Shows with All-Female Casts

From the tragically cloistered daughters of a stern matriarch to the hilariously overworked staffers who run the White House, the women in these shows cover the breadth of human experience. Explore this wide-ranging selection of Concord Theatricals plays and musicals featuring all-female casts.

MUSICALS

27 Rue de Fleurus by Ted Sod & Lisa Koch (US)
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 5w)
In this contemporary chamber musical derived from the imagination of Alice B. Toklas, Alice sets the record straight about being Gertrude Stein’s wife and partner for nearly 40 years. As the musical progresses, the celebrated partners confront one another about love, marriage, jealousy and genius – as Pablo Picasso, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mabel Dodge, Sylvia Beach and even Jean Harlow drop by for a visit.

A Taste of Things to Come by Debra Barsha and Hollye Levin (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 4w)
A laugh-out-loud, fabulously fun romp exploring women’s history and celebrating the friendships of four very different women. In 1957, four friends enter a Betty Crocker Cooking Contest in hopes of changing their lives. When they meet up again in 1967, they get more than what they bargained for… just a little taste of things to come.

Bernarda Alba by Michael John LaChiusa (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 10w)
After burying her second husband, a domineering matriarch imposes a strict rule on her five daughters: “Not a breath of outside air is going to enter this house. It’s going to feel like we’ve bricked up the doors and windows,” she proclaims. But before long, the outside world begins to permeate their isolated existence. This powerful musical is adapted from Federico García Lorca’s play The House of Bernarda Alba, available in translations by Michael Dewell & Carmen Zapata (US/UK) or James Graham Lujan & Richard O’Connell (US/UK).

First Daughter Suite by Michael John LaChiusa (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 7w)
A historical fantasia in four parts, First Daughter Suite follows Patricia Nixon and daughters Tricia and Julie, Rosalynn and Amy Carter, Betty and Susan Ford, Patti Davis and mom Nancy Reagan, and Barbara Bush and daughter-in-law Laura as they strive to live meaningful lives in the public eye.

I Can’t Keep Running in Place by Barbara Schottenfeld (US)
(Full-Length Musical / 7w)
In this compassionate, touching, extremely funny musical, a psychologist helps six women express their needs through a dynamic role-playing workshop. The seven women learn to express their needs in a theatrically exciting way, propelling the ensemble, their newly separated leader, and the audience to a compelling climax.

Inside Out by Doug Haverty and Adryan Russ (US)
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 6w)
A women’s therapy group is transformed forever when a new member becomes a catalyst for change in the lives of the others. This insightful, moving and hilarious musical features six dynamic roles for women, a tuneful pop/rock score and a delightful, entertaining book.

Jerry’s Girls by Jerry Herman, Larry Alford and Wayne Cilento (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical / 3w +Ensemble)
In the dynamic musical revue, three women celebrate the music of Jerry Herman, highlighting the broad spectrum of thrilling material he wrote specifically for women. The show includes songs from such immortal musicals as Mame, Hello Dolly!, Milk and Honey, Mack and Mabel, A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine and La Cage Aux Folles.

Jewish Girlz by Elizabeth Swados (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 14w)
During a weekend retreat, adolescent Jewish girls from all types of families and backgrounds share stories and songs transcending stereotypes to explore what it means to be a girl – not just a
Jewish girl – in modern society.

Motherhood the Musical by Sue Fabisch (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 4w)
Having a baby is just the beginning… motherhood is for life. In the charming, original Motherhood The Musical, four women share their insights, challenges and pleasures at a baby shower. Over 90 minutes of fun, you’ll get a peek into the powerful friendship of Amy, a soon-to-be first-time mom; Brooke, a hard-working lawyer; Barb, a stressed-out mother of five; and Tina, a single mom seeking to balance work, her family and her divorce.

Nunsense by Dan Goggin (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 5w)
A zany, wholesome, hilarious musical revue presented by the Little Sisters of Hoboken, Nunsense is a heavenly delight! The show is a fundraiser the Little Sisters are presenting to raise enough money to bury fellow sisters accidentally poisoned by the convent cook, Sister Julia (Child of God). This madcap musical is also available in a large-cast version, Nunsense: The Mega-Musical Version (US/UK).

Nunset Boulevard by Dan Goggin (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 5w, 1 any gender)
The Little Sisters go Hollywood! All the nuns you love have traveled west to make it big in show biz, but their concert “at the Hollywood Bowl” turns out to be a gig at the Hollywood Bowl-A-Rama.

