Drama

An engaging drama about race, freedom of speech, and religion

The classic cynical play of family greed and revenge

A thriller about family bonds and how far one will go to protect them.

Arthur Miller's classic drama about the loss of identity and changes in society.

An American treasure of family relationships, marriage, and mortality.

A powerful drama based on the award-winning novel by Ernest J. Gaines.

A shocking new version of the Stevenson classic horror tale.

A drama about the cost one woman pays when she dares to have it all.

In a plantation house, a family celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of Big Daddy, as they sentimentally dub him. The mood is somber, despite the festivities, because a number of evils poison the [...]

A college student, Carol, drops by her professor’s office in an effort to gain his help to do better in class. John, the professor, in the midst of buying a house to celebrate his [...]

A modern classic about one woman’s struggle to come to terms with her past – brutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of 9 and brought to England with the promise [...]

The play is set in the dining room of a typical well-to-do household, the place where the family assembled daily for breakfast and dinner and for any and all special occasions. The action is [...]

The second half of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic. “Angels in America, Perestroika” steers the characters introduced in “Millennium Approaches” from the [...]

Wealthy middle-aged couple, Agnes and Tobias have their complacency shattered when Harry and Edna, longtime friends appear at their doorstep. Claiming an encroaching, nameless “fear” [...]

In Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set in 1980s New York City, a gay man is abandoned by his lover when he contracts the AIDS virus, and a closeted Mormon lawyer’s [...]

A sinister con man, Roat, and two ex-convicts, Mike and Carlino, are about to meet their match. They have traced the location of a mysterious doll, which they are much interested in, to the [...]

David Mamet’s scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real esate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for [...]

Sibling rivalry, adultery and dungeons – Lion in Winter, by James Goldman, is a modern day classic.  Comedic in tone, dramatic in action – the play tells the story of the Plantagenet family who [...]

This unusual drama by a premiere contemporary dramatist focuses on Miss Helen, an old Boer woman who lives alone in the South African boondocks where she creates odd concrete sculptures which she [...]

An American doctor and an Irish journalist are being held captive by terrorists in Beirut. They exercise and they argue, supportive in their mutual determination to survive. They are joined by an [...]

The plot revolves around the comfortable relationship between widower Harry and his gay son Jeff and their individual searches for the right mate. Harry unconditionally loves his Rugby-playing [...]

Inspired by a true story, the play follows the trail of a young black con man, Paul, who insinuates himself into the lives of a wealthy New York couple, Ouisa and Flan Kittredge, claiming he [...]

Bessie lives in Florida where she cares for her pain-ridden aunt and ailing father, Marvin, who is confined to his bed and unable to speak. When Bessie is diagnosed with leukemia, her only hope [...]

This extraordinary play is the story of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in l936. We meet them at the time of the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates [...]

The setting is a walk-up apartment on Manhattan’s West Side where, as the curtain rises, Frankie (a waitress) and Johnny (a short-order cook who works in the same restaurant) are discovered [...]

At Peter and Rita’s wedding, a mysterious old man insists on kissing the bride. While honeymooning, Peter gradually realizes that the woman by his side is not his wife. The wedding kiss [...]

A history-making play as Joe, a successful businessman and pillar of society whose chickens come home to roost in the form of Lou, a deranged Vietnam War buddy. During their confrontation, Joe [...]

Inherit the Wind is a fictional version of the 1925 Scopes Trial. Scopes was convicted for teaching evolution to a high school class. In Tennessee, state law prohibited teaching evolution. The [...]

Summoned to a covent, Dr. Martha Livingstone, a court-appointed psychiatrist, is charged with assessing the sanity of a novice accused of murdering her newborn. Miriam Ruth, the Mother Superior, [...]

The time is the mid ’70s, the place a city in upstate New York. John, a playwright, returns to his family’s house, bringing with him a new play which he has written about them. His [...]

