The Four Little Girls
A stream-of-consciousness play by Pablo Picasso, written in French; critics have questioned whether it was intended for staging or only for reading.
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In Heywood’s interlude, a palmer, pardoner, apothecary and pedlar compete to tell the greatest lie, with the pedlar judging their claims.
The Four Prentices of London
Four brothers, reduced to apprentices after their father's dispossession, join a crusade, become separated, and eventually reunite in Jerusalem, where they receive crowns and marriages.
The Fourposter
The Fourposter is a play written by Jan de Hartog. The two-character story spans 35 years, from 1890 to 1925, as it focuses on the trials and tribulations, laughters and sorrows, and hopes and disappointments experienced by Agnes and Michael throughout their marriage. The set consists solely of their bedroom, dominated by the large, fourposter bed in the centre of the room. Among the couple's milestones are the consummation of their marriage, the birth of their first child, Michael's success as a writer, his extramarital affair, their daughter's wedding, and their preparations to move to smaller quarters and pass their home on to another newlywed couple. After a pre-London tour, it opened in the West End in 1950. A Broadway production followed in 1951, and the play has been adapted for film, television and musical theatre.
The Fourth Wall
Peggy redecorates her living room like a stage, with everything facing a blank wall that represents the audience. Her husband Roger and their friends are drawn into theatrical conventions and try to restore their ordinary domestic life.
The Fourth Wall (Milne play)
The Fourth Wall is a mystery play by the British writer A.A. Milne. It was first staged at the Haymarket Theatre in 1928. Under the name, The Perfect Alibi, it was produced at the Charles Hopkins Theatre on Broadway from November 1928 through July 1929.
The Fox on the Fairway
A farce set at a private country club, built around mistaken identities, slamming doors and romantic entanglements among its stuffy members.
The Fragrant Companion
Cui Jianyun, a scholar's wife, and Cao Yuhua fall in love. After Cui secretly marries Cao in men's clothing, the women are separated; Cui arranges to have Cao's father marry her to the scholar as a second wife, and they eventually reunite as co-wives.
The Freaking Out of Stephanie Blake
A spinster from Ohio arrives in New York before a trip to Europe and discovers that her niece has joined a group of hippies, drawing her into their world.
The Freedom of the City
In 1970 Derry, three civil-rights marchers fleeing tear gas mistakenly take shelter in the mayor’s Guildhall parlour. Their presence is treated as an occupation; they discuss their lives while waiting for the violence to pass, then are shot by soldiers as they try to surrender. A tribunal reconstructs their deaths through fictionalized testimony and acquits the soldiers, turning the play’s parallel scenes into an indictment of the violence and its official account.
The Freedom of the Seas
The Freedom of the Seas is a 1918 British comedy play by Walter Hackett. A downtrodden London clerk joins the Royal Navy during the First World War. Given command of a tramp steamer he rises to the occasion and thwarts the plans of a German spy. It appeared at the Royalty Theatre before transferring to the Theatre Royal, Haymarket where the cast included Dennis Eadie, Billie Carleton, Tom Reynolds, Marion Lorne, Randle Ayrton, Sydney Valentine and James Carew.
The French Conjuror
The French Conjuror is a comedy play by the English writer Thomas Porter. It was first staged by the Duke's Company at the Dorset Garden Theatre in London in June 1677. The original cast included Thomas Jevon as Avarito, John Crosby as Claudio, Thomas Gillow as Dorido, Henry Norris as Horatio, Thomas Percival as Truro, Anthony Leigh as Monsieur, John Richards as Audacio, Elizabeth Barry as Clorinia, Margaret Hughes as Leonora and Elinor Leigh as Scintilla.
The French Libertine
The French Libertine is an 1826 historical play by the British-based American writer John Howard Payne. Written under the title Richelieu the play originally focused on the life of the eighteenth century French aristocrat and libertine the Duke of Richelieu, a relation of the seventeenth century statesman Cardinal Richelieu. It was partly inspired by the 1796 work La Jeunesse de Richelieu by Alexandre Duval. Issues with the censor George Colman led to many changes, done by Charles Kemble who played the lead, and Richelieu was altered into the fictional Duke de Rougemont. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London on 11 February 1826. The cast included Charles Kemble as the Duke de Rougemont, James Prescott Warde as Dubois, Tyrone Power as Lamotte, John Cooper as Dorival, Louisa Chatterley as Countess de Fleury and Julia Glover as Jeanette.
The French Mistress
The French Mistress is a comedy play by the British entertainer Sonnie Hale under the pen name Robert Munro about the arrival of a new young French teacher at a traditional public school. It premiered at the Prince of Wales Theatre, Cardiff in May 1955. Four years later it enjoyed a West End run of 185 performances, first at the Adelphi Theatre before transferring to the Prince's Theatre. The cast included Hugh Wakefield and Richard Bird.
The French Spy
A pantomimic military drama reflecting the French occupation of Algiers. Its heroine, Mathilde de Grammont, assumes the identities of Pierre Graziot, a lancer cadet, and Omar Almorid, an Arab boy.
The Friends
A group of friends from working-class backgrounds have built a successful chain of interior-design shops, but feel their work has failed to reach the people they hoped to serve. As they gather around Esther, who is dying of leukaemia, they reassess their ideals, achievements and mortality.
The Frog
The Frog is a 1936 thriller play written by Ian Hay, and based on the novel The Fellowship of the Frog by Edgar Wallace. It ran for 481 performances at the Princes Theatre in London's West End between 11 April 1936 and 5 June 1937. The cast included Gordon Harker, Jack Hawkins, Frank Pettingell, Hugh Burden and Herbert Lomas. In 1937 a film version The Frog was made, with Gordon Harker and Jack Hawkins reprising their roles.
The Frog Prince
Mamet retells the traditional tale of a haughty prince transformed into a frog, who can return to human form only if someone willingly kisses him.
The Frogs
Dionysus descends to the underworld with his slave Xanthias to bring Euripides back to Athens. At Pluto's palace he judges a contest between Euripides and Aeschylus over the greatest tragic poet, then chooses Aeschylus to return and advise the city during the Peloponnesian War.
