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References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot
In References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot, Gabriela, the wife of a soldier recently returned from t...
The Reporter
Nicholas Wright’s The Reporter begins with a suicide note: “I can’t bear it anymore, though I don’t...
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Arturo Ui is a small-time gangster down on his luck. With the economy depressed and a lack of action...
Reunion in Vienna
Elena Krug pines for her old love, Prince Rudolf Maximilian Von Hapsburg, formerly a prince of the A...
Riders to the Sea
Set on the remote island of Inishmaan, Synge’s intensely tragic play Riders to the Sea tells the sto...
Full Text
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...
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...