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Lady Windermere's Fan
Lady Windermere’s Fan is one of Oscar Wilde’s most witty and uncompromisingly satirical plays. It ex...
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Lookingglass Alice
In Lookingglass Alice, David Caitlin reinterprets Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through th...
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom takes place in a Chicago recording studio where Ma Rainey’s band members, C...
Machinal
Sophie Treadwell, the playwright behind the revolutionary expressionist play Machinal, reminds us in...
A Man of No Importance
A Man of No Importance tells the story of Alfie Byrne, an Oscar Wilde-loving bus driver in 1960’s Du...
A Marriage Proposal
When Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov comes to his longtime neighbor, Stepan Stepanovich Chubukov, to propose...
Moon Over Buffalo
It is the summer of 1953, and George and Charlotte Hay, formerly a couple of Broadway stars, have ta...
Most Likely To: The Senior Superlative Monologues
Inspired by students at a New York high school for the arts, Most Likely To: The Senior Superlative...
The Outsiders
In 1967 Tulsa, Oklahoma, 14-year-old Ponyboy Curtis lives on the "wrong side of the tracks" with his...
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Edna and Mel are a struggling, middle-aged couple living in New York City. Mel has just lost his job...
Rags
Rebecca Hershkowitz and her young son David arrive on the shores of America in 1910, hoping to find...
The Real Inspector Hound
It is a foggy and foreboding day at Muldoon Manor. This charming, but isolated, English country hou...