Penelope by Alex Bechtel, Grace McLean and Eva Steinmetz (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 1w)
Penelope has been waiting… and waiting… and waiting for her husband, Odysseus, to return from a decade-long war. Given the rest of the soldiers came home years ago – forgive her, but she’s going to need a drink while she tells you about it. With a beautiful folk-inflected pop score backed by an onstage band of strings, piano and drums, Penelope opens up about her loneliness, her son’s disappearance, her suitors, her gods, her faith in her marriage – and ultimately, the faith that she must have in herself.

Ruthless! by Joel Paley & Marvin Laird (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 7w, with flexible gender casting)
Eight-year-old Tina Denmark knows she was born to play Pippi Longstocking, and she will do anything to win the part in her school musical. “Anything” includes murdering the leading lady! This aggressively outrageous musical hit garnered rave reviews during its long off-Broadway run. Variety called the show “A wonderfully smart and funny send-up of every Broadway brat from Gypsy to The Bad Seed… loaded with campy wit and charm.”

SIX: TEEN EDITION by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 6w +Ensemble)
A full-length adaptation of Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’ international phenomenon SIX, modified for performance by teen actors for family audiences. Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. From Tudor Queens to Pop Princesses, the SIX wives of Henry VIII take the mic to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into an exuberant celebration of 21st-century girl power! This new original musical is the global sensation that everyone is losing their head over.

Swingtime Canteen by Charles Busch, Linda Thorsen Bond and William Repicci (US)
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 5w)
In this nostalgic and hilarious songfest set in London, 1944, Marian Ames and her all-girl band sing a bundle of swinging wartime hits to entertain the fighting boys of WWII. Songs include “I’ll Be Seeing You,” “Sing Sing Sing,” “How High the Moon,” “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive,” “Sentimental Journey,” a fast paced, 12-song Andrews Sisters medley, and many more.

The Marvelous Wonderettes by Roger Bean (US)
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 4w)
This smash off-Broadway hit takes you to the 1958 Springfield High School prom, where four teenage friends have hopes and dreams as big as their crinoline skirts! Featuring over 30 classic ’50s and ’60s hits, The Marvelous Wonderettes will keep you smiling in this must-take musical trip down memory lane. For more adventures with the Wonderettes, visit The Wonderettes Collection (US).

Unexpected Joy by Bill Russell and Janet Hood (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 4w)
Unexpected Joy is the story of three generations of female singers, long-held family tensions, and a week together where change is in the air. In modern-day Cape Cod, Joy, a baby boomer and proud hippie, is holding a memorial concert for the other half of her popular musical duo, Jump & Joy. When her tightly wound, conservative daughter and her sweet, rebellious granddaughter arrive from Oklahoma, sparks fly.

Vanities: The Musical by Jack Heifner and David Kirshenbaum (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 3w)
Based on the hit play Vanities (US) this dynamic musical chronicles the life-affirming journey of three vivacious Texas teens from cheerleaders to sorority sisters to housewives to liberated women and beyond. The show captures a snapshot-sharp portrait of the lives, loves, disappointments, and dreams of these young women as they grow up during the turbulent 60s and 70s and reconnect in the late 1980s.

Well-Behaved Women by Carmel Dean (US/UK)
(Musical Revue, Drama / 9w)
This contemporary song cycle for 4 to 20+ women is a celebration of many historic women who fought to have their voices heard and bravely made their mark on the world. Woman such as Billie Jean King, Frida Kahlo, Harriet Tubman, Cleopatra and Malala Yousafzai bring their incredible stories to life through powerful, emotional and often hilarious songs, leaving audiences entertained, moved and inspired.

Winter Wonderettes by Roger Bean (US)
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 4w)
The Wonderettes are back! This seasonal celebration finds the girls entertaining at the annual Harper’s Hardware Holiday Party. When Santa turns up missing, the girls use their talent and creative ingenuity to save the holiday party! Featuring great versions of holiday classics such as “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town,” “Jingle Bell Rock,” “Run, Rudolph, Run,” and “Winter Wonderland,” the result is, of course, marvelous! For more adventures with the Wonderettes, visit The Wonderettes Collection (US).

PLAYS

5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche by Evan Linder and Andrew Hobgood (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 5w)
It’s 1956 and The Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein are having their annual quiche breakfast. As the assembled “widows” await the announcement of the society’s prize-winning quiche, the atomic bomb sirens sound! Has the Communist threat come to pass? 5 Lesbians Eating A Quiche is a tasty recipe of hysterical laughs, sexual innuendoes, unsuccessful repressions, and delicious discoveries.

53% Of by Steph Del Rosso (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 6w)
This biting satire explores the beliefs of white women on each side of the American political spectrum, exposing both those whose activism empowered the politics of the far right conservative party, and those whose performative liberal allyship has problematic limits.

