Henry Carter Hull

“[ Our Town ] leaves us with a sense of blessing, and the unspoken but palpable command to achieve gratitude in what remains of our days on earth.” -- The New Yorker Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the mythical village of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire--an allegorical representation of all life--is an American classic. It is the simple story of a love affair that asks timeless questions about the meaning of love,...

McClung skilfully weaves together a series of social critiques in a tale of love, vocation, and coming-of-age, which sees Pearl, as a prototypical McClung, take on the corrupt Conservative government of Manitoba - and win. Purple Springs explores an important piece of Canadian social history. It invites its readers to enter imaginatively an earlier age when women were second-class citizens in law as well as custom, and gives at least one woman's view...

Pamela Giraud is a melodramatic comedy presented for the first time at Paris at the Theatre de la Gaite on September 26, 1843. Paméla Giraud is a poor florist, in love with Joseph Binet, an upholsterer boy, but courted by an upstart: Jules Rousseau, compromised in a political conspiracy.

In 1936, during the Great Depression, Hastings and Orrie Lashin (secretary to Walter Lippmann) wrote the play Class of ’29 under the auspices of the Federal Theatre Project. The play is about the spiritual unrest of college graduates unable to find work during the Depression. Heywood Broun devoted one of his "It Seems to Me" columns in a March 1936 to accusations that the play was socialist propaganda. The play enjoyed a brief run at the Manhattan...

A nativity play by Laurence Housman, performed with music by Joseph Moorat under the stage direction of Edward Gordon Craig

Why the Chimes Rang' is a beautifully written story based on an old legend. It has wonderful evocative symbolism, the old church with a bell tower soaring into the sky, touching the clouds waiting for a perfect gift for the Christ child, a perfect gift of love.

Ben Ames Williams (1889 – 1953) was a prolific American novelist and short story writer; he authored more 30 novels and hundreds of short stories. His work was very popular and appeared in numerous magazines, but the majority of his stories were published in the Saturday Evening Post. Evered's setting is rural America prior to the automobile era, in the small town of Fraternity, Maine and its immediate environs. The storyline is deals with the relationship...

Maurya's son Michael has been swept out to the sea, the latest of the men in her household to die. While they wait for his body to wash ashore, the last remaining man in the house, Bartley, decides to take a boat to the mainland for the Connemara horse fair. But Maurya's premonition of the ghost of Michael following Bartley out to sea proves ominous, leaving Maurya and her daughters alone. First performed in 1904, Synge's one-act play 'Riders to the...

Phaedra (French: [fɛdʁ]; originally Phèdre et Hippolyte) is a French dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Jean Racine (1639-1699), first performed in 1677 at the theatre of the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris. With Phaedra, Racine chose once more a subject from Greek mythology, already treated by Greek and Roman tragic poets, notably by Euripides in Hippolytus and Seneca in Phaedra. As a result of an intrigue by the Duchess...