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This Supplement features all of our new plays acquired since our last full Catalogue was issued in the Fall of 2005. It contains complete indexes of all of our titles and authors, with new acquisitions denoted by a ★. We will continue to publish a Supplement in even years and a full Catalogue in odd years. If you need last year’s Catalogue, it will be available as long as supplies last or you may down- load it from our web site in the popular PDF format.

● This year, as we celebrate our 70th Anniversary, we are pleased to add over 85 new works to our Catalogue. Among them, you will find an unusual diversity of voices and styles, from bright farces to black comedies to provocative dramas, all of the highest caliber. Our theatre has never appeared more vibrant. As a few examples, we have Martin McDonagh’s intense Broadway hit THE PILLOWMAN, about an author of terrifying children’s stories, who discovers that someone has been making his stories come true. David Mamet contributes his uproarious lampoon of a courtroom drama, ROMANCE, and his masterful version of the FAUSTUS legend. David Lindsay-Abaire’s RABBIT HOLE marks a departure from his irre- sistibly zany comedies to the heartrending story of the accidental death of a child. Meanwhile, Christopher Durang makes his inimitable presence felt with the hilariously put-upon MISS WITHERSPOON, whose adventures suggest that reincar- nation may be a lot less pleasant than advertised. David Grimm’s new comedy, THE LEARNED LADIES OF PARK AVENUE, cleverly updates Molière’s classic with contemporary twists; and Terrence McNally shares with us his marvelous love letter to the theatre in DEDICATION OR THE STUFF OF DREAMS. Finally, John Patrick Shanley puts his fierce intelligence on display with DEFIANCE, once again confirming his stature as one of our finest dramatists.

● The many talented newcomers to our Catalogue include Noah Haidle, whose MR. MARMALADE, a surreal comedy about a four-year-old and her imaginary friend, left New York audiences doubled over with laughter; and Heather Raffo, whose timely and critically acclaimed one-woman show, 9 PARTS OF DESIRE, powerfully evokes Iraqi womanhood and identity. John Cariani offers a sweetly enchanted romantic evening in the snowy far north with ALMOST, MAINE; while Rinne Groff gives us THE RUBY SUNRISE, her startlingly original hit from the Humana Festival of New American Plays about the invention of television. Stephen Temperley’s play with music, SOUVENIR, about the real-life Florence Foster Jenkins, a woman mistakenly convinced that she was a world-class coloratura soprano, has proven a real crowd pleaser. And speaking of music, our lively list of small-cast musicals has been substantially enhanced this year by David Nehls and Betsy Kelso’s homage to the doublewide, THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL, and by Stephen Dolginoff’s chilling musical tale of a famous murder, THRILL ME: THE LEOPOLD & LOEB STORY. Brothers Robert and Willie Reale’s lyrical lizards have been charming children and adults alike in THE DINOSAUR MUSICAL. And lastly, Gregg Coffin and Michael John LaChiusa, two of our most-gifted author/composers, serve up the delicious FIVE COURSE LOVE and the visionary SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE, respectively. As you browse through this year’s Supplement, you will find many more splendid plays by both our established and new authors.

● We encourage you to use our web site at www.dramatists.com. There you may search our more than 3,000 plays by title, author, cast size or keyword. You may also order every product the Play Service offers, including acting editions, manuscripts, perusal scores, complete sets of scores for production, cast recordings, incidental music CDs, sheet music and the 52nd Street Project books. Our online nonprofessional licensing continues to be an an enormous success, allowing you to submit an appli- cation and receive a license in just minutes via e-mail. It is even possible to submit applications and receive licenses for your entire season in as little as fifteen minutes. You can also pay for your licenses securely online by credit card. To further increase the ease of doing business with us, we will soon add online licensing for incidental and sheet music, fulfilling our goal of making all our licensing options available to you on our web site. We remain proud to be the only major play licensor to offer online licensing and continue to strive for ways to make doing business with the Play Service an even better experience. As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions.

Sincerely, DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE, INC.

Stephen Sultan President TABLE OF CONTENTS

Pulitzer Prize Plays ...... iv

Tony Award Plays ...... v

Introduction ...... vi

Obtaining Performance Rights, Ordering Scripts and Scores ...... vii

New Acquisitions ...... viii

Index of Plays ...... xi

Index of Authors ...... xxiii

New Full Length Plays ...... 1

New Musicals ...... 15

New Short Plays ...... 19

Collections ...... 23

Suggested High School Plays ...... 28

52nd Street Project ...... 30

Newly Revised Editions ...... 35

Last Minute Acquisitions ...... 36

Performance Rights and Order Forms ...... 37 iv PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS

2004 I AM MY OWN WIFE Doug Wright 2003 ANNA IN THE TROPICS Nilo Cruz 2002 TOPDOG/UNDERDOG Suzan-Lori Parks 2001 PROOF David Auburn 2000 DINNER WITH FRIENDS Donald Margulies 1999 WIT Margaret Edson 1998 HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE Paula Vogel 1995 THE YOUNG MAN FROM ATLANTA Horton Foote 1994 THREE TALL WOMEN Edward Albee 1992 THE KENTUCKY CYCLE Robert Schenkkan 1989 THE HEIDI CHRONICLES Wendy Wasserstein 1988 DRIVING MISS DAISY Alfred Uhry 1983 ’NIGHT, MOTHER Marsha Norman 1981 CRIMES OF THE HEART Beth Henley 1980 TALLEY’S FOLLY Lanford Wilson 1979 BURIED CHILD Sam Shepard 1975 SEASCAPE Edward Albee 1973 THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON Jason Miller 1971 THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS Paul Zindel 1957 LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT Eugene O’Neill 1956 THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett 1955 CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF Tennessee Williams 1954 THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON John Patrick 1953 PICNIC William Inge 1952 THE SHRIKE Joseph Kramm 1949 DEATH OF A SALESMAN Arthur Miller 1948 A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Tennessee Williams 1946 STATE OF THE UNION Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse 1945 HARVEY Mary Chase 1941 THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT Robert E. Sherwood 1939 ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS Robert E. Sherwood 1937 YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman 1936 IDIOT’S DELIGHT Robert E. Sherwood 1930 THE GREEN PASTURES Marc Connelly 1928 STRANGE INTERLUDE Eugene O’Neill 1922 ANNA CHRISTIE Eugene O’Neill 1920 BEYOND THE HORIZON Eugene O’Neill v TONY AWARD PLAYS

2004 I AM MY OWN WIFE Doug Wright 2003 TAKE ME OUT Richard Greenberg 2002 THE GOAT OR, WHO IS SYLVIA? Edward Albee 2001 PROOF David Auburn 1999 SIDE MAN Warren Leight 1998 ‘ART’ Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton 1997 THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO Alfred Uhry 1996 MASTER CLASS Terrence McNally 1995 LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! Terrence McNally 1992 DANCING AT LUGHNASA Brian Friel 1990 THE GRAPES OF WRATH John Steinbeck, adapted by Frank Galati 1989 THE HEIDI CHRONICLES Wendy Wasserstein 1988 M. BUTTERFLY David Henry Hwang 1982 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY David Edgar, from Charles Dickens 1980 CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD Mark Medoff 1973 THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON Jason Miller 1963 WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Edward Albee 1957 LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT Eugene O’Neill 1956 THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett 1954 THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON John Patrick 1953 THE CRUCIBLE Arthur Milller 1951 THE ROSE TATTOO Tennessee Williams 1949 DEATH OF A SALESMAN Arthur Miller 1948 MISTER ROBERTS Thomas Heggen & Joshua Logan vi INTRODUCTION TO SUPPLEMENT OF NEW PLAYS

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

Our Complete Catalogue of Plays is published in odd years and our Supplement of New Plays in even years. Both books are distributed in the Fall of each year.

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ROB ACKERMAN STEPHEN DOLGINOFF DISCONNECT THRILL ME: THE LEOPOLD & LOEB STORY

JOAN ACKERMANN CHRISTOPHER DURANG ICE GLEN MISS WITHERSPOON

HORTON FOOTE LESLIE AYVAZIAN BLIND DATE and THE ACTOR LOVELY DAY ALAN GELB JON ROBIN BAITZ MOMBO THE PARIS LETTER GINA GIONFRIDDO P.SETH BAUER AFTER ASHLEY IPHIGENIA U.S. DRAG

BEAUMARCHAIS DAVID MARSHALL GRANT THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO translated PEN and adapted by JOAN HOLDEN HARLEY GRANVILLE-BARKER THE VOYSEY INHERITANCE adapted STEPHEN BELBER by DAVID MAMET CAROL MULRONEY PAUL GRELLONG JOHN BELLUSO MANUSCRIPT HENRY FLAMETHROWA A NERVOUS SMILE DAVID GRIMM PYRETOWN THE LEARNED LADIES OF PARK AVENUE THE RULES OF CHARITY MEASURE FOR PLEASURE

JESSE BERGER RINNE GROFF THE REVENGER’S TRAGEDY THE RUBY SUNRISE

LEE BLESSING NOAH HAIDLE KITTY KITTY KITTY THE WINNING STREAK MR. MARMALADE RAG AND BONE ADAM BOCK THE SHAKER CHAIR JEFFREY HATCHER COMPLEAT FEMALE STAGE BEAUTY JOHN CARIANI A PICASSO ALMOST, MAINE VELINA HASU HOUSTON JULIA CHO TEA BFE JESSIE JONES, NICHOLAS HOPE, JAMIE WOOTEN ERIC COBLE DEARLY BELOVED THE DEAD GUY THOMAS KILROY HENRY (AFTER PIRANDELLO) GREGG COFFIN FIVE COURSE LOVE GREG KOTIS EAT THE TASTE and AN EXAMINATION OF THE WHOLE NILO CRUZ PLAYWRIGHT/ACTOR RELATIONSHIP PRESENTED AS BEAUTY OF THE FATHER SOME KIND OF COP SHOW PARODY

STEVEN DIETZ MICHAEL JOHN LACHIUSA SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE FINAL ADVENTURES SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE ix

JAMES LAPINE DAVID RAMBO FRAN’S BED THE LADY WITH ALL THE ANSWERS THE MOMENT WHEN ROBERT REALE and WILLIE REALE JONATHAN LICHTENSTEIN THE DINOSAUR MUSICAL THE PULL OF NEGATIVE GRAVITY KEITH REDDIN DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE ALL THE RAGE RABBIT HOLE ALMOST BLUE THREE ONE ACTS J.T. ROGERS ROMULUS LINNEY MADAGASCAR KLONSKY AND SCHWARTZ WHITE PEOPLE

ANGUS MACLACHLAN BERT V. ROYAL THE RADIANT ABYSS DOG SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD DAVID MAMET FAUSTUS OREN SAFDIE ROMANCE THE LAST WORD…

JON MARANS MARK SCHULTZ JUMPING FOR JOY EVERYTHING WILL BE DIFFERENT

MARTIN McDONAGH JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY THE PILLOWMAN DEFIANCE

TERRENCE MCNALLY CHRISTOPHER SHINN DEDICATION OR THE STUFF OF DREAMS ON THE MOUNTAIN ELIZABETH MERIWETHER ERIC SIMONSON and JEFFREY HATCHER THE MISTAKES MADELINE MADE WORK SONG: THREE VIEWS OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT KIM MERRILL ADAM SZYMKOWICZ FINDING CLAIRE DEFLOWERING WALDO MOLIÈRE THE IMAGINARY INVALID translated and STEPHEN TEMPERLEY adapted by JAMES MAGRUDER SOUVENIR LOVERS’ QUARRELS translated into English verse by RICHARD WILBUR FREYDA THOMAS THE GAMESTER, inspired by Le Joueur DAVID NEHLS and BETSY KELSO by JEAN-FRANÇOIS REGNARD THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL MATTHEW TODD ANNE NELSON BLOWING WHISTLES SAVAGES PAULA VOGEL JOE PENHALL AND BABY MAKES SEVEN DUMB SHOW LAURA WADE CAREY PERLOFF BREATHING CORPSES LUMINESCENCE DATING COLDER THAN HERE

LUCY PREBBLE PAUL WEITZ THE SUGAR SYNDROME PRIVILEGE

HEATHER RAFFO DAVID WIENER 9 PARTS OF DESIRE BLOOD ORANGE

xi INDEX OF PLAYS New plays appear in bold and are denoted by the symbol ★. All other page numbers refer to our 2005–2006 Complete Catalogue.

A is for All ...... 283 American Notes ...... 181 At Home...... 284 Belfry ...... 4 Abandon All Hope...... 311 The American Plan...... 59 At Long Last Leo ...... 87 Bell, Book and Candle...... 61 Abe Lincoln in Illinois ...... 252 American Primitive At This Evening’s Performance ...... 114 A Bell for Adano...... 254 About Time ...... 8 (or John and Abigail) ...... 181 August Snow...... 60 Belmont Avenue Social Club ...... 61 Abraham Lincoln Dies at Versailles...300 American Roulette ...... 328 Aunt Dan and Lemon ...... 207 Benito Cereno...... 3 The Absence of a Cello...... 112 An American Sunset ...... 314 Aunt Dan Meets the Madwoman Benjamin Falling...... 303 Abstinence ...... 337 The American Way...... 252 of Challiot...... 305 Bernadine...... 249 Abundance...... 58 Amicable Parting...... 323 Auntie Mame...... 253 Bertha, the Bartender’s Accelerando ...... 33 A.M.L...... 302 The Author’s Voice ...... 329 Beautiful Baby...... 347 Acrobats...... 283 Among Friends ...... 18 Auto-Da-Fé ...... 318, 355 The Best Daddy...... 284 The Acting Lesson ...... 333 Amphibians ...... 195 Auto-Destruct...... 286 Best Half Foot Forward ...... 314 The Action Against Sol Schumann...159 Amphitryon ...... 206 The Autograph Hound...... 300 The Best Man...... 254 ★ The Actor...... 21 Amphitryon 38...... 195 The Autumn Garden ...... 207 Best of Friends ...... 160 Actors ...... 284 Amulets Against the Dragon Ave Maria ...... 308 Betrayal...... 19 The Actor’s Nightmare...... 312 Forces ...... 206 Avenue of Dream...... 323 A Betrothal ...... 323 Adam Baum and the Jew Movie ...... 18 Ancient History ...... 8 Avow...... 114 Bette and Me ...... 310 Adaptation...... 333 Ancient Lights ...... 86 Babel’s in Arms ...... 302 Better Days ...... 115 An Adult Evening of Shel ★ And Baby Makes Seven ...... 4 Baby Anger ...... 114 Betty the Yeti ...... 88 Silverstein...... 284 And Miss Reardon Drinks a ★ Baby Food ...... 21 Betty’s Summer Vacation ...... 160 The African Company Presents Little ...... 113 Baby Talk...... 320 Beyond the Horizon ...... 182, 354 Richard III ...... 112 And People All Around...... 253 Baby with the Bathwater...... 60 Beyond Your Command ...... 115 ★ After Ashley ...... 9 And They Dance Real Slow in Babylon Gardens...... 182 ★ BFE...... 12 After Easter...... 195 Jackson...... 113 The Bachelor and the A Bicycle Country ...... 19 After-Play...... 112 And Things That Go Bump in Bobby-Soxer...... 253 Big Al...... 286 After the Fall...... 252 the Night...... 86 Bachelor Holiday ...... 294 Big Fish, Little Fish...... 115 The Age of Pie...... 307 The Andersonville Trial...... 253 Back in the Race ...... 19 The Big Funk ...... 61 Agnes ...... 271 Andrea’s Got Two Boyfriends...... 333 Bad Bad Jo-Jo ...... 314 The Big Knife...... 207 The Agreement...... 323 André’s Mother...... 285 A Bad Friend ...... 114 Big Mary...... 254 Ah, Eurydice! ...... 328 Andromache ...... 137 Bad Habits...... 137 Big Mother ...... 334 Air Raid ...... 316 Andy and Claire...... 307 Bad Seed ...... 207 The Big Slam...... 34 Akhmatova...... 81 Angel in the Pawnshop ...... 182 A Bad Year for Tomatoes...... 114 Big Sur...... 348 Album...... 33 Angels Fall ...... 86 Bad-Ass of the Rip Eternal...... 298 The Biggest Thief in Town ...... 207 Alfred the Great ...... 33 Animal...... 308 Bag Lady...... 323 The Billion Dollar Saint ...... 238 Alice in Wonderland...... 86 Animal Keepers...... 283 The Ballad of the Sad Cafe ...... 253 Billy Budd...... 254 Alien Boy...... 294 Anna Christie ...... 182, 354 Ballad of Yachiyo ...... 114 Billy Irish ...... 34 All About Al ...... 295 Anna in the Tropics ...... 137 Balloon Shot ...... 340 Bindle Stiff...... 304 All Because of Agatha ...... 181 Anna Lucasta ...... 224 Balm in Gilead...... 253 The Bird Cage ...... 216 All Cotton ...... 311 Anne of the Thousand Days ...... 238 The Baltimore Waltz...... 19 Bird of Ill Omen...... 303 All God’s Chillun Got Wings ...... 354 Anniversary Waltz...... 206 Bang Bang Beirut...... 232 Birds in Church ...... 303 ★ All the Rage ...... 12 Another Antigone ...... 33 Bang the Drum Slowly ...... 242 The Birthday Present ...... 286 All in the Timing ...... 284 Another Part of the Forest ...... 215 Baptized to the Bone ...... 18 Bite the Hand...... 286 All Men are Whores: An Inquiry ...... 312 Another Season’s Promise...... 195 A Barbarian in Love...... 318 Bits and Pieces ...... 287 All My Sons ...... 181 Answers (Thompson)...... 285 Barefoot in Athens...... 246 The Black and White ...... 292, 356 All Over Town ...... 245 Answers (Topor) ...... 328 Barefoot Woman in the Black Angel...... 196 All Saints’ Day ...... 283 Anteroom...... 113 Red Dress...... 298 Black Cloud Morning New York ...... 310 All the King’s Men...... 246 Anthony...... 304 Bargains ...... 60 Black Girl ...... 182 All the World’s a Stage ...... 350 Anthony Rose ...... 59 A Barrel Full of Pennies ...... 87 Black Sheep (Blessing) ...... 61 Alligator Man ...... 344 Any Wednesday ...... 33 The Barretts of Wimpole Street ...... 242 Black Sheep (Rice)...... 207 ★ Almost Blue ...... 6 Anybody Out There? ...... 182 Barrymore’s Ghost ...... 4 Black Snow ...... 232 Almost Done ...... 306 Apartment 3A...... 59 Bartok as Dog...... 333 Blade to the Heat...... 137 ★ Almost, Maine ...... 6 Apocalyptic Butterflies...... 60 The Basement (Pinter)...... 315 Blessed Assurance...... 62 An Almost Holy Picture ...... 4 Apple Pie ...... 285 The Basement (Schisgal)...... 294 ★ Blind Date ...... 21 Almost Like Being ...... 320, 358 Approximating Mother...... 113 Bat Boy: The Musical ...... 276 Blind Willie and the Talking Dog.....284 An Altar Boy Talks to God ...... 306 April Fish ...... 286 The Batting Cage...... 34 ★ Blood Orange ...... 10 The Altruists...... 59 April Snow...... 299 Battle of Angels...... 253 Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole ...... 207 Am I Blue ...... 343 Arabian Nights...... 302 Be Aggressive ...... 60 Blood Wedding...... 243 Amateurs...... 159 The Archbishop’s Ceiling...... 60 Be Your Age ...... 196 The Blowin of Baile Gall ...... 57 The Amazing Activity of Charley The Architecture of Loss...... 111 The Bear...... 311 ★ Blowing Whistles...... 4 Contrare and the Ninety-Eighth Are You Ready?...... 294 The Beard ...... 8 Blue Heaven ...... 34 Street Gang ...... 159 The Armored Dove...... 182 Beautiful Child ...... 61 The Blue Hour: City Sketches...... 312 Ambrosio ...... 113 Arsenic and Old Lace...... 224 Beautiful Thing...... 61 Blue/Orange ...... 19 America Hurrah...... 284 ‘Art’...... 18 Beauty and the Beast...... 87 Blues for an Alabama Sky ...... 62 The America Play ...... 59 The Art of Remembering...... 329 ★ Beauty of the Father ...... 7 Bodies ...... 34 American Blues...... 285, 355 The Art of Self-Defense ...... 337 Beauty Parade ...... 350 Bodies, Rest and Motion ...... 160 The American Century...... 328 Artichoke ...... 114 The Beauty Queen of Leenane ...... 34 The Body & The Wheel...... 254 The American Clock...... 252 The Artist and the Model ...... 311 Beauty’s Daughter...... 297 A Body of Water...... 224 The American Dame ...... 59 The Artist and the Model/2...... 311 Because Their Hearts were Pure The Bodybuilders ...... 317 An American Daughter...... 224 As Bees in Honey Drown ...... 86 (or The Secret of the Mine)...... 232 Bondage...... 318 The American Dream...... 285 As Is...... 137 Bed and Sofa...... 271 Bonjour, La, Bonjour...... 138 The American Dream Revisited ...... 283 As It is in Heaven ...... 160 Been Taken ...... 87 Bontche Schweig...... 321 American Dreams ...... 86 Ascension Day ...... 346 Before Breakfast ...... 354 Book of Days...... 207 American Landscape ...... 252 Asian Shade ...... 87 Before It Hits Home...... 182 Book of Leviticus Show ...... 305 An American Millionaire ...... 113 Asleep on the Wind ...... 297 Beggars in the House of Plenty...... 87 The Book of Liz...... 34 American Modern...... 288 Assembly Line...... 283 The Beggar’s Opera...... 278 The Book of Murder ...... 88 American Night Cry...... 285, 327 Asterisk! ...... 19 The Beginning of August...... 61 Boom Town ...... 19 xii TITLE INDEX

Borak ...... 238 Button, Button ...... 183 The Children’s Story ...... 348 Contributions ...... 289 Borderline...... 287 Buy Me Blue Ribbons...... 183 The Chinese ...... 288 Control Freaks ...... 316 Borderlines...... 287 Buy One Get One Free...... 284 Chinese Coffee...... 9 The Controversy of Valladolid...... 181 Born Yesterday ...... 239 By Hex...... 277 The Chinese Restaurant Syndrome...299 Convenience ...... 272 Bosoms and Neglect ...... 19 By the Bog of Cats...... 208 The Chiropodist ...... 291 Conversation with a Sphinx...... 343 Boston Marriage ...... 20 By the Sea By the Sea By the Chocolate Cake ...... 321 Conversations with the Botticelli ...... 286 Beautiful Sea ...... 20 Chopin in Space ...... 183 Spanish Lady ...... 295 Bouncers...... 35 Cabin 12...... 334 The Chopin Playoffs...... 139 The Corn is Green...... 233 Bound East for Cardiff ...... 354 Cacciatore: Three Short Plays ...... 287 The Chosen ...... 63 Corpus Christi...... 216 Boundary Waters ...... 88 Cafe Crown ...... 255 A Christmas Carol (Baizley) ...... 162 The Couch ...... 64 Bourbon at the Border...... 32 Café Moon ...... 347 A Christmas Carol (Linney)...... 255 The Countess...... 117 Box ...... 35 Cages ...... 288 A Christmas Carol (Schario)...... 90 Counting the Ways...... 289 Boy ...... 57 Cahoots ...... 62 A Christmas Carol: Scrooge The Country Club...... 117 The Boy in the Basement ...... 293, 356 Cakewalk ...... 62 and Marley ...... 255 The Country Girl ...... 140 Boy Meets Family ...... 343 The Call...... 319 Christmas on Mars ...... 36 Coup...... 289 Boy Meets Girl (Spewack) ...... 249 Call Me by My Rightful Name...... 89 Christopher Blake...... 225 Courtship...... 140 Boy Meets Girl (Wasserstein)...... 310 Call Me Shakespeare...... 255 Chug...... 309 The Courtship of Morning Star...... 260 The Boy with Green Hair...... 254 The Cameo...... 329 The Cider House Rules, Part One: Cousins...... 225 Boys and Girls ...... 35 Camino Real...... 255 Here in St. Cloud’s...... 250 The Cowboy, the Indian and the Boys’ Life ...... 160 Can Can ...... 308 The Cider House Rules, Part Two: Fervent Feminist...... 311 The Boys Next Door ...... 160 Canadian Gothic ...... 288 In Other Parts of the World...... 250 Cowgirls...... 272 Brand...... 357 Candle in the Wind...... 246 Cinderella Wore Combat Boots...... 344 Coyote on a Fence ...... 37 The Brass Ring ...... 196 Candy & Shelley Go to the Desert.....20 Circus Lady...... 316 Coyote Ugly...... 64 Bravo ...... 239 Canker Sores and Other Clair de Lune...... 308 Crawling Arnold...... 337 Break...... 271 Distractions...... 305 Claire ...... 293 ★ Crazy Eights ...... 21 Breakfast in Bed...... 161 Capitalism 101 ...... 298 Clandestine on the Morning Line.....116 The Creation of the World Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner...... 287 Captains and Courage ...... 225 Clara ...... 290 and Other Business ...... 162 Breaking Legs...... 88 Captive Audience...... 302 Class Conflict ...... 283 Creative Development ...... 283 Breaking the Prairie Wolf Code ...... 88 The Captivity of Pixie Shedman...... 89 A Clearing in the Woods ...... 183 The Credeaux Canvas...... 37 Breath, Boom...... 182 Carbondale Dreams ...... 138 Clever Dick...... 162 Creditors...... 357 ★ Breathing Corpses ...... 4 Cardinal O’Connor ...... 305 Click ...... 311 Crimes of the Heart...... 90 Brewsie and Willie ...... 347 Career Angel...... 239 Cliffhanger...... 64 The Cripple of Inishmaan ...... 162 The Brick and the Rose ...... 348 Career Angel (Female Version)...... 239 The Climate of Eden ...... 216 Crisscross ...... 308 The Bridal Night ...... 315 The Caretaker...... 20 Close of Play...... 139 Criss-Crossing...... 289 The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky ...... 337 Carl the Second ...... 115 Close Ties ...... 139 Critic’s Choice ...... 117 The Bride’s Bouquet ...... 196 Carnal Knowledge ...... 115 Closer ...... 36 The Crocodile Smile...... 225 The Brides of March...... 233 ★ Carol Mulroney ...... 7 Clothes for a Summer Hotel...... 239 Crossin’ the Line...... 345 A Brief Period of Time...... 287 The Carpenters...... 63 Cloud Seven ...... 243 Crossings...... 294 Bright Ideas...... 62 The Carpetbagger’s Children ...... 20 Clucks...... 289 Crowns ...... 273 Brighten the Corner...... 161 The Case of the Crushed Clutterbuck...... 116 The Crucible ...... 255 Brilliant Traces...... 8 Petunias...... 285, 355 The Coal Diamond ...... 334 Crumbs from the Table of Joy ...... 64 Bringing It All Back Home...... 289 Cash Flow...... 63 Cobb...... 36 Crunch Time ...... 250 Broken Glass...... 88 The Castle ...... 196 Cockeyed Kite ...... 216 A Cry of Players...... 250 Brontosaurus...... 329 The Castro Complex ...... 20 The Cocktail Hour ...... 36 The Cryptogram...... 21 Brooklyn Boy...... 111 The Cat Act...... 310 Cocktails with Mimi...... 208 ¡Cuba Si! ...... 289 Brother Rat...... 249 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...... 243 Coco Puffs ...... 298 The Cuban Swimmer ...... 292 Brotherhood ...... 334 The Catch Colt...... 278 Cold...... 312 Cuckoos on the Hearth ...... 208 The Brothers Karamazov Catfish Moon ...... 36 Cold Sweat...... 183 Cue for Passion...... 117 (Fishelson)...... 239 Cat’s Cradle ...... 138 ★ Colder than Here...... 6 The Curate’s Play...... 345 The Brothers Karamazov (Sydow, The Cavalcaders...... 89 Collected Stories ...... 9 The Curious Savage ...... 196 Tumarin)...... 254 The Cave ...... 349 The Collection...... 289 Curse of the Starving Class ...... 162 Brown Pelican...... 208 Cave Life...... 161 Come Down Burning...... 64 Curtains (Bill)...... 140 Brutality of Fact...... 138 Cavedweller ...... 139 Come on Strong ...... 255 Curtains (Gonzalez)...... 329 The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Cavern of the Jewels ...... 161 Come Slowly, Eden...... 116 Cyrano de Bergerac...... 233 Chameleon Skin...... 277 Celebration ...... 139 The Comeback ...... 340 Da-Show Must Go On: Six Plays About Buddies...... 340 Cellini...... 161 Comes a Day ...... 216 Love, Death and Bad Acting ...... 290 Buffalo Hair...... 138 Cemetery Man...... 310 Coming of Age in Soho...... 116 Daddies...... 9 Bug ...... 62 The Ceremony of Innocence ...... 196 Coming of the Hurricane ...... 140 The Dadshuttle...... 290 Bugs...... 287 Chain of Circumstances...... 89 The Coming World ...... 9 Dalton’s Back ...... 65 Buicks ...... 35 The Champagne Charlie Stakes...... 63 Command Decision...... 246 Damage Control...... 294 The Bungler...... 161 Character Lines...... 20 The Common Pursuit...... 89 The Dance and the Railroad...... 290 The Burial of Esposito...... 307 Charity...... 337 Companions of the Fire...... 323 A Dance Lesson ...... 90 Buried Child...... 115 Charlie and Vito ...... 287 The Company of Heaven ...... 116 Dance of Death ...... 90 Buried Inside Extra ...... 62 Charlie Blake’s Boat ...... 315 ★ Compleat Female Stage Beauty ....14 The Dance of Death (Parts 1 & 2)...357 Burkie ...... 35 Charlie’s Farewell ...... 303 Complete Works Volume 1 The Dancers ...... 322 Burn This...... 35 The Chase...... 196 (Pinter)...... 288 Dancing at Lughnasa ...... 140 Burning Bright...... 36 Chase Me, Comrade! ...... 183 Complete Works Volume 2 The Dancing Mice...... 208 Bury the Dead ...... 351 Chaucer in Rome...... 208 (Pinter)...... 289 Dancing on Moonlight...... 140 Bus Riley’s Back in Town...... 293, 356 Cheating Cheaters ...... 63 Compulsion (Levin)...... 255 Danger: Memory! ...... 290 Bus Stop (Inge)...... 138 A Cheever Evening ...... 89 Compulsion (Patrick) ...... 291 The Dangers of Tobacco...... 311 Bus Stop (Silverstein)...... 284 The Chemistry of Change ...... 116 Confession ...... 332 Danny and the Deep Blue Sea...... 9 Bus Stop Diner ...... 304 The Cherry Orchard (Corrigan)...... 225 Confluence ...... 289 Daphne in Cottage D...... 9 Business Lunch at the Russian The Cherry Orchard (Mann) ...... 233 The Consequences of Goosing ...... 302 The Dark at the Top of the Stairs .....183 Tea Room...... 292 The Cherry Orchard (van Itallie)...... 225 The Constituent ...... 285 Dark Hammock...... 184 Businessmen ...... 312 Childe Byron ...... 139 Continental Divide...... 37 The Dark is Light Enough...... 233 Busman’s Honeymoon ...... 216 Children ...... 63 Continental Divide: Daughters Dark, No Sugar: Twelve Angry The Butler Did It ...... 89 Children of a Lesser God...... 116 of the Revolution ...... 136 One Acts ...... 283 The Butterfingers Angel, Mary & Joseph, Children of the Wind ...... 36 Continental Divide: Dark Ride ...... 184 Herod the Nut & The Slaughter of The Children’s Crusade ...... 246 Mother’s Against...... 232 The Dark Room...... 285, 355 12 Hit Carols in a Pear Tree ...... 224 The Children’s Hour...... 225 Contribution...... 289 Dark Sun ...... 65 TITLE INDEX xiii

Dark Victory...... 225 The Diary of Anne Frank Driving Miss Daisy...... 22 An Evening for Merlin Finch...... 343 A Dash of Bitters ...... 37 (Goodrich, Hackett)...... 184 The Drop of a Hat ...... 347 Evening Star...... 118 Daughters of Atreus...... 256 The Diary of Anne Frank Drowning Sorrows...... 66 Everett Beekin...... 93 Dawn...... 20 (Kesselman)...... 184 The Druid Circle...... 197 Every Night When the Sun A Day for Surprises...... 300 A Different Moon...... 38 Drums Under the Windows ...... 118 Goes Down ...... 142 Day in the Sun ...... 233 Diff’rnt ...... 354 Dublin Carol ...... 22 Every Seventeen Minutes the Crowd A Day of Absence ...... 298 Digby...... 141 Duck...... 311 Goes Crazy!...... 226 The Day Room...... 163 Dilemma...... 91 Duck Hunting ...... 197 Every Year at the Carnival...... 143 Day Standing on Its Head ...... 163 Diminished Capacity ...... 91 Ducks and Lovers ...... 246 Everybody Has to be Somebody ...... 118 The Day They Shot John Lennon...... 163 Dimly Perceived Threats to Duel of Angels...... 217 Everybody Loves Opal ...... 93 Days Ahead...... 296 the System...... 91 ★ Dumb Show...... 4 Everybody’s Girl...... 185 The Days and Nights of ★ The Dinosaur Musical...... 18 The Dumb Waiter ...... 288 Everybody’s Secret...... 347 BeeBee Fenstermaker...... 141 The Dining Room...... 91 Dumping Ground...... 329 Everyman Today ...... 226 Days of Wine and Roses...... 239 Dink’s Blues ...... 305 Dunelawn ...... 137 Everything in the Garden ...... 198 Daytrips...... 37 Dinner with Friends ...... 38 Durang/Durang...... 292 ★ Everything Will be Different ...... 9 The Dazzle...... 21 Dinny and the Witches...... 226 Dusa, Fish, Stas & VI ...... 39 Evolution ...... 93 D.C...... 315 Direct from Death Row The Dusk ...... 20 The Exact Center of the Universe...... 66 ¿De Donde? ...... 216 Scottsboro Boys...... 275 Dust in Your Eyes ...... 306 Exact Change...... 23 Dead Certain ...... 9 Dirty Story...... 38 The Dwarfs...... 292, 356 ★ An Examination of the Whole Dead End ...... 256 Dirty Talk ...... 303 Early Dark ...... 246 Playwright/Actor Relationship The Dead Eye Boy...... 21 Disciples ...... 163 Early Warnings ...... 293 Presented As Some Kind of Dead Giveaway...... 163 ★ Disconnect...... 7 Earth and Sky ...... 164 Cop Show Parody ...... 11 ★ The Dead Guy...... 9 The Disintegration of James Cherry...209 Easter (Scheffer)...... 39 Excursion...... 256 A Dead Man’s Apartment ...... 290 Disneyland on Parade ...... 291 Easter (Strindberg)...... 357 The Exercise...... 10 The Deadly Game ...... 141 The Disposal...... 291 Easter Night...... 303 The Exhibition ...... 324 Deaf Day ...... 295 Distant Fires ...... 91 Eastern Standard...... 92 Exits and Entrances...... 8 The Deal...... 37 Divorce—Anyone?...... 291 Eat Cake...... 310, 358 The Exonerated ...... 185 Dealer’s Choice ...... 90 Divorce Southern Style ...... 117 ★ Eat the Taste...... 10 Expecting Isabel...... 142 Dear Delinquent...... 141 DMV Tyrant...... 305 The Eccentricities of a Nightingale....185 An Experiment with an Air Pump....119 Dear Friends ...... 184 Do Not Feed the Animal ...... 311 An Educated Lady ...... 309 Extensions...... 311 Dear Kenneth Blake ...... 283 Doctor ...... 312 Edward, My Son...... 226 Eye of God...... 143 Dear Ruth...... 184 Doctor Galley ...... 317 Edwin Booth ...... 164 The Eye of the Beholder ...... 340 Dearborn Heights...... 315 The Doctor Will See You Now The Effect of Gamma Rays on Eyes for Consuela ...... 39 The Dearest of Friends ...... 309 (Durang) ...... 306 Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds...... 66 The E.Z. Snooz Motel...... 317 ★ Dearly Beloved ...... 13 The Doctor Will See You Now The Egghead...... 197 A Fable...... 143 Dearly Departed ...... 184 (Patrick) ...... 291 Eh?...... 92 Fables for Friends...... 93 The Death and Life of Dodge...... 307 Einstein and the Polar Bear...... 92 Fabulation or, The Re-Education Sneaky Fitch...... 217 Dodsworth...... 256 The Einstein Project ...... 164 of Undine...... 158 Death Comes to Us All, Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? ...... 243 El Hermano...... 345 The Fabulous Invalid ...... 256 Mary Agnes...... 316 Dog Eat Dog ...... 197 Eleanor Sleeps Here ...... 273 Face Divided...... 290 Death in the Family...... 304 Dog Lady...... 292 Election Year...... 293 The Facts ...... 308 Death of a Salesman ...... 217 ★ Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Eleemosynary...... 22 A Fair Country ...... 143 The Death of Bessie Smith ...... 285 Teenage Blockhead ...... 11 Elegy for a Lady...... 324 Fair Exchange...... 243 The Death of Frank...... 37 The Dog Sitters ...... 226 Elephants ...... 300 Fair Game...... 226 The Death of King Philip...... 334 Dogbrain ...... 65 Eleven Short Plays by William Inge...293 The Fairy Garden ...... 301 The Death of Papa...... 208 Doing a Good One for the Elliot Loves ...... 92 Faith ...... 337 The Death of the Old Man ...... 322 Red Man ...... 295 Elm Circle...... 66 The Fall of the City ...... 316 The Death of Zukasky...... 65 A Doll’s House (McGuinness) ...... 185 Embarrassments...... 275 Falling Man ...... 293 Deathtrap...... 65 A Doll’s House (Meyer) ...... 357 Emma’s Child ...... 197 Fam and Yam...... 285 Debbie Does Dallas ...... 274 Dolores ...... 307 Empathy ...... 332 Fame Takes a Holiday...... 271 The Debutante Ball ...... 117 Domestic Issues ...... 92 Emperor and Galilean...... 357 Family Business...... 94 ★ Dedication or The Stuff Don Juan (Porter)...... 256 The Emperor Jones...... 354 The Family Continues ...... 297 of Dreams ...... 10 Don Juan (Wilbur) ...... 239 An Empty Plate in the Café du Family Devotions...... 164 Deep are the Roots ...... 197 Don Juan in Chicago...... 142 Grand Boeuf ...... 92 The Family Man...... 226 Deep Sleepers...... 38 Dottie and Richie ...... 283 Enchanted April...... 142 Family Meeting...... 349 The Deer and the Antelope Play...... 38 Double Solitaire...... 313 The Enclave...... 164 Family Voices...... 307 Degas C’est Moi ...... 303 Double Wedding ...... 283 End of Summer ...... 185 Fancy Meeting You Again ...... 186 ★ Defiance ...... 9 The Doughgirls...... 240 Endecott and the Red Cross ...... 3 The Fantod...... 119 ★ Deflowering Waldo...... 9 Down and Out ...... 320 Endpapers...... 197 Farewell, Farewell, Eugene ...... 165 The Delusion of Angels ...... 38 Down the Road ...... 21 An Enemy of the People (Meyer)...... 357 The Farmer’s Daughter ...... 226 Democracy...... 163 Down the Shore...... 290 An Enemy of the People (Miller)...... 217 Fast Women...... 303 Demon Wine...... 141 The Dozens ...... 22 English Made Simple...... 300 Fat Men in Skirts ...... 39 Den of Thieves ...... 117 Dr. Cook’s Garden...... 65 The English Teachers...... 93 Father and Son...... 304 ’Dentity Crisis ...... 317 Dr. Fish...... 288 The Enigma...... 66 Father Dreams ...... 39 The Departure of Brian Dr. Fritz...... 303 Enigma Variations (Ives) ...... 302 Father Malachy’s Miracle ...... 256 O’Callahan...... 308 Dr. Hero ...... 118 Enigma Variations (Schmitt)...... 10 Father of the Bride...... 246 Desdemona, A Play About Dracula (Dietz)...... 185 Entertaining Mr. Helms...... 305 The Father (Hailey) ...... 143 a Handkerchief...... 21 Dracula (Johnson) ...... 118 Epic Proportions...... 142 The Father (Meyer)...... 357 The Designated Mourner ...... 21 Dragon Country...... 292 Epilogue...... 312 Father Uxbridge Wants to Marry...... 144 Desire Desire Desire ...... 305 Dragonwings...... 118 Epiphany ...... 288 Fathers and Sons...... 250 Desire Under the Elms ...... 354 The Drapes Come ...... 323 Erik the Fourteenth ...... 357 Father’s Day ...... 94 Desperadoes...... 291 The Dream Coast ...... 142 Eris ...... 293 ★ Faustus...... 8 Desperate Affection ...... 10 Dream Girl ...... 256 The Eros Trilogy...... 293 Fear Network News ...... 283 Detective Story ...... 256 A Dream Play ...... 357 Escanaba in da Moonlight ...... 93 Feathertop...... 349 The Devil and Daniel Webster ...... 343 The Dreamer Examines His Pillow....22 Eternal Triangle...... 315 Feedlot...... 66 A Devil Inside...... 90 Dreamers ...... 311 Ethan Frome...... 198 Feiffer’s People ...... 94 The Devils ...... 233 Dreams of Flight...... 324 Etta Jenks...... 164 Ferryboat ...... 324 Devour the Snow...... 184 Dreamtime for Alice ...... 295 Eudora Welty’s The Hitch Hikers .....142 The Festivities...... 311 Dial M for Murder ...... 91 The Dreamy Kid ...... 354 Eulogy for Mister Hamm ...... 271 The Fever...... 5 Diana Does It ...... 141 Dreyfus in Rehearsal ...... 197 Eve-Olution ...... 7 A Few Stout Individuals...... 217 xiv TITLE INDEX

Fiat...... 303 Four Dogs and a Bone...... 294 Girl Gone ...... 145 The Groves of Academe...... 298 The Fiery Furnace...... 66 Four from E.S.T. Marathon ’99...... 295 The Girl Who Loved The Beatles.....324 Guests of the Nation...... 345 Fifth of July ...... 144 Four One-Act Plays by Robert The Girls of the Garden Club ...... 250 Gum ...... 298 Fifth Planet...... 294 Schenkkan...... 295 Girls’ Talk ...... 308 Gunfighter: A Gulf War Chronicle...258 The Filmmaker’s Mystery ...... 85 Four Plays by Conor McPherson...... 295 Girls We Have Known...... 297 Gus and Al...... 167 The Final Interrogation of Four Short Plays by Jerome Kass ...... 295 Give Me Your Answer, Do! ...... 166 The Guys...... 11 Ceausescu’s Dog ...... 283 Four Short Plays by Lanford Wilson ..296 The Glass Menagerie ...... 41 Gym Teacher...... 306 Final Orders...... 293 Four Short Plays by Mark Medoff ....295 Glimmer, Glimmer & Shine...... 41 The Gynecologist...... 292 Final Passages...... 144 Four Twelves are 48 ...... 234 Glutt...... 330 Habit ...... 291 Final Performance, or The Fourth Wall...... 40 The Gnadiges Fraulein...... 341 The Habitation of Dragons ...... 251 The Curtain Falls ...... 330 Foxhole in the Parlor ...... 119 The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? ...... 42 The Habitual Acceptance of the Final Placement ...... 321 The Fragile Fox...... 227 Goblin Market...... 271 Near Enough...... 325 ★ Finding Claire...... 6 Fragments (Albee)...... 145 The God of Hell...... 32 Hagar’s Children...... 167 Finding the Sun ...... 345 Fragments (Schisgal) ...... 294 God of Vengeance...... 243 The Hairy Ape...... 354 Finishing Touches...... 144 Frame 312 ...... 85 God Says There is No Peter Ott ...... 68 Halcyon Days ...... 146 Fire Dance ...... 294 Frankenstein ...... 209 God’s Great Supper...... 260 Hamlet ESP...... 258 Fire in the Hole ...... 260 Frankie and Johnny in the God’s Man in Texas ...... 23 The Hammerstone...... 96 Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Clair de Lune ...... 10 Going Once...... 284 A Handful of Rainbows...... 186 Brooklyn and Other Identities ...... 5 Franklin’s Apprentice ...... 112 Going to See the Elephant...... 68 A Handful of Stars...... 4 The First Actress ...... 217 ★ Fran’s Bed ...... 11 Going to St. Ives ...... 10 The Hands of Its Enemy ...... 167 The First Gentleman ...... 256 Freedomland...... 119 Gold ...... 354 Handy Dandy...... 11 First Lady...... 257 Freeman...... 67 Gold and Silver Waltz...... 308 Hangnail...... 311 First Lady Suite...... 273 The French Touch ...... 240 The Golden Age ...... 23 Hank Williams: Lost Highway ...... 276 First Love (Margulies)...... 304 Fresh Horses ...... 119 Golden Boy ...... 251 Hannah and Martin...... 146 First Love (Taylor) ...... 257 Freud’s house ...... 324 Golden Child...... 166 The Happiest Millionaire ...... 234 The First Night of “Pygmalion”...... 257 Friday Night ...... 296 The Golden Six ...... 257 Happy Ending ...... 298 The Firstborn...... 217 Fridays ...... 95 The Golden State...... 198 Happy for You ...... 283 Fish...... 307 The Froegle Dictum ...... 295 The Golden Years ...... 3 The Happy Time...... 210 Fit to be Tied...... 40 From Above ...... 95 The Golem ...... 218 Hard Hat Area...... 311 ★ Five Course Love ...... 17 The Frosted Glass Coffin...... 292 Gone Goth ...... 298 The Hardy Boys and the Mystery of Five Evenings...... 119 Frozen...... 41 Gone to Take a… ...... 311 Where Babies Come From ...... 305 Five in Judgment ...... 345 Frozen Dog...... 303 Gone Tomorrow ...... 299 Harold ...... 310 Five Kinds of Silence...... 94 The Frying Pan...... 315 Good as New...... 23 The Harry and Sam Dialogues ...... 11 Five of Us...... 67 Fuddy Meers...... 119 Good Day...... 325 Harry Outside ...... 120 Five One-Act Plays by Alan Ball ...... 294 Full Frontal Nudity...... 314 Good Night, Caroline...... 334 The Harvesting...... 199 Five One-Act Plays by Full Gallop...... 5 The Good Parts ...... 95 Harvey ...... 210 Murray Schisgal...... 294 Full Hookup ...... 67 The Good Thief...... 295 The Hasty Heart...... 168 Five Women Wearing the Full Moon (Krasna) ...... 41 Good Thing...... 95 The Hat...... 312 Same Dress...... 94 Full Moon (Price) ...... 165 A Good Time...... 285 The Haunted Honeymoon ...... 210 Flatboatman...... 347 Fully Committed ...... 5 Goodbye Freddy ...... 95 Haunted Lives...... 298 The Flatulist ...... 309 Fun ...... 296 Goodbye, Howard ...... 300 The Haunting of Hill House...... 120 Flaubert’s Latest ...... 144 Funeral Parlor ...... 305 Goodbye Oscar...... 295 Have a Nice Day ...... 311 A Flea in Her Ear...... 233 Fur Hat...... 304 Goodly Creatures...... 210 Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters’ Flesh and Blood (Gaitens) ...... 198 Further Than the Furthest Thing...... 67 Gorgo’s Mother...... 334 First 100 Years...... 11 Flesh and Blood (Hanley)...... 94 Galahad Jones ...... 227 A Gothic Tale...... 298 Having Wonderful Time...... 258 Flight into Egypt ...... 243 Gallows Humor ...... 23 The Government Inspector...... 257 He Ain’t Heavy ...... 290 Flight Lines...... 294 ★ The Gamester ...... 13 G.R. Point ...... 166 Heart of a City...... 240 Flight to the West ...... 257 Garbage Bags ...... 311 The Grace of Mary Traverse...... 145 Heart of a Dog ...... 227 The Flounder Complex ...... 324 The Gardens of Frau Hess ...... 10 Graceland...... 297 The Heart Outright...... 42 The Flowering Peach ...... 234 The Gay Deceiver...... 120 Gramercy Ghost ...... 210 Hearts Beating Faster ...... 68 The Flu Season ...... 85 The Gazebo ...... 209 Grand Prize...... 166 Heathen Valley...... 96 Flyin’ West...... 94 Gemini ...... 120 A Grand Romance...... 145 Heaven and Hell (on Earth): The Flying Gerardos...... 217 General Gorgeous ...... 186 The Grand Tour ...... 166 A Divine Comedy ...... 298 Flywheel and Anna ...... 287 The General of Hot Desire...... 296 Grandma Duck is Dead...... 341 Heaven Can Wait ...... 247 F.M...... 300 General Seeger ...... 165 Grandma Steps Out...... 227 Heaven on Earth...... 96 F.O.B...... 294 The Gentle People ...... 218 The Grapes of Wrath...... 257 Hedda Gabler (Baitz)...... 120 Fog on the Mountain...... 341 George Washington Slept Here...... 243 The Grass Harp ...... 246 Hedda Gabler (Hughes)...... 120 The Folding Green ...... 165 Gettin’ It Together ...... 307 Grass Widows ...... 96 Hedda Gabler (Meyer)...... 357 The Food Chain ...... 67 Getting Away with Murder...... 198 A Grave Undertaking...... 166 Hedwig and the Angry Inch ...... 271 Food Related...... 307 Getting Frankie Married—and The Great American Cheese The Heidi Chronicles ...... 146 Fool for Love ...... 40 Afterwards...... 209 Sandwich...... 338 Heights ...... 315 The Footsteps of Doves ...... 322 Getting Out...... 209 ★ The Great American Trailer The Heiress...... 168 For-Everett...... 283 Ghost Children...... 85 Park Musical...... 18 Hellcab ...... 121 For Love or Money...... 144 The Ghost of Rhodes Manor...... 186 A Great Career...... 330 Hello Again...... 276 For the Use of the Hall...... 95 The Ghost Sonata...... 357 Great Expectations...... 218 Hello from Bertha ...... 318, 355 For Whom the Southern A Ghost Story...... 298 The Great God Brown...... 354 Henrietta the Eighth...... 234 Belle Tolls...... 292 Ghost World...... 324 The Great Labor Day Classic...... 297 ★ Henry (After Pirandello) ...... 12 Force Continuum ...... 165 Ghosts (Meyer)...... 357 The Great Nebula in Orion...... 297 ★ Henry Flamethrowa...... 4 Force of Nature...... 165 Ghosts (Wilson)...... 68 Great Scot!...... 278 Henry Lumper...... 258 The Foreigner ...... 119 Ghosts of the Loyal Oaks...... 68 The Great Sebastians ...... 258 Her Majesty, Miss Jones...... 199 Foreplay or: The Art of The Giants’ Dance...... 198 Great Solo Town...... 167 The Herbal Bed ...... 146 the Fugue ...... 302, 303 Gideon...... 257 Green Julia...... 11 Hesh ...... 96 Forever Yours, Marie-Lou ...... 40 Gift of Murder!...... 145 The Green Pastures...... 258 Hey You, Light Man!...... 121 The Former One-on-One The Gifted Program...... 234 Greenwich Mean ...... 296 Hidden Agendas ...... 285 Basketball Champion ...... 297 The Gifts of the Magi...... 273 The Grey Zone ...... 145 The Hidden River...... 186 Fortinbras ...... 227 The Gimmick...... 297 Griller ...... 158 Hide and Seek ...... 168 The 49th Cousin ...... 186 The Gingham Dog ...... 41 Gross Indecency: The Three Trials The Hide and Seek Odyssey Found a Peanut...... 144 Gint ...... 166 of Oscar Wilde...... 167 of Madeline Gimple ...... 68 Four ...... 40 The Girl and the Soldier...... 310, 358 The Ground Zero Club...... 286 High Cockalorum...... 247 Four Baboons Adoring the Sun ...... 209 A Girl Can Tell...... 218 Group ...... 302 High Dive...... 5 TITLE INDEX xv

