To Fall in Love
Merryn and Wyatt, a married couple separated by a devastating accident, meet to try an exercise of 36 questions and sustained eye contact. They hope it can reconnect them and save their relationship.
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Clear filtersTo Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
David, still grieving his wife Gillian’s death, continues an imagined romance with her ghost during walks on the beach. His daughter Rachel and visiting relatives need him to return to the present and help the family face its losses.
To Hell in a Handbag: The Secret Lives of Canon Chasuble and Miss Prism
Following Canon Chasuble and Miss Prism beyond their appearances in The Importance of Being Earnest, the play begins with their walk to and from the schools. It traces their precarious lives on Victorian society's lower rungs and their mutual dependence, then turns their relationship after Wilde's comedy ends.
To Hell with the Goddamn Spring
A monologue follows Edwin Rodríguez Vuelvas, a provincial bureaucrat who transforms into a drag queen while recounting an unrewarding life, a troubled childhood, and fleeting happiness at a drag pageant before returning to loneliness and nihilism.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird is a 2018 play based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Harper Lee, adapted for the stage by Aaron Sorkin. It opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre on December 13, 2018. The play opened in London's West End at the Gielgud Theatre in March 2022. The show follows the story of Atticus Finch, a lawyer in 1930s Alabama, as he defends Tom Robinson, a black man falsely accused of rape. Varying from the book, the play has Atticus as the protagonist, not his daughter Scout, allowing his character to change throughout the show. During development the show was involved in two legal disputes, the first with the Lee estate over the faithfulness of the play to the original book, and the second was due to exclusivity to the rights with productions using an earlier script by Christopher Sergel. During opening week, the production garnered more than $1.5 million in box office sales and reviews by publications such as the New York Times, LA Times and AMNY were positive but not without criticism.
To Marry or Not to Marry
To Marry or Not to Marry is an 1805 comedy play by the British writer Elizabeth Inchbald. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London on 16 February 1805. The original cast included Joseph Shepherd Munden as Lord Danberry, John Philip Kemble as Sir Oswin Mortland, Charles Farley as Willowear, George Frederick Cooke as Lavensforth, Julia Glover as Lady Susan Courtley and Mary Ann Davenport as Sarah Mortland. It was the last of Inchbald's new plays to be staged in her lifetime.
To Mee Navhech
In a courtroom, conman Lakhoba Lokhande contests testimony from people who identify him as several fraudsters, repeatedly claiming mistaken identity; the action uses witness accounts and flashbacks.
To Pay the Price
Based in part on Yonatan Netanyahu’s letters and interviews with his friends and family, the play examines his life and legacy, including his leadership during the hostage rescue at Entebbe and the events that led to the operation.
To Quito and Back
To Quito and Back is a 1937 American play by Ben Hecht. It was neither a commercial nor a critical success. Mounted by the Theatre Guild, it premiered at the Colonial Theatre in Boston on September 20, 1937. It transferred to Broadway's Guild Theatre where it opened on October 6, 1937. The cast was led by Leslie Banks as Alexander Sterns, Francis Compton as Howard Evans, and Sylvia Sidney as Lola Hobbs.
To W.H.
A dramatic exploration of Shakespeare’s possible sexuality and the identity of the mysterious W.H. addressed in his work. The play follows Shakespeare’s life from his first meeting with W.H. to his death in Stratford, with blues-style sonnet performances by the Dark Lady.
To the Green Fields Beyond
A play about the experiences of a tank crew in 1918 during the First World War.
To the Ladies
The Beebe's live on the ground floor of a two family home, with Chester Mullin and his parents living above them. The Beebe's have been married six months. Leonard Beebe is a clerk with John Kincaid's Sons, a piano manufacturer. Chester also works there in a lower position. Leonard is hoping to be promoted to Chief Clerk, for the Beebe's are running a deficit due to Leonard's investing in a grapefruit farm in Florida. Act I (The Beebe's living room, in Nutley, New Jersey. Saturday afternoon.) Leonard and Elsie fuss around waiting for the Kincaids to arrive. Elsie is ready to play their Kincaid piano and sing when they do come, but is worried about the unpaid bill for it. Chester drops in to their annoyance. He has heard about the visit and is determined to get something out of it. When the Kincaids arrive, he tries to pitch Mr. Kincaid to back his vaudeville act but is shot down. Elsie is ready to play the piano when two truckmen arrive to repossess it. John Kincaid pays the overdue amount for the Beebes. He and Mrs. Kincaid prepare to depart, obviously disappointed in the Beebe's profligacy. However, Elsie persuades them by explaining how Leonard has invested a lot of money into a grapefruit farm, hence their indebtedness. She convinces Mrs. Kincaid, not of Leonard's worthiness, but of her own. Mrs. Kincaid gives Mr. Kincaid the signal, and he invites the Beebes to the annual banquet for top employees. After they leave, Leonard is determined to give a speech from out of an advertised book of speeches, which he buys after borrowing $3 from Chester. (Curtain) Act II (Scene 1: Same, two weeks later.) Leonard rehearses speech number 47 from the book he bought. Elsie quizzes him to make sure he understands when and how to deliver the phrases. When the evening newspaper is delivered, Leonard reads that his grapefruit farm was a scam and the perpetrator has been arrested. Chester arrives, listens to the speech, and announces he's quitting John Kincaid's Sons to go on the road with vaudeville... but not right away. He leaves when the taxi comes to take the Beebe's to the annual banquet. As they exit, Leonard realizes he's forgotten his speech, only to see Elsie pull it from her purse and smile. (Black out-- dark change to second scene) (Scene 2: The annual dinner of John Kincaid's Sons, Hotel Commodore, New York City.) Thirteen people sit in a row at a banquet table, facing the audience. From off to the right an off-stage speaker drones on about a strike at the company's Framingham plant. The Toastmaster hurridley thanks him at a pause, and quickly introduces the Politician, who gives a short speech. Next is John Kincaid, who is applauded and cheered immoderately by his employees. He introduces Tom Baker, Leonard's rival for the Chief Clerk position. Within two sentences the Beebes realize he is delivering speech number 47, the same one Leonard memorized. Leonard is paralyzed when called to speak next, but Elsie saves the day by claiming he has laryngitis. She will deliver a speech Leonard wrote she informs the waiting audience, and makes one up impromptu. The speech is received well, and Leonard is once more grateful to his loyal and resourceful wife. (Curtain) Act III (The outer office of Mr. Kinkaid, New York City, six months later.) Leonard has been promoted to Mr. Kincaid's secretary on the basis of Elsie's speech. He has filled the office with labor-saving gadgets that either don't work or are too difficult to operate. Nevertheless, the efficient Miss Fletcher manages to cope. Elsie arrives to meet Leonard for lunch. He introduces her to Miss Fletcher; the women eye each other for possible threats to their respective positions. Chester enters to pester Miss Fletcher who quickly departs. Elsie goes to wait for Leonard in the lobby. Tom Baker comes in next, and through Chester's ignorance, learns Leonard was planning to deliver speech number 47 at the banquet. Tom accuses Leonard of hiding behind his wife, which Mr. Kincaid overhears. He decides to rescind Leonard's promotion, but Elsie returns in time to forestall him. She has brought Mrs. Kincaid with her. The two women join forces to remind Mr. Kincaid who really runs his company. He backs down, and the Beebe's embrace. (Curtain)
Toad of Toad Hall
Milne's stage version follows Toad's reckless motor-car obsession, imprisonment after stealing a car, escape, and return to Toad Hall, which has been taken over by weasels, ferrets, and stoats. With Mole, Rat, and Badger, he retakes his home.
