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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...
Eugene Onegin
A dramatic tale about young lovers, Eugene Onegin portrays the interplay of friendship, jealousy, ca...
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...
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...
Fool for Love
May is hiding out in a run-down motel room when her former lover, Eddie, shows up. He’s driven more...
Gay Divorce
After meeting the American novelist, Guy Holden, Mimi Pratt will do whatever it takes to get out of...
Giulio Cesare
Handel’s Giulio Cesare tells the story of how Julius Caesar tries to bring peace to the turbulent r...