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The Accrington Pals
The Accrington Pals tells the poignant story of the 700-strong battalion from Accrington, Lancashire...
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...
