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The Ferryman
The Ferryman is set in Northern Ireland in 1981, during the height of the Troubles. Quinn, a former...
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf is a choreopoem by Ntozake...
The Gin Game
Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey, two elderly residents at a seedy nursing home, strike up an acquain...
Hello, Goodbye, Peace
Alina, a barista at a Manhattan coffee shop, has dreams of climbing the economic ladder to change th...
The Humans
Irish-American Erik Blake has brought his wife and his mother for Thanksgiving at the new home of hi...
The Inheritance (Part One)
Matthew Lopez’ epic play, The Inheritance reimagines E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End as a contemporary p...
The Inheritance (Part Two)
Jerusalem
Jerusalem is a raucous, provocative new work that tells of a modern, mythic English hero: Johnny “Ro...
King Hedley II
Often thought of as the most tragic of Wilson’s plays, King Hedley II is the ninth play in August Wi...
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...
Lookingglass Alice
In Lookingglass Alice, David Caitlin reinterprets Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through th...
A Marriage Proposal
When Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov comes to his longtime neighbor, Stepan Stepanovich Chubukov, to propose...
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