The Shipment
The Shipment is a provocative look at African-American identity in today's not-quite post-racial society.
Lear
Young Jean Lee's Lear is an alternative re-working of Shakespeare's celebrated tragedy, focusing on the king's three daughters.
The Inspector
A revelatory new translation of Gogol’s biting masterpiece by American playwright Richard Nelson, in collaboration with the foremost contemporary translators of classic Russian literature, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
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Richard Foreman: The Manifestos and Essays
A collection of writings from the acclaimed and wildly inventive artist Richard Foreman.
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The Mineola Twins
An outrageously satirical play examining women's experience and the women's movement over more than three decades in post-World War II America.
The Happiest Song Plays Last
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.
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The Country House
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.
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Ode to Joy
A sensitive drama about the interplay between illness, addiction and love, from the acclaimed American playwright Craig Lucas.
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Circle Mirror Transformation
A quiet masterpiece tracing the lives of five strangers who come together in a community centre in Vermont, New England, for a series of creative drama classes for adults.
The Seagull
A unique edition of Chekhov's play in a brilliant translation by a world-renowned team of translators.
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Gem of the Ocean
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1904. Aunt Esther, the 285-year-old fiery matriarch of 1839 Wylie Avenue, sets Citizen Barlow, a young man from Alabama, on a soaring, lyrical journey of spiritual awakening.
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Joe Turner's Come and Gone
A play about a time in American history when the sons and daughters of recently freed slaves journeyed to the industrial cities of the North in search of prosperity, a new way of life, and, essentially, their own identities.
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Seven Guitars
A play set in 1940s Pittsburgh, about the search for self-fulfillment and acceptance in a hostile world.
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Two Trains Running
A play set in a small restaurant in the Pittsburgh Hill District in 1969. Part of August Wilson's Century Cycle, his epic dramatisation of the African American experience in the twentieth century.
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