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Nude with Violin
Set in 1954 Paris, Nude with Violin is a light comedy of manners. The play is a satire about the hig...
A Number
Caryl Churchill's A Number is a play that explores the issue of human cloning through the relationsh...
The Octoroon
The Octoroon was written by Dion Boucicault and was adapted from the novel The Quadroon by Thomas Ma...
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An Octoroon
A Black playwright is struggling to find his voice among a chorus of people telling him what he shou...
Oedipus (Oedipus Rex, Oedipus the King)
The newly crowned young king of Thebes, Oedipus, having solved the riddle of the sphinx, has married...
Oedipus El Rey
Is a man master of his own destiny or merely a puppet of Fate, who pulls the strings while acting ou...
Oh Captain!
"Oh, Captain" concerns a proper British couple “ Captain Henry St. James and wife Maud. Captain Henr...
Oh! What a Lovely War
Oh What a Lovely War was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London on March 19, 1...
The Old Cart Wrangler's Saga
We’ve all seen that lone shopping cart sitting on the edge of a parking lot. Who goes and gets it,...
Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story
Take a humorously dark folk tale and a high-energy Klezmer folk concert and what do you get? Old Sto...
The Oldest Boy
In this stunning, quietly moving play from the inventive playwright Sarah Ruhl, an American woman le...
On Approval
With biting dialogue and piercing wit, On Approval follows the misadventures of two people and their...