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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
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Sam Shepard: Seven Plays
Written by Sam Shepard
Introduction by Richard Gilman
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1984
Price: $16.00
Brilliant, prolific, uniquely American, Pulitzer prizewinning playwright Sam Separd is a major voice in contemporary theatre. And here are seven of his very best.
"One of the most original, prolific and gifted dramatists at work today."—The New Yorker
"The greatest American playwright of his generation...the most inventive in language and revolutionary in craft... Read more >
Written by Sam Shepard
Introduction by Richard Gilman
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1984
Price: $16.00
Brilliant, prolific, uniquely American, Pulitzer prizewinning playwright Sam Separd is a major voice in contemporary theatre. And here are seven of his very best.
"One of the most original, prolific and gifted dramatists at work today."—The New Yorker
"The greatest American playwright of his generation...the most inventive in language and revolutionary in craft... Read more >
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All in the Timing
Fourteen Plays
Written by David Ives
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: November 8, 1994
Price: $16.95
The world according to David Ives is a very add place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives's characters plunge into black holes called "Philadelphias," where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton... Read more >
Fourteen Plays
Written by David Ives
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: November 8, 1994
Price: $16.95
The world according to David Ives is a very add place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives's characters plunge into black holes called "Philadelphias," where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton... Read more >
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The Lion in Winter
A Play
Written by James Goldman
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: December 14, 2004
Price: $9.95
Insecure siblings fighting for their parents’ attention; bickering spouses who can’t stand to be together or apart; adultery and sexual experimentation; even the struggle to balance work and family: These are themes as much at home in our time as they were in the twelfth century. In James Goldman’s classic play... Read more >
A Play
Written by James Goldman
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: December 14, 2004
Price: $9.95
Insecure siblings fighting for their parents’ attention; bickering spouses who can’t stand to be together or apart; adultery and sexual experimentation; even the struggle to balance work and family: These are themes as much at home in our time as they were in the twelfth century. In James Goldman’s classic play... Read more >
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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
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Shakespeare After All
Written by Marjorie Garber
Format: Trade Paperback, 1008 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2005
Price: $22.00
A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work. Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate... Read more >
Written by Marjorie Garber
Format: Trade Paperback, 1008 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2005
Price: $22.00
A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work. Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate... Read more >
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Laugh Lines
Short Comic Plays
Edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $18.00
This one-of-a-kind anthology features thirty-six hilarious short plays by major American playwrights and emerging new voices, all guaranteed to send readers and audiences into peals of laughter.
From the surrealistic wit of Steve Martin's "The Zig-Zag Woman" to the biting political satire of Steven Dietz's "The Spot," from Christopher Durang's wonderfully... Read more >
Short Comic Plays
Edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $18.00
This one-of-a-kind anthology features thirty-six hilarious short plays by major American playwrights and emerging new voices, all guaranteed to send readers and audiences into peals of laughter.
From the surrealistic wit of Steve Martin's "The Zig-Zag Woman" to the biting political satire of Steven Dietz's "The Spot," from Christopher Durang's wonderfully... Read more >
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Oleanna
A Play
Written by David Mamet
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: May 4, 1993
Price: $14.00
In David Mamet’s latest play, a male college instructor and his female student sit down to discuss her grades and in a terrifyingly short time become the participants in a modern reprise of the Inquisition. Innocuous remarks suddenly turn damning. Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault. And the relationship between... Read more >
A Play
Written by David Mamet
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: May 4, 1993
Price: $14.00
In David Mamet’s latest play, a male college instructor and his female student sit down to discuss her grades and in a terrifyingly short time become the participants in a modern reprise of the Inquisition. Innocuous remarks suddenly turn damning. Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault. And the relationship between... Read more >
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Plays of Oscar Wilde
Written by Oscar Wilde
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: May 12, 1988
Price: $16.00
This Vintage edition of The Plays_of Oscar Wilde contains the plays that made Wilde one of the most important dramatists of his time, including The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the great works of modern literature.
Oscar Wilde's plays demonstrate once again why their author must be seen as both an... Read more >
Written by Oscar Wilde
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: May 12, 1988
Price: $16.00
This Vintage edition of The Plays_of Oscar Wilde contains the plays that made Wilde one of the most important dramatists of his time, including The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the great works of modern literature.
Oscar Wilde's plays demonstrate once again why their author must be seen as both an... Read more >
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Buried Child
Written by Sam Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $14.00
A newly revised edition of an American classic, Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize—winning Buried Child is as fierce and unforgettable as it was when it was first produced more than twenty-five years ago.
A scene of madness greets Vince and his girlfriend as they arrive at the squalid farmhouse of Vince’s hard-drinking grandparents... Read more >
Written by Sam Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $14.00
A newly revised edition of an American classic, Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize—winning Buried Child is as fierce and unforgettable as it was when it was first produced more than twenty-five years ago.
A scene of madness greets Vince and his girlfriend as they arrive at the squalid farmhouse of Vince’s hard-drinking grandparents... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
