This year there are some two-hour plays. There used to be just an hour play and a lot of monologues."

VOA: special.2009.08.05

An actor plays Spanish-American Admiral David Farrugut, a hero in the Battle of Mobile Bay during the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

Trust also plays into much bigger issues, like reaching a climate change agreement or reforming a health care system.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

Shakespeare may have borrowed from other writers, but the intensity of his imagination and language made the plays his own.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

Some other of his best-known plays include "All My Sons", "A View from the Bridge" and "After the Fall."

VOA: special.2009.11.29

She faces strong competition from Helen Mirren, who plays the wife of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy in "The Last Station."

VOA: special.2010.03.01

Special programs based on stories about the "Peanuts" group are still shown on television and performed as musical plays.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

David Cromer is a Broadway theater director who is presenting well-known twentieth century American plays in new and inventive ways.

VOA: special.2010.10.01

And in societies where there is less trust between people, the quality of the legal system plays a larger part.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

The twenty-five year old plays jazz that is influenced by the sounds of funk,soul, samba and blues music.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

His name is Jose Feliciano. Here he plays a song that is based on traditional Spanish guitar music.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

Barbara Klein tells about some of the artists and plays some of the music that made them great.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

Colin Firth plays a college professor who is mourning the death of his partner in "A Single Man."

VOA: special.2010.03.01

based on the comic book series. He plays Tony Stark, a billionaire inventor who created an armored suit.

VOA: special.2010.06.14