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Tooth of Crime
Second Dance
Written by Sam Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $12.00
One of the plays that first announced Sam Shepard as an original voice in American theater, Tooth of Crime is his thrillingly innovative rock drama, published here in a revised edition that is as fresh and provocative as the original was more than thirty years ago.
An aging rock star in a... Read more >
Second Dance
Written by Sam Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $12.00
One of the plays that first announced Sam Shepard as an original voice in American theater, Tooth of Crime is his thrillingly innovative rock drama, published here in a revised edition that is as fresh and provocative as the original was more than thirty years ago.
An aging rock star in a... Read more >
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eBook.
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The Good Body
Written by Eve Ensler
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $12.00
Botox, bulimia, breast implants: Eve Ensler, author of the international sensation The Vagina Monologues, is back, this time to rock our view of what it means to have a “good body.” “In the 1950s,” Eve writes, girls were “pretty, perky. They had a blond Clairol wave in their hair. They wore... Read more >
Written by Eve Ensler
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $12.00
Botox, bulimia, breast implants: Eve Ensler, author of the international sensation The Vagina Monologues, is back, this time to rock our view of what it means to have a “good body.” “In the 1950s,” Eve writes, girls were “pretty, perky. They had a blond Clairol wave in their hair. They wore... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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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 >
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.
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The Voysey Inheritance
Written by David Mamet
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2005
Price: $13.95
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 >
Written by David Mamet
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2005
Price: $13.95
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 >
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eBook.
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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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The Duchess of Malfi
Seven Masterpieces of Jacobean Drama
Edited by Frank Kermode
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $17.95
Edited and with an Introduction by Frank Kermode
A Woman Killed with Kindness by Thomas Heywood
Volpone by Ben Jonson
The Revenger’s Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur
The Maid’s Tragedy by John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
The... Read more >
Seven Masterpieces of Jacobean Drama
Edited by Frank Kermode
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $17.95
Edited and with an Introduction by Frank Kermode
A Woman Killed with Kindness by Thomas Heywood
Volpone by Ben Jonson
The Revenger’s Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur
The Maid’s Tragedy by John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
The... Read more >
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eBook.
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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 >
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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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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 >
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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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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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Talk to Me
Monologue Plays
Edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $18.00
In this one-of-a-kind collection of monologue plays, Eric Lane and Nina Shengold have gathered a breathtaking array of human voices and stories by master playwrights and emerging new writers. Each of the plays, ranging from one-acts and ten-minute plays to full-length works, creates a rich and specific world. In these pages... Read more >
Monologue Plays
Edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $18.00
In this one-of-a-kind collection of monologue plays, Eric Lane and Nina Shengold have gathered a breathtaking array of human voices and stories by master playwrights and emerging new writers. Each of the plays, ranging from one-acts and ten-minute plays to full-length works, creates a rich and specific world. In these pages... Read more >
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A Raisin in the Sun
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2004
Price: $7.50
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 >
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2004
Price: $7.50
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 >
The Good Body
Written by Eve Ensler
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $11.99
Botox, bulimia, breast implants: Eve Ensler, author of the international sensation The Vagina Monologues, is back, this time to rock our view of what it means to have a “good body.” “In the 1950s,” Eve writes, girls were “pretty, perky. They had a blond Clairol wave in their hair. They wore... Read more >
Written by Eve Ensler
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $11.99
Botox, bulimia, breast implants: Eve Ensler, author of the international sensation The Vagina Monologues, is back, this time to rock our view of what it means to have a “good body.” “In the 1950s,” Eve writes, girls were “pretty, perky. They had a blond Clairol wave in their hair. They wore... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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Under Thirty
Plays for a New Generation
Edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $17.00
For the vast generation of actors in their teens and twenties, as well as for teachers, directors, and producers, Under Thirty is an unparalleled source of diverse and challenging roles, created by some of today’s finest writers. The twenty plays presented here in full or in part include insightful looks at... Read more >
Plays for a New Generation
Edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $17.00
For the vast generation of actors in their teens and twenties, as well as for teachers, directors, and producers, Under Thirty is an unparalleled source of diverse and challenging roles, created by some of today’s finest writers. The twenty plays presented here in full or in part include insightful looks at... Read more >
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Faustus
Written by David Mamet
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2004
Price: $12.00
Having put his personal stamp on the contemporary theater, David Mamet now performs the supremely audacious feat of reinventing the theater of the past. He does so by telling his own ingenious and eerily moving version of the tragedy of Dr. Faustus.
Mamet’s Faustus—like Marlowe’s and Goethe’s before him—is a philosopher whose... Read more >
Written by David Mamet
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2004
Price: $12.00
Having put his personal stamp on the contemporary theater, David Mamet now performs the supremely audacious feat of reinventing the theater of the past. He does so by telling his own ingenious and eerily moving version of the tragedy of Dr. Faustus.
