Drama - LGBTQ+

It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared--57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire is one of those plays. The story famously recounts...

A Taste of Honey tells the story of a working-class adolescent girl and her various relationships: the black sailor who gets her pregnant; the homosexual art student who moves into her apartment to help her through the pregnancy; her fun-loving and saloon-frequenting mother; and...

Includes Revised Broadway version of AppropriateWinner of three 2024 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a PlayA double-volume containing two astonishing breakout plays from one of the theatre's most exciting and provocative young writers.In Appropriate, strained familial dynamics collide with a tense undercurrent of...

United States Artists Fellow, winner of Yale's Windham Campbell Prize in Drama, and Associate Company Member at Pillsbury House + Theatre (PHT) Sharon Bridgforth queerly/explores her relationship with her aging mother as she seeks to recover, understand, hold and heal the love that she...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the...

Author: Michael BreslinPublisher: Northwestern University PressPublished: 08/15/2026Pages: 376Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.10dISBN: 9798899480546About the AuthorMICHAEL BRESLIN is a writer, composer/lyricist, and director of plays, musicals, and movies. He holds a DFA from Yale School of Drama and a BA from...

Forgive me, father, for I am a sinner...I have three masked men who ravish me.I want to do dirty things with my stepbrothers.I made a naughty video with my masked men.But I pictured them as my stepbrothers the whole time.Forgive me, Father, my sins...

Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, James Ijames' Fat Ham reinvents Shakespeare's masterpiece in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbecue in the American South.Winner of the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Drama.Juicy-a young, queer, Southern man,...

"Based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel."Author: Jeanine Tesori,Lisa Kron,Alison BechdelPublisher: Concord TheatricalsPublished: 08/01/2015Pages: 78Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.16dISBN: 9780573704574

Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and soon to be back on Broadway in a revival directed by the Lion King's Julie Taymor, starring Clive Owen "A brilliant play of ideas... a visionary work that...

Finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for DramaA complex and compelling bilingual play that examines the intersections of queerness and Indian-American identity.When Indian-American graduate student Choton travels from the U.S. to his family's home city of Kolkata to film interviews with the local queer...

The Drunk, The Gambler, and The Lover is a transgender novella about loneliness, isolation, and addiction, all stemming from the feeling of being unseen and misunderstood.The Drunk lives in a mysterious, detached reality with a deep desire for connection. This drunk, an alcoholic writer...

Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura piece for...

Inspired by E. M. Forster's novel Howards End, and set in New York three decades after the height of the AIDS epidemic, The Inheritance wrestles with what it means to be a gay man today, exploring relationships and connections across age and social class...

The Laramie Project presents a deeply complex portrait of a community's response to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man living in Laramie, Wyoming.Author: Moisés KaufmanPublisher: Concord TheatricalsPublished: 03/20/2026Pages: 90Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.19dISBN: 9780822217800This title is...

Two classic plays in a single volume: One of the most-performed theater pieces in America about the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard and the town in which it happened, joined by an essential and moving sequel to the original play. "A terrific piece of...