The Front Page
The play's single set is the dingy press room of Chicago's Criminal Courts Building, overlooking the gallows behind the Cook County Jail. Reporters from most of the city's newspapers are passing the time with poker and pungent wisecracks about the news of the day. Soon they will witness the hanging of Earl Williams, a white man and supposed Communist revolutionary convicted of killing a black policeman. Hildy Johnson, cocky star reporter for the Examiner, is late. He appears only to say goodbye; he is quitting to get a respectable job and be married. Suddenly the reporters hear that Earl Williams has escaped from the jail. All but Hildy stampede out for more information. As Hildy tries to decide how to react, Williams comes in through the window. He tells Hildy he is no revolutionary, and that he shot the police officer by accident. The reporter realizes this bewildered, harmless little man was railroaded—just to help the crooked mayor and sheriff pick up enough black votes to win re-election. It is the story of a lifetime. Hildy helps Williams hide inside a roll-top desk. His daunting challenge now is to get Williams out of the building to a safe place for an interview before rival reporters or trigger-happy policemen discover him. Hildy has no choice but to ask for help from Walter Burns, managing editor of the Examiner—a devious tyrant who would do just about anything to keep Hildy with the newspaper.
The Frontier Trilogy
This western triptych follows brothers journeying west under a blood-moon omen, a trapped man forced to choose between ease and justice as a railroad approaches, and an outlaw confronting the lawman pursuing him.
The Frontline
A contemporary urban drama about street life outside Camden Town tube station in London.
The Frosted Glass Coffin
A group of retirees live at a hotel in Miami, Florida.
The Frozen Deep
An allegorical Arctic drama responds to the loss of Franklin’s expedition and the controversy over reports of its fate.
The Fruits of Enlightenment
Tolstoy satirizes the landed aristocracy’s persistence in unenlightened attitudes toward Russian peasants. The first staged version reflected conditions at Yasnaya Polyana and neighboring estates, using real local gentry names before these were replaced in later text.
The Fugitive
Civil servant Daniele plans to abandon his wife Nina, but a mysterious doctor challenges his motives. When Nina is implicated in her supervisor's murder, Daniele learns more about their bond and helps her flee toward the border, ultimately rejecting the doctor's nihilism.
The Full Monty
The Full Monty is a black comedy play written by Simon Beaufoy, from his original screenplay for the 1997 film The Full Monty. It made its world premiere at the Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield in February 2013, before touring the United Kingdom. A West End production was launched at the Noël Coward Theatre in February 2014. Followed by UK Tours in 2014/15 and 2016/17. In 2023 a brand new production opened at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, produced by Mark Goucher Productions and Buxton Opera House, which is currently touring the UK until April 2024.
The Gambler (Betti)
The Gambler (Il giocatore) is an Italian-language play in three acts by Ugo Betti that was first performed in Italy in 1950. An abstract morality play, the plot revolves around the character of David Petri who out of both ego and boredom conspires to have his loving and doting wife, Eva Petri, murdered by hiring a group of invading soldiers to commit the deed on his behalf. In 1952 the play was staged on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre in an English-language adaptation by Alfred Drake and Edward Eager. Drake starred as David Petri with Margaret Draper portraying his wife Eva. Others in the cast included Anne Burr as Eva's mother Alma Reich, Percy Waram as the Station Master, E. G. Marshall as Ernest Bruni, Philip Coolidge as Commissioner Costa, and Constance Clausen as Paula Mori. The Broadway production was directed by Herman Shumlin.
The Gamblers
Card sharp Ikharev joins three gamblers in a scheme involving a rich landowner's promissory note, only to discover that the supposed landowner and a local official were accomplices in a plot to take his winnings.
The Game
The play centers on fictional football club Blackton Rovers, its star player Jack Metherell and the family of club owner Austin Whitworth.
The Game of Love and Chance
A young woman and her fiancé each disguise themselves as servants to judge one another before marriage. They fall in love without recognizing each other’s status, while their servants imitate their masters and become a second couple.
The Game's Afoot
In December 1936, actor William Gillette, famed for playing Sherlock Holmes, invites his fellow cast members to his Connecticut castle. When a guest is murdered, Gillette adopts Holmes's persona to hunt for the killer before another victim appears.
The Gamester
Gambling-obsessed Wilding neglects his wife and pursues her ward Penelope, then sends his friend Hazard to an assignation meant for himself. His wife secretly takes Penelope’s place, and the pair devise a lesson that ends with Wilding’s repentance. A subplot follows a wealthy uncle’s attempt to make his nephew a fashionable gambler, while a third plot concerns two pairs of lovers and a false murder charge.
The Gamester
The Gamester is a 1705 comedy by the English writer Susanna Centlivre. This marked the first time Centlivre had a star cast in one of her productions, and it was a hit. The play was one of the most popular of the nineteen she wrote, and it was fairly often staged until 1745, before later being revived at Covent Garden in 1789 under an alternative title. It is inspired by the 1696 play Le Joueur by the French writer Jean-François Regnard, with numerous changes made to reflect its English setting most particularly in its moral about the "ill consequences of gaming". The original cast included John Freeman as Sir Thomas Volere, John Corey as Dorante, John Verbruggen as Young Volere, Thomas Betterton as Lovewell, William Fieldhouse as Marquess of Hazard, George Pack as Hector, Elizabeth Barry as Lady Wealthy, Anne Bracegirdle, as Angelica and Elizabeth Willis as Mrs Security.
The Gamester
Beverley’s gambling has stripped his family of its fortune, yet he continues to trust Stukely, who profits from his losses. As his wife tries to support him, Stukely schemes to take the family’s remaining resources and implicate Beverley in a murder.
The Gamester (Moore)
The Gamester is a drama in five acts by dramatist Edward Moore. It premiered at the Drury Lane Theatre on February 7, 1753. The original production starred David Garrick as Beverley, Hannah Pritchard as Mrs. Beverley, Henry Mossop as Lewson, Thomas Davies as Stukely, Edward Berry as Jarvis, Charles Blakes as Dawson, Miss Charlotte as Miss. Haughton, Miss Lucy as Mrs. Price, Mr. Burton as Bates, and Ellis Ackman as the Waiter.
