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A Number
Caryl Churchill's A Number is a play that explores the issue of human cloning through the relationsh...
The Octoroon
The Octoroon was written by Dion Boucicault and was adapted from the novel The Quadroon by Thomas Ma...
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An Octoroon
A Black playwright is struggling to find his voice among a chorus of people telling him what he shou...
Oedipus El Rey
Is a man master of his own destiny or merely a puppet of Fate, who pulls the strings while acting ou...
The Old Bachelor
In the bustling social whirl of Restoration London, the story centers on Heartwell, a grumpy old bac...
The Old Cart Wrangler's Saga
We’ve all seen that lone shopping cart sitting on the edge of a parking lot. Who goes and gets it,...
Old Heart
Old Heart tells the story of black GI Tom Johnson who joins forces with 24-year-old Sarah van Praag...
Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story
Take a humorously dark folk tale and a high-energy Klezmer folk concert and what do you get? Old Sto...
The Oldest Boy
In this stunning, quietly moving play from the inventive playwright Sarah Ruhl, an American woman le...
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...
