(3 women, 4 men) Within a framework of tragicomic realism, poetic visions of controversial passages of the New Testament Apocrypha come to life as an early Christian council debates which books to include in the Bible. *

(5 actors, any gender)  Five struggling Southern California art students create a dramatic presentation on the founding of the famous Bauhaus school in order to save themselves from being kicked out.

(4 women, 6 men) The true story of the most famous poltergeist in American history; it terrorized a Tennessee farm family in 1820. Theatricality and psychological exploration combine to make this folk tale more than just a ghost story about the only poltergeist known to have committed murder. A musical, believe it or not!*

(1 actor, any gender) A Lutheran minister fresh out of seminary returns home to rural Minnesota for Christmas and finds an epiphany.  Winner of a Los Angeles Critic's Circle Award.  Available at Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.

(2 women, 2 men) A conservator's obsession with the Egyptian mummy she's restoring threatens her impending marriage in this funny romance cursed with confusion.  You never really know someone until they're dead.... 

(1 woman, 7 men) A lonely college professor finds sex, danger and romance on the Internet in this comedy the Los Angeles Times called "dazzling" and the LA Weekly called "menacingly funny." A Critic's Choice in Drama-Logue.  

(2 women, 3 men) Archeologists discover an unknown Greek play and other secrets in the ruins of Pompeii that threaten to set in motion a modern apocalypse.  Part of The Vesuvius Prophecies trilogy.

 (4 women, 7 men, 1 man or woman) A comedy/drama about the true androgynous adventures of the Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, 17th-century Frenchman who was actually thrown in the Bastille for wearing men's clothing.

(4 men) When Trent brings Felix home to New Orleans to meet his father and homophobic grandfather, the familys demons come slithering into the light. Watchful ghosts, sinister hustlers, and a myriad of parasites lead Felix on a Southern Gothic journey to St. Louis Cemetery No. 1.  Available at Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.

adapted from the ancient Pali manuscript (1 woman, 5 men) A young assassin seeks clues to his origin and discovers a secret that changes the world. Pure evil pursues impure good in this irreverent verse drama about the ultimate action hero. *

book and lyrics by Tom Jacobson, music by Kelly Green (4 women, 4 men, 4 minimal sets) A gay Man of Honor sabotages his best friends wedding because he can't let her go. *

 (1 woman, 4 men)  His eccentric piano teacher's desert home holds intrigues and terrors for 15 year-old Skyler.  What exactly is the monster that lurks in secret rooms, and where is her victim's body hidden?  Will Skyler heed the warnings or offer himself as the next sacrifice?  *

(3 women) A middle-aged woman struggles with her suspicion that her mother was murdered by her aunt. A comedy/drama with Jello. *

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 (2 women, 3 men) Not even the eruption of Mount Vesuvius can stop an inventive and theatrical Roman family from putting on their production of a lost Greek classic, Menander's Clytemnestra. The show must go on! Part of The Vesuvius Prophecies trilogy.*

(2 women, 5 men) A modern African-American academic plunges into a 400 year-old intrigue when he finds a 16th-century Italian diary that mentions William Shakespeare. Monks, pirates, eunuchs and actors conspire to rewrite literary history.

(1 woman, 3 men) At the dawn of Reagan's Morning in America, four college students seduce, betray and forgive each other in this gay comedy of bodily fluids that climaxes in the world's tackiest Dead Celebrities Party. *

(3 women, 5 men) Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, and Arthur Conan Doyle use logic and religion to fend off a seductive vampire in this fang-in-cheek comedy/thriller. Pick of the Week in the LA Weekly, and winner of seven Valley Theatre League Awards.  Available at Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.

(4 any gender). Two siblings and their spouses spar over the family farm outside the town that 100 years earlier was the inspiration for Sinclair Lewis’ novel Main Street.  The fictitious past predicts the actual present until the novel and real life converge hilariously. *

(3 actors of any gender) A queer Los Angeles couple plunges into the surprising history of LGBTQ+ people in Oklahoma, including a two-spirit Choctaw (1905) and a gay mayor (1964).  *

(5 actors, any gender) Defunded by the city of Weimar, the Bauhaus moves to Dessau and becomes the most influential art school in history.

