Blabbermouth
Rowena moves with her widowed father to a new country town and school. Though she can hear, she is mute, and must navigate friendship, disability, and fitting in while her father embarrasses her in public.
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Clear filtersBlack Box 149
A docudrama about the grounding of British Airways Flight 149 at Kuwait International Airport during Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
Black Chiffon
On the eve of her son’s society wedding, respected Alicia Christie steals a black chiffon nightdress from a department store. The gesture becomes a cry for help from a woman driven to crisis by the accumulating demands of her divided family.
Black Children's Day
In a museum annex during World War II, children rehearse a pageant whose simultaneous fragments combine an 1840 voting struggle, Constance and Roy's wedding, and a ship carrying Black emigrants to Liberia; the scenes culminate in violence against the characters and the children portraying them.
Black Coffee
Scientist Sir Claud Amory discovers that his formula for a new explosive has been stolen and gathers his household while awaiting Hercule Poirot. Amory is found dead after the lights go out, and Poirot investigates the poisoned coffee, a duplicate safe key, and a blackmail scheme linked to an international spy’s daughter. The suspects’ efforts to protect one another and conceal the formula complicate the case until Poirot exposes the thief and murderer.
Black Comedy
Young sculptor Brindsley Miller and his fiancée have borrowed a neighbor's antiques to impress a wealthy art collector. A power failure leaves the characters unable to see one another, while the stage lighting reverses their apparent darkness; unexpected arrivals and mistaken identities expose the theft and Brindsley's secrets, escalating the evening into chaos.
Black Exhibition
The work is set on Fire Island and features a range of LGBTQ+ themes including poppers, group sex, and sexual rejection. A parallel theme is writer's block. It features a range of characters inspired by queer figures, including Gary Fisher, Michael Johnson, Kathy Acker, Yukio Mishima, and Samuel Delany. Harris played Fisher, reading from his published works, with the four other figures as muses or advisors to the character. Cultural references in the work make reference to social media culture on Twitter in the early 2010s, as well as the "Twitter gay" trope. The piece uses physical comedy and humour alongside serious dialogue, free verse, choral speaking, dance, and tableaux vivants.
Black Girl
A young woman challenges the low expectations placed on her and pursues her dream of becoming a dancer, amid a family drama.
Black Jack Justice
A one-act farce about a very bad day in the life of an old-time radio detective show.
Black Limelight
After a young woman is murdered, suspicion falls on married Peter, who has disappeared after spending weekends with her. His wife tries to shield him as police investigate, leaving the question of his guilt unresolved.
Black Picture Show
Aging Black artist Alexander seeks work that is politically and artistically meaningful while commercially successful, while his son J.D. pursues bold, unconventional art. Their competing visions shape this poetic, absurdist family drama.
Black Sheep
A Black man raised by a wealthy white family returns home after prison for shooting his half-brother, reopening a conflict within the family.
Black Slave's Cry to Heaven
After slave trader Haley pressures the Shelbys to pay their debts, Eliza and George flee with Eliza’s son Harry. In this adaptation, the enslaved people organize their own escape, with Tom joining them; their struggle allegorically evokes the oppression of Chinese migrants in the United States.
Black Souls
Setting: Magnolia College, a Black college in the Deep South, not long after World War I (c. 1919/1920) Andrew Morgan, the president of Magnolia College, is bitter over the racial oppression in the United States, but is hopeful that by educating highly skilled black workers he can improve the lives and future opportunities available to his African-American students through peaceful means. In contrast, Andrew's brother-in-law, David Lewis, is an angry young black poet and teacher of literature at Magnolia College who is convinced that only a violent uprising could persuade American society to change. David has recently returned from France where he served during World War I and where the progressive freedoms of French society allowed him to openly have a relationship with a white woman, Luella Verne, who was a fellow American serving in France as a nurse. Luella is the daughter of Senator Verne, and she visits Magnolia College with her father when he comes at the invitation of President Morgan who hopes to win Senator Verne's support. Senator Verne is unaware of Luella's past relationship with David, and is upset when she initiates contact with David. Simultaneously, Senator Verne makes advances of his own on Andrew Morgan's wife and David's sister Phyllis who is also African-American, demonstrating the senator's hypocrisy when it comes to interracial relationships. Luella convinces David to go with her to a cabin in some woods nearby and they are spotted by some white students. Rumor spreads among the white community that David has made unwanted sexual advances on Luella, even though it is Luella and not David who is the initiator of their rekindled relationship. As the rumors spread, they become more exaggerated and David is falsely accused of raping Luella. A white mob forms with the intent of murdering David on the day of Magnolia College's graduation ceremony. While the ceremony is taking place and President Morgan is giving a speech about racial equality, David is isolated and cornered by a white mob who lynches him.
