Craig Lucas

THE STORY: At home on Christmas Eve, Rachel is informed by her guilty husband that he has hired a hitman to kill her, and she must flee for her life--which she does by scrambling out the kitchen window and into the snowy night. She meets and joins u

Reckless

"Irresistible . . . intoxicating. . . . Enduringly original sensibility."—New York Times Adele is a painter and an addict. Through her eyes, we meet her two lovers, Mala and Bill, and follow her destructive relationships over the course of fourteen years. A vulnerable exploration of the interplay between art, love, and addiction, Ode to Joy is an affecting new drama from respected playwright Craig Lucas. Renowned playwright Craig Lucas's newest work is a sensitive look at illness, addiction, and love. Craig Lucas's plays include Missing Persons, Reckless, Blue Window, Prelude to a Kiss, God's Heart, The Dying Gaul, Stranger, Small Tragedy, Prayer for My Enemy, The Singing Forest, and the book for the The Light in the Piazza (music and lyrics by Adam Guettel).

Ode to Joy (TCG Edition)

A new collection featuring some of Lucas' bext known work.

A Prelude to a Kiss and Other Plays

A Play

Adele, hard at work on a large triptych, looks back on the two major loves of her life, which somehow managed to provide her with everything she needed to know about the art of living. Through these two tumultuous loves, Adele discovered both the limits of her powers and the true depths of her gifts. The road to redemption remains before her with the return of both loves to her side.

Ode to Joy

Katharine Long

Charles Dumas

The Butler Did It! is a collection of twenty short plays with music written for the One-on-One Program, conceived as a means to create an opportunity for a child to star in his or her own play. Some of the authors included in this volume are Craig

The Butler Did It

A major new collection by the author of Reckless and A Prelude to a Kiss.

New Plays and Selected One-Acts

What I Meant Was

After a six-week courtship, a young couple gets married. At the reception a mysterious old man kisses the bride, and the young lovers are sent on a magical journey they will never forget.

Prelude to a Kiss

A compelling new play centered around a family's search for meaning in the midst of great hardship.

I Was Most Alive with You (Tcg Edition)

Craig Lucas' new keenly-layered, politically-minded family drama.

Prayer for My Enemy

This volume combines some of Craig Lucas' best known work, including Reckless ("a bittersweet fable for our time"—Frank Rich, The New York Times) and Blue Window ("…the clarity of a Mozart quintet. And it is faultlessly spun."—Dan Sullivan, The Los Angeles Times) with his newest play, Stranger. The three plays continue the author's exploration of the nature of relationships in an ever increasingly distant society. Craig Lucas is the author of Prelude to a Kiss, both a success on Broadway and as a motion picture, The Dying Gaul, God's Heart, Missing Persons and Longtime Companion. He is currently at work on numerous projects for theatre and film. Also available by Craig Lucas What I Meant Was: New Plays and Selected One Acts PB $17.95 1-55936-159-X • USA Prelude to a Kiss and Other Plays PB $16.95 1-55936-193-X • USA

Reckless, and Other Plays

A new edition featuring "Blue Window" and "Stranger."

Reckless and Other Plays

THE STORY: At Peter and Rita's wedding, a mysterious old man insists on kissing the bride. While honeymooning, Peter gradually realizes that the woman by his side is not his wife. The wedding kiss caused Rita's soul and the old man's to change plac

Richard Nelson

Eric Overmyer

A collection of plays including Reckless by Craig Lucas, Bal by Richard Nelson, On the Verge by Eric Overmyer, Highest Standard of Living by Keith Reddin, and The White Death by Daniel Terriault.

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