Copenhagen
Written by Michael Frayn
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2000
Price: $15.00
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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Hamlet
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1988
Price: $4.99
One of the greatest plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the tormented young prince of Denmark continues to capture the imaginations of modern audiences worldwide. Confronted with evidence that his uncle murdered his father, and with his mother’s infidelity, Hamlet must find a means of reconciling his longing for...
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Measure for Measure
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $2.99
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this powerful play that explores sexual hypocrisy and questions morality at all levels of society. This volume also includes more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including:
• an original Introduction to Measure for Measure
• incisive scene-by-scene...
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Noises Off
Written by Michael Frayn
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $13.99
Noises Off, the classic farce by the Tony Award—winning author of
Copenhagen, is not one play but two: simultaneously a traditional sex farce,
Nothing On, and the backstage “drama” that develops during
Nothing On’s final rehearsal and tour. The two begin to interlock as the characters make their exits from
Nothing...
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Shorter, Faster, Funnier
Comic Plays and Monologues
Edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $16.95
This cornucopia of comedy showcases works by major playwrights and emerging young writers, with casts of all sizes and diverse and challenging roles for actors of every age and type. You’ll discover such colorful characters as a businessman free-falling from a plane, an embittered sword swallower, a punkish girl skateboarder, and...
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The Heidi Chronicles
Uncommon Women and Others & Isn't It Romantic
Written by Wendy Wasserstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: July 2, 1991
Price: $15.95
The graduating seniors of a Seven Sisters college, trying to decide whether to pattern themselves after Katharine Hepburn or Emily Dickinson. Two young women besieged by the demands of mothers, lovers, and careers—not to mention a highly persistent telephone answering machine—as they struggle to have it all. A brilliant feminist art...
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Buried Child
Written by Sam Shepard
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2009
Price: $11.99
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...
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Oleanna
A Play
Written by David Mamet
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2012
Price: $10.99
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...
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