Now it's been relaunched with a new name, PlayTales, with more than 90 e-books to choose from.
It's easy to bone up for this literary pilgrimage with a quick perusal of Christopher Hampton's amusing 1983 play "Tales From Hollywood," in which all the major players — the Mann brothers, Brecht, Feuchtwanger — appear in a series of semi-imaginary tableaus.
As a desperate widow in MTC's new play, Tales from Red Vienna, Nina Arianda's Helena Altman is demure in period weeds, even as the gentlemen she services rip her black lace.
The gameplay in Telltale games, by contrast, is designed to serve the story, which means there's not much to say about the experience of actually playing Tales from the Borderlands.
Some were lured by the play's tale of two Theban soldiers.
He is the sting in the play's tale, the darkness in its neatly tied-up happy ending.
In Arlene Hutton's play, "Faerie Tale," a protester takes on Shakespeare's "misrepresentation" of fairy society.
Talk to German officials and they will portray the euro crisis as a morality play, a tale of countries that lived high and now face the inevitable reckoning.
It's also normal to think of economics as a morality play, a tale of sin and redemption, in which countries must suffer for their past excesses.
Mr. Myers surveyed the crowd, which included the playwright CHARLES BUSCH; the writer PAUL RUDNICK; and the actresses MICHELE LEE and LINDA LAVIN, who are starring in Mr. Busch's play, "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife".
By the end of the play, a tale of imbalanced love that takes place entirely inside the fur-lined apartment of the title character, Ms. Lorenz and her friend Stefan Elfenbein were beaming.
