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Sunday in the Park with George

Sunday in the Park with George is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine. Its fi...

Musical Broadway Impressionism Art

9.2 Excellent

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Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night is a comedy by William Shakespeare, generally dated to around 1601 or 1602 and set in the fictional land o...

Comedy Elizabethan Shakespeare Disguise

9.2 Excellent

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The Cherry Orchard

The Cherry Orchard is Anton Chekhov's final play, first performed by the Moscow Art Theatre in January 1904. It follows...

Russian Tragicomedy Chekhov Social Change

9.2 Excellent

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Three Sisters

Three Sisters is a play by Anton Chekhov, first performed by the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901. It follows Olga, Masha, Iri...

Russian Realism Chekhov Longing

9.2 Excellent

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Uncle Vanya

Uncle Vanya is a play by Anton Chekhov, developed from his earlier work The Wood Demon and published in its definitive f...

Russian Realism Despair Chekhov

9.2 Excellent

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A Doll's House

A Doll's House is an 1879 play by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen centered on Nora and Torvald Helmer's marriage. A sec...

Realism Norwegian Feminist Ibsen

9.2 Excellent

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Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler is a play by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen, published in 1890 and first performed in 1891. It portrays H...

Realism Norwegian Psychological Ibsen

9.2 Excellent

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Arcadia

Arcadia is a 1993 play by Tom Stoppard set in an English country house, where scenes alternate between events in 1809 an...

Time British Entropy Tom Stoppard

9.2 Excellent

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Angels in America: Millennium Approaches

Angels in America: Millennium Approaches is the first part of Tony Kushner's two-part theatrical work Angels in America,...

American Politics Lgbtq+ Aids Tony Kushner

9.2 Excellent

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Angels in America: Perestroika

Angels in America: Perestroika is the second part of Tony Kushner's two-part drama Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on...

American Politics Lgbtq+ Aids Tony Kushner

9.2 Excellent

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Antigone

Antigone is an ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles, first performed in Athens around 441 BCE. After a civil war in Thebes...

Tragedy Ancient Greek Sophocles

9.2 Excellent

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The Oresteia

The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies by Aeschylus, first performed in Athens in 458 BCE. Comprising Agamemnon, T...

Ancient Greek Trilogy Aeschylus

9.2 Excellent

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The Bacchae

The Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides, produced posthumously around 405 BCE. Dionysus returns to Thebes t...

Ancient Greek Euripides Dionysus

9.2 Excellent

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Phèdre

Phèdre is a French neoclassical tragedy by Jean Racine, first performed in 1677 and based on stories from Greek mytholog...

French Tragedy 17TH Century Racine

9.2 Excellent

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Follies

Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman, first produced on Broadway i...

Nostalgia Dark Musical Broadway

9.1 Excellent

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The Wild Duck

The Wild Duck is an 1884 play by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. It follows Gregers Werle, an idealist who enters the...

Norwegian Illusion Tragicomedy Ibsen

9.1 Excellent

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The Trojan Women

The Trojan Women is a tragedy by Euripides first performed in Athens in 415 BC. Set after the fall of Troy, it follows H...

Ancient Greek Anti War Euripides

9.1 Excellent

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The Misanthrope

The Misanthrope is a five-act verse comedy by Molière, first performed in Paris in 1666. Its central character, Alceste,...

French Comedy Society Moliere

9.1 Excellent

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a play by Tom Stoppard first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1966. I...

British Absurdist Tom Stoppard Shakespeare Riff

9.0 Excellent

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The Real Thing

The Real Thing is a 1982 play by Tom Stoppard about Henry, a successful playwright whose intellectual confidence about l...

British Art Love Tom Stoppard

8.5 Great