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Cloud 9
Cloud 9 is a satirical commentary of the British Empire and its rigid perspectives on gender roles a...
Compleat Female Stage Beauty
In 1666, Ned Kynaston is the most celebrated actor on the English stage. His specialty: Shakespeare’...
Death and the Maiden
Set in a country that is transitioning to democracy, Death and the Maiden explores how -- and if --...
The Diviners
When C.C. Showers, a back-sliding preacher, leaves the pulpit in Kentucky that he’s inherited from h...
Electra (Sophocles)
Justice and revenge lie at the heart of Sophocles’ Electra, still considered today a remarkable achi...
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Fallen Angels
In the stylish London flat of Julia and Frederick Sterroll in 1925, the play opens with the husbands...
Fools
The town of Kulyenchikov has been cursed with stupidity for the last 200 years. The vendor sells fis...
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...
Good People
Life in Boston’s Southie neighborhood is no joke for single mother Margaret Walsh. Fired from her jo...
The Government Inspector
When the locals in a small town in Russia learn that an undercover government inspector is coming fo...
Hello, Goodbye, Peace
Alina, a barista at a Manhattan coffee shop, has dreams of climbing the economic ladder to change th...
