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A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural community. The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness.

A master dramatist’s humorous retelling of the biblical creation story as a parable for our time.

The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare's most popular short comedy plays. The plot is driven by two cases of mistaken identity and witty pun-drenched dialogue.

Today, we tend to picture ancient Greece as a land of togas, lyres, and plenty of philosophical pondering—but even back then, people were annoyed with the likes of Socrates, Plato, and other intell

"Passionate. Show-stopping. Daringly over-the-top and impressively consistent in its delirious excess. The Clean House shines." — New Haven Advocate.

The Cherry Orchard was written by Chekhov as a comedy, but directed by Stanislavski as a tragedy on its premier. The play has maintained the dual nature of these intentions ever since.

Considered by critics to be one of the best tragedies of the English Renaissance, The Changeling was written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley and first published in book form in 1653.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Over the past decade, Donald Margulies has written some of the most insightful works in contemporary American drama.

Ira Levin's Broadway triumph Deathtrap melds gasp-out-loud thrills with laugh-out-loud laughs in a murderously entertaining "who'll-do-it" of a play, within a play, within a...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman's deferred American dream.

Dead White Writer on the Floor uses two literary conventions—theatre of the absurd and mystery novels—to create one of the funniest and thought-provoking plays ever about identity politics.

"Satire is her oxygen... In her new oddball comedy, Dead Man's Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl is forever vital in her lyrical and biting takes on how we behave." — The Washington Post.

"Daphne's Dive is the kind of place 'where everybody knows your name.'... Ms.

Very loosely based on the life of a French duelist and playwright, Cyrano de Bergerac is a play in verse that tells the tale of a soldier who is gifted with every imaginable positive attribute—exce

Cyrano is the most interesting person in any room – a wordsmith, a charmer.