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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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The New American Musical

The New American Musical

An Anthology from the End of the 20th Century

Edited by Wiley Hausam

Four groundbreaking musicals from the end of the 20th century.

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The Fire This Time

The Fire This Time

African-American Plays for the 21st Century

Edited by Harry J. Elam, Jr. and Robert Alexander

A collection of African-American plays for the 21st century.

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The Vermont Plays

The Vermont Plays

By Annie Baker

The debut collection of celebrated American playwright Annie Baker, including her Obie award-winning play Circle Mirror Transformation.

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The Apple Family

The Apple Family

Scenes from Life in the Country

By Richard Nelson

A critically acclaimed play cycle about loss, memory and remembrance in America's recent past.

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The Gabriels

The Gabriels

Election Year in the Life of One Family

By Richard Nelson

A trilogy of plays following an American family through the momentous and divisive 2016 presidential election year.

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Secret Life of a Mother

Secret Life of a Mother

By Hannah Moscovitch With Maev Beaty and Anne-Marie Kerr

An uplifting and empowering play that reveals the raw and untold secrets of pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, and mothering.

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WROL (Without Rule of Law)

WROL (Without Rule of Law)

By Michaela Jeffery

A darkly comic coming-of-age drama from an exciting Canadian playwright.

Bluebirds

Bluebirds

By Vern Thiessen

A play about three nurses treating wounded Canadian soldiers in France in 1918.

Duecentomila

Duecentomila

By kai fig taddei

A touching play about two teenagers exploring their queer identities.

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Yaga

Yaga

By Kat Sandler

A genre-bending comedy thriller that explores the legend of the wicked witch Baba Yaga through the lens of a modern-day whodunit.

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Never Swim Alone & This Is A Play

Never Swim Alone & This Is A Play

Two plays

By Daniel MacIvor

Two plays from the Toronto-based writer-director-performer.

Cold Meat Party

Cold Meat Party

By Brad Fraser

A play about a group of former friends reuniting in a B&B for a funeral.

What I Meant Was

What I Meant Was

By Craig Lucas

A major collection from one of the most popular gay playwrights in America.

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Bad Boy Nietzsche! and other plays

Bad Boy Nietzsche! and other plays

By Richard Foreman

This new anthology collects plays written and performed over six years, including Now That Communism Is Dead My Life Feels Empty!, Maria del Bosco, Panic! (How to Be Happy!), Bad Boy Nietzsche!, Bad Behavior and King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe!

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Two Sisters and a Piano and other plays

Two Sisters and a Piano and other plays

By Nilo Cruz

Nilo Cruz is the most produced Cuban-American playwright in the US and was the first dramatist of Hispanic descent to receive the Pulitzer Prize.

365 Days/365 Plays

365 Days/365 Plays

By Suzan-Lori Parks

A unique, year-long play cycle from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Topdog/Underdog. This collection of 365 impeccably crafted pieces, each with its own distinctive characters and dramatic power, is a complete work by an artist responding to her world, each and every day.

Loving Longing Leaving

Loving Longing Leaving

Three Plays by Michael Weller

By Michael Weller

With stark truth and piercing detail, Loving, Longing, Leaving, a marriage trilogy, takes us through the lives of three intersecting couples immersed in three distinct stages of love. Michael Weller is also the author of Moonchildren and Loose Ends.

Undesirable Elements

Undesirable Elements

Real People, Real Lives, Real Theater

By Ping Chong

A collection celebrating twenty years of Undesirable Elements, the series of community-specific theatre works that examines the lives of people living cultures, either by choice or circumstance.

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