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Promedy
To prom or not to prom? That is the question The student body leaders at Lowzund High bicker and arg...
Resolutions
It is New Year’s Eve and Al Shubert has invited a group of his friends to celebrate in his luxurious...
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Ruined
Set in a small mining town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lynn Nottage’s Ruined follows M...
The Santaland Diaries
When a down-on-his luck wannabe actor arrives in New York City at the end of the year, the only empl...
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray
In The Second Mrs. Tanqueray by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, Aubrey Tanqueray shocks society when he marr...
Sexual Perversity in Chicago
One of Mamet's earliest plays, Sexual Perversity in Chicago follows four acquaintances, two of whom...
The Shadow of a Gunman
The first of Sean O’Casey’s Dublin plays, The Shadow of a Gunman takes place in May of 1920 during t...
Six Degrees of Separation
When a young and effortlessly charismatic black con man claiming to be the son of Sidney Poitier him...
Skeleton Crew
The third play in Dominique Morisseau’s cycle of plays called The Detroit Projects, Morisseau’s unde...
Small Island
Small Island tells the story of the Windrush generation, Caribbean immigrants who traveled to Englan...
Speed-the-Plow
Speed-the-Plow is one of Mamet's business plays, this one exploring the relationship between busines...
The Star-Spangled Girl
Love and politics collide in Neil Simon’s three-person comedy. It’s the 1960s in San Francisco. The...
