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Fires in the mirror

Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and other identities
1993
A collection of performance pieces based on interviews conducted with people involved in the riots that erupted in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in 1991.

A midsummer night's dream

1985
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.

The Caine mutiny court-martial

a play
1954
Recreates in the stage classic the courtroom trial of Lieutenant Maryk for having taken over command of a mine sweeper from Captain Queeg.

Inherit the wind

1960
A play loosely based on the events which took place in Dayton, Tennessee during the Scopes Trial in July of 1925. Called the trial of the century, the main focus is on the two lawyers, Bryan and Darrow.

Romeo and Juliet

2007
A graphic novel adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic tragedy about Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, two young people whose love for one another is doomed by the long-standing feud between their families.

The importance of being Earnest

1990
Jack Worthing creates a fictitious brother Earnest who lives in London to escape his dull country routine, but finds the lie backfiring when he falls in love.

A streetcar named Desire

a play in three acts
1981
Presents in three acts the famous play by Tennessee Williams about Blanche DuBois, a woman whose romantic illusions cause her to lose touch with reality.

"Master Harold"-- and the boys

2009
"Master Harold," or Hally, learns that his alcoholic father is to be released from the hospital and struggles with his emotions during a confrontation with the two black men who help in the family's restaurant in 1950s South Africa.

Romeo und Julia

2005
Romeo and Juliet, two teens from opposite sides of feuding families in medieval Verona, spark a tragic chain of events when they fall in love and secretly marry.

Richard III

2004
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's "Richard III" side-by-side with a plain English translation, and includes character profiles, and commentary.

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