Drama - Women Authors

Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "Funny, heartbreaking, sly and unblinking...The Flick may be the best argument anyone has yet made for the continued necessity and profound uniqueness of theater." --Jesse Green, New York "Hilarious and ineffably touching...Ms. Baker's peerless aptitude for...

When the lines between reality and fantasy blur, what counts as ethical? Who decides? The Nether, a daring examination of moral responsibility in virtual worlds, opens with a familiar interrogation scene given a technological twist. As Detective Morris, an online investigator, questions Mr. Sims...

Emmy Award-winning playwright Jane Wagner's brilliant social satire is back in a gorgeous new paperback edition--new life for the play that rocked Broadway in 1985 and still rings true today. The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe is "a work of...

Good intentions collide with absurd assumptions in Larissa FastHorse's wickedly funny satire, as a troupe of terminally "woke" teaching artists scrambles to create a pageant that somehow manages to celebrate both Turkey Day and Native American Heritage Month.Author: Larissa FasthorsePublisher: Concord TheatricalsPublished: 04/29/2019Pages: 72Binding...

The Thanksgiving Play "Satire doesn't get much richer... A takedown of white American mythology... The familiar, whitewashed story of Pilgrims and Native Americans chowing down together gets a delicious roasting." --Jesse Green, New York Times "Wryly funny... Deftly makes points that need making about...

A landmark in women's empowerment--as relevant as ever in the age of #MeToo--that honors female sexuality in all its complexity It's been more than twenty years since Eve Ensler's international sensation The Vagina Monologues gave birth to V-Day, the radical, global grassroots movement to...

The Yellow Wallpaper (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story") is a 6,000-word short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature,...

From award-winning novelist Monica Wood comes a masterful collection of three plays that shattered attendance records and captured hearts across New England. ​​​​​​​ In this powerful trilogy, Wood explores the complex bonds of family, the weight of secrets, and the transformative power of human...

Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names...

A newly revised edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama.Author: Quiara Alegría HudesPublisher: Theatre Communications GroupPublished: 08/15/2017Pages: 104Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.30dISBN: 9781559365574

It's Ottawa in the 1920s, before birth control is legalized. Sophie, a young working-class girl, falls madly in love with her sister's suitor, and eventually marries, a stablehand named Jonny. After two difficult childbirths, doctors tell Sophie she shouldn't have any more children, but...

A powerful new play about the intersection of the political and the personal.Author: Heidi SchreckPublisher: Theatre Communications GroupPublished: 02/09/2021Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.40dISBN: 9781559369640Award: Pulitzer Prize - FinalistAbout the AuthorHeidi Schreck is a writer and performer. Her other plays...

Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Oppenheimer Award.Adapted to an Emmy Award-winning television movie, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma...