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.
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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.
Bridge & Tunnel
Sarah Jones performs a series of characters representing the diverse immigrant communities of New York City's boroughs outside Manhattan. Each character takes the stage at a poetry reading and talks about their life.
Bridge of Blood
A readers’ theatre dramatization of Operation Auca: five missionaries prepare for contact with the Huaorani in Ecuador, carry out aerial gift drops, and are killed after entering Auca territory; Elisabeth Elliot narrates the later community’s redemption.
Brief Lives
In a one-person performance, John Aubrey recalls the famous men he met and documented, including René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes and Christopher Wren.
Bright Lucifer
Burned-out horror actor Jack Flynn retreats to a family cabin with his newspaper-editor brother and the brother's strange young ward after his marriage and career collapse. Against the backdrop of an ongoing funeral outside, tensions spiral into murder, madness, and grotesque acts.
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Brighton Beach Memoirs is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon. The play is a coming of age comedy focused on the main character of Eugene Morris Jerome, a Jewish teenager from a Polish immigrant family. It is set in September 1937 in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, New York, during the Great Depression. According to Simon, the play tells its story "through the eyes of a 15-year-old boy who is writing his memoirs—which is what I did when I was 15". and was followed by Biloxi Blues (1984) and Broadway Bound (1986). The play was adapted into a film of the same name in 1986.
Brighton Rock
Adapted from Graham Greene's novel, the play portrays the downfall of an ambitious young criminal in Brighton, alongside the luckless waitress Rose.
Brilliant Lies
A comedy about sexual harassment and political correctness examines conflicts in changing social values.
Brimstone and Treacle
A mysterious young stranger, Martin Taylor, inserts himself into the home of Tom and Amy Bates, whose daughter Pattie has been left dependent after a hit-and-run. Martin claims a prior relationship with Pattie, gains the couple's trust, and reveals demonic power; his assault on Pattie and her recovery expose the danger he poses.
Bringing Back the Bluestones
Roy Brown forms the Welsh pressure group Carreg Las to campaign for Stonehenge’s bluestones to be returned to the Preseli Hills. The group’s claim, inspired by debates over the Elgin Marbles, is a publicity-generating spoof that unexpectedly attracts real attention.
Bringing It All Back Home
After the body of their son Jimmy, killed in Vietnam, arrives, his middle-class family faces a television station seeking to film their reactions. Jimmy rises and asks why he died, while the family’s earlier dysfunction and conflict become newly exposed.
Britannicus
Nero’s desire for Junia, Britannicus’s fiancée, drives him to assert himself against his mother Agrippina and plot against his adoptive brother, whose succession claim he has already usurped.
Broadway
Broadway is a 1926 Broadway play produced by Jed Harris and written and directed by George Abbott and Philip Dunning. It was Abbott's first big hit on his way to becoming "the most famous play doctor of all time" after he "rejiggered" Dunning's play. The crime drama used "contemporary street slang and a hard-boiled, realistic atmosphere" to depict the New York City underworld during Prohibition. It opened on September 16, 1926, at the Broadhurst Theatre and was one of the venue's greatest hits, running for 603 performances.
Broadway Bound
Broadway Bound is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon. It is the last chapter in his Eugene trilogy, following Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues.
Broadway Jones
Socialite Jackson "Broadway" Jones was born wealthy but has squandered his money through his life as an irresponsible playboy. Now indebted to creditors, he attempts to solve his financial problems by becoming engaged to an older but wealthy widow, Mrs. Girard, whom he does not love. Jones's path is altered after the unexpected death of his grandfather, who leaves Broadway a chewing gum factory in his will. Broadway travels to the factory in Jonestown, Ohio, intending to selling the factory to a chewing gum conglomerate to raise money to pay off his debts. He soon meets the factory's secretary, Josie Richards, who pleads with him not to sell the factory, as its prospective buyers plan to shut the factory after the sale. Broadway falls in love with Josie, and ultimately the play ends with the couple planning to get married and running the factory together as a couple.
Brokeback Mountain
In rural Wyoming in 1963, Ennis and Jack take jobs on the isolated Brokeback Mountain and fall in love. Across twenty years, they struggle to sustain a hidden relationship within a poor, conservative community, accompanied by a balladeer and a country band.
Broken Glass
Phillip and Sylvia Gellburg are a Jewish married couple living in Brooklyn, New York City, in the last days of November 1938. Phillip works on foreclosures, at a Brooklyn mortgage bank. When Sylvia suddenly becomes partially paralyzed from the waist down, after reading about the events of Kristallnacht in the newspaper, Phillip contacts Dr. Harry Hyman. Dr. Hyman believes Sylvia's paralysis is psychosomatic, and though he is not a psychiatrist, he begins to treat her according to his diagnosis. Throughout the play, Dr. Hyman learns more about the problems Sylvia is having in her personal life, particularly in her marriage. After an argument with his boss, Philip suffers a heart attack and begins dying at his home. He and Sylvia confront each other about their feelings. Before Phillip dies (although his death is never confirmed), his final words are "Sylvia, forgive me!". Upon his "death", Sylvia is cured of her paralysis.
Broken Hearts
On an island where grieving women have turned their love to objects, Prince Florian secretly gives voice to their sundials and fountains. His play with Lady Vavir's feelings endangers her life, while the servant Mousta uses an invisibility veil to win a pledge from Lady Hilda; the women and rivals confront love, appearance and sacrifice.
Brokenville
After an unexplained disaster, an old woman and five teenagers begin acting out stories for a mute, frightened child, gradually discovering who they were and what they might become.
Brontë
A biographical drama about the Brontë sisters, their brother Branwell and their father Patrick, which also brings in characters from the sisters' novels, including Cathy and Heathcliff.
Bronx Bombers
In 1977, Yogi Berra tries to reconcile Reggie Jackson and Billy Martin after their near-brawl, then dreams of dining with his wife and Yankees stars from different eras.
Bronzeville
An African American family, the Goodwins, move from Mississippi to Los Angeles between 1942 and 1945. When they find Japanese American man Henry Tahara hiding in their attic, they must confront their values as they struggle to protect themselves and decide what is right.
Brooklyn Boy
Novelist Eric Weiss, critically celebrated but unsuccessful, "arrives" when his new, autobiographical novel becomes a best-seller. An outsider all his life, he is suddenly on the inside of everything: town cars, television studios, the Sunday book review. But as his career takes off, his personal life stutters. His father lies ill in Maimonides Hospital, Jewish Brooklyn's version of the river Styx, wondering when Eric will produce his first grandchild. His former friends and neighbors in Brooklyn celebrate his success while simultaneously being suspicious about his attitude toward them–in life and in his novel. And his success, rather than oiling the waters of his marriage, troubles them for him and his writer-wife.
Brothers of the Brush
In 1990s Ireland, the play follows house painters working in the black economy.
Brown Sugar
Brown Sugar is a melodrama in three acts and seven scenes by Mrs. Bernie Angus. It premiered on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre on December 2, 1937, in a production directed and produced by George Abbott. It used sets designed by Cirker & Robbins and costumes designed by Helene Pons. Written by a white woman, it is set in Harlem and featured what was billed as an all-black cast. While the cast was praised for its performances, Angus was criticized for having an unfocused plot with too many ideas that presented a "tourist's idea of Harlem" which was widely panned in the American press. Some of the cast members included Butterfly McQueen as Lucille, Eric Burroughs as Musken, Alvin Childress as Slim, Ruby Elzy as Sarah, Georgette Harvey as Lily May, Juano Hernandez as Sam, and Canada Lee as Henry.
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