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Our Town: A Play in Three Acts
Our Town: A Play in Three Acts
by Thornton Wilder
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A handsome Perennial Classics edition of America's favourite play, Our Town, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. First produced and published in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize–winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners has become an... (read more)

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Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
by Tony Kushner
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The most anticipated new American play of the decade, this brilliant work is an emotional, poetic, political epic in two parts: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika. Spanning the years of the Reagan administration, it weaves the lives of fictional and... (read more)

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Arcadia (93 Edition)
Arcadia (93 Edition)
by Tom Stoppard
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Now this is important theatre. Yes, a play, and I recommend seeing it performed if you ever get the chance to, but read it beforehand if you want to have a chance of understanding it. I actually played Valentine in a production of Arcadia (I had a... (read more)

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Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
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From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Théâtre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment by American and British audiences, Waiting for Godot has become one of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a... (read more)

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A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
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When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new... (read more)

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Four Major Plays: A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, the Master Builder (World's Classics)
Four Major Plays: A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, the Master Builder (World's Classics)
by Henrik Ibsen
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Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder.... (read more)

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Evergreen Original, #344: The Visit: A Tragi-Comedy
Evergreen Original, #344: The Visit: A Tragi-Comedy
by Friedrich Duerrenmatt
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Dürrenmatt once wrote of himself: “I can best be understood if one grasps grotesqueness,” and The Visit is a consummate, alarming Dürrenmatt blend of hilarity, horror, and vertigo. The play takes place “somewhere in... (read more)

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Three Plays: The Political Theater of Howard Zinn: Emma/Marx in Soho/Daughter of Venus
Three Plays: The Political Theater of Howard Zinn: Emma/Marx in Soho/Daughter of Venus
by Howard Zinn
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World-renowned historian Howard Zinn has turned to drama to explore the legacy of Karl Marx and Emma Goldman and to delve into the intricacies of political and social conscience perhaps more deeply than traditional history permits. Three Plays brings... (read more)

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The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts (Penguin Plays)
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts (Penguin Plays)
by Arthur Miller
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The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous... (read more)

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Venus in Fur: A Play
Venus in Fur: A Play
by David Ives
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A young playwright, Thomas, has written an adaptation of the 1870 novel Venus in Fur by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (after whom the term “masochism” was coined); the novel is the story of an obsessive adulterous relationship between a man and... (read more)

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The Oresteia (Penguin Classics)
The Oresteia (Penguin Classics)
by Aeschylus
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In the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity— Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. Moving from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance... (read more)

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Four Great Plays by Henrik Ibsen (Bantam Classics)
Four Great Plays by Henrik Ibsen (Bantam Classics)
by Henrik Ibsen
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Here, in a single volume, are four major plays by the first modern playwright, Henrick Ibsen. Ghosts -the startling portrayal of a family destroyed by disease and infidelity. The Wild Duck -- A poignant drama of lost illusions. An Enemy Of The People... (read more)

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Red
Red
by John Logan
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WINNER OF SIX TONY AWARDS A moving and compelling account of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, Mark Rothko, whose struggle to accept his growing riches and praise became his ultimate undoing.... (read more)

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Outlaw: The Collected Works of Miguel Pinero
Outlaw: The Collected Works of Miguel Pinero
by Miguel Pinero
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Twenty-two years after his death, the collected writings of the great Miguel Piñero are finally back in print. Best known for his award-winning play Short Eyes, the influential Nuyorican poet, playwright, and actor had a short yet remarkable life... (read more)

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Terry Pratchetts Nation the Play Uk
Terry Pratchetts Nation the Play Uk
by Terry Pratchett
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Alone on a desert island -- everything and everyone he knows and loves has been washed away in a storm -- Mau is the last surviving member of his nation. He's completely alone -- or so he thinks until he finds the ghost girl. She has no toes, wears... (read more)

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Celestina (Margellos World Republic of Letters)
Celestina (Margellos World Republic of Letters)
by Fernando De Rojas
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Winner of the 2010 Lewis Galantiere Award sponsored by the American Translators Association. Lewis Galantiere... (read more)

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A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
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The story of Blanche DuBois and her last grasp at happiness, and of Stanley Kowalski, the one who destroyed her chance.... (read more)

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The Rover and Other Plays: The Rover; The Feigned Courtesans; The Lucky Chance; The Emperor of the Moon (Oxford World's Classics)
The Rover and Other Plays: The Rover; The Feigned Courtesans; The Lucky Chance; The Emperor of the Moon (Oxford World's Classics)
by Aphra Behn
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Aphra Behn (1640-89) was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her achievements are now recognized less equivocally and her plays, often revived, demonstrate wit, compassion and remarkable range. This edition brings together her most... (read more)

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Red Diaper Baby: Three Comic Monologues
Red Diaper Baby: Three Comic Monologues
by Josh Kornbluth
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Fiction. Performing Arts. RED DIAPER BABY includes three comic autobiographical monologues by performer Josh Kornbluth: "The Mathematics of Change," "Haiku Tunnel," and the title piece. Together, and with the author's introduction, the monologues compose... (read more)

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Angels in America #2: Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika
Angels in America #2: Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika
by Tony Kushner
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Tony Kushner's plays include A Bright Room Called Day and Slavs!; as well as adaptations of Corneille's The Illusion, Ansky's The Dybbuk, Brecht's The Good Person of Szecguan and Goethe's Stella. Current projects include: Henry Box Brown or The Mirror of... (read more)

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