Black Ties
A cross-cultural relationship develops between a Māori woman and an Aboriginal man, bringing together their communities and families.
Black Tulips
Russian conscripts are briefed for their role in the Soviet–Afghan War in a sequence moving from 1987 back to 1981.
Black Watch
Based on interviews with former soldiers, the play portrays Black Watch soldiers serving in Iraq in 2004 amid the controversy over their deployment and the regiment's impending amalgamation. It stages war, memory, and political debate through theatrical framing and live music.
Black-Eyed Susan
After sailor William returns from the Napoleonic Wars, he finds his wife Susan struggling with debt and harassment by her crooked landlord uncle. A smuggler offers to pay her debts in exchange for Susan, and William is sentenced to hang after striking his captain, but the truth about his naval discharge saves him.
Blackbird
At his workplace, 55-year-old Ray Brooks is shocked to be visited by a young woman, 27-year-old Una Spencer. Fifteen years earlier, Ray had sexually assaulted Una for three months when Una was twelve and Ray was forty; subsequently, Ray had been jailed for three years for statutory rape. Ultimately, they ran off together, and, while Ray was taking time to compose himself after realising what he had just done, he left her alone in a motel room. She got worried and left to find him, which led to both of them frantically searching for one another and raising suspicions within the small coastal town where they were staying. Eventually, a couple out walking their dog took Una in and called the police after learning why she was there. Ray was then arrested and imprisoned. Upon his release, he managed to establish a reasonably successful new life under another name, but Una recognised him in a photograph and tracked him down. Ray takes Una to the office break room, where the two engage in a long and difficult confrontation involving Una's continuing struggles to understand and come to terms with the abuse and her intensely conflicting emotions, which pivot between anger, curiosity, confusion, and even a persistent attachment to Ray, whom Una loved and she believed that he loved her. The fearful Ray, who is himself trying to forget the past and the potential feelings he had for Una, parries her demanding questions and descriptions of her feelings and experiences, all the while uncertain of her intentions.
Blackmail
Blackmail is a 1928 thriller play by the British writer Charles Bennett. The plot is about an artist's model in Chelsea who kills an artist when he attempts to assault her. It ran for 38 performances at the Globe Theatre in London's West End. Directed by Raymond Massey, it was the playwright's first West End production. It was chosen by the impresario Albert H. Woods as a vehicle for the American star Tallulah Bankhead. It was shortest British run Bankhead had been in. It was initially considered a disappointment and Woods never staged the play on Broadway. However, over the following decade it became a popular work on tour in Britain and Ireland.
Blackrock
In a working-class Australian beach suburb, Jared faces a choice between telling the truth about his friend Ricko’s role in a teenage girl’s rape and murder, or protecting him through loyalty to his mates.
Blake
A monologue based on the life of poet William Blake, incorporating poetry from Songs of Innocence and Experience.
Blanche Heriot, or The Chertsey Curfew
To save her lover from execution, Blanche Heriot clings to the clapper of the curfew bell to delay its toll until a pardon can arrive.
Blasted
In a Leeds hotel room, journalist Ian tries to seduce Cate, and a soldier arrives as the city is engulfed in war. The soldier rapes and blinds Ian, then dies by suicide; Cate returns with a rescued baby that dies, while Ian starves, eats the body, and ultimately dies.
Bleacher Bums
At Wrigley Field, a group of Chicago Cubs fans watch a summer game, banter, eat and drink, and place wagers that grow increasingly important.
Bleak Expectations
Bleak Expectations is a comedy play by Mark Evans based on his BBC Radio 4 series of the same name.
Blight: The Tragedy of Dublin
A Dublin labourer feigns injury to pursue compensation, then turns slum property owner. The final act brings him before a mortuary-board meeting as his returning brother-in-law confronts the consequences of eviction and institutional neglect.
