Category: American

A Bright Room Called Day

By: Kushner, Tony

Price: $3.43 USD

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group : 1994-05-01

Seller ID: 155936078X-3-27510627

ISBN-13: 9781559360784

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

"One of the things that makes Kushner such a vibrant writer is the way he luxuriates in exuberance and sorrow, emotions that these intense Berliners have in spades. His intellectual characters are tremendously passionate and expressive, so it's hard not to care about what they care about, and what happens to them." -Washington Post "A juggernaut of a play." -San Francisco Weekly "Unabashedly political, thought-provoking, a little scary and frequently a good deal of theatrical fun... intoxicatingly visionary." -Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner's powerful...
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A Raisin in the Sun

By: Lorraine Hansberry; Robert Nemiroff [Introduction]

Price: $3.43 USD

Publisher: Vintage : 2004-11-29

Seller ID: 0679755330-4-19912833

ISBN-13: 9780679755333

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

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, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America--and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem Harlem, which warns that a dream deferred might dry up/like a raisin in the...
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A Raisin in the Sun: with Connections (HRW Library)

By: Lorraine Hansberry

Price: $3.46 USD

Publisher: HOLT, RINEHART AND WINSTON : 2009-05-08

Seller ID: 0030550998-3-20254523

ISBN-13: 9780030550997

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

A Stranger for Christmas

By: Pearson, Carol Lynn

Price: $3.43 USD

Publisher: St Martins Pr : 1996-01-01

Seller ID: 0312146809-3-24968285

ISBN-13: 9780312146801

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

A Streetcar Named Desire

By: Williams, Tennessee

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Signet : 1984-03-01

Seller ID: 0451129822-4-26648227

ISBN-13: 9780451129826

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

A Streetcar Named Desire

By: Williams, Tennessee

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Signet : 1986-08-13

Seller ID: 0451167783-3-18921016

ISBN-13: 9780451167781

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

A Streetcar Named Desire

By: Williams, Tennessee

Price: $3.46 USD

Publisher: Signet : 1986-08-13

Seller ID: 0451167783-4-18825596

ISBN-13: 9780451167781

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

A Streetcar Named Desire

By: Williams, Tennessee

Price: $3.46 USD

Publisher: New Directions : 1980-06-17

Seller ID: 081120765X-3-18881651

ISBN-13: 9780811207652

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared A Streetcar Named Desire is one of those plays. The story of the fading and desperate Blanche DuBois and how her sensuous and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, pushes her over the edge is now classic. Who better than Arthur Miller, America's elder statesman of the theater (Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, Broken Glass, Resurrection Blues), to write as a witness to the lightning that struck American culture when Williams's singular s...
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A. R. Gurney, Vol. III: Collected Plays, 1984-1991

By: Albert Ramsdell Gurney

Price: $15.15 USD

Publisher: Smith & Kraus : 2000-07-01

Seller ID: 1575251981-3-28469551

ISBN-13: 9781575251981

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

A.R. Gurney Bio: Scenes From American Life, Children, The Dining Room, The Middle Ages, Richard Cory, The Golden Age, What I did Last Summer, The Wayside Motor Inn, Sweet Sue, The Perfect Party, Another Antigone, The Cocktail Hour, Love Letter, The Snow Ball (adapted from his novel), The Old Boy, The Fourth Wall, Later Life, A Cheever Evening, Sylvia, Overtime, Let's Do It (a Cole Porter musical), Labor Day, Far East, Darlene and The Guest Lecturer, Ancestral Voices. Opera: Wrote libretto for "Strawberry Fields" with music by Michael Torke, part of the Central Park Opera trilogy presented by t...
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After the Fall: A Play in Two Acts (Penguin Plays)

By: Miller, Arthur

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Penguin Books : 1980-12-18

Seller ID: 0140481621-4-27574572

ISBN-13: 9780140481624

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Often called the most autobiographical of Arthur Miller's plays, After the Fall probes deeply into the psyche of Quentin, a man who ruthlessly revisits his past to explain the catastrophe that is his life. His journey backward takes him through a troubled upbringing, the bitter death of his mother, and a series of failed relationships.

All My Sons (Penguin Classics)

By: Miller, Arthur; Bigsby, Christopher W. E. [Introduction]

Price: $3.55 USD

Publisher: Penguin Classics : 2000-11-01

Seller ID: 0141185465-4-20986908

ISBN-13: 9780141185460

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

A Penguin Classic Joe Keller and Steve Deever, partners in a machine shop during World War II, turned out defective airplane parts, causing the deaths of many men. Deever was sent to prison while Keller escaped punishment and went back to business, making himself very wealthy in the ensuing years. In Miller's work of tremendous power, a love affair between Keller's son, Chris, and Ann Deever, Steve's daughter, the bitterness of George Keller, who returns from the war to find his father in prison and his father's partner free, and the reaction of a son to his father's guilt escalate toward a cl...
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American Melodrama (PAJ Books)

By: Gerould, Daniel [Editor]

