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The Clouds
Strepsiades, an aging Athenian farmer, has been reduced to poverty due to the extravagant tastes of...
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The Cocktail Party
The play focuses on a troubled married couple and their associates. Through the intervention of a ra...
The Colleen Bawn
Dion Boucicault’s The Colleen Bawn is based on Gerald Griffin’s 1829 novel The Collegians, itself in...
Color Blind
Paul is anxiously waiting for his parents. He is about to introduce his new wife, Karen, to them and...
The Columnist
Beginning in 1954, The Columnist charts the public and private life of American journalist Joseph ‘J...
Come Back, Little Sheba
In a small, cramped house in a run-down neighborhood live Doc and Lola Delaney. Lola is a lonely, un...
Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi is the story of Joshua, a young gay man, born in Corpus Christi, Texas, who grows up...
The Countess Cathleen
"The scene is laid in Ireland and in old times." Life on the land is tough and the peasants are st...
Courbet: or, Woman with a Parrot
Three drama students confront their personal and artistic differences as they try to surreptitiously...
The Dance of Death, Part 2
In his sequel to , August Strindberg continues his symbolist exploration of cruelty and unrequited p...
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea
It is late at night in the belly of the Bronx, New York, when Roberta and Danny auspiciously meet in...
Days of Wine and Roses
A man and woman meet. They fall in love. They have a child. Everything seems perfect. Alcohol, howev...
