Production notes accompany each play, including suggestions on interpretation, characterization, tempo, setting, lighting, and costuming.

Pyramus and Thisbe / William Shakespeare -- The telltale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- The boor / Anton Chekov -- Pariah / August Strindberg -- The romancers / Edmond Rostand -- Spreading the news / Lady Gregory -- A sunny mornhing / Serafin and Joaquin Quintero -- The gods of the mountain / Lord Dunsany -- The game of chess / Kenneth Sawyer Goodman -- The clod / Lewis Beach -- Trifles / Susan Glaspell -- A morality play for the leisured class / John Balderston -- Hope is the thing with feathers / Richard Harrity -- Sorry, wrong number / Lucille Fletcher -- The still alarm / George S. Kaufman -- Aria da capo / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét -- The odyssey of Runyon Jones / Norman Corwin -- Johnny Pickup / Doris Halman -- Credo / Richard Reichman.