Lanford Wilson

Dramatizes the awkward relationship that develops between Anna, a choreographer, and Pale, the older brother of Robbie, her former roommate and dance partner

A Play

Burn This

THE STORY: Geri, a seventeen-year-old, Vietnamese-American, has taken time out from a rigorous touring schedule as a piano prodigy to stay on her Aunt Geneva's Redwood plantation in Northern California. She's been coming here for years, but recentl

Redwood Curtain

Wilson

A Play (Mermaid Dramabook)

The Hot L Baltimore

After a nuclear accident at a nearby uranium mine, four very different confused people find themselves confined to the sanctuary of a quiet sunbaked mission in New Mexico. Here they act out what is a rehearsal for the end of the world and face the problem of what manner of person each will be.

Angel's Fall

Angels Fall

THE STORY: The scene is the ornate, deserted Victorian boathouse on the Talley place in Lebanon, Missouri; the time 1944. Matt Friedman, an accountant from St. Louis, has arrived to plead his love to Sally Talley, the susceptible, but uncertain dau

Talley's Folly

THE STORY: The scene is the trailer where Ruby, a woman of indeterminate age and compliant disposition, lives amid an overgrown garden of thymus vulgaris, an herb which smells suspiciously like menthol chest rub. She is joined unexpectedly by her daughter, Evelyn, a warmhearted hooker who announces that she is the intended of Solly, the Grapefruit King, although right now she is not so sure that she wants to go through with it or, for that matter, that Solly does either. But the lure of all that money, and Solly's promise to give Ruby a home as well, do tug at her. The arrival of a well-built young motorcycle cop (who reminds Ruby of several former loves) decides the matter, however, as he has been sent by Solly to round up mother and daughter and whisk them off to a life of luxury. And why not? There are, as Evelyn says, the users and the used-and every once in a while the used deserve a break too.

A One-act Play

Thymus Vulgaris

Collected Works

The Gingham Dog

THE STORY: Schuyler Browne and his friends, Josh, Ann and Mary, gather for the spring at Schuyler's family's Hampton home. Schuyler, a trust-fund kid from wealthy lineage, doesn't yet know what to do with his life. Josh, very into computers, is on

A Play in Two Acts

A Sense of Place, Or, Virgil is Still the Frogboy

Serenading Louie

THE STORY: The scene is the lobby of a rundown hotel so seedy that it has lost the e from its marquee. As the action unfolds, the residents, ranging from young to old, from the defiant to the resigned, meet and talk and interact with each other d

Susan Sontag

Christopher Durang

Tony Kushner

Terrence McNally

David Greenspan

Paula Vogel

Harvey Fierstein

Harry Kondoleon

William H. Hoffman

American Plays & the AIDS Crisis

The Way We Live Now

THE STORIES: WANDERING. First presented at the Mark Taper Forum, in Los Angeles, as part of an omnibus program entitled The Scene , and then Off-Broadway as part of Collision Course , a similar program. This brilliantly inventive short

The Sand Castle, and Three Other Plays

THE STORY: Two young suburban couples, friends of long standing, are suddenly aware of strains and pressures that have inexorably come into their lives. Adultery is one of these--a fact for one of the wives, an imminent possibility for one of the hu

Collected Plays, 1970-1983

Balm in Gilead

A group of friends who came of age in the sixties have a reunion in an old Missouri farmhouse, where their reminiscences reveal shattered hopes, buried resentments, lost dreams, and the unhealed trauma of the Vietnam War.

Fifth of July

THE STORY: The scene is a small mission church in a remote part of New Mexico, where a middle-aged college professor and his lovely young wife detour unexpectedly after the highway is closed because of a possible accident at a nearby nuclear faci

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