Collections
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Steve CarterCollection Description
This collection includes two full-length plays, DAME LORRAINE and HOUSE OF SHADOWS, a long one-act, ONE LAST LOOK, and two short pieces, MIRAGE and TEA ON INAUGURATION DAY... [read more]
Plays in This Collection
Stuart SpencerCollection Description
This collection includes three full-length plays: SUDDEN DEVOTION, RESIDENT ALIEN, and IN THE WESTERN GARDEN, composed of three related one-acts... [read more]
Y YorkCollection Description
This collection includes three full-length plays: THE SECRET WIFE, THE SNOWFLAKE AVALANCHE, and GERALD'S GOOD IDEA... [read more]
Brett C LeonardCollection Description
This collection includes two short plays: ROGER AND VANESSA and SCOTCH AND WATER. ROGER AND VANESSA: Fresh out of prison, Roger has a scheme to make his volatile relationship with Vanessa, a manicurist, profitable through a singing act... [read more]
Richard NelsonCollection Description
This collection includes 12 thematically related short plays: 1976, FLYER; 1977, BRIEFING; 1978, SQUASH; 1979, WHAT I DID ON MY SUMMER VACATION; 1980, THE ENVIRONMENT; 1981, THE FREEZE MOVEMENT; 1982, CIVIL RIGHTS; 1983, BUYING A HOUSE; 1984, THE LAST CIGARETTE OR THEY HAVE PROBLEMS IN CENTRAL AMERICA; 1984, U... [read more]
Plays in This Collection
- 1976, Flyer
- 1977, Briefing
- 1978, Squash
- 1979, What I Did on My Summer Vacation
- 1980, The Environment
- 1981, The Freeze Movement
- 1982, Civil Rights
- 1983, Buying a House
- 1984, The Last Cigarette or They Have Problems in Central America
- 1984, U.S.A. U.S.A. U.S.A.
- 1986, "The Cherry Orchard"
- 1988, Thanksgiving
Brett C LeonardCollection Description
This collection includes six one-act plays: SNAPSHOT; THE BRONX TO THE 'BU: BRUCE LEONARD — WARTS AND ALL; WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR; BOBO AN' SPYDER; REBUTTAL; BEAUTY AND LIGHT.
Plays in This Collection
Pierre Carlet de Marivaux, translated from French by Laurence SenelickCollection Description
SLAVE ISLAND was first produced on Monday, 5 March 1725 by Lelio Riccoboni's troupe and the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, Paris... [read more]
Sherry KramerCollection Description
This collection includes five short plays: CAKE, HOLD FOR THREE, THE DREAM HOUSE, THE WORLD AT ABSOLUTE ZERO, and A THING OF BEAUTY CAN BE COPIED FOREVER... [read more]
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Carl Sternheim, translated by Eric BentleyCollection Description
This collection includes three full-length plays: THE UNDERPANTS, THE SNOB, and 1913. In THE UNDERPANTS, she is waiting in the crowd — Berlin, circa 1910 — craning her neck forward to see the Kaiser pass by... [read more]
A R GurneyCollection Description
This collection includes two short plays: THE GUEST LECTURER and THE PROBLEM. THE GUEST LECTURER: Mona runs a financially strapped regional theatre and takes "diabolical steps" to keep the venue going... [read more]
Constance CongdonCollection Description
This collection includes four full-length plays: TALES OF THE LOST FORMICANS, NO MERCY, LOSING FATHER'S BODY, and CASANOVA... [read more]
Eric BentleyCollection Description
This collection includes two short plays: A TIME TO DIE and A TIME TO LIVE. A TIME TO DIE might be regarded as a Sophocles Variation, inspired as it is by the ANTIGONE of Sophocles, and A TIME TO LIVE as a Euripides Variation being inspired by the ANDROMACHE of Euripides... [read more]
Tony KushnerCollection Description
TINY KUSHNER finds the inimitable Tony Kushner at his most laconic. Replete with scintillating turns of phrase, rich in wit and wisdom, and branded with his trademark intelligence, TINY KUSHNER reveals that Tony Kushner's mastery of the short form is as pronounced as his mastery of the epic... [read more]
Greg OwensCollection Description
This collection includes 11 comedic short plays: AT THE INTERSECTION OF AGE AND RAGE, THE BASTARD CHILD OF EVEL KNIEVEL, BUFFALO ROAM, EXTREME CUSTOMER SERVICE, FISH BABY DREAMING, THE LEPER VALLEY CONDO ASSOCIATION, PABLO PICASSO TEACHES HIGH SCHOOL, PASTIME, POETS ANONYMOUS, THE ROAD IS AN ASPHALT HOSTESS, and WHITE TRASH BINGO... [read more]
Firesign TheatreCollection Description
This collection includes two short plays: WAITING FOR THE ELECTRICIAN, OR SOMEONE LIKE HIM and TEMPORARILY HUMBOLDT COUNTY... [read more]
Plays in This Collection