Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Perfect Pie
A potent drama set over the course of a single afternoon. A reunion between two long-estranged women brings to light a buried memory and two teenagers' wild secret.
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Danny, King of the Basement
A heartwarming play about a boy who creates an imaginary world to deal with the instability and hardship of his daily life.
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The Drawer Boy
A multi-award winning, bitter-sweet tale of the power of storytelling, friendship, and the very thin line between truth and fiction.
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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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