Drama - Women Authors

"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

If you've walked away from your art - or feel like you're about to - you're in good company.For decades, writer-director Ela Thier tried to "make it" in film. She chased greenlights, collected enough pass letters to wallpaper New York City, and waited to...

A funny and profound meditation on the complexity of chronic illness and the ache of desire. How far would you go to heal? For five women at a clinic in Northern California, deprivation seems to be the only answer to heal their bodies from...

"Lynn Nottage's work explores depths of humanness, the overlapping complexities of race, gender, culture and history--and the startling simplicity of desire--with a clear tenderness, with humor, with compassion." --Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrightIntimate Apparel: "Thoughtful, affecting new play . . . with seamless elegance."--Charles...

"Aleshea Harris turns theater into a monument, ephemeral but real, to ongoing pain. You can't tear down a statue that never shows up outside." --Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker This volume includes two dynamic plays from Aleshea Harris that confront the experience of being Black...

"Caryl Churchill is a dramatist who must surely be amongst the best half-dozen now writing... a playwright of genuine audacity and assurance, able to use her considerable wit and intelligence in ways at once unusual, resonant and dramatically riveting." -Benedict Nightingale "[A] thought-churning, deeply...

A beautiful and deeply humane reanimation of Ovid's myths Called by Time the "theater event of the year," Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses brings Ovid's tales to stunning visual life. Set in and around a large pool of water onstage, Metamorphoses juxtaposes the ancient and the...

"One of the most spectacularly original plays in recent memory."--Entertainment Weekly"Fascinating and hilarious . . . With each of its three acts, Mr. Burns grows grander."--Village Voice"When was the last time you met a new play that was so smart it made your head...

This three-play collection celebrates the vibrancy and vitality of modern Indigenous culture and draw attention to complex issues within the contemporary Native experience. This latest volume from the acclaimed author of The Thanksgiving Play collects a trilogy of plays co-created with Cornerstone Theater Company...

Delve deeper into the Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated Hulu series based on Sally Rooney's bestselling novel with this must-have collection of the Normal People scripts, featuring behind-the-scenes photos and an introduction by director Lenny Abrahamson. "You know, I did used to think that I...

Katie knows she's died...again. Each time she wakes from the dream, it feels real-a haunting memory she can't escape. As an award-winning journalist in 2020, Katie is used to uncovering truths, but her confidence has been shaken by a personal tragedy and the vivid...

Poker! A door covered by dingy portieres upstage C. Small panel window in side Wall L. Plain centre table with chairs drawn up about it. Gaudy calendars on wall. Battered piano against wall R. Kerosene lamp with reflector against wall on either side of...

Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Primary Trust is an arresting character study of an isolated man finding the courage to expand his world and begin again.38-year-old Kenneth lives a comfortable life of routine in suburban New York: after days spent working...

Plays originally produced between 1934-1951.Author: Lillian HellmanPublisher: Knopf Publishing GroupPublished: 10/12/1979Pages: 512Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.02h x 5.15w x 1.10dISBN: 9780394741123About the AuthorLillian Hellman was born in New Orleans and educated at New York University and Columbia University. She wrote The Searching Wind and...

Star Trek and Star Wars step aside, because women are in command in this fantastic vision of the future. An epic space opera.Author: Elaine Lee,Susan Norfleet Lee,Dale PlacePublisher: Broadway Play PublishingPublished: 03/07/2013Pages: 120Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.25dISBN: 9780881455366This title is...

2024 Tony Award winner for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score A musical one hundred years in the making, Suffs brings to life a complicated chapter in the ongoing battle for the right to vote. Written by one of the most...

The renowned French playwright Molière's most masterful and most frequently performed play, skillfully translated into English by the Pulitzer Prize-winning translator Richard Wilbur. The rich bourgeois Orgon has become a bigot and prude. The title character, a wily opportunist and swindler, affects sancity and...

"[Teeth is] really a show not about vagina dentata but about the cancerous cycles of self-loathing, misogyny, and violence that fester at the heart of purity culture. Well, it's also about vagina dentata." --Vulture Dawn O'Keefe is an Evangelical teen with a bizarre secret:...

What effect does it have on a person--a soul, a life--to have freedom and self-respect stripped away and then, ostensibly, returned years later after decades of incarceration? The Exonerated attempts to answer this question through the words of six innocent men and women who,...

"Dramatic Comedy / 3M, 1F / Interior Set."--Back cover.Author: Annie BakerPublisher: Concord TheatricalsPublished: 06/19/2014Pages: 118Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.25dISBN: 9780573702037