Mrs. Savage has been left ten million dollars by her husband and wants to make the best use of it, in spite of her grown-up stepchildren’s efforts to get their hands on it. Knowing that the [...]

In Waiting for Godot, two wandering tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, wait by a lonely tree, to meet up with Mr. Godot, an enigmatic figure in a world where time, place and memory are blurred and [...]

The action is set in Truvy’s beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are “anybody” come to have their hair done. Helped by her eager new assistant, [...]

The characters come to life with an almost frightening fidelity; it is doubtful if any work in the theatre has ever been written with such first-person authority. The proceedings take place in [...]

Martin Cramer lives in an expensive high rise on Manhattan’s upper east side. He likes to play Debussy on his balcony at one a.m. Sally Cramer, played on Broadway by Marlo Thomas, is his [...]

Set in 1953 and traveling to 1985, this lovely and poignant memory play unfolds through the eyes of Clifford, the only son of Gene, a jazz trumpet player, and Terry, an alcoholic mother. [...]

A wildly funny, surprising and devastating tale of survival as seen through the lens of a troubling relationship between a young girl and an older man. HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE is the story of a [...]

A young married man spends many evenings with a rich old woman. When she is found murdered, the naive young man is the chief suspect. The testimony of his wife is expected to result in an [...]

The Jackson are a nice middle aged English couple. Their best friends are their Canadian neighbors, the Krogers. All is blissful in their world until a detective from Scotland Yard asks to use [...]

The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local [...]

Dr. Prentice, a psychiatric doctor in an exclusive, private clinic, is attempting to interview (and seduce) an attractive would-be secretary, Geraldine. Unwttingly surprised by his wife, he hides [...]

Thomas Mendip, a discharged soldier, weary of the world and eager to leave it, comes to a small town, announces he has committed murder and demands to be hanged. A philosophical humorist, Thomas [...]

Gardner and Fanny Church are preparing to move out of their Beacon Hill house to their summer cottage on Cape Cod. Gardner, once a famous poet, now is retired. He slips in and out of senility as [...]

Stephen is a headstrong, impetuous, irrepressible romantic unable not to be in love. One of his models is Goethe’s tragic hero Werther, but as a young, contemporary New Yorker he’s [...]

Eteocles has been given a proper burial, but Creon, Antigone’s uncle who has inherited the throne, has issued a royal edict banning the burial of Polyneices, who he believes was a [...]

The play portrays the visit of an elderly professor and his glamorous, much younger second wife, Yelena, to the rural estate that supports their urban lifestyle. Two friends—Vanya, brother of the [...]

A nuclear accident has occurred in a remote section of New Mexico. Two couples travelling through the area must stop and seek shelter. They find shelter at a small Catholic mission ministering to [...]

Regina Giddens and her ruthless clan, including her sister-in-law Birdie, clash in often brutal ways in an effort to strike the deal of their lives.

The play focuses on the disturbed Tate family as they struggle for control of the rundown family farm in a futile search for freedom, security, and ultimately meaning in their lives.

A play about family dynamics, the price of furniture and the price of one's decisions.

When one young woman innocently impersonates another long-time deceased young woman whom she resembles, she finds herself inescapably trapped within the role.

A courtroom drama, suspense, and psychological drama — and explores sexual abuse issues, family and social power dynamics, and aspects of the criminal court system.

It's the 21st birthday celebration of Francis Geminiani. In attendance are his divorced blue collar father Fran and Fran's widowed girlfriend Lucille, next-door neighbor Bunny Weinberger and her [...]

Paul is a Peace Corps dropout, and Susan is in freefall when they meet on a beach in Bali. Later, in Boston, they live together and then marry. Separating briefly, then reconciling in a New York [...]

Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal and a secret that will seal their fate.

A simple love story of a somewhat puritanical Southern girl and an unpuritanical young doctor.

This drama tells the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses.

