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Dramatic Plays

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The Birthday Party

In one of Pinter’s most memorable works, The Birthday Party, Meg and Petey Boles run a boarding...

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Constellations

Suppose that life exists in a multiverse -- a set of parallel existences that contain infinitely...

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Electra (Euripides)

Several years after the Trojan War, the hero Agamemnon has been murdered by his vengeful wife,...

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Frost/Nixon

Frost/Nixon is based on a series of real-life televised interviews led by English journalist and...

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Indecent

Indecent by Pulitzer-winning playwright Paula Vogel tells the story of Sholem Asch’s controversial...

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The Lion in Winter

Betrayal, treachery, and a knife fight: it’s just another normal Christmas celebration for the...

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The Wolves

Pulitzer Prize finalist The Wolves is the debut play of up-and-coming playwright Sarah DeLappe....

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American Buffalo

Don, the owner of a small-time pawnshop, and Bob, his drug-addicted sidekick, are planning a...

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The Boys in the Band

Emory, Larry, Hank, Bernard, and Donald all gather at Michael’s apartment to celebrate their...

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Copenhagen

In the afterlife, friends Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, and Niels' wife, Margrethe, meet to...

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Crumbs from the Table of Joy

It is 1950, and Godfrey Crump has just moved his daughters Ernestine and Ermina up to Brooklyn, New ...

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Educating Rita

Educating Rita is a witty yet poignant look at a working class woman’s attempts to change her...

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