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The Man Who Had Three Arms
The play unfolds in a dimly lit theater where an audience awaits a lecture. A man identified only as...
Mansfield Park
Based on Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park, this opera follows the story of young Fanny Price, who...
Marat/Sade
Set in the Asylum of Charenton, Peter Weiss's play shows inmates of the mental facility re-enacting...
Maria Stuarda
Suspected of being complicit in Lord Babington’s plot to have Queen Elisabetta removed from the Engl...
Marisol
José Rivera’s Marisol is a haunting and poetic play that follows Marisol Perez, a young Puerto Rican...
Marvin's Room
First produced in 1990, Marvin’s Room tells the story of two sisters, Bessie and Lee. They have not...
Mary Jane
Captivating, witty, yet compassionate, Mary Jane is the story of a mother in an impossible family si...
Mary Page Marlowe
Mary Page Marlowe offers a fragmented portrait of an ordinary life. Mary Page is an accountant from...
Mary Rose
On a small island in the Hebrides of Scotland, a young girl on holiday disappeared. Her parents and...
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Mass Murderer Shoots Self First
In a mall somewhere in America, a madman brandishes a gun at the innocent bystanders. However, this...
The Master Builder
Halvard Solness is the titular “master builder” in a small town in Norway. Despite being a successfu...
The Matchmaker
Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy merchant in nineteenth-century Yonkers, NY, has a plan. He has been a...
