Production Archives
“Big Love” shows just how out-of-control arranged marriage can get when the bride changes her… “Big Love” shows just how out-of-control arranged marriage can get when the bride changes her mind. When 50 future brides escape to Italy in a boat, they benefit from the country’s charms only until their...
America's most celebrated playwright takes the audience on a vaudevillian tour of the Great Depression. Based partly on Studs Terkel's "Hard Times" and partly on Miller's own experiences, "The American Clock" exhibits the same genius as that found in Miller's better-known works, "Death of a...
Anton Chekhov's three early (1888-89) one-act comedies of social observation tumble happily into farce.
"The Bear" is an encounter between a widow in self-dramatizing mourning for her philanderer of a husband and an angry fellow who comes to collect a debt owed him. In the process, he awakes her...
Vinegar Tom tells the story of two 17th-century farmwomen accused of being witches by a man they spurned sexually. The connection between fear of female sexuality and witch hysteria is shown to fuel societal problems.
The playwright wrote Vinegar Tom for a British feminist theatre company that had...
NOCTURNAL WANDERER is Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian's haunting and dreamlike mystery.
In the play, a man walking the streets of urban China in the middle of the night is confronted by a prostitute, a homeless man, and a thief. When the prostitute is found murdered, the blame shifts to the man, a...
Darwin and the Kid, written by SITS founder Attilio Favorini and directed by teaching artist Sam Turich, was created in a new collaboration with the Educational Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University. SITS invited science teachers from the area to join us for lively discussion about...
Desdemona, Othello's bride, lost a prized handkerchief. Iago got his wife, Emilia, to steal it, and planted it on Cassio to imply Desdemona's infidelity. Then Cassio gave it to his mistress, Bianca. So when Othello asks Desdemona to produce the handkerchief, she can't and, in jealous rage, he kills...