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SMASH
SMASH is based on the novel, An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw. It is about a millionaire...
Waiting for Lefty
When it was first produced by the Group Theater in 1935, Waiting for Lefty made a sensation of its p...
Approaching Zanzibar
When Charlotte Blossom’s beloved Aunt Olivia, a famous and eccentric artist, is dying of cancer, the...
Arms and the Man
Arms and the Man takes place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian war. Raina Petkoff, a wealthy young wom...
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The Birds
The Birds is the story of two aging Athenians, Pithetaerus and Euelpides, who set out in search of a...
Crumbs from the Table of Joy
It is 1950, and Godfrey Crump has just moved his daughters Ernestine and Ermina up to Brooklyn, New...
Frost/Nixon
Frost/Nixon is based on a series of real-life televised interviews led by English journalist and tal...
The Gingerbread Lady
The Gingerbread Lady is a dark drama with comic overtones centering on Evy Meara, a cabaret singer w...
The Good Doctor
A combination of Neil Simon and Chekhov, The Good Doctor, a comedy with music, is, by turns, charmi...
Gruesome Playground Injuries
It’s not your typical love story: Doug and Kayleen meet at the nurse’s office in their elementary sc...
How I Learned to Drive
Paula Vogel’s groundbreaking and controversial play How I Learned to Drive tells the story of a youn...
Jake's Women
Neil Simon's Jake's Women is about a novelist named Jake, who is struggling to save his marriage. Du...