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Sarafina!
The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to apartheid. The story is...
Saturday Night
Status-obsessed Gene Gorman isn’t happy with his life in Brooklyn. Gene dreams of living the high li...
Saturday Night Fever
It’s the 1970s and disco fever is rampant in the discos of Brooklyn. Tony Manero, a store clerk by d...
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray
In The Second Mrs. Tanqueray by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, Aubrey Tanqueray shocks society when he marr...
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Semele
Semele’s father, the King of Thebes, has arranged a marriage for her with Athamas, a Prince of Boeot...
La serva padrona
Considered by many to be the first example of opera buffa, Pergolesi’s short opera La serva padrona...
Sexual Perversity in Chicago
One of Mamet's earliest plays, Sexual Perversity in Chicago follows four acquaintances, two of whom...
The Shadow of a Gunman
The first of Sean O’Casey’s Dublin plays, The Shadow of a Gunman takes place in May of 1920 during t...
Shucked
Maizy, an innocent farm girl, and Beau, a no-nonsense farm boy, are getting hitched in their home of...
Siegfried
In the third installment of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen we meet our hero Siegfried, the son of...
Six Black Candles
Des Dillon's Six Black Candles centers around six sisters who set out, with their Ma and Grandma, to...
Six Degrees of Separation
When a young and effortlessly charismatic black con man claiming to be the son of Sidney Poitier him...
