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The Tall Girls (mirtallg)

Award winning playwright Meg Miroshnik transports her audience to Poor Prairie, the dusty, desolate town where fifteen-and-a-half-year-old Jean has been exiled as caretaker for her wild-child cousin, Almeda. It’s a grim, dangerous place to eke out an existence as a teenage girl—until a handsome man with a past arrives, and a brand-new basketball in tow. As the town’s girls come together to form a team set on making it out of Poor Prairie, a murky committe of townspeople threatens to stamp out girls' sports altogether.  Inspired by the flourishing and the decline of high school girls' basketball teams in the 1930s rural Midwest, The Tall Girls asks: Who can afford the luxury of play? And what is the cost of childhood? Featuring a stong ensemble of female characters, The Tall Girls examines issues of class and gender amidst the historic 1930s Dust Bowl.

Samuel French
Premiere Year
2014
Premiere Theater
Alliance Theatre
Premiere City
Atlanta
Premiere Creative

Cast: Lauren Boyd, Veronika Duerr, Kally Duling, Emily Kitchens, Hayley Platt, and Travis Smith

Director: Susan V. Booth

Major Production Year
2015
Major Production Theater
Luna Stage
Major Production City
West Orange, NJ
Major Production Creative

Cast: Vanessa Cardenas, Daisy Chase, Brigie Coughlin, Mike Mihm, Lucy Schmidt, and Emily Verla

Director: Jane Mandel

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The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls (mirfairy)

Award winning playwright, Meg Miroshnik casts a spell with The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls. Once upon a time—in 2005—a twenty-year-old girl named Annie returned to her native Russia to brush up on the language and lose her American accent. Underneath a glamorous Post-Soviet Moscow studded with dangerously high heels, designer bags, and luxe fur coats, she discovers an enchanted motherland teeming with evil stepmothers, wicked witches, and ravenous bears. Annie must learn how to become the heroine of a story more mysterious and treacherous than any childhood fairy tale: her own. This subversive story haunts the audience, and carries a powerful message for young women living in a world where not everything ends up happily ever after. 

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Premiere Year
2012
Premiere Theater
Alliance Theatre
Premiere City
Atlanta
Premiere Creative

Director: Eric Rosen

Major Production Year
2014
Major Production Theater
Yale Rep
Major Production City
New Haven
Major Production Creative

Cast: Sofiya Akilova, Celeste Arias, Stephanie Hayes, Jessica Jelliffe, Felicity Jones, and Emily Walton Director: Rachel Chavkin

Major Production 2 Year
2014
Major Production 2 Theater
Undermain Theatre
Major Production 2 City
Dallas
Major Production 2 Creative

Cast: Katherine Bourne, Gail Cronauer, Stephanie Cleghorn Jasso, Alexandra Lawrence, Mei Mei Pollitt, and Joanna Schellenberg

Director: Dylan Key

Major Production 2 Date
November 11, 2014
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Marvin's Room (mcpmarvi)

The tale of one family's journey through humor and heartache, seperation and self-discovery, Marvin's Room examines the ties that bind families together . . . whether they like it or not. The play was later turned into an acclaimed movie starring Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Diane Keaton, and Robert De Niro.

Bessie lives in Florida where she cares for her Aunt Ruth and her ailing father, Marvin. When she is diagnosed with leukemia, Bessie's only hope is to contact her long-estranged sister Lee in the hopes of finding a match for a bone marrow transplant. Complicating matters is Lee's troubled son, Hank, who has just been released from a mental institution following a wave of arson. Veering between high tragedy and absurd comedy, McPherson's play is a dazzling call for strength, good-humor, and compassion, even in the midst of debilitating illness.

