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The Turn of the Screw
Written in 1954, The Turn of the Screw is the last of Benjamin Britten’s chamber operas, based on th...
Waiting for Lefty
When it was first produced by the Group Theater in 1935, Waiting for Lefty made a sensation of its p...
A Woman of No Importance
A Woman of No Importance satirizes upper-class English society at the end of the nineteenth century....
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Women of Manhattan
Bille, Judy, and Rhonda are friends and successful women living in New York City. However, one night...
The American Dream
Corina is an immigrant from Guatemala who has smuggled her way across the border guided by Efren, he...
Anna Bolena
King Enrico VIII has fallen in love with Giovanna Seymour, lady-in-waiting to his current wife, Anna...
Anything Goes - Young Performers Edition
The S. S. American is sailing between New York and England with a comically colorful assemblage of p...
The Birthday Party
In one of Pinter’s most memorable works, The Birthday Party, Meg and Petey Boles run a boarding hous...
The Boys from Syracuse
Boy loses twin. Boy seeks twin. Boy finds trouble. When Antipholus of Syracuse leaves his home, with...
The Cripple of Inishmaan
On the island of Inishmaan, off the coast of Ireland, there is not that much to do. A young man name...
Die Walküre
Die Walküre is the second opera of Wagner’s epic Der Ring des Nibelungen, commonly known as ‘The Rin...
Don Juan
Juan has proposed to Francesca, but she’s unsure of his true commitment. Francesca decides to use a...
