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Fourteen is a play by Alice Gerstenberg. This one-act social satire was first performed October 7, 1919 at the Maitland Playhouse, 332 Stockton Street, San Francisco, on a bill with three other one-act plays. [1] The San Francisco Chronicle remarked that it "gayly lampoons the question of dinner entertainments". [1]
Our Country's Good is a 1988 play written by British playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker, adapted from the Thomas Keneally novel The Playmaker.The story concerns a group of Royal Marines and convicts in a penal colony in New South Wales, in the 1780s, who put on a production of The Recruiting Officer.
Fairview is a 2018 comedy play written by Jackie Sibblies Drury.The play was co-commissioned by Berkeley Rep and Soho Repertory Theatre. [1] The play follows a middle class African-American family as they prepare for a birthday dinner for their grandmother only to be watched by four white people.
The Piano Lesson is a 1987 play by American playwright August Wilson.It is the fourth play in Wilson's The Pittsburgh Cycle.Wilson began writing this play by playing with the various answers regarding the possibility of "acquir[ing] a sense of self-worth by denying one's past". [1]
Clybourne Park is a 2010 play by Bruce Norris inspired by Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun (1959). It portrays fictional events set during and after the Hansberry play, and is loosely based on historical events that took place in the city of Chicago. It premiered in February 2010 at Playwrights Horizons in New York. [1]
Rhinoceros (French: Rhinocéros) is a play by playwright Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959.The play was included in Martin Esslin's study of post-war avant-garde drama The Theatre of the Absurd, although scholars have also rejected this label as too interpretatively narrow.
The stage at Everyman Theatre in Baltimore ahead of a 2023 performance of Baskerville.. Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery is a play by American playwright Ken Ludwig.It premiered at the Arena Stage in Southwest, Washington, D.C. in January 2015 and was directed by Amanda Dehnert.
As the play begins, Marisol narrowly escapes a vicious attack by a golf club-wielding madman while traveling home on the subway. Later that evening Marisol is visited by her guardian angel who informs her that she can no longer serve as Marisol's protector because she has been called to join the revolution already in progress against an old and ...