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Mister Paradise: And Other One-Act Plays
Mister Paradise: And Other One-Act Plays
by Tennessee Williams
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Tennessee Williams had a distinct talent for writing short plays and, not surprisingly, this remarkable new collection of never-before-published one-acts includes some of his most poignant and hilarious characters: the indefatigable, witty and tough drag... (read more)

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The Red Letter Plays
The Red Letter Plays
by Suzan-Lori Parks
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The playwright who "has burst through every known convention to invent a new theatrical language, like a jive Samuel Beckett, while exploding American cultural myths and stereotypes along the way" [John Heilpern, New York Observer and Vogue], has written... (read more)

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Doubt: A Parable
Doubt: A Parable
by John Patrick Shanley
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“A superb new drama written by John Patrick Shanley. It is an inspired study in moral uncertainty with the compellingly certain structure of an old-fashioned detective drama. Even as Doubt holds your conscious attention as an intelligently... (read more)

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The Iceman Cometh
The Iceman Cometh
by Eugene Oneill
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"Spellbinding--soaring theater--. For reasons that remain mysterious, it seems especially moving today."--The New York Times Eugene O'Neill mined the tragedies of his own life for this depiction of a seedy, skid row saloon in 1912, peopled by... (read more)

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Goat, Or, Who Is Sylvia? (00 Edition)
Goat, Or, Who Is Sylvia? (00 Edition)
by Edward Albee
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Edward Albee, the American dramatist, was born in 1928. He has written and directed some of the best plays in contemporary American theatre and three of his plays: A Delicate Balance, Seascape and Three Tall Women have received Pulitzer Prizes. His most... (read more)

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Delicate Balance : a Play in Three Acts (66 Edition)
Delicate Balance : a Play in Three Acts (66 Edition)
by Edward Albee
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Edward Albee Full Length, Drama Characters: 2 male, 4 female Interior Set This Pulitzer Prize winner enjoyed a stunning Broadway revival in 1996 with George Gizzard, Rosemary Harris and Elaine Stritch. Wealthy middle-aged couple, Agnes and Tobias have... (read more)

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I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't and Other Plays
I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't and Other Plays
by Sonia Sanchez
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Sonia Sanchez is a prolific, award-winning poet and one of the most prominent writers in the Black Arts movement. This collection brings her plays together in one volume for the first time. Like her poetry, Sanchez’s plays voice her critique of the... (read more)

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New Directions Paperbook #736: Theatre of Tennessee Williams
New Directions Paperbook #736: Theatre of Tennessee Williams
by Tennessee Williams
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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams brings together in matching format the plays of one of America's most persistently influential and innovative dramatists. Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes the original cast listings and... (read more)

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Dale Wasserman
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Comedy Drama / 13m, 4f / Int. w. inset. Kirk Douglas played on Broadway as a charming rogue who contrives to serve a short sentence in an airy mental institution rather in a prison. This, he learns, was a mistake. He clashes with the head nurse, a fierce... (read more)

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Metamorphoses: A Play
Metamorphoses: A Play
by Mary Zimmerman
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Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses brings Ovid's tales to stunning visual life. Set in and around a large pool of water onstage, Metamorphoses juxtaposes the ancient and the contemporary in both language and image to reflect the variety and persistence of... (read more)

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Spinning Into Butter: A Play
Spinning Into Butter: A Play
by Rebecca Gilman
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Set on a college campus in Vermont, Spinning into Butter is a new play by a major young American playwright that explores the dangers of both racism and political correctness in America today in a manner that is at once profound, disturbing, darkly comic,... (read more)

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Ruined (09 Edition)
Ruined (09 Edition)
by Lynn Nottage Nottage
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Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama “A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage’s beautiful, hideous and unpretentiously important play [is] a shattering, intimate journey into faraway news reports.”—Linda Winer, Newsday... (read more)

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Statements (74 Edition)
Statements (74 Edition)
by Athol Fugard
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Developed in workshops with award-winning actors, these are the works in Fugard's canon that most directly confront the dehumanizing brutality of apartheid. Includes: Sizwe Bansi is Dead, The Island, and Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality... (read more)

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Ceremonies in Dark Old Men: a Play
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men: a Play
by Lonne Elder Iii
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Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, a classic of American theater, is the poignant story of a family in 1950s Harlem. In timeless prose, Lonne Elder explores the discontent of a generation that has grown old before its time, and the determination of the next... (read more)

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Essential Bogosian: Talk Radio, Drinking in America, Funhouse, and Men Inside
Essential Bogosian: Talk Radio, Drinking in America, Funhouse, and Men Inside
by Eric Bogosian
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"What Lenny Bruce was to the 1950s, Bob Dylan to the 1960s, Woody Allen to the 1970s--that's what Eric Bogosian is to this frightening moment of drift in our history."--Frank Rich, The New York... (read more)

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Blues for Mister Charlie (95 Edition)
Blues for Mister Charlie (95 Edition)
by James Baldwin
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In 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... (read more)

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House Arrest and Piano: Two Plays
House Arrest and Piano: Two Plays
by Anna Deavere Smith
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From the award-winning actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, two teeming, pungent cross-sections of the American experience. In the provocative and at times bitterly funny play House Arrest, Smith examines the relationships between a succession of... (read more)

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Barrio Hollywood
Barrio Hollywood
by Elaine Romero
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Drama / 2m, 2f / Unit set In Barrio Hollywood, a tense family drama, a young Mexican-American boxer dreams of fighting his way out of his familys economic plight in his barrio neighborhood. His sister, a passionate ballet folklrico dancer and dedicated... (read more)

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See Bob Run & Wild Abandon
See Bob Run & Wild Abandon
by Daniel Macivor
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Great for full-fledged productions, scene studies, monologues, and classroom use, See Bob Run/Wild Abandon is an essential addition to any theatre lovers collection.... (read more)

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The Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice (Pelican Shakespeare)
The Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice (Pelican Shakespeare)
by William Shakespeare
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With new editors who have incorporated the most up-to-date scholarship, this revised Pelican Shakespeare series will be the premiere choice for students, professors, and general readers well into the twenty-first century. Each volume features: <BR>-... (read more)

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