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Blind City
One night over the city a mysterious blinding light appears in a clear evening sky. For days afterwa...
Blood Knot
Blood Knot is a play about two brothers, who live in a one-room shack in a crumbling section of Port...
A Delicate Balance
Middle-aged, upper-class, and delicately-balanced couple Agnes and Tobias maintain a financially com...
Den of Thieves
Maggie is a young single woman trying to change her life. She and her sponsor Paul are part of a twe...
Director's Nightmare
It’s five days before the premiere of the non-musical version of Les Misérables, and high school dra...
The Dumb Waiter
The Dumb Waiter is Pinter’s second play. A one-act play heavily influenced by Beckett’s Waiting for...
Electra (Sophocles)
Justice and revenge lie at the heart of Sophocles’ Electra, still considered today a remarkable achi...
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Enchanted April
Sweet-natured Lotty Wilton is suffering depression from the bleak London winter, and from an oppress...
Endgame
In a bleak house by the sea, blind and paralyzed Hamm torments his servant Clov, and his parents, Na...
Equivocation
In 1605, Robert Cecil, prime minister to King James I of England, commissions William Shagspeare to...
Extremities
Rape is about power, and what could happen if a victim took that power back from her attacker? Marjo...
Fallen Angels
Fallen Angels is the comedic story of Julia and Jane, two upper-class women in England in the early...
