Plays / Drama
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Waiting for Lefty and Other Plays
$20.00 Add to cartOne of the most celebrated and significant plays of the modern American Theatre.
The action of the play is comprised of a series of varied, imaginatively conceived episodes, that blend into a powerful
- Author: Odets, Clifford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 418
- Publish Date: January 14 1994
- ISBN10: 0802132200
- Language: English
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Five Plays: Antigone, Eurydice, the Ermine, the Rehearsal, Romeo and Jeannette
$25.99 Add to cartThe great French playwright Jean Anouilh (1910-87) wrote both “pink” bittersweet comedies and “black” tragic dramas. Jean Anouilh Five Plays—the finest English-language anthology of his works—crackl
- Series: Five Plays #1
- Author: Anouilh, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 28 1990
- ISBN10: 0374522294
- Language: English
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In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheim
$16.00 Add to cart- Series: Mermaid Dramabook
- Author: Kipphardt, Heinar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 03 2003
- ISBN10: 0809012154
- Language: English
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Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play
$16.00 Add to cartAn award-winning play from one of America’s most brilliant writers about a murder in a small Southern town, loosely based on the 1955 killing of Emmett Till. – “A play with fires of fury in its belly,… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 25 1995
- ISBN10: 0679761780
- Language: English
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Anthony and Cleopatra: The Oxford Shakespeareanthony and Cleopatra
$10.95 Add to cartNow available in beautiful World’s Classics editions–with handsome, four-color covers and new low prices–The Oxford Shakespeare offers new and authoritative edions of Shakespeare’s plays. In each vo… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535787
- Language: English
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The Complete Euripides: Volume I: Trojan Women and Other Plays
$15.99 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Tran… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Burian, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0195388674
- Language: English
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Antigone
$13.99 Add to cartOedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact … [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 24 2007
- ISBN10: 0195143108
- Language: English
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Jacques and His Master
$16.99 Add to cartA deliciously witty and entertaining “variation” on Diderot’s novel Jacques le Fatalist, written for Milan Kundera’s “private pleasure” in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia.
When
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0062219073
- Language: English
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The Merchant of Venice: Shakespeare Retold
$12.99 Add to cartTackling The Merchant of Venice? Easily understand every line and quickly master Shakespeare’s tale of love and revenge.
Does Shakespeare’s 400-year-old language often leave you confused? Do you wish
- Series: Shakespeare Retold
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: March 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1914927206
- Language: English
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Caged
$9.99 Read moreAn evocative, affecting play on the horrors of mass incarceration written collaboratively by prisoners who have experienced it first-hand.
- Author: Cooperative Theater Prison Jersey New
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1642597090
- Language: English
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The Mystery of Irma Vep: And Other Plays
$24.95 Add to cart“Ludlam’s is a dazzling and significant body of work, and it should be accorded a place of greatest regard and honor in the American dramatic literary canon. The plays are funny, erudite, poetic, tran… [more below]
- Author: Ludlum, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: November 01 1999
- ISBN10: 1559361735
- Language: English
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Music by Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood’s Most Influential Composer
$40.99 Add to cartDuring a seven-decade career that spanned from 19th century Vienna to 1920s Broadway to the golden age of Hollywood, three-time Academy Award winner Max Steiner did more than any other composer to int… [more below]
- Series: Cultural Biographies
- Author: Smith, Steven C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0190623276
- Language: English
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The Skriker
$14.95 Add to cartPremiered 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 ex… [more below]
- Author: Churchill, Caryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 01 1994
- ISBN10: 1559360976
- Language: English
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The Purpose of Destiny
$16.99 Add to cartStephen Nance grew up near San Francisco, prior to becoming a prominent physician at Seattle’s world-renowned Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Having been the only child of an emotionally wound… [more below]
- Author: Kropf Morris, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987372005
- Language: English
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The Physicists: A Comedy in Two Acts
$16.00 Add to cartThe Physicists is a provocative and darkly comic satire about life in modern times, by one of Europe’s foremost dramatists and the author of the internationally celebrated The Visit. The world’s great… [more below]
- Author: Durrenmatt, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0802144276
- Language: English
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Closer: A Play
$15.00 Add to cartNew York Dram Critc’s Circle Award for Best Foreign Play
Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy
London Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play
Time Out Award for Best West End Play
The award-winning play
- Author: Marber, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: December 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0802136451
- Language: English
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The Collected Plays of Neil Simon
$32.00 Add to cartThis first volume of The Collected Plays of Neil Simon contains the triumphs that put his unique brand of comic genius on the American stage, and made him the most successful playwright of his generat… [more below]
- Series: Collected Plays of Neil Simon #1
- Author: Simon, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: November 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0452258707
- Language: English
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York Mystery Plays: A Selection in Modern Spelling
$14.95 Add to cartThe York Corpus Christi cycle is the oldest and best-known of the English mystery cycles, and its depth and scope are reflected in the selection of twenty-two pageants offered in this volume. Included… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Beadle, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552533
- Language: English
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The Rover and Other Plays
$10.95 Add to cartAphra Behn (1640-89) was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her achievements are now recognized less equivocally and her plays, often revived, demonstrate wit, compassion and remar… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Behn, Aphra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540209
- Language: English
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The Complete Aeschylus: Volume II: Persians and Other Plays
$15.99 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New … [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 17 2009
- ISBN10: 0195373286
- Language: English
