julie is prompted to return to her childhood home. After some misgivings, she does so, and it is in that home from her past that she experiences flashbacks to her beloved brother’s fall into the grasp of mental illness. Poetic, touching, and honest, 77 U-Turn is about going home again, parenting, love, loss, confusion and what happens when we turn around and look back before moving forward.

• Cast Size: 1W
• Running Time: About an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $50 per performance

ARCHIPELAGO by Caridad Svich

Cast Size: 1M 1W

Running Time: 90+ minutes

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A love story. A memory play. A dream play. One person meets another across borders and languages, across time and space. A day in a lifetime.

It’s 1944 in the month of June during World War II.  Michael Crawler is an African-American pilot for the Army Air Corps.  After a fierce battle in the sky, he crash lands near a farm in France.  He is found and taken care of by a lonely farm girl named Katrine.  Although he doesn’t speak French and she doesn’t speak English, they learn to communicate and help each other.  However, their solitude and fear leads to their budding romance, all while the war around them gets closer and closer. 

• Cast Size: 1M 1W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Sulking under a bundle of balloons, a woman sits on a bench. Out of the blue, another woman joins her. One of them claims to know the other, yet the feelings are not reciprocated. Through the tension of small talk, questioning and silence, many shocking truths unfold as they both try to figure out the purpose of this mysterious encounter.

• Cast Size:2W
• Running Time: Under an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

A story of Language, Love, Lust, and Loss. Burning up the Dictionary journeys into the tenaciously crumbling relationship of two people who love and need each other but can’t find any room for trust.   The play tracks the dissolution of a relationship through anachronologically distributed scenes.  The couple in the play have come to speak their own language; every word they say to each other is layered with multiple meanings, and we learn the definitions of words as we progress through the play. The play explores the personal language of every relationship and how a common language that once kept people extremely close can also wound and drive them further apart.

• Cast Size: 1M 1W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A vaudeville-style comedy straight out of Saturday morning cartoons. This play has 18 characters and is intended to be performed by only 2 women. Captain Cobalt is an up-and-coming superhero trying to balance her heroic deeds with her secret identity, Cyanna Conda, the lowly pet store clerk. She battles everything from giant squid monsters to cheese-themed supervillains, encountering any number of bystanders (and a love interest) along the way. The final showdown, however, is with Captain Cobalt’s nemesis, the nefarious Dr. Killington, the mad scientist who insists that SHE is the hero of the story. Captain Cobalt et. al. encourage lots of audience interaction (cheering and booing especially) along the way. The set can be as stripped-down or elaborate as the production pleases, but the most important part…all the props are bananas. (Yes, actual literal bananas. The kind that pop when you throw them.)

• CAST SIZE: 2W
• RUNNING TIME: 90+ minutes
• ROYALTY RATE: $75 per performance

One day on her mythical island, C turns a group of hostile sailors into pigs. O, their commander, searches for them. When O learns that his crew is in a pigpen at the bottom of her hill, he demands that she change them back. Then C shows him a photo of current combat troops.  The story weaves back and forth in time and location between an army camp in the Middle East, Walter Reed Hospital, and the classical Circe and Odysseus story. By the end, we know who C and O really are, and what happened between them in combat. 

• Cast Size: 1M 1W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

If a stranger with a cello shows up in a rainstorm claiming to be your husband’s wife, do you let her in? Agoraphobic artist Althea Emory does, and receives a mysterious big red envelope for her trouble. She’s also treated to Bea Lamartino’s wacky wordplay, swordplay, Egyptiana, food fights, melt-downs, and very strange charades.  DENIAL (is not a river in Egypt) is a loopy dark comedy about love, loss, and embalming (yes, onstage, and even funnier than it is gross – which it totally is). DENIAL… it’s also about how women – especially when they have reasons not to – help each other. 