Blind Alley
Blind Alley is a 1926 play by the British author Dorothy Brandon. It is a drama about an unhappily married woman who begins to develop feelings for an actor. It premiered at the Pleasure Gardens Theatre in Folkestone, as had her previous hit play The Outsider, before transferring to the Playhouse Theatre in London's West End. However, it was considerably less successful than her earlier works and ran for only thirteen performances. The cast included Elissa Landi, Sam Livesey and Annie Esmond.
Blind Bargain
The Blind Bargain is an 1804 comedy play by the British writer Frederick Reynolds. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London on 24 October 1804. The original cast included John Fawcett as Sir Andrew Analyse, Charles Farley as Jack Analyse, William Thomas Lewis as Tourly, Charles Kemble as Villars, William Blanchard as Doctor Pliable, John Emery as Giles Woodbine, Maria Gibbs as Mrs Villars and Mary Ann Davenport as Miss Gurnet. Its Irish premiere was at the Crow Street Theatre in Dublin on 1 December 1804.
Bliss
Four supermarket workers fixate on the public image of a famous singer. Their fantasy of celebrity happiness collides with a disturbing reality, exposing the stories people construct to escape everyday cruelty.
Blithe Spirit
Novelist Charles Condomine's séance summons the ghost of his first wife, Elvira, who tries to disrupt his marriage to his second wife Ruth. After Ruth also dies and returns as a ghost, medium Madame Arcati works to banish both spirits.
Blondie White
Blondie White is a 1937 mystery play by British writer Jeffrey Dell and Bernard Merivale. A murder mystery, it was inspired by an earlier play by Hungarian writer Ladislas Fodor. A famous crime novelist helps Scotland Yard to solve the murder of a nightclub performer, Blondie White. After premiering at the Manchester Opera House, it transferred to Globe Theatre in London's West End. The cast included Basil Sydney, Basil Radford, Joan Marion, and Elliott Mason. It was directed by Harold French.
Blood Knot
In apartheid-era South Africa, two half-brothers, Morris and Zachariah, live together despite their different skin tones. When Zachariah's white pen-pal plans a visit, they arrange for Morris to impersonate him; the role-play exposes the racial hierarchy that shapes their relationship.
Blood Relations
A psychological murder mystery draws on the Lizzie Borden case and speculation about whether she killed her father and stepmother; in Pollock’s play, her friend the Actress appears to be her lover and accomplice.
Blood Relations
On a tropical Western Australian Christmas, a family gathers around patriarch Willy in a play described as an Australian retelling of The Tempest.
Blood Wedding
On the day of her wedding, the Bride elopes with Leonardo, a former lover whose family is bound to the Groom’s family by a history of violence. The Groom pursues them into the forest, where he and Leonardo kill each other; the Bride returns to face the bereaved Mother.
Blood and Gifts
CIA operative Jim Warnock works with British and Pakistani intelligence officials to supply weapons to Afghan factions fighting the Soviet occupation. Over a decade, political compromises and shifting alliances—including support for Islamist warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar—reshape his relationships with Soviet counterpart Gromov, MI6 officer Simon Craig, and Afghan contact Abdullah.
Blood and Sand
In Madrid, Spanish bullfighter Juan Gallardo is betrayed by both the woman he loves and his ardent, bloodthirsty fans.
Blood at the Root
A drama based on the Jena Six case, addressing the incident’s racial injustice in Louisiana. Its title echoes “Strange Fruit,” the song about lynching in the American South.
Blood on the Cat's Neck
An alien vampire, Phoebe Zeitgeist, observes humanity at a cocktail party and learns to speak from its guests. In three sections, the guests introduce themselves, speak with Phoebe individually, and hear her repeat their self-justifying phrases.
Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole
A comedy about a supply sergeant at a Southern U.S. Army post, written by two brothers who had served in the Army together.
Bloody Poetry
A play about Percy Bysshe Shelley and his circle—Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and Claire Clairmont—framed by utopian themes and the revolutionary spirit of its protagonists. Brenton focuses on the group rather than on Shelley alone.
Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry
Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry is a 2005 dramatisation by English journalist Richard Norton-Taylor of four years of evidence of the Saville Inquiry, distilled into two hours of stage performance by Tricycle Theatre in London.
Blow Job
Two skinheads take a weekend job to blow open a safe in Liverpool, but botch the attempt and accidentally kill a dog with gelignite. A guard is also murdered by a girlfriend who spouts Laingian ideas.
