The Theban Plays

Written by Sophocles
Translated by David Grene
Introduction by Charles Segal

Format: Hardcover, 280 pages
On Sale: October 18, 1994
Price: $20.00

The legends surrounding Oedipus of Thebes and his ill-fated offspring provide the subject matter for Sophocles’ three greatest plays, which together represent Greek drama at the pinnacle of its achievement.

 

Oedipus the King, the most famous of the three, has been characterized by critics from Aristotle to Coleridge as the perfect exemplar...

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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... Read more >

Improv Wisdom
Don't Prepare, Just Show Up
Written by Patricia Ryan Madson

Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: March 24, 2010
Price: $11.99

In an irresistible invitation to lighten up, look around, and live an unscripted life, a master of the art of improvisation explains how to adopt the attitudes and techniques used by generations of musicians and actors.

Let’s face it: Life is something we all make up as we go along. No matter... Read more >

Improv Wisdom
Don't Prepare, Just Show Up
Written by Patricia Ryan Madson

Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2005
Price: $16.95

In an irresistible invitation to lighten up, look around, and live an unscripted life, a master of the art of improvisation explains how to adopt the attitudes and techniques used by generations of musicians and actors.

Let’s face it: Life is something we all make up as we go along. No matter... Read more >

Greek Drama

Written by Moses Hadas

Format: Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1983
Price: $5.95

In power, passion, and the brilliant display of moral conflict, the drama of ancient Greece remains unsurpassed. For this volume, Professor Hadas chose nine plays which display the diversity and grandeur of tragedy, and the critical and satiric genius of comedy, in outstanding translations of the past and present. His introduction... Read more >

King Lear

Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $8.00

King Lear is Shakespeare’s bleakest and profoundest tragedy, a searing dramatization of humankind at the edge of apocalypse that explores the family and the nature of being with passion, poetry, and dark humor.

Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern... Read more >

The Tempest

Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $8.00

Generally believed to be the last play written solely by Shakespeare, The Tempest centers on a banished noble who uses sorcery to confront his foes. In this play, Shakespeare offers some of his most insightful meditations on themes ranging from vengeance and forgiveness to nature and nurture.

Under the editorial supervision... Read more >

Twilight
Los Angeles, 1992
Written by Anna Deavere Smith

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 15, 1994
Price: $15.00

Anna Deavere Smith's stunning new work of "documentary theater" in which she uses verbatim the words of people who experienced the Los Angeles riots to expose and explore the devastating human impact of that event. Read more >

Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights
Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee
Written by Stella Adler
Edited by Barry Paris

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: September 10, 2013
Price: $16.95

Stella Adler was one of the most influential acting teachers of all time, a legendary force of nature whose generations of students include Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Anthony Quinn, Diana Ross, Robert De Niro, Warren Beatty, Annette Benning, and Mark Ruffalo.

This long-awaited companion to her book on the master European playwrights...

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The Laramie Project

Written by Moises Kaufman

Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2010
Price: $11.99

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... Read more >