A volume of work by the innovative African-American playwright, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog. The volume also contains the plays Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Devotees in the Garden of Love, Betting on the Dust Commander and several essays.

Suzan-Lori Parks' fierce and intimate three-person drama, a companion piece to her Pulitzer Prize-winning play Topdog/Underdog. Encouraged by his stepmother to return home to South Texas, a young man reunites with his abusive father, unearthing an explosive combination of deep-seated passion and ambition.

The book and lyrics of the extraordinary musical theatre hit from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America. Evening Standard Award for Best Musical Critics Circle Award for Best Musical Olivier Award for Best New Musical. Through their intimate story, this beautiful new musical portrays the changing rhythms of a nation.

Set against the sorrowful sounds of hymns and spirituals, Choir Boy premiered at the Royal Court in London before receiving its Off-Broadway premiere in summer 2013 to critical and popular acclaim. Tarell Alvin McCraney is author of The Brother/Sister Plays: The Brothers Size, In the Red and Brown Water, and Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet.

Cloud 9 premiered in London at the Royal Court Theatre in 1979, then was revived for a two-year run in New York City (1981). It has since been staged all over the world. Caryl Churchill has written for the stage, television and radio. A renowned and prolific playwright, her plays include Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Far Away, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?, Bliss, Love and Information, Mad Forest and A Number.

Tina Howe once said that her aim is "to present a lovely exterior, then seduce the audience into the dark and mysterious places inside." Her four major plays to date are noted for their unusual and elegant an art museum, a French restaurant, a Beacon Hill townhouse, a New England beach. (Goodreads)

Two plays by the acclaimed Cuban-American writer. The Color of Desire explores the lost love affair between America and Cuba. Hurricane is a celebration of humility, generosity, and kindness, and our inherent, human need for sacrifice.

A unique assortment of plays, songs and poems for primary school children to read and perform - an ideal resource for teachers and schools looking for creative ways to explore contemporary moral and ethical issues in a fun and stimulating way. Cootie Shots contains over 50 short educational performance pieces promoting tolerance and celebrating diversity.

A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was never meant to be told, a life he never dreamed could be his. Evan Hansen is about to get the one thing he's always wanted: a chance to belong. Deeply personal and profoundly universal, Dear Evan Hansen is a groundbreaking American musical about truth, fiction, and the price we're willing to pay for the possibility to connect.

It has been fifteen years since Nora Helmer slammed the door on her stifling domestic life, when a knock comes at that same door. It is Nora, and she has returned with an urgent request. What will her sudden return mean to those she left behind?

An unforgettable journey across time and generations. Back home in Philadelphia, Elliot Ortiz, a nineteen-year-old Marine seriously wounded in Iraq, contemplates his return for a second tour of duty. In this poetic memory play, the Ortiz family recounts three generations of service to their country in the wars in Korea, Vietnam and Iraq, and the effects their service has had on the individual, the family and the community they live in.

Alice in Wonderland meets Greek myth in this playful, heart-breaking American take on a timeless tale of loss, grief and redemption. Eurydice is in love with Orpheus. Her dead father has advice for her wedding but his letters can't get through to the land of the living. At last one does. With her father's words in her hand, she crashes down a flight of stairs and wakes in the underworld, her memory wiped as clean as glass. How will she ever get home?

Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, James Ijames' play Fat Ham reinvents Shakespeare's Hamlet in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbecue in the American South. Juicy - a young, queer, Southern man, who is grappling with questions of identity - is visited by the ghost of his father (Pap) at his mother's wedding/family barbecue. Pap demands that Juicy avenge his recent murder.

The Classic 1958 musical brilliantly updated by the leading Asian-American playwright. With music and song, Flower Drum Song takes us through questions of love, marriage and custom - and where to return an unwanted mail-order bride! This version includes David Henry Hwang's fully updated text, an introduction by Hwang and an afterword by Karen Wada, which carefully documents the long and vital history of this landmark musical.

Inspired by the faith at the heart of African-American Christianity, Lee Breuer and composer Bob Telson have transformed the Oedipus story. Writing at the end of his own long life, in Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles depicts his doomed hero's final hours; at the moment of his death the aged Oedipus is free at last.

Eduardo Machado's Havana is Waiting and other plays examines the intersection of the personal and the political on a generation of immigrants. With humor and passion, the author pursues his lifelong exploration of the Cuban-American experience in this new collection.

Kimberly Levaco is about to turn sixteen and has recently moved with her family to a new town in suburban New Jersey. Suffering from a disease that causes her to age four and a half times faster than her high school peers, surrounded by a dysfunctional family (and possible felony charges), Kimberly is also navigating her first teenage crush. Ever the optimist, she is determined to find happiness against all odds and embark on a great adventure.

