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Clear filtersOn the day of Jewish professor Josef Schuster’s funeral, his family and household discuss his life and death. After returning from exile to Vienna, he could no longer bear the noise he associated with the 1938 Nazi rally at Heldenplatz and killed himself. Through their conversations, the play confronts Austria’s continuing antisemitism and denial of its past.
In Euripides' version of the myth, the real Helen has been kept in Egypt while a phantom went to Troy. When Menelaus arrives, they recognize one another and devise a ritual burial as a pretext to escape by sea from King Theoclymenus, who intends to marry Helen.
A mysterious woman arrives in postwar Vancouver with an account to settle. Police, criminals, and displaced residents become entangled in a film-noir story performed through live actors and digitally reconstructed settings.
A tragicomic retelling of the Trojan War from Helen's perspective: Paris abducts her from Sparta for an affair, only to find his captive fastidious and demanding, while Menelaus's rescue attempt is obstructed by a Pan-Hellenic no-sail list.
Anita, a single woman encouraged by a friend to date online, meets a man who first treats her like a queen. After they marry, his behavior changes, and Anita becomes someone she never expected to be.
The setting is the living room of Tanglewood Lodge, a country hotel, in the fictional New Dauville, Connecticut, over the course of two days. The lodge is owned by Mrs. Buck, a widow. Living elsewhere in town is Mrs. Amos Todhunter, another widow, who lives with her son Jimmy and daughter Gladys. Also in town is Abigail Stillson, spinster sister of Mrs. Todhunter. The two sisters' attention is caught by a newspaper item detailing the munificent spending of two Arizona prospectors visiting New York. They recognize one of the prospectors as their long-lost brother Danial Stillson, who goes by the nickname "Jap". Jap Stillson and his partner D.O. had sold the Gango River Gold Mine for $1000 to a promoter. The promoter formed a corporation and sent the boys back East to flog shares in the corporation. Secretly, he gave them a generous expense account with instructions to flash money to draw buyers. The boys have followed instructions so well they are down to their last $500 bill. They decide to visit New Dauville so Jap can vent spite on the family that disowned him over a romance with a poor local girl. They take rooms with Mrs. Buck at Tanglewood Lodge, and to keep up pretenses, tip her with the $500. They then learn the speculator backing them has gone bust. Mrs. Buck informs them the $500 bill may be redeemed upon one of them (she isn't fussy) marrying her. Also living at Tanglewood is Nan Winchester, who is the daughter of Jap's old flame. After visiting Tanglewood to meet Jap, Abigail and Mrs. Todhunter solicit their attorney Hoarce Pitkens to draw up involuntary commitment papers for him, so they can gain control of his supposed wealth. Meanwhile Jimmy Todhunter and Nan Winchester are having their own secret romance, while Gladys Todhunter is an unwilling helper in the commitment plot. When Judge Herman signs the papers, Chief Pitkins and Dr. Bushell send their men to grab Jap Stillson, but D.O. draws a pistol from his coat to stop them. He renders the scheme moot by revealing the partners are "stony broke". The sisters are embarrassed and withdraw the petition for commitment, since otherwise they would have to pay for Jap's care. With their discomfiture and moral retreat, Jimmy and Nan are able to get married, as does Mrs. Buck and Jap Stillson.
Sid Hunt returns from war to his family in the Blue Ridge Mountains and resumes his relationship with Jude Lowry. Rufe Pryor, a religious fanatic who also wants Jude, stokes the longstanding feud between the Hunt and Lowry families to remove Sid; when his scheme is exposed, the families reconcile.
Through dialogue between Sultan Mahmud and Ahasuerus and choruses of enslaved Greek women, the drama views the Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman side. Mahmud’s dream and the Greeks’ hopes of freedom frame an antiwar meditation on defeat and liberation.
A comedy-drama about a husband and wife’s need for trust and fidelity in their relationship.
In a small Texas jail, down-on-his-luck gambler Photo-Finish and unhappy cook Emily fall in love and plan to leave for San Francisco. Their plans end when the men pursuing Photo-Finish find and kill him.
In a squalid family home, Johnny and his estranged sister Hester reunite for one tense night. As they revisit childhood memories and uncover buried secrets, their conflict exposes the damage of their shared past.
In a low-class bordello, Bertha imagines events and allusions to her final moments as Lena listens and landlady Goldie threatens to evict her.
