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The Diviners
When C.C. Showers, a back-sliding preacher, leaves the pulpit in Kentucky that he’s inherited from h...
Electra (Sophocles)
Justice and revenge lie at the heart of Sophocles’ Electra, still considered today a remarkable achi...
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Endgame
In a bleak house by the sea, blind and paralyzed Hamm torments his servant Clov, and his parents, Na...
Enigma
A man and woman, known as He and She, are sitting around a table. It seems clear that they are lover...
Eugene Onegin
A dramatic tale about young lovers, Eugene Onegin portrays the interplay of friendship, jealousy, ca...
Euridice
The opera's story is based on Ovid's Metamorphoses. It contains one of the first examples of recitat...
Falstaff
The fat, old knight, Falstaff, seeks to seduce two married women in order to steal some money, and h...
La fanciulla del West
Set during the Gold Rush, the ‘Polka’ Saloon, which is near California’s Cloudy Mountain, hosts the...
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...
The Gin Game
The play centers on Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey, two elderly residents of a run-down nursing hom...
Good News
The roaring ‘20s are in full swing on the campus of Tait College, and the cheerful young sheiks and...
Good People
Life in Boston’s Southie neighborhood is no joke for single mother Margaret Walsh. Fired from her jo...
