Drama

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Nelson (Author) "A mirror of our frightened, fallible selves at this very fraught moment in American history... WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? is the second work in the second cycle of plays by Mr Nelson that have quietly emerged as a sui generis triumph of civic theater... [They] inhabit the here and now with an unobtrusive thoroughness I've never encountered elsewhere in the theater." Ben Brantley, The New York Times "By exploring the underwater part of the i...

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Report copyright infringementby Karim Khan (Author)Their souls are on fire because after all these lonely days, they finally found their own. Hema hasn't indulged in sweet treats for years. She wants to be healthier and hopes the Type 2 diabetes course she's been attending will help. Everything seems on track. Then Liaquat shows up. Unapologetic and unafraid to break rules, Liaquat influences Hema to enjoy all the world has to offer and, in return, Hema helps Liaquat get his health under cont...

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Report copyright infringementby Edwin Sanchez (Author)Ray Rivers is a young Puerto Rican man on the way up. Everything is going great for him except he doesn't believe he deserves it. Struggling with the cost of assimilation, he walks a tightrope both at the factory, where he has been recently promoted to management, and with his fiancée. When a recently divorced Cuca joins the assembly line, with the sole purpose of making enough money to return to her beloved Puerto Rico, an unexpected frie...

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Report copyright infringementby Douglas Post (Author)Carter Bartosek, a foreign correspondent stationed in Beirut, returns to his Midwest hometown for the funeral of his best friend, a former congressman who apparently took his own life while high on alcohol and painkillers. Carter discovers that his friend had left the larger political arena in order to run for mayor of this town, which has transformed itself from an industrial community in decline to a high-tech hub, and that his progressiv...

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Report copyright infringementby Moliere (Author), Constance Congdon (Adapted by)In this delightful comedy about the French aristocracy, told with Molière's signature wit, the atmosphere is frivolous, the morals are loose, the egos are larger than life and everyone is looking for love. Constance Congdon's verse version of this intelligent satire is both provocative and funny. "Love is all bad sonnets, big fluffy beds and silly preening in the first half of THE MISANTHROPE... Then the gloves c...

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Report copyright infringementby Henrik Ibsen (Author), Anthony Clarvoe (Author)Ibsen's 1881 masterpiece finds a fresh interpretation in Anthony Clarvoe's taut adaptation in which a woman has to face her legacy of religious and sexual repression when her grown son comes home to tell her that he has an incurable sexually transmitted disease and asks her to help him die with dignity. Number of Pages: 98 Dimensions: 0.2 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: April...

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Report copyright infringementby Neal Bell (Author)Claire has a significant relationship with her television: she talks, and it answers her. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, she auditions to participate in a reality TV show so she can fight her "Final Battle" in front of millions of viewers. "A dark comedy with disturbing insights ... funny and provocative." -The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) "The technology of vanity is developing so quickly that NOW YOU SEE ME, the new play by Neal Bell, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Donnie Sharrell (Author)What do you get when a sexy killer for hire and an ex-dope boy meet and fall in love? A deadly combination of passion, danger, and redemption. In "Memphis Flames," Jazzy has a reputation as a ruthless hit-man, taking down targets with precision and ease. But as Jazzy gets to know Keon, she starts to see the real man beneath the surface - strong. loyal, and desperate for a second chance. But their love is a luxury they cant afford.As the...

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Report copyright infringementby Megan Terry (Author), Jo Ann Schmidman (Director)"I was skeptical, I'll admit. When a director tells me she's doing a comedy about torture, my first thought is that the show must be a little sick. My second is that the play will surely be in bad taste. After all, nice people don't laugh at things like that. But BRAZIL FADO is neither sick nor sickening. It's a nicely done piece of unusual theater. And it's funny. BRAZIL FADO is a whirlwind of action. At least t...

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan J. Samarro (Author)When Thomas D'Angelo pays a long overdue visit to his Italian grandparents, he soon finds himself caught in the middle of the ongoing, if farcical, war between the two. His grandmother, intent on plumping him up with home cooking, is sure she'll win him over to her side. His grandfather, meanwhile, surreptitiously schemes to make Thomas his ally. Never mind that Thomas has come, in part, to seek advice over the strained relationship ...

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Report copyright infringementby Matt Pelfrey (Author)NO GOOD DEED revolves around the interconnecting stories of three troubled heroes, including a Richard Jewell-like security guard; a firefighter who has rescued a toddler from a well; and lonely teen Josh Jaxon, a budding graphic novelist whose "Hellbound Hero" comes to life as his alter ego. "In a lot of ways, I want to hold this production up to the producers of SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK and say, 'This is how you put a graphic novel o...

