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Spring Awakening: A Children's Tragedy
A social and cultural argument written before its time, Spring Awakening: A Children’s Tragedy is a...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
This play is a retelling of the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story, taking place in Victorian London. The...
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Before she survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, Margaret “Molly” Brown was already a dom...
Antigonae
Carl Orff’s Antigonae is a ritualistic opera based on Sophocles’ tragedy, presented in five acts an...
Henry VI Part 1
At the beginning of Henry VI, Part 1, King Henry V's funeral is taking place, and messengers arrive...
It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play is based on the classic holiday movie with a clever twist t...
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
One of the most lauded plays in the history of American theater, Long Day’s Journey Into Night is th...
The Miracle Worker
Helen is a bright, strong, energetic child -- but left both blind and deaf in the wake of an illness...
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
A kooky young New Yorker, Daisy Gamble, visits a psychiatrist, Dr. Mark Bruckner, to get help in kic...
Passion
It is 1863. At a remote outpost in Italy, Captain Giorgio Bachetti and his beautiful lover Clara eng...
Titus Andronicus
Titus Andronicus is the most revered general of Rome. Newly returned from his victories against the...
The Addams Family: Young@Part
In the kooky, upside-down world of the Addams Family, to be sad is to be happy, to feel pain is to f...