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  Dividing the Estate

  Dividing the Estate is a play by Horton Foote. Set in the fictional town of Harrison, Texas in 1987, it focuses on the Gordons, a clan of malcontents ruled by octogenarian matriarch Stella that must prepare for an uncertain future when plunging real estate values and an unexpected tax bill have a...
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  Caroline, or Change

  Caroline, Or Change is a through-composed musical with book and lyrics by Tony Kushner and score by Jeanine Tesori that combines spirituals, blues, Motown, classical music, and Jewish Klezmer and folk music. The musical was first workshopped in May 1999 at New York's off-Broadway Public Theater....
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  Alcestis

  Alcestis (Greek Ἄλκηστις, Alkēstis) is an Athenian tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides. It was first produced at the City Dionysia festival in 438 BCE. Euripides presented it as the final part of a tetralogy of unconnected plays in the competition of tragedies, for which he won second...
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  Thoroughly Modern Millie

  Thoroughly Modern Millie is a Tony Award-winning musical with music by Jeanine Tesori, lyrics by Dick Scanlan, and a book by Richard Morris and Scanlan. Based on the 1967 film of the same name, Thoroughly Modern Millie tells the story of a small-town girl, Millie Dillmount, who comes to New York...
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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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  Love from a Stranger

  Love from a Stranger is a 1936 play based on Philomel Cottage, a 1924 short story by British mystery writer Agatha Christie. The play was adapted by Frank Vosper and opened at the New Theatre on March 31, 1936. Vosper himself starred in the play which was later turned into a successful film....

• The Watched Pot

  The Watched Pot (alternative title The Mistress of Briony) is a romantic comedy play by Saki and Charles Maude published in 1924. The play, all three acts of which are set in the fictional country mansion of Briony Manor, revolves around the search for a suitable bride for young Trevor Bavvel, who...

• Mozart in Manhattan

  Mozart in Manhattan is a one act musical written by Scott Lawton (music) and Olaf Strieb (text). It was produced by the Gandersheimer Domfestspiele in July of 2005. It dramatizes two stations in the life of Lorenzo Da Ponte: a) his beginnings as an Italian teacher in 1809 following being ...

• Menopause the Musical

  Menopause, The Musical debuted March 28, 2001 in Orlando, Florida, in a 76-seat theatre that once housed a perfume shop. The original cast members were Shelly Browne as the Power (later Professional) Woman, Patti McGuire as the Iowa Housewife, Pammie O'Bannon as the Earth Mother and Wesley Williams...

• Man Equals Man

  Man Equals Man (German: Mann ist Mann), or A Man's a Man, is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. One of Brecht's earlier works, it explores themes of war, human fungibility, and identity. Not only was the play the first to emerge after Brecht's move from Munich to Berlin, but...