In 1849, Charlotte Brontë’s future was shaping up to be as bleak as her past. The sole survivor in a family of six siblings, the 33-year-old spinster faced spending the rest of her years caring for her elderly father.

John Osborne’s seminal 1956 play, Look Back in Anger, marked a cultural turning point in British theatre.

Canal Park Playhouse presents A Christmas Carol, subtitled “as told by Charles Dickens (himself).” Actor Jimmy Kiefer plays the novelist, who has come to the theater to enact his well-known Christmas classic.

Company XIV’s Snow White is a breathtaking mix of dance, drama, music and aerial acts. Inspired by the Brothers Grimm version of the story, the performance is a “re-imagining.“

Loosely based on John Cheever’s story “Goodbye, My Brother,” this rarely seen play is one of Gurney’s earliest works and considered his first to chronicle WASP culture.

In May, the newest members of this year’s Women’s Work Project Lab at New Perspectives Theatre were asked to create a short work on the theme ‘Justified.’ Developed over the summer, the plays were produced quickly on a low budget, enabling the writers to get an immediate sense of their work on stage. The promising writers’ four short works were presented to the public in two series for the Fourth Annual Women’s Work Original Short Play Festival, held September 26 – October 1.

New Perspectives Theatre Company holds a forum and panel on Supporting Women and Women’s Voices in Theatre at the McGinn Cazale Theatre.

After experiencing an exhilarating evening of plays from Throughline Artists' Series A of Summer Shorts 5, I was looking forward to viewing the work of the well established playwrights of Series B. Despite a few shining moments, I have to admit, I was somewhat disappointed with the lackluster fare.

The Throughline Artists’ Festival of New American Plays starts off with a bang with four absorbing short works from both new and established playwrights.

“All pretty girls are traps. Pretty traps,” says Amanda Wingfield, in this one-act version of The Glass Menagerie that Williams wrote a few years before his full-length masterpiece.