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Major Barbara
Major Barbara explores the conflict between charity and wealth through the lens of the Undershaft fa...
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Making God Laugh
One family. Three kids. Thirty years. That’s the basic setup for Sean Grennan’s Making God Laugh. Ea...
The Malcontent
John Marston’s wickedly funny satire, The Malcontent, centers on the deposed Duke Altofronto, who re...
Man Equals Man
Galy Gay is a porter living peacefully near a British military garrison in Kilkoa, when one day he d...
The Man Who Had Three Arms
The play unfolds in a dimly lit theater where an audience awaits a lecture. A man identified only as...
Marat/Sade
Set in the Asylum of Charenton, Peter Weiss's play shows inmates of the mental facility re-enacting...
Marisol
José Rivera’s Marisol is a haunting and poetic play that follows Marisol Perez, a young Puerto Rican...
Marvin's Room
First produced in 1990, Marvin’s Room tells the story of two sisters, Bessie and Lee. They have not...
Mary Jane
Captivating, witty, yet compassionate, Mary Jane is the story of a mother in an impossible family si...
Mary Page Marlowe
Mary Page Marlowe offers a fragmented portrait of an ordinary life. Mary Page is an accountant from...
Mary Rose
On a small island in the Hebrides of Scotland, a young girl on holiday disappeared. Her parents and...
Mass Murderer Shoots Self First
In a mall somewhere in America, a madman brandishes a gun at the innocent bystanders. However, this...
