 | Humana Festival 2010: The Complete Plays Publication Date: April 19, 2011| ISBN-10: 0981909965 | ISBN-13: 978-0981909967This unique compilation features an exceptional array of work by some of the most exciting new voices in the American theater, including the full-length plays Ground by Lisa Dillman, The Cherry Sisters Revisited by Dan O'Brien with music by Michael Friedman, Phoenix by Scott Organ, Sirens by Deborah Zoe Laufer, and many more. ...
 |  | American Buffalo Publication Date: January 11, 1994A classic tragedy, American Buffalo is a story of three men struggling in the pursuit of their distorted vision of the American Dream. By turns touching and cynical, poignant and violent, American Buffalo is a piercing story of how people can be corrupted into betraying their ideals and those they love. ...
 |  | Spinning into Butter: A Play Publication Date: August 7, 2000Set on a college campus in Vermont, Spinning into Butter is a new play by a major young American playwright that explores the dangers of both racism and political correctness in America today in a manner that is at once profound, disturbing, darkly comic, and deeply cathartic. Rebecca Gilman challenges our preconceptions about race relations, writing of a liberal dean of students named Sarah Daniels who investigates the pinning of anonymous, clearly racist letters on the door of one of the college's few African American students. The stunning discovery that th...
 |  | My Name is Rachel Corrie - Acting Edition Publication Date: April 8, 2008Why did a 23-year-old woman leave her comfortable American life to stand between a bulldozer and a Palestinian home? "My Name is Rachel Corrie" tells the story of her short life and sudden death from the words she left behind. First presented at the Royal Court Theatre, London, directed by Alan Rickman - it was subsequently presented in the West End and on tour throughout the UK. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
 |  | Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens Publication Date: April 1, 2008| Series: Actor's Choice Find fresh, off-the-beaten path monologues for teenagers in this exciting collection. The Actor’s Choice series was carefully designed to help the savvy actor shine at auditions and get the part. The published play behind every monologue is available through one Web site (www.playscripts.com), where you can read nearly the entire script online for free. ...
 |  | Bus Stop: A Three-Act Romance Publication Date: October 1, 1956Upon hitting Broadway in 1955 Bus Stop was an immediate commercial & critical success. During a winter storm a busload of weary travelers are forced to shack up at a roadside diner until morning. Inge was renowned for his in-depth character studies, Bus Stop is no exception and offers a warm play about the intersecting lives of eight ordinary people. A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Megan Anderson, Terrence Currier, Rachel Miner, Anson Mount, Kyle Prue, Lynnie Raybuck, Jefferson A. Russell and Gary Sloan. --This text refers to the Audio C...
 |  | Wild and Wacky 60 One-Minute Monologues for Kids: 60 One-Minute Monologues for Kids (Young Actors Series) Publication Date: February 2002 ...
 |  | Superior Donuts Publication Date: November 23, 2010“It is a meditation on Chicago’s old soul . . . a witty, seductive, live-wire and greatly entertaining dark comedy that you just don’t want to end.” –Chicago Tribune“The sting, the speed and marksmanship of the gimcracks his characters fire at each other . . . drips the kind of soulful, energized sarcasm that has long characterized [Letts’] work as an actor and playwright.”–Time Out Chicago Tracy Letts, who won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his epic, caustic Oklahoma family drama August: Osage County, has ...
 |  | Frozen - Acting Edition Publication Date: January 1, 2004One evening, ten-year-old Rhona goes missing. Her mother, Nancy, retreats into a state of frozen hope. Agnetha, an academic, comes to England to research a thesis entitled "Serial Killings: A Forgivable Act?" Then there's Ralph, a loner with a bit of a record who's looking for some distraction . . . Drawn together by horrific circumstances, these three embark upon a long, dark journey that finally curves upward into the light. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
 |  | Summer and Smoke. Publication Date: January 1998| ISBN-10: 0822210975 | ISBN-13: 978-0822210979| Edition: Revised Edition "Summer and Smoke" is a two-part, thirteen-scene play by Tennessee Williams, originally titled Chart of Anatomy when Williams began work on it in 1945. In 1964, Williams revised the play as "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale." "Summer and Smoke" is set in Glorious Hill, Mississippi from the "turn of the century through 1916," and centers on a high-strung, unmarried minister's daughter, Alma Winemiller, and the spiritual/sexual romance that nearly blossoms between her and the wild, un...
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