On New Ground
Contemporary Hispanic-American plays
A collection of six plays by outstanding authors who write in English but draw from their various Hispanic backgrounds.
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Driving Miss Daisy
The Pulitzer Prize-winning play which became the Oscar-winning film - a delicate depiction of racial tensions and of growing old.
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Strictly Dishonourable and other lost American plays
Four lively dramas from the twenties and thirties evoking a world of gangsters, crooked cops, intrepid newpaper hacks and slightly tarnished damsels in distress.
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The Gospel at Colonus
Writing at the end of his own long life, in Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles depicts his doomed hero's final hours; at the moment of his death the aged Oedipus is free at last. Envisaging this meditation on mortality as a rousing service in a black church, Lee Breuer has created a remarkable text based on Robert Fitzgerald's splendid translation.
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Playing for Time
The extraordinary story of the women's orchestra in Auschwitz, originally filmed for television with Vanessa Redgrave, and adapted for the stage by Miller himself.
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Sunday in the Park with George
The Pulitzer-winning musical inspired by Georges Seurat's pointillist masterpiece, celebrating the art of creation and the creation of art.
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The Way We Live Now: American plays and the AIDS crisis
A collection of dramatic material - plays, extracts from plays and dramatic adaptations - concerning the AIDS epidemic.
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Pacific Overtures
Exploring the opening up of Japan to American influence and using motifs from Japanese theatre and music, this is one of Sondheim's most adventurous musicals.
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Love & Science
This selection of texts makes original and inimitable works of music-theatre accessible to a wide audience for the first time.
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Long Day's Journey into Night
A true modern classic from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.
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Strange Interlude
A controversial work of extraordinary power, remarkable length (9 acts), and use of asides to express the characters' unspoken thoughts. An outstanding, somewhat Freudian play from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.
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The Emperor Jones
An expressionistic chronicle of a black dictator's flight from his oppressed subjects.
New Music: a trilogy
Three interrelated plays tracing the tangled path of a family's life in a North Carolina town across 37 years, from before the Second World War to the war in Vietnam.
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Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet
Fifty-four monologues and dialogues drawn from ‘found’ stories told by everyday people living everyday lives in East Tennessee and the Appalachia region of the USA.
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Sweeney Todd
The gruesomely fascinating musical about the 'Demon Barber of Fleet Street', one of Sondheim's greatest hits.
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Assassins
A dark and funny look at the end of the American dream - Stephen Sondheim lifts musical theatre to new heights of brilliance.
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Self Torture & Strenuous Exercise
These plays are not only jet-black comedies. They are fairy tales, fables, passion plays, masquerades...
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The Floating Island Plays
In this tragi-comic quartet, Cuban-American dramatist Eduardo Machado explores the meaning of his homeland's history. The plays tell the stories of several extended families, linked by marriage and then by exile in the United States.
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