Toast
Seven men work in a bread factory in Hull. One Sunday night, exhausted factory worker Nellie loses his vest in the dough mixture.
Tobacco Road
In desolate farm country in Georgia, the profitable tobacco crop has given way to cotton plantations, but poor planting practices have depleted the soil. The Lester family were once sharecroppers, but are now poverty-stricken and unable to cope with the bleak life they face. Jeeter Lester, the patriarch, lives in squalor with his wife Ada, their two children, 16-year-old Dude and 18-year-old Ellie May, and his mother. Ada is suffering from pellagra and Ellie May has a harelip, Jeeter and Dude are thin and emaciated, and the family wears tattered clothing. Sister Bessie Rice, a stout preacher of about 40, decides to marry Dude, who agrees when she promises to buy him a car. When Capt. Tim Harmon tells the family that the house and property are owned by the bank, Jeeter is given a chance to earn money so that they may keep living there, but he refuses. The youngest daughter Pearl tries to escape from her much older husband Lov Bensey, but Ada is run over by Dude's car as she attempts to help Pearl. As Ada lies dying, Pearl escapes and runs away; Jeeter sends Ellie May to Lov instead.
Today Is Friday
In a drinking place after Jesus's crucifixion, three Roman soldiers talk with the Hebrew bartender about the execution they witnessed. Their casual conversation includes one soldier's admission that he stabbed Jesus with a spear and reveals their irreverent view of the event.
Todros, Blow
A man living beyond his means has ordered his servant Todros to play a trombone whenever a creditor approaches. The play is now lost.
Tom & Viv
The play starts with the courtship between Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood in 1914 and ends with their separation in 1933, followed by Vivienne's gradual mental health decline until her death in 1947. The play also follows the early career of T.S. Eliot, the death of Vivienne's father, and how her mother Rose dealt with her daughter's failing marriage and mental health.
Tom Cobb or, Fortune’s Toy
Young debtor Tom pretends to be a recently deceased man with the same name to escape his creditors. A wealthy family pays him to maintain the disguise, and he is drawn into an engagement with Caroline, who believes he is the suitor who jilted her; Tom ultimately discovers he is the dead man’s heir and marries her.
Tom Essence
Tom Essence; Or, The Modish Wife is a 1676 comedy play by Thomas Rawlins, sometimes also attributed to Edward Ravenscroft. It was first performed at the Dorset Garden Theatre in London by the Duke's Company. Along with Thomas Otway's The Soldier's Fortune, it incorporated scenes from Molière's The Imaginary Cuckold in an otherwise unrelated plot. The original Dorset Gardens cast included Anthony Leigh as Tom Essence, Thomas Percival as Old Monylove, John Crosby as Courtly, Henry Norris as Loveall, Thomas Gillow as Stanly, John Richards as Laurence, Margaret Hughes as Mrs. Monylove, Elizabeth Barry as Theodocia, Margaret Osborne as Luce, and Anne Shadwell as Mrs. Essence.
Tom Thumb
At King Arthur’s court, tiny hero Tom Thumb defeats giants and receives Princess Huncamunca’s hand, provoking Queen Dollalolla and Lord Grizzle to plot against the marriage. Fielding turns the low tragedy into burlesque as doctors mistake a monkey for Tom, Tom is swallowed by a cow, his ghost dies again, and the other characters kill one another in absurd tragic fashion.
Tom and Jerry, or Life in London
A three-act burletta following young men Tom and Jerry through London's high and low life, with songs, dance and loosely connected scenes. Moncrieff's adaptation became a major theatrical success and ran continuously at the Adelphi from November 1821 to March 1822.
Tomorrowland
After leaving her Virginia Woolf PhD program, young writer Anna takes a job on a children’s television show filmed in Orlando. The workplace’s commercial spectacle and shifting performances unsettle her, prompting an episodic, increasingly surreal search for purpose, identity and meaning amid a culture of youth and fantasy.
Tongues
A lone speaker on a bare stage tells the story of a nameless man and shifts into other voices, including a mother, a worker, and a voice addressing a blind person. Percussion accompanies the monologues.
Tonight We Improvise
A company of actors, directed by Doctor Hinkfuss, improvises a drama about the La Croce family after its move from Naples to Sicily. Their performance about family scandal, jealousy and loss breaks down as the actors resist Hinkfuss's control, turning the production itself into part of the play.
Tonight at 8.30
A cycle of ten one-act plays by Coward, mostly comedies with three serious pieces and four plays containing songs. The plays were presented in rotating triple bills; their subjects and tones vary rather than forming one continuous plot. The cycle includes We Were Dancing, The Astonished Heart, Red Peppers, Hands Across the Sea, Fumed Oak, Shadow Play, Family Album, Star Chamber, Ways and Means, and Still Life.
