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The Playboy of the Western World
The Playboy of the Western World takes place over two days in the countryside of Ireland. A young ma...
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The Plough and the Stars
Ireland is still under the rule of Great Britain, and the Irish people are preparing to rebel. In a...
Private Eyes
A husband and wife, Matthew and Lisa, rehearse a play for a British director, Adrian. Adrian seduces...
Promedy
To prom or not to prom? That is the question The student body leaders at Lowzund High bicker and arg...
Purlie
"Purlie" tells the story of Purlie, a self-taught preacher who returns to his home in the South with...
Pyramus and Thisbe
Originally taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and transplanted by a group of rustic ‘Mechanicals’ into...
Resolutions
It is New Year’s Eve and Al Shubert has invited a group of his friends to celebrate in his luxurious...
Roberta
Roberta is a 1933 musical comedy with music by Jerome Kern, and lyrics and book by Otto Harbach. It...
Rose-Marie
Taking place in the Canadian Rockies, ‘Rose Marie’ concerns the mysterious murder of Black Eagle, a...
The Rothschilds
The story concerns the rags-to-riches story of resourceful and ambitious Mayer Rothschild and his fi...
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer JR
Based on the hit holiday classic song, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer brings one of the most beloved...
Ruined
Set in a small mining town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lynn Nottage’s Ruined follows M...
