 | 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...
 |  | 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. ...
|  | Rumors
Publication Date: February 16, 2010Farce / 5m, 5f / Int. At a large, tastefully appointed Sneden's Landing townhouse, the Deputy Mayor of New York has just shot himself. Though only a flesh wound, four couples are about to experience a severe attack of Farce. Gathering for their tenth wedding anniversary, the host lies bleeding in the other room and his wife is nowhere in sight. His lawyer, Ken and wife Chris must get "the story" straight before the other guests arrive. As the confusions and mis-communications mount, the evening spins off into classic farcical hilarity. "Light, frothy and fu...
|  | Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Publication Date: September 8, 1998In this exuberant comedy and original revision of Shakespeare's Othello and Romeo and Juliet -- Constance Ledbelly, a drab and dusty academic, deciphers a cryptic manuscript she believes to be the original source for the tragedies, and is transported into the plays themselves. She visits Juliet and Desdemona, has a hand in saving them, and finds out what these women are about. In true Shakespearean spirit, Constance plunders the plays and creates something new, all the while engaging in a personal voyage of self-discovery. With an abundance of twists, fight...
|  | 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 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...
|  | 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 ...
|  | 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...
|  | Assassins
Publication Date: January 1, 1993Stephen Sondheim's groundbreaking achievements in musical theatre attain a new level of audacity and accomplishment in his latest creation, ASSASSINS.Evoking a fraternity of Presidential assassins and would-be assassins across a hundred years of our history (including John Wilkes Booth, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, John Hinckley and Lee Harvey Oswald), he and collaborator John Weidman examine success, failure and the questionable drive for power and celebrity in American society....
|  | Amadeus: A Play by Peter Shaffer
Release Date: August 7, 20010riginating at the National Theatre of Great Britain, Amadeus was the recipient of both the Evening Standard Drama Award and the Theatre Critics Award. In the United States, the play won the coveted Tony Award and went on to become a critically acclaimed major motion picture winning eight Oscars, including Best Picture.Now, this extraordinary work about the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is available with a new preface by Peter Shaffer and a new introduction by the director of the 1998 Broadway revival, Sir Peter Hall. Amadeus is a must-have for classical music b...
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