Tons of Money
Indebted inventor Aubrey Allington fakes his death and returns disguised as a Mexican cousin to claim an inheritance beyond the reach of his creditors. His plan spirals through mistaken identities, further staged deaths, and the arrival of the real cousin.
Tony Draws a Horse
Tony Draws a Horse is a comedy play by the British writer Lesley Storm. It was later adapted into a 1950 film of the same title. It premiered at the Liverpool Playhouse before transferring to the West End where it ran for 363 performances between 26 January 1939 and 6 January 1940, initially at the Criterion Theatre before moving to the Strand Theatre and then the Comedy Theatre. Actors who appeared in the London version included Nigel Patrick, Cyril Raymond, Stewart Granger, James Harcourt, John Turnbull, Anthony Holles and Diana Churchill. It also ran for 13 performances as Billy Draws a Horse at the Playhouse Theatre on Broadway.
Tony Lumpkin in Town
Tony Lumpkin in Town is a 1778 Irish comedy play by John O'Keeffe. An afterpiece, it was intended as a sequel to the 1773 play She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith. It is centred on the character Tony Lumpkin. It ran successfully at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London. The original cast included William Parsons as Tony Lumpkin, Robert Palmer as Doctor Minum and Charles Bannister as Tim Tickle.
Tony n' Tina's Wedding
An interactive, improvisational comedy stages an Italian American wedding and reception, treating the audience as guests while the cast exaggerates familiar family and community stereotypes.
Too Bad For Her
A compassionate, perverse exploration of a thirty-year affair and its consequences, concerned with love, art and living outside conventional bounds.
Too True to Be Good
A sick young woman escapes her stifling home with her nurse and the nurse’s boyfriend, reaching a jungle outpost where colonial authority is unsettled by a seemingly unassuming private. The play shifts from surreal allegory into extended discussions of religion, science and politics as its characters confront boredom, illness and the failure of their institutions.
Too Young for Ghosts
The play intertwines the experience of Latvian migrants in 1948 with the 1845 expeditions of explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, probing two points of contact between European migrants and northern Queensland.
Top Girls
Career-driven Marlene celebrates her promotion over dinner with women from history and fiction, whose stories reveal the costs of ambition. In the modern office and family scenes, Marlene’s troubled niece Angie visits, and a later family confrontation reveals Marlene is Angie’s mother, who left her in her sister Joyce’s care.
Top Secret
Top Secret is a comedy play by Alan Melville which was first performed in 1949. It is a farce revolving around an ambassador. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle before transferring to the Winter Garden Theatre in London's West End where it ran for 21 performances between 19 October and 5 November 1949. The original West End cast included Tom Gill, Hugh Wakefield, Frederick Valk and Beryl Measor. It was not well-received, and was reportedly booed by audiences on its opening night. A review in The Stage considered it was too long and needed speeding up. Its short run was in contrast to Melville's other play of 1949, Castle in the Air which was a hit running for nearly 300 performances.
Top Silk
A legal-aid solicitor and a prominent barrister compete over their careers and the future of their teenage son.
Topal Teymur
A five-act historical drama about Timur and the ideal of uniting Turkic, Tatar, and Mongol peoples under a Turan empire.
Topaze
Topaze, an honest boarding-school teacher, is fired after refusing to falsify a wealthy student’s grades. His private pupil’s aunt, Suzy, draws him into the shady business of her lover, municipal counsellor Castel-Bénac, first using him as a frontman and then watching him become a confident businessman who launches his own ventures.
Topdog/Underdog
The play chronicles the adult lives of two African-American brothers as they cope with poverty, racism, work, women, and their troubled upbringings. Lincoln lives with Booth, his younger brother, after being thrown out by his wife. Booth reminds Lincoln that his presence was meant to be a temporary arrangement. But Lincoln, who works at an arcade as a whiteface Abraham Lincoln impersonator, is their only source of income. While the work is honest, both brothers find it humiliating. Booth repeatedly attempts to persuade Lincoln to return to running games of three-card monte. Lincoln had sworn off the hustle after one of his crew had been shot dead, believing he would be next. Idolizing his brother's former glory, Booth aspires to become a three-card monte card sharp, frequently practicing the routine in his apartment, although his act is awkward; his own talent lies in shoplifting. Booth is preoccupied with a woman named Grace whom he tries to impress with shoplifted luxuries. He boasts to his brother about their relationship, but in truth she spurns his advances. Lincoln reveals that his wife Cookie had misread his depression as lack of interest in her, before she threw him out and slept with Booth. In the present, Lincoln is about to be laid off, replaced at his job by a wax model. Booth suggests that Lincoln save his job by vividly acting out Abraham Lincoln's death throes after the customers shoot him with the provided blank—an idea they rehearse before abandoning. The brothers reflect on their past together: Their parents deserted them as teenagers. Each parent, before leaving with a new lover, left one brother $500 in cash, which they refer to as their "inheritance". Lincoln spent his; Booth saved and hid his, never even opening the stocking that held it. After losing his job at the arcade, Lincoln returns to three-card monte the next day and comes home exuberant. Meanwhile, Booth boasts that Grace has proposed marriage to him. Lincoln suggests that Booth find employment in order to keep Grace, calling his card shark abilities "double left-handed." Insulted, Booth challenges him to a game of three-card monte. Lincoln leads him to believe that he can win, inducing Booth to wager his $500 inheritance on the game before beating him. Laughing, Lincoln explains that the conceit behind three-card monte is that the dealer always decides when he wins. Over Booth's protests, he tries to open the stocking containing the inheritance. An agitated Booth reveals that he had shot Grace. Lincoln attempts to return the inheritance, but Booth dares him to open it instead. As Lincoln cuts the stocking, Booth brings a gun to Lincoln's neck and shoots him. Booth rants at his brother's corpse for mocking him and stealing his inheritance, before crumpling and sobbing over the dead body.
Topless
On an open-top sightseeing bus, London tour guide Sandie points out the sights while revealing details of her personal life. Although written for theatre, the original production played on a moving double-decker bus.
Torch Song Trilogy
Each act focuses on a different phase in Arnold's life. In the first, Arnold meets Ed Reiss, who is uncomfortable with his bisexuality. This becomes an increasing source of conflict between the two, causing Ed to eventually leave Arnold and settle down with a woman named Laurel. Arnold is heartbroken because he still loves Ed. In the second, one year later, Arnold meets Alan, and the two settle down into a blissful existence that includes plans to adopt a child. The couple visits Ed and Laurel in their country home, where the group deals with tensions resulting from Ed and Arnold’s previous relationship. The segment ends with Laurel telling Arnold she and Ed are engaged. In the third, several years later, Arnold is a single father raising gay teenager David. It is revealed that just before receiving David from the state, Alan was the victim of a violent hate crime, resulting in his death and leaving Arnold to raise a child on his own. Ed is separated from Laurel, and stays at Arnold’s to help him. The play revolves around Arnold’s struggle to move on following Alan’s death as he is forced to deal with his mother's ("Ma") intolerance and disrespect when she visits from Florida. The first act derives its name (International Stud) from an actual gay bar of the same name at 117 Perry Street in Greenwich Village in the 1960s and 1970s. The bar had a backroom where men engaged in anonymous sex. The backroom plays a central role in the act. The trilogy derives its title from the “torch” musical style which are “popular sentimental song[s] of unrequited love.” The award-winning and popular work broke new ground in the theatre: "At the height of the post-Stonewall clone era, Harvey challenged both gay and straight audiences to champion an effeminate gay man's longings for love and family."
Torioi-bune
An absentee husband leaves a steward in charge of his estate. The steward gradually exerts power over the mother and her son, Hanawaka, until both are forced to scare birds from a boat in the rice fields.
Torquato Tasso
Goethe’s verse drama portrays the sixteenth-century Italian poet and courtier Torquato Tasso and his descent into madness.
Torquemada
Victor Hugo's play about Tomás de Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition, criticizing religious fanaticism and Catholic fanaticism.
Touch Wood
A drama centered on a love triangle.
Touched
Set during the hundred days between VE Day and VJ Day in 1945, this play follows working-class women in Nottingham, especially Sandra and her sisters. After losing a child to a car during the blackout, Sandra hopes peace will bring a different future; the women's relationships and loyalties are tested by grief and the return of Italian prisoners of war.
Touching the Void
The play is set in 1985, on Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. It follows Joe Simpson and Simon Yates as they climb the west face of the Siula Grande, becoming the first climbers to reach the summit using the west face. Descending down the north ridge tragedy struck as Simpson slipped down an ice cliff, breaking his right leg. With Simpson incapacitated Yates lowered Simpson off the North Ridge by tying two 150-foot lengths of rope together to make one rope. With worsening conditions, frost bite and complications with the knots Yates inadvertently lowered Simpson off a cliff and Simpson accidentally dropped one of the cords required to ascend the rope. Simpson could not climb up the rope, Yates could not pull him back up, the cliff was too high for Simpson to be lowered down, and they could not communicate. Yates had to make the hard decision to cut the rope in order to save his own life. Yates cut the rope, plummeting Simpson down the cliff into a deep crevasse. Exhausted and suffering from hypothermia, Yates dug himself a snow cave to wait out the storm. Assuming Simpson was dead Yates carried on descending the mountain by himself. Simpson, however, was still alive. He had survived the 150-foot fall despite his broken leg and had landed on a small ledge inside the crevasse. When Simpson regained consciousness, he discovered that the rope had been cut and realized that Yates would presume that he was dead. He therefore had to save himself. It was impossible for Simpson to climb up to the entrance of the crevasse, therefore his only choice was to lower himself deeper into the crevasse and hope that there was another way out. After lowering himself, Simpson found another small entrance and climbed back onto the glacier via a steep snow slope. In all Simpson spent three days without food and with almost no water, crawling and hopping five miles back to their base camp. Exhausted and almost completely delirious, he reached base camp only a few hours before Yates intended to leave the base camp and return to civilisation.
Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History
A three-act historical drama about Toussaint Louverture, leader of the Haitian Revolution.
Tovaritch
Two Russian aristocrats exiled in Paris take jobs as servants while secretly safeguarding a fortune entrusted to them by the late Tsar. Their new life is threatened when a Soviet official arrives seeking the money and forces them to reconsider loyalty, country and survival.
Towards Youth
Young people in drama classrooms across several countries describe their lives and hopes. Their testimonies connect personal struggles with larger questions about education, identity, and the possibility of change.
Towards Zero
Towards Zero is a 1956 thriller play by Agatha Christie and Gerald Verner and based on Christie's 1944 novel Towards Zero. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham before transferring to the St James's Theatre in London's West End where it ran for 205 performances between 4 September 1956 and 2 March 1957. The London cast featured George Baker, Cyril Raymond, Frederick Leister, William Kendall, Max Brimmell, Michael Nightingale and Gillian Lind. The play features Superintendent Battle one of Christie's recurring characters. Reviews were favourable.
Town and Country
Town and Country, or Which is Best? is an 1807 play by English playwright Thomas Morton. It was regularly performed in England and America during the 19th century.
Town is Dead
Ellen expected to end her life in the rundown Dublin flat where it began, but after the building is sold she faces a move to her sister’s suburban home. An unexpected visitor prompts her to revisit her past and lay ghosts to rest.
Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms
A stage adaptation of Kōno’s linked stories follows a family of Hiroshima atomic-bomb survivors across generations, from Minami’s life in the postwar city to her brother’s descendants revisiting the family’s history decades later.
Townsperson #3
Two background townspeople navigate their own lives as their fairy-tale kingdom freezes over, in a parody of musical theatre told from the ensemble's perspective.
Toy Symphony
Writer Roland Henning's attempt to explain his writer's block to a therapist sends his account between childhood in The Shire and his life as a playwright, centered on a formative primary-school day.
Toys in the Attic
Set in New Orleans following the Great Depression, the play focuses on the Berniers sisters, two middle-aged spinsters who have sacrificed their own ambitions to look after their ne'er-do-well younger brother Julian, whose grandiose dreams repeatedly lead to financial disasters. When he unexpectedly returns home accompanied by his emotionally unstable, childlike young bride Lily, her aloof, aristocratic mother Albertine, and an unexplained large sum of money, Carrie and Anna suddenly find that the position of power they have always held has become unbalanced, leaving their lives in chaos.
