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The Flick
In a movie theater near Worcester, MA -- one of the few that hasn't yet switched to digital film --...
In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play
It is the 1880s, and Dr. and Mrs. Catherine Givings live in a beautiful, seemingly sensible Victoria...
Indecent
Indecent by Pulitzer-winning playwright Paula Vogel tells the story of Sholem Asch’s controversial p...
Love, Loss and What I Wore
Adapted from Ilene Beckerman’s memoir of the same name, Love, Loss and What I Wore is a collection o...
Reasons to Be Pretty
When Greg makes a seemingly harmless comment about his girlfriend Steph’s “regular” looking face, th...
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You
Sister Mary Ignatius has happily been teaching children about the glories of Catholicism and the per...
Six Characters in Search of an Author
A blustering theatre director and his egotistical cast are in the midst of a rehearsal when a rag-ta...
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SMASH
SMASH is based on the novel, An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw. It is about a millionaire...
Waiting for Lefty
When it was first produced by the Group Theater in 1935, Waiting for Lefty made a sensation of its p...
Women of Manhattan
Bille, Judy, and Rhonda are friends and successful women living in New York City. However, one night...
The American Dream
Corina is an immigrant from Guatemala who has smuggled her way across the border guided by Efren, he...
The Bald Soprano
Eugène Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano is a masterful classic of the Theatre of the Absurd. One English e...