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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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The Skin of Our Teeth
George and Maggie Antrobus live a seemingly perfect life in suburban Excelsior, New Jersey, along wi...
SMASH
SMASH is based on the novel, An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw. It is about a millionaire...
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...
Betrayal
A sharp look into the nature of romantic relationships, Harold Pinter’s Betrayal starts in 1977 when...
Beyond Therapy
Prudence and Bruce are two Manhattanites looking for love, stability, and sanity. On the advice of h...
The Birthday Party
In one of Pinter’s most memorable works, The Birthday Party, Meg and Petey Boles run a boarding hous...
The Cripple of Inishmaan
On the island of Inishmaan, off the coast of Ireland, there is not that much to do. A young man name...
Don Juan
Juan has proposed to Francesca, but she’s unsure of his true commitment. Francesca decides to use a...
Electra (Euripides)
Several years after the Trojan War, the hero Agamemnon has been murdered by his vengeful wife, Clyte...
A Few Good Men
Aaron Sorkin’s groundbreaking debut A Few Good Men tells the story of a group of military lawyers as...