Tractus stellae
A Latin liturgical drama for Epiphany matins follows the three Magi as they speak with Herod, follow the star to Bethlehem, and present gifts to the Christ Child. Its processional songs, dialogue and Te Deum use three playing areas within a church.
Trafford Tanzi
Set in a wrestling ring, the play follows Tanzi from a childhood in which her parents expect her to be feminine to her marriage to wrestler Dean Rebel. She supports his career, becomes a champion wrestler herself, and challenges him to a match in which the loser must do the housework.
Traidor, inconfeso y mártir
Gabriel Espinoza, a baker suspected of being the missing King Sebastian of Portugal, is arrested and tortured for impersonating the monarch. Although a Portuguese marquis claims Espinoza is the king, Philip II orders his execution; a note found after his death reveals his identity.
Transit of Venus
Based on astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil's life, the play follows his obsession with observing the transit of Venus. He leaves Celeste, who loves him, on an expedition, returns six years later without having seen the transit, and prepares to set out again. The play takes artistic license with the timing of Le Gentil's return.
Translations
In an 1833 Donegal village, a British Ordnance Survey team maps and anglicizes Irish place names. Their interpreter Owen mediates between the soldiers and local residents, while communication across languages shapes the relationships and tensions surrounding the survey, including Yolland and Máire's romance and Yolland's disappearance.
Travelling North
Newly retired engineer Frank and Frances, a divorced mother of adult daughters, leave Melbourne to settle in a cottage in subtropical New South Wales. Their late-life romance is tested by Frank’s illness, his domineering habits, Frances’s family obligations and their clashing political outlooks; as Frank’s health fails, both reassess how they treat those around them.
Travels with Jack Lemmon's Dog
The comedy follows two men taking actor Jack Lemmon's black poodle from California to Vancouver, where Lemmon is working.
Travels with My Aunt
Travels with My Aunt is a 1989 comedy adapted by Scottish dramatist by Giles Havergal from Graham Greene's novel of the same title. The play was first staged at Citizens Theatre in Glasgow on 10 November 1989 with Havergal, Derwent Watson, Patrick Hannaway, and Christopher Gee, and has been performed in London West End theatres, off-Broadway in New York, and in San Francisco. From 2 May to 29 June 2013, Travels with My Aunt was staged at London's Menier Chocolate Factory, starring David Bamber and Jonathan Hyde. This stage version was reduced to a 50-minute, one-act version (with permission from Havergal) and first presented by the Backwell Playhouse Theatre Company as an entry into the Avon Association of Drama One Act Festival on 21 February 2015. The two-act version was revived at the Citizens Theatre in May 2017.
Travesties
The play is set in Zürich, Switzerland during the First World War and in the 1970s. In 1917, three historically important figures were living in Zürich: the modernist author James Joyce, the communist revolutionary Lenin, and the Dada founder Tristan Tzara. The play centres on the less notable Henry Carr, a British consular official, as he recalls his encounters with these three. As he reminisces, Carr's memory becomes prone to distraction, and the narrative veers away from historical accuracy. The young Carr spies on Lenin, argues with Tzara about the nature of true art, is persuaded by Joyce to play Algernon and later quarrels over the cost of buying new trousers for the role. The old Carr concludes the first act: After further confused memories and mix-ups in the second act, the old Carr concludes the play:
Treason
During the Second World War, German officers who believe defeat is imminent plan to assassinate Hitler and negotiate peace with the Allies. The conspiracy fails, and an officer's involvement is discovered amid conflicting loyalties and coercion.
Treasure Island
After pirates threaten an old captain at the Admiral Benbow Inn, Jim Hawkins inherits a treasure map and joins an expedition to find the hidden fortune. Most of the ship’s crew are secretly pirates, and Jim must prove his courage when mutiny leads to a fight on the island.
Treats
When Dave breaks into the flat of his former girlfriend Ann and her new partner Patrick, he refuses to accept their relationship and bullies both of them. Dave's persistence ultimately wins Ann back, leaving all three unhappy.
Trei cruci
An apocalyptic expressionist drama in nine tableaux, exploring erotic frenzy and rejection of civilization through Nietzschean ideas. Its climax draws on mystery-play form, and the text encloses a poem modeled on Georg Heym.
Trelawny of the "Wells"
Trelawny of the "Wells" tells the story of Rose Trelawny, a popular star of melodrama plays at the Barridge Wells Theatre (a thinly disguised Sadler's Wells Theatre). Rose gives up the stage when she decides to marry her sweetheart, Arthur Gower, in order to please his conservative family. She finds life with Arthur's grandfather and great-aunt, Sir William and Lady Trafalgar, unbearably dull, and they detest her loud and unrestrained personality. Rose runs back to the theatre, abandoning Arthur. But her experience of the "real world" has killed her talent for melodrama, and she cannot recapture the liveliness that had made her a star. Meanwhile, Arthur has secretly run away to become an actor at the Bristol Old Vic. The problem is solved when Rose encounters Sir William again, and she reawakens his memory of admiring the great actor Edmund Kean as a young man. Sir William offers to help Rose's friend, Tom Wrench, an aspiring playwright who dreams of staging plays in a more realist style than the melodramas that dominate the stage. Tom stages the play with Rose as the star, and her newfound seriousness fits his style perfectly. Tom secretly arranges for Arthur to play the leading male role, and the lovers are re-united on stage.
Tribes
Tribes is a play by English playwright Nina Raine that had its world premiere in 2010 at London's Royal Court Theatre and its North American premiere Off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre in 2012. The play won the 2012 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play.
Tribute
Tribute is a play by Bernard Slade. The play focuses on Scottie Templeton, a popular actor who has spent his life shirking responsibility. When he discovers he is terminally ill with leukemia, he attempts to reconnect with his long-estranged son.
Trick for Trick
Trick for Trick is a 1735 comedy play by Robert Fabian. Performed at the Drury Lane Theatre as an afterpiece to Cato. It became notorious for the killing of the actor Thomas Hallam by Charles Macklin after a dispute over a costume in the green room during the performance on 10 May. Macklin was subsequently convicted of manslaughter. The playbill listed amongst its cast Edward Berry as Don Lopez, Macklin as Sancho, Hallam as Guzman, Richard Arne as Estifania and Hannah Pritchard as Eugenia.
