Read expert-written show guides with context, plot, characters and video examples.
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Edna and Mel are a struggling, middle-aged couple living in New York City. Mel has just lost his job...
Rhinoceros
In a provincial French village, Berenger and his friend Jean meet at a local cafe for a Sunday after...
The Rose Tattoo
In a small Sicilian-American community along the Gulf Coast, Serafina delle Rose is a fiery and pass...
Seven Guitars
Seven Guitars begins and ends directly after the funeral of Floyd ‘Schoolboy’ Barton. We then flashb...
Shakespeare in Hollywood
Take the glitz and glamour of 1930s Hollywood, populated by real-life, yet delightfully exaggerated...
A View from the Bridge
The limits of family bonds and personal honor are tested in Miller’s gripping tragedy, A View from t...
A Woman of No Importance
A Woman of No Importance satirizes upper-class English society at the end of the nineteenth century....
Full Text
The Women
Contented, kindly Mary Haines, a well-off woman living in New York City, is the envy of her friends...
1984
BIG BROTHER IS ALWAYS WATCHING YOU. This warning rules the frightening, dystopian future of George O...
The Aliens
The Aliens tells the story of two young men who frequent a coffee shop in Vermont and the young empl...
Anna in the Tropics
Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics takes place In Ybor City, Florida in 1929. He...
The Audience
The Audience takes place between 1952 and the present day. It focuses on Queen Elizabeth II’s privat...
