America isn't just the Land of the Free, it's also the Land of Brilliant Playwrights – and we're proud to publish some of the very best American writers working today. 

In this selection, we've rounded up some fantastic plays and musicals by NHB-published American writers – including Annie Baker, Amy Herzog, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Stephen Karam, Tony Kushner, Bruce Norris, Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Stephen Sondheim, Tracy Letts, and more – all available at 40% off in our Sale.

Plus, £1 from every book sold in our Sale will go to the Theatre Artists Fund, which continues to provide emergency support for theatre-workers and freelancers across the UK affected by the devastating impact of COVID-19 on the theatre sector.

Remember, everything included in the Sale has been handpicked from the shelves at NHB HQ, and stock is strictly limited. So if you see something you want, move fast to avoid missing out – because once it's gone, it's gone!

Take a look at what's on offer below, and head back to our main Sale page to browse the whole range of playscripts and books currently available at a very special 40% discount, for a limited time only.
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The Visit, or The Old Lady Comes to Call

Dürrenmatt's visionary revenge play, one of the great achievements of modern German-language theatre, transported to mid-twentieth-century America by the acclaimed playwright Tony Kushner.

Ugly Lies the Bone

An honest and funny play about a wounded veteran seeking rehabilitation through an experimental virtual reality therapy, from an award-winning American playwright.

Teddy Ferrara

An insightful and revealing play, inspired by real events, which explores society's uncomfortable embrace of the outsider.

Sweeney Todd

The gruesomely fascinating musical about the 'Demon Barber of Fleet Street', one of Sondheim's greatest hits.

Sweat

A topical reflection of the present and poignant outcome of America's economic decline. Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Best Play at the 2019 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.

The Starry Messenger

A bittersweet exploration of love, hope and the mysteries of the cosmos.

Rabbit Hole

The Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about a happy suburban couple whose lives are changed forever when their young son is killed in an accident.

Purple Heart

A deeply moving meditation on love, loss and grief, from the author of Clybourne Park.

An Octoroon

The Obie Award-winning play about race and identity in America today.

The Low Road

A fable of free market economics and cut-throat capitalism.

Kenneth Lonergan: Three Plays

A collection of plays by the acclaimed film director, playwright and screenwriter: This Is Our Youth, The Waverly Gallery and Lobby Hero.

Killer Joe

A tense thriller that asks where the moral line is drawn in the fight for survival.

John

Annie Baker's mesmerising play about a young couple struggling to stay together.

Intimate Apparel

Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel is a multi-award-winning play about the empowerment of Esther, a seamstress in 1905 New York who creates exquisite lingerie for both Fifth Avenue boudoirs and Tenderloin bordellos.

The Humans

A powerful comedy-drama about a family gathering at Thanksgiving, from a gifted young American playwright.

Homos, or Everyone in America

A raw and provocative portrait of a love story, exploding attitudes, emotions and prejudices that sit at the heart of relationships across the world.

Gloria

A razor-sharp comic drama about ambition, office warfare and hierarchies, where the only thing that matters is selling out to the highest bidder.

Follies

Sondheim's landmark musical about a reunion of showgirls, with a book by James Goldman.

The Flick

Annie Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about three cinema attendants - 'Wondrous, devastating, hilarious, and infinitely touching. A play to be treasured' New York Times.

Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

An epic dramatic trilogy set during the American Civil War, by one of America's leading playwrights.

Dry Powder

A razor-sharp comedy about the people who shape – and skew – the economy.

Downstate

A provocative play about four men convicted of sex crimes, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Clybourne Park.

Dear Evan Hansen: The Complete Book and Lyrics (West End edition)

A new edition of the hugely successful musical, published alongside its West End premiere. 

Cost of Living

Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an exquisitely original, honest and deftly funny play that explores our need to connect and be loved regardless of the gulfs that disability, race, class, and wealth place between us.

Company: The Complete Revised Book and Lyrics

Published alongside the acclaimed, reimagined West End revival in 2018, this edition of Sondheim's hit musical features the complete revised book and lyrics for the production, plus colour production photographs.

Clybourne Park

An acerbically brilliant satire that explores the fault line between race and property.

The Christians

A play exploring faith and community in the modern world, asking profound questions about what we believe and why.

Br'er Cotton

A scorching play about a fourteen-year-old boy struggling to make sense of his place in an impoverished world filled with seemingly random killings of young black men.

Big White Fog

A poignant family drama set in Chicago against a backdrop of the Great Depression and the inescapable racism of the times.

Belleville

Amy Herzog's devastating play about an American newlywed couple who move to a boho neighbourhood in Paris, only for their relationship to begin to unravel.