Trident Moon
During the Partition of India in 1947, six women are trapped in a moving truck. Religious conflict and captivity complicate the divisions between those who inflict violence and those who endure it.
Trifles
At the abandoned farmhouse of John and Minnie Wright, a county attorney and sheriff investigate John’s strangling while Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters examine the domestic space. The women discover that John killed Minnie’s pet bird, a clue to her motive for killing him. They hide the evidence, understanding the abuse and isolation the men have dismissed as “trifles.”
Trilby
In 1850s Paris, artist’s model Trilby becomes engaged to Little Billee, but the hypnotist Svengali breaks up the match and turns her into a celebrated singer under his control. Years later, Billee’s friends confront Svengali; his death briefly frees Trilby before Svengali’s portrait returns her to a trance, and she dies.
Trinummus
A young Athenian has squandered his father's money. His friend Callicles protects the absent father's house and hidden treasure, then secretly arranges for it to fund a marriage dowry by hiring an impostor to pose as a messenger from Syria. The returning father discovers the deception and approves the marriages.
Triple-A Plowed Under
A 26-scene Living Newspaper uses vignettes on crop surpluses, foreclosures, auctions, crop destruction, the Dust Bowl, farmer cooperatives, and the Agricultural Adjustment Act to criticize the AAA and urge farmers and laborers to organize against commercial middlemen.
Triptolemos
The lost play probably followed Triptolemos on the mission Demeter gave him: to teach agriculture to peoples across the world. Fragments describe Demeter outlining his journey and the winged, serpent-drawn chariot she provides.
Trivial Disasters
Across eight short acts, characters find themselves in absurd everyday situations and make increasingly absurd decisions.
Troades
After Troy's fall, the captive Trojan women await assignment to Greek rulers. Achilles' ghost demands Polyxena's sacrifice, while Calchas says Astyanax must also die; Andromache and Hecuba grieve as the Greeks carry out these demands.
Troilus and Cressida
During the Trojan War, Troilus and Cressida pledge their love before she is exchanged to the Greek camp, where he sees her with Diomedes and seeks revenge. Meanwhile, Greek leaders try to bring Achilles back to battle against Hector; Achilles returns after Hector kills Patroclus, and the play ends with Hector's death and Troy's war unresolved.
Troilus and Cressida
Troilus And Cressida; Or, Truth Found Too Late is a 1679 tragedy by the English writer John Dryden. It was first staged by the Duke's Company at the Dorset Garden Theatre in London. It was a reworking of William Shakespeare's 1602 play Troilus and Cressida, set during the Trojan Wars. In acknowledgement of this Dryden has the prologue spoken by Shakespeare's ghost, defending the alterations made to the play. The original cast included Thomas Betterton as Troilus, William Smith as Hector, Thomas Percival as Priam, Joseph Williams as Aeneas, Anthony Leigh as Pandarus, Thomas Gillow as Agamemnon, Henry Harris as Ulysses, George Bright as Ajax, Henry Norris as Nestor, John Crosby as Diomedes, John Bowman as Patroclus, John Richards as Anthenor, Cave Underhill as Thersites, Mary Lee as Cressida and Mary Betterton as Andromache. The published version of the play was dedicated to the politician Lord Sunderland.
Trois versions de la vie
Henri and Sonia’s evening with their son is disrupted when Hubert and Inès, Henri’s employer and his wife, arrive a day early for dinner. A new discovery about Henri’s research undermines his promotion hopes, and the awkward gathering plays out three times, with small changes in how the characters respond producing different outcomes.
Trophy Boys
A debate team from an elite all-boys school is assigned to argue that feminism has failed women. The students strategize about how to perform that position until an anonymous sexual-assault accusation against a teammate derails their plans.
Trouble in Mind
Trouble in Mind is a play by Alice Childress, which debuted Off-Broadway at the Greenwich Mews Theatre in 1955. It premiered on Broadway at Roundabout Theatre Company's American Airlines Theatre on November 18, 2021. The play focuses on racism and sexism in American theatre as an experienced black actress, cast in a starring role in a Broadway play for the first time, clashes with a white director in rehearsals. It was published in the anthologies Black Theater: a 20th Century Collection of the Work of its Best Playwrights (Dodd, Mead & Co. 1971), the second edition of Black Drama in America: an Anthology (Howard University Press, 1994), Plays by American Women: 1930-1960 (Applause Books, 2001), and Alice Childress: Selected Plays (Northwestern University Press, 2011). It was first published on its own by Theatre Communications Group in 2022.
Trouble in the Works
In an office, Wills explains to manager Mr. Fibbs that workers have turned against the products they make, despite being treated well; asked what they would rather produce, Wills answers, “Brandy balls.”
Troy's House
In a small government house in Canberra’s Waramanga, young people experience love, parties, and the slouching rhythms of shared life; the play also includes a layered exchange between stoned teenagers and a security guard at Parliament House.
Tru
Tru is a 1989 play by Jay Presson Allen, adapted from the words and works of Truman Capote.
Truckline Cafe
Set in a beachfront grill shortly after World War II, Anderson’s drama explores emotional damage on the postwar home front through two couples. One is the jealous veteran Sage McRae and his wife Tory, whose relationships with the other people at the café shape the conflict.
Truculentus
Courtesan Phronesium and her maid Astaphium manipulate several men into giving them money. Phronesium pretends to have borne a soldier’s child to extract gifts, while the bad-tempered slave Truculentus, who initially tries to protect his master from her, falls for Astaphium. A hidden baby and a mistaken bargain drive the closing deception.
Trudeau and Lévesque
Pierre Trudeau and René Lévesque pursue competing visions of Canada and Quebec. Political allies, spies, family members, and public figures collide in a darkly comic account of the struggle over sovereignty and national identity.
Trudeau and the FLQ
Pierre Trudeau rises to power as Quebec separatist militancy intensifies. This historical satire follows the personalities and political conflicts of the 1960s through the kidnappings and government response of the October Crisis.
True West
Estranged brothers Austin, a screenwriter, and Lee, a drifter, reunite at their mother's house. Their rivalry escalates when a producer favors Lee's story, and the brothers' roles and ambitions begin to reverse.
