Based on the childhood of writer/director/actor Jerry Devine, the Brophy family reunites in New York, after two years apart. Dan Brophy has been traveling with his actor's trunk for years, searching for a breakout performance. Kitty is ready for the family to settle down, while John only wants to play with kids his age and get in a few games of baseball. All three flesh out their roles on the great stage of life in this theatrical tale.
Felix Mendelsohn and his sister, Fanny were equally gifted with music composition. This story tells of her devotion to her brother and the sublimation of her gifts throughout her life.
Sixteen-year-old Vladimir Petrovich (Lamont Johnson) is in a restless state as his family goes to the country for their summer vacation. The move in next door to a very poor, slovenly princess (Kathleen Freeman). However, her beautiful daughter, Zinaida (Bairbre Dowling), leads Vladimir into a way of life he had never known. With visitors, parties, and beaus, Vladimir becomes inflames and finds himself experiencing the pains of his...first love.
Though it's a morbid crowd sensation, it breeds art and education. Yes, there will be gunplay for this one playwright. Shakespeare no doubt would be delighted, we're so glad you were invited, to a good house for a killing, tonight!
Anything can happen the night before a duel. Find out what Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr discussed before the famous shot was fired. Is Hamilton really the hero as portrayed? Did Burr have legitimate reasons for his actions? And who was the mystery woman whom Burr charged Hamilton with "immoral behaviour for a public figure"?
'Tis the season to join some of our favorite literary characters: Fezziwig and Scrooge from A Christmas Carol, Oscar Wilde's Happy Prince and his stalwart feathered companion, Beatrix Potter's Tailor of Gloucester and her skittering little friends, and none other than King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
Upon his return from the Yukon, Jack London set out on further adventures in romance. He became the love mate of Charmian Kittredge, and together they braved dangerous new territory.
The early history of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy reveals her devotion to her political father, Honey Fitz, and the love story that developed with Joseph Kennedy, before her debut at eighteen. This play presents years of research by Elizabeth Gerry that reflects the strong moral conviction and spiritual influence of the Kennedy matriarch upon the lives and politics of her children and grandchildren.
The life story of Victorian England's favorite Irish writer: Oscar Wilde. What begins as a charming and witty cross-continental romp becomes a terrible ordeal in the British court, as "the love that dare not speak its name" destroys the writer's reputation. Wilde was incarcerated in Reading Gaol, and experience which begat one of his most beautiful and moving pieces. But upon his release, he was trapped in a state of limbo, living neither in heaven nor hell, though he madly desired both.
J.M. Synge, at the suggestion of one of the founders of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, visited the Arran Islands to live and learn the speech of the native Irish. There, the speech and customs were such that a man who had the courage to murder his "old da", if he deserved it, could become a hero. From that idea comes this story that poetically immortalizes the Irish people, starring James Lancaster, Bairbre Dowling, and Sean McClory, all past members of the Abbey Theatre.
An overbearing archbishop and a saintly servant are faced with allegations of collusion in the church. Through comedy, drama, and tragedy do they learn the ultimate lesson of humility. Co-starring Helena Carroll, daughter of playwright.
A beautiful daughter of a wealthy man, Kate Hardcastle, is told that a suitor, Charles Marlowe is coming from London to the country to meet her. Her jealous step brother, Richard meets Marlowe in a pub in the village and directs Marlowe to his step-father's home for accommodations, telling him that it is a run down inn, about to go out of business. Kate goes along with the rouse and pretends to be a bar maid. And the comedic case of mistaken identity begins.
