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The Alchemist
It is seventeenth-century London and the capital has been hit by an outbreak of the plague. Wealthy...
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Alison's House
Susan Glaspell’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Alison’s House, takes us to Iowa on the last day of th...
All This Intimacy
All This Intimacy is an early play by Rajiv Joseph, whose other works have generally been much bette...
An Almanac for Farmers and Lovers in Mexico
Flora, a young American anthropologist living in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico, is about to mar...
The Amazons
Lady Castlejordan and her deceased husband wanted nothing more than a family of strong, athletic, st...
The America Play
Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks says, “a play is a blueprint of an event: a way of creating and rewritin...
American Hero
In Bess Wohl’s American Hero, three misfit “sandwich artists” must band together to save their toast...
The American Plan
It’s summer in the 1960s, by a lake in the Catskills, and delicate, mercurial Lili Adler has been wa...
Amy's View
Amy’s View takes the audience on a tense and emotional journey between a strong mother and her lovin...
And It Came To Pass In Those Days
When mother-to-be Cassie finds herself alone on Christmas Eve with nowhere to go, she returns to the...
And Then They Came For Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank
James Still’s aching ensemble drama takes audiences through one of the worst periods in history. And...
The Angel Intrudes
First published in 1922, The Angel Intrudes is a satirical take on Anatole France’s novel La Revolt...