• Cast Size: 2W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

FIVE SQUARE by Mark Ogle

Cast Size: 1M 1W
Running Time: under an hour
Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Five Square takes place in a society where multiple personalities are considered normal. It is traditionally expected that each “human” will have developed into two diverse, separately-named individuals inside of them by adulthood. Each traditional relationship, therefore, is a merging and collaboration between four personalities. Five Square tells the story of a relationship between males, Victor and Steven, and females, Emily and Lenore. All of the personalities in Five Square are played by two performers.

FleshEating Tiger by Amy Tofte

FleshEatingTiger chronicles a tumultuous affair between a married woman and an alcoholic man, both performing artists. As they struggle to stage a play, their personal lives intertwine with the action of the play. The man struggles to maintain his sobriety while the woman becomes increasingly addicted to his affection. The action unravels in a whirlwind of fragmented scenes portrayed with varying degrees of realism, absurdism and symbolism. Intended to be every bit as fun and heartbreaking as a toxic relationship.

• Cast Size: 1M 1W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Set in 1968, the play is a poetic homage to the style of Tennessee Williams. Brother Linus is a monk who has been exiled to a remote monastery on an island, where he has lived alone in quiet contemplation for the past 20 years. Then, during a huge thunderstorm, a young man named Christian washes up on the beach with memory loss, and in giving succor to him, Linus begins to question to what exactly he is truly devoted, and if he has allowed his life to be wasted.

• Cast Size: 2M
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

THE HOUND by Greg Oliver Bodine

Cast Size: 1-2M

Running Time: Under an Hour

Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Midnight.  Late December, 1937.  Reed, a disgraced archeologist and aesthete, is running for his life.  Having stolen an ancient amulet from the fetid grave of a neglected Holland churchyard, he locks himself in the library of his London townhouse in order to evade the pursuit of some “malign being.”  In shocking detail, he recounts a gruesome testimony of unnatural occurrences surrounding the totem’s theft… and the appalling consequences for all who come to possess it.

It’s the year 2000, and our protagonist, newly-divorced A., has just moved into a new apartment. The apartment is empty except for a series of moving boxes, a landline telephone and an answering machine. A. is attempting to create new material for a performance piece as she embarks on her new life, but her judgmental, immigrant Italian mother keeps interrupting her with continuous phone calls lecturing A. on how A. should live her life and decorate her apartment. The two women struggle to understand one another, and each phone conversation inspires A. to create yet another character that explores the hysterical and universal struggles between an immigrant Italian mother and her Americanized daughter, and, ultimately, the struggle between all mothers and their adult children.

• Cast Size: 1W or multiple performers 
• Running Time: About an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $50 per performance

INNOCENT THOUGHTS by William Missouri Downs

Cast Size: 2M
Running Time: 1 hr 40 minutes
Royalty: $60 per performance

Arlen Weinberg, a Jewish anthropologist, is called to be an expert witness in a murder trial. The accused: a white police officer. His alleged crime: murdering a black man twenty years ago and burying the bones in the dirt floor beneath his brownstone. When Arlen arrives, he is shocked to find the defense lawyer is black. Ira Altridge is that black lawyer and he is not having a good day. His first expert witness has suddenly resigned from the case giving him only one thin lunch hour to get his new anthropologist up to speed. Soon, the two men discover that they know each other, having both grown up in the same suburb of Chicago. Ira was a gang member who often preyed on Jewish boys, and Arlen was the perfect target. Soon, their childhoods, cultures, and convictions come into conflict. Arlen’s namby pamby liberalism drives Ira nuts, while Arlen begins to question if Ira’s true purpose is to defend his white client. 

We first encounter Edna at ninety-six, alone in her apartment in the small town where she has always lived. Like many others her age, she is awash in memories, appearing to await the end of her life. As we meet her best friend Margaret, and travel back in time through a handful of moments from Edna’s past, her very human journey unfolds. With good humor and the strength it takes to survive nine decades, Edna reminds us everyone’s story is full of dreams, some met and some lost, challenging our perception of the elders among us.

