Drama

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Jacobson (Author)The true story of two actors who hired themselves out to the Long Beach Police Department in 1914 to entrap "social vagrants" in public restrooms. Thirty-one men were arrested, and the ensuing scandal led to an ordinance against "oral sodomy" in California. "Tom Jacobson's exceptional THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY WAY ... is meta-theatre - dense and accurate and mysterious. While obviously influenced by Genet and Stoppard - the costuming metaphor w...

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Report copyright infringementby Allan Havis (Author)A promising Ethiopian soccer star in Israel is courted by an American sports agent. The athlete is involved with another Ethiopian who risks being deported. Meanwhile, there is also a reckless, clandestine operation afoot to airlift one last group of Falasha Jews from Ethiopia to Israel. "In 1996, Israel announced a blood shortage and urged its citizens to give generously. The Falasha-Ethiopian Jews who were new immigrants and eager to embra...

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Report copyright infringementby Billy Aronson (Author)A Feydeau farce re-imagined in a mental ward. "Leave any expectations of conventional theater at home. Billed as half farce and half romance, THE ART ROOM is a relentlessly wicked little comedy by Billy Aronson. Aronson's script tosses the audience into the lives of four mental-ward patients, along with the nurse who cares for them and the husband of the newest arrival. All of the patients seem to have multiple personalities upon which to ...

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Report copyright infringementby John Fisher (Author)An action-adventure about a mission behind enemy lines during the Gulf War. "Action sequences that offer a straight-faced microcosm of U S blundering in Iraq ... Hilarious scenes limning the hell-yeah, know-nothing spirit that many fear now dominates our military personnel ... Like an eccentric novella that holds attention ... [A] half queer Casablanca homage, half American-policy-in-Iraq docudrama that is perversely interesting. Fisher is a...

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Report copyright infringementby Megan Terry (Author)A lyrical study in the ways, perhaps misguided, that He and She love. "OBJECTIVE LOVE, Megan Terry's new play dwells on the phony appearances upon which modern romance depends ... Actors float in and out of the performance as if they were clouds. The only recurring figures are named merely 'He' and 'She, ' perhaps representing the American Every Couple ... There is no lack of love in the world, Ms Terry reflects. But it's channeled to other ...

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Report copyright infringementby Suzie Miller (Author)A brilliant surgeon can no longer bear to touch the living. Two voices connect fleetingly over the phone. A desperate mother begs to embrace her son one last time. A young woman seeks atonement.Disparate lives interweave, intersect, collide and connect in the most unexpected of ways in Caress / Ache. This is our world-where some long for the electrical charge of human contact, others flee it, and lives turn on the smallest moments of random...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Nelson (Author)An Apple family brunch stirs up discussions of loss, remembrance and a decade of change. "If you see (and you need to) [Richard Nelson's] soul-stirring new play, SWEET AND SAD, the odds are that you you'll experience the kind of shivery moments that come when someone articulates ideas that have been lurking in your head, unexpressed and perhaps even unrecognized ... Without ever steeping onto a soapbox, SWEET AND SAD ultimately dares to a...

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Report copyright infringementby Y. York (Author)A tender, quirky play about two white women and a black man living in Seattle in 1992, as the nation and the media are transfixed by the trial of four Los Angeles police officers accused in the beating of Rodney King and the outcry of protest after the verdicts. "... [an] unassuming gem ... A comedy with serious implications, Y York's neatly crafted play explores the impact of preconception and miscommunication upon a Seattle Environmental Prote...

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Report copyright infringementby Brett C. Leonard (Author)Three generations of an Italian-American family gather to mourn the death of their matriarch. "This is a play in microcosm, a full-blown artistic vision of reality, as clammy and ugly as any American play has ever come to capturing the mundane grimness of working class life as brilliantly as the early plays of Harold Pinter." -Harvey Perr, Stage and Cinema "An air of defeat hangs heavy on this gloomy (South Philadelphia) household ... T...

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Report copyright infringementby Allan Havis (Author)A psychological drama that focuses on three characters - an American Jewish architect, his half-Arab banker wife, and a Moroccan colonel. MOROCCO begins with the ten-day arrest of sophisticated Abril Kempler, a banker working with her architect husband in Fez, Morocco. The ordeal involves a complex game between the Colonel running the jail and the Jewish American architect. Having Abril released from prison does not readily end the nightmare...