Blowing Whistles
Three gay men—two partners and a man they meet through an online dating site—confront commitment, immaturity, relationships and sexual identity. What first appears to be a light comedy takes a darker turn in its second act.
Blue Comet
Blue Comet is a comedy play by the British writer Eden Phillpotts. The plot revolves around the differing reactions of the characters when the earth is threatened by an incoming comet. It premiered at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in September 1926. The following year it enjoyed a run of thirty seven performances at the Royal Court Theatre in London's West End between 23 February and 26 March 1927. The original London cast included Paul Cavanagh, Eliot Makeham, Clarence Blakiston, Edward Chapman, Minnie Rayner, Cecily Byrne and Dorothy Black. It was not well received in The Drama, saying it had little subtlety or art and "the author is so bent on manufacturing obvious and crude witticisms, whether relevant to the theme or not, that nothing resembling a serious idea is ever allowed to come to birth."
Blue Denim
A drama about teenagers Arthur and Janet facing an unintended pregnancy. The stage version ends with Janet having an abortion; afterward, she and Arthur discuss it and settle their feelings.
Blue Heart
This two-part work pairs Heart’s Desire, in which a family repeatedly revises the scene of a daughter’s return from Australia, with Blue Kettle, in which Derek falsely tells several women that he is their adopted son. In Blue Kettle, words increasingly give way to “blue” and “kettle,” as the characters struggle to communicate.
Blue Jeans
Perry Bascom returns to Indiana to run for Congress and marry Sue Eudaly, but loses the election to her former suitor Ben Boone. Bascom later divorces Sue to marry June; Boone then knocks him unconscious at the sawmill and places him on a board approaching a buzz saw, and June saves him.
Blue Murder
Evelyn Carr leaves her hometown for Blackrock to work for children’s writer Blue, who mentors her through a magical, sensuous and frightening journey of self-discovery. The play examines men’s fantasy that art can become more important and more real than life or death.
Blue Murder
A four-act drama about a murder investigation, written in response to questions about why Peter Nichols had never written a play on that subject.
Blue Remembered Hills
On a summer afternoon during the Second World War, seven children played by adults play, fight and boast in woods, a field and a barn. Their rivalries and cruelties converge on Donald Duck, an anxious boy whose pyromania ends in tragedy.
Blue Stockings
At Girton College in 1896, four talented women campaign for the right to earn degrees. Tess Moffat’s relationship with a male student and Maeve Sullivan’s family responsibilities complicate their education as they confront prejudice from the university and its supporters.
Blue-Eyed Black Boy
When Jack Waters is arrested after a false accusation and a mob threatens to lynch him, his mother Pauline sends the family doctor to seek help from the governor, secretly Jack’s father. As she waits with her daughter and friend, she prays for the troops who may save him.
Blue/Orange
Blurb of the published edition: In a London psychiatric hospital, an enigmatic patient claims to be the son of an African dictator - a story that becomes unnervingly plausible. BLUE/ORANGE is an incendiary tale of race, madness and a Darwinian power struggle at the heart of a dying National Health Service.
Bluebeard's Friends
A dramatic study of the hangers-on around abuse: in a shameless culture, the network of friends evades self-blame and accountability.
Blues for Mister Charlie
In a Southern town, the murder of Black student Richard Henry by white store owner Lyle Britten brings the community into conflict. The courtroom trial, flashbacks and competing accounts expose the racial injustice surrounding the killing, while Black residents organize a protest after Britten is acquitted.
Blurred
A one-act work of social comment and black comedy follows several students travelling to the Gold Coast for Schoolies Week. Framed by scenes with two experienced predators, the rite-of-passage celebrations carry an increasingly threatening undertone.
Blurt, Master Constable
Venetian nobleman Camillo entrusts his French prisoner Fontinelle to his sister Violetta, but they fall in love and marry secretly. Camillo and Hippolito try to divert Fontinelle toward the courtesan Imperia; their plotting succeeds only temporarily, and Violetta uses a bed trick to consummate her marriage.
Boadicea, Queen of Britain
Boadicea, Queen of Britain is a 1697 tragedy by the English writer Charles Hopkins. Based on the story of Boudica the British ruler who revolted against Roman Rule, it was first staged by Thomas Betterton's company at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London. The original Lincoln's Inn Fields cast included Elizabeth Barry as Boadicea, Anne Bracegirdle as Camilla, Elizabeth Bowman as Venutia, Thomas Betterton as Cassibelan, Edward Kynaston as Paulinus, John Hodgson as Decius, John Freeman as Fabian and Samuel Sandford as Caska.