Set around the 1997 UK general election, the play brings together former left-wing activists Will and Claire, their daughter Frankie, and old friend Hugh as their relationships and compromised ideals resurface. Will's uneasy relationship with Kate and her decision to have a child lead to the play's final reckoning with responsibility and family.
A one-man stage show about the life of Ernest Hemingway.
Composer Jerome devises a scheme to persuade his estranged wife to let their daughter stay with him, first hiring an actress to pose as his fiancée and then reprogramming a female android to take her place. The plan collapses when his family chooses the android, and Jerome sacrifices reconciliation for the musical work he has long sought to create.
Middleton’s historical play recounts Saxon king Hengist’s wars against the Britons, using dumb-show to stage murders and a personified Fortune. Its comic subplot follows the Mayor of Quinborough, including thieves who impersonate actors to cheat him.
A seven-scene chronicle of Henri Christophe, a former enslaved man who became a general under Toussaint Louverture and later ruled northern Haiti, first as president and then as king, in conflict with the southern government of Alexandre Pétion.
Henriette the Forsaken is an 1832 play by the British writer John Baldwin Buckstone. It premiered at the Adelphi Theatre in London's West End. Melodrama was in fashion at the time, and the play was a popular hit. The original cast included Frederick Henry Yates as Ferdinand De Monval, John Reeve as Chevalier Pirouette, John Baldwin Buckstone as Pierre Gigot, Elizabeth Yates as Henriette and Fanny Fitzwilliam as Rose.
Henry The Second, King Of England; With The Death Of Rosamond is a 1692 historical play often attributed to William Mountfort but possibly written by John Bancroft. It was first staged at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane by the United Company. The prologue and epilogue were written by John Dryden. Some incidental music was composed by Henry Purcell. The play portrays the reign of Henry II of England, and his relationship with his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine and mistress Rosamund Clifford. The original Drury Lane cast included Thomas Betterton as King Henry the Second, Anthony Leigh as Vaughan, Samuel Sandford as Abbot, Edward Kynaston as Verulam, John Hodgson as Sussex, Thomas Doggett as Bertrard, Elizabeth Barry as Queen Eleanor, Anne Bracegirdle as Rosamond and Mary Kent as Rosamond's Woman.
A historical drama based on the life of Henry III of France and his court.
After an Italian aristocrat falls from his horse during a carnival pageant, he believes himself to be Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. Years later, visitors try to confront his identity and madness, leading to a violent final act.
Henry IV of France is a 1719 tragedy by the British writer Charles Beckingham. It portrays the reign of Henry IV of France, who was assassinated in 1610. The play was written and produced a time when the Catholic Jacobite pretender James III was attempting to launch an invasion of Britain with the assistance of Spain, and reflects Whig concerns about Catholic power and the persecution of French Huguenots. Although a Catholic by the time of his death, Henry IV is portrayed as a defender of liberty and a victim of plotting by the Catholic factions at his court. The original cast included James Quin as Henry, Lacy Ryan as Prince of Conde, John Leigh as Duke of Vendome, John Ogden as Duke of Boullion, Thomas Smith as Villeyor, Richard Diggs as Rosny, John Harper as Montmorency, Christopher Bullock as Nuncio, Anthony Boheme as French Bishop, John Egleton as François Ravaillac and Jane Rogers as Charlotta. The epilogue was written by George Sewell.
Prince Hal divides his time between the royal court and the tavern company of Falstaff while rebellion gathers against King Henry IV. At the Battle of Shrewsbury, Hal defeats Hotspur and shows himself as a capable heir, though the wider rebellion continues.
Prince Hal moves toward kingship and ultimately rejects Falstaff, whose comic story of recruiting soldiers and recalling youthful exploits runs largely apart from Hal's. After defeating the rebellion and succeeding his dying father, Hal refuses Falstaff's expectation of royal favor and orders London’s lowlifes purged.
King Henry V invades France, uncovers a plot to assassinate him, and leads an outnumbered English army to victory at Agincourt. After the battle, he woos Princess Katharine as England and France negotiate peace.
After Henry V’s death, English leaders struggle to hold their French territories as Joan of Arc rallies the French and helps them reclaim ground. Back in England, York and Somerset’s feud deepens into factional division; Talbot and his son die when reinforcements fail to arrive, Joan is captured and executed, and Suffolk arranges Henry VI’s marriage to Margaret of Anjou.
