Scorching social commentary aimed at the contemporary urban and suburban scene, from one of America's greatest standups.

A theatrical tour-de-force of language and ideas about Eighties' America, by the best-selling author of Billy Bathgate and Ragtime.

Four significant plays from a writer whose choice of 'uncomfortable' but well-documented subjects has gained her a reputation for controversy.

A magical scrapbook of words, pictures and memories, capturing the life of a middle-class black girl growing up in the Midwest in the 1930s and 40s, aspiring to be a writer.

Two of cult American performer Eric Bogosian's most unsettling works: Notes from Underground and Scenes from the New World.

A hard-hitting play about the Philippines in the Marcos era, adapted by Jessica Hagedorn from her own novel of the same name.

A photojournalist is at home in Brooklyn recovering from serious wounds sustained whilst out covering war-torn Iraq, but longs for the adrenalin rush of her past.

An unforgettable journey across time and generations.

The final installment in Quiara Alegría Hudes’s three-play cycle, which began with Pulitzer Prize-finalist Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue and Pulitzer Prize-winner Water by the Spoonful.

A witty and compelling play that takes a piercing look at a family of performers coming to terms with the roles they play in each other’s lives.

A sensitive drama about the interplay between illness, addiction and love, from the acclaimed American playwright Craig Lucas.

An energetic and vitalizing adaptation of one of Anton Chekhov's most beloved plays.

A unique edition of Chekhov's play in a brilliant translation by a world-renowned team of translators.

This selection of texts makes original and inimitable works of music-theatre accessible to a wide audience for the first time.

A dazzlingly entertaining dramatisation of three stories by the celebrated black iconoclast, Zora Heale Hurston: a rich folk tapestry of rural and urban black America in the 20th century.

Fifty-four monologues and dialogues drawn from ‘found’ stories told by everyday people living everyday lives in East Tennessee and the Appalachia region of the USA.

In this tragi-comic quartet, Cuban-American dramatist Eduardo Machado explores the meaning of his homeland's history. The plays tell the stories of several extended families, linked by marriage and then by exile in the United States.

These plays are not only jet-black comedies. They are fairy tales, fables, passion plays, masquerades...