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  • Forsaken

    Terror and recompense in a flyover town

    High school Anthropology teacher Marius Greco merely wished to spend a couple quiet years in upstate New York researching his doctoral dissertation on the movie It's a Wonderful Life and the decline of the American small town. He certainly did not want to become a local "hero." Greco was just the kind of hero any America small town would be happy to have: son of Italian and Mexican immigrants, an ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays

    The thirteen one-act plays collected in this volume include some of Tennessee Williams's finest and most powerful work.They are full of the perception of life as it is, and the passion for life as it ought to be, which have made The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire classics of the American theater.Only one of these plays (The Purification) is written in verse, but in all of them the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Night of January 16th

    by Ayn Rand ...
    The definitive edition of Ayn Rand's famous play, incorporating the author's final changes.On one level, Night of January 16th is a totally gripping drama about the rise and destruction of a brilliant and ruthless man. On a deeper level, it is a superb dramatic objectification of Ayn Rand's vision of human strength and weakness. Since its original Broadway success, it has achieved vast worldwide ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • The Crucible

    by Arthur Miller ...
    Series series Penguin Plays
    A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural communityThe place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft—and then ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Death of a Salesman

    by Arthur Miller ...
    Series series Penguin Plays
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dreamEver since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • A View from the Bridge

    by Arthur Miller ...
    Winner of the 2016 Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play and Best Direction of a Play: Ivo van HoveSet in the 1950s on the gritty Brooklyn waterfront, A View from the Bridge follows the cataclysmic downfall of Eddie Carbone, who spends his days as a hardworking longshoreman and his nights at home with his wife, Beatrice, and orphan niece, Catherine. But the routine of his life is interrupted when ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A View from the Bridge

    by Arthur Miller ...
    Series series Penguin Plays
    Winner of the 2016 Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play and Best Direction of a Play: Ivo van HoveSet in the 1950s on the gritty Brooklyn waterfront, A View from the Bridge follows the cataclysmic downfall of Eddie Carbone, who spends his days as a hardworking longshoreman and his nights at home with his wife, Beatrice, and orphan niece, Catherine. But the routine of his life is interrupted when ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • An Enemy of the People

    Series series Penguin Plays
    A Penguin ClassicWhen Dr. Stockmann discovers that the water in the small Norwegian town in which he is the resident physician has been contaminated, he does what any responsible citizen would do: reports it to the authorities. But Stockmann's good deed has the potential to ruin the town's reputation as a popular spa destination, and instead of being hailed as a hero, Stockmann is labeled an enemy ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Famous Michael

    by Richard Slota ...
    Series Book 1 - Men in Trouble
    Famous Michael is about a Vietnam vet medic who can't forget the war and the woman who can't forget him.This book contains the long poem, Famous Michael, originally published by the poetry journal, Abraxas, in 1978, and republished as a chapbook by Samidat Press in 1988; as well as an adaptation, revision and expansion of it into a play. Famous Michael was staged by Solano Repertory Company in ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Two-Character Play

    A classic play by Tennessee Williams in a definitive, author-approved edition.Reality and fantasy are interwoven with terrifying power as two actors on tour—brother and sister—find themselves deserted by the trope in a decrepit "state theatre in an unknown state." Faced (perhaps) by an audience expecting a performance, they enact "The Two-Character Play"—an illusions within an illusion, and "out ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

    In this masterful play, Tennessee Williams explores the meaning of loneliness and the need for human connection through the lens of four women and the designs and desires they harbor—for themselves and for each other.It is a warm June morning in the West End of St. Louis in the mid-thirties––a lovely Sunday for a picnic at Creve Coeur Lake. But Dorothea, one of Tennessee Williams’s most engaging ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • After the Fall

    by Arthur Miller ...
    Series series Penguin Plays
    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. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Clothes for a Summer Hotel: Play

