Award-winning one-woman show. A lesbian Joan returns with an empassioned message for contemporary audiences. An electrifying evening of theatre. Show has toured internationally, been featured on NPR, and received first class production in Brazil, where it grossed top box office in Rio and Sao Paolo.
The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman
Captivating evening with one of the greatest actresses of the nineteenth century. Charlotte Cushman, a large butch woman, made a name for herself in "breeches parts," and treats the audience to excerpts from her Hamlet, Romeo, and Cardinal Wolsey - as well as scenes and other monologues from her repertoire. National award for "best play about a lesbian historical figure."
A platform reading by the famous Imagist herself, including the erotic love poems written for her beloved partner Ada Dwyer. Also includes diary entries, observations on writing poetry, and rebuttals to critics.
Extravagant Love: the Life of Violette LeDc
An avant-garde odyssey into the vivid and often terrifying world of lesbian Parisian author Violette LeDuc. Play encompasses themes of abortion, lesbian prostitution, self-hatred, and maternal incest. Not for the faint-hearted!
A box office home run! Musical comedy about a lesbian softball team with a player who is really out in left field. Fantasy numbers include the Miss Butch Universe Pageant, a lesbian Star Trek, and the lesbian World Series. Show has broken box office records in three theatres!
Sparkling gem of a cabaret musical! Six leading ladies take stage with musical numbers celebrating the turning points in their respective careers. Cast includes Sarah Bernhardt, Eleanora Duse, and Laurette Taylor. A special treat for theatre lovers.
Big, brassy, full-cast mainstage musical about the greatest woman athlete in history, Babe Didriksen! Babe's struggle for acceptance pits her against the standards of compulsory heterosexuality. Numbers include a high school dance, a choreographed women's basketball game, and a pajama party on the Olympic train.
Small-cast lesbian musical about the culture clash between the urban leather scene and the country dykes on a land collective in Oregon. "Vampire Lesbians From Hell" meet the goddess worshippers in a showdown of values on the night of Beltane.
Small-cast musical adaptation for children of St.-Exupery's classic tale of an aviator stranded in the desert and a magical child. A show filled with heart, with the emphasis on parent-child dynamics instead of spectacle. Single set.
A Lesbian midsummer night's dream with the goddesses of celibacy, love, and marriage competing for Sappho's attention amid poetry contests, meteor showers, lessons on lesbian love-making, romantic trysting, mix-ups and disguises. Wet and wild romantic comedy!
The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women
A play with intense audience participation! Engrossing, controversial courtroom drama, where the audience must serve as judge and jury, deciding motions and verdict, in a case against the five women who betrayed the Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov, the last surviving daughter of the Tsar of Russia. Complex ethical questions on a set of folding chairs. Published by Samuel French and featured in The Washington Post.
An adult retelling of the "Sleeping Beauty" fairy tale. As thirteen-year old Doko struggles against homophobia to rescue her best friend the Princess Beauty from the phallic curse that decrees she must be pricked by a spindle before her sixteenth birthday, the godmothers in the play must grapple with their own denial and superstitions in order to break the spell that holds them all in patriachal thrall!
Two counselors at a summer camp struggle with their love against a backdrop of homophobia. Scenes with the campers depict with chilling accuracy the cruelty of girls towards those they perceive as outsiders. Powerful lesbian drama!
A rollicking farce about the world's most dysfunctional family, a doctor with a penchant for assisted suicide, and a lesbian housekeeper with a crush on her employer. An over-the-top comedy about leaving, being left, and what it takes to stay.
A romantic drama set against a backdrop of war in ancient Persia. A young Hebrew woman and her former lover, the Queen of Persia, struggle against their personal and political differences to form an alliance against a common enemy.
It's a dark and stormy night at a remote inn on the Burren of Western Ireland, as six American women -- strangers to each other (or are they?) -- gather for a tour of ancient goddess sites. A murder mystery exploring potentially deadly mother-daughter dyads, played out amid ghostly sightings of lost children and pre-Celtic rituals involving various aspects of the goddess.
A tragedy in four acts about the 16th-century nun Benedetta Carlini, whose sexual relationship with another nun became the subject of a trial by the Inquisition.
Award-winning full-length drama about the disintegration of the traditional roles in marriage between men and women. A wedding in the country is hit by a hurricane figuratively and literally, and the guests undergo a sea change.
Separated for thirty years, a white woman attempts to recruit her former slave to return to the South to work as a Union spy in the Confederate White House. Issues of race, class, and gender explode as the women confront their lesbian girlhood and shared history of sexual abuse.
Jane Addams and the Devil Baby
Hull House, rumored to be sheltering a "devil baby," is besieged by emigrants clamouring to see the child with horns and hooves. Jane Addams locks horns with an elderly Irish woman, in an attempt to understand the strange obsession that has gripped Chicago.
The writing of Little Women is interrupted when the character Jo March and her famous creator cannot agree on the ending. The struggle for control of the book becomes deadly when Jo accuses Louisa of repressed lesbian desires and incest memories.
Farcical one-act, can be performed as an afterpiece with the Roar of Silence trilogy. Farcical romp that takes a backwards look at the misogyny of Broadway's musicals through the eyes of the characters themselves . . . three decades later!
Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter
Fifteen-minute comic monologue by the real Calamity Jane - spittoon, whiskey, and all!
Half-hour dramatic monologue by the notorious typhoid carrier who refused to admit the existence of germs. Her side of the story.
Perfect women's history one-act, ideal for touring! Two of the most powerful women artists in history discuss their work on an explosive arts panel about survival strategies for women artists.
Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist
Harriet Tubman, suspected of planning an escape, has been sent to the therapist, another African-American woman, for an evaluation. Radical activism meets one-day-at-a-time therapism.Published by Samuel French, presented at Louisville Juneteenth Festival, winnter of Off-Off Broadway Festival.
Eva Le Gallienne has checked herself into a private hospital the night she was raped backstage during her Broadway run of Liliom. She has sent for her former girlfriend Mimsey, whom she has not seen since Mimsey's marriage ten months earlier. A tour-de-force for a young actor, running a gamut of dissociative states of a survivor of sexual abuse.
"Fly Rod" Crosby, a lesbian Maine hunting guide from the late 19th century, shares secrets about fly-fishing as she indulges in her romantic fantasies about her friend Annie Oakley. Performed Off-Broadway at Bleecker Street Theatre.
A ninety-two-year-old Native Hawaiian woman struggles with the last request of her adoptive mother, Queen Liliuokalani, the last queen of Hawai'i. Succeeding in her quest, she overturns the paradigm of Western history, exposing its inherently colonial agenda.
A one-act for five women drummers, in which much of the dialogue is conveyed via the drumming.
Six mothers of middle-school children come together for a special training on playground violence. Focusing on perfecting the rules of the playground to eliminate inequality, the women, literally, turn a blind eye to the real cause of violence. A chilling interrogation into the ways women teach each other to enable male violence.
The Evil That Men Do: the Story of Thalidomide
Fast-paced radio drama, suitable for stage production. The conspiracy of the German drug manufacturers and the FDA unfolds like a murder mystery, as Dr. Frances Kelsey, suspecting birth defects, stalls for time against mounting pressures to license sale of "the sleeping pill of the century."
A skirmish in one-act! Two "gangs" from contemporary rival productions of Romeo and Juliet meet in an Off-Off Broadway alley to rumble, sixteenth-century style. Lots of cross-dressed knee-flexing and gender-bending!
Kafka-esque one-act about a multi-national corporation in the business of selling babies. "Business as usual" comes to a halt when one of the workers strikes for control of the distribution of manufactured goods. In other words, she wants to keep the baby.
A playful send-up of the 12-step movement. Five women in recovery from their addictions to men, convene at their weekly meeting. The format includes personal testimonies and the reading of the 12 Steps of HA.
A one-act about the women in the anti-war movement of the Sixties. Sexual tensions fuse with political agendas, as the women cross mine fields of repressed emotion, and the action builds to a violent climax, as the war comes home.
The Boundary Trial of John Proctor
A one-act featuring the notorious anti-hero of Arthur Miller's Crucible, and the women he exploited. John Proctor, finding himself in the boundary lands of patriarchy after his execution, encounters a second trial --- this time by the women. Proctor, who does not believe in witches, scrambles desperately for context as he is tested by his ex-wife, his mistress, a formerly enslaved Caribbean woman, the town baglady, the town feminist, and the town matriarch.
A one-minute monologue by a woman of any age, ethnicity, race, orientation, physical ability, class background --- in which she calls and confronts her father on incest.
A one-act about misogyny, racism, and homophobia in the schools. A new teacher is hired to replace a lesbian teacher who resigned under suspicious circumstances. When a former lover turns up on staff, it becomes evident that the scapegoating is a cover for the school's institutionalized violence against women and girls.
The Poorly-Written Play Festival
Just possibly the worst one-act play ever written! A committee of play readers meet in the Green Room to select the plays for a Festival of Poorly-Written Plays. Inthe course of the meeting, they violate every tenet of good playwriting in a kind of Actor's Nightmare for playwrights. Riotously funny!
Ostensibly arguing about The Taming of the Shrew, a lesbian couple come to grips with their own marital struggles around the issue of sex.
The A-Mazing Yamashita and the Gold-diggers of 2008
"The transnational, post-modern magic show of the millennia!" The A-Mazing Yamashita promises to levitate a woman, cut a woman in two, and disappear a hundred thousand women – all through the wizardry of modern pharmaceuticals, the presto-chango of sexual commodification, and the wonders of the Great Cabinet of GATT.
A ten-minute monologue by feminist foremother and Suffragist, Matilda Joslyn Gage, in which she sets the bait for Anthony Comstock to ban Woman, Church and State, her book exposing the historical misogyny of the christian church.
An operetta for two women in one-act. A fat woman in her 20’s is in the hospital awaiting surgery for a gastric bypass operation she believes necessary for her dream of singing opera professionally. Her partner is against the surgery, and as the patient goes under sedation, she finds herself and her partner in a series of bizarre dreams where her situation incorporates elements of operas by Wagner, Gluck, and Puccini.
Three lesbian actors are rehearsing an historical play about Countess Markiewicz and the aftermath of her participation in the Easter Week Rising in Dublin. The play is about her political differences with her sister, who was a pacifist. As the women take up the issues of the play, the power dynamics of their own lesbian relationships are called into question.
Natalie Barney and Renee Vivien in Eden
Lesbian poets Natalie Barney and Renee Vivien create an "Evening of Lesbos" in Bar Harbor, Maine, during the summer of 1900.
Subtitled "a knockout in nine minutes," this short play packs a punch. The year is 1953, and Amanda is a 13-year-old tomboy who has been sent to the principal's office for fighting the boys who have been lesbian-baiting her. When the principal, who is in the closet, moves to expel her, Amanda's lesbian P.E. teacher shows that she is just as willing to fight as her student. A taut play, filled with surprises.