In a middle class country estate in England a successful merchant lives with his dotty wife, daughter and son. The daughter's fiancé is visiting them when the fiancé's father, an aristocrat, [...]

Willy Loman, returns to his New York home after a failed business trip. Driven by hopes of success, for himself and his two sons, Loman and his wife confront the American Dream in Arthur Miller’s [...]

In a country house, Fanny O'Dowda, the daughter of the Count O'Dowda, is putting on a play she has written. She has hired professional actors and invited major critics. Fanny, who has studied at [...]

So virtuous is Tartuffe that every form of pleasure is an abomination to him. Orgon, a rich merchant, is completely duped by the ruse and watches approvingly as the cunning Tartuffe "reforms" his [...]

A young nun has died under mysterious circumstances in a remote parish in northern Michigan, and her superior, Father Rivard, has been charged with her murder.

Troy Maxson, a former star of the Negro baseball leagues who now works as a garbage man in 1957 Pittsburgh. Excluded as a black man from the major leagues during his prime, Troy’s [...]

The story follows the small town of Grover’s Corners through three acts: “Daily Life,” “Love and Marriage,” and “Death and Eternity.” Narrated by a stage [...]

With The Marquis de Sade, Peter Weiss has creates one of the most powerful and exciting plays of the century.

The play is an early expression of the burgeoning 1960s counterculture, expressing discontent with American consumerism and involvement in the Vietnam War.

Goldman is living the American Dream. Israeli agents have tracked him down as a Nazi officer who tortured Jews during Hitler’s reign of terror.

The setting of the play is the stylish Manhattan apartment of Rose Weiss, the time 1946. Although born in Poland, Rose, now in her 20s, came to the United States with her father, Mordechai, at [...]

Evy Meara, is a popular singer who has hit the skids. After a short stay in rehab, her best friend age-defying Toby, her daughter Polly, and Jimmy Perry, a gay actor try to help her adjust to [...]

Set on Chicago’s South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, [...]

When a gorgeous drifter Hal arrives in a small Kansas town, no one is prepared.

Set in the lobby of the Hotel Baltimore, the play focuses on the residents of the decaying property who are faced with eviction when the structure is condemned.

The play reveals to the very depths the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject—so far as possible—the realities [...]

An aristocratic Russian family tries to hold on in challenging economic times, hoping to preserve a way of life amidst the inevitable pressures of “progress.”

The play depicts the events leading up to the planned execution of an 18-year-old IRA member in a Belfast jail, accused of killing an Ulster policeman.

In a plantation house, a family celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of their "Big Daddy"

A piece about addiction and the resulting dysfunction of the family, Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play Long Day’s Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work. First [...]

Based on the Greek tragedy of Antigone, who tried to bury her brother's corpse against the diktat of her uncle, Creon.

Artie Shaugnessy is a songwriter with visions of glory. Toiling by day as a zookeeper, he suffers in seedy lounges by night, plying his wares at piano bars in Queens, New York.

This adaptation is an action-packed, blood-soaked retelling of Bram Stoker's classic tale of horror.

Set in North London, the play concerns Teddy's and Ruth's "homecoming," which has distinctly different symbolic and thematic implications.

The play examines the breakdown of the marriage of a middle-aged couple, Martha and George. Late one evening, after a university faculty party, they receive an unwitting younger couple, Nick and [...]

Hildy wants to break away from journalism and go on a belated honeymoon. There is a jailbreak and into Hildy's hands falls the escapee as hostage. He conceals his prize in a rolltop desk and [...]

A year after the death of their father, an army officer, the Moscow-bred sisters Prosorov--Olga, Masha and Irina--are finding life drab and increasingly hopeless in a Russian provincial town.

Our 2nd original musical.

The story is told on two levels: one comic and one bitter. The blustery sex farce concerns a general who fancies himself to be a toreador with the ladies, but he is disgusted with himself and the [...]

The Private Life of the Master Race is one of Bertolt Brecht's most famous plays and the first of his openly anti-Nazi works.

