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Measure for Measure
The Duke of Vienna pretends to leave the city on a diplomatic mission. While he is away, he places V...
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The Arabian Nights
It is a well-known tale: King Shahryar, after finding his first wife in the arms of another, murder...
Deathtrap
In Ira Levin’s classic comedic thriller, Deathtrap, a washed-up playwright finds a chance to rise to...
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
When his beloved beagle is destroyed after a rabid rampage, CB is plunged into such a depression tha...
Hand to God
In the tiny, conservative town of Cypress, Texas, the shy, mild-mannered Jason is just trying to be...
Leading Ladies
Set in the 1950s, Leading Ladies focuses on two English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, who find...
No Exit
Sarte’s famous existentialist play follows three people to a room in hell, where their torture is re...
The Outsiders
Christopher Sergel’s play is a faithful adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s coming-of-age-novel about rival...
Shakespeare in Love
We all know William Shakespeare as a brilliant, imaginative, funny, trendsetting playwright whose wo...
Things I Know to be True
Bob and Fran Price have four adult children: Pip, Mark, Ben, and Rosie. Each child has his or her ow...
After the Revolution
Emma Joseph, a bright, hard-working, recent law school graduate descended from a long line of Marxis...
Bang Bang You're Dead
Bang Bang You’re Dead is a visceral examination of the culture that can breed violence in contempora...
