Electra (Euripides)
Several years after the Trojan War, the hero Agamemnon has been murdered by his vengeful wife, Clyte...
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Pygmalion
One rainy, London night, phonetics professor Henry Higgins takes in a flower girl named Eliza Doolit...
The Servant of Two Masters
The play tells the story of a hungry servant who, upon realizing that working for two masters could...
Arms and the Man
Arms and the Man takes place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian war. Raina Petkoff, a wealthy young wom...
The Birds
The Birds is the story of two aging Athenians, Pithetaerus and Euelpides, who set out in search of a...
Iolanthe
Since its sparkling 1882 premiere at London’s new Savoy Theatre , the fantastical satire Iolanthe ha...
Troilus and Cressida
In the later years of the Trojan War, Troilus, a prince of Troy, tries to woo Cressida, a fellow Tro...
A Woman of No Importance
A Woman of No Importance satirizes upper-class English society at the end of the nineteenth century....
The Yeomen of the Guard
The Yeomen of the Guard, or The Merryman and His Maid is Gilbert and Sullivan’s sparkling comic oper...
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The boozing and boorish Sir John Falstaff and ) is in Windsor looking to have fun. But he’s running...
A Marriage Proposal
When Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov comes to his longtime neighbor, Stepan Stepanovich Chubukov, to propose...
Patience, or Bunthorne’s Bride
All of the maidens in the village are besotted with Reginald Bunthorne, a moody and handsome poet, b...
