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In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, the swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, captivates and marries the naive millworker, Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant and, desperatel ...

The Illusion is a play by Tony Kushner, adapted from Pierre Corneille's seventeenth-century comedy, L'Illusion Comique. It follows a contrite father, Pridamant, seeking news of his prodigal son from the sorcerer Alcandre. The magician conjures three episo ...

Kid-Simple: a radio play in the flesh is based on radio mystery shows popular in the early 20th century. Accompanied by a live foley artist, who produces narrative sounds live onstage, the play explores various ways in which we tell stories and how we rel ...

The Creation of the World and Other Business is a parable inspired by the book of Genesis in the Bible, it explores the classic theme of good versus evil by way of a comedic retelling of the story of the creation of man (and woman). Miller's God is powerf ...

Arcadia is set in Sidley Park, an English country house, in the years 1809-1812 and 1993, juxtaposing the activities of two modern scholars and the house's current residents with the lives of those who lived there 180 years earlier. In 1809, Thomasina ...

A play that is profoundly affecting, Summer and Smoke is a simple love story of a somewhat puritanical Southern girl and an unpuritanical young doctor. Each is basically attracted to the other but because of their divergent attitudes toward life, each ove ...

Nancy Worthington needs to survive her last night in her New York suburban home before moving to Abilene, Texas with her two children and mother. But as the night progresses, the legacy of Nancy's recently deceased father and her daughter's new boyfriend ...

Mrs. Helene Alving, a modern, enlightened woman, has done everything possible to free herself and her son from the poisonous influence of her departed husband and the stranglehold of traditional social mores. However, on the day in which she prepares to c ...