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Riders to the Sea
Set on the remote island of Inishmaan, Synge’s intensely tragic play Riders to the Sea tells the sto...
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Set on the remote island of Inishmaan, Vaughan-William’s intensely tragic opera is based on J.M. Syn...
Roberto Devereux
Queen Elisabetta I of England has fallen in love with Roberto Devereux, Earl of Essex, but suspects...
La Rondine
Magda de Civry has always dreamed of romance. As a young girl, she was swept off her feet one evenin...
The Roommate
Sharon, a housewife, 50-something, recently divorced, anxious empty-nester, has some trepidation whe...
Runaways
Runaways tells the story of the forgotten children living on the street of New York City in the 1970...
Salome
Salome is Oscar Wilde’s twist on the biblical story of Herod, Herodias, and Salome. The story tells...
Saturday Night
Status-obsessed Gene Gorman isn’t happy with his life in Brooklyn. Gene dreams of living the high li...
Saved
Saved is set in South London during the 1960s. The play centers around Len, a young working-class ma...
The Sea
The Sea depicts a small coastal village on the east coast of England, sharply divided between ruthle...
The Seafarer
The Seafarer opens as Sharky Harkin has returned home at Christmastime to take care of his brother,...
A Second Birth
Born as one of six sisters in Afghanistan to poor but loving parents, Nasime and her family don’t h...