Bob: A Life in Five Acts
Bob is raised on the road by an adoptive mother determined he will become great, then repeatedly loses purpose and loved ones while chasing a plaque commemorating his achievement. Across five acts he discovers his parentage, rejects his earlier ambition, and later tells his life through a flea circus, finding meaning in connection rather than fame.
Bobbi Boland
Set in 1967 in Crestview, Florida and centers around Bobbi. She runs the charm school and is a theater star. It is a quaint, small town, and is trying to keep at bay the Rock n' Roll which is becoming more and more present. It's where a measure of a man is how much he provides for his family, where sexuality is overlooked, charm schools are still present and the theater is important part of everyone's social life. Twenty years earlier, Bobbi was Miss Florida, and from that she gained valid beliefs of the way ladies and gentlemen should act towards each other. Sam is her gay haberdasher neighbor and theatre director. Bobbi is married to her high school sweetheart, Roger, who was once a great football player. He currently works at an office and hates it, and would much rather be doing carpentry. He has become a Joe Shmoe, wearing the suit and tie, and doing the job to satisfy his wife's idea of a husband, complete with him climbing the corporate ladder and keeping an elegant and prosperous house. The play opens with Bobbi and Roger prepping the house because the owner of his company, George McGowan, to entertain the possibility of a promotion for him. Bobbi then has one of her charm school students, Susan, be hostess and Bobbi nags Roger before the bell rings. When it does, they are shocked to see George has not brought his wife, but Kim, a new, leggy young blonde from New York. The drama heightens because Roger does love his wife, even though he knows he is being pushed around. Bobbi sees Kim as a threat to her marriage, and Kim forms a bond with Susan. By the resolution of the play, Bobbi is alone.
Bobby Gould in Hell
After his death, film executive Bobby Gould is questioned in Hell by an irritable interrogator about whether he was a bad man.
Body Awareness
At a small Vermont college, psychology professor Phyllis organizes a Body Awareness Week while living with her partner Joyce and Joyce’s adult son Jared. The arrival of photographer Frank, whose nude portraits offend Phyllis, heightens tensions; Joyce’s decision to pose for him strains the couple, while Jared seeks Frank’s advice about attracting women.
Body Language
After a botched operation, two women—one thin and one fat—swap bodies.
Boeing-Boeing
The play is set in the 1960s, and centres on bachelor Bernard, who has a flat in Paris, and three airline stewardesses all engaged to him without knowing about each other. Bernard's life gets bumpy when his friend Robert comes to stay, and complications such as weather and a new, speedier Boeing jet disrupt his careful planning. Soon, all three stewardesses are in the city simultaneously and catastrophe looms.
Boesman and Lena
Boesman and Lena, a Coloured couple, walk between shanty settlements across the Eastern Cape mudflats after eviction. Their precarious journey and relationship show the human effects of apartheid on people far from political power.
Bohipir
In rural Bengal, Tahera flees a forced marriage to Bohipir and takes shelter with Hatem Ali’s family; she and Hashem ultimately leave together, challenging pirist superstition and social injustice.
Bomb Squad
A ranger cannot stop a man from trying to defuse Mount Rushmore as a conceptual land mine; the piece presents the encounter in song.
Bombay Flower
This Gujarati biographical drama follows Ruttie Petit-Jinnah, known in Bombay society as the Flower of Bombay, as she rebels against her family and social expectations. Her relationship with Muhammad Ali Jinnah unfolds alongside questions of women’s independence, the freedom struggle and the political ideas shaping the future of Pakistan.
Bombshells
Six comic monologues portray women ranging from a feisty teenager to a 64-year-old widow, each balancing her inner and outer life with humour and often desperate cunning.
Bon Ton
Bon Ton; or, High Life Above Stairs is a comedy act in two acts by David Garrick, first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 18 March 1775. According to Garrick's introductory notice to the play, it had been written many years before. The play stars James William Dodd as Lord Minikin, Thomas King as Sir John Trotley, William Brereton as Colonel Tivy, Phillip Lamash as Jessamy, William Parsons as Davy, William Burton as Mignon, Elizabeth Pope as Lady Minikin, Frances Abington as Miss Lucretia Tittup, and S.J. Platt as Gymp.
