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A Parallelogram (norparal)

Bee is a young woman who believes she has the uncanny ability to see the future, and maybe even alter it. With the click of a television remote, we loop through time in this dark, funny play about a woman bent on reinventing her own destiny—and possibly the world.

Premiere Year
2010
Premiere Theater
Steppenwolf
Premiere City
Chicago
Premiere Creative

Cast: Kate Arrington, Tim Bickel, Marylouise Burke, and Tom Irwin Director: Anna D. Shapiro

Major Production Year
2013
Major Production Theater
Mark Taper Forum
Major Production City
Los Angeles
Major Production Creative

Cast: Carlo Albán, Marylouise Burke, Marin Ireland and Tom Irwin; Director: Anna D. Shapiro

Major Production 2 Year
2017
Major Production 2 Theater
Second Stage Theater
Major Production 2 City
New York
Major Production 2 Creative

Cast: Juan Castano, Anita Gillette, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Stephen Kunken; Director: Michael Greif

Major Production 2 Date
July 11, 2017
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The Low Road (norlowro)

In The Low Road, a fable of free market economics and cut-throat capitalism, a young entrepreneur sets out on a quest for wealth with priceless ambition and a purse of gold. Premiered at London's Royal Court in the spring of 2013.

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Premiere Year
2013
Premiere Theater
Royal Court
Premiere City
London
Premiere Creative

Cast: Jared Ashe, Jack Benjamin, Kit Benjamin, Elizabeth Berrington, Helen Cripps, Johnny Flynn, Ian Gelder, Raj Ghatak, Natasha Gordon, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Ellie Kendrick, Edward Killingback, Fredrick Neilson, Simon Paisley Day, Bill Paterson, Harry Peacock, Leigh Quinn, John Ramm, and Will Thompson; Director: Dominic Cooke

Major Production Year
2018
Major Production Theater
The Public Theater
Major Production Creative

Cast: Tessa Albertson, Max Baker, Kevin Chamberlin, Daniel Davis, Crystal A. Dickinson, Gopal Divan, Harriet Harris, Jack Hatcher, Chukwudi Iwuji, Johnny Newcomb, Chris Perfetti, Susannah Perkins, Richard Poe, Dave Quay, Aaron Ray, Joseph Soeder, and Danny Wolohan; Director: Michael Greif

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The Unmentionables (norunmen)

Set in western equitorial Africa on the estate of a wealthy American businessman, The Unmentionables opens with a pugnacious monologue warning the audience to get out now, while they still have a chance to do something really fun, like watch cable television. For those who choose to stay despite the allure of TV, the play follows the intersecting lives of members of the local population with the various Americans who have come to "do good in the world": a young Christian missionary who brings both food and the New Testament to the local children (and whose predecessor met with a grisly fate); a disenchanted Hollywood actress in search of meaning but finding only brutality; and the aging businessman and his wife, a woman simply desperate for conversation. Over the course of one long night their humanitarian notions of themselves are called into question as they come up against the realities of money, politics, and power. As the events escalate from calm to crisis with shocking speed, the worth of one American life is measured against the worth of their so-called American values, as they become the agents of violence against one sixteen-year-old African boy.

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Premiere Year
2006
Premiere Theater
Steppenwolf
Premiere City
Chicago
Premiere Creative

Cast: Adeoye, Shannon Cochran, Lea Coco, Kenn E. Head, Jon Michael Hill, Chike Johnson, Ora Jones, Amy Morton, and Rick Snyder

Director: Anna D. Shapiro

Major Production Year
2007
Major Production Theater
Yale Rep
Major Production City
New Haven
Major Production Creative

Cast: Lisa Emery, Kenn E. Head, Jon Hill, Brian Hutchison, Kelly Hutchinson, Chike_ Johnson, Ora Jones, and Paul Vincent O’Connor Director: Anna D. Shapiro

Major Production 2 Year
2007
Major Production 2 Theater
Woolly Mammoth
Major Production 2 City
Washington, D.C.
Major Production 2 Creative

Cast: James Foster Jr., Tim Getman, Charles H. Hyman, Naomi Jacobson, James J. Johnson, Kofi Owusu, Marni Penning, John Livingstone Rolle, and Dawn Ursula Director: Pam MacKinnon

Major Production 2 Date
2-Sep-07
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The Infidel (norinfide)

Loosely based on a true story, The Infidel tells of a charismatic and well-respected state Supreme Court justice who is faced with disciplinary action after his out-of-control affair with a young Latina junior staffer. He confers with his friend and attorney as he examines the consequences of his behavior and tries to judge the most difficult case of his life—his own. With dark irony and sharp, cutting dialogue, Bruce Norris explores sexual obsession and the legislation of human behavior.

