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Arms and the Man
Arms and the Man takes place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian war. Raina Petkoff, a wealthy young wom...
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Be My Baby
It’s 1964 and Mary Adams has been brought to St. Saviours mother and baby home by her distressed mot...
The Birds
The Birds is the story of two aging Athenians, Pithetaerus and Euelpides, who set out in search of a...
Crumbs from the Table of Joy
It is 1950, and Godfrey Crump has just moved his daughters Ernestine and Ermina up to Brooklyn, New...
Dry Land
Ruby Rae Spiegel tackles pregnancy, abortion, friendship, womanhood, and the utterly devastating cha...
Exit the King
Exit the King is perhaps Ionesco’s most conventional Absurdist drama. It takes place on King Berenge...
Frost/Nixon
Frost/Nixon is based on a series of real-life televised interviews led by English journalist and tal...
The Gingerbread Lady
The Gingerbread Lady is a dark drama with comic overtones centering on Evy Meara, a cabaret singer w...
Gruesome Playground Injuries
It’s not your typical love story: Doug and Kayleen meet at the nurse’s office in their elementary sc...
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
A story for the ages, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a riveting play filled with music, lov...
Men on Boats
In 1869, ten explorers set off to chart the Green and Colorado Rivers, under the guidance of John We...
Murder by Poe
This play is a comical retelling of several of Edgar Allan Poe's tales. The stories included in the...