Bonbons and Roses for Dolly
Across three periods, the rise and decay of the Garden and Corker family's Crystal Palace cinema frames a dreamlike expressionist portrait of lost youthful hopes. Dolly inherits the ruined theatre and, as its fantasies flare back to life, turns a family reunion into a violent reckoning.
Bondage
In an S&M parlor, a fully disguised man and woman engage in racial roleplay, confronting racial stereotypes and the roles they perform.
Bonduca
Queen Bonduca leads a British revolt against Rome, while Roman officers' love intrigues intersect with the campaign and the warrior Caratach's efforts to protect the young Hengo.
Bonnet Over the Windmill
Bonnet Over the Windmill is a 1937 play by the British writer Dodie Smith. Its original West End run at the New Theatre lasted for 101 performances between September and December 1937. The original cast included James Mason, Cecil Parker, Peter Coke and Anne Firth. The plot concerns three aspiring young actresses and their landlady, a middle-aged former music-hall performer, and the young women's attempts to attract the attention of a playwright and a theatre producer with hopes of obtaining dramatic roles.
Bonnie Scotland
Bonnie Scotland is a play in 4 acts by Sidney R. Ellis with music by Albert Anderson. Set in Dunbartonshire, Scotland, the play is about the outlaw clan chief Walter McFarlane who has a price on his head. He witnesses an accident on a lake in which the girl Mary Culquhoun is drowning. He rescues her, and risks being caught when he brings her back to her family. Mary's brother, Humphrey, attempts to arrest Walter but is prevented by Mary who has fallen in love with Walter. Humphrey meets the girl Jean and falls in love with her; unaware that Jean is Walter's sister. A duplicitous friend threatens to bring ruin to all the Scottish clan chiefs. War threatens to break forth, but all eventually ends well. Bonnie Scotland premiered at the People's Theatre in Toledo, Ohio on May 6, 1895. It was staged on Broadway at Haverly's 14th Street Theatre where it opened on December 16, 1895. It ran there for 16 performances. The original cast included Frank Lander as Walter McFarlane, Selma Herman as Mary Culquhoun, George Klint as Humphrey Culquhoun, Violet Black as Jean McFarlane, George A. D. Johnson as Murdoch Buchanan, Horace Lewis as Lochburn McCale, Louise Rial as Catherine Epsworth, John R. Cumpson as Tam Duncan Faa, J. L. Ashton as Wallace Dugald, Christie McLean as Nannie Dugald, Robert V. Ferguson as Henbane McWharry, Harry Thompson as Captain Hagedorn, R. Edgar Vance as the Landlord, Robert Ireland as a Soldier, and William Cameron as the Messenger. The show toured after its Broadway run.
Boom X
A solo performer uses music, impersonation, and projected images to trace the years from 1969 to 1995. Personal history intersects with the politics, technology, and popular culture that shaped Generation X.
Boris Godunov
After Tsar Feodor's death, Boris accepts the crown, but his rule is haunted by the murder of the young Dmitry. A monk escapes to claim that he is the surviving Dmitry and raises an invasion; Boris dies, his son is killed, and the people are left silent when urged to acclaim the pretender.
Born Yesterday
An uncouth, corrupt rich junk dealer, Harry Brock, brings his showgirl mistress Billie Dawn with him to Washington, D.C. When Billie's ignorance becomes a liability to Brock's business dealings, he hires a journalist, Paul Verrall, to educate his girlfriend. In the process of learning, Billie Dawn realizes how corrupt Harry is and begins interfering with his plans to bribe a Congressman into passing legislation that would allow Brock's business to make more money.
Born in the Gardens
An elderly Bristolian mother and her son live in a crumbling Victorian manor house.
Born with Teeth
Born with Teeth is a play by Liz Duffy Adams about the relationship between playwrights William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.
Borstal Boy
The title takes its name from the borstal, a British juvenile jail, at Hollesley Bay. The book was originally banned in the Republic of Ireland for obscenity. The story is a recounting of Behan's imprisonment at Hollesley Bay for carrying explosives into the United Kingdom, with intent to cause explosions on a mission for the I.R.A. It shows the young, idealistic Behan, over the three years of his sentence, softening his radical stance and warming to the other prisoners.