The Garden Party
Hugo Pludek attends a bureaucratic Liquidation Office garden party after an appointment falls through. He adapts to its empty ideological clichés so successfully that he rises to lead a new committee, losing his identity until even his parents fail to recognize him.
The Garden of Allah
Devout Englishwoman Domini Enfilden meets Boris Androvsky, a former Trappist monk with a mysterious past, in Beni-Mora. They marry, but after Boris confesses his history, Domini recognizes that his religious vocation remains; she bids him return to the monastery. Five years later, she listens to music in Count Anteoni's garden while their son plays nearby.
The Gas Heart
In this three-act Dada parody, Mouth, Ear, Eye, Nose, Neck and Eyebrow trade absurd, metaphorical non sequiturs rather than pursue a conventional plot. Their exchanges suggest courtship and desire, while brief dance sequences and a closing arrangement of words and drawings further unsettle theatrical form.
The Gay Adventure
The Gay Adventure is a 1931 comedy play by the British-American writer Walter Hackett. It ran for 291 performances at the Whitehall Theatre in the West End between 23 December 1931 and 3 September 1932. The original cast included Seymour Hicks, Charles Quatermaine, Eric Maturin, Nora Swinburne and Marion Lorne.
The Gay Dog
The Gay Dog is a 1951 comedy play by the British author Joseph Colton. After its London premiere at the Q Theatre in Kew Bridge (under the title A Dog for Delmont it transferred to the Piccadilly Theatre in the West End where it ran for 276 performances between 11 June 1952 and 7 February 1953. The West End cast included Wilfred Pickles, Megs Jenkins, Harold Goodwin, Anthony Oliver, Brian Nissen, David King-Wood and Joan Hickson.
The Gay Lord Quex
Sophy Fullgarney is a manicurist whose clients include the Countess of Owbridge and the Duchess of Strood. The former is elderly and kind; the latter is younger and romantically inclined. They are both also clients of "Valma", the professional name of the palmist Frank Pollitt; he practises in the next door premises and is Sophy's fiancé. Sophy is the foster-sister of the beautiful Muriel Eden, and is set against Muriel's intended marriage to the notorious middle-aged roué, the Marquess of Quex. Sophy does not believe that he is, as he claims, a reformed character and believes a more suitable husband for her foster-sister would be the charming young Captain Bastling. Lady Owbridge invites the other characters to her country house, where the Duchess, an old flame of Quex's, insists on his drinking a farewell glass of champagne in her room after dinner. It is a wholly innocent rendezvous, but would appear highly scandalous if others knew of it. Sophy spies on them, and is discovered. The Duchess hastily departs, leaving Quex and Sophy to confront each other. To avoid a scandal he attempts to bribe her to remain silent. He is impressed to find that her motives are not mercenary and that she is simply determined that he shall not marry Muriel. He points out that he has locked the door, and that if Sophy is discovered to be alone with him in a bedroom her fiancé would assuredly break off their engagement. Any scandal she causes will therefore be as damaging to her as to him. He convinces her that he is truly reformed and she promises not to stand in the way of his marriage to Muriel. Quex is concerned that the handsome young Captain Bastling is a rival for Muriel's affections. Sophy tricks Bastling into revealing that he is as dissolute a philanderer as Quex used to be. Muriel sees how untrustworthy he is, and prefers the reformed Quex.
The Gazebo
A television crime writer kills the man blackmailing his wife and hides the body beneath a new garden gazebo. When the corpse reappears in their living room, the couple must face the detectives gathering around them.
The Gazette Extraordinary
The Gazette Extraordinary is a comedy play by the British writer Joseph George Holman, published and first performed in 1811. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London on 23 April 1811 The original cast included Charles Mayne Young as Lord De Mallory, Joseph Shepherd Munden as Heartworth, William Barrymore as William Clayton, John Fawcett as Doctor Suitall, Charles Murray as Randall, Nannette Johnston as Lady Julia Sandford, Mary Catherine Bolton as Miss Alford, Mary Ann Davenport as Mrs Leech and Sarah Booth as Ellen Meredith. It was acted eleven times during its initial run.
The Generous Conqueror
The Generous Conqueror is a 1701 tragedy by the English writer Bevil Higgons. It was published in January the following year, and is sometimes dated 1702 by this. Higgons was a well-known Jacobite who had been implicated in the 1696 Jacobite assassination plot against William III. In this play he effectively called for the peaceful succession of the pretender to the throne as James III. The Drury Lane cast included Robert Wilks as Almerick, John Mills as Rodomond, Philip Griffin as Gonzalvo, Colley Cibber as Malespine, Thomas Simpson as Meroan, Jane Rogers as Armida, Mary Kent as Irene and Anne Oldfield as Cimene. It was not a success, partly because audiences and critics objected to its Jacobite arguments portrayed in the characters and plot. The prologue was by the Tory politician and writer George Granville, who shared the Jacobite sympathies of Higgons. The printed version play was dedicated to the Marquess of Normanby, who had attended the play several times, and was another Tory with Jacobite leanings. A contemporary play Tamerlane by Nicholas Rowe, took the very opposite view to Higgons, presenting another historical tragedy that depicts William of Orange as a heroic figure in Whig eyes.
The Generous Enemies
The Generous Enemies; Or, The Ridiculous Lovers is a 1671 comedy play by the writer John Corye. It was first staged by the King's Company at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London. The original cast included William Wintershall as Signior Robatzy, Edward Lydall as Signior Cassidoro, Michael Mohun as Don Alvarez, Edward Kynaston as Signior Flaminio, William Cartwright as Don Bertran, Richard Bell as Sanco, Rebecca Marshall as Jaccinta, Elizabeth James as Alleria, Elizabeth Boutell as Lysander and Katherine Corey as Julia.
The Genius and the Goddess
Young scientist John Rivers works in the household of elderly physicist Henry Maartens and becomes involved with Maartens’s wife Katy. After their affair, Katy returns to her husband, torn between her desire and sense of duty to him.
