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The Acharnians
The Acharnians is a hilarious satire, and an indictment of unnecessary war. The play follows the att...
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Acis and Galatea
The nymph Galatea and the shepherd Acis are in love. The shepherd, Damon, advises them both. Meanwhi...
The Adding Machine
This darkly comic, expressionistic masterpiece follows the exploits of Mr. Zero, a hard-working, pse...
Adelson e Salvini
A three act opera about a young painter, Salvini, who falls in love with the fiance of the wealthy a...
Alceste
King Admète is gravely ill, and the people of Pherae are filled with sorrow at the thought of losing...
All American
Professor Fodorski, an Eastern-European immigrant, arrives at a small, football-oriented college eag...
All Over Me (How Does It Feel)
Jerzy Gwiazdowski’s All Over Me chronicles what happens in a suburban home outside Minneapolis when...
All The Way
Lyndon B. Johnson is an accidental president who is determined to end racial injustice in America a...
All the Way Here
Paul and Anna are a young couple in their early 20s. However, one year ago, Anna vanished from their...
Am I Blue
Am I Blue, the first play of well-known author Beth Henley, is a brief one-act that opens on a rainy...
Am Pageant
2016, so that happened. Maybe the problem is that we don’t know who we really are. Or, who our count...
Ambassador
Lewis Lambert Strether experiences a clash of cultures when he journeys to 1906 Paris to find his fi...