Bosoms and Neglect
Bosoms and Neglect is a play by American playwright John Guare, first staged in 1979 at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
Boss of the Pool
During summer holidays, Shelley has to accompany her mother to work at a hostel for people with disabilities. At the pool she meets Ben, who is afraid of water, and helps him work through that fear.
Bossemans et Coppenolle
A Brussels comedy about two dimwitted men, Bossemans and Coppenolle. Spoken in the local dialect, it parodies Romeo and Juliet through the rivalry between two contemporary Brussels football clubs.
Boston Marriage
In turn-of-the-century Boston, Anna and Claire navigate their intimate relationship and Claire's new love while Anna's maid Catherine witnesses their sharp exchanges.
Boswell for the Defence
A historical drama about James Boswell and his defense of Mary Bryant, an English convict transported to Australia.
Both Your Houses
A magnificent ironic comedy, and a daring and forthright commentary on national politics. Here we have the story of a hard-fighting young and idealistic Congressman suddenly up against a group of old-time politicians, all at work on a big appropriations bill. The young idealist tries to draw up a relatively honest bill, but realizing that the fight seems hopeless, he turns around and makes the bill so ridiculously dishonest that he can only imagine it will be instantly killed. However, it is so pleasing to all parties that it goes through both Houses.
Bother! The Brain of Pooh
A one-man stage performance by Peter Dennis using selections from A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh stories and poems.
Botticelli
During the Vietnam War, two soldiers in a jungle wait to kill an enemy Vietcong fighter while playing the parlor game Botticelli. When the enemy appears, they kill him without stopping the game, contrasting cultured play with war's brutal indifference.
Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island
After an ecstasy-fueled mishap and shipwreck, Richie and Eddie are stranded on an island, where they fend off cannibals, food poisoning and an unexploded nuclear bomb while repeatedly botching their chances of rescue.
Bottom Live – The Stage Show
After a pub lock-in, Richie and Eddie return to their flat, where a letter about an inheritance turns out to reveal a debt. Their attempts to claim money, get rid of one another and avoid paying culminate in a series of failed schemes and apparent suicide.
Box and Cox
Mrs Bouncer secretly rents the same room by day to printer John Box and by night to hatter James Cox. When the men discover the double tenancy, their quarrel turns to alliance as they realize each has been engaged to the same widow; they escape marriage, fortune-chasing and mistaken identity before discovering they are long-lost brothers.
Box and Cox Married and Settled
After retiring from business, Box and Cox each have enough money to live on and a wife and baby. When Cox discovers that Box’s wife was his former sweetheart, their anger and marital complications lead to comic confrontations before everything is resolved.
Box the Pony
A semi-autobiographical one-woman show set in an Aboriginal community in Queensland.
Boy
In overlapping scenes and dialogue, a young man named Liam drifts through contemporary London, buffeted, excluded and intimated by those around him. The play gives voice to his inarticulacy and portrays the aimlessness and alienation of young people living at the margins.
Boy Gets Girl
After an awkward blind date, Theresa Bedell politely ends things with Tony Ross. He begins intruding into her work and home life, and her efforts to get help and evade him cannot restore her sense of safety or identity.
Boy Meets Girl
"The story is too crack-brained to be intelligibly recorded here". --Brooks Atkinson
Boy with Beer
Ghanaian photographer Karl seeks an 'African Prince' and meets Donovan, a young Caribbean van driver. Their relationship grows from an unromantic first encounter to mutual love, while prejudice, machismo and Donovan's girlfriend's HIV diagnosis complicate his acceptance of his sexuality.
Boys from the Blackstuff
In 1980s Liverpool, Chrissie, Loggo, George, Dixie and Yosser struggle to support their families after steady work disappears. They search for jobs and ways around the benefits inspectors while trying to preserve their friendships and humour.
Boys' Life
Three former college friends try to navigate adult life and relationships in the city. Married father Jack pursues affairs, Phil struggles with insecurity, and Don gambles a steady relationship on another conquest, exposing the prolonged adolescence beneath their claims to maturity.
Bracken Moor
In 1930s Yorkshire, coal magnate Harold faces closing a pit while his wife Elizabeth remains consumed by their son’s death in a disused mine. When family friend Terence appears possessed by the boy, the adults confront their grief and the truth behind the episodes.