Trumpets and Drums
Brecht recasts Farquhar’s Restoration comedy as an epic comedy: recruiting officer Plume arrives from London to find recruitment failing, while his friend Worthy seeks help in love and offers Plume a commission on boots.
Trumpets and Raspberries
When a failed kidnapping leaves Fiat head Gianni Agnelli disfigured, employee Antonio rescues him. Agnelli is taken to hospital wearing Antonio's jacket and mistakenly receives facial reconstruction in Antonio's likeness, setting off farcical confusion.
Trust the People
Trust the People is a 1913 play by the British writer Stanley Houghton, who had gained popular attention with his hit Hindle Wakes the previous year. It centres around the activities of a group of government officials. It ran for 44 performances at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End between 6 February and 13 March 1913. The original cast included Arthur Bourchier, Clifford Heatherley, Herbert Bunston, Cedric Hardwicke, Barbara Gott and Viva Birkett. A review in The Times felt the play showed Houghton was out of his depth writing works beyond his own personal experience, in contrast to his more successful Lancashire-set works, while another reviewer felt it was "theatrically exciting" if flawed. The play was running in the West End at the same time as Houghton's latest hit The Younger Generation.
Truth
In the walled city of Vae, the arrival of a silent woman called Truth unsettles its rulers and priests; while they try to control or destroy her, the poet Egon must choose between her ideal and the beauty of human love.
Trying
Trying is a drama by Canadian-born playwright Joanna Glass that premiered at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater on March 29, 2004. The two-act play depicts the final year in the life of Francis Biddlethe United States attorney general under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and chief judge of the Nuremberg trialsas it was seen through the eyes of his then twenty-five-year-old assistant, Sarah Schorr. As the young woman relates to the audience, she is merely the latest and coincidentally the last in a long and unsuccessful line of personal secretaries, all of whom have disappointed Biddle in some way. Much of the story revolves around issues of aging and the breakdown of communication over divisions of age and class. The work is derived from Glass's own experiences as Biddle's assistant from 1967 to 1968.
Trying to Find Chinatown
An Asian street musician challenges a white man who claims Asian-American identity as they meet in Chinatown. The musician does not know that the man was adopted by Asian-American parents and is visiting his deceased father's birthplace.
Tryphon
Tryphon is a 1668 tragedy by the Irish writer Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery. It was originally staged by the Duke's Company at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London. The original cast is unknown. The opening prologue of the play is an interaction between a character named Nokes and a character named Angles where they discuss the merits of including or not including a prologue to the play.
Tryst
A romantic play set in Edwardian London that subverts the conventions of Edwardian melodrama, using familiar character behaviors to probe the characters' motives and power relationships.
Tsar Boris
The final drama in Tolstoy’s historical trilogy follows Boris Godunov from his inauguration to his death. Tolstoy frames Boris’s downfall as the consequence of his guilt over an earlier crime and his moral deterioration.
Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich
Tolstoy’s historical drama portrays Feodor I of Russia as a good man whose gentle character leaves him a weak and ineffective ruler.
Tsuchigumo
A malicious spirit disguised as a monk attacks the ailing general Raikō with spider webs. A warrior follows the spirit's blood to an old gravesite, where the earth-spider spirit appears and is ultimately defeated.
Tubstrip
Over one evening in a New York gay bathhouse, attendant Brian navigates sexual pursuits, mistaken identities and his attraction to Bob, ultimately turning toward a possible romance with Richie.
Tug of War
After a coastal storm, an elderly man looks for his missing daughter while two women seek escape from exploitation. Resourceful slaves steer a comic struggle for freedom in this musical stage reworking of Plautus’s Rudens.
Tughlaq
Muhammad bin Tughlaq pursues an ideal of Hindu-Muslim unity and a just kingdom through sweeping policies, including moving his capital to Daulatabad and introducing token currency. Betrayals, violence, famine and the collapse of his schemes turn his ambitious reign into anarchy, while the trickster Aziz repeatedly manipulates the Sultan.
Tullia
A tragedy about Roman queen Tullia Minor, written as an extreme imitation of classical Greek theatre and featuring a 212-line monologue in which Lucius Tarquinius Superbus reveals himself to her.
Tumhari Amrita
Amrita Nigam and Zulfikar Haider exchange letters over 35 years, beginning when Amrita is eight and Zulfi is ten. Their correspondence traces an unrequited love in an Indian adaptation of Love Letters.
Tunbridge Walks
Tunbridge Walks, or the Yeoman of Kent is a 1703 comedy play by the English writer Thomas Baker. It starred the droll actor William Pinkethman in a leading role. It was part of a growing trend of British plays set in spa towns. The play features the folk song King John and the Bishop. It was revived numerous times during the eighteenth century at Drury Lane, Covent Garden and Haymarket. The original Drury Lane cast included John Mills as Loveworth, Robert Wilks as Reynard, Benjamin Johnson as Woodcock, William Pinkethman as Squib, William Bullock as Maiden, Jane Rogers as Belinda, Susanna Verbruggen as Hillaria, Mary Powell as Mrs Goodfellow, Henrietta Moore as Penelope and Jane Lucas as Lucy.
Tunbridge Wells
Tunbridge Wells; Or, A Day's Courtship is a 1678 comedy play generally attributed to the English writer Thomas Rawlins. It was originally staged at the Dorset Garden Theatre in London by the Duke's Company. The names of the original actors are not known. It did not enjoy the same success as Rawlins' earlier work Tom Essence. It takes place in the spa town Tunbridge Wells. There, a man-about-town, Owmuch, sets up a couple of London prostitutes posing as a rich widow and her maid, in the hope of collecting the courtship gifts offer by gentleman suitors. However, he sees a larger scam in tricking a foppish and idiotic baronet, Sir Lofty Vainman, into marrying her.
Turandot
Prince Calaf, exiled from his throne, seeks to marry Princess Turandot, who challenges suitors with three riddles and executes those who fail. Calaf solves them but lets Turandot learn his identity; after a chain of deception and sacrifice, she chooses to marry him and frees Adelma.
Turandot (Schiller version)
Schiller's Romantic reworking of Gozzi's tale turns the riddling princess into a figure governed by a firm moral code and Calaf into a devoted lover. It integrates comedy and drama into a symbolic, moralized whole.