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Premiere Year
1990
Premiere Theater
Goodman Theatre
Premiere City
Chicago
Premiere Creative

Director: David Petrarca

Major Production Year
1991
Major Production Theater
Playwrights Horizons / Minetta Lane
Major Production City
New York
Major Production Creative

Cast: Tom Aulino, Adam Chapnick, Alice Drummond, Lisa Emery, Laura Esterman, Karl Maschek, Tim Monsion, Mark Rosenthal, and Shona Tucker Director: David Petrarca

Major Production 2 Year
2017
Major Production 2 Theater
Roundabout Theater/Broadway
Major Production 2 City
New York
Major Production 2 Creative

Cast: Janeane Garofalo, Lili Taylor, and Celia Weston

Director: Anne Kauffman

Major Production 2 Date
June 29, 2017
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Choir Boy (mccchoir)

The Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys is dedicated to the creation of strong, ethical black men. Pharus wants nothing more than to take his rightful place as leader of the school's legendary gospel choir, but can he find his way inside the hallowed halls of this institution if he sings in his own key? Known for his unique brand of urban lyricism, Tarrell Alvin McCraney follows up his acclaimed trilogy The Brother/Sister Plays with this affecting portrait of a gay youth trying to find the courage to let the truth about himself be known. Set against the sorrowful sounds of hymns and spirituals, Choir Boy premiered at the Royal Court in London before receiving its Off-Broadway premiere in summer 2013 to critical and popular acclaim.

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Premiere Year
2012
Premiere Theater
Royal Court
Premiere City
London
Premiere Creative

Cast: Khali Best, David Burke, Aron Julius, Eric Kofi Abrefa, Kwayedza Kureya, Gary McDonald, and Dominic Smith; Director: Dominic Cooke

Major Production Year
2013
Major Production Theater
Manhattan Theatre Club
Major Production City
New York, NY
Major Production Creative

Cast: Nicholas L. Ashe, Kyle Beltran, Grantham Coleman, Chuck Cooper, Austin Pendleton, Jeremy Pope, and Wallace Smith; Director: Trip Cullman

Major Production 2 Year
2019
Major Production 2 Theater
Manhattan Theatre Club - Samuel J. Friedman Theater (Broadway)
Major Production 2 City
New York, NY
Major Production 2 Creative

Cast: Nicholas L. Ashe, Daniel Bellomy, Jonathan Burke, Gerald Caesar, John Clay III, Chuck Cooper, Caleb Eberhardt, Marucs Gladney, J. Quinton Johnson, Austin Pendleton, and Jeremy Pope; Director: Trip Cullman

Major Production 2 Date
January 8, 2019
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The Brother/Sister Plays (mccbroth)

This is the first collection by Tarell Alvin McCraney, a major new playwright of the American theater. Lyrical and mythic, provocative and contemporary, McCraney’s dramas of kinship, love, and heartache are set in the bayou of Louisiana and loosely draw on West African myths. Comprising all three plays in the trilogy: In the Red and Brown Water, The Brothers Size, and Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet.

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Premiere Year
2009
Premiere Theater
McCarter Theater / Public Theater
Premiere City
Princeton / New York
Premiere Creative

Cast: Sterling K. Brown, Kimberly Herbert Gregory, Brian Tyree Henry, Andre Holland, Marc Damon Johnson, Sean Allan Krill, Nikiya Mathis, Kianne Muschett, and Heather Alicia Simms

Directors: Tina Landau and Robert O'Hara

Major Production Year
2010
Major Production Theater
Steppenwolf
Major Production City
Chicago
Major Production Creative

Cast: Alana Arenas, Phillip James Brannon, Rodrick Covington, Kiplan Dooley, K. Todd Freeman, Ora Jones, Jeff Parker, Tamberla Perry, and Jacqueline Williams Director: Tina Landau

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The Hour of Feeling (manhouro)

It'’s 1967 and the map of the Middle East is about to change drastically. Fueled by a love of English Romantic poetry, Adham journeys from Palestine to London with his new wife, Abir, to deliver a career-defining lecture. As the young couple'’s marriage is tested, Adham struggles to reconcile his ambitions with the pull of family and home. But what if seizing the moment means letting go of everything he knows?