The Gentle Gunman
The Gentle Gunman is a 1950 thriller play by the British writer Roger MacDougall. A former IRA gunman attempts to renounce his violent past, as he is now convinced a non-violent approach is best. It premiered at the Cambridge Arts Theatre before transferring to the Arts Theatre in London's West End where it ran for 31 performances between 2 and 27 August 1950. The original London cast included Henry Hewitt, Robin Bailey, Victor Maddern, Larry Burns, Michael Golden, Harry Towb, Eddie Byrne, Kevin Stoney, Louise Hampton and Maureen Pryor. The production was televised by the BBC in September 1950.
The Gentle People
Two friends escape their domestic troubles by fishing together, until a gangster demands protection money and then their boat savings. When a corrupt court fails them, they decide to confront him themselves.
The Gentle Shepherd
A pastoral comedy depicting rustic manners in the Scottish Lowlands countryside of the eighteenth century.
The Gentleman Usher
In an Italian duchy, Duke Alphonso and his son Vincentio both love Margaret. With his friend Strozza’s help, Vincentio courts her through the pompous usher Bassiolo, while the duke’s favorite Medice schemes against the young couple. After Vincentio is wounded and Margaret disfigures herself to avoid a forced marriage, Medice’s deceptions are exposed and both lovers are healed and united.
The Gentleman of Venice
Giovanni, a gardener's son, distinguishes himself in Venice's war with Genoa and seeks the hand of Bellaura, the Duke's niece. A revelation that he and the Duke's son were switched at birth changes their identities. In a subplot, a Venetian gentleman's attempt to force his wife to conceive by abducting Florelli collapses into repentance.
The German Hotel
The German Hotel is a 1790 comedy play by the British writer Thomas Holcroft. The original Covent Garden cast included John Quick as Count Werling, Joseph George Holman as Dorville, Francis Aickin as Count Kolberg, William Farren as Baron Thorck, Richard Wilson as Rummer, John Bernard as William, Charles Farley as Messenger, Isabella Mattocks as Adelaide and Jane Pope as Mrs Dorville. George III and Queen Charlotte attended a performance of the play in December 1790 "and seemed highly gratified with the whole performance".
The Ghost Breaker
Kentucky fugitive Warren Jarvis escapes arrest with the help of Spanish princess Maria Theresa, who hides him aboard a ship and enlists him to rid her ancestral castle of a ghost. Their search for her missing brother and hidden treasure brings them into conflict with a scheming duke and his mercenary.
The Ghost Sonata
A young student idealizes the residents of a fashionable Stockholm apartment building. With the mysterious Jacob Hummel's help, he enters and discovers betrayal, sickness, and a world in which human beings must suffer to reach salvation.
The Ghost Train
A group of railway passengers stranded overnight at an isolated station are warned about a deadly ghost train. The apparent supernatural threat escalates into danger, then proves to be a cover for revolutionaries smuggling weapons, confronted by a secret agent among the passengers.
The Ghosts of Mariupol
After the bombing of the Mariupol theatre in 2022, two actress friends take different paths: one works with Russians in the rebuilt theatre, while the other makes theatre for injured Ukrainian soldiers. Both reckon with their choices during the attack.
The Gigli Concert
Over seven days, JPW King, an English-born self-help therapist in Dublin, reluctantly teaches a mysterious Irish construction millionaire to sing like opera star Beniamino Gigli. Their work helps the client recover and later leads King to confront his own despair and discover he can sing.
The Gin Game
Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey, two elderly residents at a nursing home for senior citizens, strike up an acquaintance. Neither seems to have any other friends, and they start to enjoy each other's company. Weller offers to teach Fonsia how to play gin rummy, and they begin playing a series of games that Fonsia always wins. Weller's inability to win a single hand becomes increasingly frustrating to him, while Fonsia becomes increasingly confident. While playing their games of gin, they engage in lengthy conversations about their families and their lives in the outside world. Gradually, each conversation becomes a battle, much like the ongoing gin games, as each player tries to expose the other's weaknesses, to belittle the other's life, and to humiliate the other thoroughly.
The Ginger Cat
A comedy about a seeming fool who takes nothing but laughter seriously.
The Gingerbread Lady
The Gingerbread Lady is a play by Neil Simon. It was widely believed to have been written specifically for actress Maureen Stapleton, who won both the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for her performance. But in a later autobiography, Simon wrote that he'd feared Stapleton might be "hurt" if she assumed the character's flaws and personal damage were a direct dramatization of her life. Simon said that it was director Mike Nichols' suggestion to cast Stapleton in the role, and that Simon responded, "This is not really Maureen. It's ten, twenty different actresses I've met over the years."
The Girl Who Loved a Soldier
Stockbroker Wilfred Grant schemes to force Violet Donald into marriage by falsifying her father's accounts. Violet agrees to save her father, while the soldier Richard Scott seeks to marry her after designing a submarine that could restore his fortune. Grant sabotages the vessel, but Scott survives, Grant is exposed, and the couple's troubles end.
The Girl from Bama
Della, trapped in a relationship with numbers banker Jazz Barrett, who will not marry her, decides to run away with an old flame, Dr. Lee.
The Girl from Rector's
New York rake Richard O'Shaugnessy is having an illicit affair with a woman he knows by the name "Loute Sedaine". When O'Shaugnessy's cousin asks for help with charming Marcia Singleton, a high-class young woman visiting from Battle Creek, Michigan, O'Shaugnessy decides she will be a more favorable partner for himself instead of for his cousin. He informs his mentor, known to him as "Colonel Tandy", that he will marry Singleton and break off his relations with Sedaine. He also severs ties with Tandy, whose assistance he no longer needs. When he arrives in Battle Creek, O'Shaugnessy discovers his rude dealings with Sedaine and Tandy were a mistake, because "Tandy" turns out to be a false name used in New York by his new fiancée's father. Similarly, "Sedaine" is also from Battle Creek, where she is married to a local judge. In a complication borrowed from the French original without regard to its implausibility in American law, O'Shaugnessy and Singleton have already wed in a civil ceremony, but need to go through a religious ceremony to complete their marriage. The joint arrival of O'Shaugnessy's lover and his mentor threatens to disrupt this plan. The main characters all end up at a roadhouse, where they go in and out of one another's rooms, revealing their embarrassing affairs. Eventually they work out their differences; O'Shaugnessy consummates his new marriage, and his former lover reconciles with her husband.
The Girl in the Limousine
Tony Hamilton is on his way to a party at the home of his former girlfriend Betty and her new husband Freddie Neville. He is waylaid by thieves who take most of his clothes and dump him into a dark room of a nearby apartment. This room turns out to be Betty Neville's bedroom. Betty has been feeling ill and has retired from the party to sleep. Various complications ensue as Tony attempts to conceal or explain his near-naked presence in Betty's bedroom. First Betty's aunt Cicely shows up. She has never met Betty's new husband, and finding Tony in the bedroom, she assumes he must be Freddie. The real Freddie makes his way to the bedroom later, as do several of the party guests.
The Girl of the Golden West
A four-act Gold Rush melodrama centered on a woman known as the Girl, a gambler sheriff, and a stranger in a mining camp.
The Girl with the Whooping Cough
The story follows the misbehaviors of Regina (Valeska Suratt) as she passes whooping cough to the numerous men she kisses. In the final act, her amours land her in divorce court, where she performs a dance routine borrowed from Suratt's vaudeville act.
The Gladiator
The Thracian gladiator Spartacus and his brother Phasarius lead a revolt against Rome, but their conflicting aims split the rebellion. After Roman troops kill Spartacus's wife and child, he rejects a pardon and dies fighting for freedom.
The Glass Cage
The Glass Cage is a 1957 play by J.B. Priestley. It premiered at the Crest Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada before transferring to London's West End where it ran for 35 performances at the Piccadilly Theatre. The cast included Donald Davis and his brother and sister Murray Davis and Barbara Chilcott, for whom it had specially been written.
The Glass of Water: or, Effects and Causes
At Queen Anne’s court, peace-seeking Bolingbroke and the Duchess of Marlborough maneuver over the War of the Spanish Succession, while both the queen and duchess are drawn to officer Masham, who loves Abigail. A glass of water becomes a signal in the competing schemes around the queen and the court.
The Glimpse of Reality
In a 15th-century Italian inn, Giulia plans to lure Count Ferruccio to her father Squarcio, a professional assassin, so they can kill him and finance her marriage to Sandro. The disguised Count exposes the plan, then debates class and crime with his would-be killers as they negotiate a safe escape and wedding gift.
The Glorious First of June
The Glorious First of June is a 1794 play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. It depicts the Glorious First of June, a British naval victory over the French that took place on 1 June 1794 during the French Revolutionary War. It premiered on 2 July 1794 at the Drury Lane theatre, and was based on newspaper accounts of the battle. It contains a debate on the question of naval patriotism – a key issue at the time. The profits made from the play were donated to the families of those killed in the battle.
The Glory of Columbia, Her Yeomanry
Dunlap reworks his tragedy André as a patriotic play centered on the ordinary American people. The action includes the capture of British officer John André by local militiamen during the Revolutionary War.
The Glory of Living
Lisa meets Clint at her mother's mobile home, and they later marry and have twins. The couple lives in motels while Lisa lures young girls to Clint, who abuses them; Lisa murders the victims, then anonymously directs police to their bodies. The second act focuses on their punishment and Lisa's motives.
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
It is Martin's 50th birthday. In his suburban living room, he and his wife Stevie prepare to be interviewed on television by their friend Ross. Martin seems distracted and cannot remember anything. Stevie casually asks Martin about a woman's business card in his pocket and his odd scent. Martin denies having an affair with a woman, but confesses to falling in love with a goat named Sylvia. Stevie laughs it off, thinking it is a joke. Stevie leaves when Ross arrives. Ross begins interviewing Martin, congratulating him for being the youngest man ever to win the Pritzker Prize and recently being chosen to design a multi-billion-dollar city. However, Ross soon becomes frustrated with Martin’s inability to concentrate on the interview. Martin confides that the reason for his absent-mindedness is his affair with Sylvia, which began during his search for a country home. Amazed that Martin could fall in love with anyone but Stevie, Ross asks repeatedly, "Who is Sylvia?" Martin reveals a photo of Sylvia and Ross screams that Sylvia is a goat. Ross has written Stevie a letter regarding Martin's affair and Sylvia's identity. Stevie confronts Martin about this, with their son Billy also in the room. Billy is shocked and flees (throughout this scene, he enters and exits sporadically). Stevie recounts the normalcy of her life before she opened Ross's letter. She realizes that Martin was telling the truth in Scene 1 and that she was right to worry about the business card and the odd scent. The card belongs to a member of a support group for bestiality. Martin claims that people like him seek animal company as a coping mechanism. For him, Sylvia is not just an animal; she has a soul and reciprocates his love. As Martin tries to justify himself, Stevie breaks various objects and overturns furniture. Finally, she exits, vowing revenge. Billy enters the ruined living room where Martin remains. Billy claims that Martin and Stevie are good people and are better than most of his classmates' parents. However, he begins crying once he realizes that Martin's bestiality has torn their once happy family apart beyond repair. Overwhelmed with a sense of loss and love for his father, Billy embraces Martin and kisses him sexually on the mouth. Martin pushes Billy away just as Ross enters to witness the scene. Martin angrily defends both his son and himself. Ross says he received a call from Stevie saying Martin needed him. Ross and Martin spar over Ross's letter and how Martin's public image can be saved from disgrace. Stevie then enters, dragging a dead goat. With directions from Ross to the farm where Sylvia was kept, she found and killed the goat, because she could not stand the idea that she and Sylvia loved Martin equally, and were loved as equally by him. The scene and play ends with a tableau as Ross freezes, Stevie remains emotionless, Martin breaks down in tears, and Billy quietly tries to address his parents.
The Goblins
In the mythical kingdom of Francelia, Tamoren leads a band of robbers who disguise themselves as devils and unsettle the country with pranks and rough justice. The plot also weaves in rival noble families, while the lively play draws on romance, action, songs, dances, and a comic subplot.
