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The Chairs
The Chairs is absurdist, tragic farce at its finest. It depicts an Old Man and Old Woman who sit in...
The Clean House
Lane is a successful doctor who just wants a clean house and a happy marriage. Unfortunately, her cl...
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...
Educating Rita
Educating Rita is a witty yet poignant look at a working class woman’s attempts to change her social...
Exit the King
Exit the King is perhaps Ionesco’s most conventional Absurdist drama. It takes place on King Berenge...
Fallen Angels
In the stylish London flat of Julia and Frederick Sterroll in 1925, the play opens with the husbands...
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...
The Humans
Irish-American Erik Blake has brought his wife and his mother for Thanksgiving at the new home of hi...
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The boozing and boorish Sir John Falstaff and ) is in Windsor looking to have fun. But he’s running...
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Mother Courage and Her Children
Mother Courage and Her Children, follows one mother -- Mother Courage -- and her three children -- E...