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Premiere Year
2000
Premiere Theater
Steppenwolf
Premiere City
Chicago
Premiere Creative

Cast: Charin Alvarez, Robert Breuler, Maureen Gallagher, Mike Nussbaum, Dale Ray Rivera, and Will Zahrn

Directors: Martha Lavey and Anna D. Shapiro with Michael Gennaro

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Purple Heart (norpurpl)

In Purple Heart, Carla, a Vietnam War widow deep in drink and depression, is living with a troubled son and her controlling mother. One day a stranger arrives at the door, a soldier with one hand who is seemingly connected to her late husband and comes to offer condolences to the grieving family. The soldier's mysterious visit is solved in graphic and bloody detail at the end of the play. Norris uses these quirky and flawed characters to provide a humorous yet very dark view of war and the human condition.

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Premiere Year
2002
Premiere Theater
Steppenwolf
Premiere City
Chicago
Premiere Creative

Cast: Nathan Kiley, Laurie Metcalf, Rosemary Prinz, and Christopher Evan Welch

Director: Anna D. Shapiro

Major Production Year
2012
Major Production Theater
Gate Theatre
Major Production City
London
Major Production Creative

Cast: Linda Broughton , Oliver Coopersmith, Amelia Lowdell, and Trevor White Director: Christopher Haydon

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Head of Passes (mccheado)

In anticipation of her birthday, Shelah’'s family and friends gather at her home in the Head of Passes——the mysterious shifting marshlands at the mouth of the great Mississippi River. As the guests appear, so do ghosts from the past, and Shelah'’s convictions about her life begin to dissolve, along with her home in the Louisiana rain.

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Premiere Year
2013
Premiere Theater
Steppenwolf
Premiere City
Chicago
Premiere Creative

Cast: James T. Alfred, Alana Arenas, Kyle Beltran, Chris Boykin, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Glenn Davis, Jon Michael Hill, Tim Hopper, Ron Cephas Jones, and Jacqueline Williams

Director: Tina Landau

Major Production Year
2015
Major Production Theater
Berkeley Rep
Major Production City
Berkeley
Major Production Creative

Cast: Francois Battiste, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Jonathan Burke, James Carpenter, Brian Tyree Henry, Sullivan Jones, Nikkole Salter, Kimberly Scott, and Michael A. Shepperd

Director: Tina Landau

Major Production 2 Year
2016
Major Production 2 Theater
Public Theater
Major Production 2 City
New York
Major Production 2 Creative

Cast: Alana Arenas, Francois Battiste, Kyle Beltran, J. Bernard Calloway, and Phylicia Rashad

Director: Tina Landau

Major Production 2 Date
March 28, 2016
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American Trade (mccameric)

When things get a little too hot for him in New York, good-looking, charismatic hustler Pharus escapes the clutches of rap star Jules and moves to London, where he sets up an escort business under the guise of a model agency. American Trade is a funny, uncompromising and outspoken play about survival, which challenges assumptions about racial and sexual identity. It is also a celebration of 21st century London in all its extravagant, confusing and dynamic diversity.

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Premiere Year
2011
Premiere Theater
Hampstead / Royal Shakespeare Company
Premiere City
London
Premiere Creative

Cast: Adam Burton, David Carr, Geoffrey Freshwater, Gruffudd Glyn, Tunji Kasim, Debbie Korley, Dharmesh Patel, Sheila Reid, David Rubin, Sophie Russell, Simone Saunders, Clarence Smith, James Traherne, James Tucker, Larrington Walker, Kirsty Woodward, Hannah Young, and Samantha Young

Director: Jamie Lloyd

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Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet (mccmarcu)

Marcus is sixteen and "sweet." Days before Hurricane Katrina strikes the projects of Louisiana, the currents of his life converge, overflowing into his close-knit community and launching the search for his sexual and personal identity on a cultural landscape infused with mysterious family creeds. The provocative, poignant, and fiercely humorous coming-of-age story of a young gay man in the South, Marcus is the stirring conclusion of The Brother/Sister Plays.