Turandot or The Whitewashers' Congress
At the imperial court, a vast cotton harvest coincides with soaring prices. A contest offers Princess Turandot’s hand to the intellectual who best explains the shortage, while the gangster Gogher Gogh seizes power and the peasant revolutionary Kai Ho’s forces gather outside the palace. The epic comedy satirizes the commoditization of intellect under capitalism.
Turcaret
A comedy centered on Turcaret, a ruthless and dissolute financier, and the equally dissolute people around him, including a marquis, a knavish chevalier, and a coquettish baroness.
Turkey Time
On Christmas Eve, Max Wheeler and David Winterton try to help Rose Adair, a concert performer whose manager has fled without paying the cast. A series of mistaken assumptions sends them after Rose to a hotel, while their efforts to free her entangle the Stoatt household, carol singers, and Rose’s romantic pursuer.
Turn to the Right
Prologue (In Isadore's Pawn Shop. July morning, 6 am.) Joe Bascomb, just released after a year in Sing-Sing, stops by the pawn shop to meet up with his pals Muggs and Gilly, and to exchange his prison-provided suit for a more fashionable second-hand one. While Moses works on altering the suit, Isadore rouses his two overnight guests and cooks some breakfast for them. Muggs and Gilly, who have been out longer, try to get Joe to come in with them on a caper, to get some working capital before going straight. But Joe, though he thinks the world of his pals, is adamant about staying clean. He is walking home to southwest Connecticut from Ossining, a long day's hike. (Curtain) Act I (In Mrs. Bascomb's Kitchen. Same day, 5:45 pm.) Jessie Strong helps Betty Bascomb wash dishes; the Bascombs are losing the farm to the Deacon. Mrs. Bascomb stills their anxiety with her sweet charm. She tells Sam Martin to leave the preserve jars on the porch as she tends the woodshed stove. The girls ignore Sam, until he mentions Lester Morgan is in the village courting Elsie Tillinger, with Deacon Tillinger's approval. Mrs. Bascomb brings some filled preserve jars for Sam to take back to the Deacon. Sam shocks them by implying the Deacon is cheating Mrs. Bascomb on the preserves selling price. Persuaded by Betty, Mrs. Bascomb agrees Sam may sell her preserves, but not in the village, to avoid offending the Deacon. Elated, Sam says he's quitting the Deacon's employ, while Mrs. Bascomb directs the girls in stewing up another batch. Mrs. Bascomb visits a sick neighbor. Deacon Tillinger comes in, sends off Jessie, and has Betty fetch her mother. Alone now, he invites Lester Morgan in to sample the preserves. The Deacon offers Lester a half share in the orchard, but Lester is broke and on the outs with his wealthy father. Lester wants to marry Elsie, but Deacon says he must reconcile with his father first. Later, Betty and Mrs. Bascomb are surprised at Joe's reappearance, after a year of no letters and no money sent home. Without his remittances, Mrs. Bascomb has fallen in debt to the Deacon for $125. Now Muggs and Gilly surprise Joe by showing up, having arrived by boxcar. Mrs. Bascomb feeds the three men from their meager supplies, impressing Muggs and Gilly with her sweet nature, while Betty and Muggs show mutual interest. Joe explains the family situation to his pals. Jessie is introduced; she and Gilly hit it off. Joe awaits Deacon Tillinger, while Betty and Jessie point out his store to Gilly and Muggs. When the Deacon arrives, he and Joe argue over the debt, but the Deacon is stymied when Joe presents him with the money for his mother's debt. Gilly had cracked Deacon's safe, withdrawn $125 and then passed it to Joe. As the flustered Deacon leaves, his pocket is picked by Muggs, who explains Gilly will restore the money to Deacon's safe. They then join the ladies for the evening's Chapel. (Curtain) Act II (Outside Mrs. Bascomb's Kitchen. Next morning.) Exposition between Betty and Mrs. Bascomb reveals the Deacon has missed the money paid him. Muggs and Gilley are picking the peach crop, since they have offered to buy it the previous evening. Joe has borrowed a wagon from a neighbor and gone off. Jessie comes for two baskets of peaches, but runs to the orchard when Gilly falls out of a tree. Jessie and Betty take the peach baskets back to her house, while Mrs. Bascomb tends to a large bruise on Gilly's back. It is an epiphany for him, who was an orphan. He and Muggs are getting worried about disappointing the Bascombs, and hope Joe has found a buyer for the peaches. Betty returns, bringing Elsie, who is introduced to the boys then goes in to see Mrs. Bascomb. Joe returns, and is told by Betty that Elsie loves him. Mrs. Bascomb visits the butcher, and Elsie is alone with Joe at last. He tells her the truth, how he spent a year in Sing-Sing for a robbery he does not remember, and the shenanigans with the Deacon's $125. Elsie is dismayed at first, but rallies and rushes off with an idea to forestall her father's calling in the sheriff. Joe and the boys huddle, and figure out the only solution is to make peach preserves out of the crop, as no one wants the fruit itself. Their scheme is given a boost when Sam Martin reveals he has a buyer lined up in New York. Sam gives the trio $250 in exchange for a commission on sales of the jam then catches the train back to New York. Muggs and Gilly are nervous when Callahan shows up, but he is not looking for them. When Deacon Tillinger shows up with Lester Morgan, he is presented with the missing $125. Lester Morgan recognizes Joe as Peter Turner, who did time for robbing his father's steward, but Joe also remembers now it was Lester who got him drunk just before the robbery. Callahan surprises everyone by clapping handcuffs on Lester, whose own father has sworn a warrant out on him for theft and embezzlement. (Curtain) Act III (Same as Act II. Ten months later, around 8:30 pm.) Katie serves coffee to everyone, the men dressed in evening clothes. There has been a dinner to celebrate Joe and Elsie returning from their honeymoon, with Sam Martin presiding over it. Muggs and Betty pair off, while Gilly and Jessie do likewise. The peach jam has been a success and they are all now comparatively well off. Joe, Muggs, and Gilly give credit to Mrs. Bascomb for the turnaround in all their fortunes. (Curtain)
Turning Page
In an autobiographical one-person performance, Angelica Page explores her relationship with her mother, the late actor Geraldine Page, portraying both herself and her mother.
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