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This book collects three plays and one manifesto by writer-director Julia Jarcho, including American Treasure, Dreamless Land, and Grimly Handsome, winner of a 2013 Obie award for Best New American Play.Book InformationISBN 9780989739368Author Julia...

Humana 2006: The Complete Plays collects all ten plays produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville during the 30th anniversary season of the Humana Festival of New American Plays. The seven full-length plays and three ten-minute plays in this anthology...

Depictions and portrayals of persons who live with disability in motion pictures have changed over time, sometimes reflecting, at other times influencing, societal attitudes and beliefs. Yet disability itself has no easily recognizable form. When...

"Love is love" but is navigating it any less complicated today? What does it mean to be in a committed relationship? Is monogamy just monotony? Told through interweaving glimpses into the life of an everyday couple unexpectedly confronted by a vicious...

Winner! 2011 BBC Top Prize of the Americas Inspired by the Dog Catcher Riots. In part one, a put'upon family is run from their home by a settlement of people. In part two, a settlement of people get a surprise guest while simply trying to run a put'upon...

Drama / 3m, 2f Steeped in the difficulty of reunification and reconciliation, American Hwangap tells the story of Min Suk Chun, who some 15 years earlier left his family in a West Texas suburb to return to his native Korea. On the occasion of his 60th...

In the mid-eighteenth century, the Ottawa chief Pontiac (also spelled Ponteach) led an intertribal confederacy that resisted British power in the Great Lakes region. This event was immortalized in the play Ponteach, or the Savages of America: A Tragedy,...

In Teatrophy: Three More Plays, critically-acclaimed playwright/author/poet Peter Carlaftes offers a trio of brilliant and intense modern plays that inspire on both page and stage. In "Anti," Carlaftes explores a frightening future--in which...

It's easy to dismiss the Holy Ghost People. They travel door-to-door in white sheets spouting pseudoscience about time travel, wormholes, and a new galactic gospel. Most of the town has already laughed them away. But when the Holy Ghost People start to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559361491Author Thornton WilderFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559360371Author Harry KondoleonFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

This is the first volume of published plays by John Jesurun, one of the most innovative writer/director/media artists in America. The volume includes Shatterhand Massacree, Slight Return, Snow, and Firefall, demonstrating the range of the author's work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990725602Author Murray MednickFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Padua PlayWright's PressPublisher Padua PlayWright's PressWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780634054488Author Paul McKibbinsPage Count 80Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933826212Author Daniel GerouldFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Performing Arts JournalsPublisher Johns Hopkins University PressWeight(grams) 382g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802061720Author Jack GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 85Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto Press

A son returns after an absence of two years to find both his mother and family friend Wiff trying to sustain his father, Jacob. A heart attack has forced Jacob out of work, and he can't reconcile himself to his frightening situation. The characters all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559364522Author Quiara Alegría HudesFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc...

Anime Wong is a memory book of performances, most of which were produced collaboratively, reflecting questions of gender, identity, Orientalism, and racial politics. Yamashita's theatrical work is fiction interpreted by the body in real time; these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559362993Author August WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

Eugene O'Neill was the first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He completed The Iceman Cometh in 1939, but he delayed production until after the war, when it enjoyed a long run of performances in 1946 after receiving mixed reviews...

In the twenty years that preceded the publication of this book in 1988, David Rabe was in the vanguard of playwrights who shaped American theatre. As the first full-length work on Rabe, this book laid the groundwork for later critical and biographical...

Set in Alabama at the scene of James Agee and Walker Evans's famous reporting, Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag brings Sibyl Kempson's attention to the ethical snares of poetic journalism and what it means to work on the land. She interrogates the strange...

It is time to change the way we talk about writing in theater. This book offers a new argument that reimagines modern theater's critical power and places innovative writing at the heart of the experimental stage. While performance studies, German...

Shakespeare's effect on America's intellectual and artistic life has been much discussed, but what role does he play on the American popular stage? This study changes our understanding of Shakespeare's presence in American life. The book looks at how...

This is an authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theatre in all its dimensions, from theatre building to playwriting, directors, performers, and designers. Engaging the theatre as a performance art, a cultural institution, and a fact of...

The first collection of plays from a major American playwright, Plays One includes: Photograph 51, A Delicate Ship, Boy and The Last Match Photograph 51: Does Rosalind Franklin know how precious her photograph is? In the race to unlock the secret of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573694141Author Neil SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896300191Author David BelkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 138g

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMARecently revived on Broadway in a production directed by Joe Mantello, starring two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson and Tony winner Laurie MetcalfEarning a Pulitzer and Best Play awards from the Evening Standard,...

Glenn Gould captured the imagination of a worldwide audience, becoming an instant celebrity with his eccentric performance style and his definitive renderings of Bach. David Young has used Gould's early and late recordings of The Goldberg Variations as a...

Famed playwright Israel Horovitz has written more than 70 produced plays, which have been translated in more than 30 languages worldwide. Along the way, he has also written screenplays for film including Author! Author!, starring Al Pacino, as well as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573707254Author Lauren YeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Samuel French, Inc.Publisher Samuel French, Inc.Weight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559361156Author E.L. DoctorowFormat PaperbackPage Count 75Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559362221Author Richard RodgersFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963012630Author Murray MednickFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Padua Playwrights PressPublisher Padua Playwrights PressWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963012623Author Murray MednickFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Padua Playwrights PressPublisher Padua Playwrights PressWeight(grams) 397g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930452841Author Marsha NormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

Betty is rich; Betty is lonely; Betty's busy working on her truck; Betty wants to talk about love, but Betty needs to hit something. And Betty keeps using a small hand mirror to stare into parts of herself she's never examined. Five different women named...