As Henry VI proves unable to control his court, Queen Margaret and Suffolk help bring down the Lord Protector Gloucester. York advances his claim to the throne, while Jack Cade's rebellion exposes the kingdom's disorder; the play ends with the first Battle of St Albans and the opening of the Wars of the Roses.
During the Wars of the Roses, Henry VI’s agreement to yield the crown to the York line collapses into renewed civil war. York’s sons and their allies fight Margaret and the Lancastrians; after shifting loyalties and bloody battles, Edward takes the throne, while Richard plots his own rise and murders Henry.
The play follows Henry VIII's court as Wolsey engineers Buckingham's arrest and Katherine's trial, Anne Bullen rises to queenship, Wolsey falls from favor, and Cranmer survives a plot against him. The work concludes with Elizabeth's birth and baptism.
A novelist talks confidently about sexual freedom and modern marriage. When an impressionable young woman takes his ideas seriously, he retreats in alarm, exposing the gap between fashionable arguments and the security of conventional domestic life.
A young vaudeville actress prepares for her first photo shoot.
Her Master's Voice was a 1933 Broadway two act comedy written by Clare Kummer, produced by Max Gordon and staged by C. Worthington Miner with scenic design created by Raymond Sovey. Roland Young, who played Ned Farrar, was Clare Kummer's son-in-law at the time. The play ran for 224 performances from October 23, 1933 to May 1934 at the Plymouth Theatre. The play was included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1933-1934.
Set during the British suffrage campaign from a protest at the Derby to the outbreak of the First World War, the play centers on a love affair between upper-class suffragette Lady Celia Cain and working-class activist Eve Douglas. Repeated imprisonment shapes their relationship and the play’s view of the movement.
Her Own Way is a play by Clyde Fitch. Written as a starring vehicle for actress Maxine Elliott, it premiered at the Star Theatre in Buffalo, New York on September 24, 1903. The production moved to Broadway where it made its New York City premiere at the Garrick Theatre on September 28, 1903. The United Kingdom premiere took place at the Lyric Theatre, London on April 25, 1905. It was adapted into a silent film of the same name in 1915. Fitch was a modern and exacting director. Maxine Elliott recalls, "A great deal of attention was given to rehearsing this play, more than I ever knew to be given before." Four weeks of rehearsals from 10 in the morning until 5 in the evening with an hour for lunch were considered strenuous. Elliott continues, "To begin with, to each player was explained exactly what the character was that he was to enact. Then each part was gone over line by line, and the exact meaning of the words pointed out, or rather the meaning that it was intended to have. In this way the players and the author get in perfect sympathy." The hard work put into Her Own Way paid off. An ornate set typical of Fitch plays was complete with leatherbound books, real doors, authentic tapestries, and real silverware. The acting as well as the set received rave reviews.
As Diana Spencer leaves before her wedding to Prince Charles, royal officials recruit an Australian woman who resembles her and train her to appear publicly as the princess while the household tries to keep the deception from the press.
Olga, a painter and professional woman raped as a teenager, is treated as unsuitable for marriage in a society that expects men to choose inexperienced, obedient wives. Through Olga and the flirtatious Graziana, the play criticizes those gendered expectations and frames marriage as requiring respect and mutual understanding.
While Heracles is in the Underworld, the usurper Lycus threatens his family in Thebes. Heracles returns and kills Lycus, but Hera sends Madness, causing him to kill his wife and children. Theseus helps him choose exile and a future in Athens over suicide.
After Hercules returns from the underworld, he learns that the usurper Lycus has killed Creon and seeks to marry Megara. Juno drives Hercules into madness, and he kills his wife and children before recovering his senses and departing for Athens to seek atonement.
After Hercules destroys Oechalia and takes Iole captive, his jealous wife Deianira sends him a garment treated with the centaur Nessus’s blood, believing it will restore his love. The poison instead brings about his death; Deianira kills herself, and Hercules is raised to the gods.
A young couple move into a new flat and repeatedly argue about how they make decisions.
A Nazi-era photo album reaches Holocaust Museum archivist Rebecca Erbelding. As historians investigate its images, a German businessman recognizes his grandfather and begins confronting his family’s past and the lives of other Nazi descendants.