Two plays by a leading American dramatist, which together provide mirror-image investigations of coming of age in the sixties. How I Learned to Drive is a Lolita-like tale of female sexual awakening under the watchful eye - and hands - of a largely sympathetic 'uncle'. It was premiered off-Broadway in March 1997, and went on to win the 1998 Pulitzer Prize.

Five exotic plays from the famous Ridiculous Theatre of New York, with a preface by Tony Kushner. The late Charles Ludlam ransacked theatrical and literary history in an evolutionary quest for a modern art of stage comedy. His more than 30 plays - most famously those collected here - are among the funniest, most erudite and anarchic in the modern repertoire.

Winner of the 1994 Tony Awards for Best Book, Best Music and Lyrics, and Best Musical. Passion is the third original collaboration between Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. Their first, Sunday in the Park with George , earned them a Pulitzer Prize. Their second, Into the Woods , won Tony, Grammy, Drama Desk, and Drama Critics Circle awards. (Goodreads)

Ruhl dramatizes a community of players rehearsing their annual staging of the Easter Passion in three different eras: 1575 northern England, just before Queen Elizabeth outlaws the ritual; 1934 Oberammergua, Bavaria, as Hitler is rising to power; and Spearfish, South Dakota, from the time of Vietnam through Reagan's presidency.

"Before writing the plays in prose for which he would be universally acclaimed as the father of modern drama (Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, etc.), Henrik Ibsen wrote two of the last great verse epics of the nineteenth century, Brand and Peer Gynt. Based in part on the folk traditions of the playwright's native Norway, Peer Gynt remains one of the key challenges - and greatest entertainments - of the international stage."

A powerful exploration of the legacy of slavery in America, The Piano Lesson centres on a brother and sister in 1930s Pittsburgh as they argue over whether to sell the family piano, an instrument tainted by the wages of slavery. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1990. The play is part of August Wilson's Century Cycle, his epic dramatisation of the African American experience in the twentieth century.

The latest passionate drama from South African Athol Fugard portrays in moving, personal terms the recent conflicts, fears and hopes that have reshaped the political landscape of his native land. "If there is a more urgent and indispensable playwright in world theatre, I don't know who it could be."--Jack Kroll, Newsweek

This collection brings back into print one of Craig Lucas’ best known and enduring works, Prelude to a Kiss , which was both a hit on Broadway and a popular motion picture. Missing Persons , an updated version of Lucas’ first play, is also included in the collection, along with Three Postcards , an offbeat and uniquely imaginative free form musical play. (Goodreads)

A unique edition of Chekhov's play in a brilliant translation by a world-renowned team of translators. This translation of Chekhov's The Seagull includes lines and variants found in Chekhov's final version of the play, but omitted from the script for the original performance at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898, which went on to become the standard printed version.

Floyd 'Schoolboy' Barton has fallen on bad times since blowing the money he got for recording his song, 'That's All Right'. Now the song is a hit, and he has one more chance to make it in life.  Set in 1940s Pittsburgh, Seven Guitars is a play about the search for self-fulfillment and acceptance in a hostile world. The play is part of August Wilson's Century Cycle, his epic dramatisation of the African American experience in the twentieth century.

Two plays by one of America's premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Talk Radio. Sex Plays includes Skunkweed, a culture clash between an L.A. screenwriter and a working-class woman held captive in a hotel room by her rural Florida family, and 1+1, an exploration of desire, greed and personal responsibility through the lives of a good-looking hustler, an ambitious pretty girl and a 'good guy' who always seems to finish last.

The full text of cult performer Eric Bogosian's solo show, attacking the dark underbelly of the American dream with blistering accuracy.

A charming meditation on the beauty and transience of the world around us, by acclaimed playwright, actor and director Athol Fugard. The Shadow of the Hummingbird tells the story of an ailing man in his eighties and the afternoon spent with his ten year-old grandson. Fugard continues to mine the depths of the human spirit with profound empathy and heart. This edition includes an introductory Prelude by Paula Fourie with extracts from Fugard's unpublished notebooks.

Premiered at the Royal National Theatre, this extraordinary play by one of Britain's leading playwrights combines English folk tales with modern urban life. In terms of its language alone, it is as exciting and challenging on the page as on the stage. The play follows the Skriker, "a shapeshifter and death portent, ancient and damaged", in its search for love and revenge as it pursues two young women to London, changing its shape at every new encounter.

