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 |  | The Diviners: A Play in Two Acts and Elegies
Publication Date: April 29, 2010Drama / 6m, 5f / Unit set w. platformsWinner of the American College Theatre Festival, this marvelously theatrical play is the story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a disenchanted preacher in southern Indiana in the early 1930s. When the boy was young he almost drowned. This trauma and the loss of his mother in the same accident has left him deathly afraid of water. The preacher, set on breaking away from a long line of Kentucky family preachers, is determined not to do what he does best. He works as a mechanic for the boy's father. The town d...
|  | Homebody/Kabul: Revised Version
Publication Date: February 3, 2005"Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul is the most remarkable play in a decade . . . without a doubt the most important of our time."—John Heilpern, New York Observer"This compelling evening testifies that Mr. Kushner can still deliver his sterling brand of goods: a fusion of politics, poetry and boundless empathy transformed through language into passionate, juicy theater . . . a reminder of how essential and heartening Mr. Kushner’s voice remains."—Ben Brantley, New York Times"Homebody/Kabul is a rich and intelligent piece."—Peter Bro...
|  | Radio Golf
Publication Date: June 1, 2008“The concluding work in one of the most ambitious dramatic projects ever undertaken . . . a play that could well be Mr. Wilson’s most provocative.”—Ben Brantley, The New York Times“Radio Golf is a rich, carefully wrought human tapestry that is colorful, playful, thoughtful and compelling.”—Ed Kaufman, The Hollywood Reporter Radio Golf is August Wilson’s final play. Set in 1990 Pittsburgh, it is the conclusion of his Century Cycle—Wilson’s ten-play chronicle of the African American experience throughout ...
|  | Plays: Maria Irene Fornes (PAJ Books)
Publication Date: July 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 0933826834 | ISBN-13: 978-0933826830| Edition: 1st The celebrated playwright, director, translator, lyricist, and seven-time Obie Award winner, has been an influential voice in American theatre for more than four decades and a highly-regarded teacher of playwriting. Includes: Mud, The Danube, Sarita, and The Conduct of Life. ...
|  | Next Fall - Acting Edition
Publication Date: December 7, 2010| ISBN-10: 0822224569 | ISBN-13: 978-0822224563In this Tony-nominated play, Adam and Luke are long-term partners with very different views on salvation. But when Luke is hospitalized in a tragic accident, Adam must come face-to-face with Luke&-#-39-;s faith … and his family. Starring members of the original Broadway cast.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Patrick Breen as Adam Maddie Corman as Holly Patrick Heusinger as Luke Sam Mcmurray as Butch Jeremy Webb as Brandon Julie White as ArleneDirected by Bart DeLorenzo. Record...
|  | Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play
Release Date: April 25, 1995In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence--which is loosely based on the notorious 1955 killing of Emmett Till--James Baldwin launches an unsparing and at times agonizing probe of the wounds of race. For where once a white storekeeper could have shot a "boy" like Richard Henry with impunity, times have changed. And centuries of brutality and fear, patronage and contempt, are about to erupt in a moment of truth as devastating as a shotgun blast.In his award-winning play, Baldwin...
|  | The Fire This Time: African-American Plays for the 21st Century
Publication Date: February 1, 2002This major new anthology collects new work by important artists which explore the context of African-American drama in 21st century America. The plays included are: In the Blood by Suzan-Lori ParksAn examination of a homeless black women and her children based on The Scarlet Letter. Civil Sex by Brian FreemanA look at the intersections of civil rights on the life of activist Bayard Rustin. The Dark Kalamazoo by Oni Faidi LampleyA tale of isolation and rediscovery as a young black co-ed comes of age during a journey to Africa. Jitney by August WilsonThe lives...
|  | Bash: three plays
Release Date: November 1, 1999A trio of brilliantly scathing plays by the renowned writer-director of In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors. With the success of his first two films, In The Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, writer-director Neil LaBute has been hailed as a first-rate dramatic talent with a caustic wit reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick. bash--a collection of three stunning one-act plays that mark LaBute's return to the New York stage after ten years--forms a trio of unforgettable personal accounts: in Medea Redux, a woman tells of her complex and ultima...
|  | The Night of the Iguana (New Directions Paperbook)
Publication Date: October 30, 2009| Series: New Directions Paperbook Now published for the first time as a trade paperback with a new introduction and the short story on which it was based.Williams wrote: “This is a play about love in its purest terms.” It is also Williams’s robust and persuasive plea for endurance and resistance in the face of human suffering. The earthy widow Maxine Faulk is proprietress of a rundown hotel at the edge of a Mexican cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean where the defrocked Rev. Shannon, his tour group of ladies from a West Texas women ...
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