 | 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...
 |  | Eugene O'Neill : Complete Plays 1932-1943 (Library of America)
Release Date: October 1, 1988| Series: Library of America eeeeeeeeeeeee ...
|  | 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 ...
|  | A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
Release Date: June 13, 1995By the time of her death thirty years ago, at the tragically young age of thirty-four, Lorraine Hansberry had created two electrifying masterpieces of the American theater. With A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry gave this country its most movingly authentic portrayal of black family life in the inner city. Barely five years later, with The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, Hansberry gave us an unforgettable portrait of a man struggling with his individual fate in an age of racial and social injustice. These two plays remain milestones in the American theater, remarkab...
|  | Imaginary Friends
Release Date: March 18, 2003Although Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy probably only met once in their lives, their names will be linked forever in the history of American literary feuds: they were legendary enemies, especially after McCarthy famously announced to the world that every word Hellman wrote was a lie, “including ‘and’ and ‘the.’” The public battle, and the legal squabbling, that ensued ended, unsatisfactorily for all, with Hellman’s death. In Imaginary Friends, Nora Ephron brilliantly and hilariously resuscitates these two bigger-than-li...
|  | Stick Fly: A Play
Publication Date: December 17, 2008Two brothers see their weekend at the family home on Martha's Vineyard as a great opportunity to introduce their girlfriends to their upper class African American parents. Instead, they stumble into a domestic powder keg that exposes secrets of prejudice, hypocrisy and adultery. A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Justine Bateman, Dule Hill, Tinashe Kajese, Carl Lumbly, Terrell Tilford, Michole Briana White --This text refers to the Audio CD edition....
|  | 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...
|  | Collected Plays of Edward Albee: 1958-1965
Release Date: December 18, 2007Overlook's three-volume Collected Plays of Edward Albeefinally brought together all of Albee's works for the first time.Now, asthe first book is released in paperback, the first stage of Albee's greatcareer will be brought in full to an even broader audience. The first volume of this three-volume collection contains the eight playswritten by Albee during his early years as a playwright, from 1958 through1965.Those range from the four brilliant one-act plays with which heexploded on the New York theater scene--The Zoo Story, The Death of BessieSmith, The Sandbox...
|  | 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 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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