    This late play by Tennessee Williams explores the troubled relationship between F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.The late Tennessee Williams’s Clothes for a Summer Hotelmade its New York debut in 1980. Here Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, often seen as symbols of the doomed youth of the jazz age, become two halves of a single creative psyche, each part alternately feeding and then devouring the other. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Price

    by Arthur Miller ...
    Series series Penguin Plays
    Now a Broadway play starring Mark Ruffalo, Tony Shalhoub, Danny DeVito, and Jessica Hecht, Miller’s riveting story about family, sacrifice, and the struggle to make peace with the past.Years after an angry breakup, Victor and Walter Franz are reunited by the death of their father. As they sort through his possessions in an old brownstone attic, the memories evoked by his belongings stir up old ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Incident at Vichy

    A Play

    by Arthur Miller ...
    Series series Penguin Plays
    “one of the most important plays of our time” --Howard Taubman, The New York TimesIn Vichy France in 1942, eight men and a boy are seized by the collaborationist authorities and made to wait in a building that may be a police station. Some of them are Jews. All of them have something to hide—if not from the Nazis, then from their fellow detainees and, inevitably, from themselves. For in this ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • L'Indien cherche le Bronx

    Series series Répertoire contemporain
    Deux adolescents désoeuvrés rencontrent sur le bitume new-yorkais un étranger qui cherche son chemin et ne parvient pas à se faire comprendre. Simple volonté de jouer avec lui, ou d’exorciser la peur que leur cause cette « anormalité », les relations entre ces trois exclus tournent au vinaigre et les entraînent jusqu’à l’irréparable.Engrenage et violence d’une société où les barrières sociales et ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet

    Selections from the People Pieces

    by Jo Carson ...
    Fifty-four monologues and dialogues, a remarkable distillation of rhythms and nuances from the region of the heart. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Gospel at Colonus

    by Lee Breuer ...
    A founding member of the acclaimed New York-based company Mabou Mines, Breuer's gifts as a writer and director have have made him a mainstay of the theatrical avant-garde. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Driving Miss Daisy

    by Alfred Uhry ...
    Racial tensions are delicately explored when a warm friendship evolves between an elderly Jewish woman and her black chauffeur. Winner of a 1988 Pulitzer Prize, and Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Alice in Bed

    A Play

    by Susan Sontag ...
    Alice in Bed is a free dramatic fantasy which merges the life of Alice James, the brilliant sister of William and Henry James, with the heroine of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. It is a play about the anguish and grief and rage of women; and about the triumphs and limitations of the imagination. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Six Plays

    “Mr. Linney continues to be one of our most perceptive chroniclers of the folkways of rural America, finding humanity and nobility in the most remote of places.” –Mel Gussow, New York Times“Linney’s words do it all, summoning up vistas of scary beauty and passions of elemental force.” –David Richards,Washington Post“His output was dazzling in its variety and exceptional for its depth as well as ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (New Directions Bibelot)

    Series series New Directions Bibelot
    The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams.Published in 1950, his first novel was acclaimed by Gore Vidal as "Splendidly written, precise, short, complete and fine."It is the story of a wealthy, fiftyish American widow, recently a famous stage beauty, but now "drifting." The novel opens soon after her husband's death and her retirement from the theatre, as Mrs. Stone tries to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • M. Butterfly

    With an Afterword by the Playwright

    David Henry Hwang’s beautiful, heartrending play featuring an afterword by the author – winner of a 1988 Tony Award for Best Play and nominated for the 1989 Pulitzer PrizeBased on a true story that stunned the world, M. Butterfly opens in the cramped prison cell where diplomat Rene Gallimard is being held captive by the French government—and by his own illusions. In the darkness of his cell he ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Bright Room Called Day

    by Tony Kushner ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America comes this powerful portrayal of individual dissolution and resolution in the face of political catastrophe.“It’s brash, audacious and...intoxicatingly visionary.”—Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune ... Read more

    $13.99 USD