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Another Saturday Night
The play begins in the 1960s when two young lovers are forced to part. We then move to the present d...
Antigone
French dramatist Jean Anouilh’s Antigone is a modern retelling of the ancient Greek play by Sophocle...
Antigone in Munich
In her telling the true story of young anti-Nazi activist Sophie Scholl, Claudia Haas uses the centr...
Antigone Now
Melissa Cooper’s Antigone Now is a one-act play inspired by Antigone by Sophocles. The story is cond...
Apart Together
Somewhere between 2010 and 2020 a pandemic rages across the nation. Person 1’s store has been looted...
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The Apple Cart
What is the value of a monarchy? That’s the question at issue when a royal power struggle creates a...
The Archbishop's Ceiling
In an unnamed Eastern European capital city, four writers come together for the first time in severa...
Arden of Faversham (Anonymous)
The sixteenth-century domestic tragedy, Arden of Faversham, depicts the calculated murder of Thomas...
Aristocrats
Characteristically Chekhovian, Aristocrats is a brilliant portrait of a dysfunctional family and a d...
The Arithmetic of Memory
Claudine and Missy remember in their own way. The goal is not to forget. With the audience as their...
Armida
Judith Weir’s Armida is an updating of the Armida legend to a time recent enough for TV stations and...
The Art of Dining
On a cold and windy November night, Ellen and Cal prepare to open their restaurant, The Golden Carro...