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On Approval
With biting dialogue and piercing wit, On Approval follows the misadventures of two people and their...
One Empire, Under God
Set in the far distant future, One Empire, Under God - an epic, dystopian drama in two acts - tells...
Orpheus Descending
In Tennessee Williams’ melodramatic tale, small town life in the deep south is imagined as a trouble...
Oslo
It’s 1992. The bloody tension between Israel and Palestine has never been higher. US-led peace negot...
Our Betters
At once a satire of Americans and the English, W. Somerset Maugham’s Our Betters is a witty period p...
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Our Country's Good
Inspired by the historical events surrounding the “first fleet” of British convicts sentenced to tra...
Our Lady of Kibeho
In 1981, at Kibeho College in Rwanda, a young girl claims to have seen the Virgin Mary. Disbelieved...
Out of Tune
Louise and Charlie are on a a contentious date at Lincoln Center, ahead of seeing The King And I in...
The Outside
Susan Glaspell’s The Outside is a symbolic short play concerning two women and their attempt to shie...
Over the Tavern
The first in a trilogy of plays about the Pazinski family, Over the Tavern is set in Autumn 1959. Th...
Oz
When a tornado whisks young Beth away, she suddenly finds herself in a place that feels oddly like t...
Pandora's Box
Pandora’s Box is the second half of Frank Wedekind’s Lulu plays, the first half being Earth Spirit....