Price: $3.69 USD

Publisher: PAJ Publications : 2001-07-01

Seller ID: 0933826214-4-27008942

ISBN-13: 9780933826212

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

These plays show a fascinating side of the American melodramatic imagination as it was nurtured in the social world of the nineteenth century, and later grew to be a dominant genre in the theatre, film, and television of today. Includes: The Poor of New York by Dion Boucicault, Uncle Tom's Cabin by George Aiken/Harriet Beecher Stowe, Under the Gaslight by Augustin Daly, The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco.
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An American Daughter

By: Wasserstein, Wendy

Price: $3.66 USD

Publisher: Harper Perennial : 1999-08-19

Seller ID: 0156006456-3-26357518

ISBN-13: 9780156006453

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Lyssa Dent Hughes is the privileged, well-educated daughter of a Republican senator. She is the wife of a professor and the owner of a lovely house in Georgetown. She is also the president's nominee for Surgeon General. When the media discovers that once, long ago, she failed to respond for jury duty, this relatively minor misstep is portrayed as a serious moral lapse. A good friend uses the incident to make a point, scarcely thinking of the implications, and Lyssa must suffer the consequences. From that moment on, Lyssa Dent Hughes sits helplessly as the press investigates her family and frie...
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Angels Fall: A Play (Mermaid Dramabook)

By: Wilson, Lanford

Price: $4.28 USD

Publisher: Hill & Wang : 1983-01-01

Seller ID: 0809012456-3-28256129

ISBN-13: 9780809012459

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

By: Kushner, Tony

Price: $3.55 USD

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group : 1993-05-01

Seller ID: 1559360615-4-20463744

ISBN-13: 9781559360616

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in the 1980s. "A vast, miraculous play.... provocative, witty and deeply upsetting.... a searching and radical rethinking of American political drama."--Frank Rich, "The New York Times ""Daring and dazzling The most ambitious American play of our time."--Jack Kroll, "Newsweek "
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Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika

By: Kushner, Tony

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group : 1993-11-01

Seller ID: 1559360739-4-26419270

ISBN-13: 9781559360739

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

The second half of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic Angels in America, Perestroika steers the characters introduced in Millennium Approaches from the opportunistic eighties to a new sense of community in the nineties. "Not only a stunning resolution of the resounding human drama of Millennium Approaches, but also a true millennial work of art."--Frank Rich, The New York Times
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Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika

By: Kushner, Tony

Price: $4.89 USD

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group : 1993-11-01

Seller ID: 1559360739-11-16827966

ISBN-13: 9781559360739

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

The second half of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic Angels in America, Perestroika steers the characters introduced in Millennium Approaches from the opportunistic eighties to a new sense of community in the nineties. "Not only a stunning resolution of the resounding human drama of Millennium Approaches, but also a true millennial work of art."--Frank Rich, The New York Times
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Anna Christie (Dover Thrift Editions: Plays)

By: O'Neill, Eugene

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Dover : 2016-02-17

Seller ID: 0486299856-3-27328600

ISBN-13: 9780486299853

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Early in his career, Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) wrote a series of plays revolving around characters obsessed with the sea. This period culminated in the 1922 production of Anna Christie, a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of social realism that was among the first of the author's plays to explore characters searching for their own identities. Centering on the reunion of a barge captain and his daughter after a twenty-year separation, the play derives its tension from the former's disaffection for the seafaring life and the latter's love for a sailor. The father-daughter conflict elicits a shocking...
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Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape

By: O'Neill, Eugene

Price: $3.54 USD

Publisher: Vintage : 1995-10-31

Seller ID: 0679763953-3-24124443

ISBN-13: 9780679763956

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Winner of the Nobel Prize This edition includes Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones, and The Hairy Ape three classic plays of uncontested power from the Nobel laureate and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for drama. In Anna Christie, a sailor reunites with his estranged daughter after years apart. As she begins to fall in love with a younger sailor, she realizes she must come clean to her father and her new love interest and reveal her troubled past. In The Emperor Jones, African American fugitive, Brutus Jones, recounts his life through a series of flashbacks as he runs from rebelling subjects ...
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Bachelor Girls

By: Wasserstein, Wendy

Price: $3.48 USD

Publisher: Vintage : 1991-07-02

Seller ID: 0679730621-4-26877109

ISBN-13: 9780679730620

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

In plays such as Isn't It Romantic, Uncommon Women and Others, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles, Wendy Wasserstein put her finger on the pulse of her past-modern, post-feminist sisters and delivered her diagnosis with shrewd good humor and an unerring sense of the absurd. That same engaging sensibility bubbles through the twenty-nine essays in Bachelor Girls, in which Wasserstein presents her observations on: --Boyfriends: The worse the boyfriend, the more stunning your American Express bill. --Role Models: In the forties emulating an ideal woman meant bobbing your hair like...
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Bachelor Girls

