“A fascinating and provocatively stimulating distillation of three decades of intense conversations between one of the twentieth century’s few true theater innovators and America’s leading writer on t
“A mischievous new translation by the poet Richard Wilbur, [The Bungler] is great good fun and should open the gate for the play to be presented with the regularity it deserves.”—Bruce Weber, The New
The Director's Voice, Volume 2 (a follow-up to the hugely successful 1988 publication The Director's Voice), is the first book of its kind in more than two decades: a major publication devoted to inte
Paris, the 1970s. Legendary screen and stage actress, Marlene Dietrich, now in her seventies, is preparing for her evening's solo performance...A moving celebration of the woman behind the myth, Marl
In The Man Who Never Yet Saw Woman's Nakedness a man carrying a large stone appears at a rehearsal of Romeo and Juliet. As unexplained riots rage outside, Felix and Anna are trapped in the theatre wi
A farm lies in ruins. And with mother and father now gone, a brother and sister face eviction by an officious lawyer. Abandoned, they endlessly enact the rituals of punishment once visited upon them
Frustrated at the ongoing violence of the civil war, Lysistrata decides that the women of Athens must take matters into their own hands. Against heartfelt resistance, she eventually persuades the ent
Includes: Secret Honor by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone; Food from Trash by Gary Leon Hill; Mensch Meier by Franz Xaver Kroetz, translated by Roger Downey; Buck by Ronald Ribman and Mercenaries by
Includes: Strictly Dishonorable by Preston Sturges, The Racket by Bartlett Cormack, The Ghost of Yankee Doodle by Sidney Howard and A Slight Case of Murder by Howard Lindsay and Damon Runyon.
Includes: Jane Alexander, Eileen Atkins, Elisabeth Bergner, Marjorie Brewer, Zoe Caldwell, Ann Casson, Constance Cummings, Judi Dench, Joyce Ebert, Pat Galloway, Ellen Geer, Lee Grant, Uta Hagen, Wend
Praise for Jose Rivera:"Even if you've never seen Puerto Rico or grown old, you sit there ruminating on love, sacrifice, and betrayal."?Chicago Tribune, on Boleros for the Disenchanted"Teasingly engro
Best known for his precision-blade language and hot-button subject matter, David Mamet shows off a lighter side with his equally dexterous screwball comedy Keep Your Pantheon. Featuring an over-the-hi
"Funny, moving, and undeniably sexy. The heady blend of smart dialogue and characters. . .makes it a candidate to be the Angels in America of the Bush II decade."?San Francisco Chronicle"The two works
"Comedy nirvana . . . satisfyingly mean and funny."?The New York PostNicky Silver, that "strange progeny of a coupling between Neil Simon and Edward Albee" (The New York Times), has cornered the marke
Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama."A beautiful, heartbreaking knockout of a play, as startling and innovative and human on the page as on the stage."?Junot DiazA soldier returns from Iraq an
A wide-ranging, inspiring documentary history of the American theater movement as told, at the time of its making, by the visionaries who goaded it into being. This anthology collects over forty essay
"The finest American author of his generation."—Sunday MailNothing is quite what it seems in David Mamet's latest work. With a nod to his mentor, Harold Pinter, Mamet once again employs his signature
"Richard Foreman reinvented dialogue, action, sound, stage design, and philosophical groundwork as no other stage artist in our history."—PEN/Laura Pels Master American Dramatist Award citation These
