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  Frost/Nixon

  Frost/Nixon is a play by the British screenwriter and dramatist Peter Morgan. Its subject is the series of televised Frost/Nixon Interviews that former US President Richard Nixon granted David Frost in 1977 and that ended with a tacit admission of guilt regarding his role in the Watergate scandal....
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  The Last Confession

  The Last Confession is a stage play by Roger Crane based around the election and death of Pope John Paul I. The play follows Giovanni Benelli (David Suchet) who recounts, during his last confession, his role in the death of John Paul and how this led him to lose his faith. Disturbed by the...
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  The Storm

  The Storm (Russian: Гроза, sometimes translated as The Thunderstorm) is a drama in five acts by the 19th-century Russian playwright Aleksandr Ostrovsky. As with Ostrovsky's other plays, The Storm is a work of social criticism, which is directed particularly towards the Russian merchant class....
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  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a play by Tennessee Williams. One of Williams's best-known works, the play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955, has been restaged several times since, and was adapted into an acclaimed 1958 motion picture. "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" is the story of a Southern family in...
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  Side Man

  Side Man is a memory play by Warren Leight. His inspiration was his father Donald, who worked as a sideman, in jazz parlance a musician for hire who can blend in with the band or star as a solo performer, according to what is required by the gig. The play's narrator is Clifford Glimmer, the only...

• The Lady from the Sea

  The Lady from the Sea (Norwegian: Fruen fra havet) is a play written in 1888 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Ellida Wangel is married to the much older Doctor Wangel, a widower who already has two daughters not much younger than Ellida. After some years, Doctor Wangel finds his wife...

• The Burning

  The Burning is a 1971 historical play, written by Stewart Conn. Set during the life of James VI of Scotland, the play addresses the power struggle between the King and his cousin, the Earl of Bothwell. The play exemplifies the brutality meted out to those caught in the midst of any struggle for...

• The Room

  The Room is Harold Pinter's first play, written and first produced in 1957. Considered by critics the earliest example of Pinter's "comedy of menace", this play has strong similarities to Pinter's second play, The Birthday Party, including features considered hallmarks of Pinter's early work and of...

• True West

  True West is a play by American playwright Sam Shepard. Like most of his works it is inspired by myths of American life and popular culture. The play is a more traditional narrative than most of the plays that Shepard has written. True West is about the sibling rivalry between two estranged...

• Turn left at Gilgamesh

  Turn left at Gilgamesh is a play by Rory Winston, in which civilization develops solely through a series of misunderstandings. Winston's first full-length effort, Turn left at Gilgamesh centers around 3 characters whose every effort to be understood furthers their sense of alienation. However, it...