By: Wasserstein, Wendy

Price: $3.48 USD

Publisher: Vintage : 1991-07-02

Seller ID: 0679730621-3-17645832

ISBN-13: 9780679730620

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

In plays such as Isn't It Romantic, Uncommon Women and Others, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles, Wendy Wasserstein put her finger on the pulse of her past-modern, post-feminist sisters and delivered her diagnosis with shrewd good humor and an unerring sense of the absurd. That same engaging sensibility bubbles through the twenty-nine essays in Bachelor Girls, in which Wasserstein presents her observations on: --Boyfriends: The worse the boyfriend, the more stunning your American Express bill. --Role Models: In the forties emulating an ideal woman meant bobbing your hair like...
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Barrymore: A Play

By: LUCE, WILLIAM

Price: $6.70 USD

Publisher: Stage & Screen : 1996-01-01

Seller ID: 1568654391-3-26422124

ISBN-13: 9781568654393

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Brighton Beach Memoirs

By: Simon, Neil

Price: $3.43 USD

Publisher: Plume : 1995-11-01

Seller ID: 0452275288-4-24913877

ISBN-13: 9780452275287

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

A young boy from Brooklyn comes of age in the first play in Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical "Eugene Trilogy"--followed by Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound.Meet Eugene Jerome and his family, fighting the hard times and sometimes each other--with laughter, tears, and love. It is 1937 in Brooklyn during the heart of the Depression. Fifteen-year-old Eugene Jerome lives in Brighton Beach with his family. He is witty, perceptive, obsessed with sex, and forever fantasizing his baseball-diamond triumphs as star pitcher for the New York Yankees. As our guide through his "memoirs," Eugene takes us thr...
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Brighton Beach Memoirs

By: Simon, Neil

Price: $6.44 USD

Publisher: New Amer Library : 1995-04-01

Seller ID: 0451163443-4-25352201

ISBN-13: 9780451163448

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

By: Williams, Tennessee

Price: $3.43 USD

Publisher: Signet : 1958-09-01

Seller ID: 0451171128-3-19109723

ISBN-13: 9780451171122

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning play has captured both stage and film audiences since its debut in 1954. One of his best-loved and most famous plays, it exposes the lies plaguing the family of a wealthy Southern planter of humble origins.
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Christopher Durang Explains It All for You: 6 Plays

By: Durang, Christopher

Price: $3.55 USD

Publisher: Grove Press : 1994-01-13

Seller ID: 0802132324-3-27793547

ISBN-13: 9780802132321

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Few playwrights have explored as relentlessly as Christopher Durang the pain and confusion of everyday life--or made us laugh so uproariously at the results. Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, the center of a storm of controversy for its satire of misplaced trust in religious authority," remains as powerful today as when it was originally produced. The excruciatingly funny The Nature and Purpose of the Universe asks whether Eleanor Mann's Job-like suffering is really her fault, while Titanic takes us into the heart of children's anger with their parents and parents' manipula-tion of...
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CLOSER

By: Marber, Patrick

Price: $3.44 USD

Publisher: Heinemann : 1997-11-03

Seller ID: 0413709507-3-28700979

ISBN-13: 9780413709509

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Closer is a play which views love and sex like politics: its not what you say that matters, still less what you mean, but what you do.
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Collected Stories

By: Donald Margulies

Price: $3.43 USD

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc. : 1998-10-01

Seller ID: 082221640X-4-21259664

ISBN-13: 9780822216407

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Cyrano de Bergerac (Dover Thrift Editions: Plays)

By: Edmond Rostand

Price: $3.43 USD

Publisher: Dover Publications : 2000-05-24

Seller ID: 0486411192-4-27001932

ISBN-13: 9780486411194

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Widely considered the most popular modern French play, Cyrano de Bergerac has dazzled audiences with its wit and eloquence since it premiered in 1897.Cyrano, a quarrelsome, hot-tempered swordsman, as famous for his dueling skills and pugnacity as for his inordinately long nose, is hopelessly enamored of the beautiful Roxane. She, in turn, is in love with Christian, a handsome but inarticulate and slow-witted suitor. Asked for help by Christian in wooing Roxane, Cyrano pours out his heart in romantic dialogues -- delivered under cover of night and dense foliage -- and through ardent love letter...
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Dark Voices: The Genesis of Roy Hart Theatre (Africa Series, 1)

By: Pikes, Noah

Price: $12.86 USD

Publisher: Spring Journal, Inc. : 2004-06-01

Seller ID: 1882670191-4-22225983

ISBN-13: 9781882670192

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Dark Voices focuses on the voice's special relationship to soul and gives a sense of what a heightened awareness of this relationship can bring to contemporary performers and individuals. Noah Pikes has assembled for the first time a narrative which traces not only the stories of Alfred Wolfsohn and Roy Hart-modernist pioneers in voice and theater respectively-but also a cast of characters who made up Roy Hart Theatre in the 60s and 70s. In addition, everyone from C.G. Jung to Harold Pinter to John Cleese makes important cameo appearances. This is the first book on the vision and use of the hu...
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Category: American