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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...
Extremities
Rape is about power, and what could happen if a victim took that power back from her attacker? Marjo...
Fallen Angels
Fallen Angels is the comedic story of Julia and Jane, two upper-class women in England in the early...
La fanciulla del West
Set during the Gold Rush, the ‘Polka’ Saloon, which is near California’s Cloudy Mountain, hosts the...
Fat Pig
Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig tells the story of Tom, a young professional who falls for a self-confident an...
