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Gem of the ocean

2006
A play by August Wilson in which Aunt Ester, the 285-year-old matriarch of a African-American family, helps two young men start their lives over in 1904.

King Hedley II

2005
Presents playwright August Wilson's epic tragedy of an African-American man struggling to overcome the challenges of everyday life in an urban society.

The Laramie project

2001
A play by Moises Kaufman which chronicles life in the town of Laramie, Wyoming, in the year following the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, who was killed because he was gay.

Oedipus the King

1994
Sophocles' play of a king prophesied to kill his father and marry his mother is here presented in a translation designed to be used on stage.

M. Butterfly

1988
Presents the text of the 1988 Tony Award-winning play in which diplomat Rene Gallimard, a captive of the French government, relives his twenty-year affair with a beautiful, elusive Chinese actress who turned out to be not only a spy, but a man in disguise, and includes comments by the author.

Jeffrey

1994

All in the timing

fourteen plays
1995
A collection of fourteen plays by David Ives that portray the idiosyncrasies that exist in American society.

The crucible

a play in four acts
1995
Against the backdrop of the seventeenth-century Salem witch trials, a woman extracts revenge against her married paramour by charging that he and his wife are sorcerers.

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