A short meditation on death and aging, the play includes a funeral scene and later reflects on the indignities of sickness and old age before a dialogue-free finale.
A couple in their twilight years relives a relationship marked by youthful possibility, secrets, disappointments, and enduring connection.
Structured as a recreation of Max Miller’s performance, the one-man play shifts between a shabby 1950s rehearsal room and the London Palladium. John Bardon performs Miller’s comic routines and songs, then breaks the fourth wall to reveal the performer’s private life behind his stage persona.
In Derek Freeman's dream, people from his life, including Margaret Mead, return to discuss his objections to her account of Samoan adolescence.
A hermit welcomes Elizabeth I at Theobalds, while related speeches by the gardener and molecatcher turn the estate’s garden, maze, and discovered jewel into an elaborate tribute to the Virgin Queen.
Three men—bandit Hernani, King Don Carlos, and Hernani's elderly rival Don Ruy Gomez—love Doña Sol. Hernani and Gomez make a pact that Hernani will surrender his life when Gomez sounds a horn. After Don Carlos becomes emperor, he pardons the conspirators and allows Hernani to marry Sol, but Gomez calls in the pact at their wedding. Hernani and Sol drink poison and die, and Gomez kills himself.
Herod and Mariamne is a 1671 tragedy by the English writer Samuel Pordage. It was first performed by the Duke's Company at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London shortly before they moved to the Dorset Gardens Theatre. It was the company's attempt to respond to the great success of John Dryden's heroic drama The Conquest of Granada by the rival King's Company. It is inspired by the accounts of Josephus portraying the reign of Herod II.
In this interactive biblical pageant, Herod fears the prophecy that Jesus will become king and orders the killing of Bethlehem’s infants; the mothers resist and lament their children.
Heroes is a 2005 translation into English and adaptation by Tom Stoppard of the 2003 French play Le Vent Des Peupliers by Gérald Sibleyras. The play is a comedy set in 1959 in a French retirement home for First World War veterans. (The literal translation of Le vent des peupliers is "The Wind in the Poplars". During the adaptation into English, there was concern this might cause confusion due to being too close to the popular children's title The Wind in the Willows, so Heroes was agreed as the English title. At the time, Stoppard said, "To tell you the truth, if Charles Wood hadn't written a play called Veterans [in 1972], we would have called it that.")
The play is set in 2017, shortly after the Unite the Right rally.
The show follows the life of the founder of political Zionism, with its characters and plot based on historical fact. The show was directed by J. Ranelli, with scenery by Douglas W. Schmidt, costumes by Pearl Somner, lighting by John Gleason, production stage manager Frank Marino, stage manager Judith Binus, and press by Louis Sica, Suzanne Salter, and John Springer Associates, Inc. The cast included Paul Hecht (Theodor Herzl), Louis Zorich (Moritz Benedikt), Stephan Mark Weyte (Hermann Bahr, Ibrahim), William Kiehl (Captain Henruach, Kaiser Wilheim), John Michalski (Heinrich Kana, Sultan, Arthur Schnitzler), Leo Bloom (Russian General), Roy K. Stevens (Rabbi Gudeman), Jack Axelrod (Edouard Bacher), Eunice Anderson (Jeanette Herzl), Roger DeKoven (Jakob Herzl), Judith Light (Julie Herzl), Rebecca Schull (Nursemaid), Ralph Byers (Nachum Sokolov), Mitchell Jason (David Wolffsohn), Richard Seff (Baron De Hirsch, Pope Pius X), Ellen Tovatt (Fraulein Keller), Lester Rawlins (Count Paul Nevlinski), David Tress (Menachem Issishkin), and Saylor Creswell (Martin Buber).
A sequence of stage tableaux explores women’s history, particularly the history of their oppression.
A theatrical account of Pope John Paul I's mysterious death, described by its author as a cross between Shakespeare and The Prisoner.
During the ninth-century Viking invasion of Ireland, King O’Brien is besieged at the Hill of Tara by Viking king Tergesius and waits for aid from the Ulster leader O’Neill. Phillips presents the Irish as defending their country against Viking tyranny.
