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Radio Golf
The tenth and final play in August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle, Radio Golf follows a black man named...
Raisin
“Raisin” takes place in 1950s Southside Chicago and revolves around a working class black family asp...
The Rape of Lucretia
The Rape of Lucretia revolves around a bet made between three Roman officers, Collatinus, Junius, an...
Real Women Have Curves
Real Women Have Curves takes place in a sewing factory in East Los Angeles, where a group of five La...
Redhead
In the heyday of music halls in Victorian London, a young actress is murdered by a mysterious strang...
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...
Ring Round the Moon
Adapted from Jean Anouilh’s play Invitation to the Castle , Ring Round the Moon is a whimsical jaunt...