The High School ...... 321 I Remember Mama (High School It’s Been Wonderful ...... 186 Kind Sir ...... 98 High Sign ...... 319 Version)...... 259 It’s Called the Sugar Plum...... 325 King of Hearts ...... 187 High Tor...... 240 I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix...330 It’s Only a Play...... 147 The King of the United States ...... 122 The Highest Tree ...... 234 I was Dancing...... 97 It’s Showdown Time ...... 210 Kingdom Come...... 187 Highway ...... 301 ★ Ice Glen ...... 11 Ivanov (Corrigan) ...... 227 Kingdom of Earth...... 24 Hilda Crane...... 199 The Iceman Cometh...... 354 Ivanov (Schmidt) ...... 227 Kiss and Tell...... 235 His Dish ...... 304 The Idiot ...... 234 I’ve Got Sixpence...... 122 Kiss the Boys Good-bye...... 219 The Hitch-Hiker ...... 313 Idiot’s Delight ...... 259 Ivory Tower...... 211 Kissing Christine...... 304 Hocus Pocus ...... 168 The Idiots Karamazov...... 218 Jackie Lantern’s Hallowe’en Revenge...70 Kissing Sweet ...... 300 Hold Me! ...... 68 If the Shoe Pinches ...... 335 Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol ...... 43 Kit Marlowe...... 211 Hold Please...... 42 If Walls Could Talk...... 312 Jacobowsky and the Colonel...... 259 Kith and Kin ...... 72 The Holdup...... 42 If We are Women...... 43 Jacob’s Ladder ...... 70 ★ Kitty Kitty Kitty...... 9 Holiday for Lovers ...... 168 If You were My Wife I’d Jacques Brel is Alive and Well Kitty the Waitress ...... 306 Hollywood Arms ...... 199 Shoot Myself ...... 312 & Living in Paris...... 272 ★ Klonsky and Schwartz...... 3 Hollywood Pinafore or The Lad Ikke, Ikke, Nye, Nye, Nye ...... 297 Jar the Floor...... 71 Komachi ...... 81 Who Loved a Salary ...... 278 ’Ile...... 354 Jason ...... 199 The Kramer ...... 123 The Hologram Theory...... 186 I’ll be Home for Christmas...... 322 Jealousy...... 299 Kringle’s Window ...... 211 Holy Ghosts...... 234 I’m Herbert...... 322 Jeffrey...... 147 L-Play ...... 316 The Homage that Follows ...... 69 I’m Really Here...... 320, 358 Jenny Keeps Talking...... 6 L.A...... 308 Home (Cahill) ...... 315 The Imaginary Cuckold, Jenny Kissed Me ...... 227 La Bête...... 187 Home (Williams)...... 23 or Sganarelle...... 168 Jest a Second! ...... 98 L.A. Sketches ...... 307 Home at Six...... 293 ★ The Imaginary Invalid...... 13 Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train...... 71 Labor Day...... 72 Home Free!...... 302 An Imaginary Life...... 122 Jesus on the Oil Tank...... 317 Ladies at the Alamo ...... 72 Home Front...... 42 Imagining “America”...... 308 Jiley Nance and Lednerg...... 283 Ladies in Retirement...... 123 Home Life of a Buffalo...... 299 Imagining Brad...... 299 Jimmy Shine ...... 247 The Ladies of the Camellias...... 187 Home of the Brave ...... 97 The Immoralist...... 169 Jitters ...... 169 The Ladies Should be in Bed...... 301 The Homecoming ...... 260 Impassioned Embraces...... 341 Jo ...... 279 The Lady and the Clarinet...... 44 Homework...... 304 Impossible Marriage...... 122 Joan of Lorraine...... 259 The Lady from Dubuque...... 147 Honour...... 42 Impromptu ...... 335 Joe and Stew’s Theatre of Brotherly Love The Lady from Havana...... 24 Hooters...... 43 In a Northern Landscape ...... 169 and Financial Success ...... 283 The Lady from the Sea ...... 357 Hope...... 337 In Any Language...... 259 Joey...... 304 The Lady of Fadima ...... 307 Hope is the Thing with Feathers...... 298 In Arabia We’d All be Kings...... 210 Joey-Boy ...... 290 The Lady of Larkspur Lotion ...318, 355 Hopscotch ...... 299 In-Betweens ...... 43 John and Mary Doe...... 306 ★ The Lady with All the Answers...... 3 The Horse Latitudes ...... 335 In Fireworks Lie Secret Codes...... 338 John Brown’s Body...... 24 The Lady’s Not for Burning...... 200 Hortensia and the Museum In Old Vermont...... 312 John Gabriel Borkman...... 357 Lake Hollywood ...... 147 of Dreams ...... 121 In Place...... 299 John Loves Mary...... 187 Lake Street Extension...... 24 The Hot L Baltimore...... 244 In Real Life ...... 6 John Turner Davis...... 322 The Land is Bright...... 261 Hot ’n’ Throbbing ...... 43 In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel...... 69 Johnny Belinda ...... 259 The Land of Cockaigne ...... 300 Hotel ...... 301 In the Blood...... 97 Johnny Bull...... 71 The Land of the Astronauts...... 315 A Hotel on Marvin Gardens...... 69 In the Desert of My Soul...... 335 Johnny No-Trump...... 122 Landscape of the Body...... 211 The Hotel Play ...... 258 In the Summer House ...... 235 Johnny Pye ...... 276 The Laramie Project ...... 147 The Hothouse...... 121 In the Zone...... 354 The Johnstown Vindicator...... 169 Large Window on a Small World...... 148 The Hound of the Baskervilles ...... 168 An Incident at the Standish Joined at the Head...... 169 The Lark...... 261 House Arrest: A Search for American Arms ...... 293, 356 The Joke Code...... 306 Las Meninas...... 123 Character In and Around the Incident at Vichy ...... 259 Jonah ...... 211 The Last Days of Judas Iscariot ...... 232 White House, Past and Present...... 5 Incommunicado...... 70 Joseph Dintenfass ...... 307 The Last December ...... 283 House Made of Air ...... 304 The Incomparable Max ...... 218 Josephine: The Mouse Singer...... 211 Last Easter ...... 58 The House of Bernarda Alba ...... 218 Incorruptible...... 146 The Journals of Mihail Sebastian ...... 6 Last Gasps...... 289 The House of Sleeping Independence...... 43 Journey to Bahia ...... 260 The Last Good Moment of Beauties...... 294 The Indian Wants the Bronx ...... 330 Journey to Jerusalem...... 260 Lily Baker...... 44 The House of Yes...... 69 Infant Mortality...... 283 Journey to the Day ...... 187 Last Looks...... 123 House Without Windows...... 121 An Infinite Ache ...... 12 The Joy of Going The Last Meeting of the Knights The Houseguests...... 43 Inherit the Wind...... 259 Somewhere Definite...... 122 of the White Magnolia...... 170 The Housekeeper...... 11 Innocent Thoughts, Harmless Judaic Park...... 283 The Last Night of Ballyhoo ...... 123 How I Got That Story...... 12 Intentions...... 199 Judith...... 260 The Last of Mrs. Lincoln...... 240 How I Learned to Drive ...... 69 The Innocents’ Crusade...... 98 Julie Johnson...... 71 The Last of My Solid Gold How Much, How Much?...... 146 An Inspector Calls ...... 122 Juliet ...... 299 Watches...... 318, 355 How to Say Goodbye...... 69 Insurrection: Holding History ...... 169 Juliet, Yancey, April Snow ...... 299 The Last of the Thorntons...... 188 How We Reached an Impasse Integrity...... 291 July 7, 1994 ...... 109 The Last Straw...... 300 on Nuclear Energy ...... 302 The Intelligent Design of Jumpin’ Jupiter ...... 211 The Last Sunday in June...... 148 Howie the Rookie...... 12 Jenny Chow ...... 85 ★ Jumping for Joy...... 5 Last to Go...... 292, 356 How’s the World Treating You?...... 97 Interlock ...... 70 Jungle Rot...... 199 Last Train to Nibroc ...... 12 Hrosvitha...... 81 Intermezzo ...... 301 Junior Miss ...... 244 Last Tuesday...... 109 Hughie...... 12, 354 Intermission...... 295 Junk Yard...... 338 ★ The Last Word… ...... 3 Humpty Dumpty ...... 57 Interurban...... 244 Juno’s Swans...... 24 The Last Yankee (Full Length)...... 72 The Hundred and First...... 350 The Interview (Swet) ...... 325 Just Hold Me...... 298 The Last Yankee (One Act)...... 325 The Hunter and the Bird...... 320, 358 Interview (van Itallie)...... 284 K2...... 12 The Late George Apley...... 240 Hurricane of the Eye...... 330 Intimate Apparel...... 98 The Keepers...... 24 The Late Henry Moss...... 148 Hysterical Blindness...... 97 Inventing Van Gogh ...... 70 Keepin’ an Eye on Louie...... 287 Later ...... 25 I am a Camera ...... 121 Invitation to a March...... 146 The Kentucky Cycle ...... 260 Later Life ...... 44 I am My Own Wife...... 6 ★ Iphigenia...... 12 The Kentucky Marriage Proposal .....330 Laughing Stock (Linney) ...... 300 I Can’t Imagine Tomorrow...... 292 The Iron Cross...... 219 Key Exchange ...... 24 Laughing Stock (Morey)...... 224 I Can’t Remember Anything...... 290 Isadora Duncan Sleeps with the Key Largo ...... 261 Laughing Wild...... 13 I Don’t Know What I’m Doing ...... 304 Russian Navy...... 219 Keyhole Lover...... 291 Laughs, Etc...... 314 I Hate Hamlet ...... 97 Isn’t It Romantic ...... 147 Kibbutz...... 304 Laughter in the Shadow of the Trees ....300 I-Kissandtell...... 298 Isn’t Nature Wonderful?...... 299, 359 Kid Champion...... 200 Laundry and Bourbon ...... 330 I Knock at the Door ...... 97 It Can’t Happen Here ...... 240 Kid Purple ...... 98 Laura...... 148 I Love Lucy Who? ...... 336 Italian American Reconciliation...... 70 Killers...... 71 Laura Dennis ...... 219 I Never Sang for My Father ...... 199 It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie...... 316 Kimberly Akimbo ...... 71 The Laws ...... 308 I Remember Mama...... 259 It’s a Small World...... 291 A Kind of Alaska...... 307 Lazarus Laughed ...... 354 xvi TITLE INDEX

Leader...... 317 Living at Home ...... 148 The Magic Fire ...... 206 The Mermaids Singing ...... 228 The Leading Lady...... 261 Living in this World...... 310 The Mai...... 149 Meshugah ...... 74 The Learned Ladies ...... 219 Living Out...... 149 The Maiden’s Prayer ...... 73 The Metamorphosis...... 347 ★ The Learned Ladies of Park Lobby Hero ...... 46 The Majestic Kid ...... 73 Metropolitan Operas...... 303 Avenue ...... 12 Lola...... 304 Make Like a Dog...... 295 Mickey...... 171 The Left Hand Singing...... 123 Lolita ...... 228 Make Room for Rodney ...... 345 Mickey’s Teeth ...... 304 Legend...... 240 The Loman Family Picnic...... 73 Makin’ Sense of Nothin’ ...... 308 The Middle Ages ...... 46 Legend of Camille ...... 338 Lone Star ...... 330 Malcolm ...... 262 Midgie Purvis...... 241 Legend of Sarah ...... 123 The Loneliest Wayfarer...... 318 The Mall...... 293, 356 The Midnight Caller...... 343 The Legendary Stardust Boys ...... 44 A Lonely Impulse of Delight ...... 320 The Man...... 125 The Mighty Gents ...... 150 Lemon Sky...... 124 Lonely Planet...... 13 Man Dangling ...... 302 A Mighty Man is He ...... 172 Lemonade ...... 300 The Lonesome West ...... 46 Man from Nebraska...... 171 The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Lemons...... 219 Long Ago and Far Away ...... 302 Man in a Case...... 310 Here Anymore...... 172 Lenten Pudding ...... 303 The Long Christmas Ride Home ...... 99 Man in a Restaurant ...... 308 The Millennium Fallacy...... 298 Les Belles Soeurs...... 235 Long Day’s Journey into Night...73, 354 The Man in the Dog Suit ...... 188 The Mineola Twins...... 126 A Lesson Before Dying ...... 124 The Long Goodbye ...... 318, 355 The Man Who Came to Dinner...... 262 Minor Demons...... 150 Let Me Hear You Whisper...... 301 The Long Stay Cut Short or The The Man Who Climbed Minor Murder ...... 150 Let Us Go Out into the Unsatisfactory Supper ...... 285, 355 Pecan Trees ...... 338 The Minstrel Boy...... 285 Starry Night ...... 320 The Long Voyage Home...... 354 The Man Who Had All the Luck ...... 3 Minutes from the Blue Route ...... 47 Let’s Make Up...... 341 The Long Watch...... 228 The Man Who Never Died ...... 262 Misadventure ...... 304 A Letter from Ethel Kennedy...... 72 Look: We’ve Come Through...... 99 The Manchurian Candidate ...... 228 The Misanthrope ...... 201 Levitation...... 170 Looking for Normal...... 170 The Mandrake ...... 188 The Miser (Chambers) ...... 201 The Liar...... 227 Lord Byron’s Love Letter...... 318, 355 Manhattan Class Company Class The Miser (Magruder)...... 201 The Librarian...... 300 Lorenzo...... 235 One-Acts, 1992...... 302 Miss Evers’ Boys...... 126 A Lie of the Mind...... 148 A Loss of Roses...... 149 Manny ...... 304 Miss Farnsworth ...... 335 The Lieutenant of Inishmore...... 148 The Lost Colony...... 311 ★ Manuscript ...... 5 The Miss Firecracker Contest ...... 100 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Lot 13: The Bone Violin...... 320 Many Happy Returns ...... 303 Miss Julie ...... 357 Nickleby, Part I ...... 261 Lou Gehrig Did Not Die of Cancer....316 Marathon 33...... 262 Miss Lonelyhearts ...... 220 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Louie...... 304 Marching As to War ...... 341 ★ Miss Witherspoon...... 8 Nickleby, Part II...... 261 Love Among the Ruins ...... 220 Marco Millions ...... 354 Miss You ...... 294 The Life and Death of Love and Happiness...... 99 Marco Polo ...... 201 Missing/Kissing...... 304 Almost Everybody...... 244 Love and Kisses...... 149 Marco Polo Sings a Solo ...... 149 Missing Marisa...... 304 Life and Limb...... 124 Love and Understanding...... 25 Marcus is Walking: Scenes Missing Persons...... 126 Life During Wartime ...... 98 Love Diatribe...... 125 from the Road...... 100 Missouri Legend ...... 247 Life is Short ...... 283 Love in E-Flat ...... 99 Margaret’s Bed ...... 291 ★ The Mistakes Madeline Made ...... 8 Life Under Water...... 338 Love is a Time of Day...... 13 Margin for Error...... 171 Mister Angel ...... 220 Life with Father ...... 240 Love is Contagious...... 200 Marie and Bruce ...... 171 Mister Johnson ...... 262 Life with Mother ...... 240 Love Letters ...... 13 Marisol...... 171 Mister Roberts ...... 263 Life with Mother Superior...... 261 Love Me Long ...... 200 Marriage ...... 189 Mixed Babies ...... 302 A Life with No Joy in It...... 307 Love Minus...... 46 The Marriage of Bette and Boo ...... 189 Mixed Couples...... 74 Life X 3...... 44 The Love of Four Colonels...... 149 ★ The Marriage of Figaro ...... 13 Mixed Emotions ...... 47 The Lifeboat is Sinking...... 284 Love of the Game ...... 283 Marriage Play...... 13 Mizlansky/Zilinsky or Schmucks ...... 150 Light Up the Sky ...... 220 Love Rides the Rails (or Will the Mail Marvin’s Room ...... 171 The Model Apartment...... 47 Lighting Up the Two-Year Old ...... 25 Train Run Tonight?)...... 212 Mary Agnes is Thirty-Five ...... 296 Modern Orthodox ...... 32 Lightning...... 303 The Love Suicide at Schofield Mary Macgregor ...... 316 Mojo (Butterworth)...... 100 The Lights ...... 244 Barracks (Full Length)...... 261 Mary, Mary...... 74 Mojo (Childress)...... 304 The Lilies of the Field...... 170 The Love Suicide at Schofield Mary Stuart ...... 228 Molly Sweeney...... 26 Lillian ...... 6 Barracks (One Act)...... 347 The Masque of Kings ...... 262 Moloch Blues...... 305 Lily ...... 310 The Love Talker...... 335 Mass Appeal...... 13 ★ Mombo ...... 8 Lily Dale...... 124 Love! Valour! Compassion! ...... 125 Master and Margarita or, The Devil ★ The Moment When ...... 10 A Limb of Snow ...... 301 The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year...313 Comes to Moscow...... 220 Momma’s Little Angels ...... 74 Limbo Tales ...... 301 ★ Lovely Day...... 5 The Master Builder...... 357 Monday After the Miracle ...... 74 Linda Her ...... 301 A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur ...... 46 Master Class...... 100 Money ...... 272 Line ...... 283 The Lover ...... 331 Master Olof ...... 357 Money and Friends...... 172 Lips Together, Teeth Apart...... 45 ★ Lovers’ Quarrels...... 13 Masterpieces...... 125 Money Mad...... 247 The Lisbon Traviata...... 45 A Lovesong for Miss Lydia...... 46 Masters of the Trade ...... 260 The Monogamist ...... 74 Listening...... 289 Loyalty...... 332 Match ...... 25 Monologue, February 1990 ...... 306 Litko: A Dramatic Monologue ...... 312 Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Mating Dance...... 212 Monster ...... 297 Little Bird ...... 45 Oberlander ...... 200 Max and Maxie...... 25 A Month in the Country ...... 220 Little Brother: Little Sister ...... 301 Lucky Nurse ...... 271 McReele...... 58 A Month in the Country, Little David ...... 335 The Lucky Spot ...... 125 Me and Jezebel...... 3 After Turgenev...... 212 Little Egypt...... 99 Ludlow Fair ...... 302 Me and Thee ...... 100 Months on End ...... 189 Little Eyolf...... 357 Lullaby...... 46 “Me, Candido!” ...... 244 The Moon is Blue...... 47 Little Fears ...... 335 ★ Luminescence Dating ...... 6 ★ Measure for Pleasure ...... 11 The Moon is Down...... 263 Little Fish...... 274 Luna Park ...... 304 Medea...... 305, 310 The Moon of the Caribbees...... 354 Little Footsteps ...... 45 Lunatic and Lover...... 99 Meet Me in Disneyland ...... 291 Moon over the Brewery ...... 47 The Little Foxes...... 188 Lunch Break ...... 295 The Meeting (Barlow) ...... 301 Mooncastle ...... 286 The Little Girl Who Lives Down Luv ...... 25 The Meeting (Stetson)...... 331 Moonlight...... 126 the Lane ...... 72 Lydie Breeze...... 200 Mel Says to Give You His Best...... 342 Moonlight and Magnolias...... 32 The Little Hut ...... 73 M. Butterfly...... 188 The Member of the Wedding ...... 220 The Moonlight Room ...... 75 Little Joe Monaghan ...... 45 The M Word ...... 294 Memorial Day ...... 294 The Moonshot Tape ...... 305 Little Johnny...... 309 Macbeth Did It...... 262 Memory of Summer ...... 293, 356 Moony’s Kid Don’t Cry ...... 285, 355 Little Miss Fresno ...... 321 ★ Madagascar...... 5 A Memory of Two Mondays...... 228 Moose Mating ...... 75 The Little Tommy Parker Celebrated Madam, Will You Walk?...... 235 The Memory of Water...... 100 More Solo Readings...... 359 Colored Minstrel Show ...... 124 Made for a Woman...... 294 Men Without Dates...... 303 The Morning After ...... 283 Little Victories ...... 124 The Maderati...... 170 Men Without Wives ...... 303 Morning Star ...... 221 Live Spelled Backwards...... 341 The Madness of Lady Bright ...... 296 Men’s Lives...... 150 The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told...172 The Live Wire...... 241 The Madwoman of Chaillot...... 262 Men’s Singles...... 25 Motel ...... 284 The Lively Lad...... 170 The Magenta Moth ...... 149 Mercy...... 46 The Mother of Modern Lives of the Saints...... 302 The Magic Act...... 73 Mere Mortals ...... 303 Censorship ...... 298 TITLE INDEX xvii

A Mother’s Love...... 283 Neville’s Island ...... 48 The Old Settler...... 49 Parted on Her Wedding Morn ...... 342 The Mound Builders ...... 126 Nevis Mountain Dew ...... 128 Old Times...... 26 The Passing of an Actor...... 336 Mountain Language...... 343 New Beat on an Old Drum...... 213 Old Wicked Songs...... 14 Passing Through ...... 213 Mountain Memory ...... 151 A New Life ...... 263 Old Wine in a New Bottle...... 76 Passing Through from Exotic Mountain—The Journey of The New World Order...... 292, 356 The Oldest Living Graduate...... 173 Places...... 307 Justice Douglas...... 26 New Year’s Eve ...... 304 The Oldest Profession...... 58 Passione ...... 129 Mourning Becomes Electra...... 354 New York Actor ...... 296 Oldtimers Game...... 174 Passport...... 296 Mr. & Mrs...... 47 Next...... 285 Oleanna ...... 14 The Past is the Past ...... 307 Mr. Arcularis...... 235 Next Time I’ll Sing to You...... 75 Olio ...... 273 Pasta...... 76 Mr. Barry’s Etchings...... 221 The Nice and the Nasty...... 202 The Omelet Murder Case...... 346 Patient A...... 26 Mr. Charles, Currently of Nice People Dancing to On Borrowed Time...... 229 Patio ...... 307 Palm Beach...... 325 Good Country Music...... 75 On Golden Pond ...... 101 Patio/Porch ...... 307 Mr. 80% ...... 101 Nickel and Dimed ...... 85 On Raftery’s Hill...... 128 Patrick Henry Lake Liquors...... 174 Mr. Flannery’s Ocean...... 305 Night and Her Stars...... 173 On the Bum, or The Next The Patriots ...... 264 Mr. Hobbs’ Vacation...... 235 Night Dance...... 128 Train Through...... 222 Paul Robeson ...... 15 ★ Mr. Marmalade...... 10 The Night Heron ...... 128 On the Edge (Hibbert) ...... 128 The Pavilion ...... 26 Mr. Morton Waits for Night Life ...... 263 On the Edge (Pospisil)...... 283 Pay-Per-Kill...... 283 His Bus ...... 283 Night Maneuver ...... 14 ★ On the Mountain ...... 6 The Peacock Season...... 76 Mr. Peters’ Connections...... 151 ’Night, Mother ...... 14 On Whitman Avenue ...... 236 Peer Gynt...... 357 Mr. Pickwick...... 263 Night of the Dunce ...... 151 Once for the Asking...... 229 ★ Pen...... 5 Mr. Williams and Miss Wood...... 13 The Night of the Iguana...... 228 Once More with Feeling...... 174 Penny Wise...... 129 Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild The Night of the Tribades...... 75 The One-Armed Man...... 315 People be Heard...... 137 Christmas Binge...... 212 A Night Out...... 288 One Bright Day...... 236 People in the Wind...... 293, 356 Mrs. Cage ...... 325 Night Seasons ...... 221 One for the Road ...... 307, 343 The People Next Door...... 152 Mrs. California ...... 126 Night Thoughts ...... 306 One Man’s Meat ...... 293 The People’s Violin ...... 7 Mrs. Dally Has a Lover...... 321 Night Train to Bolina...... 75 One Minute Play ...... 306 A Perfect Analysis Given by Mrs. Harper’s Bazaar...... 346 Night Watch...... 173 One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show...151 Parrot ...... 331 Mrs. Lincoln...... 151 Nightclub Cantata ...... 274 1-900-Desperate ...... 305 A Perfect Ganesh ...... 50 Mrs. McThing ...... 251 A Nightingale ...... 309 One Tennis Shoe...... 284 The Perfect Marriage ...... 129 Mrs. Murray’s Farm ...... 201 Nina in the Morning ...... 292 One Thing More ...... 190 A Perfect Mermaid...... 307 Mrs. Sedgewick’s Head ...... 189 The Nina Variations ...... 14 Only an Orphan Girl...... 152 The Perfect Party ...... 77 Mrs. Sorken ...... 292 Nine Armenians...... 190 The Only Thing Worse You Could Period of Adjustment...... 174 Mud, River, Stone...... 127 ★ 9 Parts of Desire ...... 3 Have Told Me… ...... 6 The Person I Once Was ...... 331 A Murder...... 319 1918 ...... 221 Only You ...... 102 Personal Effects ...... 309 Murder by Poe...... 158 90° in the Shade ...... 306 Opal is a Diamond ...... 202 Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Murder in Green Meadows...... 48 99 Histories ...... 84 Opal’s Baby...... 102 Would Not Grow Up...... 264 Murder Mistaken...... 101 Nine-Ten ...... 283 Opal’s Husband ...... 76 The Petrified Forest ...... 264 Murder, My Sweet Matilda...... 212 Ninotchka...... 173 Opal’s Million Dollar Duck...... 49 Phaedra...... 152 Murder Once Removed ...... 127 Nixon’s Nixon...... 14 Opera Comique...... 190 The Philadelphia...... 284 Murdering Marlowe...... 159 No Dogs Allowed ...... 311 Operation Midnight Climax...... 49 Philip ...... 293 Music from a Sparkling Planet...... 75 No Man’s Land ...... 48 Orange Flower Water...... 50 Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread.....284 The Musical Comedy Murders No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs...... 101 An Ordinary Man...... 213 A Phoenix Too Frequent ...... 27 of 1940...... 189 No One Will be Immune ...... 306 Oregon ...... 307 Photo Finish ...... 202 The Mutilated...... 350 No Skronking ...... 311 The Orphans ...... 102 Photographs: Mary and Mutual Benefit Life...... 48 No Soliciting...... 311 Orpheus Descending ...... 251 Howard...... 310, 358 Muzeeka...... 344 No Time ...... 320 Orrin ...... 309 Phyllis and Xenobia ...... 305 My Boy Jack ...... 127 No Time for Sergeants...... 263 Orson’s Shadow...... 85 The Physician ...... 292 My Cousin Rachel ...... 127 Nobody...... 296 Other People...... 102 ★ A Picasso...... 3 My Cup Ranneth Over...... 326 Nobody Loves an Albatross...... 221 Other Places...... 307 Picnic...... 202 My Dear Children ...... 221 Nocturne ...... 304 The Other Player...... 319 Picture ...... 308 My Emperor’s New Clothes...... 277 Norm-Anon...... 283 Our Girls ...... 202 Pig ...... 174 My Kinsman, Major Molineux...... 3 North of Providence ...... 307 Our Lady of 121st Street ...... 213 The Pigman ...... 174 My Life...... 172 North Shore Fish ...... 173 Our Lady of Sligo...... 128 The Pillars of Society ...... 357 My Mother, My Father and Me...... 263 Northeast Local ...... 48 Our Lady of the Tortilla...... 102 Pillow Talk...... 314 My Red Hand, My Black Hand ...... 297 Not I...... 326 Ourselves Alone ...... 152 ★ The Pillowman ...... 7 My Side of the Story...... 286 Not My Fault...... 306 Out Cry...... 14 Pitching to the Star...... 308 My Sister Eileen...... 263 Not Now, Darling...... 264 Out of Gas on Lovers Leap...... 15 A Place on the Magdalena Flats ...... 152 My Three Angels ...... 189 Not Waving ...... 48 Out of the Flying Pan...... 301 Plan Day...... 316 My Uncle Sam...... 201 Note to Self...... 298 Out West ...... 320 Planet Fires ...... 102 The Mystery at Twicknam The Notebook ...... 49 Outlanders...... 322 Plantation ...... 289 Vicarage ...... 302 The Notebook of Trigorin ...... 221 Outstanding Men’s Monologues The Play About the Baby...... 50 The Mystery of Attraction ...... 101 Now...... 336 Volume One...... 364 Play for Germs...... 311 Mystery Play ...... 151 The Number...... 202 Outstanding Women’s Monologues Play It by Ear (The Festival) ...... 203 The Mystery Plays ...... 85 Oatmeal and Kisses...... 26 Volume One...... 364 Play Time...... 77 Naomi in the Living Room ...... 305 Objective Case...... 305 Over My Dead Body ...... 152 Play Yourself...... 50 National Velvet ...... 202 The Observatory...... 315 Over Texas...... 273 Playing with Fire (After Natural Affection...... 212 The O’Conner Girls ...... 76 Over the River and Through Frankenstein)...... 103 Natural Disasters...... 306 The Odyssey of Jeremy Jack ...... 3 the Woods...... 102 Playing with Fire (Strindberg)...... 357 The Nature and Purpose Of Mice and Men...... 173 Over Twenty-One...... 202 Please Communicate...... 129 of the Universe...... 316 The Ofay Watcher ...... 26 Overtime ...... 174 The Pleasure of His Company...... 129 Neat...... 6 Off the Map...... 76 The Owl Killer ...... 305 The Plumber’s Apprentice...... 298 Nebraska...... 127 The Offering...... 49 Pagan Day...... 310 Plunge...... 77 Necessary Targets...... 127 Oh, Mama! No, Papa!...... 128 The Palace at 4 A.M...... 26 The Pokey...... 326 The Necklace is Mine...... 338 The Oil Well...... 322 Pale Horse...... 76 Polish Joke ...... 77 Ned Crocker ...... 173 The Old Beginning...... 322 A Palm Tree in a Rose Garden ...... 152 Ponies ...... 32 Needs...... 331 The Old Boy...... 101 Papp...... 50 Poor Beast in the Rain ...... 4 Neighbors ...... 336 The Old Glory...... 3 Parakeet Eulogy ...... 303 Poor Fellas ...... 308 Nellie Toole & Co...... 48 The Old Jew ...... 294 Parallel Lives: The Kathy The Pope’s Nose...... 308 The Nerd...... 127 Old Man Joseph and His Family ...... 190 and Mo Show...... 15 Popkins ...... 103 ★ A Nervous Smile ...... 6 Old Phantoms ...... 151 ★ The Paris Letter ...... 10 Pops ...... 308 xviii TITLE INDEX

Porch ...... 307 Reckless...... 175 Rosebloom...... 52 The Secret of Freedom...... 316 Portia Coughlan...... 203 The Reckoning ...... 130 Rosemary with Ginger...... 290 Seduced...... 53 Portrait of a Madonna ...... 318, 355 Reclining Figure...... 175 A Rosen by Any Other Name...... 104 See My Lawyer...... 241 Postcards ...... 326 The Red Address...... 103 Rosen’s Son ...... 303 See Rock City ...... 32 A Poster of the Cosmos...... 305 Red Angel ...... 32 Rosmersholm...... 357 ★ See What I Wanna See...... 17 Potholes ...... 336 The Red Coat ...... 320 Rouge Atomique...... 326 See the Jaguar ...... 237 Power Lunch...... 294 The Red Devil Battery Sign...... 264 Roulette ...... 104 Seeing Someone...... 312 Prairie du Chien ...... 312 Red Herring...... 103 Routed...... 339 Seeking the Genesis ...... 176 Praying for Rain...... 129 Red Popcorn ...... 298 A Royal Affair...... 130 Semi-Detached ...... 176 Pre-nuptial Agreement...... 310 Red Roses for Me...... 264 ★ The Ruby Sunrise ...... 11 A Sense of Place or Virgil is Prelude & Liebestod ...... 314 Red Rover, Red Rover...... 103 ★ The Rules of Charity ...... 8 Still the Frogboy...... 79 Prelude to a Crisis...... 316 Redwood Curtain ...... 28 Rules of Love ...... 303 Sequel to a Verdict ...... 247 The Prescott Proposals...... 236 Refuge...... 78 Rum and Vodka...... 295 Serenading Louie ...... 53 Present Tense ...... 309 Regarding Electra...... 236 Run, Thief, Run!...... 336 Serendipity and Serenity ...... 317 The Pretenders...... 357 Reindeer Soup ...... 130 The Runner Stumbles...... 175 A Sermon...... 312 Pretty Fire ...... 7 The Reluctant Rogue (or Running on Empty...... 78 The Serpent ...... 241 The Price ...... 50 Mother’s Day) ...... 153 Rupert’s Birthday ...... 309 The Servant of Two Masters ...... 176 The Primary English Class...... 175 A Reluctant Tragic Hero ...... 311 Rush Limbaugh in Night School ...... 7 Seven Menus...... 302 The Prince and Mr. Jones ...... 247 Remains to be Seen...... 251 Sabrina Fair...... 229 Seven Nuns at Las Vegas...... 223 Princess Rebecca Birnbaum ...... 295 The Remarkable Susan ...... 349 Sailor’s Song...... 58 Seven Nuns South of the Border ...... 230 The Prisoner ...... 27 Remedial English ...... 342 Saint Stanislaus Outside Seven One-Act Plays by The Prisoner’s Song ...... 315 Request Stop...... 292, 356 the House...... 302 Wendy Wasserstein...... 310 Private Contentment ...... 222 Requiem for Us...... 300 Saints at the Rave...... 298 Seven Short and Very Short Plays by Private Eyes...... 77 Responsible Parties...... 130 Sally and Marsha...... 16 Jean-Claude van Itallie ...... 310, 358 Private Jokes, Public Places ...... 50 The Rest of the Night...... 58 Sally Blane, World’s Greatest Seven Short Farces by ★ Privilege...... 8 The Retreat from Moscow...... 28 Girl Detective...... 276 Anton Chekhov...... 311 The Prize Play...... 349 The Return of Herbert Bracewell or Sally’s Shorts ...... 310 Seven Sisters...... 230 The Prodigal ...... 236 (Why Am I Always Alone When Salt Lake City Skyline...... 237 Seven Times Monday...... 223 The Prodigals...... 309 I’m With You?)...... 15 Salt-Water Moon ...... 16 The Seven Year Itch ...... 213 Progress...... 153 Reunion In Vienna ...... 264 Sammi ...... 326 The 75th...... 299 Prologue...... 308 Revelers...... 130 Samuel Hoopes Reading from 74 Georgia Avenue ...... 302 Prologue: American Twilight...... 312 ★ The Revenger’s Tragedy ...... 14 His Own Works ...... 323 Sexaholics...... 311 The Promise...... 27 Rex...... 303 The Sand Castle...... 310 Sexaholics and Other Plays ...... 311 Proof...... 51 The Rhesus Umbrella ...... 286 Sand Mountain...... 310 Sextet (YES)...... 310 The Proposal...... 311 Rib Cage...... 104 Sand Mountain Matchmaking...... 310 Seymour in the Very Prymate...... 51 Rich and Famous...... 28 The Sandbox...... 322 Heart of Winter ...... 303 The Psychiatrist ...... 292 Richard Cory ...... 153 Santa Fe Sunshine...... 175 Shadow and Substance...... 192 Psychopathia Sexualis...... 77 Riches ...... 15 The Santaland Diaries...... 16 A Shadow of My Enemy...... 213 Pterodactyls...... 77 The Ride Down Mount Morgan ...... 104 Sarah and the Sax...... 319 ★ The Shaker Chair ...... 10 ★ The Pull of Negative Gravity...... 7 Riff Raff...... 28 Sarah, Sarah ...... 52 Shakers...... 53 Punch and Judy ...... 27 The Right and Honourable Saturday Adoption...... 104 Shakespeare’s R&J...... 53 The Purification...... 318, 355 Gentleman ...... 229 Saturday Night...... 105 The Shallow End ...... 311 Purple Dust ...... 229 Right Behind the Flag...... 154 The Savage Dilemma...... 191 A Shayna Maidel...... 105 The Pushcart Peddlers...... 309 Righting...... 326 Savage in Limbo ...... 78 Shel Shocked...... 311 Pvt. Wars (Full Length) ...... 27 The Rimers of Eldritch...... 245 ★ Savages...... 7 Shel’s Shorts...... 311 Pvt. Wars (One Act) ...... 331 Ring of Men ...... 332 Save Me a Place at Forest Lawn ...... 326 Sheridan or, Schooled in Scandal...... 177 ★ Pyretown...... 3 Ring Round the Moon ...... 350 Saved from Obscurity ...... 52 Sherlock Holmes and the Curse QED...... 15 The Riot Act...... 191 Saved or Destroyed ...... 105 of the Sign of Four...... 130 Quack...... 275 Riot Grrrrl Guitar...... 298 Say De Kooning...... 296 ★ Sherlock Holmes: The Quail Southwest ...... 153 The Rise and Rise of Daniel Say Goodnight, Gracie...... 79 Final Adventures...... 11 The Queen of Bingo...... 27 Rocket...... 191 Say You Love Satan...... 137 Sherlock’s Last Case ...... 131 A Question of Figures...... 342 The Rivalry...... 28 Scandal Point...... 52 Sherlock’s Veiled Secret ...... 131 A Question of Mercy ...... 129 The River...... 296 Scapin ...... 191 The Shock of Recognition ...... 322 The Quick-Change Room...... 190 Road Show...... 51 Scattergood ...... 28 Shoes...... 289 Quiet in the Land...... 236 The Road to the Graveyard ...... 339 A Scene: Australia ...... 307 Shoeshine...... 312 Quiet, Please...... 344 The Roads to Home ...... 309 A Scent of Flowers ...... 175 Shooting Gallery...... 311 Quills...... 153 Robin...... 298 Scent of the Roses...... 191 Shooting High ...... 251 Quilters...... 273 Rocket Man ...... 78 Scheherazade...... 52 Shooting Stars...... 154 Quotations from Chairman Rocket to the Moon ...... 154 School for Husbands...... 176 The Shop at Sly Corner...... 192 Mao Tse-Tung...... 35 Rocks ...... 208 The School for Scandal...... 252 Short and Sweet...... 312 ★ Rabbit Hole ...... 8 Roger & Miriam...... 293 The School for Wives ...... 176 Short Plays and Monologues by Race...... 241 Roman Candle...... 236 Scooter Thomas Makes It to David Mamet...... 312 ★ The Radiant Abyss...... 5 ★ Romance...... 10 the Top of the World...... 327 The Shortchanged Review ...... 105 Raft of the Medusa ...... 222 Romance in D ...... 51 Scotland Road...... 53 The Show Must Go On...... 312 ★ Rag and Bone ...... 11 Romance, Inc...... 339 Scrooge ...... 213 Showdown on Rio Road...... 237 Rain Dance...... 51 Romanoff and Juliet...... 222 Scuba Duba ...... 203 The Shrike ...... 265 The Rainy Afternoon...... 293, 356 Romulus ...... 265 The Sea Gull (Corrigan)...... 223 Shyster ...... 79 Raised in Captivity ...... 78 Room Service...... 229 The Sea Gull (van Itallie)...... 222 [Sic] ...... 79 Ramshackle Inn ...... 236 The Room ...... 288 Sea of Tranquility...... 203 Side Man ...... 131 The Rat Race...... 236 A Roomful of Roses...... 175 Search and Destroy...... 230 Sight Unseen...... 53 Rats...... 332 The Rooming House ...... 317 The Searching Wind...... 230 Signature...... 105 Ravenswood...... 137 Roommates...... 326 Seascape ...... 53 Signs of Trouble ...... 311 Raw Youth ...... 28 Roosters ...... 104 Season of Choice ...... 191 Silver Linings ...... 332 Ready for the River...... 103 The Root of Chaos ...... 339 Season’s Greetings ...... 16 The Silver Whistle ...... 237 Reasonable Circulation ...... 338 Roots in a Parched Ground ...... 241 Second Best Bed ...... 346 Simpatico...... 105 Rebecca...... 190 The Rope...... 354 Second Overture...... 350 A Simple Kind of Love Story...... 309 Rebel Armies Deep into Chad...... 51 Rosalee Pritchett ...... 348 Second Prize: Two Months The Simple Truth ...... 349 Rebel Women ...... 222 Rosary...... 310, 358 in Leningrad...... 191 Simply Heavenly...... 278 Recent Tragic Events...... 103 Rosa’s Eulogy ...... 298 Second Threshold ...... 105 Sin ...... 154 Recipe for a Crime...... 203 The Rose Tattoo ...... 265 The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild...176 Sin (A Cardinal Deposed)...... 85 TITLE INDEX xix

The Sin of Pat Muldoon...... 203 Space...... 308 Sugar-Mouth Sam Don’t Dance Terrible Jim Fitch...... 314 Sing Me No Lullaby ...... 177 Spain...... 132 No More ...... 309 The Terrible Tattoo Parlor...... 349 Sing This...... 290 Spared...... 314 ★ The Sugar Syndrome ...... 7 Terror by Gaslight...... 214 The Sirens...... 106 Sparks Fly Upward...... 265 Suicide—Anyone?...... 332 Tevya and His Daughters...... 214 Sister Mary Ignatius Explains Speaking in Tongues...... 54 Suitcase or, Those That Resemble Flies Thanks...... 290 It All for You ...... 312 Speed-the-Play ...... 302 from a Distance...... 55 That Championship Season...... 81 Sisters of the Winter Madrigal ...... 316 The Spiral Staircase...... 155 The Suitors ...... 155 ★ That Other Person...... 21 The Sisters Rosensweig ...... 154 Splash Hatch on the E Summer and Smoke...... 230 That Serious He-Man Ball...... 30 Six Degrees of Separation ...... 245 Going Down...... 80 Summer Brave ...... 230 That’s All ...... 292, 356 6:15 on the 104...... 312 Splendor in the Grass...... 251 Summer Cyclone ...... 107 That’s It, Folks! ...... 156 Skipper Next to God ...... 237 Splendora...... 275 Summer Morning Visitor ...... 318 That’s My Cousin ...... 248 The Skirmishers...... 289 Spring Dance ...... 309 Summer of ’42...... 275 That’s Where the Town’s Going ...... 55 Skirmishes...... 29 Spring Song ...... 248 Summertree ...... 107 That’s Your Trouble ...... 292, 356 The Skull ...... 349 Spunk ...... 273 Sunday Afternoon...... 306 Theda Bara and the Frontier A Skull in Connemara ...... 54 Squirrel ...... 332 Sunday in New York...... 132 Rabbi...... 277 Skylark...... 192 St Nicholas...... 295 Sunrise at Campobello...... 266 Then... (Campton) ...... 313 Skyscraper...... 106 St. Scarlet...... 58 Sunset Freeway...... 293 Then (Simms)...... 336 Slacks and Tops...... 339 Stage Directions...... 313 Sunstroke ...... 307 There are No Sacher Tortes in Slam!...... 303 Stage Door...... 265 Sure Thing...... 284 Our Society! ...... 299 Slam the Door Softly ...... 327 Stage Fright...... 29 The Survivalist...... 295 There Shall be No Night ...... 245 Sleep Deprivation Chamber...... 237 Stalag 17 ...... 265 The Survivors...... 237 Thicker Than Water ...... 315 A Sleep of Prisoners ...... 54 Standing on My Knees...... 54 Susan and God ...... 203 The Thief of Tears ...... 31 The Sleeper...... 112 Standup Shakespeare...... 272 Suspect...... 155 Thief River...... 108 Sleeping Beauty...... 313 Star Eternal ...... 344 Swan Song ...... 311 Things Between Us...... 283 Sleeping Dogs ...... 154 The Star-Spangled Girl ...... 29 The Swan...... 30 Thinking Up a New Name The Sleeping Prince...... 223 The Star Wagon...... 248 Swans Flying...... 303 for the Act...... 284 A Slight Ache...... 288 The Staring Match...... 348 Sweet Bird of Youth...... 266 Third and Oak: The Laundromat.....327 A Slight Case of Murder ...... 192 State of the Union ...... 245 The Sweet By ’N’ By ...... 132 Third and Oak: The Pool Hall ...... 332 Slow Dance on the Killing Ground ....29 States of Shock...... 80 Sweet Eros...... 314 Third Best Sport ...... 204 Slow Memories ...... 336 Status Quo Vadis ...... 242 Sweet Sue...... 55 Thirteen Things About Ed Small Craft Warnings...... 177 Stay Carl Stay ...... 314 Swing Fever...... 230 Carpolotti...... 31 The Small Hours ...... 223 Steel Magnolias...... 106 Swinging on a Star (The Johnny This Bird of Dawning Singeth Small War on Murray Hill...... 248 Stefanie Hero ...... 248 Burke Musical)...... 274 All Night Long...... 327 Smash ...... 192 The Stendhal Syndrome ...... 314 Swirling with Merlin...... 298 This Day and Age...... 108 A Smell of Burning...... 313 Stephen D...... 265 Sylvia ...... 55 This is Our Youth...... 30 Smile...... 284 Stephen Foster or Weep No More Sympathetic Magic ...... 156 This is the Rill Speaking ...... 296 The Smile of the World ...... 177 My Lady...... 214 The Syringa Tree...... 7 This Lime Tree Bower...... 295 Smoke...... 313 Stephen Vincent Benét’s Stories of T Bone n Weasel...... 30 This Property is Condemned....318, 355 Snakebit...... 54 America...... 106 Tabletop...... 107 This Thing of Darkness ...... 108 The Snow Ball ...... 241 The Steward of Christendom...... 177 Tadpole...... 132 Thom Pain (Based on Nothing) ...... 4 Snow Orchid ...... 79 Still Life ...... 29 Take a Deep Breath ...... 310, 358 Thor, with Angels ...... 204 Snowangel...... 288 Still More Solo Readings...... 359 Take Me Out ...... 204 Those That Play the Clowns...... 266 Snowing at Delphi...... 106 The Stonewater Rapture ...... 327 Taken in Marriage...... 81 Thoughts on the Instant of Greeting So When You Get Married...... 293 Stoop ...... 310 Taking Leave...... 107 a Friend on the Street...... 310, 358 Soap Opera (Ives) ...... 302 Stop Kiss...... 106 Taking Sides...... 132 The Thracian Horses ...... 266 Soap Opera (Pape)...... 297 Stop, You’re Killing Me...... 314 A Tale of Chelm...... 321 Threads...... 178 Sociability ...... 300 Stops Along the Way...... 344 The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck.....273 3 by E.S.T...... 315 A Social Event ...... 293, 356 Storm...... 357 Talk to Me Like the Rain and Three Days of Rain...... 31 Soft Dude ...... 304 Storm Operation...... 265 Let Me Listen...... 318, 355 Three Hand Reel ...... 315 The Solid Gold Cadillac ...... 245 The Story...... 177 Talking Dog...... 296 Three Men on a Horse ...... 237 Solitaire...... 313 The Story of Mary Surratt ...... 265 Talking Pictures ...... 204 Three Monologues...... 294 Solo Readings for Radio and The Strains of Triumph...... 293, 356 Tall Story ...... 266 3 More by E.S.T. ’98 ...... 316 Class Work...... 359 Strange Boarders ...... 237 Tall Tales...... 260 The Three Musketeers ...... 266 Solomon’s Child...... 154 Strange Interlude ...... 354 Talley & Son...... 214 Three One-Act Plays by Some Kind of Love Story...... 327 Strangers on Earth ...... 80 Talley’s Folly...... 16 Jason Miller...... 316 Some Things You Need to Know Before The Strangest Kind of Tantalus ...... 107 ★ Three One Acts by David the World Ends (A Final Evening Romance...... 318, 355 Tape...... 30 Lindsay-Abaire...... 21 with the Illuminati)...... 16 The Straw ...... 354 Tartuffe...... 214 Three Plays by Beth Henley...... 316 Some Voices...... 80 Stray Cats...... 29 Tatjana in Color...... 58 Three Poets ...... 81 Someone Waiting...... 177 Stray Dogs ...... 80 ★ Tea ...... 9 Three Postcards...... 272 Something Cloudy, Something Clear...155 The Street of Good Friends ...... 319 Tea Party...... 315 Three Rings for Michelle ...... 81 Something I’ll Tell You Tuesday...... 313 Street Talk...... 285 Teach Me How to Cry...... 223 Three Short Plays by Archibald Something to Hide ...... 131 A Streetcar Named Desire...... 214 The Teahouse of the August Moon .....266 MacLeish...... 316 Something Unspoken ...... 318, 355 String ...... 304 The Tears of My Sister...... 315 Three Short Plays by Somewhere in Between...... 106 String Fever...... 107 Telemachus Clay...... 204 Christopher Durang...... 316 Somnambulist...... 304 The Strong Breed...... 317 Tell-Tale...... 31 Three Short Plays by The Son Who Hunted Tigers The Stronger...... 357 Ten Blocks on the Camino Jonathan Marc Sherman...... 317 in Jakarta...... 307 Stuck...... 80 Real...... 285, 355 The Three Sisters (Corrigan) ...... 231 The Song of Louise in the Morning....332 Stuffings...... 314 Ten-Dollar Drinks ...... 303 Three Sisters (Friel)...... 231 Songs of Love...... 309 Stumps...... 80 The Ten O’Clock Scholar...... 133 Three Sisters (van Itallie) ...... 231 Sons and Fathers...... 317 Stupid Kids...... 54 Ten Unknowns ...... 55 Three Sisters (Wilson) ...... 231 Sophistry...... 155 The Sty of the Blind Pig ...... 54 Tender Offer...... 310 Three Tall Women...... 55 The Sorrows of Frederick...... 230 A Stye of the Eye...... 292 The Tender Trap...... 156 Three Viewings...... 31 Sorry, Wrong Number ...... 313 Subfertile...... 81 Tennessee...... 342 ★ Thrill Me: The Leopold The Sound of a Voice ...... 327 Suburban Tragedy...... 296 Tennessee and Me...... 294 & Loeb Story...... 17 Southern Cross ...... 203 Suburbia ...... 178 The Tennis Game ...... 192 Throckmorton, TX. 76083...... 317 Southern Exposure...... 155 The Sudden and Accidental Tent Meeting ...... 30 Throwing Smoke ...... 291 The Southwest Corner...... 131 Re-Education of Horse Johnson...107 Terminal ...... 306 Thunder in the Index ...... 285 ★ Souvenir...... 3 Suddenly Last Summer ...... 132 Terminal Cafe...... 178 Thunder Rock ...... 204 The Spa ...... 177 Suds in Your Eye...... 248 Terra Nova...... 133 Thymus Vulgaris...... 333 xx TITLE INDEX