Agnes of God by John Pielmeier (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w)
In this taut, compelling three-character drama, Dr. Martha Livingstone, a court-appointed psychiatrist, is summoned to a convent to assess the sanity of a novice accused of murdering her newborn. Miriam Ruth, the Mother Superior, determinedly keeps young Agnes from the doctor, further arousing Livingstone’s suspicions. Who killed the infant, and who fathered the tiny victim? Livingstone’s questions force all three women to re-examine the meaning of faith and the power of love, leading to a dramatic climax.

Alabaster by Audrey Cefaly (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w)
This all-female, darkly comic southern drama explores the meaning and purpose of art. June, an artist, lost her family in an Alabama tornado and emerged physically and emotionally scarred. Alice, a photographer, comes to take pictures of June, and what the two women need from each other transcends the physical. Alabaster asks: What does it mean to be truly “seen?”

Always a Bridesmaid by Jones Hope Wooten (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 6w)
In this hilarious comedic romp, four friends have sworn to keep the promise they made on the night of their senior prom: to be in each other’s weddings – no matter what. More than 30 years later, these Southern friends-for-life are still making “the long walk” for each other, determined to honor that vow. Libby Ruth, the hopeful romantic with the perfect marriage, believes – in spite of all evidence to the contrary – that her friends can find the very same happiness. Headstrong Deedra’s “rock-solid” union hangs by a thread. Monette, flashy, high-spirited and self-involved, continues to test her friends’ love and patience. And salt-of-the-earth, tree-hugging Charlie discovers the hard way that marital bliss is not the end of her rainbow.

anthropology by Lauren Gunderson (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w)
Merril has been spending more time with her sister, Angie, but she isn’t ready for anyone to know about it. At least, not until Merril has decided that Angie is ready to see other people – but it is going to take a little more finessing, and definitely less fighting. After Angie, without permission, arranges for Merril’s ex Raquel to come over, the truth comes out: Angie is an A.I. creation that Merril has developed to cope with her sister’s death.

Belfast Girls by Jaki McCarrick (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w)
Escaping the Irish famine in 1850, five young women seek passage on a ship to Australia. For many of the “orphan girls” on board, the voyage offers a fresh start. But some girls find they cannot escape the memory of the lives they’ve left behind—and the closer they get to Australia, the more powerful the past becomes.

Blackademics by Idris Goodwin (US)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 3w)
There’s something strange about the trendy new restaurant in town. When Ann and Rachelle meet there for dinner, there’s already tension in the friendship they’ve built on their common experience navigating academia as black women. But as the hunger sets in, the two professors find themselves the unknowing stars of an absurdist dinner theatre performance of Black plight. Somebody’s got to get the first bite, after all. A sharp, surreal satire about who gets a place at the table.

Blown Youth by Dipika Guha (US)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 7w)
An aspiring actress and founder of a feminist commune, Celia wants one thing: to play a great role. But despite her sophisticated education and commitment to helping women, Celia, like Hamlet before her, cannot act. Inspired by Shakespeare and set in those hazy post-college years, Blown Youth examines what happens to the universe when a woman is at its center.

Bull in a China Shop by Bryna Turner (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 5w)
Inspired by the real letters between Mary Woolley and Jeanette Marks spanning from 1899-1937, this fast-paced comedy asks: What is revolution? What does it mean to be at odds with the world? How do we fulfill our potential? And how the hell do we grow old together?

Business Ideas by Milo Cramer (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4w)
In a too-cute café, a desperate mother and daughter brainstorm get-rich-quick schemes to pay for college (or maybe to make ends meet?). Meanwhile, their hapless server tries to network with a revolving cast of customers, all hilariously played by one actor. Inspired by playwright Milo Cramer’s own experiences with his enterprising mom, Business Ideas is an award-winning comedy about getting rich (or not?), and whether money really buys happiness – one cup of coffee at a time.

Cadillac Crew by Tori Sampson (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w)
On the day of a much-anticipated speech by Rosa Parks during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, four activists working in a Virginia civil rights office wonder whether the proclamation of equality amongst mankind includes women. With remarkable insight and unexpected humor, Cadillac Crew reclaims the stories of the forgotten leaders who blazed the trail for desegregation and women’s rights and asks: When will the world be ready to embrace women in all their capacity?

Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties by Jen Silverman (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 5w)
Jen Silverman’s hilarious play, which The New York Times called “a fult-tilt lesbian/bi-curious/genderqueer/Shakespearean comedy for everyone,” explores anger, sex, love and the “thea-tah” through the the experiences of five women named Betty.

cullud wattah by Erika Dickerson-Despenza (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w)
Part meditation/call to action, part domestic drama, cullud wattah explores the effects of the Flint water crisis on a multigenerational family of Black women. Blending form and bending time, cullud wattah dives deep into the poisonous choices of the outside world, the contamination within, and how we make the best choices for our families’ future when there are no real, present options.

Decision Height by Meredith Dayna Levy (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 9w)
A powerful story about friendship and the essential role of women in wartime. Virginia Hascall has left her home and fiancé to become a Women Airforce Service Pilot, doing her part to help defeat the Axis powers in WWII. Through triumph and tragedy, Virginia and her sisters in flight suits learn as much about themselves as they do about airplanes. With a cast of nine vibrant female characters, Decision Height offers a compelling look into an under-recognized subset of American heroes.

Decked! by Ginna Hoben (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w)
It’s Christmas Eve, and Celia is at a breaking point. She’s unemployed, broke and her only daughter wants to move in with Celia’s ex-husband and his much younger bride-to-be. Celia tries to drown her pain in alcohol and pills before her eccentric sister Louise shows up and makes Celia review her past, present and potential futures. But Louise’s own past eventually comes to light and complicates Celia’s road to recovery. Decked! is an all-female dramedy about letting go and moving on.

Dream Hou$e by Eliana Pipes (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3w, 2 any gender)
Two Latina sisters prepare to sell their home on a reality TV show, hoping to capitalize on neighborhood gentrification. But once the cameras are rolling, the family’s turbulent past and uncertain future begin to collide, and the sisters are forced to reckon with the secrets held between the house’s walls.

Flex by Candice Jones (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 6w)
The pressure is on for the 1998 Lady Train High School basketball team – on top of a battle to bring home the championship trophy, it is also college scouting season. But the team’s performance on the court is tested as it ruptures under the weight of its own infighting, and the once-tight players begin to focus on their individual futures. What does it mean to be a Black girl on the brink of freedom and womanhood in a small town in the South? Does honoring your own wants mean sacrificing your friends, family and team? A funny and frank play about getting a full-court press from life.

Float by Patricia Kane (US)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 5w)
The industrious members of the Budapest Women’s Club (pronounced “Bu-DAP-est”) come together for an annual tradition: the crafting of the holiday parade float. But under the surface of this pleasant gathering, the women find themselves grappling with sexuality, betrayal and their own hard and fast notions of right and wrong.

for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 7w)
Capturing the brutal, tender and dramatic lives of contemporary Black women, For Colored Girls… offers a transformative, riveting evening of provocative dance, music and poetry. This groundbreaking “choreopoem” is a spellbinding collection of vivid prose and free verse narratives about and performed by Black women.

Hazelwood Jr. High by Rob Urbinati (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 6w)
At first, Hazelwood Jr. High is like any other middle school—cliques and crushes, dances and detention. But when a new girl unwittingly steps into a “love triangle,” a revenge plot is hatched, and events spin out of control, escalating into a shocking and unimaginable climax. Based on a true story, Hazelwood Jr. High was originally produced off-Broadway by The New Group in a site-specific production at New York City’s Intermediate School 70 in 1998.

Horse Girls by Jenny Rachel Weiner (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 7w)
Twelve-year-old Ashleigh rules the Lady Jean Ladies, South Florida’s most exclusive horse club. News that her family’s stables are being sold and their horses killed for meat throws the Ladies into crisis.

How Black Mothers Say I Love You by Trey Anthony (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4w)
A powerful and touching tale of immigration, family and sacrifice. Hard-working Daphne left her two young daughters in Jamaica for six years to create a better life for them in America. Now, 30 years later, proud and private, Daphne is relying on church and her nearby dutiful daughter to face a health crisis. But the arrival of feisty activist Claudette stirs up family ghosts and the burning desire for unconditional love.

Hurricane Diane by Madeleine George (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 5w)
Meet Diane, a permaculture gardener dripping with butch charm. She’s got supernatural abilities owing to her true identity—the Greek god Dionysus—and she’s returned to a suburban New Jersey cul-de-sac to gather mortal followers and restore the Earth to its natural state. Pulitzer Prize finalist Madeleine George pens a hilarious evisceration of the blind eye we all turn to climate change and the bacchanalian catharsis that awaits us, even in our own backyards.

In Juliet’s Garden by Judith Elliot McDonald (US)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 7w)
Juliet Capulet invites four other heroines of Shakespeare’s classics (Katharina, Portia, Ophelia and Desdemona) to lunch in her favorite garden in Verona to discuss ‘issues’ they all have with their plots. This lively fifty-minute one-act comedy sparkles with wit and an in-depth understanding of the characters of these indelible ladies, and their effects on audiences over the centuries.

