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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....
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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...
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...
The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?
The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? centers around Martin, a middle-aged architect at the peak of his fame,...
How I Learned to Drive
Paula Vogel’s groundbreaking and controversial play How I Learned to Drive tells the story of a youn...
