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Rocky Balboa, a club fighter seemingly going nowhere, gets his once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go the distance and come out a winner when fate puts him in the ring with the world heavyweight champion.

Forrest Gump leads a truly charmed life, with a ringside seat for many of the most memorable events of the second half of the 20th century. Forrest teaches Elvis to dance, meets JFK, serves in Vietnam, speaks at an anti-war rally at the Washington Monument, defeats the Chinese national team in table tennis, discovers the break-in at the Watergate, opens a shrimping business, becomes an original investor in Apple Computers, and decides to run back...

A recent college graduate from an affluent family is seduced by the wife of his father's business partner, then subsequently falls in love with her daughter.

Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions.

Courtship or conquest? The breakdown of a defiant spirit or a breakthrough that liberates a heart deprived of love? The Stratford Festival production of Shakespeare's boisterous comedy will stir your emotions with the love story of Katherina and Petruchio, the feisty couple at the centre of this fierce and funny battle of wills.

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train." Jack Worthing is an important and respected person in Hertfordshire. Being a guardian to a young girl and an employer of many in the community, the list of his responsibilities is never-ending. His brother, Earnest, however, leads a scandalous life and Jack is often forced to leave for London to sort it out. What no one knows is that Earnest is not...

The Blunderer is a comedy in five acts and in verse. When The Blunderer was played for the first time in Paris, it obtained a great and well-deserved success. It is chiefly based on an Italian comedy, written by Nicolo Barbieri, from which the character of Mascarille, the servant, is taken, but the ending is much superior to that of the Italian play. Some of the scenes remind us of passages in several Italian ""Commedia del' arte"" between Arlecchino...

A retired master chef and widower is worried about the future of his three unmarried daughters who are skeptical about marriage. Yet he himself surprises them with his secret love affair with a young woman many years his junior.

Sarah's marriage is over, and she's just moved back home to the farm with her beekeeper mother, Gail. As the women try to adjust to the many changes in their world, their lives are complicated by the community's last-ever Turkey Days celebration, beehive troubles, an eccentric neighbour, and a handsome young researcher. The Birds and the Bees is a laugh-out-loud comedy with a huge, honeyed heart.