A Raisin in the Sun
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2004
Price: $7.50
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 representation of black life. "A play...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2011
Price: $6.99
"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before
A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.
Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling...
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No Exit and Three Other Plays
Written by Jean-Paul Sartre
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 23, 1989
Price: $14.95
4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict and an arresting attack on American racism.
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A Man for All Seasons
Written by Robert Bolt
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: April 14, 1990
Price: $10.95
The classic play about Sir Thomas More, the Lord chancellor who refused to compromise and was executed by Henry VIII.
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The Laramie Project
Written by Moises Kaufman
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2001
Price: $14.00
On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard’s death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the...
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Inherit the Wind
Written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Format: Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $6.99
The accused was a slight, frightened man who had deliberately broken the law. His trial was a Roman circus. The chief gladiators were two great legal giants of the century. Like two bull elephants locked in mortal combat, they bellowed and roared imprecations and abuse. The spectators sat uneasily in the sweltering heat with murder in their...
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The Vagina Monologues
Written by Eve Ensler
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2007
Price: $15.00
"I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don't think about them. . . . So I decided to talk to women about their vaginas, to do vagina interviews, which became vagina monologues. I talked with over two hundred...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Introduction by Robert Nemiroff
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: August 22, 1995
Price: $15.95
"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before
A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.
Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling...
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The Vagina Monologues
The V-Day Edition
Written by Eve Ensler
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 10, 2001
Price: $11.99
A poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone,
The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. In this stunning phenomenon that has swept the nation, Eve Ensler gives us real women's stories of intimacy, vulnerability, and sexual self-discovery.
Celebrated...
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The Sunset Limited
Written by Cormac McCarthy
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: October 24, 2006
Price: $14.95
A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made.
In that small apartment, “Black” and “White,” as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins...
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