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Clear filtersPerry 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A dramatic study of the hangers-on around abuse: in a shameless culture, the network of friends evades self-blame and accountability.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
After his death, film executive Bobby Gould is questioned in Hell by an irritable interrogator about whether he was a bad man.
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.
After a botched operation, two women—one thin and one fat—swap bodies.
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, 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.
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.
A ranger cannot stop a man from trying to defuse Mount Rushmore as a conceptual land mine; the piece presents the encounter in song.
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.
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; 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.
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.
In an S&M parlor, a fully disguised man and woman engage in racial roleplay, confronting racial stereotypes and the roles they perform.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
An elderly Bristolian mother and her son live in a crumbling Victorian manor house.
Born with Teeth is a play by Liz Duffy Adams about the relationship between playwrights William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.
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 is a play by American playwright John Guare, first staged in 1979 at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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.
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.
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.
A historical drama about James Boswell and his defense of Mary Bryant, an English convict transported to Australia.
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.
A one-man stage performance by Peter Dennis using selections from A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh stories and poems.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A semi-autobiographical one-woman show set in an Aboriginal community in Queensland.
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.
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.
"The story is too crack-brained to be intelligibly recorded here". --Brooks Atkinson
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hugh Whitemore’s drama portrays Alan Turing’s wartime codebreaking and pioneering computer work alongside his struggle to come to terms with his homosexuality.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
A fictitious terrorist group, the Kingsway Three, plans to brick up the tunnels joining Liverpool to the Wirral.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In a one-person performance, John Aubrey recalls the famous men he met and documented, including René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes and Christopher Wren.
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 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.
Adapted from Graham Greene's novel, the play portrays the downfall of an ambitious young criminal in Brighton, alongside the luckless waitress Rose.
A comedy about sexual harassment and political correctness examines conflicts in changing social values.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon. It is the last chapter in his Eugene trilogy, following Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In 1990s Ireland, the play follows house painters working in the black economy.
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.
Titus, son of Rome's first consul Lucius Junius Brutus, falls in love with Tullie, daughter of the last Etruscan king, and is drawn into betraying Rome. The Senate hands Titus to his father, who forgives him but orders his execution to protect the Republic.
The Tragedy of Brutus; or, The Fall of Tarquin is an 1818 historical tragedy by the British-based American writer John Howard Payne. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London on 3 December 1818. The original cast included Edmund Kean as Brutus, David Fisher as Titus, Henry Kemble as Sextus Tarquin, Charles Holland as Valerius, William Penley as Aruns, Julia Glover as Tullia and Sarah West as Tarquinia. It draws heavily on Richard Cumberland's The Sibyl, published in 1813. It depicts the overthrow of the Roman monarchy, with Lucius Junius Brutus leading a plot against Lucius Tarquinius Superbus to establish the Roman Republic. James Northcote produced an 1819 painting Edmund Kean as Brutus, inspired by the play.
Brutus of Alba; Or, The Enchanted Lovers is a 1678 tragedy by the Irish writer Nahum Tate. It was first performed by the Duke's Company at the Dorset Garden Theatre in London. The name's of the original cast are unknown. The published version was dedicated to the Duke of Dorset. It was based on the fourth book of the Aeneid by Virgil, and was produced in the context of the Exclusion Crisis. Tate was at the time a supporter of James, Duke of York and the play is strongly propagandistic about the Stuart monarchy. Tate later took elements of the play for the libretto of Dido and Aeneas, scored by Henry Purcell.
An open-air bushranger drama about an Indian woman who refuses to marry a cowboy. During a test of courage, daggers are thrown around her; the cowboy tries to kill her, but Chief Wild Friday intervenes and frees her.
In a seedy motel room, lonely cocktail waitress Agnes becomes involved with Peter, a Gulf War veteran whose escalating conspiratorial delusions about UFOs and government experiments begin to consume them both.
An Indigenous mother and daughter, both struggling with addiction and unsure of its causes, are played by the same performer but never interact. The work addresses intergenerational trauma, colonial and racial violence, and queer and two-spirit leadership.
Four buglers outside Jalalabad keep watch for survivors of Elphinstone's army while Lady Florentia Sale reads from her diary.
This Middle Breton verse mystery play dramatizes Saint Barbara’s conversion to Christianity, her conflict with her pagan father Dioscurus, her miraculous escape and eventual martyrdom.
Bulldog Drummond is a 1921 play by H.C. McNeile and Gerald du Maurier. It is based on McNeile's 1920 novel of the same title featuring the gentleman adventurer Bulldog Drummond. Its original run at Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End lasted for 430 performances between 29 March 1921 and 1 April 1922. Du Maurier played Drummond alongside Ronald Squire as Algy Langworth, Claud Allister as Hiram G. Travers and Alfred Drayton as the villain Carl Peterson. It was revived in London on several occasions. The title role was played on Broadway by A.E. Matthews in a run lasting 162 performances.
In a prewar comic adventure, the villainous Otto and Lenya Von Brunno try to wreck the diamond market by kidnapping Professor Fenton. Hero Bullshot Crummond and the professor’s daughter pursue them through deliberately inept stage recreations of film effects and escalating comic mishaps.
A wheelchair-using officer injured in the Falklands War confronts a young private accused of throwing an eight-year-old boy down a well during a Middle East raid. The play examines their relationship and criticizes politicians who launch wars without regard for their consequences.
A 35-year-old woman who ‘gets around’ is the focus of this comedy by Norman Krasna.
