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The Slipper and the Rose
In the tiny kingdom of Euphrania, the King and his court are most anxious to get Prince Edward wed....
Small Island
Small Island tells the story of the Windrush generation, Caribbean immigrants who traveled to Englan...
Speed-the-Plow
Speed-the-Plow is another of Mamet's business plays, this one exploring the relationship between bu...
The Star-Spangled Girl
Set in San Francisco in the 1960s, the play is a story of a love triangle mixed with politics. Andy...
A Strange Loop
A Strange Loop follows the journey of an overweight, gay, black musical theater writer named Usher a...
Street Scene
The claustrophobic reality of living in a six-storey walk-up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan is...
Susannah
A dark twist on the apocryphal story of Susannah and the Elders, Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah is one of...
The Tap Dance Kid
‘The Tap Dance Kid’ concerns a 10-year-old African-American kid named Willie who dreams of becoming...
The Tender Land
In the American heartland during the Great Depression, the provincial existence of a rural farming f...
This Is Our Youth
Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth is a brilliant, darkly humorous, bittersweet portrait of youth...
A Thousand Clowns
The year is 1962 and bachelor uncle Murray Burns is endeavoring to rear his precocious nephew in N.Y...
Tigers Be Still
Tigers Be Still opens with news that a tiger has escaped from a local zoo and could be anywhere with...
