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Act Without Words I
Beckett's short play takes place in a desert illuminated by a "dazzling light". The cast consists of...
Ada and the Engine
At the beginning of the British Industrial Revolution, Ada Byron Lovelace, a fiery young inventor an...
After the Fall
In the early stages of a new love, paralyzing memories of past relationships haunt Quentin, a libera...
After Miss Julie
Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie adapts Strindberg's classic play and relocates it to the kitchen o...
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...