The Tibetan Book of the Dead 27 Wagons Full of Cotton...... 318, 355 Victoria Station...... 307 The Wheeler Dealers ...... 223 (or “How Not to Do It Again”)...133 Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992...... 7 Victory on Mrs. Dandywine’s When Shakespeare’s Ladies Meet ...... 342 Ties...... 156 Twilight Walk ...... 238 Island ...... 297 When the World was Green ...... 8 Ties That Bind...... 260 Twinkle, Twinkle...... 285 The Vietnamization of When We Dead Awaken...... 357 The Tiger...... 319 Twister...... 306 New Jersey ...... 135 When You Comin’ Back Time and Ginger ...... 133 2 ...... 205 Vieux Carré...... 249 Red Ryder?...... 158 Time Flies...... 303 2B (or not 2B)...... 283 A View from the Bridge...... 238 Where Do We Live...... 159 Time for Elizabeth ...... 231 2B (or not 2B) Part 2...... 283 Village Green ...... 245 Where Has Tommy Flowers Time Out ...... 290 Two Blind Mice...... 231 Villainous Company...... 333 Gone?...... 110 Time Out for Ginger...... 193 Two Days...... 318 The Violet Hour...... 83 Where is de Queen?...... 320, 358 Times and Appetites of Two Dozen Red Roses ...... 82 The Virgin Bride...... 357 Where the Cross is Made...... 354 Toulouse-Lautrec...... 277 Two Eclairs ...... 303 Virtual Virtue ...... 298 Where’s Daddy? ...... 110 Tiny Alice ...... 81 Two Eggs Scrambled Soft ...... 287 Visions of Grandeur...... 310 Where’s Mamie?...... 273 The Tiny Closet...... 293, 356 Two Enthusiasts...... 306 Visit to a Small Planet...... 194 Where’s My Money? ...... 110 Tiny Island...... 56 Two Fools Who Gained a Visiting Mr. Green...... 17 Which Side are You On?...... 260 Tiny Tim is Dead ...... 108 Measure of Wisdom ...... 336 Voice of Good Hope...... 135 Whiskey...... 342 Tira Tells Everything There is to Two on an Island ...... 267 A Voice of My Own...... 83 Whisper into My Good Ear...... 321 Know About Herself ...... 317 Two Plays by William Inge ...... 319 The Voice of the Turtle...... 31 White Elephants ...... 298 Titanic ...... 342 Two Short Plays by Voir Dire...... 109 ★ White People ...... 6 To be Continued ...... 133 Lewis John Carlino ...... 319 ★ The Voysey Inheritance ...... 14 The White Rose...... 158 To Bobolink, for Her Spirit ...... 293, 356 Two Short Plays by The Wager ...... 56 A Whitman Portrait...... 57 To Bury a Cousin ...... 193 Owen G. Arno ...... 319 Wait Until Dark...... 157 The Whiz Bang Cafe ...... 317 To Culebra...... 205 Two Rooms...... 56 Waiting for Godot ...... 83 Who was That Lady I Saw To Damascus (Part 1) ...... 357 Two Sisters and a Piano ...... 56 Waiting for Lefty ...... 350 You With? ...... 267 To Damascus (Parts 2 & 3) ...... 357 Two Small Bodies ...... 17 Waiting for Philip Glass...... 310 The Whole World Over...... 194 To Fool the Eye...... 178 The Two-Character Play ...... 17 The Waiting Room...... 205 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?...... 57 To Forgive, Divine...... 81 Two’s a Crowd ...... 328 The Wake of Jamey Foster...... 135 Who’s Happy Now?...... 84 Today I am a Fountain Pen...... 156 The Typists ...... 319 Wake Up and Smell the Why I am a Bachelor...... 342 Today is Independence Day...... 328 Ubu Cuckolded ...... 3 Coffee...... 4 Why the Lord Come to Sand Tommy J & Sally...... 8 Ubu Enchained...... 3 Wake Up, Darling...... 205 Mountain ...... 310 Tomorrow...... 248 The Ubu Plays...... 3 A Walk in the Woods...... 17 The Wibbly, Wobbly Wiggly The Tomorrow Box ...... 82 Ubu Rex ...... 3 Walking the Dead...... 135 Dance that Cleopatterer Did...... 285 Too Close for Comfort ...... 336 The Ultimate Grammar of Life ...... 295 Wallflower...... 238 The Widow and the Colonel ...... 340 Top of 16...... 290 Ulysses in Traction...... 157 Walter ...... 309 The Widow Claire ...... 194 Topdog/Underdog ...... 16 Unchanging Love...... 193 Wanda’s Visit...... 292 The Widow’s Blind Date ...... 31 Touch...... 33 Uncle Bob...... 17 Wandering ...... 310 Widow’s Mite ...... 348 A Touch of Spring (or Avanti!)...... 178 Uncle Chick...... 304 War...... 320, 358 The Wild Duck ...... 357 A Touch of the Poet...... 193, 354 Uncle Lumpy Comes to Visit ...... 320 The War on Poverty...... 261 The Wild Goose ...... 294 Tough Guys ...... 308 Uncle Snake...... 320 The War on Tatem...... 295 Wild Oats ...... 267 Tour...... 285 Uncle Vanya (Corrigan)...... 179 Warm and Tender Love ...... 297 Wilde West ...... 249 Toys in the Attic ...... 156 Uncle Vanya (Friel)...... 179 The Wash...... 157 Wildwood Park...... 320 Tracers ...... 157 Uncle Vanya (van Itallie)...... 179 Wash and Dry...... 284 Will the Real Jesus Christ Please The Trading Post ...... 108 Uncle Zepp...... 287 Washington Square Moves...... 135 Stand Up?...... 346 Transfers...... 317 Uncommon Women and Others ...... 179 Watbanaland...... 109 Willie’s Lie Detector ...... 346 The Transfiguration of The Undefeated Rhumba Watch on the Rhine...... 223 The Willow and I ...... 206 Benno Blimpie ...... 339 Champ ...... 328 Watch the Birdie...... 238 Win/Lose/Draw...... 321 The Transparency of Val ...... 133 Under Control...... 312 Watchman of the Night...... 304 A Wind Between the Houses...... 180 The Traveler...... 333 Under Duress...... 306 The Water Children...... 157 The Wind Cries Mary ...... 110 Traveler in the Dark...... 56 Under Observation ...... 308 Waterborn...... 315 Windows ...... 294 The Traveling Lady...... 193 Under the Sycamore Tree...... 205 Watercolor ...... 289 Windshook ...... 180 Treasure Island ...... 267 Under the Yum Yum Tree ...... 82 The Way Down ...... 298 Wine in the Wilderness ...... 340 Treasures on Earth ...... 82 The Uneasy Chair...... 83 The Wayside Motor Inn ...... 194 The Wingless Victory ...... 242 Trees...... 317 The Unexpected Man ...... 17 The Wayward Saint ...... 205 The Winner! ...... 136 The Trials and Tribulations of Unfinished Stories...... 56 We Had a Very Good Time ...... 294 The Winner (Rice) ...... 215 Staggerlee Booker T. Brown ...... 134 The Uninvited ...... 194 We Have Always Lived in ★ The Winning Streak ...... 4 The Trials of Brother Jero ...... 317 United ...... 283 the Castle ...... 135 The Winslow Boy...... 206 The Triangle Factory The Universal Language ...... 284 Web of Murder ...... 179 Winterset ...... 252 Fire Project...... 159 Unwrap Your Candy...... 320 The Wedding of the The Wisdom of Eve...... 194 The Trickeries of Scapin...... 193 ★ U.S. Drag...... 12 Siamese Twins ...... 109 The Wise Have Not Spoken...... 232 The Tricky Part...... 4 Used Car for Sale...... 337 The Wedding Reception...... 311 The Wisteria Trees ...... 232 The Trip to Bountiful...... 179 Utopia, Inc...... 242 Weekend...... 231 Wit ...... 195 Triptych ...... 18 The Vagina Monologues...... 31 Weekends Like Other People...... 17 A Witch’s Brew ...... 298 The Triumph of Love ...... 134 Valentine’s Day ...... 194 The Weir...... 83 With and Without...... 57 Trophies...... 82 The Valerie of Now...... 299 Welcome Back, Buddy Combs ...... 315 Witness...... 314 Tropical Depression ...... 306 Valhalla ...... 109 Welcome to the Moon...... 320 The Wizards of Quiz ...... 136 The Trouble Begins at 8...... 318 Valparaiso...... 134 Welded...... 354 Woman Before a Glass...... 4 Trouble in the Works...... 292, 356 The Value of Names ...... 31 Wenceslas Square ...... 57 Woman Bites Dog ...... 267 Trousers to Match...... 214 The Vampires...... 109 The West Side Waltz...... 83 Woman Stand Up...... 305 Truckline Cafe ...... 267 The Vampyre ...... 214 The Wexford Trilogy...... 4 A Woman Without a Name...... 180 True Crimes...... 179 Vanishing Act...... 346 The Whales of August ...... 83 The Women...... 267 Trunk Crime...... 248 Variations on the Death of What a Life...... 249 Women and Wallace...... 348 Trust ...... 108 Trotsky ...... 284 What Didn’t Happen...... 135 Women and Water...... 267 Trying to find Chinatown...... 318 The Vast Difference ...... 157 What Do You Believe About Women in a Playground...... 305 Tunnel of Love...... 283 Veins and Thumbtacks ...... 134 the Future? ...... 294 Women in Motion...... 308 The Turn of the Screw...... 16 Venus...... 215 What I Did Last Summer...... 110 Women Must Weep...... 321 TV...... 284 Venus Observed ...... 205 What I Did Wrong...... 283 Women Must Work...... 321 Twain Plus Twain...... 318 Vernon Early...... 231 Whatever (Pospisil)...... 283 The Women of Lockerbie...... 112 Twelve Dreams...... 134 Veronica...... 287 Whatever (Sheppard) ...... 158 Women of Manhattan ...... 84 24 Hours AM...... 318 A Very Special Baby...... 109 What’s Wrong with the Girls ...... 344 Women Still Weep...... 344 24 Hours PM...... 318 The Victimless Crime ...... 298 What’s Wrong with This Picture? .....110 Wonder of the World...... 136 TITLE INDEXxxi

The Wonderful Adventures The World Over ...... 136 Year of the Duck...... 111 A Young Lady of Property ...... 322 of Don Quixote ...... 267 The World We Make...... 245 Years Ago ...... 180 The Young Man from Atlanta...... 180 Wonderful Party!...... 308 Worldness ...... 298 The Years ...... 111 Young Man Praying ...... 298 Wonderful Time ...... 84 Wormwood...... 322 Yellow Jack...... 268 A Young Man’s Fancy...... 252 The Wood Demon ...... 224 Wrestlers ...... 31 Yellowman ...... 18 Young Marrieds at Play...... 296 The Wooden Dish ...... 195 Write Me a Murder...... 180 Yes Means No ...... 340 Your Every Wish...... 215 The Wooing of Lady Sunday...... 286 The Wrong Way Light Bulb ...... 215 The Yiddish Trojan Women...... 84 Your Mother’s Butt ...... 294 Word Games...... 310 Xingu...... 346 You Can’t Take It with You ...... 242 Zelda...... 195 Words, Words, Words...... 284 Xmas in Las Vegas...... 158 You Know I Can’t Hear You Zero Positive ...... 111 ★ Work Song: Three Views of Yancey...... 299 When the Water’s Running...... 321 Zimmer...... 308 Frank Lloyd Wright...... 12 Yankee Dawg You Die ...... 18 Young Adventure ...... 215 Zombies from the Beyond ...... 274 Workout ...... 310 Yankee Doodle...... 308 The Young and Fair ...... 268 Zones of the Spirit ...... 322 World of Mirth...... 180 Yard Gal...... 18 The Young Elizabeth...... 111 The Zoo Story ...... 322 The World of Sholom Aleichem...... 321 A Yard of Sun ...... 215 The Young Girl and the Monsoon...... 84 The Zulu and the Zayda...... 279

xxiii INDEX OF AUTHORS New plays are denoted by the symbol ★. All other page numbers refer to our 2005–2006 Complete Catalogue.

Abbott, George Allison, Dorothy Axlerod, David Barrie, J.M. Three Men on a Horse (Holm).....237 Cavedweller (Ryan) ...... 139 Money (Pottle, Whedon)...... 272 Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would Ableman, Paul Anderson, Jane Ayvazian, Leslie Not Grow Up (Caird, Nunn)...... 264 Green Julia...... 11 Looking for Normal ...... 170 Deaf Day...... 295 Barry, P.J. Ackerman, Rob Anderson, Maxwell Four from E.S.T. Marathon ’99 Reasonable Circulation...... 338 ★ Disconnect ...... 7 Anne of the Thousand Days...... 238 (Kim, Linney, Vogelstein)...... 295 Barry, Philip Tabletop ...... 107 Bad Seed (March)...... 207 High Dive ...... 5 Second Threshold...... 105 Ackermann, Joan Barefoot in Athens...... 246 ★ Lovely Day ...... 5 Barry, Sebastian The Batting Cage ...... 34 Candle in the Wind...... 246 Nine Armenians ...... 190 Our Lady of Sligo...... 128 ★ Ice Glen...... 11 The Golden Six ...... 257 Plan Day...... 316 The Steward of Christendom ...... 177 Marcus is Walking: Scenes from High Tor...... 240 3 More by E.S.T. ’98 Batistick, Mike the Road...... 100 Joan of Lorraine...... 259 (Roth, Benjamin) ...... 316 Ponies ...... 32 Off the Map ...... 76 Journey to Jerusalem...... 260 Babe, Thomas Batson, George Ackland, Rodney Key Largo...... 261 Billy Irish...... 34 Gift of Murder!...... 145 Farewell, Farewell, Eugene (Vari) ....165 The Masque of Kings ...... 262 Buried Inside Extra...... 62 Her Majesty, Miss Jones (Harman)...199 Adams, John and Abigail Second Overture...... 350 Demon Wine ...... 141 Ramshackle Inn...... 236 American Primitive (or John The Star Wagon ...... 248 Fathers and Sons...... 250 Strange Boarders (Kirkland) ...... 237 and Abigail) (Gibson)...... 181 Storm Operation ...... 265 Great Solo Town...... 167 Bauer, P. Seth Aerenson, Benjie Truckline Cafe...... 267 Kid Champion ...... 200 ★ Iphigenia ...... 12 Lighting Up the Two-Year Old...... 25 The Wingless Victory...... 242 Planet Fires...... 102 Bayer, Eleanor Aguirre-Sacasa, Roberto Winterset...... 252 Rebel Women...... 222 Third Best Sport (Bayer) ...... 204 The Filmmaker’s Mystery ...... 85 Anderson, Robert Salt Lake City Skyline ...... 237 Bayer, Leo Ghost Children ...... 85 The Footsteps of Doves ...... 322 Taken in Marriage ...... 81 Third Best Sport (Bayer) ...... 204 The Mystery Plays ...... 85 I Never Sang for My Father...... 199 Bader, Jenny Lyn Beane, Douglas Carter Say You Love Satan...... 137 I’ll be Home for Christmas...... 322 Worldness...... 298 As Bees in Honey Drown ...... 86 Aiken, Conrad I’m Herbert ...... 322 Baer, Richard The Country Club ...... 117 Mr. Arcularis ...... 235 The Shock of Recognition...... 322 Mixed Emotions...... 47 Music from a Sparkling Planet ...... 75 Akutagawa, Ryunosuke Solitaire, Double Solitaire...... 313 ★ Bagnold, Enid Beaumarchais See What I Wanna See (LaChiusa)...17 You Know I Can’t Hear You National Velvet...... 202 ★ The Marriage of Albee, Edward When the Water’s Running...... 321 Bailey, Peter John Figaro (Holden)...... 13 The American Dream, The Death Anderson, Walt Passing Through...... 213 Beckett, Samuel of Bessie Smith, Fam and Yam.....285 “Me, Candido!”...... 244 Baitz, Jon Robin Not I ...... 326 The Ballad of the Sad Cafe Anouilh, Jean A Fair Country...... 143 Waiting for Godot...... 83 (McCullers)...... 253 The Lark (Hellman) ...... 261 Hedda Gabler (Ibsen)...... 120 Behrman, S.N. Box and Quotations from Chairman Ring Round the Moon (Fry)...... 350 Mizlansky/Zilinsky or Schmucks....150 Amphitryon 38 (Giraudoux) ...... 195 Mao Tse-Tung...... 35 To Fool the Eye (Hatcher)...... 178 ★ The Paris Letter...... 10 End of Summer...... 185 Counting the Ways and Appell, Don Ten Unknowns ...... 55 Jacobowsky and the Colonel Listening ...... 289 Lullaby ...... 46 Baizley, Doris (Werfel)...... 259 Everything in the Garden Arbuzov, Aleksei A Christmas Carol (Dickens)...... 162 Beich, Albert (Cooper)...... 198 The Promise (Nicolaeff)...... 27 Mrs. California...... 126 The Man in the Dog Suit Finding the Sun...... 345 Archer, Daniel Fragments...... 145 Mr. Barry’s Etchings (Bullock)...... 221 Baker, Edward Allan (Wright, Corle) ...... 188 A Dead Man’s Apartment, Rosemary Belber, Stephen The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?...... 42 Ardrey, Robert ★ The Lady from Dubuque ...... 147 Sing Me No Lullaby ...... 177 with Ginger, Face Divided ...... 290 Carol Mulroney...... 7 Lolita (Nabokov) ...... 228 Thunder Rock...... 204 North of Providence, Dolores, The Death of Frank...... 37 Malcolm (Purdy) ...... 262 Arley, Catherine The Lady of Fadima...... 307 Match...... 25 Marriage Play ...... 13 Tantalus (Cullen)...... 107 Baker, Paul McReele...... 58 The Play About the Baby ...... 50 Arno, Owen G. Hamlet ESP (Shakespeare) ...... 258 Tape...... 30 Seascape...... 53 Once for the Asking ...... 229 Ball, Alan The Transparency of Val...... 133 Three Tall Women...... 55 The Other Player...... 319 Bachelor Holiday...... 294 Bell, Neal Tiny Alice...... 81 The Street of Good Friends...... 319 Five One-Act Plays by Alan Ball....294 Cold Sweat ...... 183 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?...... 57 Two Short Plays by Five Women Wearing the On the Bum, or The Next The Zoo Story and The Sandbox....322 Owen G. Arno ...... 319 Same Dress...... 94 Train Through...... 222 Aleichem, Sholom Arrighi, Mel The M Word ...... 294 Operation Midnight Climax ...... 49 Bontche Schweig (Perl)...... 321 The Castro Complex...... 20 Made for a Woman ...... 294 Raw Youth...... 28 The High School (Perl) ...... 321 An Ordinary Man ...... 213 Power Lunch ...... 294 Ready for the River...... 103 A Tale of Chelm (Perl)...... 321 Asch, Sholom Your Mother’s Butt...... 294 Sleeping Dogs...... 154 Tevya and His Daughters (Perl).....214 God of Vengeance Banci, Lewis Two Small Bodies ...... 17 The World of Sholom Aleichem (Margulies, Neugroschel) ...... 243 The Ten O’Clock Scholar Belluso, John (Perl) ...... 321 Auburn, David (Smith)...... 133 ★ Henry Flamethrowa ...... 4 Alexander, Robert Are You Ready?...... 294 Banks, Nathaniel ★ A Nervous Smile ...... 6 Red Popcorn...... 298 Damage Control...... 294 The Curate’s Play...... 345 ★ Pyretown ...... 3 Riot Grrrrl Guitar...... 298 Fifth Planet and Other Plays ...... 294 Season of Choice ...... 191 ★ The Rules of Charity...... 8 Alexander, Ronald The Journals of Mihail Sebastian...... 6 Barber, Matthew Beloin, Edmund Grand Prize ...... 166 Miss You...... 294 Enchanted April (von Arnim)...... 142 In Any Language (Garson) ...... 259 Holiday for Lovers...... 168 Proof...... 51 Barlow, Anna Marie Benét, Stephen Vincent Nobody Loves an Albatross ...... 221 Skyscraper...... 106 Ferryboat ...... 324 The Devil and Daniel Webster Time and Ginger...... 133 Three Monologues ...... 294 A Limb of Snow and (Moore)...... 343 Time Out for Ginger...... 193 We Had a Very Good Time...... 294 The Meeting ...... 301 John Brown’s Body ...... 24 Allensworth, Carl What Do You Believe About Baron, Jeff Stephen Vincent Benét’s Stories Interurban (Allensworth)...... 244 the Future? ...... 294 Visiting Mr. Green ...... 17 of America (Leslie) ...... 106 The Simple Truth ...... 349 Aurthur, Robert Alan Barr, Nancy Benjamin, Keith Alan Village Green...... 245 A Very Special Baby...... 109 Mrs. Cage...... 325 Mary Macgregor...... 316 Allensworth, Dorothy Axelrod, George Barrett, William E. 3 More by E.S.T. ’98 Interurban (Allensworth)...... 244 The Seven Year Itch...... 213 The Lilies of the Field (Leslie)...... 170 (Roth, Ayvazian) ...... 316 xxiv AUTHOR INDEX

Benson, Sally Boland, Bridget Butler, Dan Carroll, Lewis Junior Miss (Chodorov, Fields)...... 244 The Prisoner...... 27 The Only Thing Worse You Could Alice in Wonderland (Gregory) ...... 86 Berg, Dick Bolt, Jonathan Have Told Me… ...... 6 Carroll, Paul Vincent The Drop of a Hat ...... 347 Threads ...... 178 Butterfield, Catherine Shadow and Substance ...... 192 Berger, Jesse To Culebra ...... 205 Joined at the Head...... 169 The Wayward Saint ...... 205 ★ The Revenger’s Tragedy...... 14 Boretz, Allen The Sleeper...... 112 The Wise Have Not Spoken...... 232 Berry, David Room Service (Murray) ...... 229 Snowing at Delphi...... 106 Carson, Jo G.R. Point...... 166 Bosakowski, Phil Butterworth, Jez Daytrips...... 37 The Whales of August...... 83 Chopin in Space...... 183 Mojo...... 100 Carter, Arthur Besier, Rudolf Crossin’ the Line...... 345 The Night Heron ...... 128 The Number ...... 202 The Barretts of Wimpole Street.....242 Bottrell, David Byrne, M. St. Claire Carter, Steve Bevan, Donald Dearly Departed (Jones)...... 184 Busman’s Honeymoon (Sayers)...... 216 Nevis Mountain Dew...... 128 Stalag 17 (Trzcinski) ...... 265 Bovell, Andrew Byron, Ellen Cary, Joyce Bicknell, Arthur Speaking in Tongues...... 54 Election Year and Mister Johnson (Rosten)...... 262 Masterpieces ...... 125 Bowles, Jane So When You Get Married ...... 293 Cary, Morland Biddle, Cordelia Drexel In the Summer House ...... 235 Graceland and Because Their Hearts were Pure The Happiest Millionaire Brampton, Joan Asleep on the Wind ...... 297 (or The Secret of the Mine)...... 232 (Crichton) ...... 234 Dilemma ...... 91 Cahill, Laura Love Rides the Rails (or Will the Bigelow, Otis Braverman, Carole Home ...... 315 Mail Train Run Tonight?)...... 212 The Giants’ Dance ...... 198 The Yiddish Trojan Women ...... 84 Hysterical Blindness ...... 97 Casale, Mick The Peacock Season...... 76 Breen, Patrick Mercy ...... 46 Elm Circle ...... 66 Bill, Stephen Manhattan Class Company 3 by E.S.T. (German, Medley) ...... 315 Caspary, Vera Curtains...... 140 Class One-Acts, 1992...... 302 Caird, John Laura (Sklar)...... 148 Bishop, Conrad Saint Stanislaus Outside The Beggar’s Opera (Gay, Sekacz)...278 Chaikin, Joseph Full Hookup (Fuller)...... 67 the House...... 302 Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would When the World was Green Bishop, John Brel, Jacques Not Grow Up (Barrie, Nunn) .....264 (Shepard)...... 8 Borderline...... 287 Jacques Brel is Alive and Well & Calarco, Joe Chamberlain, Marisha Borderlines ...... 287 Living in Paris (Blau, Shuman).....272 Shakespeare’s R&J Scheherazade ...... 52 Cabin 12 ...... 334 Brevoort, Deborah (Shakespeare)...... 53 Chambers, David Confluence and The Skirmishers...289 The Women of Lockerbie...... 112 Caldwell, Joseph The Miser (Molière)...... 201 The Harvesting...... 199 Brewer, George Cockeyed Kite ...... 216 Chapman, John Keepin’ an Eye on Louie...... 287 Dark Victory (Bloch)...... 225 Cameron, Kenneth The Brides of March ...... 233 The Musical Comedy Broadhurst, Kent The Hundred and First ...... 350 Not Now, Darling (Cooney) ...... 264 Murders of 1940 ...... 189 The Eye of the Beholder...... 340 Papp ...... 50 Chapman, Robert Black, Jean Ferguson The Habitual Acceptance of Campbell, Mark Billy Budd (Melville, Coxe)...... 254 Penny Wise...... 129 the Near Enough...... 325 Splendora (Hoffman, Webb) ...... 275 Chase, Jerry Black, Stephen Campton, David Cinderella Wore Combat Boots.....344 Lemons...... 219 The Horse Latitudes...... 335 The Life and Death of Almost Chase, Mary Brod, Max The Pokey ...... 326 Everybody ...... 244 Bernadine ...... 249 The Castle (Fishelson, Kafka, Blake, Lisabeth Little Brother: Little Sister and Cocktails with Mimi ...... 208 Leichter)...... 196 Brewsie and Willie (Stein, Violett)...347 Out of the Flying Pan ...... 301 The Dog Sitters...... 226 Bromberg, Conrad Blank, Jessica A Smell of Burning and Then ...... 313 Harvey...... 210 Actors and At Home ...... 284 The Exonerated (Jensen) ...... 185 Capote, Truman Mickey...... 171 Doctor Galley...... 317 Blankman, Howard The Grass Harp...... 246 Midgie Purvis ...... 241 By Hex (Gehman, Rengier)...... 277 The Rooming House...... 317 Carbajal, Ruben Mrs. McThing...... 251 Blau, Eric Transfers...... 317 The Gifted Program ...... 234 The Prize Play ...... 349 Jacques Brel is Alive and Well & Brooke, Eleanor Cariani, John The Terrible Tattoo Parlor ...... 349 Living in Paris (Brel, Shuman)....272 King of Hearts (Kerr) ...... 187 ★ Almost, Maine...... 6 Chaves, Richard Blessing, Lee Brooks, Laurie Caristi, Vincent Tracers (DiFusco, Caristi, Emerson, Black Sheep ...... 61 Franklin’s Apprentice ...... 112 Tracers (DiFusco, Chaves, Emerson, Gallavan, Lettich, Marston, Cobb ...... 36 Brooks, Norman Gallavan, Lettich, Marston, Stephens)...... 157 Down the Road...... 21 The Fragile Fox ...... 227 Stephens)...... 157 Chayefsky, Paddy Eleemosynary ...... 22 Brown, Carlyle Carlino, Lewis John Gideon ...... 257 Fortinbras ...... 227 The African Company Presents The Brick and the Rose...... 348 Cheever, John Going to St. Ives...... 10 Richard III ...... 112 Cages...... 288 A Cheever Evening (Gurney) ...... 89 Independence ...... 43 Buffalo Hair ...... 138 The Dirty Old Man ...... 329 Chekhov, Anton Lake Street Extension ...... 24 The Little Tommy Parker Celebrated Epiphany ...... 288 The Bear (Schmidt)...... 311 Nice People Dancing to Good Colored Minstrel Show ...... 124 The Exercise ...... 10 The Cherry Orchard (Corrigan)....225 Country Music...... 75 Brown, K.C. High Sign...... 319 The Cherry Orchard (Mann) ...... 233 Oldtimers Game...... 174 Sherlock’s Veiled Secret...... 131 Junk Yard...... 338 The Cherry Orchard Patient A...... 26 Bruckner, Ferdinand Mr. Flannery’s Ocean and (van Itallie)...... 225 Riches...... 15 Race (Edelstein)...... 241 Objective Case ...... 305 The Dangers of Tobacco Thief River ...... 108 Buermann, Howard Sarah and the Sax ...... 319 (Schmidt) ...... 311 Two Rooms ...... 56 Quiet, Please...... 344 The School for Scandal The Festivities (Schmidt)...... 311 A Walk in the Woods ...... 17 Bulgakov, Mikhail (Sheridan) ...... 252 Ivanov (Corrigan) ...... 227 ★ The Winning Streak...... 4 Black Snow (Reddin)...... 232 Snowangel ...... 288 Ivanov (Schmidt)...... 227 Bloch, Bertram Heart of a Dog (Galati)...... 227 Telemachus Clay...... 204 The Proposal (Schmidt)...... 311 Dark Victory (Brewer)...... 225 Master and Margarita or, Two Short Plays by Lewis John A Reluctant Tragic Hero Block, Anita Rowe The Devil Comes to Moscow Carlino...... 319 (Schmidt) ...... 311 Love and Kisses ...... 149 (van Itallie)...... 220 Used Car for Sale...... 337 The Sea Gull (Corrigan)...... 223 Blomquist, David Bullock, Walter Carnelia, Craig The Sea Gull (van Itallie) ...... 222 Weekends Like Other People...... 17 Mr. Barry’s Etchings (Archer) ...... 221 Three Postcards (Lucas)...... 272 Seven Short Farces by Anton Bock, Adam Bunin, Keith Carr, Marina Chekhov (Schmidt)...... 311 ★ The Shaker Chair...... 10 The Credeaux Canvas...... 37 By the Bog of Cats ...... 208 Swan Song (Schmidt) ...... 311 Bogosian, Eric The World Over...... 136 The Mai ...... 149 The Three Sisters (Corrigan) ...... 231 Griller...... 158 Burke, Johnny On Raftery’s Hill ...... 128 Three Sisters (Friel) ...... 231 Humpty Dumpty ...... 57 Swinging on a Star (The Johnny Portia Coughlan ...... 203 Three Sisters (van Itallie) ...... 231 Red Angel...... 32 Burke Musical) (Leeds) ...... 274 Carrière, Jean-Claude Three Sisters (Wilson) ...... 231 Suburbia ...... 178 Burnett, Carol The Controversy of Valladolid Two Fools Who Gained a Measure Wake Up and Smell the Coffee ...... 4 Hollywood Arms (Hamilton) ...... 199 (Nelson) ...... 181 of Wisdom (Kelly)...... 336 AUTHOR INDEXxxv

Unchanging Love (Linney)...... 193 Coppel, Alec Cunningham, Michael Blue Heaven (Paso)...... 34 Uncle Vanya (Corrigan)...... 179 The Gazebo (Coppel)...... 209 Flesh and Blood (Gaitens) ...... 198 Dark Hammock (Orr)...... 184 Uncle Vanya (Friel)...... 179 Coppel, Myra Curran, Keith A Dash of Bitters (Smith)...... 37 Uncle Vanya (van Itallie) ...... 179 The Gazebo (Coppel)...... 209 Dalton’s Back...... 65 Dead Giveaway (Orr)...... 163 The Wedding Reception Corbett, Bill Walking the Dead...... 135 Ladies in Retirement (Percy)...... 123 (Schmidt) ...... 311 The Big Slam...... 34 Damashek, Barbara Minor Murder (Orr) ...... 150 The Wood Demon (Corrigan) ...... 224 Corbin, Barry Quilters (Newman) ...... 273 Oh, Mama! No, Papa! (Paso)...... 128 Childress, Alice The E.Z. Snooz Motel...... 317 Damato, Anthony Recipe for a Crime (Paso)...... 203 Mojo and String ...... 304 Throckmorton, TX. 76083 ...... 317 The Flounder Complex...... 324 Suspect (Percy) ...... 155 Wine in the Wilderness...... 340 The Whiz Bang Cafe...... 317 D’Andrea, Paul Trunk Crime (Percy) ...... 248 Childs, Kirsten Corle, Edwin The Einstein Project (Klein)...... 164 Wallflower (Orr)...... 238 The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds The Man in the Dog Suit Daniels, Jeff Devine, Jerry Her Chameleon Skin ...... 277 (Beich, Wright) ...... 188 Apartment 3A...... 59 Children of the Wind...... 36 Chislett, Anne Corrigan, Robert W. Boom Town...... 19 Devlin, Anne Another Season’s Promise The Cherry Orchard (Chekhov)....225 Escanaba in da Moonlight...... 93 After Easter...... 195 (Roulston) ...... 195 Ivanov (Chekhov)...... 227 The Vast Difference...... 157 Ourselves Alone...... 152 Quiet in the Land...... 236 The Sea Gull (Chekhov)...... 223 Danz, Cassandra Dewberry, Elizabeth The Tomorrow Box ...... 82 The Three Sisters (Chekhov)...... 231 Fame Takes a Holiday Virtual Virtue ...... 298 Cho, Julia (Fulham, Leight) ...... 271 Uncle Vanya (Chekhov)...... 179 Dickens, Charles The Architecture of Loss ...... 111 Dashow, Ken The Wood Demon (Chekhov) ...... 224 A Christmas Carol (Baizley) ...... 162 ★ BFE...... 12 Da-Show Must Go On: Six Plays About Corthron, Kia A Christmas Carol (Linney) ...... 255 99 Histories...... 84 Love, Death and Bad Acting ...... 290 Breath, Boom ...... 182 A Christmas Carol (Schario) ...... 90 Chodorov, Edward He Ain’t Heavy...... 290 Come Down Burning...... 64 A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and The Spa (Molnar)...... 177 Force Continuum...... 165 Joey-Boy ...... 290 Chodorov, Jerome Sing This ...... 290 Marley (Horovitz) ...... 255 Seeking the Genesis ...... 176 Great Expectations (Field) ...... 218 Anniversary Waltz (Fields)...... 206 Splash Hatch on the E Thanks ...... 290 The French Touch (Fields) ...... 240 Time Out ...... 290 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Going Down...... 80 Nickleby, Part I (Edgar) ...... 261 Junior Miss (Benson, Fields)...... 244 Corwin, Norman Top of 16...... 290 My Sister Eileen (Fields)...... 263 DaSilva, Howard The Life and Adventures of Nicholas The Rivalry...... 28 Nickleby Part II (Edgar)...... 261 Cizmar, Paula Courts, Randy The Zulu and the Zayda Candy & Shelley Go to (Leon, Rome)...... 279 Dietz, Steven The Gifts of the Magi Dracula (Stoker) ...... 185 the Desert...... 20 (St. Germain) ...... 273 Davis, Bill C. Clark, Maurice Avow ...... 114 Force of Nature ...... 165 Johnny Pye (St. Germain) ...... 276 Halcyon Days...... 146 Button, Button...... 183 Cowen, Ron Mass Appeal ...... 13 Clavell, James Wrestlers...... 31 Inventing Van Gogh...... 70 The Book of Murder ...... 88 Lonely Planet...... 13 The Children’s Story (Selden)...... 348 Saturday Adoption...... 104 Davis, Donald Cleage, Pearl Ethan Frome (Davis, Wharton).....198 The Nina Variations ...... 14 Summertree ...... 107 Blues for an Alabama Sky...... 62 Davis, Owen Private Eyes...... 77 Coxe, Louis O. Bourbon at the Border ...... 32 Ethan Frome (Davis, Wharton).....198 Rocket Man...... 78 Billy Budd (Chapman, Melville) ...254 Flyin’ West...... 94 Davis, Russell ★ Sherlock Holmes: The Final Crane, David Clements, Colin The Last Good Moment of Adventures (Doyle, Gillette)...... 11 Epic Proportions (Coen) ...... 142 Isn’t Nature Wonderful Lily Baker...... 44 Trust...... 108 Crane, Stephen (Ryerson) ...... 299, 359 Dawson, Gregory DiFusco, John The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky Clork, Harry Great Scot! (Conradt, Leeds, Tracers (Caristi, Chaves, Emerson, See My Lawyer (Maibaum) ...... 241 (Crocitto) ...... 337 McAfee) ...... 278 Crichton, Kyle Gallavan, Lettich, Marston, Coble, Eric Day, Clarence Stephens)...... 157 Bright Ideas ...... 62 The Happiest Millionaire Life with Father (Crouse, Lindsay) ...240 (Biddle) ...... 234 Diggs, Elizabeth ★ The Dead Guy ...... 9 Life with Mother (Crouse, Close Ties ...... 139 Coen, Larry Cristofer, Michael Lindsay) ...... 240 Black Angel ...... 196 Dumping Ground ...... 329 Epic Proportions (Crane) ...... 142 Dayton, Katharine Goodbye Freddy...... 95 Coffin, Gregg The Lady and the Clarinet ...... 44 First Lady (Kaufman) ...... 257 Crocitto, Frank Dinelli, Mel Convenience...... 272 de Hartog, Jan The Man ...... 125 ★ Five Course Love...... 17 The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky Skipper Next to God...... 237 (Crane)...... 337 The Spiral Staircase (Leslie)...... 155 Cohen, Burton Dean, Phillip Hayes DiPietro, Joe The Great American Crothers, Rachel American Night Cry...... 285, 327 Susan and God ...... 203 Over the River and Through Cheese Sandwich...... 338 Dink’s Blues...... 305 the Woods...... 102 Jackie Lantern’s Crouse, Russel Every Night When the Sun The Great Sebastians (Lindsay) .....258 Dizenzo, Charles Hallowe’en Revenge ...... 70 Goes Down ...... 142 Big Mother...... 334 The Wedding of the Life with Father (Day, Lindsay).....240 Freeman...... 67 The Drapes Come...... 323 Siamese Twins ...... 109 Life with Mother (Day, Lindsay)...240 The Minstrel Boy ...... 285 An Evening for Merlin Finch ...... 343 Cole, Tom The Prescott Proposals (Lindsay)...236 Moloch Blues ...... 305 A Great Career ...... 330 About Time ...... 8 Remains to be Seen (Lindsay)...... 251 The Owl Killer...... 305 Connelly, Marc State of the Union (Lindsay) ...... 245 Paul Robeson...... 15 The Last Straw and Sociability ...... 300 The Green Pastures...... 258 Tall Story (Lindsay, Nemerov)...... 266 The Sty of the Blind Pig...... 54 The Metamorphosis (Kafka)...... 347 Little David ...... 335 Crump, Owen This Bird of Dawning Singeth Doherty, Brian The Traveler ...... 333 Southern Exposure ...... 155 All Night Long...... 327 Father Malachy’s Miracle ...... 256 Cruz, Nilo Dolginoff, Stephen Connolly, Cyril Thunder in the Index...... 285 ★ Ubu Cuckolded (Jarry, Taylor) ...... 3 Anna in the Tropics ...... 137 Delany, A. Elizabeth Thrill Me: The Leopold Ubu Enchained (Jarry, Taylor)...... 3 ★ Beauty of the Father ...... 7 Having Our Say, The Delany & Loeb Story ...... 17 The Ubu Plays (Jarry, Taylor)...... 3 A Bicycle Country ...... 19 Sisters’ First 100 Years (Delany, Donaghy, Tom Ubu Rex (Jarry, Taylor) ...... 3 Hortensia and the Museum Hearth, Mann)...... 11 The Beginning of August ...... 61 Conradt, Mark of Dreams ...... 121 Delany, Sarah L. Boys and Girls ...... 35 Great Scot! (Dawson, Leeds, Night Train to Bolina...... 75 Having Our Say, The Delany The Dadshuttle ...... 290 McAfee) ...... 278 Two Sisters and a Piano...... 56 Sisters’ First 100 Years (Delany, Down the Shore ...... 290 Cooney, Ray Cucci, Frank Hearth, Mann)...... 11 From Above...... 95 Bang Bang Beirut (Hilton) ...... 232 The Ofay Watcher...... 26 DeLillo, Don Minutes from the Blue Route...... 47 Chase Me, Comrade!...... 183 Cullen, Ian The Day Room ...... 163 Northeast Local ...... 48 Not Now, Darling (Chapman) ...... 264 Tantalus (Arley)...... 107 Valparaiso ...... 134 Donatus, Sister Mary Cooper, Giles Cullinan, Thomas Denham, Reginald Career Angel (Female Version) Everything in the Garden (Albee) ...198 Mrs. Lincoln...... 151 Be Your Age (Orr) ...... 196 (Murray)...... 239 xxvi AUTHOR INDEX

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor The Nature and Purpose Ensler, Eve Fletcher, Lucille The Brothers Karamazov (Sydow, of the Universe...... 316 Necessary Targets...... 127 Sorry, Wrong Number and Tumarin)...... 254 Nina in the Morning...... 292 The Vagina Monologues...... 31 The Hitch-Hiker...... 313 The Brothers Karamazov Not My Fault ...... 306 Epstein, David Night Watch...... 173 (Fishelson)...... 239 One Minute Play...... 306 Exact Change ...... 23 Fodor, Kate The Devils (Egloff) ...... 233 1-900-Desperate...... 305 Evans, Don Hannah and Martin ...... 146 The Idiot (Fishelson)...... 234 Phyllis and Xenobia...... 305 It’s Showdown Time ...... 210 Fogle, Sonya Dougherty, Joseph Sister Mary Ignatius Explains A Lovesong for Miss Lydia ...... 46 More Solo Readings (Seligman).....359 Digby ...... 141 It All for You ...... 312 One Monkey Don’t Stop Solo Readings for Radio and Class Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Stye of the Eye...... 292 No Show ...... 151 Work (Seligman) ...... 359 The Hound of the Baskervilles Three Short Plays by Orrin ...... 309 Still More Solo Readings (Leslie) ...... 168 Christopher Durang...... 316 The Prodigals ...... 309 (Seligman) ...... 359 Sherlock Holmes and the Curse Titanic...... 342 Sugar-Mouth Sam Don’t Dance Fontaine, Robert of the Sign of Four (Rosa)...... 130 Under Duress ...... 306 No More ...... 309 The Happy Time (Taylor)...... 210 ★ Sherlock Holmes: The Final The Vietnamization of The Trials and Tribulations of Foote, Horton Adventures (Dietz, Gillette) ...... 11 New Jersey ...... 135 Staggerlee Booker T. Brown ...... 134 ★ Blind Date and The Actor...... 21 Driver, Donald Wanda’s Visit ...... 292 Evans, Scott Alan The Carpetbagger’s Children...... 20 Status Quo Vadis...... 242 Woman Stand Up...... 305 The Triangle Factory Fire The Chase ...... 196 du Maurier, Daphne Women in a Playground...... 305 Project (Piehler)...... 159 Courtship ...... 140 My Cousin Rachel (Morgan)...... 127 Dürrenmatt, Friedrich Falk, Lee Cousins...... 225 Rebecca ...... 190 The Deadly Game (Yaffe)...... 141 Eris and Home at Six ...... 293 The Dancers...... 322 Duff, James D’Usseau, Arnaud Farley, Keythe The Dearest of Friends ...... 309 Home Front ...... 42 Deep are the Roots (Gow)...... 197 Bat Boy (Flemming, O’Keefe)...... 276 The Death of Papa ...... 208 Dulack, Tom Legend of Sarah (Gow)...... 123 Faulkner, William The Death of the Old Man...... 322 Breaking Legs ...... 88 Dyer, William Tomorrow (Foote) ...... 248 Getting Frankie Married—and Diminished Capacity...... 91 Jo (Parks)...... 279 Feffer, Steve Afterwards...... 209 Incommunicado ...... 70 Dyne, Michael The Wizards of Quiz...... 136 The Habitation of Dragons...... 251 Solomon’s Child ...... 154 The Right and Honourable Feibleman, Peter John Turner Davis ...... 322 Dumas, Alexandre Gentleman ...... 229 Cakewalk...... 62 The Land of the Astronauts...... 315 The Three Musketeers Eberhard, Leslie Feiffer, Jules The Last of the Thorntons ...... 188 (Raby) ...... 266 Sally Blane, World’s Greatest Girl Anthony Rose...... 59 Laura Dennis...... 219 Dunn, Mark Detective (Levy, Sneed, Webb) ....276 A Bad Friend ...... 114 Lily Dale...... 124 The Deer and the Antelope Play .....38 Edelstein, Barry Carnal Knowledge...... 115 The Man Who Climbed Pecan Dunning, Philip Race (Bruckner)...... 241 Crawling Arnold...... 337 Trees...... 338 Sequel to a Verdict...... 247 Edgar, David Elliot Loves...... 92 The Midnight Caller ...... 343 Dunphy, Jack Continental Divide: Feiffer’s People ...... 94 Night Seasons...... 221 Hold Me!...... 68 Café Moon ...... 347 Daughters of the Revolution ...... 136 A Nightingale ...... 309 Feingold, Michael Squirrel...... 332 Continental Divide: 1918...... 221 Times and Appetites of Too Close for Comfort...... 336 Mother’s Against ...... 232 The Oil Well ...... 322 Toulouse-Lautrec (Wanshel)...... 277 Durang, Christopher The Life and Adventures of Nicholas The Old Beginning ...... 322 Feldshuh, David The Actor’s Nightmare ...... 312 Nickleby, Part I (Dickens)...... 261 The One-Armed Man ...... 315 Miss Evers’ Boys ...... 126 An Altar Boy talks to God...... 306 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas The Prisoner’s Song ...... 315 Fennelly, Parker W. Aunt Dan Meets the Madwoman Nickleby, Part II (Dickens)...... 261 The Road to the Graveyard ...... 339 Cuckoos on the Hearth ...... 208 of Chaillot...... 305 Edson, Margaret Ferber, Edna The Roads to Home...... 309 Baby with the Bathwater ...... 60 Wit...... 195 Bravo (Kaufman)...... 239 Roots in a Parched Ground ...... 241 Betty’s Summer Vacation...... 160 Edwards, Gus The Land is Bright (Kaufman)...... 261 Spring Dance...... 309 Book of Leviticus Show...... 305 The Offering ...... 49 Stage Door (Kaufman) ...... 265 Talking Pictures...... 204 Business Lunch at the Russian Old Phantoms ...... 151 Feydeau, Georges The Tears of My Sister...... 315 Tea Room...... 292 Egloff, Elizabeth A Flea in Her Ear (Galati) ...... 233 Tomorrow (Faulkner) ...... 248 Canker Sores and Other The Devils (Dostoyevsky)...... 233 Field, Barbara The Traveling Lady...... 193 Distractions...... 305 The Swan ...... 30 Boundary Waters...... 88 The Trip to Bountiful...... 179 Cardinal O’Connor...... 305 Ehrenreich, Barbara Great Expectations (Dickens) ...... 218 Valentine’s Day...... 194 Death Comes to Us All, Nickel and Dimed (Holden) ...... 85 Marriage (Gogol)...... 189 Vernon Early ...... 231 Mary Agnes...... 316 Elliott, Sumner Locke Playing with Fire (After The Widow Claire...... 194 ’Dentity Crisis ...... 317 Buy Me Blue Ribbons ...... 183 Frankenstein) (Shelley)...... 103 A Young Lady of Property and Desire, Desire, Desire ...... 305 Ellis, Edith Fields, Joseph Six Other Short Plays...... 322 DMV Tyrant ...... 305 Seven Sisters ...... 230 Anniversary Waltz (Chodorov) ...... 206 The Young Man from Atlanta ...... 180 The Doctor Will See You Now...... 306 Ellison, Karen The Doughgirls ...... 240 Forbes, Kathryn Durang/Durang...... 292 The Harry and Sam Dialogues...... 11 The French Touch (Chodorov)...... 240 I Remember Mama (van Druten)....259 Entertaining Mr. Helms ...... 305 Elman, Irving Junior Miss (Benson, Chodorov) ....244 Forgette, Katie For Whom the Southern The Brass Ring ...... 196 My Sister Eileen (Chodorov)...... 263 The O’Conner Girls...... 76 Belle Tolls...... 292 Elward, James Fingleton, Anthony Foster, Hunter Funeral Parlor...... 305 Best of Friends...... 160 Over My Dead Body (Sutton)...... 152 Summer of ’42 (Kirshenbaum, Gym Teacher...... 306 Friday Night...... 296 Finklehoffe, Fred F. Raucher) ...... 275 The Hardy Boys and the Mystery Mary Agnes is Thirty-Five ...... 296 Brother Rat (Monks)...... 249 Fox, Amy of Where Babies Come From.....305 Passport ...... 296 Firth, Tim Heights...... 315 The Idiots Karamazov The River ...... 296 Neville’s Island...... 48 Summer Cyclone...... 107 (Innaurato)...... 218 Emerson, Eric E. Fishburne, Laurence Thicker Than Water (Freni, Gillis, John and Mary Doe ...... 306 Tracers (DiFusco, Caristi, Chaves, Riff Raff ...... 28 Polatin, Rosenthal)...... 315 Kitty the Waitress ...... 306 Gallavan, Lettich, Marston, Fishelson, David Francke, Caroline Laughing Wild ...... 13 Stephens)...... 157 The Brothers Karamazov Father of the Bride (Streeter)...... 246 The Marriage of Bette and Boo.....189 Endore, Guy (Dostoyevsky)...... 239 The 49th Cousin (Lowe)...... 186 Medea (Wasserstein)...... 305, 310 Call Me Shakespeare...... 255 The Castle (Brod, Kafka, Frank, Otto ★ Miss Witherspoon ...... 8 Eno, Will Leichter)...... 196 The Diary of Anne Frank Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild The Flu Season...... 85 The Golem (Landis, Leivick)...... 218 (Goodrich, Hackett)...... 184 Christmas Binge...... 212 Thom Pain (Based on Nothing) ...... 4 The Idiot (Dostoyevsky)...... 234 Frankel, Doris Mrs. Sorken...... 292 Enquist, Per Olov Flemming, Brian Love Me Long ...... 200 Naomi in the Living Room The Night of the Tribades Bat Boy: The Musical (Farley, Franklin, J.E. and Other Short Plays...... 305 (Shideler)...... 75 O’Keefe)...... 276 Black Girl ...... 182 AUTHOR INDEXxxvii

Freed, Amy Gallavan, Rick Giraudoux, Jean Goodrich, Frances Freedomland...... 119 Tracers (DiFusco, Caristi, Chaves, Amphitryon 38 (Behrman)...... 195 The Diary of Anne Frank French, David Emerson, Lettich, Marston, Duel of Angels (Fry)...... 217 (Frank, Hackett)...... 184 Jitters ...... 169 Stephens)...... 157 Judith (Fry)...... 260 The Diary of Anne Frank (New Salt-Water Moon...... 16 Garson, Henry The Madwoman of Chaillot Adaptation) (Hackett, Freni, Edith L. In Any Language (Beloin) ...... 259 (Valency)...... 262 Kesselman) ...... 184 Thicker Than Water (Fox, Gillis, Gay, John Glass, Joanna McClelland Gordon, Kurtz Polatin, Rosenthal)...... 315 The Beggar’s Opera (Caird, Artichoke...... 114 The Bride’s Bouquet...... 196 Waterborn ...... 315 Sekacz) ...... 278 Canadian Gothic and American Fair Exchange ...... 243 Friedman, Bruce Jay Gehman, Richard Modern: Two Plays ...... 288 Henrietta the Eighth ...... 234 Scuba Duba...... 203 By Hex (Blankman, Rengier) ...... 277 If We are Women ...... 43 Jumpin’ Jupiter ...... 211 Friel, Brian Geiger, Milton Glines, John Money Mad...... 247 Dancing at Lughnasa...... 140 Edwin Booth ...... 164 In the Desert of My Soul...... 335 New Beat on an Old Drum...... 213 Gelb, Alan Glore, John That’s My Cousin...... 248 Give Me Your Answer, Do!...... 166 ★ Molly Sweeney...... 26 Mombo ...... 8 The Company of Heaven...... 116 Utopia, Inc...... 242 A Month in the Country, After Gems, Pam Glover, Keith Gordon, Ruth Turgenev (Turgenev)...... 212 Dusa, Fish, Stas & VI...... 39 Coming of the Hurricane...... 140 The Leading Lady ...... 261 Three Sisters (Chekhov) ...... 231 George, Charles Dancing on Moonlight...... 140 Over Twenty-One...... 202 Bertha, the Bartender’s Swirling with Merlin ...... 298 Years Ago...... 180 Uncle Vanya (Friel)...... 179 Beautiful Baby...... 347 Godber, John Gorman, Christopher Frisch, Peter Everybody’s Secret ...... 347 Bouncers...... 35 A Letter from Ethel Kennedy ...... 72 American Dreams (Terkel)...... 86 Final Performance, or The Shakers (Thornton) ...... 53 Gotanda, Philip Kan Frockt, Deborah Lynn Curtain Falls...... 330 Goetz, Augustus Ballad of Yachiyo ...... 114 The Victimless Crime...... 298 Legend of Camille ...... 338 The Heiress (Goetz, James) ...... 168 Day Standing on Its Head...... 163 Fry, Christopher When Shakespeare’s Ladies Meet ....342 The Hidden River (Goetz, The Wash ...... 157 The Dark is Light Enough ...... 233 Gionfriddo, Gina Jamison) ...... 186 The Wind Cries Mary...... 110 Duel of Angels (Giraudoux) ...... 217 ★ After Ashley...... 9 The Immoralist (Gide, Goetz)...... 169 Yankee Dawg You Die...... 18 The Firstborn ...... 217 ★ U.S. Drag...... 12 Goetz, Ruth Gottlieb, Alex Judith (Giraudoux)...... 260 Germann, Greg The Heiress (Goetz, James) ...... 168 Wake Up, Darling ...... 205 The Lady’s Not for Burning ...... 200 The Observatory ...... 315 The Hidden River (Goetz, Gow, James One Thing More...... 190 3 by E.S.T. (Cahill, Medley)...... 315 Jamison) ...... 186 Deep are the Roots (D’Usseau) .....197 A Phoenix Too Frequent...... 27 Gialanella, Victor The Immoralist (Gide, Goetz)...... 169 Legend of Sarah (D’Usseau) ...... 123 Ring Round the Moon (Anouilh) ...350 Frankenstein (Shelley) ...... 209 Gogol, Nikolai Gower, Douglas A Sleep of Prisoners...... 54 Giardina, Anthony The Government Inspector Daddies ...... 9 Thor, with Angels...... 204 Living at Home ...... 148 (Raby) ...... 257 Grae, David Venus Observed...... 205 Gibbons, Thomas Marriage (Field)...... 189 Moose Mating ...... 75 A Yard of Sun ...... 215 The Exhibition ...... 324 Gold, Lloyd Graham, Barbara Fry, Ray Gibson, Elizabeth A Grave Undertaking ...... 166 Jacob’s Ladder...... 70 The Cameo ...... 329 Widow’s Mite (Gilford)...... 348 Goldberg, Dick Graham, Bruce Fugard, Athol Gibson, Melissa James Family Business ...... 94 Belmont Avenue Social Club...... 61 Exits and Entrances ...... 8 [Sic]...... 79 Goldberg, Jessica Burkie...... 35 Fulham, Mary Suitcase or, Those That Resemble Good Thing...... 95 The Champagne Charlie Stakes...... 63 Fame Takes a Holiday Flies From a Distance...... 55 The Hologram Theory ...... 186 Coyote on a Fence...... 37 (Danz, Leight)...... 271 Gibson, William Refuge ...... 78 Desperate Affection ...... 10 Fuller, Elizabeth American Primitive (or John and Stuck ...... 80 Minor Demons...... 150 Full Hookup (Bishop) ...... 67 Abigail) (Adams) ...... 181 Goldemberg, Rose Leiman Moon over the Brewery...... 47 Fuller, Elizabeth L. The Body & The Wheel...... 254 Marching As to War ...... 341 Grant, David Marshall Me and Jezebel ...... 3 The Butterfingers Angel, Mary & Golden, Alfred L. ★ Pen ...... 5 Furth, George Joseph, Herod the Nut & The A Young Man’s Fancy Snakebit...... 54 Getting Away with Murder Slaughter of 12 Hit Carols (Thurschwell)...... 252 Granville-Barker, Harley ★ (Sondheim) ...... 198 in a Pear Tree...... 224 Goldfarb, Daniel The Voysey Gaffney, Mo A Cry of Players ...... 250 Adam Baum and the Jew Movie...... 18 Inheritance (Mamet) ...... 14 Parallel Lives (Najimy)...... 15 Dinny and the Witches ...... 226 Modern Orthodox...... 32 Graves, Warren Gagliano, Frank Goodly Creatures ...... 210 Sarah, Sarah...... 52 Beauty and the Beast ...... 87 Big Sur ...... 348 Handy Dandy ...... 11 Goldman, James Gray, Amlin Father Uxbridge Wants to Marry...144 Monday After the Miracle ...... 74 Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole The Fantod...... 119 The Hide and Seek Odyssey of Gide, Andre (Goldman) ...... 207 How I Got That Story...... 12 The Immoralist (Goetz, Goetz) .....169 Goldman, William Kingdom Come...... 187 Madeline Gimple ...... 68 Gien, Pamela Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole Mickey’s Teeth and Bindle Stiff .....304 Night of the Dunce ...... 151 The Syringa Tree...... 7 (Goldman) ...... 207 Outlanders...... 322 Gaitens, Peter Gilford, C.B. Goldoni, Carlo Villainous Company...... 333 Flesh and Blood (Cunningham) ....198 Widow’s Mite (Gibson) ...... 348 The Liar (Yalman) ...... 227 Wormwood ...... 322 Galati, Frank Gilles, D.B. The Servant of Two Masters Zones of the Spirit...... 322 A Flea in Her Ear (Feydeau)...... 233 Cash Flow...... 63 (Hatcher, Landi)...... 176 Gray, Simon The Grapes of Wrath The Girl Who Loved The Beatles...324 Goldsmith, Clifford Close of Play...... 139 (Steinbeck) ...... 257 The Legendary Stardust Boys ...... 44 What a Life ...... 249 The Common Pursuit ...... 89 Heart of a Dog (Bulgakov)...... 227 Men’s Singles ...... 25 Your Every Wish...... 215 Gray, Virginia H. Gallagher, Mary Gillette, William Goldstone, Jean Stock Willie’s Lie Detector ...... 346 Buddies...... 340 ★ Sherlock Holmes: The Final Mary Stuart (Reich)...... 228 Green, Janet Chocolate Cake (Watson)...... 321 Adventures (Dietz, Doyle)...... 11 Goluboff, Bryan Murder Mistaken...... 101 ¿De Donde?...... 216 Gillis, Graeme Big Al ...... 286 Murder, My Sweet Matilda...... 212 Dog Eat Dog...... 197 Charlie Blake’s Boat...... 315 In-Betweens...... 43 Greenberg, Richard Father Dreams ...... 39 Thicker Than Water (Fox, Freni, My Side of the Story ...... 286 The American Plan...... 59 Final Placement (Watson)...... 321 Polatin, Rosenthal)...... 315 Shyster...... 79 The Author’s Voice...... 329 How to Say Goodbye ...... 69 Gilman, Rebecca Gomes, Dias Dance of Death (Strindberg)...... 90 Little Bird...... 45 Capitalism 101 ...... 298 Journey to Bahia (Richards)...... 260 The Dazzle ...... 21 Little Miss Fresno (Watson)...... 321 Ginsbury, Norman Gonzalez, Gloria Eastern Standard...... 92 Love Minus ...... 46 The First Gentleman ...... 256 Curtains...... 329 Everett Beekin ...... 93 Win/Lose/Draw (Watson) ...... 321 Ginty, E.B. Goodman, George Jenny Keeps Talking ...... 6 Windshook...... 180 Missouri Legend...... 247 The Wheeler Dealers (Leslie)...... 223 Life Under Water...... 338 xxviii AUTHOR INDEX

