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Catalogue of New Plays 2009–2010

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A Letter from the President

Fall 2009

Dear Subscriber,

This year we are pleased to add a record high 87 new works to our Catalogue. Among them, you will find the winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize, Lynn Nottage’s elegant and wrenching RUINED, and the 2009 Tony Award–winning hit of the Broadway season, Yasmina Reza’s savagely funny GOD OF CARNAGE, in Christopher Hampton’s exquisite translation. We were most fortunate at the Tony Awards this year as the Play Service represents not only the winner but all of the nominated plays: Moisés Kaufman’s fascinating exploration of creativity, 33 VARIATIONS; Neil LaBute’s no-holds-barred REASONS TO BE PRETTY; and Horton Foote’s masterful and timely DIVIDING THE ESTATE. We are also proud to represent Gina Gionfriddo’s smart black comedy BECKY SHAW, a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize.

The many talented newcomers to our Catalogue include the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, with LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE, their terrific adaptation of the bestseller by Ilene Beckerman; Rajiv Joseph with his offbeat story of a teenage prodigy, ANIMALS OUT OF PAPER; Steven Levenson with THE LANGUAGE OF TREES, his poignant exploration of war and its effects; Deirdre O’Connor with her funny and surprising JAILBAIT, about two teenage girls crossing the threshold of adulthood; and Stew and Heidi Rodewald’s critically acclaimed Broadway musical, PASSING STRANGE, a delightful bildungsroman told through blues, jazz and rock. As you browse through this year’s Catalogue, you will find many more exceptional plays by both our established and new authors.

As always, we encourage you to make use of our website, where you can search our more than 3,000 plays by title, author, cast size or keyword as well as order every product the Play Service offers, including acting editions, manuscripts, perusal scores, complete sets of scores, cast recordings, inci- dental music CDs, sheet music and the 52nd Street Project books. Our online nonprofessional licensing allows you to submit an application and receive a license in just minutes via email. You can also pay for your licenses securely online by credit card. We continue to strive for ways to make doing business with the Play Service even better. We welcome your comments and suggestions.

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Contents

Pulitzer Prize Plays ...... 4 Tony Award Plays ...... 5 Introduction ...... 6 Performance Rights ...... 7 Acting Editions, Scores and Other Materials ...... 7 New Plays ...... 8 Complete List of Titles ...... 34 Complete List of Authors ...... 48 Last Minute Acquisitions ...... 69 Newly Revised Editions ...... 69 NEW CATALOGUE 09-10 FINAL.qxd 7/21/2009 2:29 PM Page 4

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNING PLAYS

2009 RUINED by Lynn Nottage 2008 AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY by Tracy Letts 2007 RABBIT HOLE by David Lindsay-Abaire 2005 DOUBT, A PARABLE by John Patrick Shanley 2004 I AM MY OWN WIFE by Doug Wright 2003 ANNA IN THE TROPICS by Nilo Cruz 2002 TOPDOG/UNDERDOG by Suzan-Lori Parks 2001 PROOF by David Auburn 2000 DINNER WITH FRIENDS by Donald Margulies 1999 WIT by Margaret Edson 1998 HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE by Paula Vogel 1995 THE YOUNG MAN FROM ATLANTA by Horton Foote 1994 THREE TALL WOMEN by Edward Albee 1992 THE KENTUCKY CYCLE by Robert Schenkkan 1989 THE HEIDI CHRONICLES by Wendy Wasserstein 1988 DRIVING MISS DAISY by Alfred Uhry 1983 ’NIGHT, MOTHER by Marsha Norman 1981 CRIMES OF THE HEART by Beth Henley 1980 TALLEY’S FOLLY by Lanford Wilson 1979 BURIED CHILD by Sam Shepard 1975 SEASCAPE by Edward Albee 1973 THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON by Jason Miller 1971 THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS by Paul Zindel 1957 LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT by Eugene O’Neill 1956 THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett 1955 CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF by Tennessee Williams 1954 THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON by John Patrick 1953 PICNIC by William Inge 1952 THE SHRIKE by Joseph Kramm 1949 DEATH OF A SALESMAN by Arthur Miller 1948 A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE by Tennessee Williams 1946 STATE OF THE UNION by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse 1945 HARVEY by Mary Chase 1941 THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT by Robert E. Sherwood 1939 ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS by Robert E. Sherwood 1937 YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman 1936 IDIOT’S DELIGHT by Robert E. Sherwood 1930 THE GREEN PASTURES by Marc Connelly 1928 STRANGE INTERLUDE by Eugene O’Neill 1922 ANNA CHRISTIE by Eugene O’Neill 1920 BEYOND THE HORIZON by Eugene O’Neill

