Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
The Red Letter Plays (US edition)
Two haunting riffs on Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, by a leading American playwright.
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The New American Musical
An Anthology from the End of the 20th Century
Four groundbreaking musicals from the end of the 20th century.
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The Fire This Time
African-American Plays for the 21st Century
A collection of African-American plays for the 21st century.
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The Vermont Plays
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
Scenes from Life in the Country
A critically acclaimed play cycle about loss, memory and remembrance in America's recent past.
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The Gabriels
Election Year in the Life of One Family
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
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)
A darkly comic coming-of-age drama from an exciting Canadian playwright.
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Bluebirds
A play about three nurses treating wounded Canadian soldiers in France in 1918.
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Duecentomila
A touching play about two teenagers exploring their queer identities.
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Yaga
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
Two plays
Two plays from the Toronto-based writer-director-performer.
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Cold Meat Party
A play about a group of former friends reuniting in a B&B for a funeral.
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What I Meant Was
A major collection from one of the most popular gay playwrights in America.
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Bad Boy Nietzsche! and other plays
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
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.
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365 Days/365 Plays
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.
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Loving Longing Leaving
Three Plays 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.
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