Plays From Playwrights Horizons

Author : Aleshea Harris
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781559369268

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Is God Is / What to Send Up When It Goes Down by Aleshea Harris Pdf

“Furious and incandescent… Harris writes so blisteringly that the actors could just let the language’s flames carry them along.” —Helen Shaw, Time Out New York on Is God Is An explosive epic that examines the cyclical nature of violence, Is God Is follows twin sisters who undertake a dangerous journey to exact revenge upon their father at the behest of their dying mother. “Aleshea Harris turns theater into a monument, ephemeral but real, to ongoing pain. You can’t tear down a statue that never shows up outside.” —Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker on What to Send Up... What to Send Up When It Goes Down is a play-pageant-ritual response to anti-Blackness in America. It is a challenge to us all: to heal through expression, expulsion, and movement.

Author : William Finn
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Musicals
ISBN : 0573681538

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In Trousers by William Finn Pdf

Author : Anne Washburn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781350200555

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Mr Burns by Anne Washburn Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781705185674

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A Strange Loop by Anonim Pdf

(Vocal Selections). Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical, Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer Prize-winning blisteringly funny masterwork exposes the heart and soul of a young artist grappling with desires, identity, and instincts he boths loves and loathes. This collection features 15 songs from the show arranged for vocal line with piano accompaniment. Songs include: Boundaries * Didn't Want Nothin' * Exile in Gayville * Inner White Girl * Intermission Song * Inwood Daddy * Memory Song * Periodically * Precious Little Dream / AIDS Is God's Punishment * Second Wave * A Strange Loop * A Sympathetic Ear * Today * Tyler Perry Writes Real Life * We Wanna Know.

Author : Jaclyn Backhaus
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822236429

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Men on Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus Pdf

Ten explorers. Four boats. One Grand Canyon. MEN ON BOATS is the true(ish) history of an 1869 expedition, when a one-armed captain and a crew of insane yet loyal volunteers set out to chart the course of the Colorado River.

Author : Hannah Bos,Paul Thureen,Oliver Butler
Publisher : Samuel French, Incorporated
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573706514

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The Light Years by Hannah Bos,Paul Thureen,Oliver Butler Pdf

Behold the Spectatorium: an audacious, visionary 12,000-seat theater designed for the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 by Steele MacKaye, the now-forgotten theatrical impresario around whom this haunted, forty-year love story spins. The Light Years is an epic, intimate tale of two families struggling to meet their future, and a spectacular tribute to man's indomitable spirit of invention.

Author : Zayd Dohrn
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822237129

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The Profane by Zayd Dohrn Pdf

Safe in the liberal fortress of Manhattan, Raif Almedin is a first-generation immigrant who prides himself on his modern, enlightened views. But when his daughter falls for the son of a conservative Muslim family in White Plains, he discovers the threshold of his tolerance. In this sharp and timely tale, two families are forced to confront each other’s religious beliefs and cultural traditions, and to face their own deep-seated prejudice.

Author : Christopher Durang
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802188908

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Betty's Summer Vacation by Christopher Durang Pdf

Pitch-black humor and brutal social commentary from the Tony Award-winning playwright: “Relentlessly fierce, relentlessly funny.”—Ben Brantley, The New York Times Looking for a little rest and time by herself, Betty rents a summer share at the beach. But Betty's luck turns when this sensible Everywoman gets drawn into the chaotic world of some very unsavory housemates: her friend Trudy, who talks too much; the lewd, semi-naked Buck, who tries to have sex with everyone; and Keith, a serial killer who hides in his room with a mysterious hatbox. With sand between her toes, walking a thin line between sanity and survival, poor Betty will leave her summer vacation more terrorized than tan—in this Obie Award-winning play from Christopher Durang, who “proves to be every bit as sharp and caustic as England’s Joe Orton” (David Kaufman, New York Daily News). “Not only wickedly funny but a commentary on the state of American culture.”—Curtis Ellis, MSNBC “A comedian whose fury takes the form of farce.”—John Lahr, The New Yorker

Author : Sarah Ruhl
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781559364294

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Stage Kiss by Sarah Ruhl Pdf

An enchanting new comedy by Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl.

Author : Amy Herzog
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781559367530

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The Great God Pan by Amy Herzog Pdf

"The Great God Pan is a haunting, deeply affecting play about the interaction of identity, psychology and pathology. Ms. Herzog writes with keen sensitivity to the complex weave of feelings embedded in all human relationships, with particular attention to the way we tiptoe around areas of radioactive emotion." - New York Times "Whatever the ideal contemporary American drama is, it has to look a lot like The Great God Pan. It is provocative and subtle, slowly, carefully revelatory, sweetly moving, thought-provoking, funny and insightful." - New York Observer "An intelligent, delicately articulate writer." - Village Voice "A moving and unsettling look at the nature of identity and the vagaries of memory. With subtlety and compassion, Herzog contemplates how well we can really know ourselves." - Backstage Jamie's life in Brooklyn seems just fine: a beautiful girlfriend, a burgeoning journalism career, and parents who live just far enough away. But when a possible childhood trauma comes to light, lives are thrown into a tailspin. Unsettling and deeply compassionate, The Great God Pan tells the intimate tale of what is lost and won when a hidden truth is suddenly revealed. Amy Herzog's plays include 4000 Miles (Pulitzer Prize finalist), After the Revolution and Belleville. Ms. Herzog is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Whiting Writers' Award, an Obie Award and the Helen Merrill Award for Aspiring Playwrights.

Author : Heidi Schreck
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780810132696

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Grand Concourse by Heidi Schreck Pdf

Grand Concourse is a play by playwright and two-time Obie Award-winning actor Heidi Schreck. It tells the story of Shelley. Having dedicated her life to religious service, Shelley runs a Bronx soup kitchen with unsentimental efficiency. When Emma—a rainbow-haired college dropout—arrives to volunteer, her volatile mix of generosity and self-involvement throws Shelley’s life into chaos. She brings a needed jolt to the place, helping a long-time client toward a new job, but her energy also proves unsettling. Even as Emma’s behavior grows steadily more erratic, Shelley still wants to believe in her, despite the mounting evidence that she shouldn’t. Shelley must finally ask herself how well she really knows the people she sees every day, how much she can trust them, and what she can and cannot forgive. With both humor and generosity Grand Concourse asks big questions about the limits of both compassion and forgiveness.

Author : Itamar Moses
Publisher : Samuel French, Incorporated
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573701466

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Completeness by Itamar Moses Pdf

How does a computer scientist hook up with a molecular biologist? He blinds her with science, of course. When Elliot builds a computer program to help Molly with her research project, the variables in their evolving relationship shift as rapidly as the terms of their experiment. This deft and imaginative new ROM-comedy shows that even the most sophisticated algorithm may freeze in the face of life's infinite possibilities.

Author : Craig Lucas
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781559368094

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Prayer for My Enemy by Craig Lucas Pdf

Craig Lucas' new keenly-layered, politically-minded family drama.

Author : Stephen Sondheim,George Furth
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Detective and mystery plays
ISBN : 0822215659

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Getting Away with Murder by Stephen Sondheim,George Furth Pdf

THE STORY: The esteemed and retired Dr. Conrad Bering has selected, out of countless applicants, several individuals for private as well as Group therapy. It seems this Pulitzer Prize- winning doctor might be writing another book and it further see

Author : Christopher Durang
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0822200848

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Baby with the Bathwater by Christopher Durang Pdf

THE STORY: As the play begins Helen and John gaze proudly at their new offspring, a bit disappointed that it doesn't speak English and too polite to check its sex. So they decide that the child is a girl and name it Daisy--which leads to all manner