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Report copyright infringementby Euripides (Author), Laurence Senelick (Translator)Of the hundred or so plays Euripides wrote in his lifetime only nineteen survive. Not all of them won first prize at the festivals, but BAKKHAI did. "From the outset, it is essential to understand that in Greek theater, as in fact in Shakespearean theater, the self that is really at stake is to be identified with the male, while the woman is assigned the role of the radical other." -Froma I Zeitlin "Intoxicating...

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Report copyright infringementby Brett Neveu (Author)"Anxiety courses quietly throughout WEAPON OF MASS IMPACT, but not so quietly that it won't haunt you indefinitely." TimeOut Chicago "...[a] thoroughly compelling new play... ...You come to see that we're probing the definition of terrorism here. You get the sense that [Neveu] is observing that the traumas of our individual lives can impart just as much individual misery as those mysteriously absent weapons of mass destruction that preoccupy...

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Report copyright infringementby Malinda Guerrero Castoreno (Author)The things one child saw, others did not. Twelve-year-old Malina, a shy timid child seemed to always be afraid. The sound of his voice would send her into a frenzy. How could such an incredibly handsome man be such a terror of a human being? The fear of a gangster father, the love of the most beautiful woman in the world, her mother. A mother with such rare beauty, she should have been a movie star, a celebrity, a model, anyth...

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Report copyright infringementby Marisa Wegrzyn (Author)"Both violence and wackiness continually threaten to erupt in Marisa Wegrzyn's macabre comedy. Dowdy Wisconsin housewife Valerie may have butchered her husband in hopes of canoodling with his brother. Her lesbian pharmacist daughter, Midge, sells meth to middle schoolers with the tacit approval of Aunt Gail, the bumbling sheriff who gets high to research her antidrug lectures. And so on. It's all smarter, funnier, and truer than it sounds...

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Report copyright infringementby Jon Klein (Author)Travel to Sherwood Forest for some swashbuckling fun in this rousing new version of the classic adventure story. Long before he robbed from the rich to give to the poor, the famed archer was just another teenager honing his skills. The King is off on the Crusades and Nottingham is at the mercy of the corrupt Sheriff, who twists the law and persecutes the poor. When his dad is falsely imprisoned, Robin must step up and orchestrate a rescue miss...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Chrisler (Author)TEATIME AT GOLGOTHA is "a heady, wittily self-effacing drama" about the unenviable search for meaning in what is - in all likelihood - a cold, cold world. Following the stories of Longinus after the crucifixion, the last hours in the life of astronomer Tycho Brahe, and a modern day hostage situation, TEATIME leaps back and forth through the millennia, drawing meanings, parallels, and conclusions that the characters themselves characteristi...

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Report copyright infringementby Allan Havis (Author)An intriguing thriller in Haiti, showcasing an American doctor who experiments with a new infant feeding formula and along the way is coerced by CIA operatives to treat the commanding Haitian General who has only a few months to live. "... Havis's web of ironies - the lure of the rational Gold to the spiritual, decadent Le Croix; a mission of life turned to one of death; assassination as apolitical tool - is fascinating." -L A Weekly "Havis ...

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Report copyright infringementby Emily Mann (Adapted by), Anton Chekhov (Author)Emily Mann brings Chekhov's masterpiece into the 21st century with bright contemporary language and a modern Hamptons' setting. In a world of appearance, money, business, and celebrity culture, the heart of the play is a story about the heartbreaking betrayal of children by their parents. With relevance, humor, and flowing, natural language, Mann's adaptation of challenges us to think about where America's culture ...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Nelson (Author)SORRY is the third play in the Apple Family Plays tetralogy: THAT HOPEY CHANGEY THING, SWEET AND SAD, SORRY, REGULAR SINGING The Apples sort through family anxieties and confusion on the day of electing the President. "SORRY is about as big and as small a family drama as there is in American literature these days. It deals in the quotidian and the trivial, but it keeps us aware of how every seemingly insignificant detail in one family's l...

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Jacobson (Author)Pulled from the stomach of a whale, an American whaler is bleached blind and becomes a modern Tiresias in the court of Louis XVI. He seduces Marie Antoinette and sets the king on a path to destroy France and ultimately humankind. A tragicomedy in rhymed couplets. "SPERM is Tom Jacobson's adaptation of Jacques Miroir's 18th-century play CACHALOT. Right - just try to find any play called CACHALOT or a French scribe named Miroir. Jacobson and ...

