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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
In one of the most famous of literary love quadrangles, A Midsummer Night’s Dream tells the tale of...
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Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a love story for the ages. The Capulet and Montague households ha...
Macbeth
Heroic Macbeth has just won two victorious battles for Scotland, when he encounters three weird sist...
Hamlet
All is not well in the world of Prince Hamlet of Denmark. He has just been hurried back home from Un...
To Kill a Mockingbird
It’s 1935, and racial tensions are high in Maycomb, Alabama. Nonetheless, young Jean Louise Finch --...
The Crucible
In the insular, Puritan community of 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, a group of young girls are found dan...
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Diary of Anne Frank is one of the most famous and haunting stories to emerge from the 20th Centu...
Much Ado About Nothing
The Bard’s famous comedic romp known for the brilliant war of words between the feisty Beatrice and...
Othello
Shakespeare’s Othello is one of his most intimate and devastating tragedies of all. It is a story ab...
A Streetcar Named Desire
Explosive, passionate, and heartrending, A Streetcar Named Desire is modern American theatre at its...
Twelfth Night
Often lauded as one of the most structurally perfect comedies ever written and beloved by audiences...
Steel Magnolias
Truvy Jones runs a successful beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies in the nei...
