 | 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 Underpants
Release Date: November 20, 2002heobald Maske has an unusual problem: his wife's underpants won't stay on. One Sunday morning they fall to her ankles right in the middle of town-a public scandal! Mortified, Theo swears to keep her at home until she can find some less unruly undies. Amid this chaos he's trying to rent a room in their flat. The prospective lodgers have some underlying surprises of their own. In The Underpants, Steve Martin brings his comic genius and sophisticated literary style to Carl Sternheim's classic 1910 farce. His hilarious new version was staged by Artistic Director Ba...
|  | 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...
|  | All in the Timing, Six One-Act Comedies - Acting Edition
Publication Date: October 1, 1994This volume contains six hilarious one-act plays by David Ives: "Sure Thing", "Words, Words, Words", "The Universal Language", "Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread", "The Philadelphia", and "Variations on the Death of Trotsky." ...
|  | Eugene O'Neill : Complete Plays 1932-1943 (Library of America)
Release Date: October 1, 1988| Series: Library of America eeeeeeeeeeeee ...
|  | 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...
|  | 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....
|  | 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...
|  | Killer Joe
Publication Date: January 4, 2011| ISBN-10: 0573627363 | ISBN-13: 978-0573627361Full Length, Black ComedyCharacters: 3 male, 2 female Interior SetThis exciting first play by the author ofAugust: Osage County premiered at Chicago's Steppenwolf before going on to acclaimed productions in London and New York. Hired by the dissolute Smith family to murder the matriarch for insurance money, "Killer Joe" takes the daughter to bed as a retainer against his final payoff which sets in motion a bloody aftermath as the "hit man" meets his match. "Set in Dallas, Killer Joe revels in its white tras...
|  | 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...
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