Jar The Floor by Cheryl L. West (US)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 5w)
A quartet of Black women spanning four generations makes up this heartwarming dramatic comedy. The four, plus the white woman friend of the youngest, come together to celebrate the matriarch’s 90th birthday. It’s a wild party, one that is a lovable lunatic glance at the exhilarating challenge of growing old amidst the exasperating trials of growing up.

Knickers! by Sarah Quick (US)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w)
The paper mill that long propped up the economy of Elliston Falls has been shut down, sending the town spiralling into an economic depression. When a chipper but overwhelmed tourism officer arrives to lend a hand, she discovers an unlikely business partnership in the three brassy friends that make up the local chapter of Weight Watchers. Could the ladies’ plan for a custom underwear business (complete with giant knickers as a roadside attraction) really be the town’s salvation?

La Ruta by Isaac Gómez (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 6w)
Inspired by real testimonies, and using live music to evoke factory work and protest marches, La Ruta is a visceral unearthing of secrets buried in the desert and a celebration of the Mexican women who stand resiliently in the wake of loss.

Lotus Beauty by Satinder Chohan (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w)
The intertwined lives of five multi-generational women invite us into Reita’s Salon, where clients can wax lyrical about their day’s tiny successes or have their struggles massaged, plucked or tweezed away. But with honest truths and sharp-witted barbs high among the treatments on offer, will the power of community be enough to raise the spirits of everyone who passes through the Salon doors?

Love, Loss and What I Wore by Nora Ephron, Delia Ephron and Ilene Beckerman (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 5w)
This play of monologues and ensemble pieces about women, clothes and memory covers all the important subjects: mothers, prom dresses, mothers, buying bras, mothers, hating purses and why we only wear black. Based on the bestselling book by Ilene Beckerman.

LUCY by Erica Schmidt (US)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 2w, 1 girl)
On paper, Ashling is the perfect person to take care of Mary’s young children: a confident, highly qualified childcare professional with a sunny disposition and lots of experience. But from the moment Mary hires her, something starts to feel just a little off. Is Ashling as wonderful as she seems? Lucy is a comedic thriller about what happens when you don’t trust the person who holds the key to your front door.

Mac Beth by Erica Schmidt (US)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 7w)
After school, seven teenage girls convene in an abandoned lot to perform a play. They drop their backpacks, transform their uniforms, and dive into a DIY retelling of Macbeth. As the girls conjure kings, warriors and witches, Shakespeare’s bloody tale seeps into their reality. Mac Beth recontextualizes a classic text to expose the ferocity of adolescence and the intoxicating power of collective fantasy.

Mala Hierba by Tanya Saracho (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w)
Liliana has a sparkle few can deny and no one can resist. The trophy wife of a border magnate living in Texas, she’s seemingly impeccable. But beneath that polished exterior lies a fierce determination to survive at any cost. When Liliana’s true desires break the surface, she’ll have to decide between the value of obligation versus the price of freedom.

Mary Gets Hers by Emma Horwitz (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 5w)
It’s the 10th century! A plague rages on in Germany! Everyone is turning into foam! When two overzealous hermits find an abandoned orphan named Mary, they scheme a saintly rescue mission to protect her purity at any and all costs. Mary, however, has other plans for herself, in this riotous, racy, (ir)religious play inspired by Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim’s closet drama-comedy Abraham, or the Rise and Repentance of Mary.

Mary Jane by Amy Herzog (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w)
As Mary Jane navigates both the mundane and the unfathomable realities of caring for Alex, her chronically ill young son, she finds herself building a community of women from many walks of life. Mary Jane is Pulitzer Prize finalist Amy Herzog’s remarkably powerful and compassionate portrait of a contemporary American woman striving for grace.

Marys Seacole by Jackie Sibblies Drury (US)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 6w)
Born in 1805 Jamaica, Mary Seacole is determined to live an extraordinary life. As she travels across oceans and centuries, through a Jamaican hospital, a Crimean battlefront, a contemporary nursing home and everywhere in between, Mary moves through life with Herculean fortitude. But as her brazen spirit meets historical reality, Mary’s world explodes, splitting, multiplying and redefining her narrative.

Men on Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus (US)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 10w)
Ten explorers. Four boats. One Grand Canyon. Men on Boats is the true(ish) history of an 1869 expedition, when a one-armed captain and a crew of insane yet loyal volunteers set out to chart the course of the Colorado River. With the adventurers being played by an ensemble of women and gender-expansive actors, Men On Boats reframes masculine arrogance as a farcical, thrilling exploration of everything that goes into, well, exploration.