A young would-be world betterer falls for the daughter of an elderly billionaire while her family debates how to protect the fortune from the new Labour government. The billionaire ultimately chooses to leave his wealth to the couple and disinherit his other children.
A dramatic series of scenes from the lives of famous actors at Vienna’s Burgtheater portrays them as shallow, petty tyrants and charges the theatre’s past with collaboration with the Nazi regime.
In an old farmhouse on a failed plot of land in Illinois, the characters Dodge (in his 70s) and Halie (in her 60s), an old married couple, are introduced. The scene begins with the couple having a conversation with one another, discussing events of their past. Halie is not visible in the scene as she is yelling from upstairs, while Dodge is sitting on the basement sofa. He occasionally sneaks drinks from a bottle hidden in the couch; it is evident that he is an alcoholic. They talk about their beloved son Ansel, who was purportedly murdered years earlier by his wife on their wedding night. They also talk about another son, Bradley, an amputee who comes to cut Dodge's hair forcefully while he sleeps; Dodge is wearing a baseball cap to ward off this inevitability. Halie leaves for church dressed in black and tells the oldest son, Tilden, to look after Dodge. Tilden then enters the scene with an armful of corn, which he claims grew in the field outside. Dodge states that nothing has grown in the field since the Dust Bowl, and accuses Tilden of stealing from a neighbor. Dodge and Tilden then begin to discuss Tilden's past; they speak of how he "got into trouble" in New Mexico, and how in failing his attempt to leave the family home for a new life, Tilden was forced to flee following this incident. Tilden is evidently mentally unwell as he sits, shucking corn into a bucket. When Dodge falls asleep at the end of their conversation, Tilden covers him with the corn husks, creating a blanket, before he goes outside into the rain. Bradley enters the room shortly after and shaves Dodge's head while he sleeps. The scene begins with the introduction of Vince and Shelly. Vince was headed to meet his father Tilden in New Mexico but has decided to stop over at his grandparents' house on the way there; Shelly is just tagging along for the ride. Vince is surprised when he enters the house as Dodge does not recognize him at all. Shelly then believes they have entered the wrong house and tries to convince Vince to leave, but he does not budge. Tilden then enters the room with a bundle of carrots and is uninterested in Shelly and Vince. Vince then gets Tilden's attention, but Tilden also does not recognize Vince. Vince tries different methods to convince Tilden and Dodge of his identity, while Shelly helps Tilden with the carrots. Dodge then motions to Vince and tells him to go buy him alcohol, and he does so. While he is gone, Shelly talks to Tilden and asks him questions about Vince. Tilden goes on saying that he does not recognize Vince but he does look familiar. Tilden also talks about a son he once had, whom Dodge killed and buried in the backyard. The text implies, though never states explicitly, that this child may have been conceived with Halie. Bradley then re-enters the scene and begins to harass Shelly by sticking his hand in her mouth. He then takes her fur coat and places it over Dodge and blacks out. The scene begins with Dodge presuming that Vince has run away and left Shelly. He also tells Shelly not to fear Bradley as he only has one leg. After some time, Halie enters the house with Father Dewis, with whom, the audience later learns, she is having an affair. Halie sees Dodge lying on the ground and Bradley lying shamelessly on the sofa and smiles in embarrassment to Father Dewis. She then starts a yelling match with Dodge and Bradley, and they exchange several words until Shelly intervenes. In frustration, Shelly grabs Bradley's wooden leg and waves off the rest of the family, expressing her anger with them and Vince. Father Dewis tries to calm Shelly down and places the wooden leg onto the table. Soon after, Vince returns drunk and hurls beer bottles at the house. He then climbs through the door's netting and states that he has to stay at the farmhouse with his family. Halie and Dodge then recognize Vince, and Dodge hands him the ownership of the house and land. With the land now his, Vince decides to stay at the house, while Shelly tries to convince him to leave. Shelly gives up on Vince and leaves, and Vince grabs the wooden leg and throws it outside the house; Bradley goes crawling for it. Father Dewis leaves the house and Halie heads upstairs to her room. Vince realizes that Dodge has died and places a blanket and rose on his body. Halie then begins to yell out that corn has bloomed in the backyard, while Vince sits motionless on the sofa. In the final scene, Tilden walks around the room with the corpse of a baby in his hands.
Burlesque performers Skid Johnson and Bonny King try to advance their careers as Skid’s Broadway success strains their marriage; after an affair, divorce plans and a lost job, they reconcile and return to performing together.
After the funeral of Robbie, a gay dancer killed in a boating accident alongside his lover Dom, his roommates Anna and Larry are joined in Robbie’s loft by Anna’s longtime boyfriend Burton and Robbie’s brother Pale. As the four confront their grief and conflicting relationships, Anna gains confidence, pursues choreography, and begins a relationship with Pale.
A play examining the relationships among John Dee, Edward Kelley, and Edward Dyer.
Best friends Lieutenants Daniel Lynch and Will Stephensen are U.S. Navy fighter pilots flying the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet, hoping to become the youngest pilots to be accepted into the space program. After two accidents, one of which is due to Will's failing eyesight, their unit is subject to an NCIS investigation led by John Cokely. At the same time, a third pilot, Matt Blackwood, arrives on the carrier and quickly develops a close friendship with Dan, driving a wedge between Dan and Will. Cokely's investigation leads to him uncovering rumours about Dan and Matt's relationship just as they both begin to fall in love. When Matt decides to leave his wife and move in with Dan, there is a third accident and Cokely's investigation ramps up the pressure on Dan.
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