Based on Jewish folklore, its dark implications of other-worldly forces at work in a simple village make for gripping theater. To the Chassidic Jews of Eastern Europe, a dybbuk was not legend or [...]

The wife of a Samurai officer is assaulted and her husband killed by a roving bandit. Contradictory versions of what happened are reenacted at the trial.

For the last 16 summers, Roo and Barney , two sugarcane cutters in Australia, have spent their five-month off-season partying and traveling the country with their girlfriends. However, this [...]

Based on the Gabriel Prosser rebellion in Virginia in 1800. Gabriel led 1,000 slaves on a surprise attack on Richmond Virginia.

The uneasy existence of upper-middle-class suburbanites Agnes and Tobias and their permanent houseguest, Agnes' witty alcoholic sister Claire, is disrupted by the sudden appearance of lifelong [...]

Much of the action of the play centers around Joe, a young loafer with money who encourages each of the bar's patrons in their eccentricities. Joe helps out a would-be dancer, Harry, and sets up [...]

In October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His [...]

Jitney is the eighth play in August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle. It takes place in The Hill District of Pittsburgh in 1977, in a gypsy cab station, during Pittsburgh’s period of so-called “urban [...]

On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she [...]

During the war Joe Keller and Steve Deever ran a machine shop which made airplane parts. Deever was sent to prison because the firm turned out defective parts, causing the deaths of many men. [...]

Evan Wyler has just finished a photo session with his shirt off. No, he’s not a supermodel; he’s a twenty-something New York writer savoring the success of his debut novel. Defined by [...]

As told by the New York News. “… is a tragedy in the classic form and I think it is a modern classic…the central character is a long-shoreman who, though his mind is limited and he cannot [...]

A group of alcoholics and misfits discuss but never act on their dreams. A traveling salesman is determined to strip them of their pipe dreams.

A black fugitive, a German refugee, and a white teenager converge in a Brooklyn neighborhood on the night of Adolph Eichmann's hanging.

The play portrays the visit of an elderly professor and his glamorous, much younger second wife, Yelena, to the rural estate that supports their urban lifestyle.

An enormously wealthy older woman returns to her former hometown with a dreadful bargain: She wants the townspeople to kill the man who got her pregnant, then jilted her.

Set on Christmas Eve, this is the gentle, light-hearted story of two couples, one newlywed and the other married for five years, both experiencing pains and difficulties in their relationships.

The play focuses on the life and marital struggles of an intelligent and educated but disaffected young man of working-class origin, Jimmy Porter, and his equally competent yet impassive [...]

"The Women" is an acerbic commentary on the pampered lives and power struggles of various wealthy Manhattan socialites and up-and-comers and the gossip that propels and damages their relationships.

This taut family drama centers on a young German student who, coming to England to tutor the daughter of well-to-do family is drawn into the various individual dramas of these fractured, isolated [...]

This is the play that has as its genesis in the events of the famous Scopes trial.

In an old meeting room now used as a temple, a rabbi and various Jews meet for prayer on a winter day.

Amanda Wingfield is a faded remnant of Southern gentility who lives in poverty in a St. Louis apartment with her son, Tom, and her daughter, Laura. The crux of the action comes when Tom invites a [...]

"The Grass Harp" tells the story of an orphaned boy and two elderly ladies who observe life from a tree.

"Miss Julie"is an examination of power, sex, and class. "The Stronger" is a short play that explores the complex range of emotions felt by Madame X when she encounters Mademoiselle Y, her [...]

Mr. Zuss and Nickles overhear J.B. describe his prosperity as a just reward for his faithfulness to God. Scorning him, Nickles wagers that J.B. will curse God if his life is ruined.

Juan, the Devil, the Commander, and Doña Ana debate the advantages of Heaven and Hell.

The play tells of a woman storekeeper and a handsome, guileless youth who comes in off the highway.

