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Seven Guitars
Seven Guitars begins and ends directly after the funeral of Floyd ‘Schoolboy’ Barton. We then flashb...
Shakespeare in Hollywood
Take the glitz and glamour of 1930s Hollywood, populated by real-life, yet delightfully exaggerated...
Wait Until Dark
Frederick Knott's thriller is the story of Susy Hendrix, a recently blinded housewife who unwittingl...
A Woman of No Importance
A Woman of No Importance satirizes upper-class English society at the end of the nineteenth century....
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The Women
Contented, kindly Mary Haines, a well-off woman living in New York City, is the envy of her friends...
American Buffalo
Don, the owner of a small-time pawnshop, and Bob, his drug-addicted sidekick, are planning a burglar...
Approaching Zanzibar
When Charlotte Blossom’s beloved Aunt Olivia, a famous and eccentric artist, is dying of cancer, the...
The Audience
The Audience takes place between 1952 and the present day. It focuses on Queen Elizabeth II’s privat...
The Bald Soprano
Eugène Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano is a masterful classic of the Theatre of the Absurd. One English e...
Blackbird
Una, a 27-year-old woman, comes to visit Ray, a 55-year-old man, at his office. They are clearly no...
The Blonde, the Brunette, and the Vengeful Redhead
Rhonda Russell's husband Graham is abandoning her, and she feels lost and confused. She ends up dec...
The Boys in the Band
Emory, Larry, Hank, Bernard, and Donald all gather at Michael’s apartment to celebrate their friend,...
