Theater Playscripts
WAY WE GET BY: A PLAY
Written by Labute, Neil
What they do have, however, is a very awkward encounter after spending one hot night together following a drunken wedding reception they attend.
MIRACLE WORKER
Written by Gibson, William
Based on the remarkable true story of Helen Keller and her teacher Annie Sullivan, this inspiring and unforgettable play has moved countless readers and become an American classic. Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution because her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent.
PLAYS FOR ACTRESSES
Written by Eric Lane
Gather any group of actresses, from students to stars, and someone will inevitably ask, "Where are all the great roles for women?" The roles are right here, in this unprecedented and magnificently diverse collection of plays with all-female casts, each of which represents the answer to any actress's prayer.
TAKE TEN
The plays that Nina Shengold and Eric Lane have collected in this volume range from monologues to an eight-character farce. They take in the metaphysical slapstick of David Ives's The Philadelphia and the breathtaking ferocity of Dana Yeaton's Helen at Risk, and contain parts across the entire spectrum of age, race, and gender.
THREE PLAYS: DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS, STRANGE INTERLUDE, MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA
Written by O'Neill, Eugene
Winner of the Nobel Prize These three plays exemplify Eugene O'Neil's ability to explore the limits of the human predicament, even as he sounds the depths of his audiences' hearts.
ALL IN THE TIMING
Written by Ives, David
The 14 short plays collected here introduce readers to one of the most intelligent and anarchically funny playwrights of the last decade and his "utterly delightful one-act plays that percolate with comic brio" (The New York Times.
FOOL FOR LOVE AND OTHER PLAYS
Written by Shepard, Sam
Here are eight of Pulitzer-prizewinning Sam Shepard's most stunning plays. This brilliant American dramatist creates what The New Yorker dubbed "Shepard Country"--a landscape of the imagination, a unique theatrical experience that captures our culture and consciouness, our fears and fantasies.
COPENHAGEN
Written by Frayn, Michael
TONY AWARD WINNER - An explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb. "Endlessly fascinating.... The most invigorating and ingenious play of ideas in many a year....
EXPERIMENTAL O'NEILL (THE HAIRY APE, THE EMPEROR JONES)
Written by O'Neill, Eugene
Experimental O'Neill compiles in a single volume six of Eugene O'Neill's early plays: The Hairy Ape, The Emperor Jones, and what are often referred to as The S.S. Glencairn Plays, four related one-acts. With extensive companion essays and critical analysis, this indispensable volume brings together some of O'Neill's often overlooked and still highly controversial works.
AMERICAN BUFFALO
Written by Mamet, David
American Buffalo, which won both the Drama Critics Circle Award for the best American play and the Obie Award, is considered a classic of the American theater. Newsweek acclaimed Mamet as the "hot young American playwright . . .
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