• Cast Size: 2W
• Running Time: Over an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $50 per performance

While Ingrid Betancourt, a former senator and anti-corruption activist, was running for President of Colombia, she was kidnapped by the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias (FARC), a Marxist revolutionary terrorist organization. This story is a theatrical imagining based on those events. The Woman narrates through “intrusive memory,” a symptom of PTSD, grappling with an ever-present series of moments in her life as the play moves in time and place via fragmentary scenes in a variety of locations. The Man shifts kaleidoscopically between roles including FARC commanders and guards; the Woman’s deceased father; her children, who are growing up without her; God; and her lover, a fellow hostage. 

• Cast Size: 1M 1W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

KITTY AND LINA by Manuel Igrejas

Cast Size: 2W
Running Time: 90 minutes
Royalty: $60 per performance

Kitty takes the stage in a smashing red dress. She is having a “pretty” day and wants to share it with the audience. Kitty came to New York fueled by fantasies of a Manhattan created by Woody Allen. Her day job pays the rent but her evenings are reserved for The Inwood Merry Players, of which she is a charter member. She’s still finding her way in the big, grimy playground and sometimes, being a pretty girl isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Lina, a self-possessed woman in her later years, follows her. Lina is on the other end of Kitty’s ride. An immi-grant from Portugal, she escaped her arranged marriage and through pluck, luck and a little on the side, had a career in publishing in New York City. Now retired, she still loves New York but finds there are new challenges for women of a certain age. Two vibrant, intelligent women bare their souls directly to the audience. 

LINER NOTES by John Patrick Bray

Cast Size: 1M 1W
Running Time: 90 minutes
Royalty: $60 per performance

Alice, the daughter of a rock-and-roll legend, finds George, her father’s first guitarist and the one man noticeably absent from his funeral, in order to bring him to visit her father’s grave. Liner Notes reminds us that the past is only as amazing as the one who gets to write it down.

• THE LOVE SONG OF SIDNEY J. STEIN by Brian C. Petti
• Cast Size: 2M
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

The Love Song of Sidney J. Stein follows the relationship of Sidney, a 45-year-old man who works at an NYC half-way house, and Dennis, an 17-year-old streetwalker. Sidney is a snide, funny and guarded former prostitute who tries to set Dennis straight, despite Dennis’ immaturity and indoctrination into the street life. They begin tenuously living together, though Dennis is not quite willing to give up his past. Both end up bringing out something in the other that is revealing and unexpected. With humor and pathos, Love Song explores the struggle to truly connect with another human being, and the role one’s past has in dictating one’s future.

Best friends, Bernie Bloomberg and Sol Rabinowicz have operated their own hardware store in New York, for 50 years. It all comes apart after Bernie defaults on a loan from mobsters. Sol pretends they are themselves mobsters and sets about threatening to kill the local kingpin, “Joey Legs.” It’s no surprise, then, when Sol and Bernie end up in the witness protection program in Texas, they have some difficulty “fitting in.”

• Cast Size: 2M
• Running Time: About an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $50 per performance

A MOVING EXPERIENCE by Ken Pruess

Cast Size: 1M 1W
Running Time: 45 minutes
Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

On the final night of spring semester, a newly-dating college couple meets in a dorm to prepare for a move. She is packing for a summer in Spain. He is trying to find out where things stand. Their rapid-paced banter tackles everything from Shakespearean quotes to sexy state capitals, from the rules of wishing to the perils of romance, from teddy bear voodoo dolls to the dreaded energy drink of death. As they fill up the boxes and open up about the relationship, their comical conversations, confrontations, and confessions explore past loves, present feelings, and future plans. 