Eddie has an improper love of, and almost obsession with, Catherine, his wife Beatrice's orphaned niece, so he does not approve of her courtship of Beatrice's cousin Rodolfo.

This psychological chamber piece explores the secret world of childhood through the prism of a dyed-in-the-wool British dowager Mrs. St. Maugham and her precocious and equally eccentric [...]

Our first original musical.

These two plays are set in a shabby genteel hotel on England's south coast.

A trio of escaped convicts invade the Hilliard family's suburban home in Indianapolis and hold four members of the family hostage. There they await the arrival of a package that contains funds to [...]

A young man comes to New York from a small town with dreams of becoming an actor but the breaks never happen.

This psychological drama centers on a secret held by the Callifer family for nearly thirty years.

The story of Willy Loman, a failing salesman, who cannot understand how he failed to win success and happiness.

Jessica and Denny write a novel each year and are married. Just not to each other. Jessica's husband turns up for a surprise visit, and complications ensue.

With all roads are blocked by snow,the weary bus travelers hole up in a diner overnight.

When a gorgeous drifter Hal arrives in a small Kansas town, no one is prepared.

A comic account of a woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War by denying all the men of the land any sex, which was the only thing they truly and deeply desired.

The play reveals to the very depths the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject—so far as possible—the realities [...]

A modern version of the Cinderella fable. Set on Long Island in the 1950s, the play deals with the involvement of a very rich family named Larrabee with Sabrina Fairchild, the daughter of their [...]

The play reveals to the very depths the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject—so far as possible—the realities [...]

On his fifteenth anniversary, a happy husband makes one wine-inspired mistake. He announces to his in-laws the romancing he and their daughter enjoyed before they were legally bound.

Regina Giddens and her ruthless clan, including her sister-in-law Birdie, clash in often brutal ways in an effort to strike the deal of their lives.

With no relief in sight from an endless drought, a picaresque, sweet-talking man enters town claiming to be a "rainmaker".

Horton Foote’s moving play tells the story of Carrie Watts, an elderly woman, who longs to escape the cramped Houston apartment where she lives with her protective son, Ludie, and her [...]

This mesmerizing, warm, humorous and touching drama about people who dare to dream despite the hand that life deals them.

Seemingly comfortably ensconced in his charming Connecticut home, Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a dry spell which has resulted in a string of [...]

Darren Lemming, the star center fielder of the world champion New York Empires, is young, rich, famous, talented, handsome and so convinced of his popularity that when he casually announces [...]

The story focuses upon a young farmer, his wife, and a young servant-girl who maliciously causes the wife’s arrest for witchcraft. The farmer brings the girl to court to admit the lie—and [...]

A love story of a Southern girl and an young doctor.

Liliom is sentenced to a term of years in the purifying fires with the promise that after that sentence has been served he can go back to earth with a chance to do one good deed there.

A group of promoters plot to tear up Paris in order to unearth the oil which a prospector believes he has located in the neighborhood.

John Merrick is a man living with horrifying, rare skin and bone diseases. Seen as a freak by society, his life changes when young physician Frederick Treves agrees to care for him. Merrick [...]

George, a professor at a small college, and his wife, Martha, have just returned home, drunk from a Saturday night party. Martha announces, amidst general profanity, that she has invited a young [...]

Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag, her [...]

An exciting drama about the Puritan purge of witchcraft in old Salem which is both a gripping historical play and a timely parable of our contemporary society.

Mr. Jordan is scots souls to the Hereafter. The routine is interrupted by the arrival of Joe Pendleton, who refuses to admit he is dead. It is discovered that Joe is not scheduled to arrive for [...]

This classic romantic comedy became a beloved film starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn.

A cheerful comedy about the Pennsylvania Dutch!

This dark and absorbing British thriller will have you hooked until the final twist.  It’s  1912.  A young woman dies!  Suicide?  An enigmatic Inspector calls on a prosperous family with [...]

