Theater Playscripts
GARY: A SEQUEL TO TITUS ANDRONICUS
Written by Mac, Taylor
"Fabulous and bedraggled: a defiant and beautiful mess... Welcome to the world of Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, where carnage and camp coexist." --Jesse Green, New York Times
SOUND INSIDE
Written by Rapp, Adam
"The closest thing that the American theater currently has to a David Foster Wallace, Rapp can give you the head rush of sophisticated literary allusion and unreliable narrative trickery à la Dostoevsky, and yet talk of Plano, Illinois, and let you know that he knows exactly how it feels...A gripping stunner of a play." --Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
UNDER MILK WOOD
Written by Thomas, Dylan
Under Milk Wood is the masterpiece "radio play for voices" Dylan Thomas finished just before his death in 1953. First commissioned by the BBC and broadcast in 1954, it has been performed and celebrated by Anthony Hopkins, Richard Burton, Elton John, Tom Jones, Catherine Zeta Jones, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole, and many others.
LEOPOLDSTADT
Written by Stoppard, Tom
Finally making its Broadway debut in a limited engagement run, Tom Stoppard's humane and heartbreaking Olivier Award-winning play of love, family, and enduranceAt the beginning of the twentieth century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, a city humming with artistic and intellectual excitement.
THREE PLAYS: OUR TOWN, THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH, AND THE MATCHMAKER
Written by Wilder, Thornton
"Thornton Wilder will survive. . . as long as there are people around who are willing to sit in something called a theater and be reminded of their common humanity." --New York Times
SKIN OF OUR TEETH: A PLAY
Written by Wilder, Thornton
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize"Wilder has become a prophet again, searching for values that make humanity worth saving, in a world constantly on the verge of being destroyed either by pitiless nature or by human rage, selfishness, and folly." --Michael Feingold, Village Voice
PATRICK MARBER: PLAYS
Written by Marber, Patrick
Dealer's Choice 'I feel it's my duty to proclaim it from the rooftops: this is it, this is the play that will remind you, at the end of a year that has contained too few stand-out new-writing hits and far too many musicals, why we go to the theatre - and just how good it can get.' Telegraph Closer 'Patrick Marber's searing follow-up to Dealer's Choice establishes him as
APPLAUSE FIRST FOLIO OF SHAKESPEARE IN MODERN TYPE: COMEDIES, HISTORIES & TRAGEDIES
Written by Shakespeare, William
This landmark publication is printed in clear, legible type. Each play has its own comprehensive introduction as well as extensive, expert annotations. Highlighted areas show where lines have been altered over time and also shows where verse has been changed to prose in the past (but not here!) The original compositions are marked and folio clues are highlighted.
PLENTY
Written by Hare, David
First performed in 1978, Plenty is about British post-war disillusion.