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Imaginary Friends
Imaginary Friends
Written by Nora Ephron
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307486202
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Imaginary Friends

Written by Nora Ephron


Format: eBook
On Sale: November 25, 2009
Price: $12.00

Although Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy probably only met once in their lives, their names will be linked forever in the history of American literary feuds: they were legendary enemies, especially after McCarthy famously announced to the world that every word Hellman wrote was a lie, “including ‘and’ and ‘the.’” The... Read more >
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The Unseen Hand
The Unseen Hand
Written by Sam Shepard
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307560919
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The Unseen Hand
And Other Plays
Written by Sam Shepard


Format: eBook
On Sale: September 30, 2009
Price: $14.95

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You Can Count on Me
You Can Count on Me
Written by Kenneth Lonergan
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307549945
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You Can Count on Me
A Screenplay
Written by Kenneth Lonergan


Format: eBook
On Sale: September 2, 2009
Price: $12.00

Acclaimed playwright Kenneth Lonergan’s You Can Count on Me is one of the most highly praised independent films of recent years, earning many of the major screenplay awards.

This is the lovingly drawn story of a sister and brother’s complicated, fragile, but somehow enduring bond. Sammy and Terry Prescott were orphaned as... Read more >
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Yellowman
Yellowman
Written by Dael Orlandersmith
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307493460
Our Price: $11.00
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Yellowman

Written by Dael Orlandersmith


Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2009
Price: $11.00

These two raucously acclaimed new plays by Dael Orlandersmith, whom The New York Times has called "an otherworldly messenger, perhaps the sorcerer's apprentice, or a heaven-sent angel with the devil in her," confirm her reputation as one of the truly unique voices in contemporary American drama.

In Yellowman, a finalist for the... Read more >
Also available as a trade paperback.
The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play
The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play
Written by Joan Didion
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307498915
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The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play

Written by Joan Didion


Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $12.00

“this happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you . . .”

In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir (which Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times called “an indelible portrait of loss and grief . . . a... Read more >
Also available as a trade paperback.
The Late Henry Moss, Eyes for Consuela, When the World Was Green
The Late Henry Moss, Eyes for Consuela, When the World Was Green
Written by Sam Shepard
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307536969
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The Late Henry Moss, Eyes for Consuela, When the World Was Green
Three Plays
Written by Sam Shepard


Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $12.00

These three plays by Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard are bold, explosive, and ultimately redemptive dramas propelled by family secrets and illuminated by a searching intelligence.
In The Late Henry Moss–which premiered in San Francisco, starring Sean Penn and Nick Nolte–two estranged brothers confront the past as they piece together the drunken... Read more >
Also available as a trade paperback.
Romance
Romance
Written by David Mamet
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307490278
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Romance

Written by David Mamet


Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $13.00

Pulitzer Prize—winning playwright David Mamet’s Romance is an uproarious, take-no-prisoners courtroom comedy that gleefully lampoons everyone from lawyers and judges, to Arabs and Jews, to gays and chiropractors.
It’s hay fever season, and in a courtroom a judge is popping antihistamines. He listens to the testimony of a Jewish chiropractor, who’s a... Read more >
Also available as a trade paperback.
The Guys
The Guys
Written by Anne Nelson
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307485755
Our Price: $11.95
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The Guys
A Play
Written by Anne Nelson


Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: November 12, 2008
Price: $11.95

First performed in a hit off-off-Broadway production, and soon to be a film starring Sigourney Weaver and Anthony LaPaglia, The Guys is a timeless drama about the surprising truths people can discover in ordinary lives, and the connections we make with others and ourselves in times of tragedy.

Paralyzed by grief... Read more >
Also available as an unabridged audiobook download and a trade paperback.
November
November
Written by David Mamet
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307388803
Our Price: $12.95
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November

Written by David Mamet


Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $12.95

David Mamet's new Oval Office satire depicts one day in the life of a beleaguered American commander-in-chief.

It's November in a Presidential election year, and incumbent Charles Smith's chances for reelection are looking grim. Approval ratings are down, his money's running out, and nuclear war might be imminent. Though his staff... Read more >
Kicking a Dead Horse
Kicking a Dead Horse
Written by Sam Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307386823
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Kicking a Dead Horse

Written by Sam Shepard


Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $11.95

A solitary man digs a hole in the ground, near a dead horse. Amidst the clutter of food and equipment stands Hobart Struther, who has ridden all the way out to the middle of nowhere on a holy mission. But one day into his “Great Sojourn,” things are looking bleak. His... Read more >
The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play
The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307386410
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The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play

Written by Joan Didion


Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2007
Price: $12.00

“this happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you . . .”

