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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...
The Alchemist
It is seventeenth-century London and the capital has been hit by an outbreak of the plague. Wealthy...
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Alison's House
Susan Glaspell’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Alison’s House, takes us to Iowa on the last day of th...
All in Love
The show concerns the wealthy Sir Anthony and Mrs. Malaprop's attempts to arrange a marriage between...
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...
Amelia Al ballo (Amelia Goes to the Ball)
Amelia wants to go to the ball and seemingly nothing will stop her. Even when her husband discovers...
Amen Corner
Margaret Alexander, a female pastor of a storefront church in the 1960s, is greatly admired by her c...
The America Play
Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks says, “a play is a blueprint of an event: a way of creating and rewritin...