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Report copyright infringementby Louis Phillips (Author)The play centers on a family of Greek-Americans in a small Massachusetts town during the closing days of World War II. "It is a naturalistic play, whose setting and details of character and dialogue could not be more specific and lifelike. Yet the variety of moods and feelings working their way out is such as to give it a glittering intensity that passes realism. It is astonishingly textured ..." -Richard Eder, The New York Times "Louis P...

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Report copyright infringementby Begonya Plaza (Author)Carlotta is not afraid to search with eyes open for the first time, inspired by Saint Teresa of Avila and her publisher, Becky, a Jewish lesbian from New York. Carlotta is resolute on resolving her marital uncertainties with Andrés, a Catalan artist living in Barcelona, where the women make a stopover on their way to Avila. Carlotta is uncovering her own sense of self while further investigating the life of this impassioned revolutionary f...

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Report copyright infringementby Eric Overmyer (Author)A richly atmospheric, riveting noir peopled with lowdown characters who raise double and triple-crossing to high art. "Eric Overmyer [is] one of this nation's most accomplished and vividly imaginative playwrights." -Wayne Johnson, The Seattle Times "In NATIVE SPEECH, ON THE VERGE and IN PERPETUITY THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE, Eric Overmyer manifested a extraordinary command over the tools of language: sound, syntax and image ... In DARK RAPTUR...

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Report copyright infringementby Kermit Frazier (Author)In a small Midwestern city in the late 1970s, a young actor, on his way from New York to California, takes a detour for a surprise visit to a veteran actor - an actor he's worked with in only one play but to whom he's found himself inexorably, if nearly unwittingly, attached. In a taunt, tense 90 minutes, three people - a black man, a white man, and a white woman - clash over their contradictory senses of marginalization and betrayal and ...

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Report copyright infringementby Kenny Finkle (Author)A THOUSAND YEARS is a fantastical comicbook-bright flight of fancy through time examining the enduring power of love. After a terrible accident, Miriam's husband David falls into a coma. Miriam leaves the hospital to clear her head and is abducted. She spends the next 1,000 years trying to get back to David. Obstacle after obstacle abound. At some point Miriam realizes she has one true enemy - the evil She Doctor. The She Doctor may or may ...

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Jacobson (Author)Christopher Marlowe, sixteenth-century author, was murdered at the age of 29. This tragicomedy speculates that his death was tied to his scandalous play about the relationship between Jesus and the disciple John. "Playwright Tom Jacobson is a linguistic gadfly. Often, you are tickled by him. Occasionally you are bedeviled by him. Once or twice, you just want to swat him. Linguistic pyrotechnics explode in Jacobson's period verse drama THE B...

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Report copyright infringementby Sherry Kramer (Author)CAKE Two Chihuahuas contemplate the power and persistence of the smell of their urine in the oriental rug. A husband and wife contemplate it too. Is their love for their pets stronger? What lasts longer, the smell of pee or the smell of love? HOLD FOR THREE This play has had over a hundred productions worldwide. Three teenagers--Scottie, Bartey, and Ed--meet on a beach on a beautiful evening to watch the full moon come up. Scottie and Bar...

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Report copyright infringementby Alan Bowne (Author)Sharon and Billy, sister and brother, are typical adolescents growing up in a tract home in 1950's Southern California. But when fifteen-year-old Sharon finds herself pregnant, their adolescence comes to an abrupt end. "The Magic Theater continues to bolster its reputation as a producer of, and magnet for, first-rate drama. SHARON AND BILLY, a delicate and even amusing study of brother-sister incest ... Bowne has etched an eloquent appraisal ...

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Report copyright infringementby David Hay (Author)This darkly comic and provocative play explores the question of whether people can be married and truly love each other when their political persuasions are diametrically opposed. New York power couple John and Natalie are hosting a dinner for Elliot, a friend from their days as college radicals. Also invited to the party is Mark, a strait-laced young man from John's risk management firm. With the help of a few too many expensive bottles of wi...

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Report copyright infringementby Mia McCullough (Author)SINCE AFRICA chronicles the relationship between a Dinka refugee from Southern Sudan and three Americans - a North Shore socialite, her daughter, and an African American Deacon - who help him acclimate to Chicago's unfamiliar urban surroundings. A look at American culture through the eyes of an African, this play explores the tensions between blacks and whites, Africans and African Americans, the devout and the non-religious. "... a play ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sherry Kramer (Author)The Faust story is one of our eternal myths - a story about striving, about always wanting more, about the struggle to know more, feel more, be more like God. PARTIAL OBJECTS is an adaptation of the myth with two Fausts - a man and a women. When the devil offers them a moment of perfect love, they eagerly agree to give their souls for it. But perfect love is harder to come by then they'd bargained for. A fairy tale about what happens in th...