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You are commissioned to a project which by design is macabre, yet life-saving. Do you engage or abort?

A black thirteen-year-old, a white cop, an eyewitness account, a shattering fall. Do the facts matter when all will suffer?

Is your humanity an everpresent mystery to you? In Walt Whitman's world, this was something to "sing" about.

Do women control men and get them to "do" things beyond a man's power to say no to them?

The six short plays comprising the LaBute New Theater Festival might have been collectively titled 'Love and Murder,' two themes clearly on the playwrights' minds.

Count Basie and Duke Ellington, both phenomenal pianists, composers and bandleaders were fierce competitors. But not at the recording studio or concert hall.

Jake is an actor who has it all: success, wealth, fame, women, misery. Deborah is a devout Christian actress who feels God's presence. When these opposites meet, the explosion is inevitable.

What happens when you learn a friend has betrayed you? Mark Thomas explores this theme with the true story of corporate spies in an activist group.

When the lines blur between reality and a fantastical world created to stave off isolation and rejection, there is only one way out. But sometimes, one doesn't have to break down and let one realm or the other dominate. Sometimes there is a way out that makes much more sense.

Tennessee Williams's short stories are intriguing, cryptic, revelatory, and shocking in their adaptations by exceptional modern playwrights in six one-act plays. The plays embody the tides of desire and the unconscious impulses that flood our lives when least expected.