Sidney Morris
- Oh, Danny Boy
Some people are doomed to love the wrong guy. A sexy young hustler appears to make each man’s dreams come true as he moves from one “love” to another. A fast-paced gay drawing-room comedy with terrific character roles.
Two-Act: 1 hr. 20 min. – one interior set
6M: 20s, 30s, 50s, 70s
- The Demolition of Harry Fay
In this witty play, an effeminate author is captive to an idol-worshipping fan. Through his own camp and wit and with the help of a homophobic niece, the author frees himself for a surprising ending. A real comic romp.
Two-Act: 1 hr. 30 min. – one interior set
2M: 20s, 30s
2F: 20s, 60s
- The Fairy Teller -or- the secret life of Hans Christian Andersen
70-year-old virgin Hans recreates three fairy tales in today’s idiom — The Snow Queen (drug dealer), The Match Girl (corner pick up attempts), The Ugly Duckling (plight of the misfit.) Incredibly creative, offbeat look at famous fairy tales and their author, filled with the humor and pathos of a creative life.
Two-Act: 1 hr. 30 min. – one composite set
5M: 20s, 40s – some doubling
- Good Time Boys
Super sexy porno theater backstage mystery overflowing with bitchy wisecracks and laughter that catches in your throat by play’s end. The campy characters, whose jealousy keeps them from sympathizing with a porn actor dying before their eyes, turn into the real human beings they are.
Two-Act: 1 hr. 30 min. – one set on theater stage
5M: 20s, 30s
- If This isn’t Love
Depicts with humor and passion the enduring love of two men. A tender romance.
Three-Act
2M: 20s
- The Twilight Ladies
The depression has destroyed the lives of a hopeful group of young women, gay and straight. How they face and combat their disillusionment, poverty, illness, impending war, and disloyal lovers. Portrays deep parallels with today’s problems. Only then, tuberculosis, not AIDS, was the big health scourge.
Two-Act: 2 hours – one set
3M: 20s, 30s
5F: 20s, 50s
1 child
- Uncle Yossil, a Mystery
A middle-aged modern Jewish man searches his past and finds his future when he sets out to uncover the mystery of his uncle’s life and death. Through a series of interviews, he learns not only his uncle’s secrets, but also his own. Sure to appeal to anyone who ever had a skeleton in the family closet — or out of it.
Won the Jewish Community Center playwriting award.
Two-Act: 2 hours – five partial or one composite set
3M: 20s, 50s, 80s
3F: 50s, 60s
- Video’S Child — cyberpunk futuristic SciFi adventure
A highly comic and original gay play set in the 21st Century after NYC was destroyed by civil war and a total ecological breakdown. Three gay survivors Break into a theater where they are threatened by a RAMBO type character. Tragedy and true love provide them with courage to re-enter
their world.
Two-Act: 1 hr. 20 min. – one interior set
5M: teens-20s
- The Wind Beneath My Wings
A generation gap battle over AIDS by two angry and grieving characters, will have you taking sides through a mist of tears. Should an earlier generation be blamed, hated or envied for having been free to sleep around without fear? How does one channel anger and grief at the loss of a loved one and manage to move on? A sensitive and thought provoking play, the author calls his “favorite.”
Two-Act: 1 hr. 35 min. – one interior set
2M: 20s 40s
- With a Cast of Thousands
Desperate middle-aged con man with a wild moneymaking scheme takes a small inheritance from his only friend, destroying a lifetime relationship, then ruins his devoted wife’s dream of entertaining a former film star, because he won’t forgo his crazy schemes. Marvelous characterizations. Funny and bitter-sweet.
Three-Act: 1 hr. 20 min. hours – two interior sets
3M: 20s 40s
3F: teen, 40s, 70s
- Last Chance at the Brass Ring
A young male orderly suffers love for the husband of a woman the orderly helped to a dignified death. He battles a pretty girl, and homophobic denial, for the widower’s true love — earning a mother’s help and the audience’s affectionate glee.
Two-Act: 1 hr. 40 min. – one interior set
2M: 20s, 30s
2F: 20s 50s
- The Magic Formula
A love affair in 1949 between the disturbed son of a Holocaust survivor and a fresh young Midwestern lad is full of surprises and a touching and sexy denouement. Gives actors lots of opportunity to show their abilities.
Two-Act: 1 hr. 20 min. – one interior
3M: late teens, 40s
- A Pocket Full of Posies – An absurd fantasy
Four destitute characters are “saved” by a young black man who enables them to face their fears and their pasts. With touches of The Lower Depths and the power of an O’Neill opus, this brilliant play explores the powers of faith, the loss of hope and the complexity of human desires.
Two-Act: 1 hr. 15 min. – one set
5M: 20s,30s,40s
5F: 20s, 30s, 40s, 60s
- Six O’Clock Boys
In this touching tapestry of human need and manipulation, Gabriella, a lonely, old, New York woman, entertains a series of equally lonely boys each week precisely at 6PM. The off-beat, melodramatic comic youngsters must come only on their designated nights, no matter how needy they feel. Not until the end of this juicy, tour de force do we learn the heart-wrenching reason.
Won a Dramalogue Critics Award.
One-Act: 1 hr. 10 min. – 1 interior set
3M: 20s, 30s
2W: one off-stage, 50s
- So in Love – A gay revue
Through 10 playlets, a panache of films and plays are spoofed in an irrepressible work dramatizing gay love from the 15th century-to-the-present. Humor abounds, but so do wrenching truths about ourselves and our lives today.
One-Act: 1 hr. 10 min. – composite set
4M: teens-60s – all play multiple roles