Plays by Keyword
King of the Yees
By Lauren Yee
Synopsis For nearly 20 years, playwright Lauren Yee’s father Larry has been a driving force in the Yee Family Association, a seemingly obsolescent Chinese American men’s club formed 150 years ago in the wake of…
Knockout Mouse
By Gabriel Neustadt
A lab assistant discovers that the prominent neurobiologist he works for has fudged data on a major scientific paper. As Peter contemplates his next move, he seeks the advice of his closest friend and fiercest…
Last Drive to Dodge
By Andrew Lee Creech
Livestream reading: Sunday, October 24, at 6 pm PT On-Demand presentation: October 26–31 Synopsis 1884, Texas. Ro, a ranch worker, and Prophet, a cowboy, are in love. They dream of owning their own land, leaving…
Lonesomes: CONRADO and PAISLEY BLUE
By Octavio Solis
Synopsis Written in and for isolation, Lonesomes includes companion pieces Conrado and Paisley Blue. In part one, a man dogged by his past sins is looking for companionship or maybe salvation. In part two we…
Lyons Pride
By Bleu Beckford-Burrell
Synopsis The Lyons household struggling to stay afloat doesn’t find itself lacking in pride. A family play, about living, love, identity and overcoming life challenges the Lyons take you on a journey of what it…
Mrs. Harrison
By R. Eric Thomas
Mrs. Harrison is about two women and one story. At their 10-year college reunion, Aisha and Holly meet by chance. Is this the first time or has it just been a long time? They can’t…
Naming True
By Natalie Symons
Amy, a transgender teenage girl, shows up unannounced in the Florida motel room of Nell, a dying woman who’s lived much of her life on the streets of Detroit and now wishes to self-publish her…
Our Utopia
By Carlos-Zenen Trujillo
About The Swallowtail Players, The Aurora Canyon Community’s Premier (and only) Theatre troupe invite you to a public reading of one of their most important texts, Our Utopia, written by the community’s founder Aurora (transcribed by…
Pankhurst: Freedom or Death
By Jeannine Grizzard
British suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst championed the fight for women’s right to vote as the most important of all causes, declaring: “We are on the greatest mission the world has ever known: to free half the…
Perseverance
By Callie Kimball
“The future woman must have a life of work and economic independence. She must have knowledge. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.” — W.E.B. Du Bois, Darkwater, 1920 Synopsis In Perseverance,…
Pocket Universe
By Thomas Brandon
Livestream reading: Thursday, October 21, at 6 pm PT On-Demand presentation: October 26–31 Synopsis Roan surprises his wife, Kelly, with a picnic in the park where they had their first date. When happy disagreements about…
Remains and Returns
By Novid Parsi
Synopsis In 2018, as an Iranian-American family talks about nothing and everything at once, the two middle-aged brothers—one who has remained near their childhood home, the other who returns—confront their elderly immigrant parents about the…