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Scapin has the look and spirit of slapstick movie comedies from the 1930s. The result is a madcap romp complete with Keystone Cops and plenty of physical comedy. The production tells the story of four star-crossed lovers. Since the path of true love rarely runs smoothly, it is up to the faithful...
Dracula tells the story of the goings-on at Dr. Seward's Asylum for the Criminally Insane are even stranger than usual since the arrival of a mysterious nobleman from Transylvania. Mina has fallen ill with an unusual malady, suffering the same symptoms that killed her friend, Lucy. Patient...
Little Girl has recently moved from Heretown to Thereville. She loves books and tomatoes and desperately wants people to like her. Bossy Best Friend is her new best friend. Bossy Best Friend is older, richer, and girlier than Little Girl. When Bossy Best Friend leaves for her summer vacation,...
Tony Kushner's Angels in America II: Perestroikal continues the story of Prior Walter, newly HIV/AIDS symptomatic, had been deserted by his boyfriend, Louis, and visited by an Angel crashing through his ceiling. Louis, meanwhile, was punishing himself by sleeping with Joe Pitt, a closeted Mormon...
Tony Kushner's Angels in America, has won just about every award a play could (including a 1992 Tony and Pulitzer).
Prior Walter, the gay black sheep of a Mayflower family, starts the play with the discovery of his first AIDS-related illness. His boyfriend, Louis Ironson -- much better with benign...
A Pulitzer Prize finalist and Pittsburgh premiere, "The Clean House" takes place in a "metaphysical" Connecticut, where no affluent household is complete without a Latin housekeeper. Matilde, a Brazilian cleaning lady, has no interest in cleaning. She prefers to devote her time to composing the...
“Big Love” shows just how out-of-control arranged marriage can get when the bride changes her… “Big Love” shows just how out-of-control arranged marriage can get when the bride changes her mind. When 50 future brides escape to Italy in a boat, they benefit from the country’s charms only until their...
America's most celebrated playwright takes the audience on a vaudevillian tour of the Great Depression. Based partly on Studs Terkel's "Hard Times" and partly on Miller's own experiences, "The American Clock" exhibits the same genius as that found in Miller's better-known works, "Death of a...
Anton Chekhov's three early (1888-89) one-act comedies of social observation tumble happily into farce.
"The Bear" is an encounter between a widow in self-dramatizing mourning for her philanderer of a husband and an angry fellow who comes to collect a debt owed him. In the process, he awakes her...
Vinegar Tom tells the story of two 17th-century farmwomen accused of being witches by a man they spurned sexually. The connection between fear of female sexuality and witch hysteria is shown to fuel societal problems.
The playwright wrote Vinegar Tom for a British feminist theatre company that had...
NOCTURNAL WANDERER is Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian's haunting and dreamlike mystery.
In the play, a man walking the streets of urban China in the middle of the night is confronted by a prostitute, a homeless man, and a thief. When the prostitute is found murdered, the blame shifts to the man, a...
Darwin and the Kid, written by SITS founder Attilio Favorini and directed by teaching artist Sam Turich, was created in a new collaboration with the Educational Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University. SITS invited science teachers from the area to join us for lively discussion about...
Desdemona, Othello's bride, lost a prized handkerchief. Iago got his wife, Emilia, to steal it, and planted it on Cassio to imply Desdemona's infidelity. Then Cassio gave it to his mistress, Bianca. So when Othello asks Desdemona to produce the handkerchief, she can't and, in jealous rage, he kills...