Nick Hern Books

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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Rodney's Wife

By Richard Nelson

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

Edited by Kim Euell and Robert Alexander

An anthology of performance texts from the hip-hop generation.

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Dead Man's Cell Phone

By Sarah Ruhl

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

Edited by Holly Hill and Dina Amin

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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Eurydice

By Sarah Ruhl

Alice 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 Vogel

Set 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

By Quiara Alegría Hudes

A Pulitzer Prize-winning play about family, community and uncertainty.

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Lincoln

The Screenplay

By Tony Kushner

A revealing drama about a great American president, written by a great American playwright. Nominated for 12 Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay.

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By the Way, Meet Vera Stark

By Lynn Nottage

A hilarious satire of race in the glamorous days of Old Hollywood, told via the life of a fictional African-American movie star. From the winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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Sex Plays

By Eric Bogosian

Two plays by one of America's premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Talk Radio.

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Intimacy and other plays

By Thomas Bradshaw

Outrageous and bold, Thomas Bradshaw’s Intimacy is a revealing comedy about race, sex, and familiarity in the suburbs.

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Neva

English/Spanish billingual edition

By Guillermo Calderón Translated by Andrea Thorne

A politically charged, haunting interrogation of theatre and the revolutionary impulse.

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Prodigal Son

By John Patrick Shanley

An explosive portrait of a young man on the verge of either salvation or destruction, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Doubt.

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Indecent

By Paula Vogel

Inspired by Sholem Asch's play God of Vengeance, about an amorous affair between two women, Paula Vogel's Indecent is a riveting look at an explosive moment in theatrical history.