The God of Hell
Wisconsin dairy farmer Frank and his wife Emma live quietly until Mr. Welch, a mysterious, ultra-patriotic government agent, arrives in pursuit of Frank’s old friend Haynes.
The Gods Are Not to Blame
In the Yoruba kingdom of Kutuje, King Odewale seeks the cause of a plague. A prophecy and revelations about the murder of the former king expose that Odewale unknowingly killed his father and married his mother; Ojuola kills herself, and Odewale leaves the kingdom.
The Gods of Comedy
Classics professors Ralph and Daphne discover a manuscript of Euripides’ lost tragedy Andromeda. When Daphne misplaces it, she calls on Dionysus and Thalia for help, and the gods appear, unleashing comic mayhem.
The Gold Diggers
Rumors that Napoleon buried gold in a Jewish cemetery throw a shtetl into chaotic competition to find it.
The Gold Diggers
Stephen Lee is a wealthy man who is convinced that the chorus girl engaged to his nephew is a "gold digger", who only wants his nephew's money. Lee asks Jerry Lamar, another chorus girl he knows, to convince his nephew to break off the engagement. Instead she tries to convince Lee that not all chorus girls are out for money. Unfortunately for her effort, several of her friends demonstrate that they are as money-hungry as Lee fears. Annoyed by Lee's comments, Lamar decides to show him up by getting him drunk and tricking him into proposing to her. Her scheme proves harmless when it turns out that she and Lee really are in love.
The Golden Age
Engineer Francis Morris and geologist Peter become lost in Tasmania and find a community isolated since the mid-19th century, with its own language and Regency-era social conventions. Authorities force the group into society and then confine them in an asylum; after wartime service, Francis returns and chooses to live with the surviving member, Betsheb, in the wilderness.
The Golden Age Restored
Astraea, goddess of justice and the returned Golden Age, awakens the twelve Sons of Phoebus. Pallas banishes the personified Iron Age, while twelve personified Evils form the anti-masque; the work also carries a theme of reforming a corrupt court.
The Golden Fleece
A three-part dramatic poem based on the Greek myths of Jason, the Argonauts, and Medea. The cycle consists of The Guest-friend, The Argonauts, and Medea.
The Golden Gander
A drama about gold seekers in central Australia, inspired by the 1932 Charles Chapman expedition to The Granites.
The Golden Oldies
Two actors and two dummies portray the memories, dreams and imagined lives of three generations of Australian women, with dummies taking the male roles.
The Golem
Rabbi Leyb creates a clay golem named Yosl despite the spirit's pleas not to be born. After the golem is trapped in a cave amid forces tied to an attempted blood libel, he later rampages through Prague and demands that the rabbi remain with him; the rabbi accepts responsibility and ends his life.
The Good Companions
The Good Companions is a 1931 play by J.B. Priestley and Edward Knoblock, based on Priestley's 1929 novel of the same title about a touring concert party. The music was composed by Richard Addinsell. It was first performed at the Princes of Wales's Theatre in Birmingham before beginning its West End run at His Majesty's Theatre before transferring to the Lyric. It lasted for 331 performances between 14 May 1931 and 27 February 1932. The cast included John Gielgud, Adele Dixon, Edward Chapman, Ellen Pollock, Edith Sharpe and Frank Pettingell. Several of the actors reprised their roles for the 1933 film adaptation, notably Gielgud. A New York production the same year staged by Julian Wylie lasted for 68 performances.
The Good Doctor
The Good Doctor is a comedy with music written by Neil Simon. It is a series of short plays based on short stories and other works of Russian writer Anton Chekhov, framed by a writer commenting on them.
The Good Fairy
Lu, an usherette with debts from pretending to be wealthy, tells her admirer Konrad that she is married to a successful lawyer. When he asks to hire her supposed husband, she selects Dr. Sporum from the phone book, setting off a chain of misunderstandings and new opportunities. Lu eventually chooses the Head Waiter, while the epilogue revisits the group ten years later to reveal that her life has taken a different turn.
The Good Hope
In a poor Dutch fishing village, Kniertje’s remaining sons join a crew on an unsafe vessel because the fishermen face poverty if they refuse. The owner declines repairs to protect his profit; the ship sinks, leaving Kniertje bereaved and exposing the human cost of greed.
The Good Life
Tom and Barbara Good leave the suburban rat race for a self-sufficient life in Surbiton, growing food and keeping livestock at home. Their new routine unsettles neighbours Margo and Jerry Leadbetter, who want to preserve the neighbourhood’s conventional way of life.
The Good Person of Szechwan
After the gods reward the prostitute Shen Teh for sheltering them, she buys a tobacco shop, but her generosity draws people who exploit it. To protect herself she adopts the identity of her stern male cousin Shui Ta, whose business acumen turns the shop into a factory. As she falls in love with an unemployed pilot and becomes pregnant, the boundary between the two identities strains; the play leaves the audience to confront whether goodness can survive in an unjust society.
The Good and Faithful Servant
After fifty years as a doorman, Buchanan approaches retirement and encounters Edith, a former lover who is also the mother of his twin sons. He reflects on his life, marries Edith and dies quietly beside her.
The Good-Natur'd Man
The Good-Natur'd Man is a 1768 comedy play written by the Irish author Oliver Goldsmith. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden on 29 January 1768. The original cast included Mary Bulkley as Miss Richland, Isabella Mattocks as Olivia, Ann Pitt as Mrs Croaker, Jane Green as Garnet, William Powell as Mr Honeywood, Edward Shuter as Croaker, Henry Woodward as Lofty, Matthew Clarke as Sir William Honeywood, Robert Bensley as Leontine, John Dunstall as Jarvis, John Cushing as Butler and John Quick as Potboy. The prologue was written by Samuel Johnson. It was a middling success for Goldsmith, and the printed version of the play became popular with the reading public. It was released at the same time as Hugh Kelly's False Delicacy, staged at Drury Lane Theatre. The two plays went head to head, with Kelly's proving the more popular. Garrick rejected The Good-Natur'd Man, possibly because the story is an antidote of False Delicacy. In 1850 William Powell Frith produced a painting Mr Honeywood Introduces the Bailiffs to Miss Richland as His Friends based on the play which he displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1850 and the Paris Salon of 1855.
