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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom takes place in a Chicago recording studio where Ma Rainey’s band members, C...
Machinal
Sophie Treadwell, the playwright behind the revolutionary expressionist play Machinal, reminds us in...
A Marriage Proposal
When Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov comes to his longtime neighbor, Stepan Stepanovich Chubukov, to propose...
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Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley takes place two years after the conclusion of Pride and Prejudic...
Moon Over Buffalo
It is the summer of 1953, and George and Charlotte Hay, formerly a couple of Broadway stars, have ta...
Most Likely To: The Senior Superlative Monologues
Inspired by students at a New York high school for the arts, Most Likely To: The Senior Superlative...
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Edna and Mel are a struggling, middle-aged couple living in New York City. Mel has just lost his job...
The Real Inspector Hound
It is a foggy and foreboding day at Muldoon Manor. This charming, but isolated, English country hou...
Rhinoceros
In a provincial French village, Berenger and his friend Jean meet at a local cafe for a Sunday after...
Saint Joan
Shaw's play is a fictionalized version of the historical life of Joan of Arc. Young Joan, a French f...
See How They Run
See How They Run is set in the idyllic village of Merton-cum-Middlewick, England during the 1940s. I...
Seven Guitars
Seven Guitars begins and ends directly after the funeral of Floyd ‘Schoolboy’ Barton. We then flashb...