Sister Jamison Connelly is an acerbic and profanity-inclined nun and drug counselor with a checkered past of her own. She herself is a former drug user and alcoholic whose promiscuity caused her sister's tragic death. Her employer, Father Michael Delpapp, introduces her to Cody Randall, a 19-year-old gay drug user and hustler, hoping that Randall can be reformed. Sister Jamison is left to stop Cody from self-destructing with his crystal meth addiction and to confront her own past. Various plot twists reveal that Father Michael is Cody's uncle and that he has been enabling him financially for years. This support culminated in a cover-up of Cody's murdering his 14-year-old lover. At first resistant, Cody eventually begins to take to Sister Jamison's unconventional approach to religion, but he relapses into drug abuse and a life of crime. Sister Jamison, not knowing what to do, prays with Cody in a back alley and leaves him to die.
Four men with criminal pasts and drug dependencies devise a scheme to rob automated banking machines. Their hopes for an easy fortune collide with competing loyalties, volatile behaviour, and the practical demands of the heist.
High Life Below Stairs is a 1759 comedy play by the British writer James Townley. An afterpiece, it premiered at Drury Lane on a double bill with a revival of Congreve's The Mourning Bride. A popular hit, it was frequently revived. The original Drury Lane cast John Palmer as Duke's servant, Thomas King as Sir Harry's servant, William O'Brien as Lovel, Richard Yates as Philip, John Hayman Packer as Freeman, Thomas Mozeen as Tom, John Moody as Kingston Mary Bradshaw as Cook, Frances Abington as Lady Bab's maid and Kitty Clive as Kitty.
High Tor is a 1936 play by Maxwell Anderson. It received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play of the 1936–37 season. Twenty years after the original production, Anderson adapted it into a television musical with Arthur Schwartz.
An outdoor religious pageant dramatizes episodes from the Book of Mormon, including the resurrected Christ’s appearance in the Americas, and Joseph Smith’s encounter with the golden plates and the angel Moroni. Its ten short scenes trace a restoration narrative through large-scale theatrical staging.
The play takes place in an alternate universe and centers on a woman named Hillary Clinton who is running for President of the United States in 2008. A few days before the New Hampshire primary, Clinton is in her hotel room trying to turn her struggling campaign around. Her campaign manager Mark advises her to concede the primary race and accept her opponent's offer to be his running mate. Against Mark's advice, Clinton turns to her husband Bill for assistance, but the two disagree on how much vulnerability Clinton must show to win over voters.
In this surreal, metatheatrical three-act play, a would-be playwright called Him and his lover Me alternate between intimate room scenes and scenes from the play he is writing, including absurd tableaux; the ending breaks the fourth wall.
In a limbo populated by Elvis look-alikes, the deceased Elvis Presley grows exasperated with his stillborn twin brother and revisits his death. The surreal play imagines Presley faking his death and fleeing to Morocco, where he lives as a waitress after a sex-change operation.
In a Lancashire mill town during wakes week, mill worker Fanny Hawthorn and mill owner’s son Alan Jeffcote have an affair. Their families press them to marry, but Fanny refuses, treating it as a brief romance and choosing to support herself as a weaver despite being disowned.
Aphrodite punishes Hippolytus for honoring Artemis and rejecting her by causing his stepmother Phaedra to desire him. When Phaedra's nurse reveals her feelings, Hippolytus reacts with outrage; Phaedra kills herself and leaves a false accusation. Theseus curses Hippolytus, who is fatally injured in a chariot crash. Artemis reveals the truth, and father and son reconcile before Hippolytus dies.
His Bridal Night is a three-act play originally written by Lawrence Rising and significantly revised by Margaret Mayo. Producer A. H. Woods staged it on Broadway in 1916. The play is a farce about a newlywed who is unsure which of two identical twins he has married. The roles of the twins were originally played by the Dolly Sisters, who were popular vaudeville performers, and the play was crafted to make use of their skill as dancers.
Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry travel through parallel universes amid conflicts involving witches, armoured polar bears and other beings. The two-part stage adaptation follows their coming-of-age adventures across the epic events of Pullman’s trilogy.
His Excellency is a 1950 play by the British writers Campbell Christie and Dorothy Christie. A former docker takes over as the British governor of an island colony in the Mediterranean. It premiered at the Grand Theatre, Leeds before transferring to the West End where it ran for 453 performances between 23 May 1950 and 23 June 1951 initially at the Princes Theatre before moving to the Piccadilly Theatre. The play starred Eric Portman later replaced by Donald Wolfit in the title role, Clive Morton, John Wood, Ian Fleming, Arnold Bell, Sebastian Shaw, Michael Shepley and Annabel Maule.
