During the Republican era, wars and conflicts were frequent. On stage, the "Overlord" sings with resounding passion, while below, the absurd spectacle of life unfolds. They must both secure the opera troupe's livelihood and appease the audience in their seats. Once the curtain rises, how should this play be performed?
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new ...
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star...
In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds c...
Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay...
Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men ...
On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stol...
Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
A story in which the author mocks the Slovak petty bourgeoisie and denounces the denationalization o...
An employee of the funeral home Pleticha calls his superior. He overhears that he is supposed to buy...
Aragón, Spain, early 20th century. María del Pilar is a honest girl whose good name is dirtied when ...
A married couple in which he is the older and powerful one and she is young and charming. Their mutu...
Jamie New is 16 and doesn’t quite fit in—instead of pursuing a "real" career he dreams of becoming a...
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a wait...
Arnold is a gay man working as a drag queen in 1971 NYC. He meets a handsome bisexual man.
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in purs...
When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as h...