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  • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

    by August Wilson ...
    **NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING VIOLA DAVIS AND CHADWICK BOSEMANFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson comes the extraordinary Ma Rainey's Black Bottom—winner of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play.The time is 1927. The place is a run-down recording studio in Chicago. Ma Rainey, the legendary blues singer, is due to arrive with her entourage to cut ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Cocktail Party

    by T. S. Eliot ...
    A comedic play about the universal quest for meaning, written in some of Eliot’s “most beautiful poetry” (The New York Times). A sterling example of contemporary theater, The Cocktail Party is a dramatic tour de force from one of our greatest writers to date. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • I'm Gonna Pray for You So Hard

    A Play

    Ella is a precocious and fiercely competitive actress whose aims in life are making her famous playwright father proud—and becoming famous herself. In the aftermath of a boozy, drug-fueled evening when Ella’s father is particularly hurtful, she flings herself into the arms of a young director with whom she begins to collaborate on a one-woman show . . . about her father. Halley Feiffer’s dark, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Back Back Back; Celebrity Row; Outrage

    Three Plays

    by Itamar Moses ...
    Itamar Moses has been hailed as one of America's most talented young playwrights since his critically acclaimed Bach at Leipzig debuted in 2005. In this anthology of three new plays, Moses blurs the line between fact and fiction, dramatizing today's most infamous news stories. In Back Back Back, the pressures of performance and reputation get the best of three professional baseball players when ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Unsheltered

    A Novel

    New York Times Bestseller • Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, O: The Oprah Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek“Kingsolver brilliantly captures both the price of profound change and how it can pave the way not only for future generations, but also for a radiant, unexpected expansion of the heart.... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • All in the Timing

    Fourteen Plays

    by David Ives ...
    The world according to David Ives is a very add place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives's characters plunge into black holes called "Philadelphias," where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton, Swift, and Kafka are locked in a room and made to re-create Hamlet. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • Picnic Plus 3: 4 Plays

    by William Inge ...
    “Inge reveals the powerful mysteries in our lives.”—Tennessee WilliamsFour plays by a quintessential twentieth-century playwright—Come Back, Little Sheba; Picnic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Bus Stop; and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs—with a foreword by the author.“This nice, well-bred next door neighbor, with the accent that belongs to no region except the region of good manners, has begun ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Break of Noon

    A Play

    by Neil LaBute ...
    What if God told you to be a better person but the world wouldn’t allow it?Such is the dilemma facing Joe Smith, a run-of-the-mill white-collar businessman who survives an office shooting and is subsequently touched by what he believes to be a divine vision. His journey toward personal enlightenment-past greed and lust and the other deadly sins-is, by turns, tense, hilarious, profane, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Belleville

    by Amy Herzog ...
    "A quietly devastating play... Both a perceptive drama depicting the sudden fraying of a young marriage and a nail-biting psychological thriller... Belleville is among the most suspenseful plays I've seen in years." - Charles Isherwood, New York Times"Masterly... Among the new crop of young American playwrights, Herzog is in a class by herself." - Richard Zoglin, TimeAbby and Zack, young American ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Some Girl(s)

    A Play

    by Neil LaBute ...
    Your career as a writer is blossoming, your beautiful, young fiancee is waiting to get married and rush off to Cancun by your side—so what is your natural reaction? Well, if you're a man, it's probably to get nervous and start calling up old girlfriends. And so begins a single man's odyssey through four hotel rooms as he flies across the country in search of the perfect woman (that he's already ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • We Are Water

    A Novel

    by Wally Lamb ...
    “A mesmerizing novel about a family in crisis.”— Miami HeraldA disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy, from Wally Lamb, the New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed and I Know This Much Is True.After 27 years of marriage and three children, Anna Oh—wife, mother, outsider artist—has fallen in love wit. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Naked Paddock

    by M.K. Ducote ...
    Inspired by real events and the first novel of a trilogy series, Naked Paddock, transports its readers on a wild journey through the adrenaline-fueled world of professional motorsports—a world of money, sex, ego and ruthless competition. Set on the stage of historic racetracks throughout the world, Naked Paddock introduces a lifelike cast of colorful characters, as quirky and flawed as they are ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Smoke Screen

