 | On the Verge, or the Geography of Yearning
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 |  | I am My Own Wife - Acting Edition
Publication Date: January 1, 2005I Am My Own Wife is the winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.From the Obie Award-winning author of Quills comes this acclaimed one-man show, which explores the astonishing true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. A transvestite and celebrated antiques dealer who successfully navigated the two most oppressive regimes of the past century-the Nazis and the Communists--while openly gay and defiantly in drag, von Mahlsdorf was both hailed as a cultural hero and accused of colluding with the Stasi. In an attempt to discern the truth about Charlotte, Doug Wrigh...
|  | 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...
|  | 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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|  | Passion Play
Publication Date: September 21, 2010Named one of the "Ten Best Plays of 2008" by The New Yorker“Sarah Ruhl’s bold, inventive, and ironic triptych [is] a meditation on devotion and its appropriation by the state. . . . Ruhl is an original; a storyteller with a fine mind evolving her own theatrical idiom.”—John Lahr, The New Yorker“It’s a different kind of morality play . . . an often wondrous work . . . with [Ruhl’s] own special lyrical blend of poetry, humor and grace.”—Frank Rizzo, VarietyPassion Play is Sarah Ruhl’s “biggest...
|  | The Boys Next Door.
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|  | Telling Tales and Other New One-Act Plays
Release Date: March 1, 1993An exciting and varied collection of contemporary one-act plays from some of today's best playwrights....
|  | The Collected Plays of Neil Simon, Vol. 2
Release Date: November 1, 1986| Series: Collected Plays of Neil Simon (Book 2) "I suspect I shall keep on writing in a vain search for the perfect play.I hope I will keep my equilibrium and sense of humor when I'm told I haven't achieved it.At any rate, the trip has been wonderful.As George and Ira Gershwin said, "they can't take that away from me." —From Neil Simon's Introduction And they can't take away the pleasure that Neil Simon's plays have given literally millions of theatergoers in the past quarter of a century.They and the critics agree that a trip to see any one of this master...
|  | The Stonemason: A Play in Five Acts
Release Date: August 1, 1995From a writer hailed as an American original -- and the author of the national bestsellers All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing -- comes a taut, expansively imagined drama about four generations of an African American family.The setting is Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1970s. The Telfairs are stonemasons and have been for generations. Ben Telfair has given up his education to apprentice himself to his grandfather, Papaw, a man who knows that "true masonry is not held together by cement but...by the warp of the world." Out of the love that binds these two men and ...
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