Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy, Shakespeare created a play that is at once a philosophic treatise, a family drama, and a supernatural thriller.
In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town.
Over the course of a steamy and tense afternoon, twelve jurors deliberate the fate of a 19-year-old boy alleged to have murdered his own father....
When a young black man is condemned to die for a crime he didn't commit, he faces the ultimate test: learning how to die with dignity. Romulus Linney's renowned adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines novel.
William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice was probably written between 1596 and 1598, and was printed with the comedies in the First Folio of 1623.
A classic Arthur Miller drama about the terrifying journey towards truth when a devastating family secret is uprooted.
Othello is the story of a cross-cultural romance between the title character, a noble moor who is a general in the Venetian army, and Desdemona, a beautiful and virtuous Venetian lady.
Oedipus the King (often known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC.
Speak the Speech makes free Shakespearean performance more widely accessible than ever, in the style of radio theater!
Euripides' play follows the fates of the women of Troy after their city has been sacked, their husbands killed, and as their remaining families are about to be taken away as slaves.