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In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play

It is the 1880s, and Dr. and Mrs. Catherine Givings live in a beautiful, seemingly sensible...

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Indecent

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

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Love, Loss and What I Wore

Adapted from Ilene Beckerman’s memoir of the same name, Love, Loss and What I Wore is a collection...

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Reasons to Be Pretty

When Greg makes a seemingly harmless comment about his girlfriend Steph’s “regular” looking face,...

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Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You

Sister Mary Ignatius has happily been teaching children about the glories of Catholicism and the...

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Six Characters in Search of an Author

A blustering theatre director and his egotistical cast are in the midst of a rehearsal when a...

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SMASH

SMASH is based on the novel, An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw. It is about a...

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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...

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Women of Manhattan

Bille, Judy, and Rhonda are friends and successful women living in New York City. However, one...

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The American Dream

Corina is an immigrant from Guatemala who has smuggled her way across the border guided by Efren,...

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The Bald Soprano

Eugène Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano is a masterful classic of the Theatre of the Absurd. One English...

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Beyond Therapy

Prudence and Bruce are two Manhattanites looking for love, stability, and sanity. On the advice of...

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