Nora et Hae Sung, deux amis d'enfance profondément liés, sont séparés après que la famille de Nora a émigré de Corée du Sud. Ils se retrouvent 20 ans plus tard, pendant une semaine, confrontant leur destin.
Broadway producer, Max Bialystock and his accountant, Leo Bloom plan to make money by charming little old ladies to invest in a production many times over what it will actually cost, and then put on a sure-fire flop, so nobody will ask for their money back – and what can be a more certain flop than a tasteless musical celebrating Hitler.
A playwright encounters a mysterious woman when he takes shelter in a chalet during a violent snowstorm and becomes obsessed with her.
Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson) fait beaucoup plus jeune que son âge et en profite pour être un incorrigible coureur de jupons. Pendant un week-end romantique au bord de la mer avec son nouvel amour, Marin, il ressent soudain une douleur dans la poitrine. Or ils sont dans la très belle maison de la mère de Marin : c'est ainsi qu'il va se retrouver à la merci de la maîtresse de maison, Erica Barry (Diane Keaton), une New Yorkaise divorcée, auteur de pièces de théâtre à succès. Mystérieuse à souhait, la « vieille » femme induit de nouveaux serrements de cœur chez Harry… romantiques cette fois ! Mais en séducteur invétéré, il se met à douter, et son médecin (Keanu Reeves), mettant à profit tout son charme et ses trente ans, entreprend de faire la conquête d'Erica. Pour la première fois de sa vie, Harry ne maîtrise plus le cours de son existence…
Le dramaturge Richard Collier présente sa première pièce, lorsqu'une vieille dame l'aborde et lui demande de revenir vers elle, comme s'ils se connaissaient depuis longtemps. Intrigué, le créateur mène l'enquête et s'enfonce petit à petit dans un passé inconnu et lourd de sens.
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love -- and his play finds a new life (and title). As their relationship progresses, Shakespeare's comedy soon transforms into tragedy.
Dissipated Tokyo playwright, Kosuke has retreated to the countryside after deciding that he's done with women, but the indefatigable cat-in-heat Shiori has other ideas, clinging to Kosuke like his shadow.
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family, journeys through the social injustices of Dublin life, involving himself with the rowdy tramway-men strike, dawdling with prostitute Daisy Battles (Julie Christie), and seeking a better life. He falls in love with bookshop assistant Nora (Dame Maggie Smith) who encourages him toward a life of writing. Finding success at the Abbey Theatre, his unorthodox views estrange him from family, friends, and his own past.
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
Molière, a down-and-out actor-cum-playwright up to his ears in debt. When the wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt so that Molière's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed marquise, hilarity ensues.
After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a psychiatrist—but not only is she a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist—she's a dreadful actress. David puts up with the leading man who is a compulsive eater, the grand dame who wants her part jazzed up, and Olive's interfering hitman/bodyguard—but, eventually he must decide whether art or life is more important.
England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde, maintains an ongoing feud with the latter in order to ruin his reputation and cause his fall from grace.
A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.
When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they start an affair. As Orton becomes more comfortable with his sexuality and starts to find success with his writing, Halliwell becomes increasingly alienated and jealous, ultimately tapping into a dangerous rage.
Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child. When he gets no help from the police, he along with his butler, and his ex fiancée, attempt to track down the crooks.
A young playwright who writes porno novels to overcome a writer's block, lives the fantasies of one of his books, while trying to move with his wife from one apartment into a larger one.
A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, and 5 children 4 of which belong to her.
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the "Yaya sisterhood" - long time friends of the mother.