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Machinal
Sophie Treadwell, the playwright behind the revolutionary expressionist play Machinal, reminds us in...
A Marriage Proposal
When Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov comes to his longtime neighbor, Stepan Stepanovich Chubukov, to propose...
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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...
The Real Inspector Hound
It is a foggy and foreboding day at Muldoon Manor. This charming, but isolated, English country hou...
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...
See How They Run
See How They Run is set in the idyllic village of Merton-cum-Middlewick, England during the 1940s. I...
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...
Tracks
What happens after we die? In Peter Tarsi’s one-act play Tracks, ten people from all over the countr...