The Maderati ...... 170 Overtime ...... 174 George Washington Slept Here My Mother, My Father and Me ....263 Night and Her Stars ...... 173 The Perfect Party...... 77 (Kaufman)...... 243 The Searching Wind ...... 230 Take Me Out...... 204 Richard Cory...... 153 Light Up the Sky...... 220 Toys in the Attic...... 156 Three Days of Rain ...... 31 The Snow Ball...... 241 The Man Who Came to Dinner Watch on the Rhine ...... 223 Vanishing Act ...... 346 Sweet Sue...... 55 (Kaufman)...... 262 Henley, Beth The Violet Hour...... 83 Sylvia ...... 55 You Can’t Take It with You Abundance ...... 58 Greene, Will The Wayside Motor Inn...... 194 (Kaufman)...... 242 Am I Blue...... 343 The Riot Act ...... 191 What I Did Last Summer...... 110 Hartman, Jan Control Freaks...... 316 Greenfeld, Josh Guyer, Murphy Every Year at the Carnival ...... 143 Crimes of the Heart...... 90 Clandestine on the Morning Line ...116 The American Century...... 328 Flatboatman ...... 347 The Debutante Ball...... 117 Greenland, Seth World of Mirth ...... 180 Samuel Hoopes Reading from Impossible Marriage ...... 122 Jungle Rot ...... 199 Hackett, Albert His Own Works...... 323 L-Play...... 316 Gregory, Andre The Diary of Anne Frank Hartman, Karen The Lucky Spot...... 125 Alice in Wonderland (Carroll)...... 86 (Goodrich, Kesselman)...... 184 Gum and The Mother of The Miss Firecracker Contest...... 100 Grellong, Paul The Diary of Anne Frank Modern Censorship ...... 298 Revelers ...... 130 ★ Manuscript...... 5 (Frank, Goodrich)...... 184 Harvey, Jonathan Signature ...... 105 Griffin, Tom Haidle, Noah Beautiful Thing ...... 61 Sisters of the Winter Madrigal...... 316 Amateurs ...... 159 ★ Kitty Kitty Kitty...... 9 Harwood, Ronald Three Plays by Beth Henley ...... 316 The Boys Next Door...... 160 ★ Mr. Marmalade ...... 10 Taking Sides ...... 132 The Wake of Jamey Foster...... 135 Einstein and the Polar Bear ...... 92 ★ Rag and Bone...... 11 Hatcher, Jeffrey Hensel, Karen ★ Mrs. Sedgewick’s Head ...... 189 Haig, David Compleat Female Stage Beauty ...... 14 Going to See the Elephant (Johns, Pasta ...... 76 My Boy Jack...... 127 Murder by Poe (Poe) ...... 158 Kent, Meredith, Toffenetti, Shaw)...68 ★ Grimm, David Hailey, Oliver A Picasso ...... 3 Herbert, F. Hugh Kit Marlowe ...... 211 Continental Divide...... 37 Scotland Road ...... 53 For Love or Money...... 144 ★ The Learned Ladies of Park The Father (Strindberg)...... 143 The Servant of Two Masters A Girl Can Tell...... 218 Avenue ...... 12 (Goldoni, Landi)...... 176 Kiss and Tell...... 235 ★ Father’s Day...... 94 Measure for Pleasure...... 11 For the Use of the Hall...... 95 Smash...... 192 The Moon is Blue ...... 47 Sheridan or, Schooled in Scandal ...177 Hey You, Light Man!...... 121 Tell-Tale...... 31 Herlihy, James Leo Groag, Lillian Kith and Kin ...... 72 The Thief of Tears...... 31 Bad Bad Jo-Jo...... 314 Blood Wedding (Lorca) ...... 243 Picture, Animal and Crisscross ...... 308 Thirteen Things About Laughs, Etc...... 314 The Ladies of the Camellias ...... 187 Red Rover, Red Rover ...... 103 Ed Carpolotti ...... 31 Stop, You’re Killing Me...... 314 The Magic Fire...... 206 Who’s Happy Now?...... 84 Three Viewings...... 31 Terrible Jim Fitch ...... 314 The White Rose ...... 158 Haines, William Wister To Fool the Eye (Anouilh)...... 178 Hersey, John Groff, Rinne The Turn of the Screw (James)...... 16 A Bell for Adano (Osborn)...... 254 ★ Command Decision ...... 246 ★ The Ruby Sunrise...... 11 Haislip, Harvey Work Song: Three Views of Frank Heuer, John Grumberg, Jean-Claude The Long Watch ...... 228 Lloyd Wright (Simonson)...... 12 Cavern of the Jewels ...... 161 Dreyfus in Rehearsal (Kanin) ...... 197 Havard, Lezley Innocent Thoughts, Harmless Hamilton, Carrie Guare, John Hide and Seek ...... 168 Intentions...... 199 Hollywood Arms (Burnett) ...... 199 Bosoms and Neglect ...... 19 Havoc, June Heyn, Ernest Hammond, Wendy Chaucer in Rome ...... 208 Marathon 33 ...... 262 Day in the Sun (Sammis) ...... 233 Julie Johnson ...... 71 A Few Stout Individuals ...... 217 Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hibbert, Guy Hampton, Christopher Four Baboons Adoring the Sun .....209 Feathertop ...... 349 On the Edge...... 128 ‘Art’ (Reza)...... 18 The General of Hot Desire...... 296 Hayes, Catherine Hicks, Jr., Hilly Life X 3 (Reza) ...... 44 Greenwich Mean ...... 296 Skirmishes ...... 29 Note to Self ...... 298 In Fireworks Lie Secret Codes ...... 338 The Unexpected Man (Reza)...... 17 Hearth, Amy Hill Higgins, Frank Kissing Sweet and Hampton, Mark Having Our Say, The Delany The Sweet By ’N’ By ...... 132 A Day for Surprises ...... 300 Full Gallop (Wilson) ...... 5 Sisters’ First 100 Years (Delany, Hill, Maurice Lake Hollywood ...... 147 Hanley, William Delany, Mann)...... 11 Large Window on a Small World ..148 Landscape of the Body ...... 211 Flesh and Blood...... 94 Hedden, Roger A Wind Between the Houses...... 180 Lydie Breeze...... 200 Mrs. Dally Has a Lover ...... 321 Been Taken...... 87 Hilton, Tony Marco Polo Sings a Solo...... 149 Slow Dance on the Killing Ground ...29 Bodies, Rest and Motion...... 160 Bang Bang Beirut (Cooney) ...... 232 Muzeeka ...... 344 Today is Independence Day...... 328 Hedges, Peter Hines, Karen New York Actor...... 296 Whisper into My Good Ear ...... 321 The Age of Pie...... 307 Young Man Praying...... 298 Rich and Famous...... 28 Hare, Bill Andy and Claire ...... 307 Hirson, David Six Degrees of Separation ...... 245 God Says There is No Peter Ott ...... 68 Baby Anger...... 114 La Bête ...... 187 Something I’ll Tell You Tuesday Harelik, Mark Food Related ...... 307 Hirson, Roger O. and The Loveliest Afternoon Hank Williams: Lost Highway Good as New...... 23 Journey to the Day ...... 187 of the Year...... 313 (Myler)...... 276 Imagining Brad and Hochhauser, Jeff Talking Dog ...... 296 Harling, Robert The Valerie of Now...... 299 Theda Bara and the Frontier Women and Water ...... 267 Steel Magnolias...... 106 Oregon and Other Short Plays...... 307 Rabbi (Johnston)...... 277 Guirgis, Stephen Adly Harman, Donn Heelan, Kevin Hock, Robert D. Den of Thieves ...... 117 Her Majesty, Miss Jones (Batson)..199 Distant Fires ...... 91 Borak...... 238 In Arabia We’d All be Kings ...... 210 Harmon, Peggy Right Behind the Flag ...... 154 Hoffman, Stephen Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train...... 71 Goblin Market (Pen, Rossetti)...... 271 Heggen, Thomas Splendora (Webb, Campbell) ...... 275 The Last Days of Judas Iscariot .....232 Harris, Elmer Mister Roberts (Logan) ...... 263 Hoffman, William M. Our Lady of 121st Street...... 213 Johnny Belinda...... 259 Heifner, Jack As Is...... 137 Gurney, A.R. Harris, Mark Bargains...... 60 Holbrook, Marion Another Antigone...... 33 Bang the Drum Slowly Natural Disasters ...... 306 Make Room for Rodney...... 345 A Cheever Evening (Cheever)...... 89 (Simonson)...... 242 Patio/Porch...... 307 Holden, Joan Children ...... 63 Harris, Zinnie Running on Empty ...... 78 ★ The Marriage of The Cocktail Hour...... 36 Further Than the Furthest Thing ....67 Tropical Depression...... 306 Figaro (Beaumarchais) ...... 13 The Comeback...... 340 Harrity, Richard 24 Hours AM ...... 318 Nickel and Dimed (Ehrenreich)...... 85 The Dining Room...... 91 Gone Tomorrow...... 299 24 Hours PM...... 318 Hollinger, Michael The Fourth Wall...... 40 Home Life of a Buffalo...... 299 Twister...... 306 An Empty Plate in the Café du The Golden Age...... 23 Hope is the Thing with Feathers.....298 Hellman, Lillian Grand Boeuf ...... 92 Labor Day ...... 72 Hart, Moss Another Part of the Forest ...... 215 Incorruptible ...... 146 Later Life...... 44 The American Way (Kaufman) .....252 The Autumn Garden...... 207 Red Herring ...... 103 Love Letters ...... 13 Christopher Blake...... 225 The Children’s Hour ...... 225 Tiny Island ...... 56 The Middle Ages...... 46 The Climate of Eden...... 216 The Lark (Anouilh) ...... 261 Holm, John Cecil The Old Boy ...... 101 The Fabulous Invalid (Kaufman) ...256 The Little Foxes...... 188 Brighten the Corner ...... 161 AUTHOR INDEXxxix

Gramercy Ghost ...... 210 Hwang, David Henry Irwin, Bill Hotel ...... 301 The Southwest Corner (Walker)....131 The Dance and the Railroad and Scapin (O’Donnell, Molière)...... 191 Intermezzo...... 301 Three Men on a Horse (Abbott) ...237 Family Devotions ...... 290 Isherwood, Christopher Limbo Tales...... 301 Hope, Nicholas F.O.B. and The House I am a Camera (van Druten) ...... 121 My Uncle Sam...... 201 ★ Dearly Beloved (Jones, Wooten) .....13 of Sleeping Beauties ...... 294 Ives, David Jenkins, Ken Hooker, Brian Golden Child ...... 166 All in the Timing, Six One-Act Cemetery Man ...... 310 Cyrano de Bergerac (Rostand)...... 233 M. Butterfly ...... 188 Comedies ...... 284 Chug ...... 309 Horine, Charles The Sound of a Voice...... 327 Ancient History...... 8 An Educated Lady...... 309 Me and Thee ...... 100 Trying to Find Chinatown Arabian Nights ...... 302 Rupert’s Birthday and Horne, Kenneth and Bondage ...... 318 Babel’s in Arms...... 302 Other Monologues...... 309 Two Dozen Red Roses...... 82 Hyman, Mac Captive Audience ...... 302 Jensen, Erik Horovitz, Israel No Time for Sergeants (Levin) ...... 263 Degas C’est Moi...... 303 The Exonerated (Blank) ...... 185 Acrobats and Line...... 283 Ibsen, Henrik Don Juan in Chicago ...... 142 Jensen, Julie Alfred the Great...... 33 Brand (Meyer)...... 357 Dr. Fritz...... 303 Stray Dogs...... 80 Captains and Courage (Kipling)....225 A Doll’s House (McGuinness)...... 185 English Made Simple...... 300 Johns, Andrew The Chopin Playoffs ...... 139 A Doll’s House (Meyer)...... 357 Enigma Variations ...... 302 Fridays...... 95 A Christmas Carol: Scrooge Emperor and Galilean (Meyer)...... 357 Foreplay or: The Art of The Return of Herbert Bracewell and Marley (Dickens)...... 255 An Enemy of the People (Meyer) ..357 the Fugue ...... 302 or (Why Am I Always Alone Dr. Hero...... 118 The Land of Cockaigne...... 300 An Enemy of the People (Miller)...217 When I’m With You?)...... 15 Faith ...... 337 Lives of the Saints...... 302 Ghosts (Meyer)...... 357 Johns, Patti Faith, Hope and Charity Long Ago and Far Away Ghosts (Wilson) ...... 68 Going to See the Elephant (Hensel, (McNally, Melfi) ...... 337 Hedda Gabler (Baitz) ...... 120 and Other Short Plays...... 302 The Former One-on-One Mere Mortals: Kent, Meredith, Toffenetti, Hedda Gabler (Hughes) ...... 120 Shaw) ...... 68 Basketball Champion ...... 297 Hedda Gabler (Meyer) ...... 357 Six One-Act Comedies...... 303 The Good Parts...... 95 The Mystery at Twicknam Johnson, Carleene John Gabriel Borkman (Meyer).....357 The Odyssey of Jeremy Jack The Great Labor Day Classic ...... 297 The Lady from the Sea (Meyer) ....357 Vicarage ...... 302 Henry Lumper ...... 258 The Philadelphia ...... 284 (Medoff) ...... 3 Little Eyolf (Meyer) ...... 357 Johnson, Cindy Lou Hopscotch and the 75th...... 299 The Master Builder (Meyer)...... 357 Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread ....284 The Indian Wants the Bronx...... 330 Polish Joke...... 77 Brilliant Traces...... 8 Peer Gynt (Meyer)...... 357 The Person I Once Was...... 331 It’s Called the Sugar Plum ...... 325 The Pretenders (Meyer)...... 357 The Red Address ...... 103 North Shore Fish...... 173 Seven Menus ...... 302 The Years...... 111 Rosmersholm (Meyer) ...... 357 Johnson, Crane Play for Germs ...... 311 When We Dead Awaken (Meyer)..357 Soap Opera...... 302 The Primary English Class ...... 175 Speed-the-Play...... 302 Dracula (Sroker)...... 118 The Wild Duck (Meyer) ...... 357 Johnson, Dave Rats ...... 332 Illick, Hilary Sure Thing...... 284 A Rosen by Any Other Name ...... 104 Time Flies...... 303 Baptized to the Bone ...... 18 Eve-Olution (Krier) ...... 7 Johnson, Trish Shooting Gallery...... 311 Inge, William The Universal Language ...... 284 Stage Directions and Spared ...... 313 Variations on the Death of The Art of Self-Defense...... 337 The Boy in the Basement...... 293, 356 Today I am a Fountain Pen ...... 156 Trotsky ...... 284 Second Prize: Two Months in Bus Riley’s Back in Town...... 293, 356 Trees and Leader...... 317 Words, Words, Words ...... 284 Leningrad...... 191 Bus Stop ...... 138 Uncle Snake...... 320 Jacker, Corinne Johnston, Bob The Call ...... 319 The Widow’s Blind Date...... 31 Bits and Pieces...... 287 Theda Bara and the Frontier The Dark at the Top of Year of the Duck...... 111 Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner ...... 287 Rabbi (Hochhauser)...... 277 the Stairs ...... 183 Horwin, Jerry Domestic Issues ...... 92 Johnston, Rick The Disposal and Margaret’s Bed ...291 My Dear Children (Turney)...... 221 Harry Outside ...... 120 Cahoots ...... 62 Houstle, Alice H. Eleven Short Plays by In Place and The Chinese William Inge...... 293 Jones, Elinor The Kentucky Marriage Restaurant Syndrome ...... 299 If You were My Wife I’d Shoot Proposal...... 330 An Incident at the Standish Later ...... 25 Arms ...... 293, 356 Myself ...... 312 Houston, Velina Hasu My Life...... 172 6:15 on the 104...... 312 ★ Tea...... 9 A Loss of Roses...... 149 Night Thoughts and Terminal...... 306 The Mall ...... 293, 356 Under Control...... 312 Howard, Anto Jackson, Nagle A Voice of My Own ...... 83 Scattergood...... 28 Memory of Summer...... 293, 356 At This Evening’s Performance ...... 114 A Murder...... 319 Jones, Jessie Howard, Eleanor Harris Hotel on Marvin Gardens ...... 69 ★ Dearly Beloved (Hope, Wooten) ....13 Mating Dance (McAvity) ...... 212 Natural Affection...... 212 Opera Comique...... 190 People in the Wind ...... 293, 356 Dearly Departed (Bottrell) ...... 184 Howard, Sidney The Quick-Change Room...... 190 Jones, Preston Dodsworth ...... 256 Picnic...... 202 Taking Leave ...... 107 The Rainy Afternoon ...... 293, 356 The Last Meeting of the Knights Madam, Will You Walk?...... 235 This Day and Age ...... 108 of the White Magnolia...... 170 Yellow Jack ...... 268 A Social Event ...... 293, 356 Jackson, Shirley Splendor in the Grass (Leslie)...... 251 Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Howie, Betsy The Haunting of Hill House Oberlander...... 200 Cowgirls (Murfitt)...... 272 The Strains of Triumph...... 293, 356 (Leslie) ...... 120 The Oldest Living Graduate...... 173 Huggett, Richard Summer Brave ...... 230 We Have Always Lived in the A Place on the Magdalena Flats.....152 The First Night of “Pygmalion” ....257 The Tiny Closet ...... 293, 356 Castle (Wheeler) ...... 135 Santa Fe Sunshine...... 175 Hughes, Babette To Bobolink, for Her Jacobson, Steven M. If the Shoe Pinches...... 335 Spirit ...... 293, 356 Needs...... 331 Jones, Rolin Mrs. Harper’s Bazaar ...... 346 Two Plays by William Inge...... 319 James, Henry The Intelligent Design of Hughes, Doug Where’s Daddy?...... 110 The Heiress (Goetz, Goetz)...... 168 Jenny Chow ...... 85 Hedda Gabler (Ibsen)...... 120 Innaurato, Albert The Turn of the Screw (Hatcher) ....16 Jordan, Julia Hughes, Glenn Coming of Age in Soho...... 116 Jameson, Storm Boy ...... 57 Romance, Inc...... 339 Gemini ...... 120 The Hidden River (Goetz, Goetz) ..186 St. Scarlet...... 58 Hughes, Langston Gus and Al ...... 167 Jarrett, Jennifer Tatjana in Color ...... 58 Simply Heavenly (Martin)...... 278 The Idiots Karamazov (Durang)....218 Divorce Southern Style...... 117 Joselovitz, Ernest A. Humphrey, Harry E. Passione ...... 129 Jarry, Alfred Hagar’s Children...... 167 The Skull (McOwen) ...... 349 The Transfiguration of Benno Ubu Cuckolded (Connolly, Taylor)...3 Righting ...... 326 Hurston, Zora Neale Blimpie...... 339 Ubu Enchained (Connolly, Taylor) ...3 Sammi ...... 326 Spunk (Street Man, Wolfe)...... 273 Ulysses in Traction...... 157 The Ubu Plays (Connolly, Taylor).....3 Joudry, Patricia Hutchinson, Ron Irving, John Ubu Rex (Connolly, Taylor)...... 3 The Song of Louise in the Moonlight and Magnolias ...... 32 The Cider House Rules, Part One: Jenkin, Len Morning...... 332 Hutton, Arlene Here In St. Cloud’s (Parnell) ...... 250 American Notes...... 181 Teach Me How to Cry ...... 223 As It is in Heaven ...... 160 The Cider House Rules, Part Two: Dark Ride...... 184 Three Rings for Michelle...... 81 Last Train to Nibroc ...... 12 In Other Parts of the World Five of Us ...... 67 Joyce, James See Rock City...... 32 (Parnell)...... 250 Highway...... 301 Stephen D (Leonard)...... 265 xxx AUTHOR INDEX

Kafka, Franz Kent, Elana Kober, Arthur Where’s Mamie? ...... 273 The Castle (Brod, Fishelson, Going to See the Elephant Having Wonderful Time ...... 258 Lahr, John Leichter)...... 196 (Hensel, Johns, Meredith, A Mighty Man is He The Manchurian Candidate ...... 228 The Metamorphosis (Dizenzo)...... 347 Shaw, Toffenetti) ...... 68 (Oppenheimer) ...... 172 Lamkin, Speed Kaikkonen, Gus Kern, Will Koenig, Laird Comes a Day...... 216 Potholes...... 336 Hellcab ...... 121 The Dozens ...... 22 Lamont, Jr., Alonzo D. Kanin, Garson Kerr, E. Katherine The Little Girl Who Lives That Serious He-Man Ball...... 30 Born Yesterday...... 239 Juno’s Swans ...... 24 Down the Lane ...... 72 Lampley, Oni Faida Come on Strong...... 255 Kerr, Jean Kondoleon, Harry Mixed Babies...... 302 Dreyfus in Rehearsal (Grumberg)...197 Finishing Touches...... 144 Anteroom ...... 113 Landi, Paolo Emilio The Live Wire ...... 241 Jenny Kissed Me...... 227 Christmas on Mars...... 36 The Servant of Two Masters The Rat Race...... 236 King of Hearts (Brooke)...... 187 The Houseguests ...... 43 (Hatcher, Goldoni)...... 176 The Smile of the World...... 177 Mary, Mary ...... 74 Linda Her and The Fairy Garden ....301 Landis, Joseph C. Kaplan, Jack A. Kerr, Laura Love Diatribe...... 125 The Golem (Fishelson, Leivick).....218 Alligator Man ...... 344 The Farmer’s Daughter Play Yourself ...... 50 Langley, Noel Kass, Jerome (Leslie, Rivkin)...... 226 Saved or Destroyed...... 105 Edward, My Son...... 226 Four Short Plays by Jerome Kass ...295 Kesselman, Wendy Slacks and Tops ...... 339 Lapine, James Make Like a Dog...... 295 The Diary of Anne Frank The Vampires ...... 109 ★ Fran’s Bed...... 11 (New Adaptation) ...... 184 Zero Positive...... 111 Princess Rebecca Birnbaum ...... 295 ★ The Moment When...... 10 The Notebook...... 49 Korder, Howard Saturday Night ...... 105 Twelve Dreams ...... 134 Kesselring, Joseph Boys’ Life...... 160 Suburban Tragedy...... 296 Larson, Larry Arsenic and Old Lace ...... 224 The Facts...... 308 Some Things You Need to Know Before Young Marrieds at Play...... 296 Four Twelves are 48 ...... 234 Fun and Nobody...... 296 Kassin, Michael Ketron, Larry Girls’ Talk...... 308 the World Ends (A Final Evening I-Kissandtell ...... 298 Asian Shade ...... 87 Imagining “America” ...... 308 With the Illuminati) (Lee)...... 16 Kaufman, Florence Aquino Character Lines ...... 20 The Laws...... 308 Tent Meeting...... 30 The Winner!...... 136 Eudora Welty’s The Hitch The Lights...... 244 LaRusso II, Louis Kaufman, George S. Hikers (Welty)...... 142 Man in a Restaurant...... 308 Momma’s Little Angels ...... 74 The American Way (Hart)...... 252 Fresh Horses...... 119 Night Maneuver ...... 14 Lasswell, Mary Amicable Parting (Kaufman)...... 323 Ghosts of the Loyal Oaks ...... 68 The Pope’s Nose ...... 308 Suds in Your Eye (Kirkland) ...... 248 Bravo (Ferber) ...... 239 Patrick Henry Lake Liquors...... 174 Sea of Tranquility ...... 203 Latham, Jean Lee The Fabulous Invalid (Hart)...... 256 Quail Southwest ...... 153 Search and Destroy...... 230 The Ghost of Rhodes Manor ...... 186 Fancy Meeting You Again Rib Cage ...... 104 Under Observation...... 308 Laurents, Arthur (MacGrath) ...... 186 The Trading Post ...... 108 Wonderful Party! ...... 308 The Bird Cage...... 216 First Lady (Dayton)...... 257 Keveson, Peter Kotis, Greg A Clearing in the Woods...... 183 George Washington Slept Here How Much, How Much? ...... 146 ★ Eat the Taste...... 10 The Enclave...... 164 (Hart)...... 243 Nellie Toole & Co...... 48 ★ An Examination of the Whole Home of the Brave ...... 97 Hollywood Pinafore or The Lad Kilroy, Thomas Playwright/Actor Relationship Invitation to a March ...... 146 Who Loves a Salary (Sullivan)....278 ★ Henry (After Pirandello) ...... 12 Presented As Some Kind of Lauro, Shirley The Land is Bright (Ferber)...... 261 Kim, Susan Cop Show Parody...... 11 The Coal Diamond ...... 334 The Late George Apley Dreamtime for Alice...... 295 Kraft, Hy Lavery, Bryony (Marquand)...... 240 Four from E.S.T. Marathon ’99 Cafe Crown...... 255 Frozen...... 41 The Man Who Came to Dinner (Ayvazian, Linney, Vogelstein)....295 Kramm, Joseph Last Easter ...... 58 (Hart)...... 262 Kingsley, Sidney The Shrike...... 265 Law, Alma H. The Small Hours (MacGrath) ...... 223 Dead End ...... 256 Krasna, Norman Duck Hunting (Vampilov) ...... 197 The Solid Gold Cadillac Detective Story...... 256 Dear Ruth ...... 184 Lawrence, Jerome (Teichmann)...... 245 Night Life...... 263 Full Moon ...... 41 Auntie Mame (Lee) ...... 253 Stage Door (Ferber)...... 265 The Patriots...... 264 John Loves Mary ...... 187 The Crocodile Smile (Lee) ...... 225 You Can’t Take It with You (Hart) ..242 The World We Make...... 245 Kind Sir...... 98 The Incomparable Max (Lee)...... 218 Kaufman, Lynne Kipling, Rudyard Love in E-Flat...... 99 Inherit the Wind (Lee) ...... 259 The Couch ...... 64 Captains and Courage Sunday in New York...... 132 Live Spelled Backwards...... 341 Kaufman, Moisés (Horovitz) ...... 225 Time for Elizabeth (Marx)...... 231 Sparks Fly Upward (Lee) ...... 265 Gross Indecency: The Three Trials Kirkland, Jack Watch the Birdie...... 238 Leary, Helen of Oscar Wilde...... 167 Strange Boarders (Batson) ...... 237 Who was That Lady I Saw Yes Means No (Rogers, Leary)...... 340 The Laramie Project ...... 147 Suds in Your Eye (Lasswell) ...... 248 You With? ...... 267 Leary, Nolan Kazan, Molly Kirshenbaum, David Krier, Jennifer Yes Means No (Rogers, Leary)...... 340 The Egghead ...... 197 Summer of ’42 (Foster, Raucher)...275 Eve-Olution (Illick) ...... 7 Lebow, Barbara Klavan, Laurence Kurnitz, Harry Keeler, Eloise The Keepers ...... 24 Bed and Sofa (Pen)...... 271 Once More with Feeling...... 174 Grandma Steps Out ...... 227 The Left Hand Singing ...... 123 Embarrassments (Pen) ...... 275 Reclining Figure ...... 175 Kelly, Tim Little Joe Monaghan...... 45 Freud’s House...... 324 Kyle, Christopher The Cave...... 349 A Shayna Maidel ...... 105 Gorgo’s Mother ...... 334 The Monogamist...... 74 Fog on the Mountain ...... 341 If Walls Could Talk ...... 312 Plunge ...... 77 Tiny Tim is Dead ...... 108 The Omelet Murder Case ...... 346 The Magic Act...... 73 Labiche, Eugene Lee, Levi The Remarkable Susan ...... 349 No Time...... 320 90° in the Shade and Dust in Some Things You Need to Know Before Second Best Bed...... 346 Seeing Someone...... 312 Your Eyes (Martin, Wax)...... 306 the World Ends (A Final Evening Terror by Gaslight ...... 214 The Show Must Go On ...... 312 LaChiusa, Michael John with the Illuminati) (Larson)...... 16 Two Fools Who Gained a Measure Sleeping Beauty and Smoke...... 313 Agnes...... 271 Tent Meeting (Wackler)...... 30 of Wisdom (Chekhov) ...... 336 Uncle Lumpy Comes to Visit...... 320 Break ...... 271 Lee, Mark The Uninvited...... 194 Klein, Jon Eleanor Sleeps Here...... 273 Rebel Armies Deep into Chad...... 51 The Vampyre...... 214 Betty the Yeti...... 88 Eulogy for Mister Hamm ...... 271 Lee, Robert E. Kelso, Betsy Dimly Perceived Threats to First Lady Suite ...... 273 Auntie Mame (Lawrence)...... 253 ★ The Great American Trailer Park the System...... 91 Hello Again ...... 276 The Crocodile Smile (Lawrence) ...225 Musical (Nehls)...... 18 The Einstein Project (D’Andrea)...164 Little Fish ...... 274 The Incomparable Max Kennedy, Adam P. Southern Cross...... 203 Lucky Nurse and Other Short (Lawrence) ...... 218 Sleep Deprivation Chamber T Bone n Weasel ...... 30 Musical Plays...... 271 Inherit the Wind (Lawrence)...... 259 (Kennedy) ...... 237 Knott, Frederick Olio...... 273 Sparks Fly Upward (Lawrence)...... 265 Kennedy, Adrienne Dial M for Murder...... 91 Over Texas...... 273 Leeds, Michael Sleep Deprivation Chamber Wait Until Dark ...... 157 ★ See What I Wanna See Swinging on a Star (The Johnny (Kennedy) ...... 237 Write Me a Murder ...... 180 (Akutagawa) ...... 17 Burke Musical) (Burke)...... 274 AUTHOR INDEXxxxi

Leeds, Nancy Letton, Jenette Komachi...... 81 The Women ...... 267 Great Scot! (Conradt, Dawson, The Young Elizabeth (Letton) ...... 111 Laughing Stock...... 300 Luce, William McAfee) ...... 278 Letts, Tracy A Lesson Before Dying...... 124 Lillian ...... 6 Lees, Russell Bug...... 62 The Love Suicide at Schofield Lucie, Doug Nixon’s Nixon...... 14 Man from Nebraska ...... 171 Barracks (Full Length) ...... 261 Progress ...... 153 Leichter, Aaron Levi, Stephen The Love Suicide at Schofield Macardle, Dorothy The Castle (Brod, Fishelson, Daphne in Cottage D...... 9 Barracks (One Act) ...... 347 The Uninvited...... 194 Kafka) ...... 196 Levin, Ira Mountain Memory...... 151 MacGrath, Leueen Leight, Warren Critic’s Choice ...... 117 Old Man Joseph and His Family...190 Amicable Parting (MacGrath) ...... 323 Dark, No Sugar: Twelve Angry Deathtrap ...... 65 Pops...... 308 Fancy Meeting You One Acts ...... 283 Dr. Cook’s Garden...... 65 Sand Mountain...... 310 Again (Kaufman) ...... 186 Fame Takes a Holiday (Danz, General Seeger...... 165 Sand Mountain Matchmaking ...... 310 The Small Hours (Kaufman)...... 223 Fulham) ...... 271 Interlock...... 70 Songs of Love ...... 309 Machiavelli, Niccolo Fear Network News...... 283 No Time for Sergeants (Hyman)....263 The Sorrows of Frederick ...... 230 The Mandrake (Shawn)...... 188 The Final Interrogation of Levin, Meyer Spain ...... 132 Mackey, William Wellington Ceausescu’s Dog ...... 283 Compulsion...... 255 Tennessee...... 342 Family Meeting ...... 349 Glimmer, Glimmer & Shine ...... 41 Levitt, Saul Three Poets...... 81 MacLachlan, Angus Happy for You...... 283 The Andersonville Trial...... 253 True Crimes...... 179 The Dead Eye Boy ...... 21 Judaic Park ...... 283 Levy, Benn W. 2 ...... 205 ★ The Radiant Abyss ...... 5 Love of the Game...... 283 Clutterbuck ...... 116 Unchanging Love (Chekhov)...... 193 MacLeish, Archibald The Morning After...... 283 Levy, David Why the Lord Come to Air Raid...... 316 Mr. Morton Waits for His Bus ...... 283 Sally Blane, World’s Greatest Girl Sand Mountain ...... 310 The Fall of the City...... 316 Nine-Ten...... 283 Detective (Eberhard, Sneed, A Woman Without a Name ...... 180 The Secret of Freedom ...... 316 Norm-Anon...... 283 Webb)...... 276 Yankee Doodle ...... 308 Three Short Plays by Archibald Pay-Per-Kill ...... 283 Levy, Jonathan Litvack, Barry MacLeish...... 316 Side Man...... 131 Marco Polo...... 201 Slow Memories...... 336 MacLeod, Wendy Stray Cats ...... 29 Lewis, Ira Livings, Henry Apocalyptic Butterflies...... 60 United ...... 283 Chinese Coffee ...... 9 Eh? ...... 92 The House of Yes ...... 69 What I Did Wrong...... 283 Lewis, Philip C. Lloyd, Marcus The Lost Colony ...... 311 Leipart, Charles The American Dame...... 59 Dead Certain...... 9 The Shallow End...... 311 Deep Sleepers ...... 38 Lewis, Sinclair Locke, Sam Sin...... 154 The Undefeated Rhumba It Can’t Happen Here (Moffit)...... 240 Fair Game...... 226 The Water Children ...... 157 Champ...... 328 Lichtenstein, Jonathan Logan, Joshua Magdalany, Philip Leivick, H. ★ The Pull of Negative Gravity...... 7 Mister Roberts (Heggen) ...... 263 Criss-Crossing ...... 289 The Golem (Fishelson, Landis) .....218 Liebman, Steve The Wisteria Trees...... 232 Watercolor...... 289 Lengyel, Melchior The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck London, Roy Magruder, James Ninotchka ...... 173 (Paterson, Tolan)...... 273 The Amazing Activity of Charley ★ The Imaginary Invalid Leo, Carl Lindsay, Howard Contrare and the Ninety-Eighth (Molière) ...... 13 The Family Man (Zavin)...... 226 The Great Sebastians (Crouse) ...... 258 Street Gang ...... 159 The Miser (Molière)...... 201 Leokum, Arkady Life with Father (Crouse, Day)...... 240 Disneyland on Parade...... 291 The Triumph of Love (Marivaux)....134 Neighbors...... 336 Life with Mother (Crouse, Day)....240 It’s a Small World ...... 291 Maibaum, Richard Leon, Felis The Prescott Proposals (Crouse)....236 Meet Me in Disneyland...... 291 See My Lawyer (Clork)...... 241 The Zulu and the Zayda Remains to be Seen (Crouse)...... 251 Mrs. Murray’s Farm...... 201 Mamet, David (DaSilva, Rome)...... 279 A Slight Case of Murder (Runyon)...192 Lonergan, Kenneth All Men are Whores: An Inquiry...312 Leonard, Jr., Jim State of the Union (Crouse) ...... 245 Lobby Hero...... 46 Almost Done...... 306 And They Dance Real Slow Tall Story (Crouse, Nemerov)...... 266 This is Our Youth...... 30 The Blue Hour: City Sketches...... 312 in Jackson...... 113 Lindsay-Abaire, David Long, Quincy Boston Marriage...... 20 Leonard, Hugh ★ Baby Food...... 21 The Johnstown Vindicator ...... 169 Businessmen ...... 312 Stephen D (Joyce) ...... 265 ★ Crazy Eights...... 21 The Joy of Going Somewhere Cold ...... 312 LeRoy, Gen A Devil Inside ...... 90 Definite...... 122 The Cryptogram...... 21 Not Waving...... 48 Fuddy Meers...... 119 The Lively Lad ...... 170 Doctor...... 312 Leslee, Ray Kimberly Akimbo...... 71 People be Heard ...... 137 Dodge...... 307 Standup Shakespeare (Shakespeare, ★ Rabbit Hole...... 8 Loomer, Lisa Epilogue ...... 312 Welsh)...... 272 ★ That Other Person ...... 21 Accelerando ...... 33 ★ Faustus ...... 8 Leslie, F. Andrew ★ Three One Acts...... 21 Expecting Isabel...... 142 Fish...... 307 The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer Wonder of the World ...... 136 Living Out...... 149 The Hat...... 312 (Sheldon) ...... 253 Linney, Romulus The Waiting Room...... 205 In Old Vermont...... 312 The Boy with Green Hair ...... 254 Akhmatova ...... 81 Lorca, Federico García The Joke Code ...... 306 The Farmer’s Daughter Ambrosio...... 113 Blood Wedding (Groag) ...... 243 Joseph Dintenfass ...... 307 (Rivkin, Kerr)...... 226 Ave Maria ...... 308 The House of Bernarda Alba L.A. Sketches...... 307 The Haunting of Hill House Can Can...... 308 (Mann)...... 218 A Life with No Joy in It ...... 307 (Jackson) ...... 120 The Captivity of Pixie Shedman...... 89 Loving, Boyce Litko: A Dramatic Monologue ...... 312 The Hound of the Baskervilles Childe Byron...... 139 Galahad Jones...... 227 Monologue, February 1990...... 306 (Doyle)...... 168 A Christmas Carol (Dickens) ...... 255 Lowe, Florence No One Will be Immune and The Lilies of the Field (Barrett) .....170 Clair de Lune ...... 308 The 49th Cousin (Francke)...... 186 Other Plays and Pieces ...... 306 Mr. Hobbs’ Vacation (Streeter)...... 235 The Death of King Philip ...... 334 Lowell, Robert Oleanna...... 14 The People Next Door (Miller).....152 Democracy ...... 163 Benito Cereno ...... 3 A Perfect Mermaid ...... 307 The Pigman (Zindel)...... 174 El Hermano...... 345 Endecott and the Red Cross...... 3 Prairie du Chien ...... 312 The Spiral Staircase (Dinelli)...... 155 F.M...... 300 My Kinsman, Major Molineux...... 3 Prologue: American Twilight...... 312 Splendor in the Grass (Inge)...... 251 Four from E.S.T. Marathon ’99 The Old Glory ...... 3 ★ Romance ...... 10 Stephen Vincent Benét’s Stories of (Ayvazian, Kim, Vogelstein) ...... 295 Lucas, Craig A Scene: Australia...... 307 America (Benét) ...... 106 Gint...... 166 Missing Persons ...... 126 A Sermon ...... 312 The Wheeler Dealers Gold and Silver Waltz...... 308 Reckless ...... 175 Shoeshine ...... 312 (Goodman)...... 223 Goodbye, Howard...... 300 This Thing of Darkness Short Plays and Monologues ...... 312 Lettich, Sheldon Goodbye Oscar...... 295 (Schulner) ...... 108 Sunday Afternoon ...... 306 Tracers (DiFusco, Caristi, Chaves, Heathen Valley ...... 96 Three Postcards (Carnelia)...... 272 Two Enthusiasts...... 306 Emerson, Gallavan, Marston, Holy Ghosts ...... 234 Luce, Clare Boothe ★ The Voysey Inheritance Stephens)...... 157 Hrosvitha...... 81 Kiss the Boys Good-bye ...... 219 (Granville-Barker) ...... 14 Letton, Francis Juliet/Yancey/April Snow...... 299 Margin for Error...... 171 Manchester, Joe The Young Elizabeth (Letton) ...... 111 ★ Klonsky and Schwartz ...... 3 Slam the Door Softly...... 327 Balloon Shot...... 340 xxxii AUTHOR INDEX

Run, Thief, Run! ...... 336 Marnich, Melanie McKenzie, Neil Medoff, Mark Manhattan Class Company Gone Goth ...... 298 Guests of the Nation ...... 345 Big Mary ...... 254 Manhattan Class Company Class Marowitz, Charles McLaine, Patricia Children of a Lesser God...... 116 One-Acts, 1992...... 302 Clever Dick ...... 162 Love is Contagious ...... 200 Crunch Time (Treon)...... 250 Mann, Emily Disciples ...... 163 McLiam, John Doing a Good One for the The Cherry Orchard Murdering Marlowe ...... 159 The Sin of Pat Muldoon...... 203 Red Man ...... 295 (Chekhov) ...... 233 Quack (Valenti)...... 275 McLure, James Four Short Plays by Mark Medoff...295 Having Our Say, The Delany Sherlock’s Last Case...... 131 The Day They Shot John Lennon ..163 The Froegle Dictum...... 295 Sisters’ First 100 Years (Delany, Stage Fright ...... 29 Ghost World...... 324 Gunfighter: A Gulf War Chronicle..258 Delany, Hearth) ...... 11 Wilde West...... 249 Laundry and Bourbon...... 330 The Hands of Its Enemy ...... 167 The House of Bernarda Alba Marquand, John P. Lone Star...... 330 The Heart Outright...... 42 (Lorca) ...... 218 The Late George Apley Max and Maxie ...... 25 The Homage that Follows ...... 69 Meshugah (Singer) ...... 74 (Kaufman)...... 240 Pvt. Wars (Full Length) ...... 27 The Kramer...... 123 Still Life...... 29 Marston, Merlin Pvt. Wars (One Act) ...... 331 Kringle’s Window...... 211 Mantello, Joe Tracers (Caristi, Chaves, DiFusco, Wild Oats...... 267 The Majestic Kid...... 73 The Santaland Diaries (Sedaris)...... 16 Emerson, Gallavan, Lettich, McNally, Terrence The Odyssey of Jeremy Jack Marans, Jon Stephens)...... 157 And Things That Go Bump in (Johnson) ...... 3 ★ Jumping for Joy...... 5 Martin, David the Night...... 86 Prymate ...... 51 Old Wicked Songs ...... 14 Simply Heavenly (Hughes)...... 278 André’s Mother and Other Showdown on Rio Road (Marks) ...237 Marber, Patrick Martin, E. Short Plays ...... 285 Stefanie Hero...... 248 Closer ...... 36 Dust in Your Eyes (Labiche, Apple Pie ...... 285 Stumps ...... 80 Dealer’s Choice...... 90 Wax)...... 306 Bad Habits ...... 137 Tommy J & Sally...... 8 March, William Martin, Jane Botticelli...... 286 The Ultimate Grammar of Life .....295 Bad Seed (Anderson) ...... 207 Barefoot Woman in the By the Sea By the Sea By the Beautiful The Wager...... 56 Marchant, William Red Dress...... 298 Sea (Pintauro, Wilson) ...... 20 The War on Tatem ...... 295 To be Continued ...... 133 Coup/Clucks ...... 289 Corpus Christi...... 216 When You Comin’ Back Red Marcus, Milton Frederick White Elephants...... 298 ¡Cuba Si!, Bringing It All Back Ryder? ...... 158 The Gardens of Frau Hess...... 10 Marx, Groucho Home, Last Gasps...... 289 Melfi, Leonard Mardirosian, Tom Time for Elizabeth (Krasna) ...... 231 ★ Dedication or The Stuff Charity ...... 337 Saved from Obscurity...... 52 Mason, Timothy of Dreams ...... 10 Faith, Hope and Charity (Horovitz, Subfertile ...... 81 Ascension Day...... 346 Dunelawn...... 137 McNally)...... 337 Margulies, Donald Babylon Gardens ...... 182 Dusk...... 20 Melville, Herman Anthony ...... 304 The Fiery Furnace ...... 66 Faith, Hope and Charity Billy Budd (Chapman, Coxe)...... 254 Brooklyn Boy ...... 111 In a Northern Landscape...... 169 (Horovitz, Melfi)...... 337 Mercier, Mary Collected Stories...... 9 Levitation ...... 170 Frankie and Johnny in the Clair Johnny No-Trump...... 122 Death in the Family ...... 304 Only You...... 102 de Lune ...... 10 Meredith, Sylvia Dinner with Friends ...... 38 Mastrosimone, William Full Frontal Nudity ...... 314 Going to See the Elephant (Hensel, Father and Son ...... 304 Just Hold Me...... 298 Hidden Agendas...... 285 Johns, Kent, Shaw)...... 68 First Love...... 304 Matthiessen, Peter Hope ...... 337 Meriwether, Elizabeth Found a Peanut ...... 144 Men’s Lives (Pintauro)...... 150 It’s Only a Play ...... 147 ★ The Mistakes Madeline Made...... 8 God of Vengeance May, Elaine Lips Together, Teeth Apart...... 45 Merrill, Kim (Asch, Neugroschel) ...... 243 Adaptation...... 333 The Lisbon Traviata...... 45 ★ Finding Claire ...... 6 Homework ...... 304 Mayer, Oliver Love! Valour! Compassion! ...... 125 Metcalfe, Felicia I Don’t Know What I’m Doing.....304 Blade to the Heat ...... 137 Master Class ...... 100 Shooting High...... 251 Joey...... 304 Mayer, Paul Avila Next ...... 285 Meyer, Marlane July 7, 1994...... 108 The Bridal Night (O’Connor)...... 315 A Perfect Ganesh ...... 50 The Chemistry of Change...... 116 Kibbutz ...... 304 Eternal Triangle (O’Connor) ...... 315 Prelude & Liebestod...... 314 Etta Jenks ...... 164 L.A...... 308 The Frying Pan (O’Connor) ...... 315 Ravenswood ...... 137 The Mystery of Attraction...... 101 Last Tuesday...... 109 Three Hand Reel (O’Connor)...... 315 The Stendhal Syndrome ...... 314 Meyer, Michael Lola ...... 304 McAfee, Don Street Talk...... 285 Brand (Ibsen)...... 357 The Loman Family Picnic ...... 73 Great Scot!...... 278 Sweet Eros and Witness...... 314 Creditors (Strindberg) ...... 357 Louie ...... 304 McAvity, Helen Tour...... 285 The Dance of Death (Parts 1 & 2) Luna Park ...... 304 Everybody Has to be Somebody....118 Where Has Tommy Flowers (Strindberg)...... 357 Manny...... 304 Mating Dance (Howard)...... 212 Gone?...... 110 A Doll’s House (Ibsen) ...... 357 Misadventure: Monologues McClure, Michael Whiskey ...... 342 A Dream Play (Strindberg)...... 357 and Short Pieces...... 304 The Beard...... 8 The Wibbly, Wobbly Wiggly Dance Easter (Strindberg)...... 357 The Model Apartment ...... 47 General Gorgeous...... 186 that Cleopatterer Did...... 285 Emperor and Galilean (Ibsen) ...... 357 New Year’s Eve...... 304 Josephine: The Mouse Singer ...... 211 McNamara, John An Enemy of the People Nocturne ...... 304 McCormack, Thomas Present Tense and Personal Effects...309 (Ibsen)...... 357 Pitching to the Star...... 308 American Roulette...... 328 McNeely, Jerry Erik The Fourteenth (Strindberg)..357 Sight Unseen ...... 53 Endpapers...... 197 The Staring Match ...... 348 The Father (Strindberg)...... 357 Somnambulist ...... 304 McCullers, Carson McOwen, J.B. The Ghost Sonata (Strindberg) .....357 Space ...... 308 The Ballad of the Sad The Skull (Humphrey)...... 349 Ghosts (Ibsen) ...... 357 Two Days ...... 108 Café (Albee) ...... 253 McPherson, Conor Hedda Gabler (Ibsen)...... 357 What’s Wrong with This Picture? ..110 The Member of the Wedding...... 220 Dublin Carol...... 22 John Gabriel Borkman (Ibsen) ...... 357 Women in Motion ...... 308 McDonagh, Martin Four Plays by Conor McPherson...295 The Lady from the Sea (Ibsen)...... 357 Zimmer ...... 308 The Beauty Queen of Leenane ...... 34 The Good Thief ...... 295 Little Eyolf (Ibsen)...... 357 Marivaux, Pierre The Cripple of Inishmaan ...... 162 Rum and Vodka ...... 295 Lunatic and Lover ...... 99 The Triumph of Love The Lieutenant of Inishmore...... 148 St Nicholas ...... 295 The Master Builder (Ibsen) ...... 357 (Magruder)...... 134 The Lonesome West...... 46 This Lime Tree Bower ...... 295 Master Olof (Strindberg)...... 357 Marks, Peter ★ The Pillowman...... 7 The Weir ...... 83 Miss Julie (Strindberg)...... 357 The Butler Did It (Walter Marks) ...89 A Skull in Connemara...... 54 McPherson, Scott Peer Gynt (Ibsen) ...... 357 Marks, Ross McDonald, Heather Marvin’s Room ...... 171 The Pillars of Society (Ibsen)...... 357 Showdown on Rio Road An Almost Holy Picture (Ward)...... 4 McRae, John Playing with Fire (Strindberg) ...... 357 (Medoff) ...... 237 McEnroe, Robert E. Young Adventure (Savage)...... 215 The Pretenders (Ibsen) ...... 357 Marks, Walter The Silver Whistle...... 237 Meara, Anne Rosmersholm (Ibsen)...... 357 The Butler Did It (Peter Marks)...... 89 McGuinness, Frank After-Play ...... 112 Storm (Strindberg) ...... 357 Marmorstein, Malcolm A Doll’s House (Ibsen) ...... 185 Medley, Cassandra The Stronger (Strindberg) ...... 357 Will the Real Jesus Christ Please McKeaney, Grace Dearborn Heights...... 315 To Damascus (Part 1) Stand Up?...... 346 Last Looks ...... 123 3 by E.S.T. (Cahill, German) ...... 315 (Strindberg)...... 357 AUTHOR INDEXxxxiii

