The English Theatre of Hamburg

Why does John Worthing call himself Jack in the country and Ernest in town? And what does his friend Algernon do on his mysterious trips outside London? Mix together these two young men leading double lives, the two young...

How does physical beauty, or the lack of it, impact our lives? This is one of the questions that American playwright Neil LaBute raises in his provocative play REASONS TO BE PRETTY. He does this as he observes the lives of...

This touching, yet funny play is set in modern-day Pennsylvania, not far from a place called Beertown. Single mom Miriam works as a waitress and paints pictures of the full moon in her spare time. She would like some ma...

Imagine that you are in are in a small town, unaware that your twin brother is there as well. Imagine further that your brother's wife mistakes you for him -- but not before you have tried to seduce her sister, who thinks ...

Middle-aged Rosie is shocked when her 53 year-old husband Piers leaves her for Larissa, his young secretary. Not long afterwards Rosie is living alone in her London flat when a young man, Darren, insists on talking to her....

Rose Steiner, a well-known American novelist in her early sixties, needs to write another best-seller to stay out of the poor house. But she has been suffering from writer's block ever since her lover Walsh McLaren, also a...