    Lauren, Ryan, and Simone meet again after the tragedy that brought them all together ten years ago. A serial killer is on the loose in Detroit, murdering men and leaving her mark, and each of these women has a motive to kill. Simone, a sexual abuse survivor and advocate for young girls, has begun to heal her wounds over the past ten years, but she is still trying to reclaim her life. Her mother, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Choir Boy

    "An exhilarating, multi-layered new play."-The Guardian"Stirring and stylishly told . . . McCraney's crispest and most confident work."-Daily News"Greatly affecting. . . . It takes a brave writer to set his language against the plaintive beauty of the hymns and spirituals . . . but McCraney's speech holds its own, locating poetry even in casual vernacular and again demonstrating his gift for ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Death of a Salesman

    Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem

    by Arthur Miller ...
    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

    $6.99 USD

  • Primeval Rebirth

    by Aaron Pery ...
    After millions of years of existing without evolving as most other earth creatures did, a protoplasmic creature, the last of its kind, becomes a symbiotic part of a primate. Acquiring an ability to move from host to host, it survives for thousands of years as an observer until it attains Robin Bender as its newest host. It quickly decides to merge with him and become an integral part of his life. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Coronado

    Stories

    by Dennis Lehane ...
    Now available with a contemporary look, a must-have collection of riveting short stories from the New York Times bestselling author of Mystic River and Shutter Island.“Locations are vivid and crisp, characters are memorable and, most importantly, the story lines dig into you and leave their mark.” —Boston HeraldWhen it comes to contemporary crime fiction there’s no territory quite as dangerous and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Torch Song Trilogy

    Plays

    A new edition of the classic drama portraying gay life in New York in the 1970s and 80s—winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, now back on Broadway in a revival hailed by The New York Times as “irresistibly compelling.”What begins as a chance encounter in a New York nightclub leads drag performer Arnold Beckoff on a hilarious yet touching pursuit of love, happiness, and a life he can be proud of. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Counselor (Movie Tie-in Edition)

    A Screenplay

    Series series Vintage International
    **From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road—in this screenplay of the major motion picture, the Counselor makes a risky entrée into the drug trade, on the eve of becoming a married man, and gambles that the consequences won’t catch up to him.Along the gritty terrain of the Texas–Mexico border, a respected and recently engaged lawyer throws his ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Small Tragedy (TCG Edition)

    by Craig Lucas ...
    "Full of itnerest, intelligence, amusement, and spine-chilling verity. . . . A play to see and ponder, staying with you, in typical Lucas fashion, long after you leave the theater."—Village VoiceAn amateur production of Oedipus elicits social and political tension among its actors, generating meaningful revelations about tragedy in the contemporary world. Lucas's topical and complex play is a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Our Lady of 121st Street

    Jesus Hopped the A Train; In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings

    Stephen Adly Guirgis has been hailed as one of the most promising playwrights at work in America today. A masterful poet of the downtrodden, his plays portray life on New York's hardscrabble streets in a manner both tender and unflinching, while continually exploring the often startling gulf between who we are and how we perceive ourselves. Gathered in this volume is his current off-Broadway hit, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Reckless and Other Plays

    by Craig Lucas ...
    * Author’s plays are produced widely throughout the U.S. * New edition of Reckless with Blue Window and Stranger, his most recent play * Previous edition--three printings over 8,000 copies sold * Last year’s hit Off Broadway revival brought back for encore runs by popular demand for encore runs in July and September ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Jen Silverman: Three Plays

    The Roommate; The Moors; Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties.

    by Jen Silverman ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Three plays about transformation, intimacy and power from award-winning American Playwright Jen Silverman. Contains the plays The Roommate; The Moors and Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties.Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties - Five different women named Betty collide at the intersection of anger, sex, and the “thea-tah”, falling in love in unexpected ways.The Moors - Two sisters and a dog ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Miracle Worker

    A Play

    NO ONE COULD REACH HERTwelve-year-old Helen Keller lived in a prison of silence and darkness. Born deaf, blind, and mute, with no way to express herself or comprehend those around her, she flew into primal rages against anyone who tried to help her, fighting tooth and nail with a strength born of furious, unknowing desperation.Then Annie Sullivan came. Half-blind herself, but possessing an almost ... Read more

    $2.99 USD