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The Dumb Waiter
The Dumb Waiter is Pinter’s second play. A one act play heavily influenced by Beckett’s Waiting for...
Enchanted April
Sweet-natured Lotty Wilton is suffering depression from the bleak London winter, and from an oppress...
Endgame
In a bleak house by the sea, blind and paralyzed Hamm torments his servant Clov, and his parents, Na...
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf is a choreopoem by Ntozake...
Good People
Life in Boston’s Southie neighborhood is no joke for single mother Margaret Walsh. Fired from her jo...
Hay Fever
Hay Fever is one of Noel Coward’s most durable comedies, continuing to delight audiences with its as...
Hello, Goodbye, Peace
Alina, a barista at a Manhattan coffee shop, has dreams of climbing the economic ladder to change th...
Hir
After a dishonorable discharge from the military for drug-related offenses, Isaac returns home from...
The Humans
Irish-American Erik Blake has brought his wife and his mother for Thanksgiving at the new home of hi...
I'm Not Rappaport
I'm Not Rappaport focuses on Nat Moyer, a chatty Jewish retiree with a tendency to exaggerate, and M...
The Imaginary Invalid
In Molière’s classic, The Imaginary Invalid, Argan--the eponymous hypochondriac--makes everyone in h...
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Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
It is 1911 in Pittsburgh at Seth and Bertha Holly’s boardinghouse. Seth and Bertha have a group of e...