"he play is a powerful account of the case filed by the American Federation for Equal Rights (AFER) in the U.S. District Court in 2010 to overturn Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that eliminated the rights of same-sex...
Drama
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Author:Black, Dustin LanceSummary: - Author:Lepage, RobertSummary:
D'un acteur qui peine à apprendre par cœur le célèbre poème Speak White de Michèle Lalonde, Robert Lepage tire le prétexte à une remontée dans la mémoire : la sienne, du temps de son enfance passée au 887 de l'avenue...
- Author:Linney, RomulusSummary:
Based on Ernest J. Gaines' National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, A lesson before dying is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940's. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsely convicted...
- Author:Shakespeare, WilliamSummary:
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, residents of Athens mix with fairies from a local forest, with comic results. In the city, Theseus, Duke of Athens, is to marry Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons. Bottom the weaver and his friends rehearse in...
- Author:Hansberry, LorraineSummary:
Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America—and changed American theater...
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Alvin Theatre, George Abbott, in association with Robert Fryer presents Shirley Booth, Johnny Johnston, in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," a new musical (based on Betty Smith's novel), book by Betty Smith & George Abbott, music by...
- Author:Wilde, OscarSummary:
The classic satirical play about England's upper class from a master dramatist. Centering on a long-concealed secret, A Woman of No Importance, like many of Oscar Wilde's plays, satirizes England's upper class. A house...
- Author:Stafford, GeneSummary:
Volume 8 of The Adventures of Jungle Jim! The pulp era was full of jungle heroes. Jungle Jim is one of the unique ones. He wasn't a loincloth-clad wild man, but rather Jim Bradley, a resourceful hunter. This gave him a distinctive...
- Author:Heti, SheilaSummary:
Two couples, each with a twelve-year-old child, travel to Paris; within a few moments of discovering each other in a crowd, one of their children disappears. A day later, one of the mothers disappears, too. The story that follows is a...
- Author:Radio ArchivesSummary:
The top western stars of the silver screen are featured in the "All-Star Western Theatre", a highly entertaining series of shows first heard in 1946. Hosted by Cottonseed Clark and highlighted by the music of Foy Willing and...
- Author:Shaffer, PeterSummary:
0riginating at the National Theatre of Great Britain, Amadeus was the recipient of both the Evening Standard Drama Award and the Theatre Critics Award. In the United States, the play won the coveted Tony Award and went on to become a...
- Author:Mamet, DavidSummary:
David Mamet's gift for storytelling and forging poetry from both the plain-spoken and profane turns an ill-conceived scheme to steal a rare coin into a triumph of dramatic art. In a junk shop, three men of different generations plan...
- Author:Wilde, OscarSummary:
An Ideal Husband is an 1895 stage play by Oscar Wilde that revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. The action is set in London, in the present, and takes place over the...
- Author:Casanove, SusanSummary:
Roger Benezoscee is the worst boss you've ever had. What could possibly force this obnoxious, egotistical old megalomaniac to change his ways? Nothing short of a Damascene conversion. Angels in the Dark--a radio play set in total...
- Author:Hines, KarenSummary:
‘I used to want a black enamel farmhouse sink. Now, I just want shelter.’ From acclaimed playwright Karen Hines come two darkly comic meditations on security, safety, and shelter. Crawlspace is a comic, Kafkaesque monologue about the...
- Author:Stoppard, TomSummary:
In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sit Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the '500 acres inclusive of lake' where Capability Brown's idealized...
- Author:Chafe, RobertSummary:
Dr. Jon Lien is a risk-taker and respected researcher, working for over twenty years in the dangerous waters off Newfoundland to rescue massive humpback whales and save the fishing gear in which they're trapped. With his head down...
- Author:Gray, JohnSummary:
Billy Bishop goes to war follows the career and exploits of William A. Bishop, a young Canadian from Owen Sound, Ontario, who won fame and glory as a fighter pilot in World War I. The play creates a remarkably vivid portrait of a young...
- Author:Fitzsimmons, AnnabelSummary:
Bittergirl charts the break-ups of three women - one single and dating, one co-habiting, one married with a child. This trio of Women Scorned experience heartbreak, hilarity, fairy-tales gone wrong, tequila, mounties, love, honour, car-...
- Author:Coward, NoelSummary:
"When novelist Charles Condomine invites a medium into his house in order to learn about the occult for his new book, the last thing he or his second wife dream is that the séance will bring back his first wife, Elvira, who wants...
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