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Bank & Trust
In the midst of a free-falling economy, two old friends have no one to blame but each other. Paul, a...
The Barber of Seville
Count Almaviva of Madrid wants what he can’t have - and that happens to be the hand of a beautiful y...
Barcelo On The Rocks
After receiving unexpected news, Nino Antonio Cruz, a Dominican man living in New York City's Washin...
Bartholomew Fair
Ben Jonson’s experimental and controversial Jacobean comedy takes place at Bartholomew Fair--a popul...
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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...
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...