Mamet’s Faustus—like Marlowe’s and Goethe’s before him—is a philosopher whose... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
And Other Plays
Written by Oscar Wilde
Introduction by Terrence McNally
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $10.95
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And Other Plays
Written by Oscar Wilde
Introduction by Terrence McNally
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $10.95
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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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: $16.95
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 >
Two Plays
Written by Anna Deavere Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $16.95
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 >
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The Retreat from Moscow
A Play About a Family
Written by William Nicholson
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: March 23, 2004
Price: $12.00
How well do we know the people we marry? Is it wrong to decide it’s time to be honest? Is love enough to save a family? In The Retreat from Moscow, William Nicholson, the celebrated author of Shadowlands, tells the powerful story of a husband who decides to be truthful in... Read more >
A Play About a Family
Written by William Nicholson
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: March 23, 2004
Price: $12.00
How well do we know the people we marry? Is it wrong to decide it’s time to be honest? Is love enough to save a family? In The Retreat from Moscow, William Nicholson, the celebrated author of Shadowlands, tells the powerful story of a husband who decides to be truthful in... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Oresteia
Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
Written by Aeschylus
Translated by George Thomson
Introduction by Richard Seaford
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: January 20, 2004
Price: $22.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
One of the founding documents of Western culture and the only surviving ancient Greek trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus is one of the great tragedies of all time.
The three plays of the Oresteia portray the bloody events that follow the victorious return of King Agamemnon from the... Read more >
Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
Written by Aeschylus
Translated by George Thomson
Introduction by Richard Seaford
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: January 20, 2004
Price: $22.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
One of the founding documents of Western culture and the only surviving ancient Greek trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus is one of the great tragedies of all time.
The three plays of the Oresteia portray the bloody events that follow the victorious return of King Agamemnon from the... Read more >
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Three One-Act Plays
Riverside Drive Old Saybrook Central Park West
Written by Woody Allen
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2004
Price: $15.00
Three delightful one-act plays set in and around New York, in which sophisticated characters confound one another in ways only Woody Allen could imagine
Woody Allen’s first dramatic writing published in years, “Riverside Drive,” “Old Saybrook,” and “Central Park West” are humorous, insightful, and unusually readable plays about infidelity. The characters, archetypal... Read more >
Riverside Drive Old Saybrook Central Park West
Written by Woody Allen
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2004
Price: $15.00
Three delightful one-act plays set in and around New York, in which sophisticated characters confound one another in ways only Woody Allen could imagine
Woody Allen’s first dramatic writing published in years, “Riverside Drive,” “Old Saybrook,” and “Central Park West” are humorous, insightful, and unusually readable plays about infidelity. The characters, archetypal... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Take Ten II
More Ten-Minute Plays
Edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $16.95
A ten-minute play is a blaze of theatrical energy. In this follow-up to their groundbreaking collection Take Ten, editors Eric Lane and Nina Shengold have put together a veritable bonfire of talent. Take Ten II: More 10-Minute Plays provides a fast-track tour of the current theatrical landscape, from the slapstick ingenuity... Read more >
More Ten-Minute Plays
Edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $16.95
A ten-minute play is a blaze of theatrical energy. In this follow-up to their groundbreaking collection Take Ten, editors Eric Lane and Nina Shengold have put together a veritable bonfire of talent. Take Ten II: More 10-Minute Plays provides a fast-track tour of the current theatrical landscape, from the slapstick ingenuity... Read more >
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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 >
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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Me and Shakespeare
Adventures with the Bard
Written by Herman Gollob
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $15.00
On the eve of retiring from a successful publishing career, Herman Gollob attends a wonderful Broadway production of Hamlet starring Ralph Fiennes. Galvanized by the splendor of the language, the drama and the acting, he discovers an insatiable passion for all things Shakespeare. He reads broadly and deeply about the plays... Read more >
Adventures with the Bard
Written by Herman Gollob
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $15.00
On the eve of retiring from a successful publishing career, Herman Gollob attends a wonderful Broadway production of Hamlet starring Ralph Fiennes. Galvanized by the splendor of the language, the drama and the acting, he discovers an insatiable passion for all things Shakespeare. He reads broadly and deeply about the plays... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Me and Shakespeare
My Late Life Adventure with the Bard
Written by Herman Gollob
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $13.99
On the eve of retiring from a successful publishing career, Herman Gollob attends a wonderful Broadway production of Hamlet starring Ralph Fiennes. Galvanized by the splendor of the language, the drama and the acting, he discovers an insatiable passion for all things Shakespeare. He reads broadly and deeply about the plays... Read more >
My Late Life Adventure with the Bard
Written by Herman Gollob
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $13.99
On the eve of retiring from a successful publishing career, Herman Gollob attends a wonderful Broadway production of Hamlet starring Ralph Fiennes. Galvanized by the splendor of the language, the drama and the acting, he discovers an insatiable passion for all things Shakespeare. He reads broadly and deeply about the plays... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Chekhov: The Essential Plays
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Michael Heim
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 19, 2003
Price: $10.00
Because Chekhov’s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago. Gathered here in superb new renderings by one of the most highly regarded translators of... Read more >
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Michael Heim
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 19, 2003
Price: $10.00
Because Chekhov’s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago. Gathered here in superb new renderings by one of the most highly regarded translators of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Chekhov: The Essential Plays
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Michael Heim
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $4.99
Because Chekhov’s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago. Gathered here in superb new renderings by one of the most highly regarded translators of... Read more >
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Michael Heim
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $4.99
Because Chekhov’s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago. Gathered here in superb new renderings by one of the most highly regarded translators of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
