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Plays by Tom Stoppard
Comedy
Full Length
6 men, 4 women (10 total)
This version of Schnitzler's Lorelei that caused a scandal when first produced in Vienna in 1895, focuses on how the sexual mores of a society are indicative of the whole social fabric.Dalliance is a bitter sweet drama about a young working class girl who falls in love with a military officer. She alone has not learned that love is temporal and trivial, a mere series of dalliances....
Drama
Full Length
4 men, 4 women, 1 child (9 total)
Hilary, a young psychology researcher at the Krohl Institute for Brain Science, is nursing a private sorrow. She needs a miracle and prays daily for deliverance from a secret regret. Meanwhile, she and the other researchers at the institute are grappling with the troubling "hard problem," which asks: If there is nothing but matter, what is consciousness? For Hilary, the possibility of genuine human altruism, without a hidden Darwinian self-interest, depends on the answer....
Drama
Full Length
Winner of the 2023 Tony Award® for Best Play.

THE STORY: Set in Vienna, the play takes its title from the Jewish quarter. This passionate drama of love and endurance begins in the last days of 1899 and follows one extended family deep into the heart of the 20th century. Full of his customary wit and beauty, Stoppard’s late work spans fifty years of time....
Satire
Full Length
7 men, 1 woman (8 total)
In the fictional, copper-rich African nation of Kambawe, corruption, ethical malpractice, and marital infidelity are abound. And the press intends to report on it. When Dick Wagner of the Sunday Globe and a competing freelance journalist arrive at the jungle home of a white mine owner, they are soon competing for the use of their host’s telex, the attentions of his wife, and a possible interview with the missing president of Kambawe....
Farce
Full Length
13 men, 9 women, 1 boy (23 total)
Adapted from Einen Jux will er sich machen by Johann Nestroy

THE STORY: Two naughty grocer’s assistants go on a wild spree to Vienna when their master skips town with his new mistress. A free adaptation of the nineteenth-century farce by Johann Nestroy, ON THE RAZZLE is a boisterous reimagination of a time-old classic....
Comedy
Full Length
4 men, 3 women (7 total)
Winner of the 1984 Tony Award® for Best Play.
THE STORY: Henry is a successful playwright married to Charlotte, who has the lead role in his latest play about adultery. Her co-star, Max, is married to another actress, Annie, and Annie and Henry are madly in love. As Henry navigates his personal and creative passions, the line between truth and fiction is blurred in this devastating portrait of love, performance, and the "real thing."...
Drama
Full Length
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Tragicomedy
Full Length
Winner of the 1968 Tony Award® for Best Play.

THE STORY: Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare's play. In Tom Stoppard's best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of ...