The Secret Garden (Non-Musical)

Literature & Fiction

Ashby, Sylvia

H Burnett, Frances

Dramas & Plays

Concord Theatricals

A Raisin in the Sun (Thirtieth Anniversary Edition)

Hansberry, Lorraine

Collection of Six One Act Plays including: Birdbath, Ferryboat, Halloween, Lunchtime, The Shirt, Times Square.

Encounters

Melfi, Leonard

Comedy 
Characters: 2 males, 2 females 
Bare stage, movable props
The Obie award-winning Sexual Perversity in Chicago "takes funny and painful digs at the fantasies and distances of the contemporary sexual game," according to The New York Times. Two male office workers, Danny and Bernie, are on the make in the swinging singles scene of the early 1970's. Danny meets Deborah in a library and soon they are lovers as well as roommates. The other couple, Bernie and Joan, seem to have the politics of sex down pat but are as confused as their more naive counterparts. After much comic drama, the two men end as they started, talking a good game in the local bar.
Published with The Duck Variations. 
"Mamet has the most acute ear for dialogue of any American writer since J.D. Salinger."-The Village Voice 
"Marvelously observant...A glittering mosaic of tiny, deadly muzzle flashes from the war between men and women among the filing cabinets and single bars."-The New York Times

Sexual Perversity in Chicago and the Duck Variations

MAMET, DAVID

Romance

Comedy
Characters: 9 male, 2 female
 2 Interior Sets 
This clever romp is two short plays. In the first, a troupe of English schoolboys (played by adults) speak in a mock language called "Dogg." This hilarious language babbles along until the schoolboys, who are studying Shakespeare's "foreign" language, present an incredibly funny 15 minute version of Hamlet and then encore with a two-minute version! The second play, dedicated to dissident Czech dramatist Pavel Kohout, is about a performance of Macbeth he and his friends once staged in a living room since the government banned public performances. The action shifts between the bare stage and the police inquiry. The murder and intrigue of Shakespeare's play are juxtaposed with the Czech political harassment.
"The language and the laughter are contagious...Lewis Carroll would have been at home."-The New York Times 
"A blend of comic nonsense and astringent political satire." -Christian Science Monitor

Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth

Patrick, John

Stoppard, Tom.

In The Water Engine, actors, an announcer, and a sound effects man present a radio play during the 1930s with unerring authenticity. The "play within the play" reveals the story of a young inventor who's found a way to run an engine on distilled water. At first ridiculed, he is courted by crooked lawyers attempting to buy the invention from him on behalf of "certain business interests." After refusing, he is threatened, and when he attempts to give his story to the newspapers, he is murdered alo

The Water Engine & Mr. Happiness

Comedy Characters: 2 male, 2 female Unit Set From the author of the hit plays Devil Boys From Beyond and The Crumple Zone comes this hilarious one-act about college theatre majors waiting for the cast list for West Side Story to be posted.....and the aftermath. A finalist in HBO's New Writer's Workshop and a Second Place winner at American College Theatre Festival, Spotlight is a fast-paced comedy about the desperate drive to succeed, and delusions that get in the way.

Spotlight

Thomas, Buddy

Characters: 4 male, 1 female with doubling Unit Set Winner! LA Weekly Award for Best New Play Award-winning playwright Jim Leonard's latest, Battle Hymn, is the story of 16-year-old Martha's epic pregnancy and her incredible search for motherhood, meaning, and love in a war-torn American landscape. After being abandoned by her father, losing her true love and witnessing the horrors of the Civil War firsthand, Martha settles on one incontrovertible fact: She will not raise her baby in a blood-soaked, violent country. And so, Martha keeps traveling in search of a better world and a safe place to bring forth her child... this is easier said than done. From the mud and the blood of Fort Sumter to singing cows, San Francisco and the summer of love, Martha's journey embodies the tragedy, humor and hope that have helped shape the last 150 years of U.S. history."Refreshingly original, smart and engaging." -LA Times"Sinfully rich theatrical adventure infused with profoundly resonant social satire that produces visceral wonderment." -Backstage West"Leonard's writing is rich and often humorous, and he's skilled at creating memorable characters." -Variety

Battle Hymn

Jr. Leonard, Jim

Dramatic ComedyCharacters: 1 male, 1 femaleBeau Bridges, winner of three Emmy Awards and two Golden Globes, teams up with his daughter Emily Bridges, a recent college grad, to create this stage version of Richard Boleslavsky's 1933 narrative about a dedicated acting teacher who, while instructing a young actress in her craft, gives her valuable lessons for living as well. Over the course of ten scenes, the action moves from the teacher's studio to a small theater to a film set to Central park and back, and finally, to a moving denouement atop the Empire State Building in 1936. "[This show] should be seen twice, once to enjoy the story and again to learn the lessons that work equally well in life as on stage...Rare and Wonderful!" -Examiner.com"Enthralling and edifying hour and a half of theater...a big, big hit!" -Stage Scene LA

Acting: The First Six Lessons

Bridges, Beau

Bridges, Emily

Characters: 6 male, 7 female 
Scenery: Interior
There's an outrageously funny basic situation, terrific pace and suspense and laughs galore. Chauncey and Lillums arrive at "Stone Mansion" for their honeymoon. It's an isolated country estate belonging to his aunt and supposedly unoccupied. Chauncey confesses he's been "afraid of the dark" ever since childhood. Having unburdened himself---m the lights suddenly go out! And then they go on again and they find they're surrounded by fantastic characters in this supposedly deserted house. Then they find themselves in the midst of a spy plot---with a difference.

Afraid of the Dark

Reach, James

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