Originally written and performed while McCraney was a student in the Yale master's program, it was first produced in an abridged form as part of the Brother/Sister plays, receiving its premiere as a full-length standalone play at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.

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Premiere Year
2010
Premiere Theater
American Conservatory Theater
Premiere City
San Francisco
Premiere Creative

Cast: Richard Prioleau, Shinelle Azoroh, Omoze_ Idehenre, Margo Hall, Gregory Wallace, Tobie L. Windham, and Jared McNeill

Director: Mark Rucker

Major Production Year
2013
Major Production Theater
Plays & Players Theater
Major Production City
Philadelphia
Major Production Creative

Cast: Janan Ashton, Andre G. Brown, Taysha Canales, Jaylene Clark, Erin Fleming, James Tolbert III and Zuhairah Director: Daniel Student

Major Production 2 Year
2014
Major Production 2 Theater
Pillsbury House Theatre / Guthrie
Major Production 2 City
Minneapolis
Major Production 2 Creative

Cast: Jamila Anderson, Nathan Barlow, Aimee K. Bryant, Lauren Davis, Joy Dolo, Darius Dotch, Thomasina Petris, Mikell Sapp, James A. Williams, and Ahanti Young Director: Marion McClinton

Major Production 2 Date
12-Sep-14
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In the Red and Brown Water (mccinthe)

In the sweltering heat of Louisiana, Oya dreams of competing alongside star athletes. She never feels so right as when she's burning up the track. As a girl, she must choose between her dream and caring for her mother. As a woman, she's torn between the man she lives with and the man she can't live without. In the Red and Brown Water, the first play of Tarell Alvin McCraney’'s The Brother/Sister Plays, is an intoxicating story that charts a young girl's thrust into womanhood and her subsequent fall into the murky waters of life.

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Premiere Year
2008
Premiere Theater
Alliance Theatre
Premiere City
Atlanta
Premiere Creative

Cast: William Cobbs, Rodrick Covington, Chinai J. Hardy, Jon Michael Hill, Andre Holland, Daniel Thomas May, Kianne Muschett, Carra Patterson, Heather Alicia Simms, and Sharisa Whatley

Director: Tina Landau

Major Production Year
2008
Major Production Theater
Young Vic
Major Production City
London
Major Production Creative

Cast: Ony Uhiara, Javone Prince, Ashley Walters, Adjoa Andoh, Cecilia Noble, John MacMillan, and Abram Wilson Director: Walter Meierjohann

Major Production 2 Year
2010
Major Production 2 Theater
Marin Theatre Company
Major Production 2 City
San Francisco
Major Production 2 Creative

Cast: Ryan Vincent Anderson, Daveed Diggs, Nicol Foster, Jalene Goodwin, Isaiah Johnson, Lakisha May, Jared McNeill, Josh Schell, and Dawn L. Troupe Director: Ryan Rilette

Major Production 2 Date
Sep-10
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The Brothers Size (mccbrothe)

In the Louisiana bayou, big brother Ogun Size is hardworking and steady. Younger brother Oshoosi is just out of prison and aimless. Elegba, Oshoosi's old prison-mate, is a mysterious complication. A simple circle defines a world that begins in ritual and evolves into a tough and tender drama of what it means to brother and be brothered. Flights of poetry, music, dance and West African mythology combine in a contemporary tale that explores the tenuousness of freedom and the need to belong somewhere, to something, to someone. The Brothers Size is the second play of Tarell Alvin McCraney'’s The Brother/Sister Plays.

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Premiere Year
2007
Premiere Theater
Public Theater
Premiere City
New York
Premiere Creative

Cast: Brian Tyree Henry, Gilbert Owuor, and Elliot Villar

Director: Tea Alagic

Major Production Year
2007
Major Production Theater
Young Vic
Major Production City
London
Major Production Creative

Cast: Obi Abili, Nyasha Hatendi, and Nathaniel Martello-White Director: Bijan Sheibani

Major Production 2 Year
2010
Major Production 2 Theater
Magic Theatre
Major Production 2 City
San Francisco
Major Production 2 Creative

Cast: Joshua Elijah Reese, Alex Ubokudom, and Tobie Windham Director: Octavio Solis

Major Production 2 Date
9-Sep-10
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