The Goodbye People
The dramedy focuses on elderly Max Silverman, who is determined to reopen the Coney Island Boardwalk hot dog stand he closed twenty-two years earlier for renovation, despite the fact he's recovering from a severe heart attack and it's the middle of February. He demands assistance from his daughter Nancy, who abandoned her husband, changed her name from Shirley, and had a nose job in an effort to assume a new and more exciting identity but has come to realize it takes more than a $4,000 rhinoplasty to erase the past. Into their lives arrives neurotic Arthur Korman, who comes to the beach to watch the sunrise and forget he despises his career choice and inability to quit a job he hates. With the help of each other, the trio manages to jump start their individual dreams before tragedy intercedes.
The Goose Hangs High
The story take place at the Ingals' colonial style home in a Midwestern city with a population of 100,000. Act I (The Ingals' living room. About 5pm on December 23rd.) Bernard and Eunice are preparing for their younger children's homecoming from college for Christmas. Noel Derby suggests to Bernard they buy a market garden business and turn it into a nursery. Leo Day drops by to pressure Bernard into sponsoring him at the local country club. Bernard stalls him by inviting him to dinner later that week. Julia Murdoch escorts Granny Bradley home from shopping. Granny and her both scold the Ingals for indulging their kids. Julia spills the news of Hugh's engagement to Dagmar Carroll. Hugh surprises everyone by his unexpected return from New York. Pandemonium ensues when the twins arrive home a day early. Ronald Murdoch takes his mother Julia home. Lois says she will continue with marketing her senior year, while Brad discusses his summer plans for studying scene design. Both take it for granted their parents will be subsidizing them. Bernard mentions the trouble he is having with the new city councilmen. Hugh confesses his engagement, and says he and Dagmar will soon marry and move into a Manhattan apartment. Hugh makes good money and has savings, but does not know of his parents precarious finances. All three children rush off to a holiday dance, leaving their parents to dine alone. (Curtain) Act II (Same as Act I. About 8pm on December 29th.) Hugh and Dagmar discuss future plans then leave for dinner at Dagmar's, though Hugh was supposed to dine at home. More, he left his mother to walk home in the rain instead of picking her up downtown. Lois also skipped dinner, having spent hours with a local department store owner suggesting improvements to his advertising. Lois explains she has secured a place in an expensive residence for her coming semester and will need more money. Clem comes for Lois and Granny goes next door to the Holding's. Bernard tells Brad about his troubles with Kimberly, how he fired his longtime stenographer and put a girlfriend in the job. Brad, without a date, expresses sympathy for D. H. Lawrence's theory of women. For the first time, Bernard and Eunice doubt their approach to child rearing. Kimberly calls on Bernard to demand an apology for his girlfriend, whom he says feels insulted by Bernard. Throwing Kimberly out, Bernard writes his resignation and addresses it. Before he can stop him, Brad takes it to mail on his way to a dance. Telling Eunice what he's done, Bernard tries to get ahold of Brad to stop the letter. He is horrified when Brad telephones home and Eunice tells her son to mail it. She won't let Bernard be tormented or corrupted. When Granny returns, Eunice asks to borrow money, and explains why. But Granny refuses a loan, if they are going to spend it on the twins. Eunice and Bernard go for a walk. Granny calls Hugh at Dagmar's and has him round up the twins. (Quick curtain) An hour has gone by; when Hugh, Lois, and Brad come in, Granny bluntly tells them their father has lost his position and is bankrupt. After agonizing over their selfishness, they take action. Hugh writes his parents a check, the savings on which he was to marry. Lois sends a telegram cancelling her college dormitory reservation. Brad, knowing it was Kimberly who provoked the crisis, goes over to his house and beats him up. When Bernard and Eunice return from their walk, the kids explain they know the situation and have taken steps. (Curtain) Act III (Same as Act I. Morning of December 30th.) Bernard still refuses Hugh's check. Dagmar has come to breakfast and secured Eunice's approval. When he gets Dagmar alone, Hugh explains their marriage must wait. Dagmar agrees to the postponement until Bernard gets back on his feet financially. Eunice outrages Granny by offering the twins' bedrooms for rent, since Hugh's money will send them back to college. But the twins refuse to go back; Lois has taken a job with the department store, while Brad will do scenery for the local stage theatre. They go to work on Granny, pointing out how ashamed she would be to have her son-in-law working menial jobs. Gradually they lead her into investing her money with Noel Derby for a nursery business, with Bernard as manager. Noel and Granny go upstairs to work out the deal. But Bernard startles everyone by saying Leo Day has saved his job by refusing the resignation. Eunice tells Bernard she will divorce him if he goes back to City Hall. Stunned, he is forced to acquiesce to Granny's offer, which Noel says the twins' dreamed up. Hugh's money is returned, allowing him and Dagmar to marry, as the twins refuse to go back to college; the entire family celebrates their love and loyalty. (Curtain)
The Gorilla
Alice Denby visits her uncle Cyrus at his old mansion with Arthur Madsen, who hopes the uncle will invest in his mystery play about a criminal called the Gorilla. As detectives arrive and a real escaped ape carries Alice away, the house seems to reproduce Arthur’s fictional plot; the events are ultimately revealed as the imagined contents of his play-within-a-play.
The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven
In a theatrical monologue, Jesus is imagined reincarnated in modern times as a transgender woman.
The Government Inspector
In a corrupt provincial town, officials mistake the penniless, boastful civil servant Khlestakov for an incognito government inspector. They bribe and flatter him until his departure and an intercepted letter expose the deception; the real inspector's arrival leaves them frozen in a silent scene.
The Governor's Lady
A three-act contemporary domestic drama about a husband and wife's rise from poverty to wealth, addressing social status and divorce. Its staging recreated a Childs Restaurant on stage using materials and food from the restaurant chain.
