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3) Hamlet
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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
"Shakespeare everyone can understand—now in this new EXPANDED edition of HAMLET! Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to line-by-line translations in plain English, this popular guide makes Shakespeare accessible to everyone. And now it features expanded...
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Mortimer Brewster is appalled when he learns that his charming little old aunts have been poisoning their elderly gentlemen boarders in what they believe is an act of kindness, and burying them in the cellar with the help of another nephew who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt.
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"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.
This edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.
Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling,...
This edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.
Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling,...
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Español
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"Tragedia póetica que consagró a Federico García Lorca como autor dramático. Drama poético, basado en un hecho real (la fuga de una novia con su amante en la víspera de su boda con otro hombre), con la que Lorca ahonda en las pasiones desgarradas y en la que encontramos ecos de la tragedia clásica, del teatro del Siglo de Oro y de los autores modernistas. Mito, símbolo y leyenda convergen en esta tragedia rural, cuyo estreno en Madrid, en...
10) Buried child
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It's a curious homecoming for Vince, the son nobody seems to remember. Violence is never far from the surface as his unexpected return uncovers a deep, dark secret that triggers catastrophe in Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize winning Buried Child. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Hale Appleman as Vince; Tom Bower as Dodge; John Getz as Father Dewis; Amy Madigan as Halie; Robert Parsons as Tilden; Jeff Perry as Bradley; Madeline Zima...
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This lush romantic drama depicts a family of cigar makers whose loves and lives are played out against the backdrop of America in the midst of the Depression. Set in Ybor City (Tampa) in 1930, Cruz imagines the catalytic effect the arrival of a new "lector" (who reads Tolstoy's Anna Karenina to the workers as they toil in the cigar factory) has on a Cuban-American family. Cruz celebrates the search for identity in a new land.
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Based on the books by L. M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables Emily is a dreamer – a romantic young girl who gazes at the night sky and imagines worlds hidden among the twinkling stars. And she writes because that is her passion. When she is suddenly orphaned, Emily is sent to live with her stern relatives at the family farm, New Moon. Under the roof of her heavy-hearted Aunt Elizabeth, there is no room for emotion or imagination. Emily’s...
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Watch an original story and contemporary Gospel stage play about the Anderson family and their strength that comes from the love they share for each other and their home. After living away from each other as they pursued their careers and own lives, three siblings, Angela, Ayana and Joseph, Jr. reunite when they return to their childhood home.
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The story of a lower-class family struggling with life's essential problems: marriage, children, money and parent's-in-law. The story circles around the Connor family - a family of five (DJ, Darlene, Becky, Roseanne and Dan). Roseanne is the mom who is being accompanied in her quest to keep the family together by her sister Jackie and various friends over the years.
18) In celebration
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Taught adaptation of David Storey's emotionally-charged family drama.
20) Minari
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Follows a Korean American family that moves to a farm in the Arkansas Ozarks in the 1980s.
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