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Farewell, Mr. Vita
Joseph Vita is a former doctor turned inventor and business owner. Growing an empire under the pilla...
Farmer Lee and the Aliens
A farmer named Lee from Missouri says he discovered and went through a secret door into the Mayan Ru...
The Farnsworth Invention
Farnsworth and Sarnoff may not be household names, but when it comes to technological visionaries, t...
The Father
Strindberg’s The Father shocked western audiences when it was first produced at the end of the ninet...
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Faust et Hélène
Taken from Goethe’s retelling of the story of Doctor Faust, Boulanger’s opera focuses on the moment...
Faust, Part One
Heinrich Faust--a German scientist, philosopher, alchemist, and erudite--believes that he has no mor...
La Favorite
Fernando has fallen so deeply in love with a mystery woman that he has left his place at the monaste...
Fear and Misery in the Third Reich
Written while the author was in exile in Denmark, the play presents a sequence of twenty-four realis...
Feast in Time of Plague
A grand feast is taking place on a terrace, during the plague in London in 1665. Drinking and revelr...
Fefu and Her Friends
On a spring day in 1935, eight women gather at Fefu’s New England home. A gracious host, Fefu organi...
The Feign'd Curtizans
The play is set in Rome and revolves around two virtuous sisters, Marcella and Cornelia, who are nie...
Fen
In Caryl Churchill’s Fen, laborers are bound to the land. These women pick out stones from the field...