Bunker Bean is a stenographer who lacks self-confidence and initiative. He is transformed after a meeting with the Countess, a psychic, who convinces him that he is the reincarnation of the Egyptian Pharaoh Ram-Tah, a king of allegedly great historic importance. This false belief instills in Bunker Bean a renewed sense of confidence and self importance which allow him to go boldly into the world with kingly resolve. A farcical comedy ensues when Bean fires himself from his job. He ends up besting his former boss in business, and becomes romantically involved with his former boss's daughter, The Flapper, after she discovers a mummy in Bunker Bean's room and becomes fascinated with a man she previously found dull. Bean obtained the mummy from Egypt after sending off for the remains of his former self, Ram-Tah. A comedy of absurdity ensues with a revolving group of eccentric characters. All ends well in the end.
On her last day as a park ranger, Maggie unloads an arsenal of invented historical facts on her listeners.
Through symbolic scenes, the moral allegory depicts human nature and shows how pride, greed, and sloth lead society into war and destruction. It also satirizes professional actors and other social targets.
Through intersecting monologues, the play examines the working relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and composer Bernard Herrmann, including their collaborations on films and the reasons they parted company. Herrmann’s music is interspersed at dramatic points.
Across 1919, 1960, and 1999, a short film featuring a blonde woman becomes an obsession for Alfred Hitchcock and is later rediscovered by a media-studies professor and student, prompting a re-examination of Hitchcock's work.
In Leicester, depressed Clare has recently left her boyfriend. Her brother Ralph offers to take her out, and the siblings travel through bars, malls and discos before ending up in bed together.
Hob's Wedding is a 1720 farce by the Irish writer John Leigh. An afterpiece, it premiered at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in support of the comedy The Half Pay Officers by Charles Molloy. The original cast included William Bullock as Sir Thomas Testy, John Egleton as Woodville, Richard Diggs as Truelove, John Harper as Old Hob, James Spiller as Young Hob and Jane Rogers as Mary.
In 1880 Salford, boot-shop owner Henry Hobson drinks while his three daughters work unpaid. His eldest daughter Maggie leaves with talented bootmaker Will Mossop, establishes a successful rival shop with him, and later uses her business and legal leverage to secure her sisters' marriages and take control of Hobson's business.
In 1890 Brooklyn, political leader Matthew Stanton runs against incumbent Ned Quinn. Stanton’s wife fears that the campaign will expose their marriage outside the Catholic Church, while Quinn threatens to reveal that Stanton was once the companion of his dying former girlfriend Agnes Hogan. Stanton presses on, destroying his political career and marriage.
Country music icon Strings McCrane spirals after his mother's death, abandons his celebrity and career, and returns to his Tennessee hometown.
An epic drama following the rise and fall of Britain’s Chartist movement in the first half of the nineteenth century, interwoven with the story of servants Lizzie and Will fleeing the police.
Tim and John fall in love at school in 1970s Australia. Over fifteen years, their relationship faces family disapproval, separation, temptation and the loss brought by AIDS.
The story follows Johnny Case, a corporate lawyer on Wall Street. He has abundant financial prospects but little social background. Before the start of the play, Julia, the eldest daughter of the Seton family, has met Johnny at Lake Placid. During the ten-day trip, they have fallen in love and are to be married. But there is one person who does not want the marriage this quickly: Julia's father, Edward, who questions Johnny's life's goal "to retire early and work late." After Johnny makes $25,000, he plans to go away and enjoy life while he is still physically capable. The stock market being what it is in 1928, stocks keep climbing and climbing. Johnny achieves his goal and announces his plans even as Julia's father is announcing the engagement. Julia is upset at his decision; she wants a proper house in town and a place in the country. Now the woman Johnny met and fell in love with at Lake Placid is gone; she is just as materialistic as her father.
Holiday for Lovers is a 1957 play written by Ronald Alexander. It opened on Broadway on February 14, 1957, and closed after 100 performances on May 11, 1957. It was later adapted into the 1959 film Holiday for Lovers.
