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Waiting for Lefty
When it was first produced by the Group Theater in 1935, Waiting for Lefty made a sensation of its p...
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...
Women of Manhattan
Bille, Judy, and Rhonda are friends and successful women living in New York City. However, one night...
1984
BIG BROTHER IS ALWAYS WATCHING YOU. This warning rules the frightening, dystopian future of George O...
The American Dream
Corina is an immigrant from Guatemala who has smuggled her way across the border guided by Efren, he...
Anna Bolena
King Enrico VIII has fallen in love with Giovanna Seymour, lady-in-waiting to his current wife, Anna...
Anything Goes - Young Performers Edition
The S. S. American is sailing between New York and England with a comically colorful assemblage of p...
Arms and the Man
Arms and the Man takes place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian war. Raina Petkoff, a wealthy young wom...
The Beggar's Opera
Peachum, a thief catcher, deplores the fact that his daughter Polly is marrying the famous highwayma...
The Birthday Party
In one of Pinter’s most memorable works, The Birthday Party, Meg and Petey Boles run a boarding hous...
The Boys from Syracuse
Boy loses twin. Boy seeks twin. Boy finds trouble. When Antipholus of Syracuse leaves his home, with...
