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The Blood Knot
The Blood Knot is a 1961 two-character play by Athol Fugard about mixed-race half-brothers in a shack near Port Elizabeth under apartheid, banned in South Africa after one performance.
The Blue Bird (play)
The Blue Bird (L'Oiseau bleu) is Maurice Maeterlinck's 1908 Symbolist fairy play, premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre under Stanislavsky, in which Tyltyl and Mytyl search for the blue bird of happiness.
The Boy from Oz
The Boy from Oz is a jukebox musical about singer Peter Allen, book by Nick Enright (Broadway adaptation by Martin Sherman), premiered Sydney 1998 with Todd McKenney, Broadway 2003–2004 with Tony-winning Hugh Jackman.
The Boys in the Band (play)
The Boys in the Band is Mart Crowley's 1968 Off-Broadway play about gay men at a birthday party, the first mainstream play centered on gay men; adapted into a 1970 Friedkin film and a 2020 Netflix film.
The Bride of Messina
The Bride of Messina (Die Braut von Messina) is a tragedy in four acts by Friedrich Schiller, first performed at the Weimar court theater in 1803.
The Bridges of Madison County (musical)
The Bridges of Madison County is a 2014 Broadway musical by Jason Robert Brown (music and lyrics) and Marsha Norman (book), based on Robert James Waller's 1992 novel, starring Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale; it won Tonys for Best Score and Orchestrations.
The Burdens
The Burdens is a 1972 play by the Ugandan playwright John Ruganda, portraying the fall of a former cabinet minister and the disillusionment of Uganda's post-independence middle class.
The Cabal of Hypocrites
The Cabal of Hypocrites (Кабала святош) is a four-act drama by Mikhail Bulgakov about Molière's final years, banned and pulled from the Moscow Art Theatre in 1936.
The Cabinet Minister's Wife
The Cabinet Minister's Wife (Gospođa ministarka) is a 1929 four-act comedy by Serbian playwright Branislav Nušić, following Živka Popović, whose husband suddenly becomes a minister.
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Der kaukasische Kreidekreis) is a 1944 play by Bertolt Brecht in which a judge awards a child to the woman who cares for it.
The Cherry Orchard
The Cherry Orchard (Вишнёвый сад) is Anton Chekhov's last play, a four-act comedy written 1903 for the Moscow Art Theatre, premiered 17 January 1904 under Stanislavsky, who staged it as a tragedy despite Chekhov's insistence on comedy.
The Cherry Pickers
The Cherry Pickers is a 1968 play by the Wiradjuri writer Kevin Gilbert, written in prison and recognized as the first play written by an Aboriginal person.
The Children's Hour (play)
The Children's Hour is Lillian Hellman's 1934 Broadway drama, her first, in which a girls' boarding school is ruined by a student's lie that headmistresses Karen Wright and Martha Dobie are lovers; notable for its 691-performance run, Boston and Lord Chamberlain censorship, and the 1936 and 1961 film adaptations.
The Coast of Utopia
The Coast of Utopia is a trilogy of plays by Tom Stoppard about 19th-century Russian intellectuals, premiering in London in 2002 and winning the 2007 Tony Award for Best Play.
The Comedy about Spies
The Comedy about Spies is a 1960s Cold War spy farce by Henry Lewis and Henry Shields for Mischief Theatre, set at London's Piccadilly Hotel in 1961. It opened at the Noël Coward Theatre in 2025, won the 2026 WhatsOnStage Best New Play award, and returned to the Adelphi Theatre in 2026.
The Comedy of Errors
The Comedy of Errors is Shakespeare's shortest comedy, first performed 28 December 1594 at Gray's Inn, adapting Plautus's Menaechmi with two sets of identical twins in Ephesus.
The Comedy of Oedipus
The Comedy of Oedipus, also known as Anta alladhi qatalta al-wahsh, is a 1970 play by the Egyptian writer Ali Salem reworking Sophocles as comedy.
The Comedy Store
The Comedy Store: original stand-up club at 8433 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, founded 1972 by Sammy, Mitzi Shore and Rudy DeLuca; plus the unrelated London Comedy Store, opened 1979, cradle of UK alternative comedy.
The Conscious Lovers
The Conscious Lovers, written by Sir Richard Steele, is a five-act comedy first performed in 1722. It replaced sexual intrigue with virtue, becoming influential in the eighteenth century.
The Count of Carmagnola
The Count of Carmagnola (Il Conte di Carmagnola) is a historical tragedy by Alessandro Manzoni, published in 1820, about Francesco Bussone, executed by Venice for treason.
The Country Wife
The Country Wife is a Restoration comedy by William Wycherley, first published in London in 1675, and centers on a rake spreading a false report of his own impotence.
The Cripple of Inishmaan
The Cripple of Inishmaan is a black comedy by Martin McDonagh, first performed in London in 1996, set on the Aran island of Inishmaan in 1934.
The Crucible
The Crucible (earlier title Those/These Familiar Spirits) is Arthur Miller's 1953 four-act play about the 1692 Salem witch trials, premiered on Broadway with Arthur Kennedy, written amid McCarthyism and his most produced work.
The Cruel Iphigenia
The Cruel Iphigenia (Ifigenia cruel) is a 1924 dramatic poem by Mexican writer Alfonso Reyes, tied to the death of his father in the Mexican Revolution.
The Cure at Troy
The Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's 1990 verse version of Sophocles' Philoctetes, written for the Field Day Theatre Company and famous for its "hope and history rhyme" chorus.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (musical)
British folk musical by Jethro Compton and Darren Clark, based on Fitzgerald's Benjamin Button story, set in Cornwall with actor-musicians; Southwark Playhouse 2019, West End 2024, three 2025 Olivier Awards, Public Theater premiere 2026.
The Days of the Turbins
The Days of the Turbins (Дни Турбиных) is a Mikhail Bulgakov play, adapted from his novel The White Guard, that premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1926.
The Death of Ivan the Terrible
The Death of Ivan the Terrible (Смерть Иоанна Грозного) is a five-act verse tragedy by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, published in 1866 and dramatizing Tsar Ivan IV's final days.
The Death of Tarelkin
The Death of Tarelkin (Смерть Тарелкина) is a dark satirical play by Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin, completed in 1869 as the final part of his trilogy Pictures of the Past.
The Doctor's Dilemma
The Doctor's Dilemma is a 1906 play by George Bernard Shaw, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London, about a physician who must choose which patient deserves a scarce tuberculosis cure.