The vain young lord Philautus neglects his wife and pursues flirtation until his friend Fidelio arranges for Faustina to reject him, hoping to reform him. Philautus and Faustina prove to be siblings, while a subplot follows gullible would-be gallants who are deceived and ultimately enter marriages.
Hollywood Arms is a play by Carrie Hamilton and Carol Burnett. It ran at the Goodman Theatre and on Broadway in 2002. The play is adapted from Carol Burnett's memoir One More Time.
Hollywood Holiday is a comedy play by British writers John Van Druten and Benn Levy. The play is a satire on Hollywood script-writing, and sees a female playwright's script being transformed into half a dozen unrecognisable screenplays. It ran at the New Theatre for twenty performances from 15 October and 31 October 1931. The original cast included Kay Hammond, Melville Cooper, Dennis Wyndham and Jean Cadell.
Senator and charity founder Baron Courtin embezzles money from the institution he leads, risking ruin and prison. He escapes punishment through help from his wife's former lover, who extracts money from the girls at the charity, and through a political bargain that secures the baron's silence.
Home is a play by David Storey. It is set in a mental asylum, although this fact is only revealed gradually as the story progresses. The four primary characters are seemingly benign Harry, highly opinionated Jack, cynical Marjorie, and flirtatious Kathleen. As they interact we come to realize their delusions and pretensions are similar to those of people living in a supposedly normal society.
Cephus Miles loses his North Carolina farm after being imprisoned for refusing the Vietnam draft. Seeking a fresh start in a northern city, he encounters unemployment and addiction before returning home to rebuild his life.
After married Janet Ebony returns from France with her platonic friend Peter, their shared train compartment prompts suspicions of adultery. Janet falsely claims they are lovers to shock her mother; misunderstandings and staged scenes deepen the scandal before Janet and her husband agree to divorce and pursue other relationships.
Agoraphobic siblings Lawrence and Joanna live in a world of childish games and imagined companions. Joanna is pregnant and becomes gravely ill, but Lawrence's terror of the outside world prevents him from fetching a doctor; the play ends with him pleading over her motionless body.
Annie and James, an interracial couple who meet on V-J Day, navigate daily life in New York and the Deep South while James awaits his military discharge.
Home Is Tomorrow is a 1948 play by the British author J.B. Priestley. It was inspired by Priestley's experience of attending a postwar UNESCO conference. It premiered at the Princes Theatre, Bradford before transferring to the Cambridge Theatre in London's West End running for 37 performances between 4 November and 4 December 1948. The cast included Leslie Banks, Gordon Tanner, Douglas Jefferies, Alan Wheatley, Cecil Trouncer, John Ruddock and Irene Worth.
After William Cardew is declared missing and presumed dead in the First World War, his widow Victoria marries his friend Frederick Lowndes. William returns from a prisoner-of-war camp, leaving Victoria with two husbands who both want to be free of her. She seeks to divorce them both and marry wealthy admirer Leicester Paton, but Britain's restrictive divorce laws force the men into an elaborate staged adultery claim.
David Preston returns home from work to his wife Janet to find that 24 hours have elapsed without him even realising it, and it is now a day later than he thought. As hard as he tries, he cannot recall the missing day. Evidence then emerges suggesting that he was involved in a theft and murder that happened in the period that he cannot account for.
During World War II, a group of American soldiers volunteers for a dangerous mission to a Japanese-occupied island. After a Jewish soldier believes he failed a dying friend and experiences prejudice within his unit, guilt leaves him partially paralyzed; his doctor and fellow soldiers help him confront the belief and recover.
Judy and Johnny lead a 50s lifestyle, clothes, décor, appliances. She stays at home while Johnny works as an estate agent. He hopes for a promotion. He realises they have financial problems; the house might be repossessed. Three years earlier Judy had taken voluntary redundancy, but the money has run out. He is underperforming at work and doesn’t earn as much commission. He says he isn’t happy. They need to change. He gets a promotion, but it will involve a long commute. They agree to compromise.
Farmer Alistair MacEachern, crotchety, funny and fearless, has silently longed for seventy years for the sister he left behind in Scotland. The play's wider subject is the migration of British home children to colonies including Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
As Ezra Mannon returns from the Civil War, his daughter Lavinia confronts her mother Christine about her affair with Adam Brant. Christine agrees to end the affair but instead poisons Ezra when he threatens her; his dying words expose her guilt to Lavinia.