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Report copyright infringementby Donald Freed (Author)The story covers more than fifty years of the life and love of two artists in New York City, living in adjoining apartments. Their life and times constitute a small and memorable model of America from the victory years after World War II, down to the dubious battles of the twenty-first century. "Sparks of wit fly fast and furious ... Love story and history lesson dovetail in Freed's sharp dialogue." -Philip Brandes, Los Angeles Times "Polit...

3 To A Session: A Monster's Tale & Lazarus Disposed

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Report copyright infringementby Desi Moreno-Penson (Author)The collection includes two short plays: 3 TO A SESSION: A MONSTER'S TALE and LAZARUS DISPOSED. 3 TO A SESSION: A MONSTER'S TALE won the Best Play Award at the Downtown Urban Theater Festival in 2005 (Cherry Lane). In the play, Moreno-Penson unveils a riveting and provocative tale that takes place in a surrealistic realm between life and death. The introspective and child-like Vincent, the smart and steely-eyed Ally, and the sexy, yet...

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Report copyright infringementby Desi Moreno-Penson (Author)A childless, Latino couple kidnap a young girl in order to create a family, but the little girl has ideas of her own, and when her imaginary friend, the Grinch, comes to life to help her, the couple ends up with far more than they bargained for. A dark, gothic fairy tale for the contemporary world. "New York theatergoers are mostly godless heathens, right? So how is a playwright to evoke genuine otherworldly chills in her audience? De...

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Jacobson (Author)Based on the actual minutes of a women's club formed in rural South Dakota in 1934, this poignant comedy charts 70 years of personal and national history, from skinning skunks and julebukking in the '30s to restoring native prairie in the new millennium. "Tom Jacobson has paid exemplary homage to real-life American heroes from a less jaded period in our history, using transcripts of minutes from a rural South Dakotan women's club that gathe...

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Report copyright infringementby Allan Havis (Author)Offbeat drama of a mother, father, and adult daughter living together inside an upscale Manhattan apartment. Daughter plays a cello and has a personality disorder. Her alter ego seduces her father who is a political media guru. Mother is conflicted in how to stop this awful charade. "The family under observation in Allan Havis's MINK SONATA has affluence and political influence ... [In] this intriguing new play ... the dialog is literate and...

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Willmorth (Author)A laugh-out-loud parody par excellence of Shakespeare's tragedies. Wickedly whimsical, delightfully devious, with six blended tragedies, thirty-one parts, forty location changes and one enormous sword-swinging battle of twenty thousand men. "Much like the bit in Reduced Shakespeare's COMPLETE WORKS (ABRIDGED) that combines all of the Bard's comedies into one gigantic super-comedy, SHAKESPEARE'S 'KING PHYCUS' is a pithy mash-up of the more ...

Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten

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Report copyright infringementby Bernard F. Dick (Author)On October 30, 1947, the House Committee on Un-American Activities concluded the first round of hearings on the alleged Communist infiltration of the motion picture industry. Hollywood was ordered to "clean its own house," and ten witnesses who had refused to answer questions about their membership in the Screen Writers Guild and the Communist party eventually received contempt citations. By 1950, the Hollywood Ten (as they quickly becam...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeff Goode (Author)Lord Loveworthy has a problem. His only daughter is soon to be married. And the only way to pay for her wedding is to blackmail the vicar who's seducing his wife. But how does a Victorian pornographer commit extortion, without inordinate discord, at tea? "Jeff Goode's deeply silly, thoroughly enjoyable period satire on sexual hypocrisy. Goode can tease the bejesus out of a comic premise, and his gleeful dismantling of the British gentry's cor...

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Report copyright infringementby Greg Owens (Author)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. AT THE INTERSECTION OF AGE AND RAGE: Angry youth meets pedantic elder at stoplight. Mutual understanding does not...

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Report copyright infringementby Janet Neipris (Author)A sophisticated, contemporary comedy about a single woman in her fifties who plans a romantic retreat to France, but is thwarted when her three grown daughters boomerang home unexpectedly, with their partners and agendas in tow. "Neipris gives us real characters in this gently funny play, consistently amusing without being stuffed with one-liners." -Tucson Weekly "In the play's often hilarious dialogue, tinged with the harsh bite of realit...

