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DNA
When a group of teenagers’ bullying of another student goes too far, they are left with an unplanned...
Five Women Wearing the Same Dress
In Alan Ball’s hilarious comedy, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, five very different bridesmaids...
Play On!
One plucky community theatre is about to produce a show called Murder Most Foul, a new “murder myste...
The Rainmaker
The Rainmaker is a tale of love and a tale of hope, set in “a western state on a summer day in a ti...
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Prince Hamlet of Denmark sets out to avenge his father’s murder, all the while trying desperately to...
Sense and Sensibility
When their father dies unexpectedly, the future seems bleak for the Dashwood sisters of Norland Park...
Summer and Smoke
One of Tennessee Williams’ most subtle and tender works, Summer and Smoke explores the conflict betw...
Tribes
Tribes is the story of Billy, the only deaf member of a loving yet comically dysfunctional British-J...
Antigone
Ancient Thebes survived a civil war, but at a terrible cost. The sons of Oedipus, Eteocles and Polyn...
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The Audition
A new theater teacher is bringing a production of A Chorus Line to the high school. Though the hopef...
Auntie Mame
Based on the 1955 bestselling novel, Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade, Auntie Mame tells the stor...
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Amongst the rubble of a bombed out village in the Caucasus Mountains, in the Soviet Republic of Geor...