To Damascus (Parts 2 & 3) The Miser (Chambers) ...... 201 Nelms, Henning O’Donnell, Mark (Strindberg)...... 357 The Miser (Magruder)...... 201 Only an Orphan Girl ...... 152 Fables for Friends ...... 93 The Virgin Bride (Strindberg) ...... 357 Scapin (Irwin, O’Donnell) ...... 191 Nelson, Anne The Nice and the Nasty ...... 202 When We Dead Awaken School for Husbands (Wilbur) ...... 176 The Guys...... 11 Scapin (Irwin, Molière) ...... 191 (Ibsen)...... 357 The School for Wives (Wilbur).....176 ★ Savages ...... 7 Strangers on Earth...... 80 The Wild Duck (Ibsen)...... 357 Tartuffe (Wilbur)...... 214 Nelson, Richard That’s It, Folks!...... 156 Meyers, Patrick The Trickeries of Scapin The Controversy of Valladolid O’Hara, Mary Feedlot...... 66 (Yalman)...... 193 (Carriere)...... 181 The Catch Colt ...... 278 K2 ...... 12 Molnar, Ferenc Nelson, Tim Blake O’Hara, Robert Michels, Jeanne The Spa (Chodorov)...... 177 Eye of God ...... 143 Insurrection: Holding History...... 169 The Queen of Bingo (Murphy)...... 27 Monks, Jr., John The Grey Zone...... 145 O’Keefe, Laurence Middleton, George Brother Rat (Finklehoffe) ...... 249 Nemerov, Howard Bat Boy: The Musical (Farley, Diana Does It...... 141 Moody, Michael Dorn Tall Story (Crouse, Lindsay)...... 266 Flemming) ...... 276 Miller, Arthur The Shortchanged Review...... 105 Nemeth, Sally Oldfield, Mary After the Fall...... 252 Moore, Douglas Black Cloud Morning New York...310 Please Communicate ...... 129 All My Sons...... 181 The Devil and Daniel Webster The Cat Act...... 310 Oliensis, Adam The American Clock ...... 252 (Benét) ...... 343 Lily ...... 310 Ring of Men...... 332 The Archbishop’s Ceiling...... 60 Moran, Martin Living in this World ...... 310 Olive, John Broken Glass ...... 88 The Tricky Part...... 4 Pagan Day ...... 310 Killers ...... 71 Clara...... 290 Morey, Charles Pre-Nuptial Agreement...... 310 Standing on My Knees ...... 54 The Creation of the World Laughing Stock...... 224 Sally’s Shorts ...... 310 Olson, Esther E. and Other Business ...... 162 Morgan, Diana Visions of Grandeur ...... 310 Let’s Make Up ...... 341 The Crucible ...... 255 My Cousin Rachel (du Maurier) ...127 Word Games ...... 310 A Question of Figures...... 342 Danger: Memory!...... 290 Mori, Brian Richard Neugroschel, Joachim Swing Fever ...... 230 Death of a Salesman...... 217 Dreams of Flight ...... 324 God of Vengeance (Asch, O’Neill, Eugene Elegy for a Lady...... 324 Morley, Robert Margulies) ...... 243 All God’s Chillun Got Wings...... 354 An Enemy of the People (Ibsen)....217 Edward, My Son...... 226 Newman, Molly Anna Christie...... 182, 354 The Golden Years and The Man Morris, Edmund Quilters (Damashek) ...... 273 Before Breakfast...... 354 Who Had All the Luck ...... 3 The Wooden Dish...... 195 Shooting Stars...... 154 Beyond the Horizon...... 182, 354 I Can’t Remember Anything...... 290 Mosel, Tad Nicholson, Kenyon Bound East for Cardiff...... 354 Incident at Vichy...... 259 Impromptu...... 335 The Flying Gerardos (Robinson)...217 Desire Under the Elms ...... 354 The Last Yankee (Full Length) ...... 72 That’s Where the Town’s Going...... 55 Nicholson, William Diff’rnt...... 354 The Last Yankee (One Act) ...... 325 Moss, Howard The Retreat from Moscow...... 28 The Dreamy Kid ...... 354 A Memory of Two Mondays ...... 228 The Folding Green...... 165 Nicolaeff, Ariadne The Emperor Jones...... 354 Mr. Peters’ Connections ...... 151 The Palace at 4 A.M...... 26 Five Evenings (Volodin)...... 119 Gold ...... 354 The Price...... 50 Mueller, Lavonne A Month in the Country The Great God Brown ...... 354 The Ride Down Mount Morgan...104 Breaking the Prairie Wolf Code...... 88 The Hairy Ape ...... 354 (Turgenev)...... 220 Some Kind of Love Story ...... 327 Little Victories...... 124 Hughie ...... 12, 354 The Promise (Arbuzov) ...... 27 A View from the Bridge ...... 238 Mula, Tom The Iceman Cometh ...... 354 Noone, Ronan Miller, J.P. Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol...... 43 ’Ile ...... 354 The Blowin of Baile Gall...... 57 Days of Wine and Roses...... 239 Murfitt, Mary In the Zone ...... 354 Norman, Marsha The People Next Door (Leslie)...... 152 Cowgirls (Howie) ...... 272 Lazarus Laughed...... 354 Getting Out ...... 209 Miller, Jason Murphy, Gregory Long Day’s Journey into The Holdup ...... 42 Barrymore’s Ghost ...... 4 The Countess ...... 117 Night ...... 73, 354 Circus Lady ...... 316 Murphy, Michael ’Night, Mother ...... 14 The Long Voyage Home ...... 354 It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie...... 316 Sin (A Cardinal Deposed) ...... 85 Third and Oak: The Laundromat...327 Marco Millions...... 354 Lou Gehrig Did Not Die Murphy, Phyllis Third and Oak: The Pool Hall...... 332 The Moon of the Caribbees ...... 354 of Cancer ...... 316 The Queen of Bingo (Michels)...... 27 Traveler in the Dark ...... 56 Mourning Becomes Electra ...... 354 That Championship Season ...... 81 Murray, Gerard Majella Nottage, Lynn The Rope ...... 354 Three One-Act Plays by Career Angel ...... 239 Crumbs from the Table of Joy...... 64 Strange Interlude ...... 354 Jason Miller...... 316 Career Angel (Female Version) Fabulation or, The Re-Education The Straw...... 354 Miller, Sigmund (Donatus)...... 239 of Undine...... 158 A Touch of the Poet ...... 193, 354 One Bright Day...... 236 Murray, John Intimate Apparel...... 98 Welded ...... 354 Milner, Roger Room Service (Boretz)...... 229 Las Meninas ...... 123 Where the Cross is Made ...... 354 How’s the World Treating You? ...... 97 Murray, Robert Mud, River, Stone ...... 127 Oppenheimer, George Mitchell, John Cameron High Cockalorum ...... 247 Nunn, Trevor A Mighty Man is He (Kober)...... 172 Hedwig and the Angry Inch Murray-Smith, Joanna Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would Orkow, Ben (Trask)...... 271 Honour ...... 42 Not Grow Up (Barrie, Caird).....264 The First Actress...... 217 Mitford, Nancy Myler, Randal O’Brien, Edna Orlandersmith, Dael The Little Hut (Roussin)...... 73 Hank Williams: Lost Highway Triptych...... 18 Beauty’s Daughter...... 297 Mode, Becky (Harelik)...... 276 O’Casey, Sean The Gimmick and Other Plays .....297 Fully Committed...... 5 Nabokov, Vladimir Drums Under the Windows Monster...... 297 Moffit, John C. Lolita (Albee)...... 228 (Shyre)...... 118 My Red Hand, My Black Hand....297 It Can’t Happen Here (Lewis) ...... 240 Najimy, Kathy I Knock at the Door (Shyre)...... 97 Yellowman ...... 18 Molette, Barbara Parallel Lives (Gaffney)...... 15 Purple Dust ...... 229 O’Rowe, Mark Rosalee Pritchett...... 348 Napier, Edward Red Roses for Me ...... 264 Howie the Rookie...... 12 Molette, Carlton The English Teachers...... 93 O’Connor, Edwin Orr, Mary Rosalee Pritchett...... 348 Nash, N. Richard I was Dancing...... 97 Be Your Age (Denham) ...... 196 Molière, Jean Baptiste Rouge Atomique ...... 326 O’Connor, Frank Dark Hammock (Denham)...... 184 Amphitryon (Wilbur)...... 206 See the Jaguar ...... 237 The Bridal Night (Mayer) ...... 315 Dead Giveaway (Denham) ...... 163 The Bungler (Wilbur) ...... 161 The Young and Fair...... 268 Eternal Triangle (Mayer)...... 315 Grass Widows...... 96 Don Juan (Porter)...... 256 Nass, Elyse The Frying Pan (Mayer)...... 315 Minor Murder (Denham)...... 150 Don Juan (Wilbur)...... 239 Avenue of Dream...... 323 Three Hand Reel (Mayer) ...... 315 Roommates ...... 326 The Imaginary Cuckold, or Neary, Jack Odets, Clifford Wallflower (Denham)...... 238 Sganarelle (Wilbur) ...... 168 To Forgive, Divine...... 81 The Big Knife...... 207 The Wisdom of Eve ...... 194 ★ The Imaginary Invalid Nehls, David The Country Girl...... 140 Women Must Weep and Women (Magruder)...... 13 ★ The Great American Trailer The Flowering Peach ...... 234 Must Work...... 321 The Learned Ladies (Wilbur) ...... 219 Park Musical (Kelso) ...... 18 Golden Boy ...... 251 Women Still Weep...... 344 ★ Lovers’ Quarrels (Wilbur)...... 13 Neiman, Irving Gaynor Rocket to the Moon ...... 154 Osborn, Paul The Misanthrope (Wilbur)...... 201 Murder Once Removed...... 127 Waiting for Lefty...... 350 A Bell for Adano (Hersey) ...... 254 xxxiv AUTHOR INDEX

On Borrowed Time (Watkin)...... 229 The Physician...... 292 By the Sea By the Sea By the Dear Delinquent ...... 141 Owens, Rochelle The Psychiatrist ...... 292 Beautiful Sea (McNally, Wilson)...20 Hocus Pocus...... 168 The Widow and the Colonel...... 340 The Reluctant Rogue (or Cacciatore: Three Short Plays...... 287 Porter, Stephen Palmieri, Marc Mother’s Day) ...... 153 Charlie and Vito...... 287 Don Juan (Molière)...... 256 Carl the Second...... 115 The Savage Dilemma...... 191 Charlie’s Farewell...... 303 Posner, Aaron The Departure of Brian Scandal Point...... 52 Dawn...... 20 The Chosen (Potok)...... 63 O’Callahan...... 308 The Story of Mary Surratt...... 265 Dirty Talk...... 303 Pospisil, Craig Makin’ Sense of Nothin’...... 308 Suicide—Anyone? ...... 332 Easter Night ...... 303 The American Dream Poor Fellas ...... 308 The Teahouse of the August Moon Fiat ...... 303 Revisited...... 283 Prologue ...... 308 (Sneider)...... 266 Flywheel and Anna...... 287 Class Conflict ...... 283 Rocks...... 308 The Willow and I...... 206 Frozen Dog...... 303 Double Wedding...... 283 Tough Guys...... 308 Patrick, Robert Fur Hat ...... 304 Infant Morality...... 283 Pape, Ralph Mutual Benefit Life ...... 48 His Dish...... 304 The Last December ...... 283 Beyond Your Command...... 115 My Cup Ranneth Over ...... 326 House Made of Air...... 304 Life is Short...... 283 Girls We have Known and Other Paz, Octavio Lenten Pudding...... 303 Months on End...... 189 One-Act Plays ...... 297 Eyes for Consuela (Shepard)...... 39 Lightning...... 303 A Mother’s Love ...... 283 Hearts Beating Faster...... 68 Pearson, Sybille Men Without Wives...... 303 On the Edge...... 283 Say Goodnight, Gracie ...... 79 Sally and Marsha ...... 16 Men’s Lives (Matthiessen)...... 150 Outstanding Men’s Monologues Soap Opera...... 297 Unfinished Stories ...... 56 Metropolitan Operas Volume One...... 364 Warm and Tender Love ...... 297 Peluso, Emanuel 27 Short Plays ...... 303 Outstanding Women’s Monologues Parks, Don Good Day ...... 325 Parakeet Eulogy ...... 303 Volume One...... 364 Jo (Dyer) ...... 279 Hurricane of the Eye ...... 330 Raft of the Medusa...... 222 Somewhere in Between...... 106 Parks, Suzan-Lori Little Fears...... 335 Reindeer Soup ...... 130 Whatever...... 283 The America Play ...... 59 Pen, Polly Rex ...... 303 Post, Douglas In the Blood ...... 97 Bed and Sofa (Klavan)...... 271 Rosen’s Son...... 303 Drowning Sorrows...... 66 Topdog/Underdog ...... 16 Embarrassments (Klavan) ...... 275 Rules of Love...... 303 Earth and Sky...... 164 Venus...... 215 Goblin Market (Harmon, Seymour in the Very Heart Murder in Green Meadows ...... 48 Parnell, Peter Rossetti) ...... 271 of Winter ...... 303 Potok, Chaim The Cider House Rules, Part One: Pendleton, Austin Snow Orchid ...... 79 The Chosen (Posner)...... 63 Here in St. Cloud’s (Irving)...... 250 Orson’s Shadow ...... 85 Soft Dude...... 304 Pottle, Sam The Cider House Rules, Part Two: Uncle Bob ...... 17 Swans Flying...... 303 Money (Axlerod, Whedon) ...... 272 In Other Parts of the World Pendrell, Ernest Ten-Dollar Drinks...... 303 Prebble, Lucy (Irving)...... 250 Seven Times Monday ...... 223 Two Eclairs...... 303 ★ The Sugar Syndrome...... 7 Flaubert’s Latest...... 144 Penhall, Joe Uncle Chick ...... 304 Press-Coffman, Toni An Imaginary Life ...... 122 Blue/Orange ...... 19 Uncle Zepp...... 287 Touch...... 33 QED ...... 15 ★ Dumb Show...... 4 Watchman of the Night...... 304 Price, Leland The Rise and Rise of Daniel Love and Understanding ...... 25 Pinter, Harold Parted on Her Wedding Morn ...... 342 Rocket...... 191 Pale Horse ...... 76 Betrayal...... 19 Price, Olive Scooter Thomas Makes It to Some Voices...... 80 The Black and White ...... 292, 356 Star Eternal...... 344 the Top of the World...... 327 Percy, Edward The Caretaker...... 20 Price, Reynolds Paskman, Dailey Ladies in Retirement (Denham)....123 The Collection ...... 289 August Snow...... 60 Scrooge...... 213 The Shop at Sly Corner...... 192 Complete Works Volume 1 ...... 288 Better Days...... 115 Paso, Alfonso Suspect (Denham)...... 155 Complete Works Volume 2 ...... 289 Early Dark...... 246 Blue Heaven (Denham)...... 34 Trunk Crime (Denham)...... 248 The Dumb Waiter...... 288 Full Moon ...... 165 Oh, Mama! No, Papa! (Denham)..128 Perl, Arnold The Dwarfs and Seven Revue Night Dance...... 128 Recipe for a Crime (Denham)...... 203 Bontche Schweig (Aleichem)...... 321 Sketches ...... 292, 356 Private Contentment ...... 222 Paterson, Katherine The High School (Aleichem)...... 321 Family Voices...... 307 Prichard, Rebecca The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck A Tale of Chelm (Aleichem)...... 321 The Hothouse ...... 121 Yard Gal ...... 18 (Liebman, Tolan)...... 273 Tevya and His Daughters A Kind of Alaska ...... 307 Prideaux, James Patrick, John (Aleichem)...... 214 Last to Go ...... 292, 356 Abraham Lincoln Dies Anybody Out There?...... 182 The World of Sholom Aleichem The Lover...... 331 at Versailles...... 300 A Bad Year for Tomatoes ...... 114 (Aleichem)...... 321 Moonlight ...... 126 Elephants...... 300 A Barrel Full of Pennies...... 87 Perloff, Carey Mountain Language ...... 343 The Housekeeper ...... 11 Cheating Cheaters ...... 63 ★ Luminescence Dating...... 6 The New World Order...... 292, 356 The Last of Mrs. Lincoln ...... 240 The Chiropodist...... 291 Perr, Harvey A Night Out...... 288 Laughter in the Shadow of the Trees Compulsion...... 291 Rosebloom...... 52 Night School ...... 289 and Other Plays ...... 300 Confession...... 332 Perrin, Nat No Man’s Land...... 48 Lemonade and The Autograph The Curious Savage...... 196 Celebration...... 139 Old Times ...... 26 Hound ...... 300 The Dancing Mice ...... 208 Petersen, Don One for the Road ...... 307 The Librarian ...... 300 Divorce—Anyone? ...... 291 Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?...... 243 Other Places ...... 307 Mixed Couples ...... 74 The Doctor Will See You Now...... 291 Peterson, Agnes Emelie Request Stop ...... 292, 356 The Orphans...... 102 Empathy...... 332 The Necklace is Mine...... 338 The Room...... 288 Postcards...... 326 The Enigma...... 66 Pezzulo, Ted A Slight Ache...... 288 Requiem for Us ...... 300 Everybody Loves Opal...... 93 April Fish and The Wooing of Tea Party and The Basement ...... 315 Stuffings and An American Everybody’s Girl ...... 185 Lady Sunday ...... 286 That’s All...... 292, 356 Sunset ...... 314 The Gay Deceiver...... 120 Piehler, Christopher That’s Your Trouble ...... 292, 356 Priestley, J.B. The Girls of the Garden Club...... 250 The Triangle Factory Fire Trouble in the Works ...... 292, 356 An Inspector Calls...... 122 The Gynecologist ...... 292 Project (Evans) ...... 159 Victoria Station ...... 307 Pryor, Deborah Habit...... 291 Pielmeier, John Pirandello, Luigi The Love Talker...... 335 The Hasty Heart ...... 168 A Ghost Story...... 298 ★ Henry (After Pirandello) (Kilroy).....12 Purdy, James Integrity...... 291 A Gothic Tale...... 298 Poe, Edgar Allan Malcolm (Albee)...... 262 It’s Been Wonderful...... 186 Haunted Lives ...... 298 Murder by Poe (Hatcher) ...... 158 Rabe, David Love is a Time of Day ...... 13 Impassioned Embraces ...... 341 Polatin, Daria A Question of Mercy...... 129 Loyalty...... 332 A Witch’s Brew...... 298 D.C...... 315 Raby, Peter Macbeth Did It ...... 262 Pintauro, Joe Thicker Than Water (Fox, Freni, The Government Inspector The Magenta Moth...... 149 Benjamin Falling ...... 303 Gillis, Rosenthal)...... 315 (Gogol)...... 257 Opal is a Diamond...... 202 Bird of Ill Omen ...... 303 Polsky, Abe The Three Musketeers (Dumas)....266 Opal’s Baby ...... 102 Birds in Church...... 303 Devour the Snow...... 184 Racine, Jean Opal’s Husband...... 76 Bus Stop Diner...... 304 Popplewell, Jack Andromache (Wilbur)...... 137 Opal’s Million Dollar Duck...... 49 Butterball...... 304 Breakfast in Bed ...... 161 Phaedra (Wilbur)...... 152 AUTHOR INDEX xxxv

The Suitors (Wilbur)...... 155 Ribman, Ronald Scent of the Roses...... 191 Savage, George Raffo, Heather The Burial of Esposito...... 307 Rossetti, Christina Young Adventure (McRae) ...... 215 ★ 9 Parts of Desire...... 3 The Ceremony of Innocence...... 196 Goblin Market (Pen, Harmon)...... 271 Sayers, Dorothy L. Rambo, David Passing Through from Exotic Rostand, Edmond Busman’s Honeymoon (Byrne)...... 216 God’s Man in Texas...... 23 Places ...... 307 Cyrano de Bergerac (Hooker)...... 233 Schario, Christopher ★ The Lady with All the Answers ...... 3 The Son Who Hunted Tigers in Rosten, Norman A Christmas Carol (Dickens) ...... 90 Raphaelson, Samson Jakarta ...... 307 Come Slowly, Eden ...... 116 Schary, Dore Hilda Crane...... 199 Sunstroke...... 307 Mister Johnson (Cary)...... 262 The Highest Tree...... 234 Jason...... 199 Rice, Elmer Roth, Ari Sunrise at Campobello...... 266 The Perfect Marriage...... 129 American Landscape...... 252 Prelude to a Crisis ...... 316 Scheffer, Will Skylark...... 192 Black Sheep ...... 207 3 More by E.S.T. ’98 (Ayvazian, Alien Boy...... 294 Rappoport, David Steven Cue for Passion...... 117 Benjamin) ...... 316 Easter...... 39 Cave Life ...... 161 Dream Girl...... 256 Roulston, Keith Falling Man and Other Rattigan, Terence Flight to the West...... 257 Another Season’s Promise Monologues ...... 293 The Sleeping Prince...... 223 The Grand Tour...... 166 (Chislett)...... 195 Fire Dance...... 294 The Winslow Boy...... 206 The Iron Cross ...... 219 Roussin, Andre One Man’s Meat...... 293 Raucher, Herman Love Among the Ruins...... 220 The Little Hut (Mitford)...... 73 Tennessee and Me ...... 294 Summer of ’42 (Foster, A New Life...... 263 Royal, Bert V. Schenkkan, Robert Kirshenbaum) ...... 275 Two on an Island...... 267 ★ Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Conversations with the Reale, Robert The Winner...... 215 Teenage Blockhead...... 11 Spanish Lady...... 295 ★ The Dinosaur Musical (Reale)...... 18 Richards, Stanley Rudnick, Paul The Courtship of Morning Star ....260 Reale, Willie Journey to Bahia (Gomes) ...... 260 I Hate Hamlet...... 97 Final Passages...... 144 ★ The Dinosaur Musical (Reale)...... 18 Richardson, Jack Jeffrey ...... 147 Fire in the Hole ...... 260 Many Happy Returns and Fast Gallows Humor...... 23 The Most Fabulous Story Four One-Act Plays by Robert Women ...... 303 Lorenzo ...... 235 Ever Told...... 172 Schenkkan...... 295 Short and Sweet...... 312 The Prodigal...... 236 Mr. Charles, Currently of God’s Great Supper ...... 260 Reddin, Keith Xmas in Las Vegas ...... 158 Palm Beach ...... 325 Heaven on Earth ...... 96 ★ All the Rage...... 12 Rieser, Allan The Homecoming...... 260 ★ Valhalla...... 109 Almost Blue...... 6 Boy Meets Family...... 343 Runyon, Damon Intermission...... 295 Black Snow (Bulgakov)...... 232 Rifkin, Don A Slight Case of Murder The Kentucky Cycle...... 260 Brutality of Fact...... 138 A Brief Period of Time and (Lindsay) ...... 192 Lunch Break ...... 295 Desperadoes, Throwing Smoke, Two Eggs Scrambled Soft...... 287 Ruskin, Adina L. Masters of the Trade...... 260 Keyhole Lover ...... 291 The Delusion of Angels...... 38 The Art of Remembering ...... 329 The Survivalist...... 295 Frame 312 ...... 85 Riley, Nord Russell, John C. Tall Tales...... 260 The Innocents’ Crusade...... 98 The Armored Dove ...... 182 Stupid Kids...... 54 Ties That Bind ...... 260 Life and Limb...... 124 Rimmer, David Ryan, James The War on Poverty ...... 261 Life During Wartime...... 98 Album ...... 33 Which Side are You On? ...... 260 The Young Girl and Nebraska...... 127 Rivera, Jose Schisgal, Murray the Monsoon...... 84 Redwood, John Henry Marisol ...... 171 All Over Town...... 245 Ryan, Kate Moira No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs.....101 Rivkin, Allen An American Millionaire...... 113 Cavedweller (Allison)...... 139 The Old Settler ...... 49 The Farmer’s Daughter The Artist and the Model...... 311 Ryan, Tammy Regan, Sylvia (Leslie, Kerr) ...... 226 The Artist and the Model/2 ...... 311 Pig ...... 174 Morning Star...... 221 Roberts, Meade The Basement...... 315 Ryerson, Florence Zelda ...... 195 A Palm Tree in a Rose Garden...... 152 The Chinese and Dr. Fish ...... 288 Regnard, Jean-François Robertson, Lanie Isn’t Nature Wonderful The Consequences of Goosing ...... 302 ★ The Gamester (Thomas) ...... 13 Woman Before a Glass ...... 4 (Clements) ...... 299, 359 The Cowboy, the Indian and Reich, John Robinson, Charles K. Sabath, Bernard the Fervent Feminist ...... 311 Mary Stuart (Goldstone) ...... 228 The Flying Gerardos (Nicholson) ...217 A Barbarian in Love...... 318 Ducks and Lovers...... 246 Reich, Richard Roche, Billy The Loneliest Wayfarer...... 318 Extensions ...... 311 House Without Windows ...... 121 Amphibians ...... 195 Summer Morning Visitor ...... 318 Five One-Act Plays by Reingold, Jacquelyn Belfry...... 4 The Trouble Begins at 8 ...... 318 Murray Schisgal...... 294 A.M.L...... 302 The Cavalcaders ...... 89 Twain Plus Twain ...... 318 Fragments...... 294 Safdie, Oren Creative Development...... 283 A Handful of Stars...... 4 ★ How We Reached an Impasse Dear Kenneth Blake ...... 283 Poor Beast in the Rain...... 4 The Last Word… ...... 3 on Nuclear Energy ...... 302 Dottie and Richie...... 283 The Wexford Trilogy ...... 4 Private Jokes, Public Places...... 50 Jealousy and There are No Sacher For-Everett...... 283 Rogers, Howard Emmett Sammis, Edward R. Tortes in our Society! ...... 299 Girl Gone...... 145 Yes Means No (Leary, Leary) ...... 340 Day in the Sun (Heyn)...... 233 Jimmy Shine...... 247 Jiley Nance and Lednerg...... 283 Rogers, J.T. Sams, Jeremy Little Johnny ...... 309 Joe and Stew’s Theatre of Brotherly ★ Madagascar...... 5 Enigma Variations (Schmitt) ...... 10 Luv ...... 25 Love and Financial Success...... 283 ★ White People...... 6 Sanchez-Scott, Milcha Man Dangling...... 302 Manhattan Class Company Class Roman, Lawrence Dog Lady and The Cuban Memorial Day ...... 294 One-Acts, 1992...... 302 Under the Yum Yum Tree...... 82 Swimmer...... 292 Oatmeal and Kisses ...... 26 String Fever ...... 107 Rome, Harold Evening Star ...... 118 The Old Jew...... 294 Things Between Us ...... 283 The Zulu and the Zayda Roosters...... 104 Old Wine in a New Bottle ...... 76 Tunnel of Love ...... 283 (DaSilva, Leon) ...... 279 Sands, Leslie Play Time ...... 77 2b (or Not 2b)...... 283 Rosa, Dennis Cat’s Cradle ...... 138 Popkins...... 103 2b (or Not 2b) Part 2 ...... 283 Sherlock Holmes and the Curse Something to Hide...... 131 The Pushcart Peddlers, The Rengier, John of the Sign of Four (Doyle)...... 130 Santeiro, Luis Flatulist and Other Plays...... 309 By Hex (Blankman, Gehman)...... 277 Rose, Reginald The Lady from Havana ...... 24 Road Show ...... 51 Resnik, Muriel Dear Friends...... 184 Our Lady of the Tortilla ...... 102 74 Georgia Avenue ...... 302 Any Wednesday...... 33 Rosenberg, James L. A Royal Affair...... 130 Sexaholics and Other Plays...... 311 Reuter, Anna Helen The Death and Life of Sneaky Sartin, Laddy A Simple Kind of Love Story...... 309 Life with Mother Superior Fitch...... 217 Blessed Assurance ...... 62 The Typists and The Tiger...... 319 (Trahey)...... 261 Mel Says to Give You His Best ...... 342 Catfish Moon ...... 36 Walter...... 309 Reyes, Guillermo Rosenthal, Ben Sater, Steven Windows ...... 294 Saints at the Rave ...... 298 Thicker Than Water (Fox, Freni, Carbondale Dreams...... 138 Schmidt, Erica Reza, Yasmina Gillis, Polatin) ...... 315 Saunders, James Debbie Does Dallas (Schwartz, ‘Art’ (Hampton)...... 18 Welcome Back, Buddy Combs ...... 315 Bodies...... 34 Sherman)...... 274 Life X 3 (Hampton) ...... 44 Ross, Lisette Lecat Next Time I’ll Sing to You...... 75 Schmidt, Paul The Unexpected Man (Hampton)...17 Dark Sun...... 65 A Scent of Flowers...... 175 The Bear (Chekhov)...... 311 xxxvi AUTHOR INDEX

The Dangers of Tobacco Four Dogs and a Bone and Women and Wallace...... 348 Garbage Bags...... 311 (Chekhov) ...... 311 The Wild Goose...... 294 Wonderful Time...... 84 Going Once...... 284 The Festivities (Chekhov)...... 311 Italian American Reconciliation...... 70 Sherwood, Robert E. Gone to Take a…...... 311 Ivanov (Chekhov)...... 227 Kissing Christine ...... 304 Abe Lincoln in Illinois...... 252 Hangnail...... 311 The Proposal (Chekhov)...... 311 Let Us Go Out into the Idiot’s Delight...... 259 Hard Hat Area...... 311 A Reluctant Tragic Hero Starry Night ...... 320 The Petrified Forest ...... 264 Have a Nice Day ...... 311 (Chekhov) ...... 311 A Lonely Impulse of Reunion In Vienna...... 264 The Lifeboat is Sinking ...... 284 Seven Short Farces by Anton Delight...... 320 Small War on Murray Hill...... 248 No Dogs Allowed...... 311 Chekhov (Chekhov)...... 311 Missing Marisa ...... 304 There Shall be No Night...... 245 No Skronking...... 311 Swan Song (Chekhov) ...... 311 Missing/Kissing ...... 304 Shideler, Ross No Soliciting ...... 311 The Wedding Reception Out West...... 320 The Night of the Tribades One Tennis Shoe ...... 284 (Chekhov) ...... 311 Psychopathia Sexualis ...... 77 (Enquist) ...... 75 Shel Shocked ...... 311 Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel The Red Coat...... 320 Shiffrin, A.B. Shel’s Shorts...... 311 Enigma Variations (Sams)...... 10 Sailor’s Song...... 58 Angel in the Pawnshop...... 182 Signs of Trouble...... 311 Schnee, Thelma Savage in Limbo ...... 78 Twilight Walk...... 238 Smile ...... 284 The Whole World Over Welcome to the Moon Shine, Ted Thinking Up a New Name (Simonov) ...... 194 and Other Plays ...... 320 Contribution ...... 289 for the Act...... 284 Schneider, Barbara Where’s My Money?...... 110 Contributions...... 289 Wash and Dry ...... 284 Flight Lines and Crossings...... 294 Women of Manhattan...... 84 Plantation...... 289 Simms, Willard Schrock, Gladden Shaw, Elizabeth Shoes ...... 289 The Acting Lesson...... 333 Glutt...... 330 Going to See the Elephant (Hensel, Shinn, Christopher Miss Farnsworth ...... 335 Schulman, Charlie Johns, Kent, Meredith, The Coming World...... 9 The Passing of an Actor...... 336 The Birthday Present and Toffenetti) ...... 68 Four...... 40 Then and Now...... 336 The Ground Zero Club ...... 286 Shaw, Irwin ★ On the Mountain...... 6 Two’s a Crowd ...... 328 Schulman, Sarah Bury the Dead...... 351 Other People ...... 102 Simon, Neil Robin ...... 298 The Gentle People...... 218 What Didn’t Happen ...... 135 The Star-Spangled Girl...... 29 Schulner, David The Survivors (Viertel)...... 237 Where Do We Live...... 159 Simonov, K. An Infinite Ache...... 12 Shawn, Wallace Short, Robin The Whole World Over (Schnee)..194 This Thing of Darkness (Lucas) ....108 Aunt Dan and Lemon ...... 207 Ned Crocker...... 173 Simonson, Eric Schultz, Mark The Designated Mourner ...... 21 Shue, Larry Bang the Drum Slowly (Harris) ....242 Everything will be Different...... 9 The Fever ...... 5 The Foreigner...... 119 ★ Work Song: Three Views of Frank Schwartz, Susan L. The Hotel Play...... 258 Grandma Duck is Dead ...... 341 Lloyd Wright (Hatcher) ...... 12 Debbie Does Dallas (Schmidt, The Mandrake (Machiavelli) ...... 188 My Emperor’s New Clothes...... 277 Singer, Isaac Bashevis Sherman)...... 274 Marie and Bruce...... 171 The Nerd...... 127 Meshugah (Mann)...... 74 Scott, Douglas Sheldon, Sidney Wenceslas Square...... 57 Skinner, Cornelia Otis Mountain—The Journey of Justice The Bachelor and the Shulman, Max The Pleasure of His Company Douglas...... 26 Bobby-Soxer (Leslie) ...... 253 The Tender Trap...... 156 (Taylor) ...... 129 Sedaris, Amy Roman Candle ...... 236 Shuman, Mort Sklar, George The Book of Liz (Sedaris)...... 34 Shelley, Elsa Jacques Brel is Alive and Well & And People All Around ...... 253 Sedaris, David Foxhole in the Parlor ...... 119 Living in Paris (Blau, Brel)...... 272 Brown Pelican...... 208 The Book of Liz (Sedaris)...... 34 Shelley, Mary Shurtleff, Michael Laura (Caspary)...... 148 The Santaland Diaries and Season’s Frankenstein (Gialanella)...... 209 Call Me by My Rightful Name ...... 89 Skyler, Tristine Greetings (Mantello) ...... 16 Playing with Fire (after Shyre, Paul The Moonlight Room ...... 75 Segall, Harry Frankenstein) (Field) ...... 103 Drums Under the Windows Smith, Anna Deavere Heaven Can Wait...... 247 Shepard, Sam (O’Casey)...... 118 Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Mister Angel...... 220 Buried Child...... 115 I Knock at the Door (O’Casey)...... 97 Brooklyn and Other Identities ...... 5 Seiler, Conrad Curse of the Starving Class...... 162 A Whitman Portrait ...... 57 House Arrest: A Search for American Beauty Parade...... 350 Eyes for Consuela (Paz) ...... 39 Siefert, Lynn Character In and Around the White Good Night, Caroline ...... 334 Fool for Love ...... 40 Coyote Ugly ...... 64 House, Past and Present ...... 5 Our Girls...... 202 The God of Hell...... 32 Little Egypt...... 99 Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 ...... 7 What’s Wrong with the Girls...... 344 The Late Henry Moss...... 148 Silver, Nicky Smith, Conrad Sutton Why I am a Bachelor...... 342 A Lie of the Mind ...... 148 The Altruists...... 59 Chain of Circumstances ...... 89 The Wonderful Adventures of Seduced ...... 53 Beautiful Child...... 61 A Dash of Bitters (Denham) ...... 37 Don Quixote...... 267 Simpatico ...... 105 Claire...... 293 Smith, Earl Hobson Sekacz, Ilona States of Shock ...... 80 The Eros Trilogy...... 293 Stephen Foster or Weep No More The Beggar’s Opera (Gay, Caird)...278 When the World was Green Fat Men in Skirts...... 39 My Lady...... 214 Selden, George (Chaikin)...... 8 Fit to be Tied...... 40 Smith, Evan The Children’s Story (Clavell) ...... 348 Sheppard, Julian The Food Chain...... 67 Remedial English...... 342 Seligman, Marjorie Buicks...... 35 The Maiden’s Prayer ...... 73 The Uneasy Chair ...... 83 More Solo Readings (Fogle) ...... 359 Love and Happiness ...... 99 Philip...... 293 Smith, Milburn Solo Readings for Radio and Whatever...... 158 Pterodactyls ...... 77 The Ten O’ Clock Scholar Class Work (Fogle)...... 359 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Raised in Captivity...... 78 (Banci) ...... 133 Still More Solo Readings (Fogle) ...359 The School for Scandal Roger & Miriam ...... 293 Smith, Robert Paul Seller, Thomas (Carlino) ...... 252 Silverman, Ethan The Tender Trap...... 156 Xingu (Wharton) ...... 346 Sherman, Andrew Group...... 302 Sneed, Helen Shakespeare, William Debbie Does Dallas (Schmidt, Manhattan Class Company Class Sally Blane, World’s Greatest Girl Hamlet ESP (Baker)...... 258 Schwartz) ...... 274 One-Acts, 1992...... 302 Detective (Eberhard, Levy, Shakespeare’s R&J (Calarco)...... 53 Sherman, James Silverstein, Shel Webb) ...... 276 Standup Shakespeare Jest a Second!...... 98 Abandon All Hope ...... 311 Sneider, Vern (Leslee, Welsh) ...... 272 Mr. 80%...... 101 An Adult Evening of Shel The Teahouse of the August Shanley, John Patrick Romance in D...... 51 Silverstein...... 284 Moon (Patrick)...... 266 Beggars in the House of Plenty...... 87 Sherman, Jonathan Marc All Cotton ...... 311 Snyder, William The Big Funk ...... 61 Evolution...... 93 The Best Daddy ...... 284 The Days and Nights of BeeBee Cellini...... 161 Jesus on the Oil Tank ...... 317 Blind Willie and the Talking Dog...284 Fenstermaker...... 141 Danny and the Deep Blue Sea...... 9 Serendipity and Serenity...... 317 Bus Stop ...... 284 Soderberg, Douglas ★ Defiance ...... 9 Sons and Fathers...... 317 Buy One Get One Free ...... 284 The Root of Chaos...... 339 Dirty Story ...... 38 Sophistry ...... 155 Click...... 311 Sommer, Edith Down and Out...... 320 Three Short Plays by Jonathan Do Not Feed the Animal...... 311 A Roomful of Roses...... 175 The Dreamer Examines Marc Sherman...... 317 Dreamers ...... 311 Son, Diana His Pillow ...... 22 Veins and Thumbtacks ...... 134 Duck ...... 311 Stop Kiss...... 106 AUTHOR INDEXxxxvii

Sondheim, Stephen Storm, Lesley Taylor, Samuel Trow, George W.S. Getting Away with Murder Heart of a City ...... 240 First Love...... 257 The Tennis Game...... 192 (Furth) ...... 198 Strand, Richard The Happy Time (Fontaine) ...... 210 Troy, Jonathan Sorell, Walter The Death of Zukasky ...... 65 Legend...... 240 All Because of Agatha ...... 181 Everyman Today...... 226 The Millennium Fallacy ...... 298 The Pleasure of His Company A Handful of Rainbows...... 186 Soyinka, Wole Rosa’s Eulogy ...... 298 (Skinner) ...... 129 The Haunted Honeymoon...... 210 The Trials of Brother Jero and The Way Down...... 297 Sabrina Fair ...... 229 Web of Murder...... 179 The Strong Breed...... 317 Street Man, Chic A Touch of Spring (or Avanti!) ...... 178 Trumbo, Dalton Spence, Wall Spunk (Hurston, Wolfe)...... 273 Taylor, Simon Watson The Biggest Thief in Town...... 207 Shooting High...... 251 Streeter, Edward Ubu Cuckolded (Connolly, Jarry) .....3 Trzcinski, Edmund Spencer, T.J. Father of the Bride (Francke)...... 246 Ubu Enchained (Connolly, Jarry)...... 3 Stalag 17 (Bevan)...... 265 Jonah ...... 211 Mr. Hobbs’ Vacation (Leslie)...... 235 The Ubu Plays (Connolly, Jarry) ...... 3 Tuan, Alice Spewack, Bella Strindberg, August Ubu Rex (Connolly, Jarry) ...... 3 Coco Puffs...... 298 Boy Meets Girl and Spring Song Creditors (Meyer)...... 357 Teichmann, Howard Tumarin, Boris (Samuel Spewack) ...... 249 Dance of Death (Greenberg) ...... 90 Miss Lonelyhearts (West) ...... 220 The Brothers Karamazov My Three Angels (Samuel The Dance of Death The Solid Gold Cadillac (Dostoyevsky, Sydow)...... 254 Spewack) ...... 189 (Parts 1 & 2)...... 357 (Kaufman)...... 245 Turgenev, Ivan Trousers to Match ...... 214 A Dream Play (Meyer) ...... 357 Temperley, Stephen A Month in the Country ★ Woman Bites Dog...... 267 Easter (Meyer) ...... 357 Souvenir ...... 3 (Nicolaeff)...... 220 Spewack, Samuel Erik The Fourteenth (Meyer) ...... 357 Terkel, Studs A Month in the Country, Boy Meets Girl and Spring Song The Father (Hailey)...... 143 American Dreams (Frisch)...... 86 After Turgenev (Friel)...... 212 (Bella Spewack) ...... 249 The Father (Meyer) ...... 357 Tesich, Steve Turner, David The Golden State ...... 198 The Ghost Sonata (Meyer)...... 357 The Carpenters...... 63 Semi-Detached ...... 176 My Three Angels Master Olof (Meyer) ...... 357 Thatcher, Kristine Turney, Catherine (Bella Spewack) ...... 189 Miss Julie (Meyer) ...... 357 Among Friends...... 18 My Dear Children (Horwin)...... 221 Play It by Ear (The Festival)...... 203 Playing with Fire (Meyer)...... 357 Emma’s Child ...... 197 Turney, Robert The Prince and Mr. Jones...... 247 Storm (Meyer)...... 357 Voice of Good Hope ...... 135 Daughters of Atreus...... 256 Trousers to Match ...... 214 The Stronger (Meyer)...... 357 Thie, Sharon Tuttle, Jon Two Blind Mice...... 231 To Damascus (part 1) Thoughts on the Instant of The Hammerstone ...... 96 Under the Sycamore Tree...... 205 (Meyer) ...... 357 Greeting a Friend on the Terminal Cafe...... 178 Woman Bites Dog...... 267 To Damascus (parts 2 & 3) Street (van Itallie)...... 310, 358 Uhry, Alfred Thomas, Freyda Spigelgass, Leonard (Meyer) ...... 357 ★ Driving Miss Daisy...... 22 The Wrong Way Light Bulb...... 215 The Virgin Bride (Meyer)...... 357 The Gamester (Regnard)...... 13 The Last Night of Ballyhoo...... 123 St. Germain, Mark Sullivan, Sir Arthur Thompson, Ernest Ustinov, Peter The Gifts of the Magi (Courts) .....273 Hollywood Pinafore or The Lad Answers ...... 285 The Love of Four Colonels...... 149 Johnny Pye (Courts)...... 276 Who Loves a Salary (Kaufman)..278 The Constituent...... 285 Photo Finish...... 202 A Good Time ...... 285 Out of Gas on Lovers Leap ...... 15 Sutton, Joe Romanoff and Juliet ...... 222 On Golden Pond...... 101 Stavis, Barrie Voir Dire ...... 109 Valcq, James Twinkle, Twinkle...... 285 The Man Who Never Died...... 262 Sutton, Michael Zombies from the Beyond...... 274 The West Side Waltz ...... 83 Stein, Gertrude Over My Dead Body (Fingleton) ..152 Valency, Maurice Thompson, Paul Brewsie and Willie (Blake, Svanoe, Bill Conversation with a Sphinx ...... 343 The Children’s Crusade ...... 246 Violett)...... 347 Punch and Judy...... 27 Feathertop ...... 349 Thorne, Joan Vail Stein, Mark Swados, Elizabeth The Madwoman of Chaillot The Exact Center of the Universe ...66 At Long Last Leo...... 87 Nightclub Cantata...... 274 Thornton, Jane (Giraudoux) ...... 262 Direct from Death Row The Sweet, Jeffrey Shakers (Godber)...... 53 Regarding Electra ...... 236 Scottsboro Boys (White) ...... 275 The Action Against Sol Thurschwell, Harry T. The Thracian Horses...... 266 The Groves of Academe and Schumann...... 159 A Young Man’s Fancy (Golden).....252 Valenti, Michael The Plumber’s Apprentice...... 298 Responsible Parties ...... 130 Todd, Matthew Quack (Marowitz)...... 275 Stein, Sol Routed...... 339 ★ Blowing Whistles...... 4 Vampilov, Aleksandr A Shadow of My Enemy ...... 213 Stops Along the Way ...... 344 Toffenetti, Laura Duck Hunting (Law)...... 197 Steinbeck, John Ties...... 156 Going to See the Elephant (Hensel, van Druten, John Burning Bright ...... 36 The Value of Names...... 31 Johns, Kent, Meredith, Shaw, Bell, Book and Candle ...... 61 The Grapes of Wrath (Galati)...... 257 With and Without...... 57 Toffenetti) ...... 68 The Druid Circle...... 197 The Moon is Down...... 263 Swet, Peter Tolan, Kathleen I am a Camera (Isherwood)...... 121 Of Mice and Men ...... 173 The Interview...... 325 Approximating Mother...... 113 I Remember Mama (Forbes) ...... 259 Stephens, Harry Sydow, Jack Tolan, Peter I Remember Mama (High Tracers (Caristi, Chaves, DiFusco, The Brothers Karamazov Stay Carl Stay, Best Half Foot School Version) ...... 259 Emerson, Gallavan, Lettich, (Dostoyevsky, Tumarin)...... 254 Forward and Pillow Talk ...... 314 I’ve Got Sixpence...... 122 Marston) ...... 157 Szymkowicz, Adam Tolan, Stephanie The Mermaids Singing...... 228 ★ Stephenson, Shelagh Deflowering Waldo ...... 9 The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck The Voice of the Turtle...... 31 Ancient Lights ...... 86 Tabori, George (Liebman, Paterson) ...... 273 van Itallie, Jean-Claude An Experiment with an Flight into Egypt ...... 243 Tolins, Jonathan Almost Like Being...... 320, 358 Air Pump ...... 119 Taikeff, Stanley The Last Sunday in June ...... 148 America Hurrah ...... 284 Five Kinds of Silence ...... 94 Ah, Eurydice!...... 328 Topor, Tom Bag Lady ...... 323 The Memory of Water...... 100 Tally, Ted Answers ...... 328 The Cherry Orchard (Chekhov)....225 Steppling, John Hooters...... 43 Tovatt, Patrick Early Warnings...... 293 The Dream Coast...... 142 Little Footsteps ...... 45 Bartok as Dog...... 333 Eat Cake...... 310, 358 Stetson, Jeff Silver Linings...... 332 Trahey, Jane A Fable ...... 143 The Meeting...... 331 Terra Nova...... 133 Life with Mother Superior Final Orders ...... 293 Stevenson, Robert Louis Tasca, Jules (Reuter)...... 261 The Girl and the Soldier ...... 310, 358 Treasure Island (Watson) ...... 267 Tadpole...... 132 Trask, Stephen Harold...... 310, 358 Stewart, Michael Taylor, Douglas Hedwig and the Angry Inch The Hunter and the Bird ...... 320, 358 Those That Play the Clowns ...... 266 The Agreement...... 323 (Mitchell) ...... 271 I’m Really Here ...... 320, 358 Stitt, Milan Five in Judgment ...... 345 Tremblay, Michael Interview ...... 284 Back in the Race...... 19 The Sudden and Accidental Bonjour, La, Bonjour ...... 138 The King of the United States...... 122 The Runner Stumbles ...... 175 Re-Education of Forever Yours, Marie-Lou ...... 40 Master and Margarita or, The Devil Stoker, Bram Horse Johnson ...... 107 Les Belles Soeurs...... 235 Comes to Moscow (Bulgakov) ...220 Dracula (Dietz)...... 185 Taylor, Regina Treon, Phil Motel...... 284 Dracula (Johnson) ...... 118 Crowns...... 273 Crunch Time (Medoff) ...... 250 Mystery Play...... 151 xxxviii AUTHOR INDEX

