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The Humans
Irish-American Erik Blake has brought his wife and his mother for Thanksgiving at the new home of hi...
Lady Windermere's Fan
Lady Windermere’s Fan is one of Oscar Wilde’s most witty and uncompromisingly satirical plays. It ex...
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Lookingglass Alice
In Lookingglass Alice, David Caitlin reinterprets Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through th...
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom takes place in a Chicago recording studio where Ma Rainey’s band members, C...
Machinal
Sophie Treadwell, the playwright behind the revolutionary expressionist play Machinal, reminds us in...
Moon Over Buffalo
It is the summer of 1953, and George and Charlotte Hay, formerly a couple of Broadway stars, have ta...
Most Likely To: The Senior Superlative Monologues
Inspired by students at a New York high school for the arts, Most Likely To: The Senior Superlative...
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...
Saint Joan
Shaw's play is a fictionalized version of the historical life of Joan of Arc. Young Joan, a French f...
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...
