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The Beard of Avon
Depressed, creatively stifled, and seeking space from his scolding and promiscuous wife, Anne Hathaw...
Becket ou l'Honneur de Dieu
Set in England during the twelfth century, Jean Anouilh's Becket tells the story of the relationship...
Belle or the Ballad of Dr Crippen
After a mediocre music-hall artiste disappears, her husband “ the mild and charming Doctor Crippen...
The Belle's Stratagem
London, 1780. And it’s marriage season, but not quite as you know it. Feminism meets an eighteenth-c...
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Belleville
Amy Herzog is known for her facility with dialogue, and in her ensemble play Belleville, she uses th...
Ben and Joe's
In Martin Foreman’s one-act play Ben and Joe’s, a middle-aged white man remembers the gay bar he use...
Ben Franklin in Paris
Ben Franklin in Paris tells the story of one man's quest to make American a free country. With cunn...
The Beneficent Bear
The Beneficent Bear is one of several in the canon of Carlo Goldoni’s plays. It isn’t as well-known...
Best Foot Forward
On a whim, high school senior Bud Hooper invites Hollywood starlet Gale Joy to be his prom date. En...
The Best Man
It’s the summer of 1960. With the Presidential primaries in full swing, two men battle for the nomin...
Best of Enemies
It’s the summer of 1968, a volatile time in American history. Amid mass protests and the rise of a c...
Between Riverside and Crazy
Walter “Pops” Washington has had enough. His landlord won’t leave him alone, his wife recently passe...