In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir (which Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times called “an indelible portrait of loss and grief . . . a... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
Inherit the Wind
Inherit the Wind
Written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780345501035
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Inherit the Wind

Written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee


Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $9.95

One of the most moving and meaningful plays in American theatre--based on the famed Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, in which a Tennessee teacher was tried for teaching evolution--now on Broadway starring Tony Award® Winners Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy, and Directed by Tony Award® Winner Doug Hughes

The accused was a... Read more >
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The Sunset Limited
The Sunset Limited
Written by Cormac McCarthy
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307278364
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The Sunset Limited

Written by Cormac McCarthy


Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: October 24, 2006
Price: $13.95

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 >
Romance
Romance
Written by David Mamet
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307275189
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Romance

Written by David Mamet


Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2005
Price: $13.00

Pulitzer Prize—winning playwright David Mamet’s Romance is an uproarious, take-no-prisoners courtroom comedy that gleefully lampoons everyone from lawyers and judges, to Arabs and Jews, to gays and chiropractors.
It’s hay fever season, and in a courtroom a judge is popping antihistamines. He listens to the testimony of a Jewish chiropractor, who’s a... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
The Voysey Inheritance
The Voysey Inheritance
Written by David Mamet
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307275196
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The Voysey Inheritance

Written by David Mamet


Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2005
Price: $13.00

One hundred years after the first publication of The Voysey Inheritance, David Mamet resurrects Harley Granville-Barker’s classic investigation into the capitalist soul in this brilliant adaptation.
For generations, the Voysey family business has been secretly skimming money from its clients’ accounts. When Edward, designated to take over the firm from his aging... Read more >
The God of Hell
The God of Hell
Written by Sam Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400096510
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The God of Hell

Written by Sam Shepard


Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $12.00

Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard’s latest play is an uproarious, brilliantly provocative farce that brings the gifts of a quintessentially American playwright to bear on the current American dilemma.

Frank and Emma are a quiet, respectable couple who raise cows on their Wisconsin farm. Soon after they agree to put up Frank’s... Read more >
The Lion in Winter
The Lion in Winter
Written by James Goldman
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780812973358
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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 Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780679755333
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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... Read more >
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House Arrest and Piano
House Arrest and Piano
Written by Anna Deavere Smith
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400033577
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House Arrest and Piano
Two Plays
Written by Anna Deavere Smith


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $13.00

From the award-winning actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, two teeming, pungent cross-sections of the American experience.

In the provocative and at times bitterly funny play House Arrest, Smith examines the relationships between a succession of American presidents and their observers in and out of the press. Arcing from Clinton and Monica... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
Inherit the Wind
Inherit the Wind
Written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345466273
Our Price: $6.99
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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... Read more >
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Imaginary Friends
Imaginary Friends
Written by Nora Ephron
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400034222
Our Price: $12.00
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Imaginary Friends

Written by Nora Ephron


Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: March 18, 2003
Price: $12.00

Although Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy probably only met once in their lives, their names will be linked forever in the history of American literary feuds: they were legendary enemies, especially after McCarthy famously announced to the world that every word Hellman wrote was a lie, “including ‘and’ and ‘the.’” The... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
The Late Henry Moss, Eyes for Consuela, When the World Was Green
The Late Henry Moss, Eyes for Consuela, When the World Was Green
Written by Sam Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400030798
Our Price: $12.00
 Quantity: 1 
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The Late Henry Moss, Eyes for Consuela, When the World Was Green
Three Plays
Written by Sam Shepard


Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $12.00

These three plays by Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard are bold, explosive, and ultimately redemptive dramas propelled by family secrets and illuminated by a searching intelligence.
In The Late Henry Moss–which premiered in San Francisco, starring Sean Penn and Nick Nolte–two estranged brothers confront the past as they piece together the drunken... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
Boston Marriage
Boston Marriage
Written by David Mamet
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375706653
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Boston Marriage

Written by David Mamet


Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $12.95

One of America's most provocative dramatists conquers new territory with this droll comedy of errors set in a Victorian drawing room.

Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming "women of fashion" who live together on the fringes of society.  Anna has just become the mistress of a wealthy man, from whom she has... Read more >
Yellowman
Yellowman
Written by Dael Orlandersmith
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400032068
Our Price: $11.00
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Yellowman

Written by Dael Orlandersmith


Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $11.00

These two raucously acclaimed new plays by Dael Orlandersmith, whom The New York Times has called "an otherworldly messenger, perhaps the sorcerer's apprentice, or a heaven-sent angel with the devil in her," confirm her reputation as one of the truly unique voices in contemporary American drama.

In Yellowman, a finalist for the... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
The Guys
The Guys
Written by Anne Nelson
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780812967296
Our Price: $11.95
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The Guys
A Play
Written by Anne Nelson


Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: August 13, 2002
Price: $11.95

First performed in a hit off-off-Broadway production, and soon to be a film starring Sigourney Weaver and Anthony LaPaglia, The Guys is a timeless drama about the surprising truths people can discover in ordinary lives, and the connections we make with others and ourselves in times of tragedy.

Paralyzed by grief... Read more >
Also available as an unabridged audiobook download and an eBook.
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