"Without ever invoking politics, Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue manages to be a deeply poetic, touching, and often funny indictment of the war in Iraq."?The New York TimesMelding a poetic dreamscape with a
The managing director and the architect recount the eight-year process by which the Milwaukee Repertory Theater converted a landmark former power plant into a state-of-the-art performing arts complex.
"These guys are funny daredevils of performance, totally fearless as they skewer convention and lazy thinking. Cool."—Eric Bogosian"Important social satire for these urgent times."—Dolores Huerta, Vic
The published report from the Second American Congress of Theater held in Cambridge, Mass. in June 2000. This convening of 250 delegates representing both the commercial and not-for-profit theaters, a
"Rapp remains a true man of the theater and a potent writer."—Time Out "To watch The Hallway Trilogy by Adam Rapp is to enter an alternate universe . . . a carnival of the desperate, the grotesque, th
One of the few versions to adhere to the verse format of the original, this uncut, contemporary translation restores the humor so often lacking in English-language editions.
The second collection of plays from award-winning novelist Reynolds Price. Delicate examinations of love, faith, family and race, written in the eloquent vernacular of Price's native North Carolina. I
"Carl Hancock Rux is full of promise and virtuosity . . . a gifted poet who offers up vibrant imagery like a street corner preacher in the midst of a nervous breakdown."—New York Times"Talk is the mos
Passion Play is Sarah Ruhl's "biggest, most ambitious effort yet" (The New York Times), a three-and-a-half hour intimate epic, plunging the depths of the timely intersection of politics and religion.
“A subversive, seriously funny new theater piece by the adventurous playwright Young Jean Lee. . . . Ms. Lee does not shy away from prodding the audience’s racial sensitivities—or insensitivities—in a
This new volume of interviews with contemporary playwrights attests to the fact the dramatic art is alive and well in America and celebrates the art and talent of fifteen of the theatre's most importa
"Mr. Shinn is among the most provocative and probing of American playwrights today."?The New York Times"Chris Shinn explores politics and ethics without moralizing and finds justice and beauty in inti
"[Shanley's] intense engagement with questions of religion and ethics?remains distinctive and invigorating."?The New York Times"There's a deeper philosophical vein that the author mines, allowing his
The inaugural anthology of one of the first playwrights of the Hip-Hop Generation."The best of the shape-shifting solo performers who brought multiethnic New York to the stage in the nineties."?Time O