The Governour of Cyprus
The Governour of Cyprus (or The Governor of Cyprus) is a 1703 play by the English writer John Oldmixon. It premiered at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London, but the exact date was unclear with some sources putting the first performance in December 1702. The original cast included George Powell as Phorsano, Barton Booth as Virotto, Thomas Betterton as Iopano, Elizabeth Barry as Issamenea and Elizabeth Bowman as Lucinda.
The Grand Paradise
Audience members enter a fictional 1970s Florida resort promising access to the Fountain of Youth. They explore its rooms, beach, lounge and aquarium, following performers or wandering independently through an interactive theatrical world of dance, installations, scents, music and individual encounters.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath is a 1988 play adapted by Frank Galati from the classic 1939 John Steinbeck novel of the same name, with incidental music by Michael Smith. The play debuted at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, followed by a May 1989 production at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego and a June 1989 production at the Royal National Theatre in London. After eleven previews, the Broadway production, directed by Galati, opened on March 22, 1990 at the Cort Theatre, where it ran for 188 performances. The cast included Gary Sinise, Kathryn Erbe, Terry Kinney, Jeff Perry, Lois Smith, Sally Murphy, Francis Guinan, and Stephen Bogardus. The play was adapted for television in 1990 for the PBS series American Playhouse. A new production opened on 25 July 2024 at the Lyttleton Theatre, part of the National Theatre. The cast included Harry Treadaway, Cherry Jones, Greg Hicks, Natey Jones and Maimuna Memon.
The Grass Harp
The Grass Harp is a play written by Truman Capote based on his novel of the same name. Producer Saint Subber staged it on Broadway in 1952. It was Capote's first play.
The Grass Is Greener
Needing revenue, the Earl and Countess of Rhyall open their Hampshire manor to tourists. An American visitor falls in love with the Countess, and the Earl tries to make her jealous by using an old flame.
The Grateful Servant
Foscari believes he must surrender Cleona to the Duke of Savoy and enter a monastery, but a page he rescued is revealed as Leonora, the Duke’s former betrothed in disguise. Meanwhile, the Duke’s libertine brother is drawn into a demonic ruse that brings him to reform; the play resolves with three marriages.
The Grave
In a graveyard, a corrupt political leader and police inspector are confronted by Murda Fakir, a survivor of famine who lives among the graves. The dead language martyrs refuse burial and insist they remain alive in the nation's memory, exposing the leaders' attempt to minimize the Bengali Language Movement.
The Great Adventure
Ilam Carve is a celebrated painter, but is of a retiring personality and greatly dislikes being in the public eye. He visits England as rarely and unobtrusively as possible. On his present trip to London his valet, Albert, is taken mortally ill. A doctor is called, and assumes the dying man is Ilam. Ilam is too tongue-tied to convey to the doctor that the patient is the valet and not the painter, and finally he goes along with events, foreseeing a permanent escape from his irksome celebrity. When Albert dies, Ilam allows the body to be interred in Westminster Abbey while himself adopting the persona of the supposedly still-living Albert. Complications soon arise. Albert had been corresponding through the lonely-hearts columns with a young widow, Janet Cannot. They had not met, and she now turns up and assumes Ilam is Albert, as he is pretending to be. They are mutually attracted and by the second act they are happily married, living modestly on the annuity Ilam left Albert in his will. Ilam cannot resist resuming painting, and sells some pictures, but when an art expert sees them he realises that they are by Carve. He acquires them and sells them to an American collector. When it emerges that the pictures are dated after the artist's supposed death, litigation looms. A further complication arises when it emerges that Albert had been married and had deserted his wife, who now turns up with her two sons – both curates – in tow, accusing Ilam of bigamy. He proves his true identity, but to spare the embarrassment of the Abbey authorities he agrees to remain officially dead and he and Janet leave for a new life abroad, as Mr and Mrs Albert Shawn.
The Great Campaign
A farmer runs for president because the opposing candidate was selected by a corrupt politician. His son turns over the farmer’s major speech to the opposition, helping defeat the campaign.
The Great Duke of Florence
Cozimo, a widowed duke, plans to leave his realm to his nephew Giovanni, whose affection for Lidia complicates the duke’s dynastic expectations. Count Sanazarro also falls for Lidia, while Cozimo’s ward Fiorinda favors him; the young men’s effort to manipulate the duke leads to arrest, confession, forgiveness, and two marriages.
The Great Father
A young man and woman in a psychiatric ward confront violence embedded in history and in their own pasts.
The Great Favourite
Robert Howard’s historical drama portrays the Duke of Lerma’s ruthless pursuit of influence in the Spanish court: he exploits family and political ties, survives a banishment, and finally avoids the expected fall from power by purchasing a cardinal’s office.
The Great Game: Afghanistan
A cycle of twelve short plays in three sections traces Afghan history and foreign intervention from 1842 through 2009. The component plays are linked by historical monologues and dialogues, including edited verbatim testimony from modern figures connected with Western involvement in Afghanistan.
The Great God Brown
Business partners’ sons Dion Anthony and Billy Brown both love Margaret, who falls for Dion’s cruel public mask rather than his sensitive artistic self. After Dion’s death, Billy assumes the mask and identity, gradually losing his own self until he too dies; years later Margaret still pledges her love to the mask.
The Great Helmsman
Two women debate which of them will be chosen to spend a night with Chairman Mao Zedong.
The Great Highway
Structured as a seven-stage journey, the memory play follows the Hunter on a mountain walk through surreal encounters with symbolically named figures. As he descends, he meets people from his past, including the daughter he deserted, and the journey becomes an allegory of life's passage.
The Great Magoo
Nicky, a songwriter, and Julie, a Coney Island dancehall performer, share a tumultuous relationship; Julie briefly becomes a radio celebrity singing Nicky’s song.
The Great Man
The death of a prominent Labor Party politician and its impact on the people close to him.
The Great Rescue
Bland Holt's stage adaptation reworks Lincoln Carter's American story Bedford's Hope for an Australian setting and the rescue of Modesto Varischetti; the production featured a train onstage.
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