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The Tempest is thought by many to be Shakespeare's greatest and most perfect play. When the magician Prospero deliberately summons a storm to overcome his enemy King Alonso of Naples—ship—the passengers are washed ashore on a fantastical island. Prospero manipulates the king, his entourage, apparitions, and fiends as he schemes revenge on the hapless Alonso. Prospero's daughter and the king's son Ferdinand fall in love—and their fraught lover provides the catalyst for their fathers' reconciliation, contrition, and clemency.

The Trojan Women follows the women of Troy after the famous war which devastated their city. It is believed to have been influenced by the capture of Melos—an Aegean island—and the treatment of its population by the Athenians. These historical events took place the same year the play premiered—415 BC.

The complete scripts to six Sam Shepard plays—The Unseen Hand, Forensic and the Navigators, The Holy Ghostly, Back Bog Beast Bait, Shaved Splits, and 4-H Club.

One of the most-talked about new plays of the 2016 Off-Broadway season, Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves opened to enthusiastic acclaim — including two sold-out, extended runs at The Playwrights Realm/The Duke on 42nd Street. The Wolves follows the 9 teenage girls — members of an indoor soccer team — as they warm up, engage in banter and one-upmanship, and fight battles big and small with each other and themselves.

Three delightful one-act plays set in and around New York, in which sophisticated characters confound one another in ways only Woody Allen could imagine Woody Allen’s first dramatic writing published in years, “Riverside Drive,” “Old Saybrook,” and “Central Park West” are humorous, insightful, and unusually readable plays about infidelity. The characters, archetypal New Yorkers all, start out talking innocently enough, but soon the most unexpected things arise—and the reader enjoys every minute of it (though not all the characters do).

Dennis—with a famous painter father and social activist mother—is a small-time drug dealer and total mess. His hero-worshipping friend Warren has just impulsively stolen

Another case of mistaken identity from the king of the plot twist, Twelfth Night tells the tale of the beautiful young Viola who is separated from her twin brother, Sebastian, when their ship is lost at sea. Believing Sebastian to be dead, Viola poses as a man and enters service with the Duke Orsino. When Olivia, the woman that Orsino loves, falls for his messenger "boy" Viola, and she in turn falls for the Duke, the stage is set for a classic Shakespearean love triangle.

Uncle Vanya is one of Anton Chekhov's four major plays. It was first performed in 1900, the year after its publication, under direction by the celebrated Konstantin Stanislavski. The text reworks an earlier play by Chekhov, The Wood Demon. Critics have attempted to follow Chekhov's method and artistic development by tracking the changes he made to the earlier text. The cast of Uncle Vanya is significantly pared back, and the ending left less happily resolved.

Tony Award winner, Best Play: "Hugely entertaining...deliciously madcap...offers some keen insights into the challenges and agonies of 21st-century life."—USA Today.—Nominated for six Tony Awards—Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is one of the most lauded and beloved Broadway plays of recent years.

This hilarious comedy of errors is sure to please fans of Shakespeare's comedies who are looking for a quick and rewarding read. The action centers around the quirky and whimsical Clandon family—four women who have lived abroad for years. The sassy Clandon daughters don't know who their father is, and frankly aren't too bothered by that fact. Hilarity ensues when their biological dad stumbles into their lives through sheer happenstance.