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The Physicists
A nurse has been murdered at Les Cerisiers, a private sanitarium run by the world-renowned psychiatr...
A Picasso
In Jeffrey Hatcher’s gripping one-act play A Picasso, the stage is set in Nazi-occupied Paris in 194...
Pizza With Shrimp on Top
What happens to someone who dies by suicide? According to Daniel, they go to limbo, and in the case...
The Plain Dealer
William Wycherley’s The Plain Dealer is the Restoration comedy adaptation of Moliere’s The Misanthro...
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Playing in Spirit
Derek and Colby, a basketball enthusiast, have come to an empty court to practice. The dark, deserte...
Plumes
Georgia Douglas Johnson’s plays were written during the height of the Harlem Renaissance and offered...
Poor Harold
Floyd Dell may have written Poor Harold in 1920, but in many ways its humor rings just as true today...
Popcorn for the Apocalypse
In the middle of an apocalyptic America, a heavy-driving movie buff and a guitar-playing popcorn mac...
Port Authority
Port Authority is a play that explores the lives of the lonely and unsure through three intersecting...
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Drifter Frank Chambers stumbles his way into the Twin Oaks Tavern, a roadside diner owned by friendl...
The Power of Darkness
Anìsya, the second wife of a Russian peasant, succumbs to the charms of Nikíta, a laborer on her far...
Present Laughter
Present Laughter is lighthearted farce that celebrates playwright Noel Coward’s legendary wit and l...
