 | Intimate Apparel/Fabulation
Publication Date: April 1, 2006“Lynn Nottage’s work explores depths of humanness, the overlapping complexities of race, gender, culture and history—and the startling simplicity of desire—with a clear tenderness, with humor, with compassion.” —Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrightIntimate Apparel: “Thoughtful, affecting new play . . . with seamless elegance.”—Charles Isherwood, VarietyFabulation: “Robustly entertaining comedy . . . with punchy social insights and the firecracker snap of unexpected humor.”—Ben Bra...
 |  | 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. ...
|  | Beyond Therapy
Publication Date: February 17, 2011| ISBN-10: 0573605742 | ISBN-13: 978-0573605741Comedy Christopher DurangChacrters: 4 male, 2 female Interior Set (Set may be simply suggested.)Bruce and Prudence are deeply into therapy. Prudence's macho therapist is urging her to be more assertive while Bruce's wacky female therapist wants him to meet women by placing a personal ad. She does not fully comprehend that Bruce has a male lover who is not pleased by Bruce's desire to date a woman: Prudence. Bruce doesn't know how to handle poor nervous Prudence and Prudence doesn't know what to make of her ...
|  | 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...
|  | The Mountaintop (Modern Plays)
Release Date: September 26, 2011| ISBN-10: 1408147033 | ISBN-13: 978-1408147030Winner of the Olivier Award and set to open on Broadway in September 2011, The Mountaintop is set at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis in 1968, on the night before Martin Luther King is assassinated and on the day he delivered a speech in which he foretold his own fate, “I may not get there with you, but I want you to know that tonight, we as a people will get to the Promised Land.” Playwright Katori Hall takes this historic date with destiny and weaves a pow...
|  | The Columnist: A Play
Release Date: April 24, 2012A new play from the Pulitzer- and Tony Award–winning author of Proof, coming to Broadway this AprilIn midcentury America, newspaper columnists are kings—and Joseph Alsop wears the biggest crown. Joe sits at the nexus of Washington life: beloved, feared, and courted in equal measure by the very people whose careers and futures he determines. But as the sixties dawn and America undergoes dizzying change, the intense political dramas Joe has been throwing his weight around in—supporting the war in Vietnam and Soviet containment, criticizing student ...
|  | Eugene O'Neill : Complete Plays 1920-1931 (Library of America)
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|  | Beat Generation: The Lost Work
Publication Date: October 5, 2006Beat Generation is a play about tension, about friendship, and about karma — what it is and how you get it. It begins one fine morning with a few friends, honest laborers some of them, some close to being down-and-out, passing around a bottle of wine. It ends with a kind of satori-like reaffirmation of the power of friendship, of doing good through not doing, and the intrinsic worth of the throw-away little exchanges that make up our lives. Written in 1957, the same year that On the Road was first published, and set in 1953, Beat Generation portrays an a...
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|  | The Lion in Winter: A Play
Release Date: December 14, 2004Insecure siblings fighting for their parents’ attention; bickering spouses who can’t stand to be together or apart; adultery and sexual experimentation; even the struggle to balance work and family: These are themes as much at home in our time as they were in the twelfth century. In James Goldman’s classic play The Lion in Winter, domestic turmoil rises to an art form. Keenly self-aware and motivated as much by spite as by any sense of duty, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine maneuver against each other to position their favorite son in line...
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