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The Angel Intrudes
First published in 1922, The Angel Intrudes is a satirical take on Anatole France’s novel La Revolt...
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Angels Fall
The play is set in an impoverished Catholic mission in rural New Mexico where a group of disparate i...
Animals Out of Paper
What happens when the lives of an awkward math teacher, a teenage prodigy, and a hardened origami ar...
Annabelle Broom, The Unhappy Witch
Annabelle Broom is a non-conformist witch who would rather help than hinder. She ends up clashing w...
Anniversary
In a hotel suite, Anne and Stephen meet on the one-year anniversary of their affair together. Anne i...
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...
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...