The groundbreaking rock musical about teenage sexuality, with book and lyrics by Steven Sater and music by Duncan Sheik. In a world where the grown-ups hold all the cards, three school friends experience the exhilarating, turbulent journey into adulthood. Spring Awakening is inspired by Frank Wedekind's controversial 1891 play about teenage sexuality and society's efforts to control it.

When estranged lovers are thrown together as romantic leads in a long-forgotten 1930s melodrama, the line between offstage and onstage begins to blur. In Stage Kiss, Sarah Ruhl, one of America's most widely produced playwrights, brings her unique mix of lyricism, sparkling humour and fierce intelligence to the world of romantic comedy. The play asks us to consider what is real, both in love and in art.

An updated version of Bogosian's theatrical tour de force. Eric Bogosian's play subUrbia chronicles the nighttime activities of a group of aimless 20-somethings still living in their suburban New Jersey hometown, and their reunion with a former high school classmate, Pony, who has become a successful musician. subUrbia was originally produced at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater of the Lincoln Center Theater, New York, in April 1994.

In one of the poorest cities in America, Reading, Pennsylvania, a group of down-and-out factory workers struggle to keep their present lives in balance, ignorant of the financial devastation looming in their near future. Based on Nottage's extensive research and interviews with residents of Reading, Sweat is a topical reflection of the present and poignant outcome of America's economic decline.

Constance Congdon's plays in this collection range from a somber mediation on life in the post-nuclear age ("No Mercy") to madcap social satire ("Losing Father's Body"), from an epic historical exploration of love and social identity ("Casanova") to the imaginative aliens' travel guide to Middle America ("Tales of the Lost Formicans").

"Boal and his work are marvelous examples of the post-modern situation-its problems and its opportunities. Twice exiled, Boal is 'at home' now wherever he finds himself to be. He makes a skeptical, comic, inquisitive and finally optimistic theatre involving spectators and performers in the search for community and integrity. This is a good book to be used even more than to be read." - Richard Schechner

"Churchill, who constantly reinvents dramatic form, has come up with something compelling and strange: an intimate revue about the increasing surreality of modern life." -Guardian "Puts one in mid of the painter Magritte...Each brief scene is preceded by doomy, tabloid television 'news music', and a graphic announcing some heavy topical subject - The War in Bosnia, for instance, or the Northern Ireland Peace Process.

A photojournalist is at home in Brooklyn recovering from serious wounds sustained whilst out covering war-torn Iraq, but longs for the adrenalin rush of her past. From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Dinner With Friends (2000) and nominated for two 2010 Tony Awards, including for 'Best Play'.

Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future. Suzan-Lori Parks is the author of numerous plays, including In the Blood and Venus.

Nilo Cruz is the most produced Cuban-American playwright in the US and was the first dramatist of Hispanic descent to receive the Pulitzer Prize. This volume contains: Two Sisters and a Piano Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams Lorca in a Green Dress The volume also includes A Bicycle Country and the one-act play, Capricho.

Set in a small restaurant in the Pittsburgh Hill District in 1969, Two Trains Running is part of August Wilson's Century Cycle, his epic dramatisation of the African American experience in the twentieth century. This edition includes a foreword by Laurence Fishburne, who played the part of Sterling in the original 1990 production and on Broadway.

As the sixth play in the TCG Classic Russian Drama Series, Richard Nelson and preeminent translators of Russian literature, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, continue their collaboration with Chekhov's most intimate play.   Other titles in this series include: The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov The Inspector by Nikolai Gogol Molière, or The Cabal of Hypocrites and Don Quixote by Mikhail Bulgakov A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev The Seagull by Anton Chekhov

A soldier returns from Iraq and struggles to find his place in the world, while somewhere in a chat room, recovering addicts forge an unbreakable bond. The boundaries of family and friendship are stretched across time and cyberspace in this second installment of Quiara Alegría Hudes's acclaimed trilogy. Water By the Spoonful won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2012. It is the second in a three-play cycle which began with Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue and concludes with The Happiest Song Plays Last.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature In the words of his translator, Ron "The Nobel committee's decision to honor Fo as a master of literature is a historic tribute to the theatre, which is still viewed by many as literature's bastard child; it is also the first time that the Nobel for the literary arts has been awarded to an actor. This courageous and controversial choice indirectly expands the modern definition of literature to include the power of the spoken word." (Goodreads)

David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face is a mock documentary that puts Hwang himself centre-stage as he uses the controversy over colour-blind casting for Miss Saigon and the racially motivated federal investigation of his own father to explore Asian identity and the ever-changing definition of what it is to be an American.