Morning Sun by Simon Stephens (US)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w)
In Greenwich Village a generation or so ago, the city is alive. Joni Mitchell sings, friends and lovers come and go, and the regulars change at the White Horse Tavern. As fifty years pass, one woman’s life is revealed in all its complexity, mystery and possibility in this enthralling piece about mothers and daughters.

Murder, Margaret and Me by Philip Meeks (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 3w)
In the early 1960s, acting legend and “funniest woman alive” Margaret Rutherford refuses to play Agatha Christie’s beloved crime-solver, Miss Marple. Over time, Margaret and Agatha form an unlikely friendship filled with high tea, brandy snaps and gossip.

N/A by Mario Correa (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 2w)
Inspired by real people and events, N/A is a whip-smart battle of wills – and wits – between N, the first woman Speaker of the House, and A, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. This riveting two-hander illuminates the person whom many consider the most powerful woman in American history…and the once-in-a-generation political talent who defied her.

O’Keeffe! by Lucinda McDermott (US)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w)
Georgia O’Keeffe has summoned an audience to help answer the question, “Was it me or was it Stieglitz?” We journey with O’Keeffe from 1915, when she tears up her work to date and starts over in black and white to discover her own style. She revisits key moments in her life to reveal hidden truths, but the shadow of manager and husband Alfred Stieglitz looms heavy over her. Was it his nude photographs of her that enticed the art world to her, or was it her own excellence of craft? In the end, the truth that lies deep in Georgia’s heart is revealed – and it’s as devastating as it is honest. A revealing drama about the beloved and complex American icon.

POTUS by Selina Fillinger (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 7w)
An uproarious Broadway debut by playwright Selina Fillinger, POTUS Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive is a riotous comedy about the women in charge of the man in charge of the free world. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon must risk life, liberty and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble.

Project Dawn by Karen Hartman (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 7w)
Philadelphia is home to a revolutionary – and shockingly funny – treatment court for prostitute women. In Project Dawn, seven actresses double as staff members and court participants, probing the thin lines between freedom and slavery, activism and obsession – on both sides of the law.

School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play by Jocelyn Bioh (US)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 8w)
Paulina, the reigning queen bee at Ghana’s most exclusive boarding school, has her sights set on the Miss Universe pageant. But the arrival of Ericka, a new student with undeniable talent and beauty, captures the attention of the pageant recruiter – and Paulina’s hive-minded friends. This buoyant and biting comedy explores the universal similarities (and glaring differences) facing teenage girls across the globe.

Single Black Female by Lisa B. Thompson (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 2w)
This two-woman show features rapid-fire comic vignettes exploring the lives of thirty-something African American middle-class women in urban America. SBF 1, an English literature professor, and SBF 2, a corporate lawyer, keep each other balanced as they search for love, clothes and dignity in a world that fails to recognize them amongst a parade of stereotypical images.

Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 6w)
All the ladies who are “anybody” in Chinquapin, Louisiana come to Truvy’s beauty salon to have their hair done. Filled with hilarious repartee and several acerbic verbal collisions, the comedy moves toward tragedy in the second act when one of the ladies of the salon risks her life to go through with a dangerous pregnancy. Confronted with the harshness of mortality, the others draw together to find strength – and love – in the wake of tragedy.

The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women by Carolyn Gage (US)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 9w)
In this engrossing, provocative courtroom drama, the audience serves as judge and jury in a case against the five women who betrayed the Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov, the last surviving daughter of the Tsar of Russia. It’s a farcical but profoundly engaging excursion into the hidden world of ethics for women who are both survivors and perpetrators of abuse toward women. The play is shaped by the audience decisions to overrule or sustain the attorneys’ motions, and every night’s audience sees a different play.

The Apiary by Kate Douglas (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 5w)
Zora is overqualified for her new job at the lab, but she’s there because she loves bees – or what is left of them, as it has been years since bees produced honey or pollinated certain fruits and flowers. Her sweet coworker, Pilar, and stressed supervisor, Gwen, have learned to keep their heads and budgets down so their research doesn’t get discontinued. Zora, however, doesn’t mind spending her own time and money to try to rehabilitate the bee population. When an unfortunate incident in the lab leads to a boost in the bees’ numbers, Zora and Gwen have to decide just how far they’re willing to go to keep the population growing in this unsettling and sharp-witted cautionary tale.

