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Rusalka
Considered to be the operatic retelling of The Little Mermaid story, Rusalka is a Czech fairy-tale a...
Saint Joan
Shaw's play is a fictionalized version of the historical life of Joan of Arc. Young Joan, a French f...
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Semiramide
The day appointed by the gods when Queen Semiramide must give up her throne and choose a successor t...
Serse
On hearing a beautiful voice singing in the garden King Serse, naturally, falls in love. The fact th...
Stupid F#%*ing Bird
Kind, hopeful Dev suffers from an unrequited love for Mash, who composes cleverly despairing songs o...
The Sun
In The Sun, a soldier returns from the WWI front to reunite with his fiancée, only to discover that...
They Chose Me!
They Chose Me is a family musical about adoption as seen through the eyes of children. It was origi...
Tis Pity She's a Whore
A brother and sister and their forbidden love - this is the premise of John Ford’s dark revenge trag...
Top Girls
Set in the early 1980s, Top Girls depicts the lifestyle and life choices of its central character, M...
Two by Two
Noah was writing the chapters of Genesis when suddenly God spoke to him: There will be a world-destr...
Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Musical
Childhood best friends Valentine and Proteus are handsome, well-to-do young gentleman, living in bea...
The Whale
In a run-down apartment in rural Idaho, surrounded by screens and food containers, a six-hundred pou...