My Dinner With Mary by Coni Koepfinger

Broadway veterans, Mary Ellen and Mary both have  had quite successful and satisfying careers. Now in their golden years, Mary invites Mary Ellen to dinner to question why they didn’t stay close. What caused them to become estranged for decades? Was it guilt from an illicit affair? Or envy that caused betrayal? After sorting through some cloudy memories, the truth comes out. Or does it? When they start sharing moment-to-moment intimacies, Mary proposes that they collaborate on a play about their lives to perhaps find the truth of their existence. Mary Ellen agrees and in the process of building their legacy project, their bonds begin to grow even stronger. Fact, fiction, fantasy and frustration all blend together in a bittersweet tale of trying to find meaning at this stage of their lives. What results is touching and totally unpredictable.

• Cast Size: 2W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

With comedy, poignant anecdotes, and a little bit of Yiddish, Arielle takes us through growing up in a conservative Jewish household and then falling in love with a non-Jew. In a time of otherness, My Shiksa Boyfriend asks, how can we honor both our past and our future?

• Cast Size: 1W
• Running Time: About an hour
• Royalty Rate: $50 per performance

NIGHT AND SILENCE by Bret Jones

Cast Size: 2M
Running Time: 1hr 45min
Royalty: $60 per performance

Night and Silence is the story of two professors who spend one evening battling over the ownership of art, literature, and death–all spurned by the discovery (by one of them) of Shakespeare’s missing play Love’s Labour’s Wonne. As the evening rolls onward, the stakes get higher and higher as violence erupts between the two–leaving only one left standing. 

One Time by Richard Lyons Conlon

Sometimes it takes a lifetime of stories to tell the story of a lifetime.

Sonia and Mason meet weekly to share stories from their individual lives. They tell each other just about everything – tales of unrequited love, an accidental shooting, posing in the nude, an abusive marriage, religious epiphanies, and nuns miniaturizing first-graders. Among many others. Tension mounts as each story reveals more about these two appealing individuals and the unexpected circumstances that led to their separation three decades before . . . and as Sonia begins missing their meetings without explanation. “One Time” uses humor to explore how social and religious constraints impact our most personal decisions . . . and how those decisions affect the lives of others and of ourselves. 

• Cast Size: 1M 1F
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Addressing a group of incarcerated teenage female offenders, Edna, the donut lady of Hayward, CA,shares her story of survival. How, through stubbornness, creativity, a capacity for love, and God’s peculiar care, she escaped her would be destroyers and found salvation in, of all things, donuts. Herhome and donut shop have provided abused and neglected youth safe haven for years. After listening to her speak, one of the young inmates was overheard saying, “I feel like I just spent an hour listening to the sun talk about darkness.”

• Cast Size: 1W
• Running Time: About an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $50 per performance

PERFECT, MOTHER by Bradley Nies

Cast Size: 1M 1W
Running Time: 40 minutes
Royalty: $40 per performance 

Caroline Nobles in a single mother living in the small Texas town of Horsenettle with her eight year-old daughter. At first glance, we think Caroline to be the epitome of the perfect mother. As the story unfolds, however, we find that Caroline will do anything to keep her daughter happy…including blackmail, lying, causing personal injury, and even murder!

RED & SCOOTER by William Ludel

RED & SCOOTER is a Hollywood story of the meeting of a woman with a dream of stardom and an old timer who’s seen almost all of it and doesn’t care much anymore. RED, who is no longer in her 20’s, has come to Hollywood to escape Wilkes-Barre, Pa. She pays a visit to SCOOTER, a film director with little to do but drink and play with his electric trains. She’s got an audition the next day for a big television show and is desperate for help. SCOOTER thinks she’s cute, so despite his better judgment, he decides to give her a hand. They end up singing, dancing, performing magic, eating Chinese food, and falling in love…if only for a little while. When the night ends, RED goes off for her big chance and SCOOTER returns to his trains. It’s New Year’s Eve: December 31, 1949.

• Cast Size: 1M 1W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate $75 per performance

SUNSET POINT by Arlene Hutton

• Cast Size: 1M 1W
• Running Time: 40 minutes
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Henson, an aging best-selling author with writer’s block wearily returns home after speaking at a conference, looking forward to quality time with Rachel, his much younger fiancé who has herself just arrived from taking care of her elderly mother. Rachel discovers a real estate contract has arrived; without asking her, Henson has bought back his old family home, in a restricted community. If the past represents a haven to one and anguish to another, can a couple find common ground in the present?