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A Lovely Sunday for Howard...... 310, 358 Brotherhood ...... 334 Before It Hits Home...... 182 Creve Coeur...... 46 Rosary ...... 310, 358 Happy Ending and Jar the Floor ...... 71 The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here The Sea Gull (Chekhov)...... 222 A Day of Absence...... 298 West, Nathanael Anymore ...... 172 The Serpent...... 241 The Reckoning...... 130 Miss Lonelyhearts (Teichmann).....220 Moony’s Kid Don’t Cry...... 285, 355 Seven Short and Very Ward, Pamela Wharton, Edith The Mutilated ...... 350 Short Plays ...... 310, 358 An Almost Holy Picture Ethan Frome (Davis, Davis) ...... 198 The Night of the Iguana...... 228 Sunset Freeway ...... 293 (McDonald) ...... 4 Xingu (Seller) ...... 346 The Notebook of Trigorin Take a Deep Breath...... 310, 358 Warren, Robert Penn Whedon, Tom (Chekhov) ...... 221 Thoughts on the Instant of All the King’s Men...... 246 Money (Axlerod, Pottle) ...... 272 Orpheus Descending...... 251 Greeting a Friend on the Wasserstein, Wendy Wheeler, Hugh Out Cry...... 14 Street (Thie)...... 310, 358 An American Daughter ...... 224 Big Fish, Little Fish ...... 115 A Perfect Analysis Given Three Sisters (Chekhov) ...... 231 Bette and Me...... 310 Look: We’ve Come Through ...... 99 by a Parrot...... 331 The Tibetan Book of the Dead (or Boy Meets Girl ...... 310 We Have Always Lived in the Period of Adjustment...... 174 “How Not to Do it Again”) ...... 133 The Heidi Chronicles...... 146 Castle (Jackson)...... 135 Portrait of a Madonna...... 318, 355 TV...... 284 Isn’t It Romantic...... 147 Whelan, Peter The Purification ...... 318, 355 Uncle Vanya (Chekhov)...... 179 Man in a Case ...... 310 The Herbal Bed...... 146 The Red Devil Battery Sign...... 264 War and Four Other Plays...... 320 Medea (Durang)...... 305, 310 White, John The Rose Tattoo...... 265 Where is de Queen? ...... 320, 358 Seven One-Act Plays by Wendy Bugs and Veronica...... 287 Small Craft Warnings ...... 177 Vari, John Wasserstein...... 310 White, Jr., Harley Something Cloudy, Something Farewell, Farewell, Eugene The Sisters Rosensweig...... 154 Direct from Death Row The Clear ...... 155 (Ackland) ...... 165 Tender Offer...... 310 Scottsboro Boys (Stein) ...... 275 Something Unspoken...... 318, 355 Varon, Charlie Uncommon Women White, Natalie E. The Strangest Kind of The People’s Violin...... 7 and Others ...... 179 The Billion Dollar Saint...... 238 Romance...... 318, 355 Rush Limbaugh in Night School...... 7 Waiting for Philip Glass ...... 310 Seven Nuns at Las Vegas...... 223 A Streetcar Named Desire ...... 214 Vaughan, Robert Lewis Workout ...... 310 Seven Nuns South of the Border ...230 Suddenly Last Summer...... 132 Praying for Rain ...... 129 Watkin, L.E. Wilbur, Richard Summer and Smoke ...... 230 The Rest of the Night ...... 58 On Borrowed Time (Osborn)...... 229 Amphitryon (Molière)...... 195, 206 Sweet Bird of Youth...... 266 Vidal, Gore Watson, Ara Andromache (Racine)...... 137 Talk to Me Like the Rain and The Best Man...... 254 Bite the Hand, Mooncastle...... 286 The Bungler (Molière)...... 161 Let Me Listen...... 318, 355 Romulus (Dürrenmatt) ...... 265 Chocolate Cake (Gallagher) ...... 321 Don Juan (Molière)...... 239 Ten Blocks on the Camino Visit to a Small Planet ...... 194 A Different Moon ...... 38 The Imaginary Cuckold, or Real...... 285, 355 Weekend...... 231 Final Placement (Gallagher) ...... 321 Sganarelle (Molière) ...... 168 This Property is Viertel, Peter Little Miss Fresno (Gallagher) ...... 321 The Learned Ladies (Molière) ...... 219 Condemned ...... 318, 355 The Survivors (Shaw) ...... 237 Treasure Island (Stevenson)...... 267 ★ Lovers’ Quarrels (Molière)...... 13 27 Wagons Full of Cotton Violett, Ellen Win/Lose/Draw (Gallagher)...... 321 The Misanthrope (Molière)...... 201 and Other Plays ...... 318, 355 Brewsie and Willie (Blake, Stein)...347 Wax, Emanuel (Jimmy) The Two-Character Play...... 17 Phaedra (Racine) ...... 152 Vogel, Paula 90° in the Shade and Dust in Vieux Carré ...... 249 School for Husbands (Molière) .....176 ★ And Baby Makes Seven ...... 4 Your Eyes (Labiche, Martin)...... 306 Williamson, David The School for Wives (Molière) ....176 The Baltimore Waltz ...... 19 Webb, Peter Money and Friends...... 172 The Suitors (Racine)...... 155 Desdemona, A Play About a Sally Blane, World’s Greatest Girl Willinger, David Tartuffe (Molière)...... 214 Handkerchief ...... 21 Detective (Eberhard, Levy, Andrea’s Got Two Boyfriends ...... 333 Wilk, Max Hot ’n’ Throbbing...... 43 Sneed) ...... 276 Willis, Jane Cloud Seven ...... 243 How I Learned to Drive...... 69 Splendora (Hoffman, Campbell)...275 Men without Dates and Slam!...... 303 The Long Christmas Ride Home ....99 Weidman, Jerome Mr. Williams and Miss Wood ...... 13 Wilson, David Henry The Mineola Twins ...... 126 Asterisk!...... 19 Williams, Emlyn All the World’s a Stage...... 350 The Oldest Profession ...... 58 Ivory Tower (Yaffe) ...... 211 The Corn is Green ...... 233 Wilson, Lanford Vogelstein, Cherie Weill, Gus Someone Waiting ...... 177 Abstinence...... 337 All About Al ...... 295 To Bury a Cousin ...... 193 Williams, Samm-Art Angels Fall ...... 86 Four from E.S.T. Marathon ’99 Wiener, David Home ...... 23 Balm in Gilead and (Ayvazian, Kim, Linney) ...... 295 ★ Blood Orange...... 10 Williams, Tennessee Other Plays ...... 253 Volodin, Aleksandr Weisman, Annie American Blues ...... 285, 355 A Betrothal...... 323 Five Evenings (Nicolaeff) ...... 119 Be Aggressive ...... 60 Auto-Da-Fé ...... 318, 355 Book of Days...... 207 von Arnim, Elizabeth Hold Please...... 42 Battle of Angels ...... 253 Brontosaurus ...... 329 Enchanted April (Barber) ...... 142 Weiss, Matthew Camino Real ...... 255 Burn This ...... 35 Wackler, Rebecca Hesh...... 96 The Case of the Crushed By the Sea By the Sea By the Tent Meeting (Lee)...... 30 Weitz, Paul Petunias...... 285, 355 Beautiful Sea (McNally, Wade, Kevin ★ Privilege...... 8 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...... 243 Pintauro)...... 20 Key Exchange ...... 24 Roulette...... 104 Clothes for a Summer Hotel ...... 239 Days Ahead ...... 296 Mr. & Mrs...... 47 Weller, Michael The Dark Room...... 285, 355 The Family Continues...... 297 Wade, Laura Dogbrain ...... 65 Dragon Country...... 292 Fifth of July ...... 144 ★ Breathing Corpses ...... 4 Tira Tells Everything There is to The Eccentricities of a Four Short Plays by Lanford ★ Colder Than Here...... 6 Know About Herself and Nightingale ...... 185 Wilson...... 296 Wadud, Ali The Bodybuilders...... 317 The Frosted Glass Coffin ...... 292 Ghosts (Ibsen) ...... 68 Companions of the Fire...... 323 Welsh, Kenneth The Glass Menagerie ...... 41 The Gingham Dog...... 41 Walden, William Standup Shakespeare (Leslee, The Gnadiges Fraulein ...... 341 The Great Nebula in Orion...... 297 Treasures on Earth...... 82 Shakespeare)...... 272 Hello from Bertha ...... 318, 355 The Hot L Baltimore...... 244 Walker, Mildred Welty, Eudora I Can’t Imagine Tomorrow ...... 292 Ikke, Ikke, Nye, Nye, Nye...... 297 The Southwest Corner (Holm) .....131 Eudora Welty’s The Hitch Hikers I Rise in Flame, Cried the Lemon Sky ...... 124 Wallach, Ira (Ketron) ...... 142 Phoenix ...... 330 Ludlow Fair and Home Free!...... 302 The Absence of a Cello...... 112 Werfel, Franz In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel ...... 69 The Madness of Lady Bright...... 296 Wanshel, Jeff Jacobowsky and the Colonel Kingdom of Earth ...... 24 The Moonshot Tape and Auto-Destruct and (Behrman)...... 259 The Lady of Larkspur A Poster of the Cosmos...... 305 The Rhesus Umbrella...... 286 Wertenbaker, Timberlake Lotion ...... 318, 355 The Mound Builders...... 126 The Disintegration of James The Grace of Mary Traverse ...... 145 The Last of My Solid Gold Rain Dance...... 51 Cherry...... 209 Wesley, Richard Watches...... 318, 355 Redwood Curtain...... 28 Isadora Duncan Sleeps with The Mighty Gents...... 150 The Long Goodbye...... 318, 355 The Rimers of Eldritch...... 245 the Russian Navy ...... 219 The Past is the Past and Gettin’ The Long Stay Cut Short or The The Sand Castle and Three Times and Appetites of Toulouse- It Together...... 307 Unsatisfactory Supper ...... 285, 355 Other Plays ...... 310 Lautrec (Feingold)...... 277 The Sirens ...... 106 Lord Byron’s Love Letter ...... 318, 355 Say De Kooning ...... 296 AUTHOR INDEX xxxix

A Sense of Place or Virgil is Still Witten, Matthew Wright, Doug Yerby, Lorees the Frogboy...... 79 The Deal ...... 37 Baby Talk...... 320 Save Me a Place at Forest Lawn.....326 Serenading Louie...... 53 Washington Square Moves ...... 135 I am My Own Wife...... 6 Yordan, Philip Sextet (YES) ...... 310 Wolfe, George C. Lot 13: The Bone Violin ...... 320 Anna Lucasta...... 224 Stoop...... 310 Spunk (Hurston, Street Man)...... 273 Quills...... 153 Young, Stanley Sympathetic Magic...... 156 Wolfson, Victor The Stonewater Rapture...... 327 Mr. Pickwick ...... 263 Talley & Son ...... 214 Unwrap Your Candy...... 320 Excursion...... 256 Zark, Jenna Talley’s Folly ...... 16 Unwrap Your Candy: An Evening Wollner, Donald A Body of Water...... 224 This is the Rill Speaking...... 296 Kid Purple ...... 98 of One-Act Plays ...... 320 Three Sisters (Chekhov) ...... 231 Watbanaland...... 109 Zavin, Benjamin Wong, Elizabeth The Family Man (Leo) ...... 226 Thymus Vulgaris ...... 333 Bad-Ass of the Rip Eternal ...... 298 Wildwood Park ...... 320 Victory on Mrs. Dandywine’s Wright, William H. Zindel, Paul Wood, Maxine Island ...... 297 The Man in the Dog Suit Amulets Against the Dragon On Whitman Avenue...... 236 Wandering...... 310 (Beich, Corle)...... 188 Forces...... 206 Woodard, Charlayne Wilson, Mary Louise Yaffe, James In Real Life...... 6 And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little ...113 Full Gallop (Hampton) ...... 5 Cliffhanger ...... 64 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Wilson, Tracey Scott Neat...... 6 The Deadly Game (Dürrenmatt) ...141 Pretty Fire...... 7 Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds...... 66 The Story ...... 177 Ivory Tower (Weidman) ...... 211 Every Seventeen Minutes the Wiltse, David Wooten, Jamie Yale, Kathleen Betsko ★ Crowd Goes Crazy! ...... 226 A Dance Lesson...... 90 Dearly Beloved (Hope, Jones)...... 13 Johnny Bull ...... 71 A Grand Romance...... 145 Wooten, John J. Yalman, Tunc Ladies at the Alamo...... 72 Winters, Marian Trophies...... 82 The Liar (Goldoni)...... 227 Let Me Hear You Whisper and A is for All...... 283 Wright, Craig The Trickeries of Scapin The Ladies Should be in Bed .....301 All Saints’ Day...... 283 Orange Flower Water ...... 50 (Molière) ...... 193 The Pigman (Leslie) ...... 174 Animal Keepers ...... 283 The Pavilion ...... 26 Yep, Laurence The Secret Affairs of Mildred Assembly Line ...... 283 Recent Tragic Events...... 103 Dragonwings ...... 118 Wild...... 176

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1 CHARACTER trayal that captures the mortal dread under Henry’s obnoxious certainty. Len’s progression from passivity to indignation is also neatly accom- THE LADY WITH ALL THE ANSWERS. COMEDY/DRAMA. David Rambo. plished…Highly recommended.” —LA Times. “With his clever and refresh- “…a warmhearted play…highly entertaining, frequently moving…” —Chicago ingly literate dialogue, Safdie has created something remarkable, keeping the Tribune. “…folksy, funny, straightforward and validating…a smile-inducing, stakes high and urgent throughout the exchange between his intricately com- tear duct-activating reunion with a woman who might have been a stranger plex characters…This haunting take of rejection and the fear of failure cross- but seemed like family…engaging from beginning to end.” —LA Times. es generational lines, leaving in its wake a poignant bittersweetness that cel- “David Rambo’s new one-woman play…[about] the witty, bubbly, frank, and ebrates the ephemeral, often discouraging world of the artist in slightly eccentric writer…provides a compelling portrait of her.” —BackStage contemporary society.” —BackStage West. “The interview quickly becomes West. “LADY is surprisingly crisp and loaded with detail. The first act is an emotionally charged and comedic debate between two unlikely compan- breezy, funny and gossipy…The second act is darker and more touching.” ions, which successfully pulls at the heartstrings while keeping the audience —North County Times. THE STORY: “Dear Ann Landers”…For decades, entertained.” —Palisadian Post. “Safdie’s rapid-fire banter turns a play about renowned advice columnist Ann Landers answered countless letters from a job interview into a touching, often hilarious journey of two very different lovelorn teens, confused couples and a multitude of others in need of generations coming together and teaching each other…The audience expe- advice. No topic was off-limits, including nude housekeeping, sex in a riences a barrage of emotions throughout.” —Malibu Times. THE STORY: motorcycle helmet, the proper way to hang toilet paper, sibling rivalries, Henry Grunwald is a Viennese Jew who fled the Nazis and became a suc- addiction, religion and wandering spouses. Landers regaled her readers with cessful New York advertising executive. Now retired and nearly blind, Henry direct, insightful and often humorously honest responses. Late on a 1975 is determined to fulfill his lifelong dream of being a playwright. When young night in Landers’ Chicago apartment, an ironic twist of events confronts her Len Artz, also an aspiring playwright, applies for a position as Henry’s assis- with a looming deadline for a column dealing with a new kind of heart- tant, their job interview quickly expands into a fierce and acrimonious intel- break: her own. As she shares her struggles to complete the column with us, lectual debate, with Henry as the avid advocate of Eurocentrism and Len as we learn as much about ourselves as we do about the wise, funny, no-non- the impassioned defender of experimentalism. This smart two-hander is a sense woman whose daily dialogue with America helped shape the social thought-provoking comedy about loyalty, dreams and the fear of failure. 2 and sexual landscapes of the last half-century. 1 woman. INTERIOR. FEE: men. INTERIOR. FEE: $75 per performance. $75 per performance. ISBN: 0-8222-2123-3 $7.50 ISBN: 0-8222-2163-2 $7.50 A PICASSO. DRAMA. Jeffrey Hatcher. “Artful, remarkable and genuinely 9 PARTS OF DESIRE. DRAMA. Heather Raffo. Winner of a 2005 Susan dramatic, with impressive sensitivity and wit.” —NY Daily News. “Sex, art, Smith Blackburn Prize Special Commendation and Lucille Lortel Award for Nazis, and a classy twentieth-century icon, all wrapped up like a tasty cul- Best Solo Show. “…a triumph…thrilling…an example of how art can tural burrito. Expertly done.” —Star-Ledger. “A polished production with remake the world…In this remarkable one-woman show, [Heather Raffo’s] carefully sprung surprises.” —NY Times. THE STORY: Paris, 1941. Pablo writing…is marked with wit and by a scrupulous attention to the details of Picasso has been summoned from his favorite café by German occupation character.” —The New Yorker. “It brings us closer to the inner life of Iraq forces to the storage vault of a building across the city for an interrogation. than a thousand slick-surfaced TV reports. Yet [Raffo’s] beautifully shaped His questioner: Miss Fischer, a beautiful “cultural attaché” from Berlin. Her one-woman play is a play, not a stodgily earnest piece of documentary the- assignment: discover which of the three Picasso paintings recently “confis- ater, and therein lies its singular force and compulsion: It is persuasive pre- cated” by the Nazis from their Jewish owners are real. The ministry of prop- cisely because it is beautiful.” —Wall Street Journal. “…powerful, impas- aganda has planned an exhibit, and only the great artist himself can attest sioned, vivid, memorable…The voices are a study in contrasts: vivid and to their authenticity. At first Picasso agrees to her request, confirming that subdued, sophisticated and naïve, seductive and standoffish. But they the three pictures—all drawings—are indeed his own. But when Miss Fis- cohere to form a powerful collective portrait of suffering and endurance.” cher reveals that the “exhibition” is actually a burning of “degenerate art,” —NY Times. “The female half of Iraq has come to America.” —Gloria Picasso becomes desperate to save his work and engages in a pressurized Steinem. THE STORY: A portrait of the extraordinary (and ordinary) lives negotiation with the equally determined and wily Miss Fischer to hold on of a whole cross-section of Iraqi women: a sexy painter, a radical commu- to two of his precious “children” while consigning the third to the flames. nist, doctors, exiles, wives and lovers. This work delves into the many con- A cat-and-mouse drama about art, politics, sex and truth, with a twist at its flicting aspects of what it means to be a woman in the age-old war zone that climax. 1 man, 1 woman. INTERIOR. FEE: $75 per performance. is Iraq. An unusually timely meditation on the ancient, the modern and the ISBN: 0-8222-2101-2 $7.50 feminine in a country overshadowed by war. 9 PARTS OF DESIRE can be performed as a one-woman show or with a cast of three to nine women. 1 PYRETOWN. DRAMA. John Belluso. “…Belluso’s play works.” —Chicago woman (or 3 to 9 women). UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. Tribune. “Far too many playwrights these days either jump on a popular ISBN: 0-8222-2097-0 $7.50 political bandwagon or simply contemplate their slacker navels; Belluso has real fire.” —Chicago Sun-Times. “John Belluso’s blistering PYRE- TOWN…crackles with heat. I don’t say it lightly: This play is worth braving 2 CHARACTERS the cold to see.” —NY Sun. “PYRETOWN has none of the flashy emotion- al pyrotechnics that animate many comparable stories; Harry and Louise’s KLONSKY AND SCHWARTZ. DRAMA. Romulus Linney. “This deft two- romance expands and contracts naturally, like the beating of a heart…Bellu- person drama nicely captures what it’s like for a writer to be inspired and so gives his characters an inchoate touch of poetry, which they must guard intimidated at the same time…KLONSKY is not another story about the against the icy bureaucracy of American health care.” —Time Out. THE decline of a famous poet so much as an uplifting one about the evolution of STORY: Louise is a divorced mother of three, getting by on welfare checks an unknown writer.” —NY Times. “A literate, sophisticated couple…por- and child support in a depressed, industrial New England town. Harry is a trays vividly the agonies and joys of the relationship…Delmore Schwartz’s handsome, clever young man, a wheelchair user since a childhood accident. words lie refulgent in their lucid mystery.” —Village Voice. “His text, while Their paths cross in an emergency room as Louise seeks out care for her gliding with polished professionalism, has a subtle but glowing heart…the daughter’s mysterious sickness. Yearning for connection beyond his online play successfully puts poetry centerstage.” —BackStage. “Linney has suc- friends and his pile of Russian novels, Harry reaches out to help Louise nav- ceeded remarkably in interweaving Schwartz’s moving poetry with his own igate her daughter’s care. More compatriots than lovers, they find solace with lines…” —nytheatrescene.com. “A roller-coaster ride…the experience was each other for a brief and intense interlude before their paths diverge. A frank thrilling.” —Star-Ledger. “Crackles with zest and wit…filled with surprises and melancholy portrait of life on the fringes of American society. 1 man, 1 and calling for virtuoso acting.” —Syracuse NY Post Standard. “KLONSKY woman. INTERIORS/EXTERIORS. FEE: $75 per performance. AND SCHWARTZ is stunning theatre.” —Syracuse City Eagle. THE ISBN: 0-8222-2094-6 $7.50 STORY: The turbulent relationship between struggling writer Milton Klonsky and his mentor, the brilliant poet Delmore Schwartz, is the basis of SOUVENIR. PLAY WITH MUSIC. Stephen Temperley. “A beguiling comic jewel this engrossing drama. Warm scenes of their deep friendship alternate with with a heart.” —Variety. “Devastating and devastatingly funny.” —Village vaudevillian routines and bold theatrics, ultimately painting a harrowing Voice. “Life holds up a funhouse mirror to art in SOUVENIR, Stephen portrait of Schwartz’s unnerving descent into madness. 2 men. UNIT SET. Temperley’s wildly funny and surprisingly touching portrait of real-life FEE: $75 per performance. musical laughingstock Florence Foster Jenkins…a memorable illustration of ISBN: 0-8222-2147-0 $7.50 the real limits of self-perception, and of the purely theatrical magic that can turn the tinniest ear to gold.” —Time Out. “Tone-deaf but utterly pitch- THE LAST WORD… SERIO-COMEDY. Oren Safdie. “…a sad and gentle perfect. What is extraordinary about SOUVENIR is that Temperley has comedy that revolves around a clash of opposing ideas and explores the col- made Jenkins, for all her foolishness, a remarkably sympathetic woman. 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whose work she massacres. Kaye makes her devotion to Art incredibly moving. is one to make of a family in which the boundaries between illusion and To have made Jenkins a tender, poignant human being is breathtaking…A reality, power and subjection, friendship and love, female and male, are so kind of loony triumph.” —NY Daily News. “If you’re lucky enough to see porous…and in which family members freely materialize and dematerialize. SOUVENIR: A FANTASIA ON THE LIFE OF FLORENCE FOSTER It is a celebration of narrative, of the power of the theatre to make fantasy JENKINS at the Berkshire Theatre Festival before it heads to Broadway, you’ll real. It commemorates the childhood one never had, the friends wished for have one distinct advantage over Jenkins’ audiences. You won’t have to try to but never gained, the desires never acknowledged.” —David Savran, Intro- keep your body from shaking or stuff your handkerchief into your mouth to duction to The Baltimore Waltz and Other Plays. THE STORY: Anna, Ruth hide your laughter. And laugh you will. Till you cry. SOUVENIR is downright and Peter await the arrival of their newborn child, but first they must rid hilarious…Temperley has brought to this his own sense of mirth as well as a the crowded apartment of their three imaginary children. 1 man, 2 women sensibility that doesn’t settle for mere mirth. Thus SOUVENIR raises ques- (doubling). INTERIOR. FEE: $75 per performance. tions about how we see ourselves and how others see us, how we make music ISBN: 0-8222-2107-1 $7.50 and how we make judgments about people making music…So go laugh to your heart’s content. There weren’t many voices as bad as Jenkins’. There aren’t BLOWING WHISTLES. COMEDY/DRAMA. Matthew Todd. “The first half of many theatrical experiences as good as SOUVENIR.” —Boston Globe. “…an BLOWING WHISTLES is sharp and funny, bristling with snappy one-lin- unexpectedly gentle and affecting comedy.” —NY Times. THE STORY: ers and insightful digs at contemporary gay culture…a funny, sexy and ulti- For more than half a century the name Florence Foster Jenkins has been mately thought-provoking experience.” —rainbownetwork.com (London). guaranteed to produce explosions of derisive laughter. Not unreasonably so, “I was blown away. This is possibly the most moving and engrossing gay play as this wealthy society eccentric suffered under the delusion that she was a since Beautiful Things.” —Boyz (London). “Full marks…a refreshingly great coloratura soprano when she was in fact incapable of producing two comic take on being gay and romantic.” —Daily Telegraph (London). consecutive notes in tune. Nevertheless, her annual recitals in the ballroom “Razor sharp…it cries out for a West End transfer.” —QX (London). THE of the Ritz Carlton hotel, where she resided, brought her extraordinary STORY: Nigel loves his hedonistic lifestyle—he has a long-term boyfriend, fame. As news of her terrible singing spread, so did her celebrity. Her goes clubbing and has lots of sex in their open relationship. Jamie, his part- growing mob of fans packed her recitals, stuffing handkerchiefs in their ner of ten years, isn’t sure things are so great…The night before Pride in the mouths to stifle their laughter—which Mrs. Jenkins blissfully mistook for Park, the couple make contact with a stranger on the Internet, a mysterious cheers. The climax of her career was a single concert at Carnegie Hall in young man who seems too good to be true. They make plans for a night of 1944. Famously, it sold out in two hours. SOUVENIR, by turn hilarious casual sex, but their young guest has a very different agenda…BLOWING and poignant, tells her story through the eyes of her accompanist, Cosme WHISTLES is a searingly topical drama about love, sex and Gay Pride, a McMoon. A talented musician, he regards her at first as little more than funny and blistering account of a modern gay lifestyle. 3 men. UNIT SET. an easy way to pay the rent, but, as he gets to know her, his initial con- FEE: $75 per performance. tempt gives way to reluctant admiration, then friendship and affection. ISBN: 0-8222-2122-5 $7.50 Eyewitness accounts of their concerts vary so wildly it is almost impossi- ble now to separate fact from gossip. Hence this fictional “biography,” in BREATHING CORPSES. DRAMA. Laura Wade. “BREATHING which we follow the story of their partnership from its earliest days to CORPSES has a clever circular structure in which a succession of people dis- their concert in Carnegie Hall and its aftermath. With each new imagined cover a body before becoming corpses themselves.” —Time Out (London). triumph Florence’s confidence soars. Faced with her boundless certainty, “Events flow backwards in time—before a slight forward hop—in an intrigu- Cosme comes to revise his attitude, not only towards her singing but to ing fashion, allowing puzzlers in the audience to gather further pieces of the the very meaning of music itself. As the play ends the audience enters her jigsaw, as well as additional characters, at each stop…[Wade is] an arresting world completely, finding there the beauty she’d heard in her head all writing talent.” —Evening Standard (London). THE STORY: Amy’s found along. A musical odd-couple for the ages. 1 man, 1 woman. UNIT SET. another body in a hotel bedroom. There’s a funny smell coming from one of FEE: $75 per performance. Jim’s storage units. And Kate’s losing it after spending all day with the police. ISBN: 0-8222-2157-8 $7.50 There’s no going back after what they’ve seen. 1 man, 2 women. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. THE WINNING STREAK. COMEDY. Lee Blessing. “Blessing has forged a ISBN: 0-8222-2120-9 $7.50 conflict peppered with flinty dialogue…written with economy and preci- sion.” —Variety. THE STORY: Omar, a retired baseball umpire, suddenly DUMB SHOW. BLACK COMEDY. Joe Penhall. “There are moments in Joe gets a phone call from Ry, a son he’s never seen. Ry is the product of a one- Penhall’s superb new play that had me squirming in my seat with a mixture night stand long ago. He’s never wanted to meet his absentee father, but now of embarrassment, pain and guilty recognition. DUMB SHOW offers a in his mid-thirties, after making a life for himself in a distant city, he seems to mesmerising, utterly persuasive account of a classic tabloid sting…a furious, feel it’s time. Omar’s not so sure. In a series of funny, heartbreaking scenes, the black-comic satire on the bankrupt values of our tabloid culture.” —Daily two men negotiate every inch of a very rocky road in trying to come togeth- Telegraph (London). “…a funny, furious tirade against the unlovely practise er. Is there any common ground? Can Omar ever master the skills to become of entrapment journalism and the agent provocateur journalists who do its a father, or Ry to become his son? Will baseball help? The local major-league dirty work.” —Guardian (London). “Joe Penhall’s drama is brilliantly writ- team has a winning streak going. Meanwhile, these two men are just trying to ten and shaped and unpeels with a flourish…Joe Penhall, who is a very win one in a row. A bittersweet comedy about the need for family in us all. 2 funny writer, makes us think hard about what constitutes a good joke, what men. INTERIORS/EXTERIORS. FEE: $75 per performance. makes a good story.” —Observer (London). THE STORY: Courted at the ISBN: 0-8222-2104-7 $7.50 end of his show by bankers John and Jane, TV star Barry believes he is to get the five-star treatment that he deserves. However, urged to provide a candid account of his offstage life and views, the Barry that emerges is the 3 CHARACTERS least of the surprises in the tense game of power and manipulation that ensues. 2 men, 1 woman. INTERIOR. FEE: $75 per performance. AND BABY MAKES SEVEN. COMEDY. Paula Vogel. “AND BABY MAKES ISBN: 0-8222-2141-1 $7.50 SEVEN is a profound and clever comedy.” —Drama-Logue. “What’s remark- able about BABY—a really lovely play—is the sense of innocence and opti- HENRY FLAMETHROWA. DRAMA. John Belluso. “A thought-provoking mism that rises from potentially dark subject matter.” —Philadelphia City and neatly constructed play. Ambitious.” —NY Times. “Playwright John Bel- Paper. “AND BABY MAKES SEVEN is a hilariously inventive play. Play- luso turns heady ideas about faith, fact and fantasy into a potent thriller…a wright Vogel’s writing is witty and precise.” —Daily Californian. “Don’t you powerfully dramatic story told by three fascinating characters.” —Boston Her- sometimes want to howl like a dog, giggle till you drop, pout, pitch a fit…eat ald. “The work of a talented young writer, one unafraid to deal with funda- like a pig, get-your-own-way-no-matter-what, fly off with the balloons? You mental truths and need…written with force and drive…” —Providence can go to Esalen and take a Transactional Analysis weekend to learn about Journal. THE STORY: Loosely based on a true story, HENRY your Child Within, or you can see AND BABY MAKES SEVEN. The sec- FLAMETHROWA tells the story of sixteen-year-old Henry, a confused and ond way comes with brownies at intermission.” —Providence Phoenix. emotionally isolated young man who writes letters to the devil, unbeknownst “Filled with outrageous touches, AND BABY MAKES SEVEN offers one to his deeply religious father, Steven. Henry’s younger sister, Lilja, lies silent of those rare theatergoing opportunities where everything comes together in a coma from a mysterious childhood accident in the family swimming in a string of magical moments. Be prepared to be enchanted seven times pool. For a number of years, Lilja has been visited by miracles. The sick have over.” —Austin American Statesman. “What makes AND BABY MAKES begun flocking to this silent child’s bedside, praying to be healed, and hun- SEVEN fascinating is its brilliant unsettling of our notions, not of sexual dreds claim that their prayers have been answered because of Lilja. When a boundaries, but of the real. It is theatre that cleverly theatricalises the reporter from NPR, Beth, comes into the house to do a story about Lilja and everyday in a way that is both startling and funny.” —Age (Australia). her miracles, Henry opens up to her and confesses that he plans to discon- “[BABY is] most original and important for its redefinition of family. What nect Lilja’s breathing ventilator and allow her to die. Beth must then decide 3 CHARACTERS NEW FULL LENGTH PLAYS 5 whether she should expose Henry’s plan. Along the way Beth must confront cockian revenge plot up its sleeve.” —Variety. “Schemes, double crosses, liter- her own assumptions about faith, spirituality and the intrinsic value of ary ambitions and cool, calculating manipulation: MANUSCRIPT is like human life. 2 men, 1 woman. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. Deathtrap for the prep school set…enough plot twists to keep the audience ISBN: 0-8222-2093-8 $7.50 guessing and engrossed.” —NY Newsday. “A wonderfully entertaining come- dy filled with crisp, witty dialogue…never misses a beat…the characters JUMPING FOR JOY. DARK COMEDY. Jon Marans. “Unforgettable…Capti- exchange one zinger after another while plotting their deception.” —A.P. “Hip, vating and beautiful, JUMPING FOR JOY is something wondrous…Marans witty and wholly unpredictable.” —Time Out. “About fairness, truth, and the demonstrates a masterful ability to balance humor and horror on a knife- evils of plagiarism…has much to say about the absurd things people will do to edge.” —Orange County Register. “There’s good reason for the anticipatory make it in the cutthroat world of publishing…delivers true, Hitchcock–style, stir greeting Jon Marans’ JUMPING FOR JOY…a delicately zany, yet edge-of-your-seat suspense…a theme-park thrill ride that goes through a maze poignant slice of a thoroughly dysfunctional family’s life…The writing is of twists and bracing turns…many will exit the theater feeling exhilarated.” excellent…with numerous flashes of brilliance.” —CurtainUp. THE —Villager. THE STORY: In the bedroom of a Brooklyn Heights brownstone, STORY: In this dark comedy, wily, manipulative Emily Mavin has sum- three ambitious college freshmen confront the discovery of an unpublished moned her uptight Manhattanite brother, Michael, to their family home in manuscript that can guarantee success. It’s winter break; the parents are out of Maryland, using the excuse that their father, Samuel, has suffered a mild town; and David is the host of this gathering. His best friend, Chris, is com- heart attack. Emily is a bright, functioning schizophrenic and is certain her ing over with his new girlfriend from college, Elizabeth. Elizabeth is a famous father’s death is imminent and expects Michael to take his father’s place, author and David an aspiring one. They’ve come to party before a fancy holi- feeding and caring for her. She insists Michael begin immediately, without day ball. But when Chris makes a run to get their drugs for the evening it ever returning to his wife and daughter in Manhattan. Meanwhile, the big becomes clear that David and Elizabeth have a secret history. To make matters question, what will become of Emily after Samuel dies, also troubles worse, Chris returns with shocking news and a stack of pages that will change Michael. Michael, unable to emotionally handle Emily and unwilling to their lives forever. It appears that their supplier, a famous and famously reclu- inflict her wild mood swings on his New York family, plots to place her in sive author, has died of a drug overdose. After discovering the body, Chris man- a group home for schizophrenics while Samuel hopes to have Emily move aged to salvage the only copy of his final work from the scene. As the bright up to New York and live with Michael and his family. As each one maneu- young things scrap over what to do with the manuscript, their plotting is by vers to make their individual plan succeed, something entirely different turns hilarious and startlingly cruel. They spin out of control on their manip- occurs. We begin to see the complex relationship that exists between the ulative quest for fame and, ultimately, revenge. Little is what it seems, and no caregivers and those receiving care and observe the fine line that separates one can be trusted as plot twists pile up, and the play hurtles towards a surprise normalcy from insanity in each member of this family. Interestingly, as the ending. 2 men, 1 woman. INTERIOR. FEE: $75 per performance. conniving, jockeying and wicked game-playing continue late into the night, ISBN: 0-8222-2105-5 $7.50 Samuel and Michael start to see the beauty and strength of Emily and finally begin to look at her in a new light. 2 men, 1 woman. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 PEN. COMEDY/DRAMA. David Marshall Grant. “The one liners shoot forth per performance. nonstop, some funny, others leaving a bloody track on their target.” —NY ISBN: 0-8222-2089-X $7.50 Times. “Grant has a snappy way with intimate conversations and writes char- acters we believe.” —NY Newsday. “Grant is an honest and serious-minded LOVELY DAY. DRAMA. Leslie Ayvazian. “It’s about time a playwright writer. His play is a lucid, sharply etched map.” —Village Voice. THE explored how the war in Iraq affects family members who have opposing STORY: PEN is about a Long Island family at a pivotal moment in their political viewpoints…Ayvazian has the guts to write about the divisive war lives. Confined to a wheelchair, Helen and her son, Matt, are locked in a rela- in Iraq, even though she doesn’t go into any specifics about it. Besides show- tionship where love, guilt, recriminations and the ever-present desire to make ing how a global conflict affects a family seemingly far removed from it, she things right all share centerstage. When it’s time to apply to college, Helen also points out how differently men and women feel about war and parent- tries to hold tightly to her son by influencing his enrollment in a nearby col- hood.” —Broadway.com. “There are moments when Ayvazian’s spousal dia- lege, while her ex-husband Jerry tries to get the boy into USC, thinking that logues breathe close to the edge of the great plays that have been written Matt needs to get some distance from his mother. In addition, Jerry is about about human beings driven by war and political dissension.” —Village to marry his new girlfriend and has yet to figure out how to tell them. Voice. “LOVELY DAY ends on a tantalizing but satisfying note of ambigu- Caught in the middle of all this is Matt. What happens next is at once unex- ity, the ideal conclusion for this thoughtful, emotional play.” —BackStage. pected and inevitable. The relationship between mother and son takes a mys- THE STORY: As Fran and Martin celebrate their wedding anniversary, terious turn, allowing the three of them to consider options that were up to they learn of a military recruiter’s visit to their only son’s high school. Faced now impossible. Will Matt make it to college? Will Jerry get remarried or will with the prospect of his enlistment, they find themselves on opposite sides Helen and he get back together? PEN is a sly, perceptive play about the deep of one of the most profound questions any mother or father can face. 2 bonds that hold a family together and the harsh truths that tear them apart. men, 1 woman. INTERIOR. FEE: $75 per performance. 2 men, 1 woman. INTERIOR. FEE: $75 per performance. ISBN: 0-8222-2151-9 $7.50 ISBN: 0-8222-2170-5 $7.50

MADAGASCAR. DRAMA. J.T. Rogers. “MADAGASCAR lures you into its THE RADIANT ABYSS. DRAMA. Angus MacLachlan. “…paints an unnerv- tale of reflection, recrimination and regret with captivating power…won- ingly acute portrait of a privileged nation…what Maclachlan puts his finger drous, elegiac, unforgettable drama.” —Miami Herald. “J.T. Rogers is a major neatly upon with this funny-until-it-gets-scary play is the trouble that can arise new American talent and MADAGASCAR is a play to cheer.” —Miami New when competing value systems clash in a culture that insists on the equality of Times. “Rogers’ circular storytelling style, full of poetry, poignancy, wit and everyone’s beliefs.” —Washington City Paper. “…ABYSS’ fast-paced, dark hard-won wisdom, never fails to fascinate.” —Salt Lake Tribune. “MADA- humor has many laughs and some pointed insights…MacLachlan has a keen GASCAR is a subtle, beautifully written, sad, and disturbing play.” —Edward sense of how people’s morals and motivations can be skewed, of how peer pres- Albee. “I haven’t been so impressed by a new play since the early works of sure can erode one’s values and also of how average people can be manipulat- Wallace Shawn and Tennessee Williams.” —André Gregory. “With gor- ed to dehumanize their neighbors…” —CurtainUp. THE STORY: Fuel the geously wrought, resonant prose, J.T. Rogers has fashioned a singular and feral, dynamic, native smarts of forty-year-old Erin Skidmore, a sexy survivor haunting detective story.” —Doug Wright. THE STORY: MADAGASCAR of an abusive marriage, with the arrival of the shadowy but self-righteous reli- is the haunting story of a mysterious disappearance that changes three lives gious men of The Garden of Paradise Cultural Oasis, recently ensconced in the forever. At three different periods in time, three Americans find themselves same strip mall, next door to her property management office, and Erin’s nat- alone, in the same hotel room overlooking the Spanish Steps in Rome: June, urally high octane engine revs into Mach 5. She seduces her former employee a young woman who works as a tour guide of the city’s ancient ruins; Lilian, and current sex-puppy, twenty-three-year-old nighttime security guard Steve her wealthy and elegant jet-setting mother; and Nathan, a rumpled univer- Enloe (never just “Steve”) into roping his current girlfriend, Erin, a seemingly sity economist and the best friend of Lilian’s famous deceased husband. They innocent, will-o-the-wisp Kinko’s girl, into a scheme to investigate and possi- each tell their individual story of how and why they are here. Their relation- bly vandalize the “so-called church,” an organization that may or may not ship to each other, what this room means to them, and why they have been believe in violence to promote their ends. Nothing is as it seems, and the called to it slowly reveal themselves. Their stories spill out, weave back and unfathomable mysteries of God, religion, bigotry, suspicion, love and sexual forth—each contradicting, clarifying, deepening what the others say— rapture constellate all three strivers into doing and not doing what they believe becoming strands of one gripping and disquieting tale. 1 man, 2 women is right. Into truth-telling and lying to get what they want. Into revealing and (doubling). INTERIOR. FEE: $75 per performance. hiding their true fears and feelings. Until a pregnancy, a longstanding betrayal ISBN: 0-8222-2124-1 $7.50 and a cataclysmic act of real terrorism overtake them and change everything for everyone, leaving in the wake no clear path to follow. 1 man, 2 women. UNIT MANUSCRIPT. DARK COMEDY/THRILLER. Paul Grellong. “A twisty dark SET. FEE: $75 per performance. comedy about ambition and ruthlessness, with a fancifully elaborate Hitch- ISBN: 0-8222-2118-7 $7.50 6 NEW FULL LENGTH PLAYS 3–4 CHARACTERS

WHITE PEOPLE. DARK COMEDY. J.T. Rogers. “In brutally honest confessions researches burial spots and biodegradable coffins, her family is forced to com- that eat through protective layers like acid from a battery…the piece never municate with her, and each other, as they face up to an unpredictable future. strikes a false note…Rare plays like this one help lift the veil.” —LA Times. 1 man, 3 women. INTERIOR/EXTERIOR. FEE: $75 per performance. “WHITE PEOPLE is remarkable. The play seems less written than merely ISBN: 0-8222-2121-7 $7.50 transcribed; there’s not one false turn of phrase in it.” —Philadelphia Inquirer. “This play by J.T. Rogers is a sobering, unsettling but deeply rewarding look FINDING CLAIRE. COMEDY/DRAMA. Kim Merrill. “…lovely, sensitive at a combustible issue many of us prefer to sidestep…WHITE PEOPLE is and engrossing…remarkable…takes theatergoers along for the roller-coaster not easy to sit through. It raises questions as it challenges our assumptions ride that a woman might go through in meeting her biological mother for about race.” —Salt Lake Tribune. THE STORY: Now—right now—what the first time. With plays like this and films like Mike Leigh’s Secrets and does it mean to be a white American? What does it mean for any American Lies…adoption certainly looks like a superior option for the child involved. to live in a country that is not the one you were promised? WHITE PEOPLE For the mother, it’s another story.” —NY Times. “…engaging new is a controversial and darkly funny play about the lives of three ordinary play…moody, wrenching and often touching look into the emotional lives Americans placed under the spotlight: Martin, a Brooklyn–born high pow- of four women…filled with moments that all families will recognize, and ered attorney for a white-shoe law firm in St. Louis, MO; Mara Lynn, a lessons we all need to learn.” —nytheatre.com. THE STORY: After the housewife and former homecoming queen in Fayetteville, NC; and Alan, a sudden death of her adoptive mother, a rich New York City dancer embarks young professor struggling to find his way in New York City. Through heart- on a search for her birth mother’s home. She longs for a family connection wrenching confessions, they wrestle with guilt, prejudice, and the price they but ends up with a family crisis. In an impoverished farmhouse in rural and their children must pay for their actions. WHITE PEOPLE is a candid, upstate New York, her fifteen-year-old half-sister is pregnant—and wants to brutally honest meditation on race and language in our culture. 2 men, 1 give up her baby. Her mother—a stubborn, introverted woman who carves woman. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. rough rock sculptures as a way to express her frustrations—wants her to ISBN: 0-8222-2125-X $7.50 keep it. Her grandmother wants to be boss. Armed with good intentions and a desire to help her new family, the dancer arrives at their door. When she’s met with a volatile mixture of envy, regret and resentment, her assump- 4 CHARACTERS tions about identity, biological ties and what it “means” to be a mother are turned upside down. 4 women. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. ALMOST BLUE. NOIR DRAMA. Keith Reddin. “…a tough ninety-minute ISBN: 0-8222-2155-1 $7.50 play that succeeds in a difficult genre: stage noir…There are mysteries to unravel, and the threat of violence bubbles on the surface, but as with all LUMINESCENCE DATING. THRILLER. Carey Perloff. “The play succeeds good noir, the characters carry the suspense…What results is a taut drama at conveying the delights of intellectual collaboration. It rattles with sly wit that builds in tension, sexual and otherwise, and has enough surprises in the and with the great narrative drama that can be dug from the past. As in Tom last five minutes to make a seasoned noir fan gasp…” —NY Times. “Red- Stoppard’s cerebral mysteries, there’s a satisfying click each time a piece of din, a literate playwright with an uncanny feel for styles and genres, is not these puzzles fall into place.” —NY Times. “Lives up to its billing as a content providing cheap thrills…Consequently, along with the dirty deeds, romantic comedy about history, art and the timelessness of love and loss.” there are some searing moments in which the story takes on a fierce, savage —CurtainUp. THE STORY: LUMINESCENCE DATING is a thriller dimension beyond pulp fiction.” —Chicago Tribune. THE STORY: about a lost statue, a lost son, an ancient mystery and a love affair between ALMOST BLUE is a stage noir set in a seedy rooming house. A man just two desperately mismatched people. Angela Hart has spent the better part out of prison trying to stay straight, a strange loner down the hall who of her career searching for a voluptuous naked Aphrodite sculpted by Prax- writes pornographic greeting cards, a violent ex-con who wants to settle old itiles in the fourth century B.C. and lost to history. Her colleague and friend scores. And of course, the beautiful woman in trouble, who messes with Victor Reid, a gay black anthropologist specializing in Queer Theory, steals everybody’s head. Written in a series of brutal, funny encounters, ALMOST a broken glazed arm from an excavation led by her professional nemesis, BLUE is a journey into the dark night, full of plot twists and sultry British archaeologist Nigel Edwards, and Angela begins to study it. As the exchanges. 2 men, 2 women. INTERIOR. FEE: $75 per performance. ancient clay arm yields its secrets, these three highly competitive, emotion- ISBN: 0-8222-2165-9 $7.50 ally charged academics begin to unravel the mystery of the missing statue, unleashing a whole set of desires that are orchestrated and stimulated by the ALMOST, MAINE. ROMANTIC COMEDY. John Cariani. “…a whimsical Goddess of Love herself, an aging and world-weary Aphrodite disguised as approach to the joys and perils of romance. Magical happenings bloom the museum’s cleaning lady. Ultimately the statue is never found, but the beneath the snowdrifts.” —NY Times. “A charmer…Unexpected magic lingers heat generated by the search yields its own delicious rewards. 2 men, 2 in the air like someone’s breath on a cold winter’s night. John Cariani aims for women. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. the heart by way of the funny bone.” —Star-Ledger. “Utterly endearing…It’s ISBN: 0-8222-2114-4 $7.50 hard not to warm up to ALMOST, MAINE. A crowd-pleaser!” —Broad- way.com. “Sweet, poignant and witty.” —NY Daily News. “A snowy charmer. A NERVOUS SMILE. DRAMA. John Belluso. “Provocative…meaty topics These nine tales of love in the time of frostbite have a winning glow that proves of immediate political and social currency…honest funny and compassion- surprisingly contagious.” —NY Sun. THE STORY: Playwright John Cariani ate.” —NY Times. “Belluso’s dialogue is most compelling…because of his employs elements of magical realism as he explores the mysteries of the human perspective, his empathy and obvious skill, Belluso’s is a name to remem- heart in this delightful new comedy. On a Friday night in the middle of win- ber.” —San Diego Union-Tribune. “Belluso understands that it’s not neces- ter, residents of a small, mythical town in far northern Maine are falling in and sary to grapple directly with the headlines to comment on our greed-driven out of love at an alarming rate. Knees are getting bruised; hearts are getting society.” —Village Voice. “Belluso’s play at Actors Theatre of Louisville broken…but the bruises heal and hearts mend—almost—in what has been brings a fresh, honest perspective and a surprising amount of humor to the described as a “charming midwinter night’s dream.” ALMOST, MAINE will emotionally difficult subject.” —Louisville Courier-Journal. THE STORY: leave you spent from laughter and thoroughly warmed from the inside out. 2 A wealthy New York couple, strained to the breaking point by caring for men, 2 women (doubling). UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. SPE- their severely disabled daughter, Emily, weigh their own happiness against CIAL NOTE: A CD (#8186CD) of the original music composed for this that of their child—with shocking consequences. Emily’s lyrical poetry, the play by Julian Fleisher is available through the Play Service for $35.00, bitter volleys of the couple’s disintegrating marriage, and the appraisals of plus shipping. The nonprofessional fee for the use of this music is $20.00 the outside world frame the narrative of this insightful play. Commissioned per performance. by the Actors Theatre of Louisville, and premiered at the Humana Festival ISBN: 0-8222-2156-X $7.50 of New American Plays, A NERVOUS SMILE is a brutal portrait of love, lust and despair set against Belluso’s fiery brand of social satire. 1 man, 3 COLDER THAN HERE. DRAMA. Laura Wade. “Laura Wade’s play is set in the women. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. limbo between a death sentence and the death itself. How does knowledge of ISBN: 0-8222-2095-4 $7.50 one’s imminent demise, or that of a loved one, affect the living of one’s life.” —Guardian (London). “The play is an astute and humorous portrayal of a ON THE MOUNTAIN. DRAMA. Christopher Shinn. “Christopher Shinn’s family pulling together in the face of impending grief. It takes a timely look at well-plotted new drama has surprising nuance and sudden surges of emo- society’s changing attitude towards the process of dying and the ceremonies tion. The play offers several outstanding monologues, some tender, some associated with death.” —This Is London. “Laura Wade’s play is a ninety- searing, and one unforgettable.” —The New Yorker. “Christopher Shinn, minute masterpiece, a jewel, dark but translucent. It is a play of love, death, an up-and-coming playwright of exceptional talent, trains his focus squarely and grief: the grief that is hardest to bear, because it begins before the loved one on the unexceptional in ON THE MOUNTAIN, a gentle wisp of a dies.” —Sunday Times (London). THE STORY: Nobody can ignore the fact play…Mr. Shinn sees and hears people as they are, and his greatest strength that Myra is dying, but in the meantime life goes on. There are boilers to be is his ability to reproduce onstage the clumsy poetry of natural human inter- fixed, cats to be fed and the perfect funeral to be planned. As a mother action. That skill is rarer than you might think.” —NY Times. “An unex- 4–5 CHARACTERS NEW FULL LENGTH PLAYS 7 pectedly compelling tale about those living the aftermath of a fictional leg- THE SUGAR SYNDROME. BLACK COMEDY. Lucy Prebble. “If there’s a end’s decade-old suicide.” —NY Newsday. “Christopher Shinn is a writer funnier, sadder, wiser play looking at paedophilia and prejudice this year, who likes to notate encounters precisely…ON THE MOUNTAIN is so even this decade, I’d be amazed.” —Daily Telegraph (London). “This year skillfully written.” —Village Voice. THE STORY: A former rock-and-roll has been a good year for new plays, but THE SUGAR SYNDROME is the wild child, haunted by the suicide of a Seattle rock legend, struggles with first that strikes me as a must-see.” —Financial Times (London). THE the rebellion of her own iPod-obsessed teenage daughter. When rumors of STORY: THE SUGAR SYNDROME is a blackly comic and bravely the rock star’s final, lost song bring a charming young man with question- provocative play that explores the relationship between a troubled teenage able motives into the picture, an intriguing mystery begins to unfold. 2 girl and a child abuser she meets over the Internet. Despite the dark subject men, 2 women. INTERIOR/EXTERIOR. FEE: $75 per performance. matter, this is a wonderfully funny play that takes a fresh look at damaged ISBN: 0-8222-2110-1 $7.50 people and how they find refuge in each other. The protagonist, Dani, a sev- enteen-year-old girl, sparkles and thrusts her way through the play with a THE PILLOWMAN. BLACK COMEDY. Martin McDonagh. “Energizing…a rage-fuelled energy. Her mother, Jan, tries to come to terms with empty- blindingly bright black comedy…[what makes] the unsettling and exhila- nest syndrome and an absent husband, whilst Lewis, a lovesick boy in his rating new play from Mr. McDonagh…so gripping as theater is how narra- twenties, tries to woo Dani despite his inexperience. As Dani’s relationship tive art becomes the play’s and the character’s very life blood.” —NY Times. with the much older Tim becomes more intense, he asks her to help him “[McDonagh is] a dangerously prodigious master of theatrical form with a with those things most precious and most dangerous to him in the world. talent that goes far deeper than most people understand…THE PILLOW- 2 men, 2 women. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. MAN [is] thoroughly startling and genuinely intimidating.” —Chicago Tri- ISBN: 0-8222-2108-X $7.50 bune. “McDonagh’s least forgiving, bravest play.” —Variety. “A complex tale about life and art, about fact and illusion, about politics, society, cruel- ty and creativity.” —Financial Times. THE STORY: With echoes of Stop- 5 CHARACTERS pard, Kafka, and the Brothers Grimm, THE PILLOWMAN centers on a writer in an unnamed totalitarian state who is being interrogated about the BEAUTY OF THE FATHER. DRAMA. Nilo Cruz. “[Cruz] is a writer of ideas, gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a series of child who fills the stage with a kind of lush dramatic literature, unifying character murders. The result is an urgent work of theatrical bravura and an unflinch- with thought and action in time and space.” —The New Yorker. “In spite of ing examination of the very nature and purpose of art. 4 men, 5 bit parts (2 the contemporary flavor of Mr. Cruz’s plot, his stagecraft is delightfully old- men, 1 woman, 1 boy, 1 girl). UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. fashioned. His characters are forever waxing poetic, reeling off elaborate solil- ISBN: 0-8222-2100-4 $7.50 oquies at the drop of a paint brush…” —Wall Street Journal. THE STORY: This play by Pulitzer Prize–winner Nilo Cruz is set in Andalusia, Spain, THE PULL OF NEGATIVE GRAVITY. DRAMA. Jonathan Lichtenstein. where the restless ghost of the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca still wan- “…gut-wrenching scenes.” —Time Out. “Jonathan Lichtenstein’s ninety- ders through the streets and converses with the living. BEAUTY OF THE minute drama is simple in its conception yet elemental in its themes…it FATHER is about a young American girl who travels to this part of the packs a wallop.” —NY Post. “Jonathan Lichtenstein beautifully portrays world to meet her estranged father and becomes romantically involved with how the war destroyed one rural Welsh family.” —NY Times. “A carefully his Moroccan companion. This passionate triangle explores the conflict crafted, powerfully emotive drama…the play’s anger sears itself into one’s between love and sacrifice. 3 men, 2 women. INTERIOR/EXTERIOR. mind.” —Sunday Herald (Scotland). “…[a] harrowing, heartbreaking play.” FEE: $75 per performance. —Guardian (London). “…brings the subject of war close to home and han- ISBN: 0-8222-2171-3 $7.50 dles it with a terrifying intensity.” —The Scotsman (Edinburgh). THE CAROL MULRONEY. STORY: Wounded in the war in Iraq, a farmer’s boy turned soldier returns DRAMA. Stephen Belber. “Clever, ingenious, home with injuries that have extraordinary consequences for his fiancée and thoughtful.” —Boston Globe. “The play floats magically…” —Boston his family. 2 men, 2 women. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. Phoenix. “A remarkable achievement…warm, funny and hopeful…Belber ISBN: 0-8222-2131-4 $7.50 has a keen eye and ear for the comedy of human existence.” —Patriot Ledger and Providence Journal. THE STORY: Carol Mulroney stands on SAVAGES. her roof, watching the sparkling lights of the city below. Her rooftop is her HISTORICAL DRAMA. Anne Nelson. “Anne Nelson’s historical hideaway, her haven, her solace from the chaotic world below. But the roof drama has a lacerating beauty. Set in Manila in 1902, during the raging is being overrun by the inevitable messiness of life and the people in it. Over Philippine–American War, it manages to compress a continuous cycle of the fragmented course of a day, Carol will stay on her roof and seek to make conquest and retribution into one night of charged encounters between a connections with those to whom she is closest—her husband, her best naïve young soldier, whose job it is to guard an ailing military officer on trial, friend, her father and someone new. In each encounter she will try to make and the Filipina nurse who is there to ease the accused man’s suffering before sense of who she is in relation to these insane, loving, unintentionally hurt- his trial resumes again in the morning. Major Waller is like a figure out of ful people. She will look for value in the chaos and meaning in the hope, Conrad—bloodshot and ravaged, accused of enigmatic crimes, half-mad refusing to give in to falseness or a second-rate way of living. And in the end with memory. Nelson, a former war correspondent, brings eloquence to this she will find connection on her own defiant terms. 3 men, 2 women. UNIT wartime drama.” —the New Yorker. “Playwright Anne Nelson knows how SET. FEE: $75 per performance. to put her finger on the pulse of the times…The events bear a more than ISBN: 0-8222-2138-1 $7.50 uncanny resemblance to America’s involvement in Vietnam and the current war in Iraq. The script is riveting…The authenticity in terms of the atmos- DISCONNECT. DRAMA. Rob Ackerman. “Scathingly well-observed dialogue, phere and the history of the Philippines is no doubt a product of Nelson’s damning (and redeeming) character twists, clinical distance, and hysterical pas- experience as an international reporter in Manila.” —BackStage. “SAVAGES sion…DISCONNECT aptly lauds values other than success…fascinating and is a must-see…It tells our story, and our history.” —Filipino Express. THE engaging…” —Time Out. “Funny and ambitious…impressive…exhilarating. STORY: Based on a true story, SAVAGES takes place in 1902, a few years DISCONNECT is that rare show that takes its message—that humanity is not after the United States invaded the Philippines to free them from Spanish getting better at communicating, even while inventing new ways to do so— colonial rule. But American troops now find themselves fighting a long, costly seriously, but does not take itself seriously. There are not many other shows war against the people they originally came to liberate. Major Littleton around that can make you laugh and think at the same time.” —nytheatre.com. Waller, an aristocratic Marine with a distinguished record, has been charged “A thoughtful consideration of a man’s midlife crisis that goes beyond mere with killing prisoners of war—in an act he calls fully justified. Stricken by personal issues to illuminate America’s ugly corporate mindset. Lively…intelli- disease, anguish and a profound sense of betrayal, Waller is allowed special gent…realistic and first-rate.” —Star-Ledger. THE STORY: When marketing quarters to recuperate over the night before he receives his verdict. There he consultant Steven Gold invites near strangers to dinner, his wife, Patty, helps is guarded by John Hanley, a young corporal who is eager to penetrate the put their home in order. But she can’t do the same for her husband. Just back mysteries of counter-insurgency ethics and strategy. Hanley is assisted by from a business trip to Chicago, Steve is rattled by encounters with his child- Maridol Amaya, a young Filipina nurse who must balance her personal loy- hood friend Artie and his overbearing client Peter Hamish. When the alluring alties against her commitment to the healing arts. Army General Adna Chaffee, Jane and her reticent spouse, Fred, arrive, the safe shell protecting hosts and who set the court-martial in motion, is simultaneously at war with the insur- guests starts to crumble. Goaded by the women they love and haunted by gents, Washington armchair generals and American public opinion. Nelson memories they can no longer suppress, two men confront the lies of their lives. treats all of her characters with sympathy and touches of humor. The play’s Hilarious and harrowing, DISCONNECT explores marriage, friendship and fusion of meticulously researched U.S. military history with Asian mysticism passion in the age of telecommunications. With so many flashy new ways to yields a spellbinding vision of war and its casualties. 3 men, 1 woman. communicate, why are we still so bad at it? 3 men, 2 women. UNIT SET. INTERIOR. FEE: $75 per performance. FEE: $75 per performance. ISBN: 0-8222-2176-4 $7.50 ISBN: 0-8222-2115-2 $7.50 8 NEW FULL LENGTH PLAYS 5 CHARACTERS

