A Raisin in the Sun
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2004
Price: $7.00
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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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
The V-Day Edition
Written by Eve Ensler
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2000
Price: $12.95
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. Hailed as the bible for a new generation of women, it has been performed in cities all across America and at hundreds of...
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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: $14.00
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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Brian's Song
Written by William Blinn
Format: Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1983
Price: $7.99
Two men. Once names Gale Sayers, the other Brian Piccolo. They came from different parts of the country. They competed fiercely for the same job. One liked to talk; the other was shy. One was white; the other black. This is the story of how they came to know each other...
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A Man for All Seasons
Written by Robert Bolt
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: April 14, 1990
Price: $9.95
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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The Vagina Monologues
Written by Eve Ensler
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2007
Price: $13.95
"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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Master Harold and the Boys
Written by Athol Fugard
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $12.95
This play about a young white boy and two African servants is at once a compelling drama of South African apartheid and a universal coming-of-age story. Originally produced in 1982, it is now an acknowledged classic of the stage, whose themes of injustice, racism, friendship, and reconciliation traverse borders and time...
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Copenhagen
Written by Michael Frayn
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2000
Price: $14.00
The Tony Award—winning play that soars at the intersection of science and art,
Copenhagen is an explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb.
In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a clandestine trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart and friend...
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