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Dear World
Dear World is the story of three "Madwomen" who deviously scheme to stop businessmen who p...
A Delicate Balance
Middle-aged, upper-class, and delicately-balanced couple Agnes and Tobias maintain a financially com...
Den of Thieves
Maggie is a young single woman trying to change her life. She and her sponsor Paul are part of a twe...
The Desert Song
The plot concerns a dashing rebel leader whose band of freedom fighters, the Riff, threaten the safe...
Director's Nightmare
It’s five days before the premiere of the non-musical version of Les Misérables, and high school dra...
A Don't Hug Me Christmas Carol
It's Christmas Eve in Bunyan Bay, Minnesota and cantankerous bar owner Gunner Johnson gets in an arg...
The Dumb Waiter
The Dumb Waiter is Pinter’s second play. A one-act play heavily influenced by Beckett’s Waiting for...
Enchanted April
Sweet-natured Lotty Wilton is suffering depression from the bleak London winter, and from an oppress...
Endgame
In a bleak house by the sea, blind and paralyzed Hamm torments his servant Clov, and his parents, Na...
Enigma
A man and woman, known as He and She, are sitting around a table. It seems clear that they are lover...
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Equivocation
In 1605, Robert Cecil, prime minister to King James I of England, commissions William Shagspeare to...
Euridice
The opera's story is based on Ovid's Metamorphoses. It contains one of the first examples of recitat...
