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Bold, original, surreal, disturbing, thought-provoking and alarmingly funny, Assassins is perhaps the most controversial musical ever written. This most American of musicals lays bare the lives of nine individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate ...

A radical reworking of Seneca's classical tragedy of incest and unrequited lust, Phaedra's Love is a provocative interpretation of a woman's destructive obsession with her stepson and the misery that ensues. Kane drags the story kicking and wailing into t ...

An Italian nobleman falls from his horse during a pageant. When he comes round, he believes he's the medieval German Emperor, King Henry IV. For twenty years he lives this illusion but, during the course of the play, a plot is hatched to shock him out of ...

The Secret Garden follows the story of young Mary Lennox, who is sent to Misselthwaite Manor after losing her mother and father in a cholera epidemic in colonial India. Mary is a sour child, lonely and spoiled. After arriving at the isolated and abandoned ...

Characters Mother Courage—She earned her name in Riga when she ran through a bombardment in order to sell her loaves of bread. She has three children, Eilif, Swiss Cheese and Kattrin whom she tries to take care of and protect throughout the play. S ...

A modern drama revolving around tragedy in a small town, Book of Days examines themes of betrayal, religious fervor, misguided justice, and regret. As the chorus relates the escalating fragmentation of the community, the narration fluidly moves backwards ...

The play begins with an urgent question—Why? Why did Werner Heisenberg need to visit Niels Bohr in 1941, in the middle of World War II, when such a trip meant risking his life and the physicists' friendship? What could possibly have been so urgent? Mar ...