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The Crucible
by Arthur Miller  Publisher Comments Based on historical people and real events, Miller's play uses the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence unleashed by the rumors of witchcraft as a powerful parable about McCarthyism....
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A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry Publisher Comments 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...
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The Glass Menagerie (New Directions Book)
by Tennessee Williams Publisher Comments Dramatic script relating the interactions of Amanda, her son, and her daughter, Laura and the very important gentleman caller....
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The Piano Lesson (Plume Drama)
by August Wilson Publisher Comments Set in 1936, The Piano Lesson is a powerful new play from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. A sister and brother fight over a piano that has been in the family for three generations, creating a remarkable drama...
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My Name Is Rachel Corrie: Taken from the Writings of Rachel Corrie
by Rachel Corrie Publisher Comments "I have been in Palestine for two weeks and one hour now, and I still have very few words to describe what I see. I don't know if many of the children here have ever existed without tank-shell holes in their walls. You just can't imagine it unless you...
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August: Osage County
by Tracy Letts 
Publisher Comments andldquo;Augustis the most exciting new American play Broadway has seen in years.andrdquo;andmdash;The New York Times andldquo;A tremendous achievement in American playwriting: a tragicomic populist portrait of a tough land and a tougher people.andrdquo...
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Arcadia
by Tom Stoppard
Powells.com Staff Pick 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...
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Death of a Salesman, Text and Criticism (67 Edition)
by Arthur Miller Publisher Comments The tragedy of a typical American--a salesman who at the age of sixty-three is faced with what he cannot face; defeat and disillusionment....
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Kicking a Dead Horse (Vintage)
by Sam Shepard Publisher Comments A solitary man digs a hole in the ground, near a dead horse. Amidst the clutter of food and equipment stands Hobart Struther, who has ridden all the way out to the middle of nowhere on a holy mission. But one day into his Great Sojourn, things are...
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Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays)
by Arthur Miller Publisher Comments The tragedy of a typical American--a salesman who at the age of sixty-three is faced with what he cannot face; defeat and disillusionment....
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Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins
by Nick Flynn Publisher Comments In this first play from the award-winning memoirist and poet Nick Flynn, four strangers meet during a blackout on a New York City sidewalk. Gideon finds himself locked out of his apartment, stranded on the street with nothing but a television and the...
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Wit
by Margaret Edson Publisher Comments In this extraordinary play, Margaret Edson has created a work that is as intellectually challenging as it is emotionally immediate. At the start of "Wit," Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching...
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Clean House and Other Plays (06 Edition)
by Sarah Ruhl Publisher Comments "Passionate. Show-stopping. Daringly over-the-top and impressively consistent in its delirious excess. "The Clean House" shines."-"New Haven Advocate" <P>""The Clean House" is not, by any means, a traditional boy-meets-girl story. In fact disease...
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The Reduced Shakepeare Company's The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged)
by Jess (ed.) Borgeson Publisher Comments The complete script to the critically acclaimed play. "Shakespeare as written by Reader's Digest, acted by Monty Python, and performed at the speed of the minute waltz." - L.A...
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Our Town : a Play in Three Acts (03 Edition)
by Thornton Wilder Publisher Comments First produced and published in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is a timeless American classic, rich with universal themes....
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Trial of the Catonsville Nine (04 Edition)
by Daniel Berrigan Publisher Comments On May 17, 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, nine men and women entered a Selective Service office outside Baltimore. They removed military draft records, took them outside, and set them afire with napalm.The Catholic activists involved in this...
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November
by David Mamet Publisher Comments David Mamet's new Oval Office satire depicts one day in the life of a beleaguered American commander-in-chief. It's November in a Presidential election year, and incumbent Charles Smith's chances for reelection are looking grim. Approval ratings are down,...
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Oxygen (01 Edition)
by Carl Djerassi Publisher Comments What motivates a scientist? One key factor is the pressure from the competition to be the first to discover something new. The moral consequences of this are the subject of the play Oxygen, dealing with the discovery of this all-important element. The...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams Publisher Comments The story of Blanche DuBois and her last grasp at happiness, and of Stanley Kowalski, the one who destroyed her chance....
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Maria Irene Fornes : Plays (86 Edition)
by Maria I. Fornes Publisher Comments The celebrated playwright, director, translator, lyricist, and seven-time Obie Award winner, has been an influential voice in American theatre for more than four decades and a highly-regarded teacher of playwriting. Includes: "Mud, The Danube, Sarita...
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