A Raisin in the Sun

Written by Lorraine Hansberry

Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2011
Price: $6.99

"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.

Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling... 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 >

Romeo and Juliet

Written by William Shakespeare

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2009
Price: $4.99

In a society dominated by religion and bound by ties of strict family loyalty, two teenagers are trapped by their secret love. As a dangerous vendetta spills onto the streets, the young lovers are forced to risk all to be together in Shakespeare’s fast-paced tragedy of thwarted love.

Under the editorial supervision... Read more >

The Laramie Project

Written by Moises Kaufman

Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2010
Price: $13.99

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 >

The Vagina Monologues
The V-Day Edition
Written by Eve Ensler

Format: eBook
On Sale: March 10, 2001
Price: $13.99

A poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone, The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. In this stunning phenomenon that has swept the nation, Eve Ensler gives us real women's stories of intimacy, vulnerability, and sexual self-discovery.

Celebrated... Read more >

Buried Child

Written by Sam Shepard

Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2009
Price: $13.99

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... Read more >

Oleanna
A Play
Written by David Mamet

Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2012
Price: $9.99

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... Read more >

Living with Shakespeare
Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors
Written by Susannah Carson
Foreword by Harold Bloom

Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $9.99

Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson invites forty actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work is still such a vital part of our culture.

We hear from James Earl Jones on reclaiming Othello as a tragic... Read more >

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... Read more >

The Winter's Tale

Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $4.99

One of the last plays Shakespeare penned on his own, The Winter’s Tale is a transcendent work of death and rebirth, exploring irrational sexual jealousy, the redemptive world of nature, and the magical power of art.

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