Braganza
Braganza is a 1775 tragedy by the Irish writer Robert Jephson. It portrays the overthrow of Spanish rule in Portugal during the seventeenth century, leading to the establishment of the Braganza Dynasty. The original Drury Lane cast included Mary Ann Yates as Duchess, William Smith as Velasquez, John Palmer as Ribiro, James Aickin as Almada, John Hayman Packer as Ramirez, William Brereton as Mendoza, Howard Usher as Lemos, Richard Hurst as Corea, James Wrighten as Antonio and Samuel Reddish as Duke. The prologue was written by Arthur Murphy.
Brand
The idealistic priest Brand demands uncompromising commitment from himself and others. He accepts a parish post, refuses to leave when his ill son needs a healthier climate, and later loses his wife after testing her devotion. He leads his congregation into the mountains seeking a boundless church, but the people turn against him; as an avalanche buries the valley, Brand asks God whether salvation considers human will.
Brantinghame Hall
Ruth, the daughter of an ex-convict, marries Arthur after nursing him back to health. When Arthur is presumed lost at sea and his family faces financial ruin, Ruth tries to save his father from foreclosure while hiding a truth about her marriage; the returning Arthur resolves the family's fate.
Break Through
An episodic two-act play of monologues and scenes about different aspects of LGBTQ+ Americans’ lives, with recurring themes of overcoming discrimination and other obstacles. Its final scene addresses suicide.
Breaker Morant
The play follows Australian lieutenant Harry “Breaker” Morant's court-martial and final days during the Boer War, in the case that also involved fellow lieutenant George Witton and Peter Handcock.
Breakfast with Les and Bess
It follows a radio celebrity couple with a morning show, similar to "Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick" and Tex and Jinx. This time the show is fictional "Breakfast with Les and Bess". The show follows them on- and off-air with their radical son David and strange daughter Shelby in 1961 in a Central Park South flat. Also appearing, a lost interview with Rainier III, Prince of Monaco and the new rock-music that threatens to change their way of life.
Breaking Dad
In 2022, Ross O’Carroll-Kelly is in his forties and alarmed when his daughter Honor brings home Traolach, whose resemblance to a young Ross unsettles him.
Breaking the Code
Hugh Whitemore’s drama portrays Alan Turing’s wartime codebreaking and pioneering computer work alongside his struggle to come to terms with his homosexuality.
Breath
A brief, wordless stage piece pairs a birth cry and one recorded inhalation and exhalation with a rise and fall in light over a stage scattered with miscellaneous rubbish. No people appear on stage.
Breath in Between
Roger advertises online for someone willing to be killed, and two people respond. When he falls in love with Amy, desire and violence collide in an examination of the distance between intimate partners.
Breath of Spring
When a maid steals a fur for her employer, Dame Beatrice Appleby and her elderly housemates try to return it without exposing her. They then turn fur theft into a charitable scheme, narrowly evading detection and leaving open the possibility of stealing other things.
Breathing Corpses
Told in reverse, the play begins when hotel maid Amy discovers Jim’s corpse, then moves backward through events involving a young woman’s body found in Jim’s warehouse and the despair that led to his suicide.
Breindele the Cossack
Breindele has driven five husbands to suicide; her sixth, Guberman, marries her believing he will fare differently, but she ultimately drives him to suicide too.
Brewster's Millions
Brewster's Millions is a play written by Winchell Smith and Byron Ongley, based on the 1902 novel of the same name by George Barr McCutcheon. Producers Frederic Thompson and Elmer "Skip" Dundy staged it on Broadway in 1906. The play is about a young man who must spend a million dollars that he has inherited in order to inherit many millions more.
Brick Up the Mersey Tunnels
A fictitious terrorist group, the Kingsway Three, plans to brick up the tunnels joining Liverpool to the Wirral.
Bride of Brackenloch
After losing his bride Victoria to an ancient family curse, Jabez Thorngall marries Daphne Dixon, an American heiress working as a Scottish bartender. A missing piece of leather and a man locked in the family vault draw suspicion toward the household handyman and the supposed Beast of Brackenloch.
Bride of Fire
A historical tragedy about Babek’s revolt against the Arab Caliphate, with Babek represented by the play’s protagonist Elkhan; Solmaz, a servant at a fire-worshippers’ temple, has a central plot line.
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