A timely, gripping and provocative drama…  The tale of a clash of wills and generations – a moral tug-of-war between worldly, older nun and a charismatic young priest whom she [...]

The overwhelmingly destructive powers of jealousy and obsession manifest themselves in this classic drama of a man who, misled by treachery, is driven to murderous lengths.

During the war Joe Keller and Steve Deever ran a machine shop which made airplane parts. Deever was sent to prison because the firm turned out defective parts, causing the deaths of many men. [...]

In “The Old Lady Shows Her Medals”, Mrs. Dowey is entertaining three other chairwomen at tea. The women are all proud of their sons in the army. The curate arrives with Kenneth Dowey [...]

A series of murders occur near a British mansion. The police are unable to locate either murderer or weapon. Suspicion falls on Helen Helen O'Neill. Many surprising developments ensue.

R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play by the Czech writer Karel Čapek. R.U.R. stands for Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum’s Universal Robots).

This delightful comedy tells of what happens in an English home when Mr. Pim drops in one day on a small matter of business.

"The Boor", "The Workhouse Ward", and "The Dark Lady of the Sonnets" are three one-act plays written by Anton Chekhov, Lady Gregory, and George Bernard Shaw respectively.

Amanda Wingfield is a faded, tragic remnant of Southern gentility who lives in poverty in a dingy St. Louis apartment with her son, Tom, and her daughter, Laura. Amanda strives to give meaning [...]

Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. RABBIT HOLE charts [...]

Boy Gets Girl uses the story of what happens when a blind date turns into a living nightmare to examine stalking, sexism and the nature of the idea of romantic pursuit. Theresa Bedell is a smart, [...]

Serafina delle Rose is a restless widow whose intense and absorbing instinct for love drives everything before it. The figure of this extraordinary woman dominates the small town where she and [...]

It is 1936 and Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh from the South in a battered truck loaded with watermelons to sell. He has an opportunity to buy some land down home, but he has to come up with [...]

A black sergeant cries out in the night, “They still hate you,” then is shot twice and falls dead. Set in 1944 at Fort Neal, a segregated army camp in Louisiana, Charles [...]

LIVING OUT tells the story of the complicated relationship between a Salvadoran nanny and the Anglo lawyer she works for. Both women are smart, hard-working mothers. Both want better lives for [...]

What effect does it have on a person–a soul, a life–to have freedom and self-respect stripped away and then, ostensibly, returned years later after decades of incarceration? The [...]

Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for drama, Dinner With Friends examines the lives of two couples and the repercussions of divorce on their friendships. With wit, compassion and consummate [...]

Realized as one of our major playwrights and Jewish voices in American theatre, Clifford Odets’ Awake & Sing portrays the Berger family, and impoverished Jewish family pursuing the [...]

A writer of gruesome stories portraying bizarre violence against children is arrested and interrogated because his work mirrors recent child murders.  What responsibility does the writer hold? [...]

A funny and engaging collage of snapshots punctuated by clothing.  This hard hitting, feel good play celebrates the lives of women in different ages, stages, and backgrounds.  The critically [...]

Experience the genius of Mozart’s world and music in this period showpiece of historical fiction detailing the final years of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.  Told through the eyes of Antonio [...]

In lower Manhattan, at the turn of the century, when the color of your clothing or the color of your skin determined who you could or couldn’t marry, sleep with, or talk to in public, [...]

Sidelined by a serious injury while covering the Iraq war, photojournalist Sarah Goodwin questions her place in the world where she has kept chaos at arm’s length by trapping it in the camera [...]

If you’re interested in a fascinating take on truly unusual subject matter, Albee’s your man. Winner of the 2002 Tony Award for Best Play, The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? is a tragically [...]

A haunting play that erupts from black comedy to stark drama in a heartbeat.

A courtroom drama based on the bestselling novel by John Grisham.

A gripping drama shows how the choices we make determine our path in life.