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This is a play about the forces of greed and capitalism versus the resilience of organized labor. It is a play about the richest woman in America partnering the woman who represented the working class of the entire nation. It is a play about achieving the impossible, about rising from the ashes-literally, about the power of our remembered history, and about the genius that emerges when the ethos of individualism surrenders to the brilliance of...

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. The Anastasia Trials is a farcical, but profoundly engaging excursion into the hidden world...

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!

A collection of three full-length plays by Carolyn Gage: In McClintock's Corn, Stigmata, and The Spindle. Huge casts, gigantic themes, multiple subplots, more scenes than a Shakespeare play, two intermissions, epic sweeps of history, breathtaking relevance with heart-stopping suspense and momentum... in other words, what would have been known in previous eras as "plays." By one of the world's most prolific and feminist playwrights.

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, award-winning lesbian drama!

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.

This is 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.

Two short plays on prostitution by Carolyn Gage. The plays include Head in the Game and The Intimacy Coordinator.

This play is simply brilliant-in its construct, its characters and its dialogue."-Sacramento Art and Entertainment Examiner. A children's theatre play for adults! As thirteen-year old Doko struggles to rescue her best friend the Princess Beauty from the curse that says she will be pricked by a spindle before her sixteenth birthday, the adults in the play grapple with the denial about child sexual abuse that holds the kingdom in a tyrant's thrall.

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 worshiper in a showdown of values on the night of Beltane. THERE IS NO MUSIC FOR THIS SHOW.

The entire play is set in a cornfield. The play is about gender-non-conforming geneticist Barbara McClintock and her companion/partner Harriet Creighton, and McClintock's revolutionary quest to understand diversity in nature and to reframe "deviance" as an expression of natural variance.

Joan of Arc led an army to victory at seventeen. At eighteen, she engineered the coronation of a king. At nineteen, she went up against the Catholic church…and lost. Her trial lasted five months, and the testimony by witnesses was carefully transcribed by notaries. Twenty years after her death, a new trial was authorized, and again detailed records were kept. There was testimony by her childhood playmates, by her parents, by the women who slep...

Six new plays by Carolyn Gage, including Black Star, Easter Sunday, Lighting Martha, Female Nude Seated, Miss Le Gallienne Announces the New Season, and 52 Pickup.

Two Irish art students, Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone, meet in a student rooming house in London, late one night in 1917. Both of them are at dramatic turning points in their lives and on the brink of making disastrous choices.

A one-act about the lesbian relationship between legendary lighting designer Jean Rosenthal and her assistant Miki (Marion) Kinsella. The play explores the pain of losing a life partner, and the challenges of loving a committed artist.

Sixteen smokin' hot sermons served up steaming by Sister Carolyn of the Sisterhood of the Sacred Synapse! Hilarious, fierce, provocative, and lesbianic to the bone. If you can't take the heat, you'll be missing out on some nourishing fare!

This is Carolyn Gage's second volume of monologues and scenes for lesbian actors. Some of her characters are historical, and not always lesbian: actresses Nance O'Neil and Henrietta Vinton Davis, Alcoholics Anonymous pioneer Marty Mann, lighting designer Jean Rosenthal... and Lizzie Borden's maid! A fascinating companion to her first volume.

In Black Star, the greatest African American classical actress of the 19th Century, Henrietta Vinton Davis, wrestles with a ghost who is calling into question her entire lifework.

Five members of a play selection committee have gathered in the green room to choose the plays for their Festival of Poorly-Written Plays. The artistic director begins with a review of the more common criteria for a bad play: blatant exposition and contrived names for the characters. He then suggests that they all go around the table and introduce themselves and say a little something about themselves - blatant exposition if ever there was. As...