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Ada and the Engine
At the beginning of the British Industrial Revolution, Ada Byron Lovelace, a fiery young inventor an...
After the Fall
In the early stages of a new love, paralyzing memories of past relationships haunt Quentin, a libera...
After Miss Julie
Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie adapts Strindberg's classic play and relocates it to the kitchen o...
Afterplay
Brian Friel’s one-act, Afterplaym features two Chekhovian characters who meet twenty years after we...
Afterwards
According to the National Violence Against Women Survey, 1 in 6 U.S. women will be the victim of sex...
Agokwe
This semi-autobiographical play one-man play explores a story of hidden love between two gay teenage...
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...
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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...
