Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Into the Woods
A modern musical twist on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales.
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A Dybbuk and other tales of the supernatural
The classic Yiddish tale by S. Ansky, adapted by Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America, and Joachim Neugroschel.
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Out From Under
Texts by women performance artists
A collection of provocative, ambitious texts by women performance artists.
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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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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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The Essential Bogosian
A collection of work by Eric Bogosian, one of America's leading performers and most original playwrights.
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Gypsy
One of the greatest musicals of all time, with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents.
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Company (US edition)
Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's iconic musical comedy about life, love and marriage.
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Getting Away With Murder
A compellingly original comedy thriller, and Sondheim's first ever non-musical play.
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Venus
A bold exploration of colonisation and objectification, based on the true story of the 'Hottentot Venus'.
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Extreme Exposure
Solo Performance Texts from the Twentieth Century
An anthology of excerpts from the works of more than fifty solo writer/performers including: Eric Bogosian, Laurie Anderson, Lenny Bruce, Andy Kaufman, Richard Pryor and Whoopi Goldberg.
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Death and Taxes: Hydriotaphia & Other Plays
A wide-ranging collection of work from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America.
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Culture Clash in Americca
A second collection of work by the award-winning Latino comedy trio.
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Beyond Victims and Villains
Contemporary Plays by Disabled Playwrights
The first of its kind - an anthology that explores how disabled artists depict the world they inhabit with their disabilities.
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Brooklyn Boy
A funny and emotionally rich look at family, friends and fame, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Dinner with Friends.
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Doubt
The hit Broadway play, filmed in 2008 with Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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Rodney's Wife
A study in dissolution by a leading American playwright who has written prolifically, and with fine detail, on the perplexities of everyday living.
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Plays From the Boom Box Galaxy
An anthology of performance texts from the hip-hop generation.
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Dead Man's Cell Phone
A play about a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.
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Salaam. Peace: An Anthology of Middle Eastern-American Drama
A groundbreaking anthology containing a collection of new plays by American writers of a variety of Middle Eastern backgrounds, from artists born in Egypt and Iran, to Israeli- and Palestinian-Americans.
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Jez Butterworth Plays: One
Four full-length plays and two previously unpublished shorts from the multi-award-winning author of Jerusalem.
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Eurydice
By Sarah RuhlAlice in Wonderland meets Greek myth in this playful, heart-breaking American take on a timeless tale of loss, grief and redemption.
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A Civil War Christmas
By Paula VogelSet on Christmas Eve during the latter days of the Civil War, this rich and moving play weaves a tapestry of historical characters, period holiday music, marches and spirituals, and tells a story of peaceful companionship and communal hope.
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Water by the Spoonful
A Pulitzer Prize-winning play about family, community and uncertainty.
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