The Cat’s Mother by Erica Murray (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 3w) ?
Ciara’s younger sister, Sinead, arrives at her door on Friday evening all set for what Ciara thinks will be a weekend of respite from caring for their mother, Eileen. However, unbeknownst to Ciara, Sinead has alternative ideas about how the weekend will pan out. And it is not what Ciara expected.

The Convent by Jessica Dickey (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 7w)
A group of women go on a retreat to live like nuns in the Middle Ages and are baptized with ’80s pop, female mysticism, hallucinogens and sex. The Convent is a toothy dark comedy about desire, devotion and the mystery of intrinsic divinity.

The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls by Meg Miroshnik (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 6w)
Once upon a time—in 2005—a twenty-year-old girl named Annie returned to her native Russia to brush up on the language and lose her American accent. While finding an enchanted motherland teeming with evil stepmothers, wicked witches and ravenous bears, she must learn how to become the heroine of this mysterious fairy tale.

The Glorious World of Crowns, Kinks and Curls by Keli Goff (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w)
In the tradition of The Vagina Monologues and For Colored Girls…, The Glorious World of Crowns, Kinks and Curls is a collection of monologues and scenes featuring voices of Black women from around the globe recalling unforgettable moments in their lives in which their hair – and their complicated relationships with their hair – took center stage.

The Half-Life of Marie Curie by Lauren Gunderson (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w)
In 1911, Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of the elements radium and polonium. By 1912, she was the object of ruthless gossip over an alleged affair with the married Frenchman Paul Langevin, all but erasing her achievements from public memory. Weakened and demoralized by the press lambasting her as a “foreign” Jewish temptress and a homewrecking traitor, Marie agrees to join her friend and colleague Hertha Ayrton, an electromechanical engineer and suffragette, at her summer home in England. The Half-Life of Marie Curie revels in the power of female friendship as it explores the relationship between these two brilliant women.

The Mamalogues by Lisa B. Thompson (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 3w)
From the award-winning writer of Single Black Female comes this new comedy about the exhilaration and exhaustion that come from being a Black single mother in America. During a single mother’s retreat, three women share their angst about racial profiling on the playground, their child being the “only one” at their school, and the politics of soccer in the hood.

The Most Massive Woman Wins by Madeleine George (US)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4w)
Challenging, brutal and hilarious, four women of various shapes and sizes sitting in the waiting room of a liposuction clinic explore their perceptions of body image. The women reveal their experiences dealing with their weight issues through monologues, short scenes, and even schoolyard rhymes. From painful childhood memories to frustrations with the opposite sex, these experiences both haunt and empower these women as they imagine their way to a new vision of themselves as beautiful and whole.

The Regina Monologues by Rebecca Russell and Jenny Wafer (US/UK)
(Monologues, Drama / 6w)
Six women with one thing in common—marriage to a man called Henry—have passed into historical legend. The plight of those sixteenth-century women is personal, poignant and still relevant five hundred years on.

The Revlon Girl by Neil Anthony Docking (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w)
Eight months after the Aberfan Disaster of 1966, in which 144 people were killed (116 of them children), a group of bereaved mothers meet weekly above a local hotel to talk, cry and even laugh without feeling guilty. Afraid that people will think them frivolous, they’ve secretly arranged for a representative from Revlon to come and give them a talk on beauty tips.

The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson (US)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w)
Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters and how we actually go about changing the world.

The Rocket Men by Crystal Skillman (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 6w)
Who gets to be remembered in the history books? Why? This unique theatrical experience carries us through time to present the story of the German “Rocket Men” who used their scientific skills to flee Nazi Germany and settle in the most unlikely of places: North Alabama, where they form the backbone of NASA’s rocketry program. In this modern play, the women who work at Space Camp step into the lives of these scientists by playing the Rocket Men themselves.

The Second-to-Last Chance Ladies League by Jones Hope Wooten (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 5w)
In this delightful and uproarious sequel to Always a Bridesmaid, four best friends – Libby Ruth, Deedra, Monette and Charlie – each yearning to change her life before it’s too late, return to their beloved Laurelton Oaks, a wedding venue they know all too well. With Deedra’s purchase of the stately venue, the others rally around her, and the business is ingeniously reimagined as “Occasionally Yours,” an events center for all kinds of fresh, new celebratory gatherings. With these women so involved in each other’s lives, what could possibly go wrong?

The Secretaries by Lisa Kron, Babs Davy, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Maureen Angeles (US)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 5w)
Pretty Patty Johnson is thrilled to join the secretarial pool of the Cooney Lumber Mill under the iron-fisted leadership of sultry office manager Susan Curtis. But she soon begins to feel that all is not right with the disappearance of a lumberjack.

