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Cymbeline

William Shakespeare

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The Royal Shakespeare Company

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...Britain is in crisis. Alienated, insular and on the brink of disaster. Can it be saved? An ineffectual Queen Cymbeline rules over a divided dystopian Britain. Consumed with grief at the death of two of her children, Cymbeline’s judgement...

Henry V

William Shakespeare

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The Royal Shakespeare Company

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...Henry IV is dead and Hal is King. With England in a state of unrest, he must leave his rebellious youth behind, striving to gain the respect of his nobility and people. Laying claim to parts of France and following an insult from the French...

Intelligence-Slave

Kenneth Lin

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LA Theatre Works

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...The story of Curt Herzstark, an Austrian industrialist and concentration camp prisoner who was sent by the Nazis to an underground salt mine during the war. While in captivity, he continued his experiments with a device that would...

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

Herman Wouk

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LA Theatre Works

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...This acclaimed WWII psychological courtroom drama was the sensation of 1954. The play portrays a mutiny of naval officers aboard the U.S.S. Caine. Their suspicions concerning their captain’s sanity lead to their rebellion and a subsequent...

Guns

Doris Baizley

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LA Theatre Works

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...The year is 2076, the nation’s Tricentennial. Guns are outlawed, but the last seven surviving weapons are in captivity and on display in your city zoo. Billy the Kid’s colt .45, Andrew Jackson’s dueling pistol, a retired military rifle...

American Dreams

Velina Hasu Houston

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LA Theatre Works

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...After World War II, an African-American war vet brings home his Japanese bride. The family must learn to be tolerant of their new family member, while dealing with prejudice in the outside world. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance...

Atomic Bombers

Russell Vandenbroucke

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LA Theatre Works

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...In 1943, something strange is going on in the New Mexican desert. By night, the starkly beautiful canyons of Los Alamos fill with the sound of exploding graphite – and by day, the crackle of scientific brainpower. Fifty years after...

Bad Axe

P.J. Barry

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LA Theatre Works

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...The story of a woman accused of murdering her husband at a military outpost in the Old West. Did hostile Indians force her to scalp him as revenge for his brutality, or did she kill him out of frustration with her plight as a soldier...

Being a director is saying you are one

Helen Manfull

Helen Manfull is professor emerita in the School of Theatre at Penn State, member of the board of Centre Stage, actor, director, and author of several books. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Taking Stage : Women Directors on Directing by Helen Manfull

Methuen Drama, 1999

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...As we explore the careers of women directors, it seems appropriate to begin with their training and with the signposts, failures, and triumphs that launched and informed their work. Several of them knew from childhood that the theatre...

Biloxi Blues

Neil Simon

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LA Theatre Works

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...The second hilarious installment of Neil Simon’s autobiographical trilogy follows a naïve Eugene Jerome through boot camp. Performed by: Justine Bateman, Rob Benedict, Joshua Biton, John Cabrera, Matthew Patrick Davis, Steve Rankin, Josh...