Playwriting
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What We Did Before Our Moth Days
$15.95 Read moreWallace Shawn’s first new play in ten years, a dark moral fable.
And so yes, well, I’d simply dropped that whole idea of being a good person, I’d dropped it right down into some hole in the street, and… [more below]
- Author: Shawn, Wallace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0571399908
- Language: English
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The Real Thing
$16.00 Read moreThe Real Thing is one of Tom Stoppard’s most enduring and highly acclaimed dramatic works, first performed in 1982 at The Strand Theatre in London, starring Felicity Kendal and Roger Rees. The Real Th
- Author: Stoppard, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0802127444
- Language: English
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Our Town and the Cosmic One-Acts: The Long Christmas Dinner, the Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, and Pullman Car Hiawatha
$19.99 Add to cart“Thornton Wilder will survive. . . as long as there are people around who are willing to sit in something called a theater and be reminded of their common humanity.” –New York Times
A beautifully desi
- Series: Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions #51
- Author: Wilder, Thornton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063465620
- Language: English
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The Coast of Utopia: A Trilogy: Voyage/Shipwreck/Salvage
$18.00 Add to cartTom Stoppard’s magnificent trilogy, The Coast of Utopia, was the most keenly awaited and successful drama of 2007. Now “Stoppard’s crowning achievement” (David Cote, Time Out New York) has been collec… [more below]
- Author: Stoppard, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0802143407
- Language: English
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The Unfinished Harauld Hughes: Richard Ayoade’s Hilarious Fictional Quest to Rescue a Mythical Mid-Century Playwright from Obscurity
$16.95 Add to cart‘So funny – Nabokov meets Spinal Tap.’ STEPHEN MERCHANT
‘Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.’ TIM KEY
‘Absolutely miraculous.’ JESSE EISENBERG
‘A brain-swirlingly funny quest.’ ROBERT POPPER
Richard Ayoade’s
- Author: Ayoade, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0571339174
- Language: English
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Le Cid and the Liar
$18.00 Add to cartRichard Wilbur’s translations of the great French dramas have been a boon to acting troupes, students of French literature and history, and theater lovers. He continues this wonderful work with two pl
- Author: Wilbur, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 11 2009
- ISBN10: 0156035839
- Language: English
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Oedipus Kolonos PB
$9.99 Add to cartAmong the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Oedipus at Kolonos is one of seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a vivid and dyna
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0062132105
- Language: English
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The Unfinished Harauld Hughes
$27.99 Add to cartRichard Ayoade’s fictional quest to rescue Harauld
Hughes – the almost mythical mid-century playwright –
from obscurity.
The gifted filmmaker, corduroy activist and amateur dentist, Richard Ayoade, first- Author: Ayoade, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0571377890
- Language: English
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Hamlet
$25.00 Read moreChiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the world’s finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and be
- Series: Chiltern Classic
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1914602145
- Language: English
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Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers: How Early Modern Playwrights Shaped the World’s Greatest Writer
$36.95 Add to cartThis book uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights on the celebrated works of William Shakespeare.
- Author: Freebury-Jones, Darren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1526177323
- Language: English
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Theatre of the Unimpressed: In Search of Vital Drama
$13.95 Add to cartHow dull plays are killing theatre and what we can do about it.
Had I become disenchanted with the form I had once fallen so madly in love with as a pubescent, pimple-faced suburban homo with braces?
- Series: Exploded Views
- Author: Tannahill, Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1552453138
- Language: English
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My Broken Language: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartGOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK – The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and co-writer of In the Heights tells her lyrical story of coming of age against the backdrop of an ailing Philadelphia barrio, w… [more below]
- Author: Hudes, Quiara Alegría
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0399590064
- Language: English
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365 Days/365 Plays
$24.95 Read more“Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most important dramatists America has produced.”–Tony Kushner
“The plan was that no matter what I did, how busy I was, what other commitments I had, I would write a pl- Author: Parks, Suzan-Lori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 426
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1559362863
- Language: English
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Sam Shepard: A Life
$18.95 Read more“John Winters offers a master class in literary sleuthing, untangling the many lives and unearthing the origin story of America’s foremost Renaissance man of letters.” –Kelly Horan, coauthor of Devot… [more below]
- Author: Winters, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1619029731
- Language: English
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Arthur Miller: American Witness
$26.00 Read moreA great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller’s dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights
“Lahr’s cogent analyses are revelatory. . . . He does not reduce- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Lahr, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0300234929
- Language: English
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Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond
$18.95 Add to cartNEW IN PAPERBACK!
BOOKS ARE MAGIC 2023 HOLIDAY GIFT BOOK With humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City. Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and pr- Author: Eng, Alvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1531504833
- Language: English
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Action: The Art of Excitement for Screen, Page, and Game
$30.00 Read moreFrom the master of Story, Dialogue, and Character, ACTION offers writers the keys to propulsive storytelling.
ACTION explores the ways that a modern-day writer can successfully tell an action story t- Author: McKee, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1538726912
- Language: English
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The Normal Heart and the Destiny of Me: Two Plays
$18.00 Add to cartThe Normal Heart, set during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, is the impassioned indictment of a society that allowed the plague to happen, a moving denunciation of the ignorance and fear that he… [more below]
- Author: Kramer, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 18 2000
- ISBN10: 0802136923
- Language: English
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Theatre of the Unimpressed: In Search of Vital Drama
$13.95 Read moreHow dull plays are killing theatre and what we can do about it.
Had I become disenchanted with the form I had once fallen so madly in love with as a pubescent, pimple-faced suburban homo with braces?
- Series: Exploded Views
- Author: Tannahill, Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1552453138
- Language: English
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The Misanthrope and Tartuffe, by Molière
$19.99 Add to cartIn brilliant rhymed couplets, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur renders two of seventeenth-century French playwright Moliere’s comic masterpieces into English, capturing not only the form and… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Wilbur, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 20 1965
- ISBN10: 0156605171
- Language: English