FAUSTUS. DRAMA. David Mamet. THE STORY: Faustus has it all—fame, against all things complacent, pampered and clean. As her smell starts to success, a loving family, but a careless wager with a beguiling magician threat- overwhelm her co-workers and many casual lovers—a series of bad poets— ens everything. In Mamet’s retelling of the Faustus story, a famed philosopher the play raises the questions: Is dirty living a political act? And is clean living in the prime of life claims to have reduced the secret of life to a mathematical even possible in these times of unrest? An unlikely story of love and dirty peo- equation. With the arrival of a mysterious magician, he agrees to wager the ple. 3 men, 2 women (doubling). UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. life of his family on the accuracy and authenticity of his discovery. This time- ISBN: 0-8222-2172-1 $7.50 less retelling of a classic legend explores one man’s discovery of life’s most important and fragile treasures. In scope and theatrical sensibility, FAUSTUS MOMBO. DRAMA. Alan Gelb. THE STORY: The mother-child relationship, represents a big departure for Mamet, melding resplendent language and which, for so many people, is the paradigm for all relationships to come, is pro- metaphysics in an eerie and moving retelling of the tragedy of Doctor Faustus. foundly felt, highly complicated and genuinely multi-faceted. MOMBO 4 men, 1 woman. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. explores this unique relationship through nine short plays, each of which ISBN: 0-8222-2129-2 $7.50 examines the contours of this dyad. The plays plumb the reality of this rela- tionship but also leap off into wholly unexpected imaginings of the lengths to MISS WITHERSPOON. COMEDY. Christopher Durang. “The author of which mothers and children will travel to make each other crazy. Two soccer many zippy sitcoms about domestic and social outrages now turns his moms experience the agonies and ecstasies of competitive sports…an expec- thoughts to the afterlife, in an endearingly meditative farce about Veronica, a tant nurse learns important lessons from the mother of a hospital patient…a depressive woman who commits suicide in the year 2000 (‘At least I got to mother gets stoned with her aging rocker son…a young woman executive miss 9/11’) and lands in a sort of limbo, where she is reincarnated as, among meets her match in the robot mom prototype she has developed…a nagging other things, an abused child and a dog…It’s a pleasure to note that [Durang] mother is totally undone by a son who’s become a mime. In turn wildly comic, hasn’t lost his screwball. At the beginning of the new play an unseen voice poignant, tender and wry, the nine plays that comprise MOMBO will make warns the audience that there are five obscenities in the play. ‘All the other audiences reflect on and reconsider their own relationships with their mothers words are nice.’ They are, and pertinent and funny too.” —Time Magazine. and their children in a truly universal and eminently accessible theatre experi- “This is Durang at the top of his metaphysical, apocalyptic, high-and-pop- ence. 2 men, 3 women (1 man and 1 woman are young adults, doubling, flex- cultural game…thoroughly lovable. And funny.” —NY Newsday. “With ible casting). FEE: $75 per performance. MISS WITHERSPOON, Christopher Durang recovers the wonderfully ISBN: 0-8222-2160-8 $7.50 irreverent humor that has made him famous…Rechristened Miss Wither- spoon, because her sardonic negativism is reminiscent of an Agatha PRIVILEGE. COMEDY. Paul Weitz. “…delicately funny…[a] clear-eyed Christie–style ‘bothersome Englishwoman,’ Veronica is forced into successive comedy about the collateral damage sustained by the family of a disgraced rebirths. A furious baby, her puzzled parents range from solid burghers to businessman…humanizes a world normally glimpsed only in tabloid flash- drug-addicted hippies. She is happiest when briefly reincarnated as a blissful- es…[Weitz’s] bottomless knowledge of this territory emerges in small details ly ball-fetching dog…this is easily New York’s funniest show.” —Bloomberg that illuminate both the surface absurdity and the underlying poignan- News. “Chris Durang’s slyly bittersweet new entertainment.” —Village cy…Weitz understands how the culture of wealth can weaken the bonds Voice. “A delightful eighty-minute crazy-quilt fantasy.” —A.P. THE between parents and children.” —NY Times. “…the play succeeds won- STORY: Veronica, already scarred by too many failed relationships, finds derfully…a beautiful portrait of brothers helping each other cope with the the world a frightening place. Skylab, an American space station that came adult world.” —NY Post. “Weitz has a gift for capturing the parlance of crashing down to earth, in particular, haunts and enrages her. So she has youth…” —Variety. THE STORY: In this heartfelt comedy, the privileged committed suicide, and is now in what she expected to be heaven but is lives of two Upper East Side teens are irrevocably changed when their father instead something called the Bardo (the netherworld in Tibetan Buddhism), is accused of insider trading. Two brothers look at the world with the hilar- and the forces there keep trying to make her reincarnate. So far she’s thwart- ious observations of boys on the brink of adulthood. 1 man, 2 women, 2 ed these return visits to earth with a sort of “spiritual otherworldly emer- boys. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. gency brake system” she seems to have. She doesn’t like being alive, and ISBN: 0-8222-2092-X $7.50 post-9/11 finds the world even scarier than when she was there. A lovely if strong-willed Indian spirit guide named Maryamma, however, is intent on RABBIT HOLE. DRAMA. David Lindsay-Abaire. “David Lindsay-Abaire has getting Veronica back to earth so she can learn the lessons her soul is sup- crafted a drama that’s not just a departure but a revelation—an intensely posed to learn. Veronica—nicknamed “Miss Witherspoon” by Maryam- emotional examination of grief, laced with wit, insightfulness, compassion ma—didn’t expect there to be any afterlife, but if there has to be one, she and searing honesty.” —Variety. “Grade: A! A transcendent and deeply demands St. Peter and the pearly gates. Or even the Jewish afterlife, affecting new play, which shifts perfectly from hilarity to grief.” —Enter- described by Maryamma as being like “prolonged general anesthesia,” tainment Weekly. “RABBIT HOLE presents a tragedy and its consequences would be nice. But seemingly Veronica is stuck with Maryamma and rein- with utter candor, and without sentimentality. The dialogue is most impres- carnation, and also later on with Gandalf and Jesus (who on a playful whim sive for capturing the awkwardness and pain of thinking people faced with appears in the form of a black woman in a big “going to church” hat). Sev- an unthinkable situation—and eventually, their capacity for survival, and eral times in the play Miss W’s brake system fails, and she’s forced to return even hope.” —USA Today. “With RABBIT HOLE, David Lindsay-Abaire to earth, but each time she keeps killing herself (even as an infant at two has crafted the most serious, simply told work of his career—a painstakingly weeks, which especially irks Maryamma). By the end of the play, however, beautiful, dramatically resourceful, exquisitely human new play.” —Back- Maryamma, Gandalf and Jesus convince Miss W that the world is in such Stage. “A thoroughly absorbing, profoundly affecting and painfully touch- a mess that souls “must move through their spiritual evolution faster than ing examination of grief.” —Bergen Record. “The highest praise to play- they’ve been doing…they cannot go live through eighty and ninety years wright David Lindsay-Abaire! RABBIT HOLE is an entertaining and and only learn tiny, tiny lessons. We need things to move faster!” In the end, satisfying play—it might just be the year’s best.” —Show Business Weekly. Miss W finds her own personal way to make sense of that entreaty, and she “A perceptive and poignant study in the day-to-day aches of bereavement: finally agrees to return to earth to help…well, save the planet basically. 1 problems with personal intimacy, the uneasy friends who don’t call, the man, 4 women (doubling). UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. emptiness in a house packed with reminders…Heartbreaking in its theme ISBN: 0-8222-2153-5 $7.50 and details, RABBIT HOLE is a beautifully crafted work of great sensitivi- ty.” —Star-Ledger. THE STORY: Becca and Howie Corbett have every- THE MISTAKES MADELINE MADE. COMEDY. Elizabeth Meriwether. thing a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world “Crisply assured style and brainy content…which charts the breakdown of upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. RABBIT a newly minted college grad on her first brain-numbing job—suggests a HOLE charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places bright future for this scribe…Meriwether’s gift as a playwright is her ability and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day. 2 men, 3 to take what is familiar and real and view it through the distorted lens of women. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. absurdism. MISTAKES takes a good hard look at how the world appears to ISBN: 0-8222-2154-3 $7.50 a generation of smart young kids. From a safe distance, the picture is sav- agely funny. But when you get close enough, it looks like hell.” —Variety. THE RULES OF CHARITY. COMEDY/DRAMA. John Belluso. “CHARITY is “The wounded characters reveal themselves to each other and to us via star- smart, provocative, subversively funny and genuinely touching…Belluso tling emotional juxtapositions; quietly disquieting confessions of pathos mixes emotional intensity with sharp satire and more than a little politics…it’s and loss are scattered among their oddball interactions. Every element of astonishingly good.” —San Francisco Chronicle. “At one level, Belluso’s this production coheres into a successful whole.” —Off Off Online. THE engrossing play describes what it’s like to eke out a living in America on mea- STORY: What happens if you just stop showering? THE MISTAKES ger disability checks and food stamps…At another level, CHARITY provides MADELINE MADE is a twisted and hilarious coming-of-age story about a lacerating critique of altruism—that most highly prized of American a girl who develops Ablutophobia, the fear of bathing. Struggling with a virtues…THE RULES OF CHARITY is a bold and passionate work.” —San soul-crushing job as a personal assistant, she wages a furious, funny war Francisco Weekly. “…a risk well worth taking…an experience you’re not likely 5–6 CHARACTERS NEW FULL LENGTH PLAYS 9 to have encountered before…THE RULES OF CHARITY is a commanding Splash. “Playwright Eric Coble has built THE DEAD GUY around one of dramatic force.” —Oakland Tribune. THE STORY: Loretta thinks she is a the brightest notions of recent seasons.” —Houston Chronicle. “A brilliant machine. Her father, Monty, seeks independence and a place in history. Will twist by playwright Eric Coble on today’s fascination with pseudo stars.” Loretta learn the secret she needs to hear? Will Monty forgive her for a slap —What’s Doing in Denver. “A slapstick satire on ultimate reality TV shows across the face that broke the rules? A play about the body, love and contra- that will tickle your funny bone no end.” —Colorado Backstage. “The diction. 3 men, 2 women. SINGLE SET. FEE: $75 per performance. laughs roll and Coble alights on intriguing thoughts in his script. The result ISBN: 0-8222-2096-2 $7.50 looks a lot like reality TV, and thereby implicates our own real-life viewing behavior.” —Rocky Mountain News. “Amoral, mercenary and totally devoid TEA. DRAMA. Velina Hasu Houston. “This is a play too marvelous to grasp of good taste, it’s not such a far-fetched idea. A must-see.” —Houston Press. in one viewing. A cornucopia of theatrical delights, there is so much to please THE STORY: The Pitch: You get one million dollars to spend over the next the eye and the ear. The play is a fascinating mix of insightful exploration and seven days. A camera crew follows your every move and broadcasts your simple poetic imagery.” —Drama-Logue. “A play written with a very deft adventures on national television. The Hook: At the end of the week…you poetic touch…[Houston] has taken her consciousness as woman and as die. The Best Part: The viewing audience gets to vote on the method of your Japanese American, filtered them through the lessons of history and the death! For hard-luck Eldon Phelps, the deal is irresistible. But does America experience of parents and others, and brilliantly illuminated [a] much broad- have the stomach for this much reality? What would you do if you had one er sociopolitical canvas.” —LA Times. “A fresh, imaginative and fascinating week until you became…”The Dead Guy”? Stay tuned… 3 men, 3 women play…Houston has, with TEA, cast light on a shadowy chapter of modern (doubling). UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. U.S. history, and she has done so with anger, affection, honesty, and wisdom. ISBN: 0-8222-2139-X $7.50 TEA is a wonderful piece of work.” —San Diego Union-Tribune. “TEA is more than a play; it is an amazing experience that will leave you changed, DEFIANCE. DRAMA. John Patrick Shanley. “Spellbinding. I wouldn’t have wiser, and with a new understanding. It is what great theater is all about.” —The thought it possible, but John Patrick Shanley has followed up Doubt, the Trentonian. “The fates of five…Japanese women transplanted to the U.S. are best play of 2004–05, with a play of identical quality.” —Wall Street Jour- at the heart of…Houston’s deeply moving and insightful play…here is such nal. “As thoughtful and probing as Doubt. An arresting, ambitious tale of a sense of lives explored…of personal journeys full of upheaval and adjust- race relations and the military mindset, filled with the provocative questions ment…that you leave the theater shaken and reawakened.” —Chicago Sun- and bristling with dialogue for which John Patrick Shanley, a fierce moral Times. “TEA is a play about coming to terms with the present and, ulti- sage, is known.” —NY Times. “Thrilling. A lean, powerful fist of a play. mately, with the past and future. It is so excellently crafted that…it’s as With rare compassion, rigor and craft, Shanley again makes a frontal attack though the audience is part of the…gathering, coming to terms with our on a subject we think we know too well, and proves otherwise.” —NY own lives, and also with ourselves.” —Davis Enterprise. “…[TEA] sheds Newsday. “Riveting. Shanley once again poses aptly thorny questions about light on intriguing aspects of class, cultural adaptation, racism and friend- faith and loyalty.” —Time Out. “Shanley delivers yet another gripping ship…What is achieved…is a choral and impressionistic group portrait: a drama that pushes viewers to the edge of their seats and keeps them think- graceful interweaving of memory in and through the lives…of the four peers ing long after the show is over.” —Star-Ledger. “An absorbing, thoughtful, who gather to put the dead woman’s house in order…[TEA] glides with intelligent work.” —Variety. “Complicated, exciting and briskly com- remarkable smoothness between evocations of past and present.” —Seattle pelling.” —USA Today. THE STORY: DEFIANCE is set on a United Times. THE STORY: Four women come together to clean the house of a States Marine Corps base in North Carolina in 1971. Two officers, one fifth after her tragic suicide upsets the balance of life in their small Japanese black and one white, are on a collision course over race, women and the immigrant community in the middle of the Kansas heartland. The spirit of high cost of doing the right thing. This riveting, surprising new work is the dead woman returns as a ghostly ringmaster to force the women to come about power, love and responsibility—who has it, who wants it and who to terms with the disquieting tension of their lives and find common ground deserves it. 5 men, 1 woman. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. so that she can escape from the limbo between life and death, and move on ISBN: 0-8222-2168-3 $7.50 to the next world in peace—and indeed carve a pathway for their future pas- sage. Set in Junction City, Kansas, 1968; and netherworlds. 5 women. UNIT DEFLOWERING WALDO. COMEDY. Adam Szymkowicz. THE STORY: SET. FEE: $75 per performance. Waldo is having a bad day. He’s afraid of crowds, spiders, skyscrapers, flow- ISBN: 0-8222-2103-9 $7.50 ers, brown soap and sex. His father won’t stop being Scottish. His therapist wants to seduce him. His ex-girlfriend could spontaneously combust at any moment. And the new woman in his life seems to want something else com- 6 CHARACTERS pletely. Will he manage to find true love—or at least mow the lawn? 2 men, 4 women. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. AFTER ASHLEY. DARK COMEDY. Gina Gionfriddo. “Shrewd, dark comedy ISBN: 0-8222-2136-5 $7.50 …absorbing and wholly unpredictable…AFTER ASHLEY is a work that virtually any audience would find accessible.” —NY Times. “Sick, ugly, and EVERYTHING WILL BE DIFFERENT. DRAMA. Mark Schultz. “Scribe Mark brilliantly funny…and wise. In Gionfriddo’s plays, as in all great plays, no Schultz and youthful thesp Laura Heisler pull off this high-wire tightrope one is wrong, everyone is right.” —Brooklyn Rail. “Write down the name act with gravity and grace in EVERYTHING WILL BE DIFFERENT, a Gina Gionfriddo. Deft characterization, caustic humor, and well-deployed production that’s all the more satisfying for being so dangerously funny.” —Vari- nips at the American slack moral conscience make AFTER ASHLEY, Ms. ety. “…exquisitely performed new drama plunges deep into the unsettled Gionfriddo’s acidic puree of modern culture at The Vineyard, one of the mind of a fifteen-year-old girl whose mother recently died.” —NY Times. necessary shows to see this year…a play for the decade.” —NY Sun. “…[a] “‘Critics Choice’…this is a remarkable American play.” —Time Out (Lon- smart, satirical drama…the play’s razor-sharp observations, biting humor, don). “Bang on the money portrait of adolescent angst…provocative droll dialogue and erudite pop-culture literacy provide much to appreciate delight from start to finish.” —Daily Telegraph (UK). “One of the sassiest and enjoy.” —Variety. “…a play that makes you ravenous for more…capti- and savviest pieces of new writing for some time…an astonishing piece of vatingly assured, the work of a writer with a keen ear for the language of pop work on every level.” —Herald (Scotland). THE STORY: Teenage Char- culture and a lacerating ability to convey the emotions roiling underneath lotte’s beautiful mother is dead, and in the midst of her own grief and her words…” —Miami Herald. “…everything works…compelling drama about father’s unwillingness to cope, she turns for comfort to the story of Helen loss, grief and morality in the media spotlight is richly embroidered with of Troy, convinced that beauty, desire and fame can help her bring her comedy.” —Sun-Sentinel. THE STORY: AFTER ASHLEY is a blisteringly mother back and punish the world that took her away in the first place. funny and deeply affecting story about a teenage boy navigating the joys and Getting beauty tips from her popular friend, seeking career advice on how terrors of life—all through the distorting prism of a media firestorm. When to be a porn star from a guidance counselor who may or may not be hav- a family tragedy deals the Hammond family a dose of dubious celebrity, ing an affair with her, and searching for love from the football jock who Justin finds himself paralyzed, unable to fully grieve or grow up. The only may barely even knows she exists, Charlotte finds herself searching in fan- bright spot is a girl, only Justin can’t decide if she’s a saving angel or a self- tasy for what she cannot find in reality, and ends up destroying the life and interested groupie. In a world as weird as this one, she might just be both. 4 dreams of perhaps the only friend she ever really had. But in the depths of men, 2 women. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. pain, she comes to discover an unexpected grace. 4 men, 2 girls. SIMPLE ISBN: 0-8222-2099-7 $7.50 SET. FEE: $75 per performance. ISBN: 0-8222-2090-3 $7.50 THE DEAD GUY. COMEDY. Eric Coble. “Inspired and ruthless, Eric Coble has preempted the network vultures with THE DEAD GUY.” —Variety. KITTY KITTY KITTY. COMEDY. Noah Haidle. THE STORY: Kitty, a suicidal “Daringly staged and thrilling to watch.” —Denver Post. “Whether you are housecat, finds his true love in his clone, the first successfully cloned housecat, entertained or disgusted, Coble’s skillfully woven comedy is a humorous and Kitty Kitty. They give each other hand jobs, but Kitty Kitty doesn’t love Kitty thoughtful critique on society’s obsession with other people’s realities.” —LA back. So Kitty decides to make another clone of himself, the title character 10 NEW FULL LENGTH PLAYS 6–7 CHARACTERS

Kitty Kitty Kitty. But something goes wrong in the cloning process, and he popping antihistamines. He listens to the testimony of a Jewish chiropractor, makes more copies of himself, each one more retarded than the last. The final who’s a liar, according to his anti-Semitic defense attorney. The prosecutor, a clone, Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty, communicates in nothing but grunts and homosexual, is having a domestic squabble with his lover, who shows up in yells and drool. KITTY KITTY KITTY is a comedy about love, unrequited court in a leopard-print thong. And all the while, a Middle East peace con- love, regret and hand jobs. 5 men, 1 woman (doubling, flexible casting). UNIT ference is taking place. Masterfully wielding the argot of the courtroom, SET. FEE: $75 per performance. David Mamet creates a world in microcosm in which shameless fawning, ISBN: 0-8222-2144-6 $7.50 petty prejudices and sheer caprice hold sway, and the noble apparatus of law and order degenerates into riotous profanity. 6 men. INTERIOR. FEE: $75 THE MOMENT WHEN. DRAMA. James Lapine. “THE MOMENT WHEN per performance. is about life’s odd twists and turns, roads taken and not taken, connections ISBN: 0-8222-2127-6 $7.50 lost and found. In its quiet way, it makes major demands on both actors and audiences. In structure, scope and style, THE MOMENT WHEN may THE SHAKER CHAIR. DRAMA. Adam Bock. “…a briskly funny and brac- remind you of two British imports Closer and Amy’s View, but there is noth- ing new play…Taking action is at the heart of Bock’s evenly balanced blend ing derivative about its immense wit and insight and sensitivity. Lapine may of comedy and drama…Bock has sharp ears for human conversation. His never have written anything finer than this play’s final monologue about the dialogue is naturalistic, peppered with stops and starts, exclamations and mysterious impulses that can unite or alienate us.” —Variety. THE STORY: asides that make his stage characters appear spontaneously real.” —Louisville THE MOMENT WHEN follows five people as their lives intertwine and Courier-Journal. “For female actors older than fifty, the options for roles these separate. Steven, an artist, meets the writer Alice at a fashionable New York days seem to be relegated to mothers and crazy aunts. So, along comes whip- party hosted by Paula, a legendary literary agent. Paula’s young assistant, persnapper Adam Bock with THE SHAKER CHAIR, an entertaining, con- Dana, introduces herself to Alice and Steven, and the courses of the next fif- cise, thought-provoking showcase for older actresses.” —Lexington Herald- teen years of their lives are set in motion. The play marks those moments in Leader. THE STORY: THE SHAKER CHAIR focuses on the constrictions our lives that may pass unnoticed but determine who we become. THE and possibilities of middle age as one woman is forced to redefine her view of MOMENT WHEN, while tracking the successes and failures of career, mar- the world and her place within it. When do we intercede? Who’s the more riage, parenthood and friendship, also charts the life of Dana and Steven’s dangerous person: the one who takes violent action against injustice or the son, Charley, who begins his own trajectory towards fulfillment and loss. 2 one who sits and does nothing? And, conversely, when does the activist go too men, 3 women, 1 man or woman (1 of the men is a teenager). UNIT SET. far? 2 men, 3 women, 1 girl. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. FEE: $75 per performance. ISBN: 0-8222-2091-1 $7.50 ISBN: 0-8222-2174-8 $7.50

MR. MARMALADE. BLACK COMEDY. Noah Haidle. “ …exhilarating…alter- 7 CHARACTERS nately hilarious and heartbreaking…through the alchemy of Haidle’s scintil- lating style.” —The New Yorker. “Haidle’s fertile imagination has produced a BLOOD ORANGE. DRAMA. David Wiener. “[Wiener’s] dialogue is hon- world in which…reality and fantasy collide and intertwine…[A] roller-coast- est, quick, and funny. The people he’s created speak for themselves. And as er saga…MR. MARMALADE marks its author…as a name to watch in the the vehicle carrying them hurtles to its disturbing conclusion, you can’t help future.” —LA Times. “Haidle [has] an Albee–like bent for creating character but squirm.” —Village Voice. THE STORY: BLOOD ORANGE exposes capable of both kindness and cruelty…a poignant story [that] runs the gamut the relationships simmering among the residents of a suburban cul-de-sac from hilarious to heartbreaking…” —Orange County Register. “…slyly during the Orange County real-estate boom. Against a backdrop of sun- amusing, envelope-pushing…Haidle has the courage of his convictions, burnt hills, Clinton and Ray-Ray and The Girl collide with their mothers, which he has demonstrated in a mature and accomplished play…extraordi- their rites of passage and each other. With slam-dance rhythm and punk nary…” —LA Times. THE STORY: Lucy is a four-year-old girl with a very dialogue, David Wiener’s poetic and driven play explores the sensual and active imagination. Unfortunately, her imaginary friend Mr. Marmalade savage underbelly of the California hills and the cult of the American Man. doesn’t have much time for her. Not to mention he beats up his personal assis- 3 men, 4 women. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. tant, has a cocaine addiction, and a penchant for pornography and very long ISBN: 0-8222-2132-2 $7.50 dildos. Larry, her only real friend, is the youngest suicide attempt in the his- tory of New Jersey. MR. MARMALADE is a savage black comedy about DEDICATION OR THE STUFF OF DREAMS. COMEDY/DRAMA. Terrence what it takes to grow up in these difficult times. 4 men, 2 women (doubling). McNally. “A wistful and potent new play by Terrence McNally…Mr. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. McNally gives new proof of the vitality of his chosen art form by showing ISBN: 0-8222-2142-X $7.50 that there is room on the stage for theater past, theater present, and theater future; and that if you are as good as he is, they can all be brought together THE PARIS LETTER. DRAMA. Jon Robin Baitz. “…a potent stew of sensa- behind one curtain.” —NY Sun. “McNally’s bittersweet valentine to an art tional incident…fiercely eloquent…actions always have moral dimensions form that has the power to change lives on both sides of the footlights…We in Mr. Baitz’s plays…THE PARIS LETTER is no exception…effortlessly should all be grateful to Terrence McNally for reminding us just how impor- articulate…tracing the interlocking grooves of psychology and morality.” tant theatre (and plays about the theatre) can be.” —TheaterMania.com. —NY Times. “…head and shoulders above most current dramatic offer- “Fearlessly funny, strikingly serious…DEDICATION has some of the fun- ings…THE PARIS LETTER has potential to rank beside works of Arthur niest lines Terrence McNally has written in years.” —BackStage. “A scintil- Miller and Tennessee Williams. Baitz writes vibrant, stingingly literate dia- lating and inspiring new play by Terrence McNally.” —Talkin’ Broadway. “A logue…” —Variety. “There is no shortage of plot in THE PARIS LET- heartfelt, original valentine to relationships, death, and theater…McNally’s TER…Baitz is an intelligent, provocative writer, who specializes in moral most original play in years.” —Gay City News. THE STORY: Lou and conundrums…his characters have a complexity, a richness, a level of cul- Jessie Nuncle run a children’s theatre in a mall in upstate New York. With tural awareness that was once standard but is now exotic…[a] stunning new the possibility of taking over an abandoned vaudeville palace, the Nuncles play…” —NY Daily News. THE STORY: Wall Street powerhouse Sandy are forced to examine how far their love of theatre will take them. 4 men, 3 Sonnenberg finds his personal and professional life threatened by the unrav- women. INTERIOR. FEE: $75 per performance. eling secrets of his past. A tragic game of financial and moral betrayal is ISBN: 0-8222-2116-0 $7.50 played out over four decades and between two friends at the cost of family, friendship, love and marriage. 5 men, 1 woman (doubling). UNIT SET. EAT THE TASTE. COMEDY. Greg Kotis. “Kotis has created that exceptionally FEE: $75 per performance. rare thing: a genuinely funny farce that takes real creative chances, and a ISBN: 0-8222-2109-8 $7.50 socially engaged farce with real political points to make…EAT THE TASTE succeeds for all the usual reasons—talent and craft.” —National ROMANCE. COMEDY. David Mamet. “It made me weep with Public Radio. “On a sheer laughs-per-minute ratio, there’s no funnier show delight…ROMANCE is funny. Extremely funny.” —Wall Street Journal. “A in New York.” —NY Post. THE STORY: It’s 2008, the final days of the sec- wild ride…An outrageous, hectic comedy composed in the hyperliterate pro- ond Bush administration. John Ashcroft, the de facto (albeit behind-the- fanity that made him a legend…For fans of Mamet at his most joyfully scenes) attorney general, is leaving politics to begin a second career—on vicious, it’s everything you ever wanted.” —NY Magazine. “An exhilarating Broadway! Confounding expectations, he’s tapped Urinetown creators Greg spectacle…[Mamet] is a connoisseur of fiasco.” —The New Yorker. “A fies- Kotis (book/lyrics) and Mark Hollmann (music/lyrics) to pen his debut ta of forbidden laughter…A giddy, glorious, bad-taste valentine…” —NY one-man show. EAT THE TASTE opens in a dingy motel somewhere on Newsday. THE STORY: Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright David Mamet’s the outskirts of New York City. A pair of Homeland Security officers, work- ROMANCE is an uproarious, take-no-prisoners courtroom comedy that ing in tandem with an agent from the Justice Department, have been gleefully lampoons everyone from lawyers and judges, to Arabs and Jews, to ordered to enlist a reluctant Mr. Kotis onto Mr. Ashcroft’s creative team. gays and chiropractors. It’s hay fever season, and in a courtroom a judge is Most of the officer’s legal means of persuasion have been exhausted, but 7–8 CHARACTERS NEW FULL LENGTH PLAYS 11 they’ll give the bookwriter one last chance before making him “eat the heart into George’s body, and all of a sudden he’s wearing a dress, drinking taste.” This trio of advocates is soon joined by the Broadway producer martinis and cooking pot roasts. This is a heartfelt (excuse the pun) comedy Matthew Rego, who has reasons of his own for wanting the project to move about the limits of feeling, and the consequences of either feeling nothing or forward. Suffice it to say, a lot of money is at stake. Finally, the composer too damn much. 5 men, 2 women. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. Mark Hollmann himself arrives, equipped with a portable keyboard and a ISBN: 0-8222-2143-8 $7.50 rough draft for an opening number. And as Mark begins to play, Greg real- izes that this musical offering may be one he can’t refuse. Employing G- THE RUBY SUNRISE. DRAMA. Rinne Groff. “With her stylish new play THE men, handcuffs and aspirin, EAT THE TASTE is the untold, unauthorized, RUBY SUNRISE, Rinne Groff demonstrates both vaulting thematic ambition behind-the-scenes story of the making of a musical that has yet to be made. and sinuous theatrical flair.” —Broadway.com. “Entertaining…thought-pro- 5 men, 2 women (flexible casting). FEE: $75 per performance. Volume voking…commentary on the transformative powers of storytelling.” —NY includes the short play AN EXAMINATION OF THE WHOLE PLAY- Sun. “…reflective, ambitious play…emotional resonance.” —Variety. “Mea- WRIGHT/ACTOR RELATIONSHIP PRESENTED AS SOME KIND sured and intelligent, optimistic yet clear-eyed—in other words, just right for OF COP SHOW PARODY. FEE: $20 per performance. SPECIAL our hysterical moment.” —NY Magazine. “Smart and absorbing.” —Star- NOTE: The original music for EAT THE TASTE composed by Mark Ledger. “Channelling the power of television, THE RUBY SUNRISE is a Hollmann is required for performance. The sheet music (#8079MU) is gem.” —Boston Globe. THE STORY: Setting off from a farm in Indiana as available from the Play Service for $5.00, plus shipping. There is no a young girl named Ruby struggles to turn her dream of the first all-electri- additional fee for the use of this music in performance. cal television system into a reality, and jumping forward to a McCarthy–era ISBN: 0-8222-2098-9 $7.50 New York TV studio where Ruby’s heirs fight over how her story should be told, THE RUBY SUNRISE charts the course of the phenomenon of tele- FRAN’S BED. DRAMA. James Lapine. “James Lapine’s writing is graced by vision: from early idealism and sparks of genius, to promises fulfilled and affecting, humorous, beautiful moments.” —Variety. THE STORY: compromises brokered, and beyond. 3 men, 4 women (doubling). UNIT FRAN’S BED asks the question: What constitutes a life? As Fran lies com- SET. FEE: $75 per performance. atose in a hospital room, her husband, Hank, and two daughters, Vicki and ISBN: 0-8222-2140-3 $7.50 Roberta, are forced to decide her fate, but in so doing, discover things about her and about themselves that they might have preferred to leave unexam- ined. Fran comfortably sits to the side and watches as her family tries to 8 CHARACTERS understand how this seemingly normal middle-aged housewife has come to her current situation. Their efforts to deal decisively with Fran’s future are DOG SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD. complicated by her devoted nurse, Dolly, who brings a different perspective COMEDY. Bert V. Royal. “Good grief! The Peanuts kids have finally come out to the matter of death and what our responsibilities are to those who can’t of their shells.” —Time Out. “A welcome antidote to the notion that the speak for themselves. The play, told with wit and compassion, does not sim- Peanuts gang provides merely a slice of American cuteness.” —NY Times. plify the intellectual, political and emotional issue of a person’s right to life. “…easily identifiable with the Peanuts crowd yet with a distinctly ‘Royal’ 2 men, 5 women. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. touch…The way Royal builds on the foundation of Charles Schulz’s iconic ISBN: 0-8222-2162-4 $7.50 comic strip actually results in a parody that’s also a stand-alone play apt to res- onate even with anyone belonging to that small population segment unfamil- ICE GLEN. ROMANTIC COMEDY. Joan Ackermann. “Beautifully written…a iar with Peanuts.” —CurtainUp. “Inventive and raunchy…hysterically funny.” story of nature and change.” —Talkin’ Broadway. “A lovely play which will —NY Post. “Bert V. Royal is the playwright of the Off-Broadway show, DOG leave you with a lot to think about.” —CurtainUp. “Funny, moving and SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD, and is he witty.” —Metroland (Boston). THE STORY: In this touching period com- ready to confess all!” —Broadway.com. “DOG SEES GOD doesn’t feel like edy, a beautiful poetess dwells in idyllic obscurity on a Berkshire estate with the same old high-school-warfare schlock. The characters—teenage and reck- a band of unlikely cohorts, including an Irish cook, a lovesick gardener and less—are both genuinely sympathetic and unquestionably cruel. Growing an unlikely playmate. When neighbor Edith Wharton passes Sarah’s poems more hysterical—and more harrowing—as it flows to an inevitable, uncom- on to a Boston publishing firm, editor Peter Woodburn comes calling. fortable end, this taut comedy manages to make tired clichés about stoners and Sparks fly when this unlikely pair faces off, and all get caught in the cross- popular homecoming airheads funny and endearing.” —NY Magazine. THE fire. 4 men, 3 women. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. STORY: When CB’s dog dies from rabies, CB begins to question the existence ISBN: 0-8222-2175-6 $7.50 of an afterlife. His best friend is too burnt out to provide any coherent specu- lation; his sister has gone goth; his ex-girlfriend has recently been institution- MEASURE FOR PLEASURE. COMEDY. David Grimm. “Mr. Grimm seeks alized; and his other friends are too inebriated to give him any sort of solace. to do a little restoration work of his own, inserting great chunks of fresh dirt But a chance meeting with an artistic kid, the target of this group’s bullying, into every nook, cranny and convention of a traditional form…Impres- offers CB a peace of mind and sets in motion a friendship that will push teen sive…An authentically sharp wit…Rich material for high-style playing.” angst to the very limits. Drug use, suicide, eating disorders, teen violence, rebel- —NY Times. “An extremely stylish (and exuberantly filthy) sex farce…This lion and sexual identity collide and careen toward an ending that’s both haunt- is an orgy to which all are graciously invited.” —Variety. “A queer-feminist ing and hopeful. 4 men, 4 women. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. gloss on the Restoration farce…abundant verbal delights…a new play for ISBN: 0-8222-2152-7 $7.50 the old canon.” —Time Out. “…A delightfully bawdy comedy with a sen- timental streak…MEASURE FOR PLEASURE takes the past and makes it SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE FINAL ADVENTURES. ADVENTURE/DRAMA. pertinent to the present.” —A.P. “David Grimm’s gender-inclusive modern Adapted by Steven Dietz, from the original 1899 play by William Gillette and sex comedy in Restoration bawdry is endearing and audacious.” —NY Arthur Conan Doyle. “Dietz’s genius here is in creating both story and dia- Newsday. THE STORY: Will Blunt is in love with Molly, a young trans- logue that could pass for Doyle’s own. The playwright—who previously adapt- vestite prostitute. But when Blunt rescues him from a life on the streets, he ed Bram Stoker’s Dracula and P.G. Wodehouse’s Over the Moon to great doesn’t count on Molly falling in love with Dashwood, the handsome wom- effect—has created a gleeful whodunit that’s both deeply original and an expert anizing rake. Restoration comedy meets modern sex farce in this romantic homage to all things Holmesian.” —Phoenix New Times. “This witty, well- adventure, exploring the elusive nature of happiness and featuring mistak- crafted script is very much an homage to Conan Doyle, and the play’s greatest en identities, duels and double-dealings, gay marriage and the obligatory sex pleasure is seeing his iconic characters brought to life. A delightful evening of cave. 4 men, 3 women. FLEXIBLE SET. FEE: $75 per performance. entertainment.” —Arizona Republic. “In his original plays and in those he ISBN: 0-8222-2167-5 $7.50 adapts, Steven Dietz creates interesting worlds. Dietz has now conjured Victo- rian England and a tidy flat at 221B Baker Street. You don’t have to be a schol- RAG AND BONE. DRAMA. Noah Haidle. “Haidle is an engaging writer ar of detective stories to enjoy the script Dietz has crafted—there’s enough who creates startling theatrical conceits, intriguing themes and offbeat char- intrigue and adventure, and even a touch of romance, with the inclusion of acters…his nonrealistic style is bold and imaginative …” —Variety. Irene Adler, a woman who is Holmes’ intellectual equal. Dietz has created a fun “…vividly bold, wildly imaginative and utterly charming…Its humor and evening that moves quickly, and is guaranteed to please everyone who joins in poignancy are genuine…” —CT Central. THE STORY: Two brothers, Jeff the game.” —BackStage. THE STORY: The world’s greatest detective has and George, run The Ladder Store, which is actually a front for a black-mar- seemingly reached the end of his remarkable career when a case presents itself ket heart operation. In the world of RAG AND BONE, hearts are bought that is too tempting to ignore: The King of Bohemia is about to be blackmailed and sold for people who can’t feel enough. The play begins when George by a notorious photograph, and the woman at the heart of this crime is the steals the heart of a poet. The play then follows the poet with no heart; a famous opera singer, Irene Adler. With his trusted companion, Doctor Wat- hooker with a heart of gold; T-Bone, her pimp who feels too damn much; son, at his side, Sherlock Holmes pursues first the case, and then the affections and the Millionaire, who eventually receives the poet’s heart and sees a whole of Miss Adler—and in doing so, marches right into the lair of his longtime different world. Jeff and George recently lost their mother, but they put her adversary, that malevolent genius of crime: Professor Moriarty. In this spirited, 12 NEW FULL LENGTH PLAYS 8–10 CHARACTERS

fast-moving and thoroughly theatrical adaptation, Steven Dietz presents is he mad or are we? Adapted from Luigi Pirandello’s Enrico IV, Kilroy’s ver- Holmes at the height of his powers—surrounded by all the elements that fans sion transports Pirandello’s main character into twenty-first-century Holly- of his exploits have come to expect: danger, intrigue, wit, humor and surprise. wood with sensationally dramatic results. 6 men, 3 women (flexible cast- “The game is afoot, Watson—and it is a dangerous one!” 6 men, 2 women. ing). UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. FLEXIBLE SET. FEE: $75 per performance. ISBN: 0-8222-2161-6 $7.50 ISBN: 0-8222-2158-6 $7.50 IPHIGENIA. COMEDY/DRAMA. P. Seth Bauer. “It is the cunningly agile pen of U.S. DRAG. DRAMA. Gina Gionfriddo. Winner of the Susan Smith Black- twenty-first-century playwright P. Seth Bauer that is responsible for the adapt- burn Prize. THE STORY: Two young women in Manhattan seek love and ed production entitled IPHIGENIA…There is more that’s divine about happiness, but they’ll settle for rent money. Along the way, they volunteer Bauer’s triumphant adaptation; chiefly, that he not only preserves the Euripi- for a community advocacy group called SAFE (“Stay Away From Ed”) dean sense of timelessness within modernity but in some respects even ampli- named for an elusive serial attacker terrorizing the city. (There’s a hefty fies it.” —nytheatre.com. “This simple adaptation, highlighted with quiet reward for his capture…) Their new circle of “friends” includes their ruth- flashes of humor, touches upon those deeper issues of war and faith, of patri- less, socially stunted roommate; the celebrated author of a fictional memoir; otism and loyalty, managing to be both contemporary and authentically a lonely man who feels a kinship with crime victims; and a mousy “Ed sur- ancient at the same time. It is a masterful adaptation.” —Off-Off-Broadway vivor,” reveling in her fifteen minutes of dubious fame. Everybody is look- Review. “Fine intellectual fodder for America…it becomes enjoyable, ulti- ing for salvation in the arms of another in a group where no one has very mately tragic theater. The ninety-minute production moves with clarity and much to give. And who is this “Ed” anyway? No one’s ever seen his face, and great humor.” —American Theater Web. THE STORY: In this modern take everyone onstage is beginning to act eerily “Ed-like”… 4 men, 4 women on the classic tale, King Agamemnon prepares to lead the greatest coalition of (doubling). FEE: $75 per performance. armies in the history of the world to retrieve Helen of Troy. But the seas have ISBN: 0-8222-2111-X $7.50 suddenly calmed in the Bay of Aulis, and Agamemnon becomes determined to fulfill a terrible prophesy—in order for the winds to blow, he must sacrifice his WORK SONG: THREE VIEWS OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT. DRAMA. eldest daughter, Iphigenia. Queen Clytemnestra and Iphigenia arrive at the sol- Eric Simonson and Jeffrey Hatcher. “Perhaps the most complex new play I’ve diers’ camp, lured by the lie that she will be married to the great warrior, seen this season is WORK SONG, a triptych of interlocking one acts by Eric Achilles. Unfortunately, this is the first that Achilles has heard of it. He and his Simonson and Jeffrey Hatcher about the life of the architect Frank Lloyd comical army of sock puppets, “The Mighty Myrmidons,” are getting antsy sit- Wright…Its three parts, each with a different narrative strategy and tone, take ting around waiting for the wind to rise. As the soldiers become more and the form of a conventional stage bio. One part presents an acid view of Wright more restless, it’s clear that some action has to be taken or the entire coalition in manipulative, pathetically regal celebrityhood at Taliesin, his monument to will turn upon itself. To hold on to his power, Agamemnon must make a deci- himself in rural Wisconsin, and the finale is an exquisite vignette about a visit sion that will echo through the ages, as his daughter’s death becomes the cata- by the ninety-year-old Wright to one of his first houses in Oak Park, Ill. …I lyst for generations of bloodshed. But then Iphigenia surprises them all with a hope it will be remounted soon and often.” —NY Times. “As emotionally decision that no one could have guessed. Alternating between bawdy comedy engrossing as Frank Lloyd Wright himself.” —Variety. “Elegant…vigor- and high drama, this play raises questions about what makes a hero in the ous…breathtaking…” —Chicago Tribune. THE STORY: In this thrilling modern world and what price must be paid to satisfy a country’s lust for and imaginative new play about the famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, revenge. 6 men, 3 women (doubling). UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. audiences get an in-depth look at the master builder at three distinct phases ISBN: 0-8222-2150-0 $7.50 of his life and career: in Act One, as a young man in a hurry to change the way people live and finding inspiration in Mamah Cheney, a unconvention- al (married) woman who becomes the great love of his life and leads to his 10 CHARACTERS greatest tragedy; in Act Two, as a doubting genius at the crossroads, fending off creditors and reeling in clients before he salvages himself by coming up ALL THE RAGE. COMEDY. Keith Reddin. “…dark, violent, funny, and highly with one of his greatest creations, the house called “Fallingwater”; and in Act theatrical satire from the modern master of moral struggle and urban para- Three, as an old showman at twilight, visiting a house from his past and tak- noia…[This] graphic comedy explores the fashionability of guns, and the fears ing stock of his sacrifices and successes in his quest to build the perfect and frustrations which lead people to use them…” —BackStage. “People who dwelling. Each part of the play has its own style: a multi-scene “epic” style cov- want to kill people may not be the craziest people in the world. They may be ering three decades for part one; a compressed “country weekend” comedy à sitting at a nearby desk, living next door to you or looking back at you in the la Chekhov for part two; and a single setting for part three’s final encounter mirror…ALL THE RAGE investigates rage of the free-floating, menacing between Wright and a young couple living in one of his earliest houses built kind…[Reddin’s] powerful, often hilarious displays of pent-up hostility ingen- half a century before, played out in real time. The play also allows for a devel- iously bring into play devices of opera and classical theater.” —NY Times. opment in the play’s design that mirrors the architectural ideas of Wright him- THE STORY: A blood-splattered body lies on the living room carpet at the self. WORK SONG is about Wright’s ideas, his passions, his love affairs and start of ALL THE RAGE. By the end of this examination of our culture of vio- his tragedies. It’s a play about a man who wanted to create the perfect home lence, eleven characters have been killed, sent to prison or gone mad. Yes, ALL for the American family but could never build one for himself. 6 men, 2 THE RAGE is a comedy. The action takes place in unnamed city today, in a women (4 extras). UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. series of scenes that show the interconnected lives of ten characters. Among ISBN: 0-8222-2148-9 $7.50 them are an estranged husband and wife, a gay couple, a criminal and his underage sister/lover, an eccentric millionaire and his former personal secretary turned video store owner. They all come in contact and set a chain of violent 9 CHARACTERS events in motion. A modern-day Jacobean Revenge Tragedy, ALL THE RAGE gives us a picture of a world spinning out of control, as everybody has a gun and BFE. DRAMA. Julia Cho. “…an insightful, beautifully structured drama is ready to use it. 8 men, 2 women. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. about the agonies and comforts of isolation…” —NY Times. THE ISBN: 0-8222-2164-0 $7.50 STORY: Cute blondes are disappearing from her strip mall-covered subur- ban town, but fourteen-year-old Panny is more concerned with surviving THE LEARNED LADIES OF PARK AVENUE. COMEDY. David Grimm. adolescence. Raised by an unbalanced mother who thinks the perfect birth- “A brave, brainy and barmy revision of Molière…An elegantly composed day gift is plastic surgery, and a shy uncle who spends most of his time variation on a society comedy from art deco Hollywood. Grimm reflects painting miniatures, Panny is afraid she’s hopelessly different. Thanks to a on our own neoconservative plots to undo the New Deal.” —Hartford fortuitous misdial, she strikes up a phone friendship that seems to be the Courant. “Dramatic verse is not just alive and well on the cutting edge of connection she’s been longing for. However, she soon finds that out in BFE, theatre but thriving in David Grimm’s spanking new THE LEARNED a.k.a. “the middle of nowhere,” anything can happen—and usually does. 4 LADIES OF PARK AVENUE…A rare but welcome bird in contemporary men, 5 women (doubling). UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. theatre.” —New Haven Register. “Roll over Cole Porter.” —Boston Globe. ISBN: 0-8222-2112-8 $7.50 THE STORY: A jazz-age screwball comedy riff on Molière’s biting satire of pretense and learning. Betty wants to marry Dicky. Her mother Phyllis, a HENRY (AFTER PIRANDELLO). DRAMA. Thomas Kilroy. “…a flashy the- self-proclaimed intellectual and political activist, has another man in atrical tour-de-force, an artfully layered construct of illusion and memory, mind—namely, the hack poet and scheming opportunist Upton Gabbitt. madness and insight…a richly melodramatic spectacle imbued with philo- Set in 1936 Manhattan against the backdrop of the Great Depression and sophic speculation.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. THE STORY: Actor impending war, this romantic comedy skewers those who wear their social Richard McMillan is Henry, a man of enormous wealth and privilege, who conscience on their sleeve and affirms that love conquers all. 5 men, 5 believes he is the eleventh-century Holy Roman Emperor and German King women (doubling). UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. Henry IV. A fortress is built and actors are hired to carry out his fantasy. But ISBN: 0-8222-2135-7 $7.50 11–12 CHARACTERS NEW FULL LENGTH PLAYS 13