TRASH by Arthur M. Jolly

Cast Size: 2W
Running Time: 90 minutes
Royalty: $60 per performance

TRASH takes place entirely in a dump – a municipal landfill, where two estranged sisters have come to look for a letter from their mother. They’ve come from their mother’s funeral – the first time they’ve seen each other in years, and as they dig through the literal and metaphorical trash heap, they get further and further into their complicated relationship – and with the lives they led under the shadow of a domineering mother who still controls and influences them even after her death.

TYPE O NEGATIVE by Bret Jones

Cast Size: 2M

Running Time: 2 hrs

Royalty Rate: $60 per performance

Type O Negative is a mystery/thriller with two women vying for the affections of a philandering opera producer. When the producer’s ex-wife hires the new girlfriend for some secretarial work, it sets in motion a complicated web of deceit, betrayal, and revenge. With their passions for the same man driving them, the women devise dangerous schemes to eliminate the other from the love triangle. Who will survive their confrontation?

Paul and Anthony have been friends since birth. Paul said his first word in Anthony’s kitchen. But screw Missouri. Screw freshman year. They wanna live in this really cool patch of woods Paul found. Girls are coming! This is going to be a very good night. Anthony is pretty nervous. What happens when the girls actually get here? 

Suddenly, the sounds of the woods are electronic. Suddenly they are older. They’re coming back here. What has life done to each of them? There’s blood? Paul’s blood. He’s desperate.

“Anthony? Help. Please.”

Will he?

• Cast Size: 2M
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In March of 1978, Gantscho Ganev and Roman Wardas, two Polish refugees living in Switzerland, exhumed the mortal remains of a certain silent film star in order to hold them for ransom. This story is as true as it is unbelievable. And while the Who, What, When, Where and How are all matters of fact, the question of Why is…up for question. In an unlikely yet romantic blend of comedic farce and dramatic realism, both satirical and lyrical, this revisionist account explores why these two desperate men would commit such an absurd crime on that strange and surreal night. 

• Cast Size: 2M
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Famed playwright, inventor and actor William Gillette has just opened “Sherlock Holmes” at the Garrick Theatre to rave reviews; he meets his old friend, colleague and fellow founding Players club member James O’Neill following its Broadway debut to await the reviews and talk about success, happiness, family and the golden handcuffs of becoming a Matinee Idol of the Gilded Age as O’Neill already has with “The Count of Monte Cristo”, and their ghosts – William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Helen, Robert & Mary Gillette, and Edmund O’Neill – visit them.

• Cast Size: 2M
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

THE YELLOW WALLPAPER by Greg Oliver Bodine

• Cast Size: 1W
• Running Time: Under an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

New England, 1891.  Jane, a sensitive and imaginative young woman, finds herself sequestered on a remote estate that her husband, a physician, has rented for the summer.  She is forbidden to write, and must hide her journal entries as she recuperates from what he has diagnosed as a “temporary nervous depression” following the birth of their baby.  Without anything or anyone to stimulate her, Jane becomes obsessed with the wallpaper in her bedroom as the effect of her domestic oppression and stifled creativity begins to take a toll on her sanity.

YOUR LITHOPEDION is a dark comedy about a serial killer who becomes the founder of Serial Killers Anonymous and how that ruins his marriage. You’ll never think of 80’s rock in the same way again. The show uses a false-narrative that parallels how the characters are false-people pretending towards humanity. The play constantly subverts time, space, and story, while always teasing with a feeling of narrative—an almost-narrative perhaps. This play walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, but on close inspection is really a fish. A very murderous fish. Remember, it’s a comedy.   

• Cast Size: 1M or 1W (with expandable casting)
• Running Time: 60+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance