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The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
December, 1940. Elsa Von Grossenknueten, an eccentric theatre financier, has gathered a team at her...
Pandemonium
Who killed Zeus? That is the question that private detective Minerva Owler is trying to answer in mo...
Reasons to Be Pretty
When Greg makes a seemingly harmless comment about his girlfriend Steph’s “regular” looking face, th...
The Servant of Two Masters
The play tells the story of a hungry servant who, upon realizing that working for two masters could...
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Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You
Sister Mary Ignatius has happily been teaching children about the glories of Catholicism and the per...
SMASH
SMASH is based on the novel, An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw. It is about a millionaire...
The Sunshine Boys
The Sunshine Boys is a classic comedy play written by Neil Simon. It premiered on Broadway in 1972 a...
Waiting for Lefty
When it was first produced by the Group Theater in 1935, Waiting for Lefty made a sensation of its p...
A Woman of No Importance
A Woman of No Importance satirizes upper-class English society at the end of the nineteenth century....
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 Birthday Party
In one of Pinter’s most memorable works, The Birthday Party, Meg and Petey Boles run a boarding hous...