The Star Quilter by William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama/ 2w)
When Luanne asks Mona, a member of the Assiniboine tribe, to make a star quilt for a senator, Mona agrees. But the gift’s meaning is lost on its buyer. The Star Quilter explores the effect of consumerism on indigenous populations, asking whether integrity is more valuable than money.

The Taming by Lauren Gunderson (US)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 3w)
Tweetering, panda shrews, and undying giddiness for James Madison – what else could you expect to find at a Miss America pageant? In this hilarious, raucous, all-female “power-play” inspired by Shakespeare‘s Shrew, contestant Katherine has political aspirations to match her beauty pageant ambitions. All she needs to revolutionize the American government is the help of one ultra-conservative senator‘s aide on the cusp of a career breakthrough, and one bleeding-heart liberal blogger who will do anything for her cause.

The Winter Guard Play by Avery Deutsch (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 7w)
Winter guard is NOT color guard. Forget the football, forget the pom poms. In Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, a high school winter guard team attempts to choreograph a routine on the topic of global warming. A play about catching flags, catching each other, and realizing the grown-ups aren’t going to save you. 

The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 10w)
Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors. A portrait of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for nine American girls who just want to score some goals.

The Women by Clare Boothe Luce (US)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 20w, expandable)
When this gleefully malicious comedy about New York society matrons premiered on Broadway, audiences were shocked, outraged and delighted. Featuring an all-female cast and some of the funniest dialogue ever written for the American stage, The Women offers a fascinating inside look at the catty world of Park Avenue society.

Tinned Goods by Fiona Whitelaw (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w)
Set 150 days into the miners’ strike of 1984-1985, the poignant and powerful play depicts the struggle of the miners and their families through the eyes of the women in the community. The drama follows the events leading up to the largest women’s protest in the UK.

Tomorrow Game by Brandy N. Carie (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w)
This post-apocalyptic drama about two of the last people on Earth explores the power of human connection. But in this world, friendship can prove more dangerous than isolation.

Top Girls by Caryl Churchill (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 7w)
Caryl Churchill’s hilarious, groundbreaking, gritty play about the fictional “Top Girls” employment agency begins with a time-warped luncheon attended by women in legend or history offering their perspectives on maternity and ambition.

Uncommon Women and Others by Wendy Wasserstein (US)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 9w)
Comprised of a collage of interrelated scenes, the action begins with the reunion of five close friends and classmates from Mount Holyoke College. They compare notes on their activities since leaving school and then, in a series of flashbacks, we see them in their college days and learn of the events, some funny, some touching, some bitingly cynical, that helped to shape them.

Underdog: The Other Other Brontë by Sarah Gordon (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w)
Sarah Gordon’s play is a tale of the life and legend of the Bronté sisters, and the story of the sibling power dynamics that shaped their uneven rise to fame. It’s about sisters and sisterhood, love and jealousy, support and competition.

Voyage to Lesbos by Maureen Angelos, Lisa Kron, Babs Davy, Dominique Dibbell & Peg Healey (US)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 5w)
The maiden effort from legendary theater troupe the Five Lesbian Brothers, Voyage to Lesbos takes a darkly humorous look at the warping effects of internalized homophobia and phallo-centrism on the lesbian psyche. Check out another hilarious all-female show from the Five Lesbian Brothers: Brave Smiles… Another Lesbian Tragedy (US/UK)

We Could All Be Perfect by Hannah Morley (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w)
A teenage girl steps over a barrier and destroys a painting. Another steals a lipstick. Another has her first kiss in the dark. Whilst another walks into a supermarket and starts a republic. A furious and funny play that explores whether teenage girls will save the world and asks if they should have to.

Wish You Were Here by Sanaz Toossi (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 5w)
Set in Iran from 1978 to 1991, this breathtaking and unabashed comedy-drama explores the evolving relationships among a group of five women during the escalation, height and aftermath of the Iranian Revolution.

Women Playing Hamlet by William Missouri Downs (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w plus ensemble)
Hamlet‘s a challenge for any actor, but when Jessica is cast as the titular character in a New York production, it sends her into an existential tailspin. It doesn’t help that her acting coach is borderline abusive, or that every Starbucks barista with an MFA tells her she‘s too young for the role. Or that she‘s somehow managed to make Sir Patrick Stewart her nemesis. Not to mention the fact that she‘s a woman. How can Jessica figure out “to be or not to be,” when she can’t even figure out herself? Featuring an all-female cast performing multiple roles, Women Playing Hamlet is rip-roaring fun for Shakespeare fans and haters alike.

For a complete list of Concord Theatricals plays featuring all-female casts, visit Concord Theatricals in the US or UK.