(3 men) Christopher Marlowe, 16th-century author of Doctor Faustus, was murdered at the age of 29.  This tragicomedy speculates that his death was tied to his scandalous play about the relationship between Jesus and the disciple John.  Los Angeles Weekly Pick of the Week and nominated for an LA Weekly Award.  Available at Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.

(6 women, 12 men) This annotated true story of the first race riot in Los Angeles history challenges the notion of history itself.  As diverse a population as today converges on Chinatown in response to a tong war over a woman and lynches 19 Chinese men and boys.  Where does revenge end?  Available at Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.

(1 woman, 5 men) Five gay men in a Christian "change" program struggle with spirituality and desire in this comedy-drama, with devastating consequences.  Ironies abound in a program that accomplishes the opposite of its aims.

(3 women, 4 men) An Expressionist artists battles Nazis and his own ardent nationalism when his art is declared "degenerate" by the totalitarian regime.

(5 women) Five medieval German nuns fight Martin Luther's Reformation by performing plays based on the Old and New Testament Apocrypha. A comedy that breaks taboos and religious relics.   

(1 woman, 2 men) Torn between his Midwestern parents and the Beverly Hills owners of an unknown Caravaggio Hanging of Judas, Tim rediscovers himself while making the art history discovery of the century. Imagine your own mother on the Worst Dressed Women List. *

 (2 women, 2 men) A strange and possibly malevolent last will and testament sends four grieving friends and relatives on a perilous journey inside themselves. *

 (2 men) An American professor disappears in India, leading to a search through history for a mysterious amulet that carries both a blessing and a curse. A play within a play within a play within a play within a play.*

(1 woman, 3 men)  In 1948 Hisaye Yamamoto puts her job at the Los Angeles Tribune on the line when she joins forces with Bayard Rustin to desegregate Bimini Baths.  Part of the trilogy The Ballad of Bimini Baths.  Available at Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.

(4 women, 5 men) A small Lutheran choir in its death-throes provides the backdrop for this Chekhovian warning of the impending doom of mainline Protestantism in America. Laughter through tears with nice lemon bars. Critics Choice in the Los Angeles Times.  Available at Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.

(5 women or men)  A honeymoon in Peru is plagued with ghosts and monsters, including the fat-stealing Pishtaco.  Tourists from England, Australia and the US get far too involved with their attractive tour guide and pay the price of cultural imperialism in this nightmare comedy. *

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(1 woman, 3 men)  A closeted journalist pretends to interview Ho Chi Minh in order to free a downed American pilot. *

(3 women, 3 men) A medieval vestment with mysterious powers may be the only way to defeat an evil Jesus in this intriguing tale of heresy and a love that will not die: the real story behind the extinction of the dinosaurs. *

(2 women, 4 men) Spanning more than 30 years, this comedy-drama follows two life-paths of a woman who must decide whether to marry her fiancé after she finds out hes slept with men. A palindrome play with two endings and two beginnings. *

 (3 men)  In 1939 on the night Count Basie is the first black performer at the Palomar Ballroom, Zenobio and Amen are stuck at work cleaning up Donald, who almost died in the La Brea Tar Pits.  You haven’t lived till you’ve made a white man white again.  Part of the trilogy The Ballad of Bimini Baths.  Available at Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.

 (3 women, 5 men, 1 boy) A stylized tale of a 17th-century Italian castrato singer's defiance of church and society in his struggle to marry the woman he loves. *

(3 women, 2 men) A realistic, darkly humorous drama set in an Oklahoma bowling alley (run by a charismatic Christian matron) during a dust storm. Paralleling the eternal conflict in the Middle East, a black woman fights to keep her white boyfriend from marrying a Lebanese singer. *

(5 actors, any gender) After Hitler shuts down the Bauhaus, some of the faculty emigrate to Los Angeles, where scores are settled between the founder Walter Gropius, his ex-wife Alma Mahler and composer Arnold Schönberg.