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Premiere Year
2012
Premiere Theater
Actor's Theatre of Louisville (Humana)
Premiere City
Louisville, KY
Premiere Creative

Cast: David Barlow, William Connell, Judith Delgado, Marianna McLellan, Hadi Tabbal, and Rasha Zamamiri

Director: Mark Wing-Davey

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Angels In America Part One: Millenium Approaches (kusangelsA)

The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in the 1980s. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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Premiere Year
1991
Premiere Theater
Eureka Theatre
Premiere City
San Francisco
Premiere Creative

Cast: John Bellucci, Kathleen Chalfant, Anne Darragh, Ellen McLaughlin, Michael Ornstein, Michael Scott Ryan, Stephen Spinella, and Harry Waters Jr.

Director: David Esbjornson

Major Production Year
1993
Major Production Theater
Broadway/Walter Kerr
Major Production City
New York
Major Production Creative

Cast: Kathleen Chalfant, David Marshall Grant, Marcia Gay Harden, Ron Leibman, Joe Mantello, Ellen McLaughlin, Stephen Spinella, and Jeffrey Wright Director: George C. Wolfe

Major Production 2 Year
2010
Major Production 2 Theater
Signature Theatre
Major Production 2 City
New York
Major Production 2 Creative

Cast: Robin Bartlett, Christian Borle, Bill Heck, Zoe Kazan, Billy Porter, Zachary Quinto, Robin Weigert, and Frank Wood Director: Michael Greif

Major Production 2 Date
28-Oct-10
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Caroline, Or Change: A Musical (kuscarol)

Louisiana, 1963: A nation reeling from the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement and the Kennedy assassination. Caroline, a black maid, and Noah, the son of the Jewish family she works for, struggle to find an identity for their friendship. Through their intimate story, this beautiful new musical portrays the changing rhythms of a nation. Tony Kushner and composer Jeanine Tesori have created a story that addresses contemporary questions of culture, community, race and class through the lens and musical pulse of the 1960s.

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Premiere Year
2003
Premiere Theater
Public Theater / Broadway
Premiere City
New York
Premiere Creative

Cast: Reathael Bean, Harrison Chad, Tracy Nicole Chapman, Chuck Cooper, David Costabile, Veanne Cox, Marcus Carl Franklin, Marva Hicks, Capathia Jenkins, Larry Keith, Ramona Keller, Adriane Lenox, Tonya Pinkins, Alice Playten, Anika Noni Rose, Kevin Ricardo Tate, and Chandra Wilson

Composer: Jeanine Tesori / Director: George C. Wolfe

Major Production Year
2006
Major Production Theater
National Theatre
Major Production City
London
Major Production Creative

Director: George C. Wolfe

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Lloyd's Prayer (klilloyd)

A boy raised by raccoons, a small-time hustler and a genuine Angel of the Lord are just a few of the characters who inhabit this parable. Bob, the Raccoon Boy, is rescued from the raccoons who raised him and taught what it means to be human.

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Premiere Year
1988
Premiere Theater
Actor's Theatre of Louisville (Humana)
Premiere City
Louisville, KY
Premiere Creative

Cast: Walter Bobbie, Julie Boyd, Kevin Kling, and Ethan Phillips Director: Ken Washington

Major Production Year
1988
Major Production Theater
Eureka Theatre
Major Production City
San Francisco
Major Production Creative

Cast: John Bellucci, Will Marchetti, Lorri Holt, and Micheal Mcshane Director: Oscar Eustis

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Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (josbenga)

The lives of two American Marines and an Iraqi translator are forever changed by an encounter with a quick-witted tiger who haunts the streets of war-torn Baghdad attempting to find meaning, forgiveness and redemption amidst the city's ruins. Rajiv Joseph's groundbreaking new American play explores both the power and the perils of human nature.

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Premiere Year
2009
Premiere Theater
Kirk Douglas Theatre
Premiere City
Los Angeles
Premiere Creative

Cast: Glenn Davis, Brad Fleischer, Arian Moayed, Kevin Tighe, Hrach Titizian, Sheila Vand, and Necar Zadegan

Director: Moisés Kaufman

Major Production Year
2011
Major Production Theater
Broadway/Richard Rodgers
Major Production City
New York
Major Production Creative

Cast: Glenn Davis, Brad Fleischer, Arian Moayed, Hrach Titizian, Sheila Vand, Robin Williams, and Necar Zadegan

Director: Moisés Kaufman

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