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Dustin Lance Black

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LA Theatre Works

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...George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Martin Sheen lead an all-star cast in a powerful portrait of an American civil rights struggle, written by Dustin Lance Black (Milk, J. Edgar) and directed by Rob Reiner (When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men...

Additional Dialogue: An Evening With Dalton Trumbo

Christopher Trumbo

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LA Theatre Works

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...In 1947, witty, outspoken, irascible Dalton Trumbo - the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Roman Holiday and Spartacus - went to prison for defying the House Committee on Un-American Activities and became one of the framed Hollywood...

Radio Mambo: Culture Clash Invades Miami

Culture Clash

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LA Theatre Works

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...The acclaimed comedy trio known as Culture Clash spent three months interviewing about 70 Miami residents for this mix of vignettes about urban renewal, crimes, hurricanes and immigration, as well as where to get a plate of arroz con pollo...

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde

Moises Kaufman

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LA Theatre Works

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...In three short months, Oscar Wilde, the most celebrated playwright and wit of Victorian England, was toppled from the apex of British society into humiliation and ruin. Drawing from trial documents, newspaper accounts, and writings...

In the Name of Security

Peter Goodchild

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LA Theatre Works

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...The Trial of Alger Hiss, The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, The Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer. At the height of the cold War, American democracy was challenged by the anti-Communist atmosphere of the McCarthy era. In the Name...

Unquestioned Integrity: The Hill/Thomas Hearing

Mame Hunt

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LA Theatre Works

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...Adapted directly from the actual transcripts, Unquestioned Integrity examines the notorious Senate Confirmation hearings when law professor Anita Hill charged Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas with sexual harassment. An L.A. Theatre...

‘I Told My Mum I Was Going on an R.E. Trip …’

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Julia Samuels

~playauthor~Written by~ Julia Samuels

Methuen Drama, 2017

Modern Plays

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Acts: 7, Scenes: 28, Roles: Total (33), Female (33), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

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...What do you know about abortion? What do you think about it? Why can we debate it as an idea, but not talk about it as an experience?With one in three women in the UK having had an abortion I Told My Mum I Was Going on an R.E. Trip . . ....

Bordertown

Culture Clash

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LA Theatre Works

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...Culture Clash brashly explores the San Diego-Tijuana region through satire and humor. Bordertown is based upon interviews the trio conducted with more than 100 people from both sides of the border and from every walk of life. Interviewees...

Layla's Room

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Sabrina Mahfouz

~playauthor~Written by~ Sabrina Mahfouz

Methuen Drama, 2016

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

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...For Layla, every day is a battleground. The pay gap, the thigh gap, over-sexed pop and selfies that are photoshopped – they’re just part of the world she lives in. But that world is about to change...

Titanic

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Owen McCafferty

~playauthor~Written by~ Owen McCafferty

Faber and Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (15), Female (1), Male (14), Unassigned (0)

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...At 11.40pm on 14 April 1912, the RMS Titanic, on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, struck an iceberg. At 2.20am the following morning, the ship sank. 1,517 people died. In response to the disaster the British...