11 CHARACTERS that port happens to be an outhouse. It’s a rude, bright, wild show.” —New Haven Advocate. “Magruder has emphasized the play’s origin as a ‘comédie- DEARLY BELOVED. COMEDY. Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten. ballet’ in three acts, ‘with two musical interludes and a grand finale.’ The THE STORY: The Futrelle Sisters, Frankie, Honey Raye and Twink, are last introduces Hillary Clinton in a health-care mode, one of the many lib- throwing a wedding. Frankie has almost made herself sick with elaborate erties he has taken in his unstinting efforts to make this INVALID fabulous preparations for her daughter Tina Jo’s antebellum-inspired wedding, and and contemporary.” —Hartford Courant. THE STORY: In Molière’s out- the rumor mill in their small town of Fayro, Texas, is working overtime. No rageous satire of medicine and its practitioners, the wealthy Argan, to put it surprise there, the Futrelle Sisters have never been strangers to gossip. After mildly, enjoys poor health. Laxatives, suppositories, bloodlettings, and sec- all, they did survive the scandalous breakup of their almost-famous gospel ond and third opinions from the leading quacks are the order of his day— singing trio, The Sermonettes. But Twink’s desperate attempts to get her and hell on his wily, back-talking servant Toinette. His daughter Angélique boyfriend of fifteen-and-one-half years down the aisle, Frankie’s ongoing is in love with the impoverished Cléante, but Argan wants to marry her to conversations with their dead mother, and Honey Raye’s tendency to race to Thomas Diafoirus, a medical dunce who can assure his father-in-law a life- the altar at every opportunity have kept tongues wagging for years. In spite time of health care. Cléante disguises himself as a music teacher to gain of her own marital problems, Frankie has held steadfastly to the hope that access to his love, but Béline, Argan’s mercenary second wife, threatens to she can pull off one “final Futrelle occasion” with elegance and style with the expose them. A disguised Toinette, sage advice from his brother Béralde, help of the cantankerous wedding coordinator, Miss Geneva, who runs the and a faked death scene finally teach Argan where to place his trust. The local floral shop/bus depot. But on the day of the nuptials, Frankie’s hope play ends with Argan’s ceremonious, pig-Latin induction into the medical begins to dim when she discovers Twink’s alternative solution to an expen- profession. 6 men, 5 women. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. sive catered wedding dinner is a potluck supper sponsored by Clovis San- SPECIAL NOTE: The original music (#8134MU) composed by Gina ford’s House of Meat. When the prodigal Honey Raye arrives at the church Leishman for this play is available through the Play Service for $15.00, in skintight gold lamé, consumed by hot flashes and a steely determination plus shipping. The nonprofessional fee for the use of this sheet music to right old family wrongs, Frankie’s hope is shaken. It is lost completely is $15.00 per performance. when word reaches the church that Tina Jo and her fiancé have fled Fayro ISBN: 0-8222-2117-9 $7.50 and eloped. The sisters ultimately pull together to find ways to keep the unsuspecting guests in the pews while a highway patrolman races off to track THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO. FARCE. Beaumarchais, translated and down the runaway bride and groom. As a last resort, and to the delight of adapted by Joan Holden. “For the sprightly new American Conservatory the citizenry of Fayro, Texas, The Sermonettes reunite and sing again. 4 men, Theater production…credit must go to translator/adaptor Joan Holden for 7 women (doubling). UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. sending new shafts of light through the play…The characters, especially the ISBN: 0-8222-2119-5 $7.50 women, seem freshly inspired in their resourcefulness…vernacular that might have been coined yesterday…” —San Francisco Chronicle. “In com- THE GAMESTER. FARCE. Freyda Thomas, inspired by Le Joueur by Jean- missioning a textual face lift for the eighteenth-century farce immortalized François Regnard. “A specialist in applying new spit and polish to Molière by Mozart’s opera, American Conservatory Theater has struck gold…a joyous classics, Freyda Thomas turns to his comparatively obscure junior contem- piece of stage frippery whose social bite is never far below the surface.” —Vari- porary Jean-François Regnard in THE GAMESTER, based on the latter’s ety. “FIGARO gets a new lease on life…Where better to find somebody to 1696 Le Joueur. Less an adaptation than a new commedia inspired by the bring new life to this play, which is widely regarded as helping to provoke the original work’s basic plot outline, this sparkling farce about a compulsive French Revolution?” —Marin Independent Journal. “Takes justifiable liber- gambler has no trouble bridging a 310-year gap in audience tastes. And ties in replacing Beaumarchais’ eighteenth-century jibes with up-to-the- Ron Lagomarsino’s American Conservatory Theater staging reps one of minute substitutes…the adaptor hasn’t so much rewritten Beaumarchais to that entity’s more purely enjoyable productions in some time.” —Variety. suit her own taste as returned our attention to the essence of his dissent…” “The dice are cast. The wheel spins until the final curtain falls. The actors —San Francisco Examiner. THE STORY: Three years after the happy play the cards they’re dealt. If all theater is to some extent a gamble, the ending of The Barber of Seville, it’s the valet’s turn to marry. But his mas- American Conservatory Theater has drawn a winner with Freyda Thomas’ ter the Count has tired of his lovely Countess, and lusts for Figaro’s bride- clever reshuffling of an old deck in THE GAMESTER, which opened to to-be, Suzanne. He determines to revive the ancient droit de seigneur—the great waves of laughter Wednesday at the Geary Theater…It isn’t all luck, lord of the manor’s right to bed her. Figaro and the women concoct a count- of course. Thomas has crafted her comedy skillfully upon the fairly solid er-plot; the Count’s page, Cherubin (Mozart’s Cerubino) makes hash of it frame of a little-known seventeenth-century French farce.” —San Francis- through his passionate crush on the Countess. The double/triple/quadruple co Chronicle. THE STORY: It’s Paris in the eighteenth century. Valère misunderstanding yields one of the most perfect farce scenes of all time, fea- loves Angélique, but she won’t marry him until he gives up his other mis- turing a chair, and one of the greatest master-servant scenes, featuring a tress: The Gambling Hall. Valère is broke, creditors are in pursuit; his razor. Writing a few years before the French Revolution, barely concealing father, Thomas, is about to disown him; and his loyal servant, Hectór, himself in his hero, Beaumarchais pours his class rage into a stock-comic despairs of his reformation, though he will stay with him to the bitter end. vessel that barely contains it under pressure. The play, as great in its kind Angélique’s companion, Madame Préférée, arrives to inform Hectór that as the opera Mozart made from it, proclaims Figaro a better man than the the marriage between her charge and his master is off, thanks to his wicked Count and the women better humans than the men. This version restores ways. The sensible woman wants Angélique to marry Dorante, the old, fat two revolutionary passages that the author cut to save his liberty: a con- and bald uncle of her lover, but she vows to remain her lover’s fiancée if he frontation between the Count and his vassals in the final scene that antici- swears to give up the game. As a pledge, she gives him her portrait in a pates the guillotine, and a searing indictment of sexual inequality by jewel-encrusted frame. But Valère needs money; how many times can he Figaro’s mother, Marceline. 7–9 men, 4 women (doubling, extras). FLEXI- bed the lusty, wealthy and ever-generous Madame Securité, who keeps BLE SET. FEE: $75 per performance. coming back for more indoor sports? And there’s Angélique’s older sister, ISBN: 0-8222-2133-0 $7.50 Mme. Argante, another wealthy widow ready to settle her whole estate on the handsome young Valère, a fate that would break the heart of the fop- pish, stuttering Marquis de Fauxpas, madly in love with her. Add to this a 12 CHARACTERS sweet young servant to the shrewish Mme. Argante and a Croupier who starts off the play with a resounding thump on his foot, and you have the LOVERS’ QUARRELS. COMEDY. Jean Baptiste Molière, translated into makings of a world-class French comedy, albeit with darker undertones English verse by Richard Wilbur. THE STORY: LOVERS’ QUARRELS reminiscent of…Vegas and American society at the millennium? Well, the (1656) was Molière’s second full-length play in verse, and it is a complex turn of any century is always marked by optimism, and what happens to comedy animated by deception and misunderstanding. A young woman the dice-crossed lovers, the portrait, the lusty widow, the old man and the (Ascagne) has worn masculine disguise since childhood, for the sake of an stuttering fop is to be discovered within the finely woven text, written in inheritance that would otherwise go to the household of young Valère. crisp, accessible verse, with disguises, tricks and romance adding to the Ascagne loves Valère, who is a suitor of her sister Lucile, and cleverly man- high comedy of this delightful “new” classic work. 6 men, 5 women. ages to marry him in a midnight ceremony, Valère believing that his veiled UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. and unseen bride is Lucile. Valère’s manservant Mascarille is similarly ISBN: 0-8222-2130-6 $7.50 deceived and, under pressure, conveys his misinformation to Éraste, a young man who jealously loves Lucile and is loved in turn by her. The ensu- THE IMAGINARY INVALID. COMEDY. Jean Baptiste Molière, translated ing quarrel between Éraste and Lucile lasts until the fourth act, and is par- and adapted by James Magruder. “Translator Magruder is [known] for his alleled by the quarreling and reconciliation of Gros-René (Éraste’s valet) and brash injections of present-day lingo into seldom-seen French comedies that Marinette (Lucile’s maid). George Saintsbury wrote of LOVERS’ QUAR- had been deemed ‘stuffy’ before he got his ink-stained hand on ’em. Any- RELS that “Nothing so good had yet been seen on the French stage as the thing goes, anything for a laugh, any port in a storm, even if (especially if) quarrels and reconciliations of master, mistress, valet, and soubrette.” It goes 14 NEW FULL LENGTH PLAYS 12–19 CHARACTERS

without saying that the final act sees Ascagne’s true sex revealed, and that 19 CHARACTERS Valère’s response to that is “love and wonder.” 8 men, 4 women. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. THE REVENGER’S TRAGEDY. JACOBEAN THRILLER. Freely adapted by Jesse ISBN: 0-8222-2159-4 $7.50 Berger from the original text by Thomas Middleton, Cyril Tourneur or Anony- mous, incorporating material from the writings of Francis Bacon, John Donne, THE VOYSEY INHERITANCE. DRAMA. Harley Granville-Barker, adapted Thomas Kyd, John Marston, William Shakespeare and John Webster. “Dyna- by David Mamet. “Scintillating…The script resonates with [Granville-Bark- mite!” —NY Times. “A bloody marvel…one of 2005’s Ten Best Productions er’s] literate wit and Mamet’s sharp, spare dynamism.” —San Francisco of the Year.” —Time Out. “Stellar—impressive—exhilarating.” —Variety. Chronicle. “As powerful an exploration of commercial misconduct as “Delightful!” —Village Voice. “Highly entertaining…relevant populist enter- Mamet’s own hardheaded business-themed dramas Glengarry Glen Ross and tainment.” —TheaterMania.com. “Heated, passionate, red-blooded…Unflag- American Buffalo…It’s difficult to imagine a work more presciently engaged ging energy and imagination, Gleeful!” —NYTheatre.com. “Jaw-dropping with the ethics of transgression and repayment.” —San Francisco Weekly. and eye-filling…Heart-pounding…Unforgettable.” —BackStage. THE THE STORY: Crime doesn’t pay—or does it? When a con makes you rich, STORY: This mesmerizing Jacobean thriller, written a few years after Hamlet, life gets a lot more complicated. For generations, the Voysey family business is a searing examination of humankind’s social need for justice and our animal has been secretly cheating its clients. Edward, a junior partner who plans to desire for vengeance. Vindice, the “Revenger,” sets off a chain reaction of havoc take over the company from his aging father, is horrified when he discovers in a corrupt and decadent Venice, which exposes outrageous indulgences and the embezzlement that has been keeping his relatives in the lap of luxury. But government hypocrisy, and ends in a coup de théâtre massacre of epic propor- nobody wants Edward to dismantle the firm’s criminal legacy—not his asso- tions. Part black comedy, part social satire, the play is a gleefully macabre plot- ciates, not the woman he loves, and certainly not his large, pampered fami- twisting blender full of Shakespeare’s greatest hits. 15 men, 4 women (flexible ly. As the risk of exposure looms larger, and his sense of right and wrong casting). UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. becomes increasingly distorted, Edward comes to fully understand the con- ISBN: 0-8222-2145-4 $7.50 sequences of his “inheritance.” THE VOYSEY INHERITANCE is a witty, impeccably crafted portrait of a family in the midst of a surprisingly modern moral dilemma. 8 men, 4 women. UNIT SET. FEE: $75 per performance. ISBN: 0-8222-2128-4 $7.50

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COMPLEAT FEMALE STAGE BEAUTY. COMEDY/DRAMA. Jeffrey Hatcher. “A clever exploration of rich territory, the world of the English theater at the seventeenth-century moment when women were first allowed on the stage.” —NY Times. “Lush…world class…clever…” —Variety. “An intimate psy- cho-sexual backstage historical comedy. Splendidly theatrical, it’s a witty allusive game with some feeling payoff, to boot.” —Pittsburgh Post- Gazette. THE STORY: In 1661 the most famous portrayer of female roles on the London stage was a performer named “Kynaston.” Like every other player permitted to enact such roles, Kynaston was a man. A celebrity artist shining bright at the crest of the Restoration, Ned or Mr. K, as he’s called, is applauded onstage and off for his interpretations of Shakespeare’s tragic ladies: Ophelia, Cleopatra, especially his Desdemona and his famous “death scene.” He’s the toast of the town and the very secret “mistress” of the pow- erful Duke of Buckingham. But when an unknown named Margaret Hugh- es plays Desdemona one night at an illegal theater, instead of stopping the show, the ever-game King Charles II changes the law to allow women to act. By the stroke of a pen, Kynaston’s world is turned upside-down. He loses his cachet, his livelihood, his lover and his sense of self. And as such women as the king’s own courtesan, Nell Gwynn, and Kynaston’s former dresser, Maria, become stars, his own light disappears until fate and his desire for revenge give him a chance to take the stage again. 9 men, 5 women (dou- bling). VARIOUS SETTINGS. FEE: $75 per performance. ISBN: 0-8222-2149-7 $7.50 NEW MUSICALS

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THRILL ME: THE LEOPOLD & LOEB STORY. MUSICAL THRILLER. Book, SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE. COMEDY/DRAMA. Words and music by music and lyrics by Stephen Dolginoff. “Stephen Dolginoff’s pocket musi- Michael John LaChiusa, suggested by the stories of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, cal about the Leopold and Loeb murder case lands like a well-placed punch, as translated by Takashi Kojima. “SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE is a little arresting and a bit breathtaking. Others have told the tale in plays and films, powerhouse of a show whose sheer intensity will knock you flat—and make but there is something brazenly satisfying about Mr. Dolginoff’s rendition. you think. LaChiusa’s stagecraft is sure, and his edgy, pop-flavored score It’s a reminder that evil often looks and sounds beautiful. Credit the lean commandingly individual. He is thinking hard about the future of the post- approach to the storytelling.” —NY Times. “Startling…Provocative…I Sondheim musical, and in SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE he has gone a long can’t get enough of this…Will keep you spellbound…THRILL ME freezes way toward showing us what it will look like.” —Wall Street Journal. “Mr. the blood and keeps you wanting more.” —NY Observer. “Stylish! With a LaChiusa delivers songs that strike at the heart. They throb with both com- noir attitude, THRILL ME is a two-character slice of pulp fact-fiction by munal feelings of hope and anxiety and a specific sense of character. The intriguing storyteller Stephen Dolginoff.” —NY Newsday. “A soaringly warmth arrives like a sunburst in GLORYDAY where the notions of truth intense, propulsively melodic musical. Chillingly well-told, in all of its dark and belief are extended to a cosmic level. In song the characters blossom complexity.” —Gannet Newspapers. “Dangerously attractive…Power- into individuals whose timbres and cadences identify them as specifically as ful…Dolginoff is a smart craftsman with a knack for forging arresting the shapes of their heads and bodies.” —NY Times. “SEE WHAT I tunes. The robust score is feverishly crafted.” —Star-Ledger. “A taut, com- WANNA SEE has all the music you’d want from Broadway—cool jazz and pelling two-character musical. Stripping the event of the psychobabble that all-purpose pop—loaded with some of the most succinct, precise, sexually has surrounded it over the years, Dolginoff gets at the heart of it. The story frank lyrics I’ve heard in musical theater.” —Philadelphia Inquirer. “An sizzles.” —BackStage. “Dolginoff shows that unlikely musical subject mat- intelligent, adult musical that entertains and astonishes at the same ter can be mastered if the approach is strong enough. You will be intrigued.” time…This smoky, sexy saga enhanced by LaChiusa’s muscular, jazzy score, —TheaterMania.com. “A brilliant, unforgettable musical…Sends chills flecked with Japanese influences and tough, punchy lyrics, makes SEE down the spine. Uncompromising and intoxicating.” —Talkin’ Broadway. WHAT I WANNA SEE a highly original, even innovative journey.” —A.P. THE STORY: Relationships can be murder. THRILL ME: THE “Sassily innovative, consistently tantalizing and insidiously memorable, the LEOPOLD & LOEB STORY is a two-character musical drama that protean race of the music through jazz, Tin Pan Alley, show tunes and clas- recounts the chilling true story of the legendary duo who committed one of sical is riveting. We get triple suspense leading us into an aural and emo- the most infamous and heinous crimes of the twentieth century. Focusing tional kaleidoscope. The show will make you feel, think and, above all, on their obsessive relationship and utilizing Leopold’s 1958 parole hearing groove.” —Bloomberg.com. “A typically smart work from Michael John as a framework, THRILL ME reveals the series of events in 1924 Chicago LaChiusa, SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE is a must-see.” —Star-Ledger. that led about-to-be law students Leopold and Loeb to be forever remem- “LaChiusa’s tight-knit composition, with its feverishly racing, New Yorkily bered as “the thrill killers.” Nathan Leopold was passionate about Richard compulsive stream of words, is the strongest single piece of music theatre he Loeb, who was passionate about crime and excitement. They created a secret has yet made. Packed with excitement the story is a gemstone, its multiple agreement to satisfy each other’s needs. Soon Richard convinced Nathan facets revealing new meanings as each character’s interpretation gets told.” that they embodied Nietzsche’s idea of the “Superman” and were above —Village Voice. THE STORY: SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE, a musical society. Then he drew him into his plan to lure a young boy to his death just about lust, greed, murder, faith and redemption, was named by New York to prove they could get away with it. But soon their perfect crime unraveled Magazine as one of the Best Musicals of 2005 and nominated for nine due to a careless mistake. Or was it so careless? 2 men. UNIT SET. FEE: Drama Desk Awards, including Best Musical. It is based on three short sto- Quoted upon application. INSTRUMENTATION: Piano/Conductor. ries by the Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa and unfolds like a classi- ISBN: 0-8222-2102-0 $8.50 cal Japanese screen painting. In KESA AND MORITO, set in medieval Japan, two lovers sing of the ecstasy and torment of their illicit affair and their determination to end it that night. Neither knows the other’s intent. 3 CHARACTERS R SHOMON, set in 1951, New York City, follows the investigation of a crime of passion and the witnesses’ contradicting versions of the event. An FIVE COURSE LOVE. COMEDY. Book, lyrics and music by Gregg Coffin. innocent bystander, a cunning thief, a flirtatious wife, a psychic, even the “FIVE COURSE LOVE is artfully silly and genuinely funny…hilarious ghost of the murdered man are all caught in a web of deceit, where every- and imaginative.” —A.P. “Pleasantly fluffy…five looks at love set in five dif- one’s truth may be a lie. GLORYDAY, set in present-day New York City, ferent restaurants…Gregg Coffin, who wrote the music, lyrics and book, introduces a priest during a crisis of faith after a terrible tragedy strikes the seems to have a nice ear for catchy, zippy tunes…Lots of laughs!” —NY city. Disillusioned and angry, he plays a practical joke and posts an anony- Times. “Coffin’s score is tuneful and his lyrics are witty…deliciously silly mous letter in Central Park, declaring that Christ will appear, rising from and unexpectedly poignant.” —BackStage. “The ingredients are all the pond. At first, the joke is embraced by an unstable CPA, who has cho- there…a pretty tasty experience.” —NY Post. “Genuinely heartwarm- sen to live in the wilds of the park. Soon others begin to believe in the mir- ing…an undercurrent of unrequited love pierces the often blistering, break- acle, including a drug-addicted actress and a bitter reporter—even the neck comedy and creates moments of surprising seriousness and sentimen- priest’s atheist aunt. On the day of the miracle, a storm blows through the tality…distinctive, tuneful, and highly memorable…” —Talkin’ Broadway. Park, and only the priest sees his lie become a truth. 3 men, 2 women (dou- “It’s as fluffy as mousse and often just as delicious…a clever little rounde- bling). MINIMALIST/BARE STAGE. FEE: Quoted upon application. lay…packed with witty lyrics and shared mayhem…” —TheaterMania.com. INSTRUMENTATION: Piano/Conductor, Reed 1, Reed 2, Bass “It’s a cute, diverting, fast-paced little show…alternately silly and sweet, (acoustic/electric), Drums, Percussion 1, Percussion 2. raunchy and romantic…sweetly sincere…” —Broadway.com. THE ISBN: 0-8222-2169-1 $8.50 STORY: Three actors play fifteen different characters in five different restaurants on the hunt for one true love. The evening begins at Dean’s Old- Fashioned All-American Down-Home Bar-B-Que Texas Eats, where a blind date goes charbroiled wrong. Next, at the Trattoria Pericolo, a mob wife has a secret rendezvous behind her husband’s back. At Der Schlupfwinkel Speiseplatz, a waiter, a dominatrix and her kept man discover at the same hilarious moment that they are all dating each other. In Ernesto’s Cantina, a hill bandit and his rival battle for the hand of the beautiful Rosalinda. And at the Star-Lite Diner, a waitress pines for her true love and gets a little help from Cupid in making her dreams come true. 2 men, 1 woman (doubling). UNIT SET. FEE: Quoted upon application. INSTRUMENTATION: Piano/Vocal, Bass, Percussion. ISBN: 0-8222-2146-2 $8.50 18 NEW MUSICALS 7–9 CHARACTERS

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THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL. COMEDY. Music and THE DINOSAUR MUSICAL. COMEDY. Music by Robert Reale, book and lyrics by David Nehls, book by Betsy Kelso. “Adultery, strippers, murderous lyrics by Willie Reale. “A winning and delightful family show.” —Philadel- ex-boyfriends, Costco and the Ice Capades. Undeniable fun.” —NY Post. “A phia Inquirer. “THE DINOSAUR MUSICAL is a rare treat—a family musi- bright new show!” —NY Times. “A show that actually lives up to the hype of cal that really can entertain the whole family. It’s a show written with young its title.” —Village Voice. “A delicious new musical. The joint is jammed and children in mind that does not talk down to its audience. It works on several jumping with raucous laughter. It’s like The Honeymooners meets The Best Lit- levels—it’s a cute story about dinosaurs for youngsters; a ‘girl power’ story to tle Whorehouse in Urinetown.” —NY Post. “THE TRAILER PARK meets appeal to teenagers; and a musical comedy with lots of wit to appeal to South Park in this big-hearted new musical comedy with a cheeky script by adults.” —Talkin’ Broadway. THE STORY: It is the end of the Cretaceous Betsy Kelso, an infectious score by David Nehls and a richly talented cast. period. A giant meteor collides with the earth and wreaks havoc with the TRAILER PARK sparkles with treasure.” —NY Sun. “Joyful and ecosystem. In order to avoid extinction, the Dinosaurs sign a peace pact called unashamedly vulgar, Betsy Kelso’s comic fable about women in a Florida trail- the Treaty of Meat. For a time there is peace between the Carnivores and the er park and their no-account men is more fun than a chair-throwing episode Herbivores. But when the wise King of the Tyrannosauruses suddenly dies of Jerry Springer set to music.” —The New Yorker. “Entertaining and tuneful, and his none-too-clever thirteen-year-old son, Quincy, rises to power, trouble TRAILER PARK shines like aluminum siding. The performers can sing, act begins. King Quincy leads the Tyrannosauruses on a terrible rampage. Car- and joke around with the best of them, and cocky as you please, they sell lotta Devries, a Parasaurolophus singing star, and her thirteen-year-old daugh- David Nehls’ music as if hawking rhinestones on the Home Shopping Net- ter, Mindy, narrowly escape Quincy’s forces and take refuge at Swifty’s Vol- work.” —TheaterMania.com. “This wheel-spinning, mud-splattering good cano Café, the clandestine headquarters for the Tyrannosaurus resistance. The time of a show is the theatrical equivalent of a bag of Doritos. You can’t get café is run by Swifty Levine, a Triceratops comedian, and is staffed with a vari- enough. Who could expect a thrillingly trashy Greek chorus of trailer park ety of zany, peaceable Dinosaurs. Can the power of goodwill win out over the matrons whose hysterical musical stylings all but redefine the girl-group- forces of evil? It’s a family show…so yes. THE DINOSAUR MUSICAL is a as-cultural-commentator craze? Or a number with enough show-stopping madcap, jazzy prehistoric musical comedy combining the intrigue and electricity to trump every musical that opened on Broadway last season?” romance of a Hollywood World War II epic with a perky adolescent parent —Talkin’ Broadway. “A sparkling, sharp irreverence lights up this musical trap. Throw in some Borsht Belt comedy, an erupting volcano and the inven- and makes it one of the most laugh-out-loud shows in town.” —Broad- tion of spaghetti and you’ve got something for everyone of any age. 4 men, 5 way.com. THE STORY: There’s a new tenant at Armadillo Acres—and she’s women (doubling). UNIT SET. FEE: Quoted upon application. INSTRU- wreaking havoc all over Florida’s most exclusive trailer park. When Pippi, the MENTATION: Piano/Conductor, Woodwinds, Percussion. stripper on the run, comes between the Dr. Phil–loving, agoraphobic Jeannie ISBN: 0-8222-2113-6 $8.50 and her tollbooth collector husband—the storms begin to brew. 2 men, 5 women. UNIT SET. FEE: Quoted upon application. CD Cast Recording: $20.00 (#8159CD). INSTRUMENTATION: Piano/Conductor, Guitar, Electric Bass, Percussion. ISBN: 0-8222-2137-3 $8.50 NEW SHORT PLAYS

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BLIND DATE AND THE ACTOR. TWO SHORT COMEDIES. Horton Foote. THREE ONE ACTS. THREE SHORT COMEDIES. David Lindsay-Abaire. “In “Foote writes with intelligence, sensitivity, humor, and compassion. BLIND an appetizing slice of life called CRAZY EIGHTS, David Lindsay-Abaire DATE, understatedly funny and uninsistently touching, is full of lived presents a budding, off-center romance that quietly exudes the aching and humanity.” —NY Magazine. “Besides being very funny, BLIND DATE has amused compassion found in his Fuddy Meers and Kimberly Akimbo. He a bit to say about how oppressive sexual roles can be passed down from gen- makes ingenious and surprisingly organic use of the blurring of personal eration to generation. Few dramatists today can replicate this kind of story- and professional roles, in what may or may not be the beginning of a beau- telling with the gentle mastery that Mr. Foote provides…both sentimental tiful relationship.” —NY Times. “Astute and eye-opening! Lindsay-Abaire, and ruthless, toting up the losses in one generation’s life with warm com- who knows a good eccentric when he sees one, has something to say about passion and a cold awareness that to live is ultimately to lose.” —NY Times. unpredictable attractions between the sexes, and he says it with his usual THE STORIES: BLIND DATE. A touching and very funny study of what cleverness and compassion for everyday nutzos.” —TheaterMania.com. befalls a fluttery, well-meaning aunt when she tries to arrange a date for her “The hit of the evening is CRAZY EIGHTS, the funny, tender and even visiting (and uncooperative) niece. The setting is the living room of Robert profound play by David Lindsay-Abaire.” —Show People Magazine. THE and Dolores Henry’s home in Harrison, Texas; the time 1929. Dolores, STORIES: The three short comedies in this collection were all originally once a high-school beauty queen, is now the scourge of her henpecked hus- written as part of The 24 Hour Plays On Broadway. Described by The New band, who comes home from the office hungry and tired to find that there York Post as “the equivalent of a high-wire act without a net,” The 24 Hour will be no dinner tonight. The reason is that Dolores has, at last, been able Plays is an annual benefit in which several one acts are written, cast, direct- to arrange a date for her visiting niece, Sarah Nancy, and she wants Robert ed and performed on Broadway in less than a day. As Black Book says, “It’s out of the way. But the young man, a would-be mortician, goes out the win- a raucous, foot-stomping evening which redefines fresh.” CRAZY dow as the bookish, rebellious Sarah Nancy refuses to play the flirtation EIGHTS. When Connie comes home late one night, she finds her parole game and, instead, makes it abundantly (and hilariously) clear that she con- officer waiting in her apartment with a torte and a long list of questions. siders Felix to be a boring oaf. Sarah Nancy’s attitude delights her uncle as The interrogation/courting dance that follows is complicated by the after- much as it distresses her aunt, who retires from the field with a sudden sick hours arrival of Connie’s charming card-playing buddy. (2 men, 1 woman.) headache. However, the two young people, left alone by their nosy elders, BABY FOOD is a contemporary comedy about an off-kilter couple des- find a common interest at last—and, as the curtain falls, they are content- perately searching for godparents for their newborn infant. Little do they edly, and wordlessly, poring over a stack of wonderfully corny old high- know that the friends they’ve chosen are less than adventurous diners and school yearbooks. (2 men, 2 women.) THE ACTOR. This play tells the on the verge of a divorce. (2 men, 2 women.) THAT OTHER PERSON. hilarious and moving story of a young man, bitten by the acting bug, who’ll Tonight is the night Ginge and Kevin are going to tell their respective make any sacrifice to keep his dream of a theatrical career from being spouses the marriage-shattering secret they’ve been keeping from everyone. crushed under the weight of his parents’ expectations for him. It’s a charm- But their bombshell gets put on the back burner when a gorgeous peeping- ing exploration of artistic ambition from one of modern theatre’s greatest tom, with secrets of her own, falls in the pool and nearly drowns. (2 men, artists. (3 men, 2 women, several bit parts.) FEE: $30 per performance for 3 women.) FEE: $75 per performance when produced together; $30 BLIND DATE; $40 for THE ACTOR. each when produced individually. ISBN: 0-8222-2126-8 $7.50 ISBN: 0-8222-2166-7 $7.50

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27 WAGONS FULL OF COTTON THE LAST OF MY SOLID GOLD THE LONG GOODBYE A Mississippi Delta comedy. WATCHES A short study of family life. 2 men, 1 woman, EXTERIOR A character sketch about a salesman. 2 men, 2 women, INTERIOR 3 men, INTERIOR THE PURIFICATION HELLO FROM BERTHA A play in verse set in New Mexico. PORTRAIT OF A MADONNA A tour-de-force sketch set in St. Louis. 9 men, 6 women, INTERIOR A sketch of a demented spinster. 4 women, INTERIOR 4 men, 2 women, INTERIOR THE LADY OF LARKSPUR LOTION THIS PROPERTY IS CONDEMNED A sketch set in New Orleans. AUTO-DA-FÉ A dramatic dialogue. 1 man, 2 women, INTERIOR A tragedy in one act. 1 boy, 1 girl, EXTERIOR 1 man, 3 women, INTERIOR TALK TO ME LIKE THE RAIN AND LORD BYRON’S LOVE LETTER LET ME LISTEN A romance set in New Orleans. A dramatic scene. 1 man, 3 women, INTERIOR 1 man, 1 woman, child’s voice, INTERIOR THE STRANGEST KIND OF ROMANCE SOMETHING UNSPOKEN A lyrical play in four scenes. A character sketch. 3 men, 1 woman, INTERIOR 2 women, INTERIOR

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1918 by Horton Foote DURANG/DURANG by Christopher Durang THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS ALICE IN WONDERLAND by Andre Gregory THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN- NICKLEBY by Charles Dickens, adaptation ALL IN THE TIMING by David Ives THE-MOON MARIGOLDS by Paul Zindel by David Edgar THE AMERICAN CLOCK by Arthur Miller ELEEMOSYNARY by Lee Blessing LIFE WITH FATHER by Clarence Day, adaptation AMONG FRIENDS by Kristine Thatcher AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE by Henrik Ibsen; by Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse AND THEY DANCE REAL SLOW IN JACKSON adaptations by Arthur Miller or Michael Meyer LIFE WITH MOTHER by Clarence Day, adaptation by Jim Leonard, Jr. ETHAN FROME by Edith Wharton, adaptation by Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse ARSENIC AND OLD LACE by Joseph Kesselring by Owen Davis & Donald Davis LIGHT UP THE SKY by Moss Hart THE ART OF REMEMBERING by Adina L. Ruskin EVERY SEVENTEEN MINUTES THE CROWD GOES THE LILIES OF THE FIELD by William E. Barrett, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN by Arlene Hutton CRAZY! by Paul Zindel adaptation by F.Andrew Leslie AUNTIE MAME by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee FATHER OF THE BRIDE by Edward Streeter, THE LITTLE FOXES by Lillian Hellman A BAD YEAR FOR TOMATOES by John Patrick adaptation by Caroline Francke LOVE AND KISSES by Anita Rowe Block THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET FEIFFER’S PEOPLE by Jules Feiffer LOVE LETTERS by A.R. Gurney by Rudolf Besier THE FOREIGNER by Larry Shue THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER by Moss Hart BEAUTY AND THE BEAST by Warren Graves FORTINBRAS by Lee Blessing & George S. Kaufman THE BOOK OF MURDER by Ron Cowen FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley, adaptation by MARVIN’S ROOM by Scott McPherson BORN YESTERDAY by Garson Kanin Victor Gialanella MARY, MARY by Jean Kerr THE BOYS NEXT DOOR by Tom Griffin GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEPT HERE by Moss Hart THE MISER by Molière, translation by BREAKING THE PRAIRIE WOLF CODE & George S. Kaufman David Chambers or James Magruder by Lavonne Mueller GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER by Stephen Sondheim MISTER ROBERTS by Joshua Logan BRILLIANT TRACES by Cindy Lou Johnson & George Furth & Thomas Heggen THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, GIFT OF MURDER! by George Batson MOLLY SWEENEY by Brian Friel adaptations by David Fishelson or Boris Tumarin THE GIFTED PROGRAM by Ruben Carbajal MONDAY AFTER THE MIRACLE & Jack Sydow THE GIFTS OF THE MAGI adaptation by Randy Courts by William Gibson THE BUNGLER by Molière, translated by Richard Wilbur & Mark St. Germain, from stories by O. Henry MONTHS ON END by Craig Pospisil BUS STOP by William Inge THE GIRLS OF THE GARDEN CLUB by John Patrick THE MOON IS DOWN by John Steinbeck THE BUTLER DID IT by Peter Marks & Walter Marks THE GLASS MENAGERIE by Tennessee Williams MOON OVER THE BREWERY by Bruce Graham CARL THE SECOND by Marc Palmieri THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR by Nikolai Gogol, MOUNTAIN MEMORY by Romulus Linney CATFISH MOON by Laddy Sartin adaptation by Peter Raby MR. 80% by James Sherman THE CHERRY ORCHARD by Anton Chekhov; THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck, THE MUSICAL COMEDY MURDERS OF 1940 adaptations by Emily Mann, Jean-Claude van Itallie adaptation by Frank Galati by John Bishop or Robert W. Corrigan GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens, MY EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES by Larry Shue THE CHILDREN’S HOUR by Lillian Hellman adaptation by Barbara Fields MY SISTER EILEEN by Jerome Chodorov A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens; HARVEY by Mary Chase & Joseph Fields adaptations by Doris Baizley, Romulus Linney, THE HASTY HEART by John Patrick THE NERD by Larry Shue Christopher Schario or Israel Horovitz THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson, THE NINA VARIATIONS by Steven Dietz COCKTAILS WITH MIMI by Mary Chase adaptation by F.Andrew Leslie NOT WAVING by Gen LeRoy COURTSHIP by Horton Foote THE HEIRESS by Ruth & Augustus Goetz, THE NOTEBOOK OF TRIGORIN by Tennessee THE CREATION OF THE WORLD AND OTHER suggested by the novel by Henry James Williams, based on THE SEA GULL BUSINESS by Arthur Miller HOLLYWOOD PINAFORE by George S. Kaufman by Anton Chekhov THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN by Martin McDonagh & Sir Arthur Sullivan OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck THE CRUCIBLE by Arthur Miller THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES by Sir Arthur OFF THE MAP by Joan Ackermann THE CURIOUS SAVAGE by John Patrick Conan Doyle, adaptation by F.Andrew Leslie ON GOLDEN POND by Ernest Thompson CYRANO DE BERGERAC by Edmond Rostand, I HATE HAMLET by Paul Rudnick OUR LADY OF THE TORTILLA by Luis Santiero translation by Brian Hooker I REMEMBER MAMA by Kathryn Forbes, adaptation PARALLEL LIVES by Mo Gaffney & Kathy Najimy DANCING AT LUGHNASA by Brian Friel by John van Druten THE PAVILION by Craig Wright THE DAY THEY SHOT JOHN LENNON INHERIT THE WIND by Jerome Lawrence PETER PAN, OR THE BOY WHO WOULD by James McLure & Robert E. Lee NOT GROW UP by J.M. Barrie, adaptation THE DEADLY GAME by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, AN INSPECTOR CALLS by J.B. Priestley by John Caird & Trevor Nunn adaptation by James Yaffe IT’S ONLY A PLAY by Terrence McNally PICNIC by William Inge DEAR DELINQUENT by Jack Popplewell JOHN BROWN’S BODY by Stephen Vincent Benét POLISH JOKE by David Ives DEAR RUTH by Norman Krasna JOHNNY PYE by Stephen Vincent Benét, adaptation PRAYING FOR RAIN by Robert Lewis Vaughan DEATH OF A SALESMAN by Arthur Miller by Randy Courts & Mark St. Germain QUILTERS by Molly Newman THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK by Frances Goodrich THE KENTUCKY CYCLE by Robert Schenkkan & Barbara Damashek & Albert Hackett or the new version KIMBERLY AKIMBO by David Lindsay-Abaire REBECCA by Daphne du Maurier by Wendy Kesselman KRINGLE’S WINDOW by Mark Medoff RECKLESS by Craig Lucas THE DINING ROOM by A.R. Gurney THE LARAMIE PROJECT by Moisés Kaufman & REINDEER SOUP by Joe Pintauro A DOLL’S HOUSE by Henrik Ibsen; adaptations the Members of Tectonic Theatre Project RICHARD CORY by A.R. Gurney by Frank McGuinness or Michael Meyer THE LADIES OF THE CAMELLIAS ROMANOFF AND JULIET by Peter Ustinov DRACULA by Bram Stoker; adaptations by Lillian Groag ROOM SERVICE by John Murray & Allen Boretz by Steven Dietz or Crane Johnson LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC by Arlene Hutton SABRINA FAIR by Samuel Taylor DRIVING MISS DAISY by Alfred Uhry LES BELLES SOEURS by Michel Tremblay SALLY’S SHORTS by Sally Nemeth 29

SCAPIN by Bill Irwin & Mark O’Donnell, adaptation STANDUP SHAKESPEARE adaptation by TREASURE ISLAND by Robert Louis Stevenson, from Molière Ray Leslie & Kenneth Welsh, from the adaptation by Ara Watson SCOTLAND ROAD by Jeffrey Hatcher words of William Shakespeare TWELVE DREAMS by James Lapine THE SEA GULL by Anton Chekhov; adaptations by STEFANIE HERO by Mark Medoff THE UNINVITED by Dorothy Macardle, adaptation Jean-Claude van ltallie or Robert W. Corrigan STEEL MAGNOLIAS by Robert Harling by Tim Kelly SEE ROCK CITY by Arlene Hutton STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT’S STORIES UNCLE VANYA by Anton Chekhov, adaptation A SENSE OF PLACE by Lanford Wilson OF AMERICA by F.Andrew Leslie by Brian Friel A SHAYNA MAIDEL by Barbara Lebow STUPID KIDS by John C. Russell A VOICE OF MY OWN by Elinor Jones SHERLOCK’S LAST CASE by Charles Marowitz SYLVIA by A.R. Gurney WAITING FOR GODOT by Samuel Beckett THE SOLID GOLD CADILLAC by George S. Kaufman TALLEY’S FOLLY by Lanford Wilson A WALK IN THE WOODS by Lee Blessing & Howard Teichmann TARTUFFE by Molière, WHAT I DID LAST SUMMER by A.R. Gurney SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN by Craig Pospisil translation by Richard Wilbur A WHITMAN PORTRAIT by Paul Shyre SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS by William Inge, adaptation THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON A WIND BETWEEN THE HOUSES by F.Andrew Leslie by John Patrick by Maurice Hill SPUNK adaptation by George Wolfe, from stories TEVYA AND HIS DAUGHTERS by Arnold Perl, THE WINSLOW BOY by Terence Rattigan by Zora Neale Hurston from stories by Sholom Aleichem THE WISDOM OF EVE by Mary Orr STAGE DOOR by George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber THE THREE SISTERS by Anton Chekhov; THE WORLD OVER by Keith Bunin STATE OF THE UNION by Howard Lindsay adaptations by Jean-Claude van Itallie, Lanford YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU by Moss Hart & Russel Crouse Wilson, Robert W. Corrigan or Brian Friel & George S. Kaufman

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52nd STREET PROJECT PLAYS by various authors FOG ON THE MOUNTAIN by Tim Kelly THE PRIZE PLAY by Mary Chase 2B (OR NOT 2B) by Jacquelyn Reingold GRACELAND by Ellen Byron QUIET, PLEASE by Howard Buermann 2B (OR NOT 2B) PART 2 by Jacquelyn Reingold THE GROUND ZERO CLUB THE REMARKABLE SUSAN by Tim Kelly THE ACTING LESSON by Willard Simms by Charlie Schulman THE ROADS TO HOME by Horton Foote THE ACTOR’S NIGHTMARE THE GROVES OF ACADEME by Mark Stein SAND MOUNTAIN by Romulus Linney by Christopher Durang HAUNTED LIVES by John Pielmeier THE SANDBOX by Edward Albee ADAPTATION by Elaine May THE HITCH-HIKER by Lucille Fletcher SECOND BEST BED by Tim Kelly AIR RAID by Archibald MacLeish IMPASSIONED EMBRACES by John Pielmeier SEVEN ONE-ACT PLAYS by Wendy Wasserstein ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE by David Henry Wilson IMPROMPTU by Tad Mosel THE SHALLOW END by Wendy MacLeod AM I BLUE by Beth Henley A KIND OF ALASKA by Harold Pinter SHOOTING GALLERY by Israel Horovitz ANDREA’S GOT TWO BOYFRIENDS THE LAST DECEMBER by Craig Pospisil SHORT AND SWEET by Willie Reale by David Willinger LAUGHING STOCK by Romulus Linney THE SHOW MUST GO ON by Laurence Klavan ASCENSION DAY by Timothy Mason LET ME HEAR YOU WHISPER by Paul Zindel SILVER LININGS by Ted Tally ASLEEP ON THE WIND by Ellen Byron LINE by Israel Horovitz THE SIMPLE TRUTH by Carl Allensworth THE AUTHOR’S VOICE by Richard Greenberg LIVES OF THE SAINTS by David Ives 6:15 ON THE 104 by Elinor Jones BACHELOR HOLIDAY by Alan Ball LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY by David Ives A SLIGHT ACHE by Harold Pinter BALLOON SHOT by Joe Manchester THE LONG VOYAGE HOME by Eugene O’Neill SO WHEN YOU GET MARRIED… THE BIRTHDAY PRESENT by Charlie Shulman THE LOVELIEST AFTERNOON OF THE YEAR by Ellen Byron BLIND DATE by Horton Foote by John Guare SORRY,WRONG NUMBER by Lucille Fletcher THE BRIDE COMES TO YELLOW SKY MANY HAPPY RETURNS by Willie Reale SPRING DANCE by Horton Foote by Stephen Crane, adaptation by Frank Crocitto THE MEETING by Jeff Stetson THE STARING MATCH by Jerry McNeely BURY THE DEAD by Irwin Shaw MERE MORTALS by David Ives STAY, CARL, STAY by Peter Tolan THE CASE OF THE CRUSHED PETUNIAS THE METAMORPHOSIS by Charles Dizenzo THE STONEWATER RAPTURE by Doug Wright by Tennessee Williams THE MIDNIGHT CALLER by Horton Foote A TALE OF CHELM by Arnold Perl THE CAVE by Tim Kelly MIXED BABIES by Oni Faida Lampley THE TEARS OF MY SISTER by Horton Foote CHOCOLATE CAKE by Mary Gallagher MY CUP RANNETH OVER by Robert Patrick TENNESSEE by Romulus Linney CINDERELLA WORE COMBAT BOOTS NATURAL DISASTERS by Jack Heifner THE TIGER by Murray Schisgal by Jerry Chase NEXT by Terrence McNally TWAIN PLUS TWAIN by Bernard Sabath CLASS CONFLICT by Craig Pospisil NINE TEN by Warren Leight 24 HOURS AM conceived by Oliver Hailey COUPS/CLUCKS by Jane Martin NORM-ANON by Warren Leight 24 HOURS PM conceived by Oliver Hailey CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT by Jacquelyn Reingold THE OIL WELL by Horton Foote TWO FOOLS WHO GAINED A MEASURE OF CROSSIN’THE LINE by Phil Bosakowski THE OMELET MURDER CASE by Tim Kelly WISDOM by Tim Kelly DA-SHOW MUST GO ON by Ken Dashow ON THE EDGE by Craig Pospisil VILLAINOUS COMPANY by Amlin Gray THE DANCERS by Horton Foote OTHER PLACES by Harold Pinter WELCOME TO THE MOON DEARBORN HEIGHTS by Cassandra Medley PARTED ON HER WEDDING MORN by John Patrick Shanley ’DENTITY CRISIS by Christopher Durang by Leland Price WHEN SHAKESPEARE’S LADIES MEET THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER THE PASSING OF AN ACTOR by Willard Simms by Charles George by Stephen Vincent Benét PATIO by Jack Heifner THE WHIZ BANG CAFÉ by Barry Corbin THE DUMB WAITER by Harold Pinter THE PERSON I ONCE WAS WIDOW’S MITE by C.B. Clifford & Elizabeth Gibson DUMPING GROUND by Elizabeth Diggs by Cindy Lou Johnson WOMEN AND WALLACE by Jonathan Marc Sherman ENGLISH MADE SIMPLE by David Ives PERSONAL EFFECTS by John McNamara WOMEN MUST WORK by Mary Orr THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER PITCHING TO THE STAR by Donald Margulies WAITING FOR LEFTY by Clifford Odets by Kent Broadhurst POPS by Romulus Linney YES MEANS NO by Howard Emmett Rogers FEAR NEWS NETWORK by Warren Leight PORCH by Jack Heifner A YOUNG LADY OF PROPERTY by Horton Foote FERRYBOAT by Anna Marie Barlow PRESENT TENSE by John McNamara THE ZOO STORY by Edward Albee 30

Dramatists Play Service is the exclusive distributor THE 52ND STREET PROJECT of the books by The 52nd Street Project. Nationally recognized as an innovative force The 52nd in theatre for young Street Project people, The 52nd Kid Theatre Kit: Street Project Plays, Projects and Programs for Young People. Designed for has created both acting and and ends with the youngster those interested in recreating playwriting programs for writing a play for two actors. the program. Each volume is children.The acting These plays are subsequently designed to lay flat when programs are:The One-On- performed; Replay, the open to facilitate copying and consists of: Ones—each youngster is sequel eight-week course paired with an adult where the Playmaking The “How To” manual professional playwright who graduates are challenged to 52 Pick-Up: a practical guide writes a one-act play for the write their second and third to doing theatre with children youngster and playwright to play while learning plot and perform together; the Two- character development; and The Teen Ensemble—a practical guide to building On-Twos—an adult Playback, where the Project’s an ensemble of teen playwright creates a play for most experienced writing performers through acting two experienced Project and acting students are classes and Shakespeare in youngsters to perform matched with a playwright, performance together.The Playmaking and each writes a play to Program is a series of perform together. Three collections of ten-minute one-act plays (45 in all) for playwriting classes for the children to perform students.The curriculum, The impulse to recreate the devised by writer/educator Project stemmed from A collection of six plays written Daniel Judah Sklar, offers inquiries from theatres, by kids from The 52nd the youngsters a medium community organizations Street Project through which they can and individuals throughout A thirty-minute videotape express a personal vision. the country wishing to start copy of the documentary a Project of their own.The “Three Minutes from The Playmaking Program is Project staff has developed a Broadway: The Story of The divided into three steps: manual complete with 52nd Street Project,” which gives an inside look at The Playmaking, the initial eight- lesson plans and supporting 52nd Street Project week session begins with materials to help you start in action (available with classes in basic playwriting your own Project. purchase from the 52nd Street Project) The commitment of up All amateur royalty fees for the plays in these volumes are waived by the authors on the condition that the plays be performed free to five hours of telephone of charge and in the spirit of The 52nd Street Project.Rights to all consultations with other productions must be licensed by: the Project staff The 52nd Street Project ISBN: 0-8222-1440-7 500 West 52nd Street,2nd FL,New York,NY 10019 $150.00 Tel.212-333-5252 Fax 212-333-5598 31

Dramatists Play Service is the exclusive distributor THE 52ND STREET PROJECT of the books by The 52nd Street Project. Portions of the Kid Theatre Kit may be purchased separately as follows:

52 Pick-Up: A Practical Guide to Doing Theatre with Children The Project’s “How To” manual, written by founder/artistic director Willie Reale, consists of a series of recipes for its pro- grams in a simple no-nonsense step-by-step fashion. Along with that are comprehensive descriptions of all the Project’s writing and acting programs for children, as well as detailed advice on working with children in theatrical contexts. Incorporated in the manual is Daniel Judah Sklar’s Playmaking Lesson Plans which cover basic and second-level play- writing courses for children and adults. A third component of the manual is plans and schematics of scenic designer Kevin Joseph Roach’s “Instant Set” upon which most of the Project’s productions are staged. ISBN: 0-8222-1441-5 $35.00

The Teen Ensemble: A Practical Guide to Doing Theatre with Teenagers This companion “How To” manual to 52 Pick-Up, written by Project “Teen Dean” Chris Ceraso with commentary by Asso- ciate Artistic Director Michael Bernard, provides a carefully structured week-by-week program of acting classes, rehearsals and performances. The plan, developed in association with Willie Reale, uses basic professional-level acting technique and ensemble skills to form a company of teenagers. Included are examples of teen-authored plays based on Shakespeare sonnets as well as a ninety-minute adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. ISBN: 0-8222-1823-2 $15.00

The Butler Did It! 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 Lucas, Charles Dumas, Katharine Long, Willie Reale, Peter MacNicol, Jacquelyn Reingold and Lewis Black. The composer is Henry Krieger. Over a week in the summer, two troupes of children and professional playwrights retreat to a country setting where the playwright is asked to mine the particular charms of his or her child partner and imbue a fictional character with those traits. Somewhere in these twenty plays there is certain to be a role to suit nearly any child’s per- sonality and level of skill. The twenty plays with songs were written for an adult and a child, with each featuring a cameo role for an adult “Butler.” ISBN: 0-8222-1442-3 $30.00

The Bedtime Zone A collection of twenty more short plays from the One-On-One program.Some of the authors included in this volume are Cindy Lou Johnson, Willie Reale, Donald Margulies, Richard Dresser, Nancy Giles and James McDaniel. These plays, all dealing with the supernatural, are two-character plays for children to perform with adults, and do not contain music. ISBN: 0-8222-1443-1 $20.00

Plays for Pairs A collection of five one-act plays written to challenge the more experienced young actors in the Project’s program.The authors in this volume include Donald Margulies, Cindy Lou Johnson, Thomas Babe, Willie Reale and José Rivera. These plays were written for the Two-On-Two program and offer two children leading roles in comedies. The recommended age level for these plays is ten to fourteen years old. ISBN: 0-8222-1444-X $15.00

The Spring Thing A collection of six two-character plays by student writers to be performed by experienced actors.The writers are all grad- uates of the Playmaking program where they took an eight-week class in which youngsters learn the basic tenets of how to write a play, and how to tap into their imaginations and emotional lives in order to write a play. ISBN: 0-8222-1445-8 $15.00 32 MONOLOGUES Dramatists Play Service is proud to offer two collections of monologues for auditions and class work:

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Isn’t Nature Wonderful? Monologues by Florence Ryerson and Colin Clements These monologues may be used by nonprofessional actors without payment of royalty fees. This volume contains: “Isn’t Nature Wonderful,” “Saturday Night,” “Button Button,” “The Dancing Lesson,” “Welcome to Our Town” and many more. Books $7.50 — ISBN: 0-8222-0578-5 35

NEWLY REVISED EDITIONS

THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE by Phillip Hayes Dean

DIVORCE SOUTHERN STYLE by Jennifer Jarrett

LANDSCAPE OF THE BODY by John Guare

LOBBY HERO by Kenneth Lonergan

PARALLEL LIVES by Mo Gaffney & Kathy Najimy

THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL by Horton Foote

UNCLE BOB by Austin Pendleton

WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (Definitive Edition) by Edward Albee 36

LAST MINUTE ACQUISITIONS

The following plays were acquired after this Supplement went to press:

YUSSEF EL GUINDI BACK OF THE THROAT SUCH A BEAUTIFUL VOICE IS SAYEDA’S and KARIMA’S CITY

DAVID IVES A FLEA IN HER EAR

PETER MORRIS GUARDIANS

RANDY SHARP SEVEN IN ONE BLOW OR THE BRAVE LITTLE KID

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