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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Arturo Ui is a small-time gangster down on his luck. With the economy depressed and a lack of action...
Reunion in Vienna
Elena Krug pines for her old love, Prince Rudolf Maximilian Von Hapsburg, formerly a prince of the A...
Riders to the Sea
Set on the remote island of Inishmaan, Synge’s intensely tragic play Riders to the Sea tells the sto...
Full Text
Set on the remote island of Inishmaan, Vaughan-William’s intensely tragic opera is based on J.M. Syn...
Ring Round the Moon
Adapted from Jean Anouilh’s play Invitation to the Castle , Ring Round the Moon is a whimsical jaunt...
Roberto Devereux
Queen Elisabetta I of England has fallen in love with Roberto Devereux, Earl of Essex, but suspects...
La Rondine
Magda de Civry has always dreamed of romance. As a young girl, she was swept off her feet one evenin...
The Roommate
Sharon, a housewife, 50-something, recently divorced, anxious empty-nester, has some trepidation whe...
The Santa Interviews
The Santa Interviews takes place somewhere in the offices of Santa's Workshop. While the children of...
Saved
Saved is set in South London during the 1960s. The play centers around Len, a young working-class ma...
The School For Husbands
When Isabella and Leonor are orphaned at a young age, their father leaves their guardianship to two...
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play
At the prestigious Aburi Girls’ Boarding School in Ghana, Paulina, the undisputed queen bee of her s...