The show revolves around Lauren, who is trying to find her mom, her step-mom, her bossy sister, her aging grandmother, and her boyfriend.
A one-act play about the friendship between Toronto writer Catherine Frid and Shareef Abdelhaleem, a man arrested as part of the Toronto 18 case. It presents Frid's account of their relationship and raises questions about the public account of Abdelhaleem's conviction.
Peter and his wife Ann explore their marriage in a conversation that ends with Peter leaving to read a book in Central Park. Albee wrote the act to explore Peter in greater depth before The Zoo Story.
A contemporary family comedy confronts parents Bonnie and Glen with their son Nick's gay relationship and arguments over autonomy at the end of life. Their daughter and her husband are also caught in a strained marriage as conflicting expectations unsettle the family's conventions.
Shortly before Ahmad Shah Massoud's assassination in 2001, a CIA officer tries and fails to persuade him to help resume American intervention in Afghanistan.
Honoria chooses the scholar Alworth over competing suitors, while the wealthy widow Mammon is passed among suitors and manipulated by the demon Phantasm. Intrigues separate Honoria and Alworth before the suitors’ schemes are exposed and the couples resolve their fates.
A wealthy father's affair with a daughter in a poor family provokes her brother to challenge him to a duel, exposing conflicts between the two families.
George leaves his middle-aged wife Honor and their 24-year-old daughter Sophie to pursue a relationship with the much younger Claudia.
A confused man blames his wife for misdeeds that were actually committed by her lookalike sister.
Set in 1933 in Memphis, aspiring singer Toulou seeks help from an elderly neighbor, Candylady, to secure the love of her restless musician boyfriend. Candylady performs hoodoo to help her, after which her born-again Christian brother re-enters her life.
A prologue set amid a crushed 1919 uprising leads into a play set eight years later. Its large cast brings revolutionaries, officials, workers and intellectuals into a portrait of the aftermath of the failed revolt.
Rome and Alba Longa choose three brothers from the Horatii and Curiatii families to decide their war in single combat, despite the families' close ties. Horace kills all three injured Curiatii, then kills his sister Camilla when she condemns him for killing her beloved; he is acquitted after his father defends him.
Horestes seeks revenge for his father’s death by killing his mother and her lover. A Vice character and other allegorical figures frame the classical story in comic and tragic episodes, while the play tests whether the murder can be justified; Horestes is ultimately forgiven without repenting.
Billy Miller enters the mad theme-park world of Horrible Science and, with time running out, battles hideous facts and factors to ensure life can go on. The educational adventure uses science topics and large-screen 3D effects.
When a horse eats Agatha’s hat during her secret rendezvous, she fears her husband will discover the affair and sends Freddy searching for a replacement, though he is about to marry. Welles’s version folds the farce into a spectacle that blurs staged action and events among the audience.
A group of preteen members of the Lady Jean Ladies horse club meet in Ashleigh’s bedroom and learn their horses may be slaughtered when their stable closes. The crisis turns the girls’ rivalries and loyalties into increasingly absurd and violent conflict.
Set in the Montreal apartment of Hosanna, a drag queen dressed as Elizabeth Taylor’s Cleopatra, the play follows her relationship with Cuirette, an aging gay biker, after they return from a Halloween party.
In a Wichita hotel suite, salesmen Phil and Larry and young engineer Bob prepare to court a potential client whose company could save their failing lubricant business. Their differing views on religion and purpose surface as they realize Bob has already met the client and talked with him about Jesus rather than lubricants, exposing tensions among the three men.
Charlene, a screenwriter of feminist pornographic scripts, faces her violent former husband Clyde when he arrives drunk despite a restraining order. Their confrontation explores domestic violence, pornography and family relationships, ending in lethal violence.
A lost collaborative play by Henry Chettle, Henry Porter, and Ben Jonson; no surviving text or plot description is known.
In Wapping, trade-union leader Jack Palmer champions the rights of West Indian workers, but reconsiders his own prejudices when his daughter falls in love with Jamaican Sonny Lincoln. Jack's neglected wife Nell reacts with fierce prejudice of her own.
Harry and Theo Houdini set out as the Brothers Houdini, but after Theo makes a mistake at a major performance, Harry is offered a solo show. Their paths separate as Harry meets and marries Bess, while the play follows their rivalry, success, love and tragedy.
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