Títulos em Dramaturgia e Peças

L'action se passe à la campagne, à deux lieues et demi de Paris, le baron vient chez la Comtesse pour y trouver son neveu qu'il soit amoureux d'elle, mais... on ne saurait penser à tout.

De 1887 à 1910, Jules Renard tînt recueil de ses pensées, faites de portraits au vitriol sur la littérature, le monde des salons parisiens, les femmes et la politique. Ce journal constitue une source précieuse de renseignements sur la vie politique, littéraire et mondaine de cette époque.

L'un des plus rares plaisirs dont jouisse le comédien, est assurément d'interpréter une œuvre de Marivaux. L'art qui s'y révèle est, en effet, d'une essence unique, d'une originalité si authentique, que les annales de la comédie ne nous en offrent que peu d'autres exemples.

Intégrale en 19 tableaux. Mise en scène de Jean Vilar. Musique de Maurice Jarre.

Bien moins connue que "Le Parfum", cette autre œuvre de Patrick Süskind nous raconte le plongeon vers la solitude et la folie d'un contrebassiste. Instrument imposant et puissant, il est selon le musicien essentiel à tout orchestre digne de ce nom. Il nous décrit avec passion les liens qui les unissent, humanisant à l'extrême l'objet musical de son désir. Mais on découvre au fil du spectacle que derrière cette fascination absolue, se cache une haine à l'encontre de cette contrebasse, encombrante et envahissante, car bientôt l'éloge pompeux laisse affleurer les frustrations et les rancœurs du musicien et de l'homme.

La scène est à Paris, dans le salon de Célimène, jeune et jolie veuve. La critique et les gens de goût l'accueillirent avec beaucoup plus de ferveur que le public. Pourtant de nos jours, l'on considère cette pièce comme un des plus purs joyaux de la scène française.

Marcel Pagnol est né à Aubagne au moment même où, non loin de là, les frères Lumière fixent sur la pellicule l'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat. Son œuvre sera harmonieusement partagée entre littérature et cinéma, l'expression par septième art n'étant à ses yeux en rien inférieure à la création littéraire.

Kombadi Shivay Urus is a hilarious Marathi play about Patil who is Sarpanch of village and his wife, both of whom think that each is having an affair. To makes matter worse a misunderstanding created by their house helper which creates more chaos in their life. Will they be able to get out of this confusion?

Written by Susan Glaspell in 1916, Trifles is a one-act play about a woman accused of strangling her husband. Based on an actual murder case reported by Glaspell for the Des Moines News, the play represented an early exploration of gender relationships in a time when women often were considered to be mere trifles. A groundbreaking feminist play, Trifles is often included in anthologies of drama and literature.

This Pulitzer Prize-winner is a deeply touching and funny play about three eccentric sisters from a small Southern town rocked by scandal when Babe, the youngest, shoots her husband. Humor and pathos abound as the sisters unite with an intense young lawyer to save Babe from a murder charge, and overcome their family’s painful past. A BBC co-production.

Winner of the Susan Smith Backburn Prize honoring women writers worldwide, Emma’s Child explores the idea of commitment in a marriage as a parent. Told gently, lovingly, and with unexpected humor, this is the story of a childless couple struggling to decide whether to continue the adoption process when the baby they had hoped for is born severely disabled.

Jason Alexander, Mary Gross, Edward Asner, and a full cast of unforgettable characters emerge from the steam, in this hilarious supernatural bathhouse.

Jonathan Waxman is a hugely successful artist. He's been profiled in Vanity Fair and receives exorbitant prices for his works, sight unseen. But a visit with his original muse and lover causes him to reevaluate the success that now controls him.

The dignified mother of a ruthless African dictator travels to England to seek treatment for her failed eyes from a renowned ophthalmologist. At first glance, it looks like one woman helping another, but each woman brings to the other her true agenda, triggering a profound moral dilemma and a chain reaction of events with great personal and political aftershocks.

The first of Ayckbourn's darkly comic masterpieces involves a relentlessly cheerful handyman in a disastrously fractured marriage. Two couples develop an unlikely friendship in this painfully funny portrait of British suburban life.

Dr. Melanie Laidlaw is a scientist developing the first use of ICSI, short for intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Her collaborator, Dr. Felix Krankenthaler, turns out to have his own ideas about how to implement their new procedure. The wild card is Melanie's new lover, Menachem Dvir, a fellow scientist. This darkly comic ménage à trois plays out not only in bedrooms and labs, but also in test tubes and under the microscope. A Brave New World indeed!

William Nicholson's Tony-nominated stage adaptation of his award-winning BBC teleplay relates the story of shy Oxford don and children's author C.S. Lewis and American poet Joy Gresham. Shadowlands shows how love, and the risk of loss, transformed this great man's relationships, even with God.

When Jon attends the premier of his movie in the Lansing Film Festival, he faces the most important weekend of his young life, but not in ways he expected. His old pal, Vince, has been stewing for a decade and their high school friend, Amy, is now the assistant district attorney in Lansing. Edgy humor gives way to fiery confrontation that examines memory and perception.

Inspired by released American hostages, Hotel Oubliette is a darkly comedic play that explores what happens when two emotionally disconnected men are chained to a post with an endless amount of time stretching before them.

Playwright Kenneth Lonergan has made a career of creating characters whose considerable flaws often get in the way of their good intentions. In Lobby Hero, two menial security guards are embroiled in an unexpected family fiasco… and the local beat police are divided by their own romantic and political allegiances. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Tate Donovan as Bill; Cedric Sanders as William; Emily Swallow as Dawn; Michael Weston as Jeff. Directed by Bart DeLorenzo. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, June 2011.