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...
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True and False
Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
Written by David Mamet
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2011
Price: $9.99
Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school. With these words, one of our most brilliantly iconoclastic playwrights takes on the art of profession of acting, in a book that is as shocking as it is practical, as witty as it is instructive, and as irreverent as...
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Copenhagen
Written by Michael Frayn
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2010
Price: $13.99
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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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...
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The Stonemason
A Play in Five Acts
Written by Cormac McCarthy
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $14.00
From a writer hailed as an American original -- and the author of the national bestsellers All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing -- comes a taut, expansively imagined drama about four generations of an African American family.
The setting is Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1970s. The Telfairs are stonemasons and have...
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The Taming of the Shrew
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $8.00
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this scathing account of manners and matrimony—along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including:
• an original Introduction to The Taming of the Shrew
• incisive scene-by-scene synopsis and analysis with vital facts about the work
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Grief Lessons
Four Plays by Euripides
Written by Euripides
Translated by Anne Carson
Introduction by Anne Carson
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $14.95
Now in paperback.
Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. “Euripides,” the classicist Bernard Knox has written, “was born never to live in peace with himself...
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Picnic
Written by William Inge
Format: eBook, 72 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2013
Price: $11.99
This title collects four plays by American playwright William Inge, including Come Back Little Sheba, Picnic, Bus Stop, and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs.
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Six Plays by Lillian Hellman
Written by Lillian Hellman
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: October 12, 1979
Price: $17.95
These six plays span nearly twenty years of theatre and display the range of Lillian Hellman's dramatic gifts. The Children's Hour (1934), her first play, was considered shocking at the time; it concerns the devastating effects of a child's malicious charge of lesbianism against two of her teachers. Days to Come...
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