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Reynolds (Author)GIRLS IN TROUBLE is a striking and ferocious play which dares to explore the controversial history of abortion, through its life-changing affect on women across several generations. This darkly humorous, shocking work is sure to inspire spirited debate. "GIRLS IN TROUBLE is the most thought-provoking (and also the funniest) play I've seen in New York since - well, since May 1997, when I saw (twice) STONEWALL JACKSON'S HOUSE, Reynolds's...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Nelson (Author)The play tells the story of a ragtag troupe of actors as they head West during the Gold Rush, seeking fortune and fame and performing Shakespeare for enthusiastic '49ers. But with stiff competition, romantic entanglements, and an Indian chief who sees himself in King Lear, their ambitious cross-country adventure is complicated by the teeming challenges and glories of the new American frontier. Embracing elements of Shakespearean comedy an...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeremy Dobrish (Author)Loosely based on a Grimm fairy tale, THE HANDLESS MAIDEN weaves together three stories, that of a miller and his wife who have fallen on hard times and whose story includes devils, wizards, and cross-country treks; that of an ambitious New York lawyer who decides to give it all up and travel to Seattle to see Bill Gates' mansion, her magic castle; and that of a man who is about to be married in Seattle but decides he must first see an old...

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Report copyright infringementby Brett C. Leonard (Author)Nine New York stories converge in a racially and sexually charged tale of love, justice, rage, and betrayal. Number of Pages: 74 Dimensions: 0.15 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 01, 2010

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Report copyright infringementby Donald Freed (Author)Adolph Eichmann in Jerusalem for the trial of the century. "Forty-nine years ago next Monday a certain Ricardo Klement, living obscurely in Buenos Aires, was identified by a group of Nazi-hunters as the man responsible for arranging the transport of millions of European Jews to the death camps. His true name was Adolf Eichmann. He was smuggled out of the country - illegally, but only diplomatic pedants protested - and in Jerusalem he was tr...

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Report copyright infringementby Cassandra Medley (Author)This collection includes two related one-act plays: DAUGHTER and SON. In DAUGHTER, a mother tries to reckon with injuries suffered by her daughter while serving in the U.S. military in Iraq. In SON, on the occasion of his sister's wedding, a man struggles with haunting flashbacks to the war and the bomb he dropped on a wedding party. "DAUGHTER is not only the best play of the five, but it's also the most accomplished. Medley writes abou...

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Report copyright infringementby Gil Kofman (Author)An emigration interview grows darkly menacing as it turns into an interrogation by government bureaucrats. "Throughout history words have been man's most eloquent and efficient tool of progress. Words have transported the knowledge that has set men free; they have framed concepts of liberty and propelled righteous revolutions. The pen may be mightier than the sword, but, like a blade, it cuts both ways. Tyrants, too, have used words to perfum...

The Ballad of Moon Bog: Haunted Poems & Plays

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Report copyright infringementby Andre Swartley (Author)Welcome to Moon Bog, where the light is always wrong, and the witch can sing anyone to sleep. This collection of poems, plays, and illustrations explores the porous boundaries between nature, culture, folklore, and dreams.You'll get lost in Moon Bog, but whether you stay that way is up to you. Number of Pages: 120 Dimensions: 0.33 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 04, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Fabrice Melquiot (Author)Drama. Translated from the French by Ben Yalom and Michelle Haner. THE DEVIL ON ALL SIDES is the play that brought Melquiot to prominence. Set in the war in ex-Yugoslavia, it tells the story of Lorko Ljevic, a young Serbian man, his wife Elma, a Bosnian, and their family. As the world around them is torn apart, they struggle to maintain humanity and beauty in the midst of internecine violence and degradation. To tell this story, Melquio...

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Report copyright infringementby Len Jenkin (Author)Coconut Joe is looking for the perfect consignment of coconuts for the biscuit factory he works for. His search has taken him to Berlin, where he is double crossed by a beautiful woman and ends up as a prisoner in a nuclear waste plant. He escapes and makes his way to Venice. He boards a ship but it sinks. But Joe manages to escape on a life raft with a Pirate Queen. They are washed up on an island and end up in a hotel that is full of down a...

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Report copyright infringementby Sherry Kramer (Author)There is a rule in book conservation: You must never do something perfect. Perfection is forgery. Once a book is torn, the tear cannot be erased. Joan dreams of the man who will erase all her imperfections, even though she's sure that's against all the rules of love, too. She decides to fall for a seductive psychopath who she knows can make her perfect - but she doesn't know the price she will have to pay. "WHAT A MAN WEIGHS is a contempor...

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Report copyright infringementby Y. York (Author)Joanie wants recognition for her paintings; her crime-boss husband, Nick, can ensure that she gets it. Slut-shirt May wants to learn how to paint so she can have a picture of her dead mother; her mechanic husband, Jake, wants to elevate himself to crime thug so that May will respect him. Nick just wants Joanie to love him the way he deserves ... Two men, two women, two loopy marriages, some paintings, and some crime collide in this comedy about ...