(4 women, 4 men) When he discovers he's only a fictitious character in The Importance of Being Earnest, Bunbury joins forces with Rosaline, Romeo's never-seen obsession from Romeo and Juliet.  Together, they win back their loves and change the world by changing classic literature.  Winner of a Garland Award for Best New Play and Critic's Choice in the Los Angeles Times.  Available at Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.

(2 women, 3 men) Adapted from Menander, this play tells the Electra story from the point of view of Clytemnestra, a brilliant woman with a biting wit.  The funniest Greek tragedy you've ever seen!  Part of The Vesuvius Prophecies trilogy.

(1 woman, 1 man) Leni Riefenstahl went to Hollywood to find American distribution for her award-winning film, Olympia.  Only one studio head would meet with her:  Walt Disney.  An astonishing true story of betrayal, Nazi propaganda and cartoons.  

A handsome, wealthy landowner who woos three sisters isn't what he seems.  But neither are they.  A harrowing comedy that goes to hell.  Available at Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.

(5 women) Based on the actual minutes of a womens club formed in rural South Dakota in 1934, this poignant comedy charts 70 years of personal and national history, from skinning skunks and julebukking in the 30s to restoring native prairie in the new millennium.  Available at Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.

(3 men) When Doug's wife sends him to a masseur, he goes on a dangerous journey of self-discovery into his own heart and soul. The strangest things go in in Doug's head during massage, but not nearly as strange as what the masseur is planning. *

 (4 women, 3 men; 1 set) Farcical furor breaks out during an exhibition of erotic art as a museum tries to woo a prudish donor. *

(3 men) UCLA or NYU? Seduction and betrayal or self-sacrificing love? Otis is stuck between two coasts and his two gay uncles, in the middle of an America living in terror. Choosing a grad school was never this hard. *

 (1 woman, 1 accompanist)  A singer pays tribute to her mother who was obsessed with Christmas.  A solo musical with 8 new Christmas carols! *

(2 women, 3 men) Two American couples get caught in a chronological palindrome on a trip to Italy. Stigmata, alchemy, adultery and St. Catherine of Siena's severed head plague a nun and a minister in this circular love story that is a comedy if performed forward and a tragedy if performed backward. Winner of Best New Play and Production of the Year LA Weekly Awards.  Available at Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.

 (2 men) In 1916 an art historian takes the confession of a priest who drowned a boy.  But who is really committed the capital crime?  Part of the trilogy The Ballad of Bimini Baths.  Available at Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.

(3 men)  In 1936 the Italian Fascist government destroyed more than 1000 "offensive" photographic negatives taken by the renowned Wilhelm von Gloeden in Taormina in the late 19th century.  But the interrogation of one of the boys in the photographs--now an old man--reveals an even more heartbreaking history. *

adapted from Jacques Miroir's 18th-century play (2 women, 5 men) Pulled from the stomach of a whale, an American whaler is bleached blind and becomes a modern Tiresias in the court of Louis XVI. He seduces Marie Antoinette and sets the king on a path to destroy France and ultimately humankind. A tragicomedy in rhymed couplets. Critics Choice in the Los Angeles Times.  Available at Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.

(5 men) The Odyssey re-created in the sauna of a Koreatown gym. *

(2 men) is the true story of two actors who hired themselves out to the Long Beach Police Department in 1914 to entrap "social vagrants" in public restrooms. Thirty-one men were arrested, and the ensuing scandal led to an ordinance against "oral sodomy" in California.  Available at Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.

 (1 woman, 1 man, 3 of either gender)  When Schiller and Arjay take Schiller’s parents to Europe, both couples learn what it means to be American in a world that no longer admires the U.S.  Guinea pigs playing cricket, dead bodies that talk, and an unexpected trip to a concentration camp lead to a shocking yet poignant conclusion.  Available at Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.