Collections
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Naomi Wallace
Collection Description
Subtitled "Three Short Visions of the Middle East," this collection includes three thematically related short plays, A STATE OF INNOCENCE, THE RETREATING WORLD, and BETWEEN THIS BREATH AND YOU, collectively entitled THE FEVER CHART... [read more]
Ruth WolffCollection Description
The collection includes nine full-length plays, FAUSTIANA, ARABIC TWO, AVIATORS, THE SHAKESPEARE ROAD, HOTEL VICTORY, BUFFALOES, THE SKY POOL, THE ARDENT PHILANTHROPIST, and THE FALL OF ATHENS, and one long one-act, STILL LIFE WITH APPLES... [read more]
Georges Feydeau, translated from the French by Laurence SenelickCollection Description
This collection includes five long one-act plays: THE AWFUL TOOTH, BLASTED EVENT, DEAD WRONG, POTTY FAVORS, and SHE CAN'T BARE IT! Master Belle Époque farceur Georges Feydeau loosely based these brilliantly funny long one-acts on the failure of his own marriage... [read more]
Billy AronsonCollection Description
This collection includes 15 comic one-acts: REUNIONS, THE NEWS, LITTLE DUCK, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, NIGHT RULES, LIGHT YEARS, LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD, NEGOTIATION, GUILT, BLEEP THIS BLEEP, OF TWO MINDS, BEATLES FOREVER, AT THE BEACH, FREE WILL, and COMPLETE UNKNOWNS... [read more]
José RiveraCollection Description
This collection includes six short plays: FLOWERS, TAPE, A TIGER IN CENTRAL PARK, GAS, THE CROOKED CROSS, and THE WINGED MAN... [read more]
Yussef El GundiCollection Description
This collection includes ten short plays: In BRASS KNUCKLES, a woman, Maysoon, stands in front of a mirror, puts on her hijab, and girds herself to face the outside world... [read more]
Jennifer Tuckett, Dorothy Fortenberry, Lauren FeldmanCollection Description
This collection includes three short plays: WAYS YOU CAN SURVIVE THE WORLD by Jennifer Tuckett, AFTER THE FLOOD by Dorothy Fortenberry, and WHEN IT RAINS by Lauren Feldman... [read more]
Brooke BermanCollection Description
This collection includes four interrelated short plays: LIDDY AND THE MAD HATTER, REUNION AT THE FIN DE SIECLE, SELF-RELIANCE, and WINTER WITH TAMBOURINE BOY... [read more]
Plays in This Collection
Anton Chekhov, adapted by Richard Nelson from translations by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyCollection Description
LITTLE COMEDIES, an evening of five short plays by Anton Chekhov, span the author's career; this version of ON THE HARMFULNESS OF TOBACCO was one of the last pieces he wrote... [read more]
Lynne AlvarezCollection Description
This collection includes eight full-length plays: THE GUITARRÓN, HIDDEN PARTS, THE WONDERFUL TOWER OF HUMBERT LAVOIGNET, DON JUAN OF SEVILLE, THIN AIR: TALES FROM A REVOLUTION, THE REINCARNATION OF JAIME BROWN, EDDIE MUNDO EDMUNDO, and ON SUNDAYS... [read more]
María Irene FornésCollection Description
María Irene Fornés, the celebrated playwright, director, translator, lyricist, and seven-time Obie Award winner, has been an influential voice in American theatre for more than four decades... [read more]
Aishah RahmanCollection Description
MINGUS TAKES (3) consists of three one-acts: SPEAKER'S HEAD, IF ONLY WE KNEW, and UPTOWN! It is dedicated to Charles Mingus Jr's ingeniousness, his humor and revolutionary spirit, and his great contribution to American classical music more commonly labeled jazz... [read more]
Edited by Craig SlaightCollection Description
A BIRD OF PREY by Jim Grimsley: When Monty's family moves from Louisiana to a large city in Southern California, he and his siblings encounter a dangerous landscape where cruelty thrives among their peers, offering little comfort from their abusive home life... [read more]
Victor BumbaloCollection Description
NIAGARA FALLS consists of two interrelated one-acts: AMERICAN COFFEE and THE SHANGRI-LA MOTOR INN. AMERICAN COFFEE: A working-class couple plots to drug their gay son and his lover to keep them from attending their daughter's wedding... [read more]
Ruth WolffCollection Description
In NOTABLE WOMEN — AND A FEW EQUALLY NOTABLE MEN the biographical plays of Ruth Wolff are, for the first time, collected in one volume... [read more]