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The Philanthropist
The Philanthropist is Christopher Hampton’s revisioning of Moliere’s classic French play, The Misant...
Philosophy on Trial
The play is an allegorical farce, in which Lady Philosophy is on trial for corrupting the minds of y...
Photocopy Love
It's just another day in an average photocopying store. Customer, Raf, just wants to get some bindin...
The Physicists
A nurse has been murdered at Les Cerisiers, a private sanitarium run by the world-renowned psychiatr...
A Picasso
A Picasso is a two-person play based on Picasso’s years in Paris during World War 2. Pablo Picasso h...
Pizza With Shrimp on Top
What happens to someone who dies by suicide? According to Daniel, they go to limbo, and in the case...
Plain and Fancy
The plot brings a pair of New York sophisticates, Dan and Ruth, into the Amish country of Lancaster...
The Plain Dealer
William Wycherley’s The Plain Dealer is the Restoration comedy adaptation of Moliere’s The Misanthro...
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Platée
Cithaeron, the King of the Mountain, suggests to Mercury that Jupiter may teach his jealous wife Jun...
Playing in Spirit
Derek and Colby, a basketball enthusiast, have come to an empty court to practice. The dark, deserte...
Plaza Suite
Plaza Suite portrays three couples who each occupy Suite 719 at the Plaza Hotel at different stages...
Plumes
Georgia Douglas Johnson’s plays were written during the height of the Harlem Renaissance and offered...