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TONY AWARD WINNING PLAYS

2009 GOD OF CARNAGE by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton 2008 AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY by Tracy Letts 2005 DOUBT, A PARABLE by John Patrick Shanley 2004 I AM MY OWN WIFE by Doug Wright 2003 TAKE ME OUT by Richard Greenberg 2002 THE GOAT OR, WHO IS SYLVIA? by Edward Albee 2001 PROOF by David Auburn 1999 SIDE MAN by Warren Leight 1998 ‘ART’ by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton 1997 THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO by Alfred Uhry 1996 MASTER CLASS by Terrence McNally 1995 LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! by Terrence McNally 1992 DANCING AT LUGHNASA by Brian Friel 1990 THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck, adapted by Frank Galati 1989 THE HEIDI CHRONICLES by Wendy Wasserstein 1988 M. BUTTERFLY by David Henry Hwang 1982 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY by David Edgar, from Charles Dickens 1980 CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD by Mark Medoff 1973 THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON by Jason Miller 1963 WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? by Edward Albee 1957 LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT by Eugene O’Neill 1956 THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett 1954 THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON by John Patrick 1953 THE CRUCIBLE by Arthur Milller 1951 THE ROSE TATTOO by Tennessee Williams 1949 DEATH OF A SALESMAN by Arthur Miller 1948 MISTER ROBERTS by Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan

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Introduction to Catalogue of New Plays

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Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Rick Cleveland KING OF SHADOWS ...... 21 MY BUDDY BILL ...... 23 THE MUCKLE MAN ...... 23 MY PAL GEORGE ...... 23 ROUGH MAGIC ...... 27 THE VELVET SKY ...... 31 Steven Dietz BECKY’S NEW CAR ...... 12 Jenny Lyn Bader YANKEE TAVERN ...... 33 NONE OF THE ABOVE ...... 24 Christopher Durang Edward Allan Baker WHY TORTURE IS WRONG, AND THE PEOPLE THE FRAMER ...... 17 WHO LOVE THEM ...... 32

Stephen Belber Delia Ephron and Nora Ephron FAULT LINES ...... 16 LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE based on the GEOMETRY OF FIRE ...... 17 book by Ilene Beckerman ...... 22

Jesse Berger Horton Foote WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN adapted from Thomas DIVIDING THE ESTATE ...... 15 Middleton ...... 32 Brian Friel Lee Blessing HEDDA GABLER adapted from the play by GREAT FALLS ...... 18 Henrik Ibsen ...... 19

Lucy Caldwell Athol Fugard LEAVES ...... 22 COMING HOME ...... 14

Andrew Case Gina Gionfriddo THE RANT ...... 26 BECKY SHAW ...... 12

Kathryn Chetkovich Peter Gordon ACTS OF LOVE ...... 11 DEATH BY FATAL MURDER ...... 15 MURDERED TO DEATH ...... 23 The Civilians SECONDARY CAUSE OF DEATH ...... 28 THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY written by Steven Cosson Paul Grellong and Jim Lewis from interviews by the company, music and lyrics by Michael Friedman . . . 29 RADIO FREE EMERSON ...... 26

Paula Cizmar, Catherine Filloux, Gail Noah Haidle Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth Margraff, PERSEPHONE OR SLOW TIME ...... 25 Anna Deavere Smith, Susan Yankowitz SATURN RETURNS ...... 28 SEVEN ...... 28 VIGILS ...... 31

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Christopher Hampton Steven Levenson

THE SEAGULL adapted from the play by Anton THE LANGUAGE OF TREES ...... 21 Chekhov ...... 28

Jeffrey Hatcher Romulus Linney THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR adapted from the LOVE DRUNK ...... 22 original by Nikolai Gogol ...... 18 Melinda Lopez Michael Hollinger SONIA FLEW ...... 29 OPUS ...... 24

Jack Holmes Donald Margulies RFK ...... 27 SHIPWRECKED! AN ENTERTAINMENT—THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF LOUIS DE David Ives ROUGEMONT (AS TOLD BY HIMSELF) . . . 28 NEW JERUSALEM, THE INTERROGATION OF BARUCH DE SPINOZA AT TALMUD Terrence McNally TORAH CONGREGATION: AMSTERDAM, JULY 27, 1656 ...... 23 DEUCE ...... 15

Michael Jacobs Charles Morey IMPRESSIONISM ...... 20 THE LADIES MAN freely translated and adapted from Tailleur pour dames by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Georges Feydeau ...... 21 Jamie Wooten THE HALLELUJAH GIRLS ...... 18 Peter Sinn Nachtrieb ‘TIL BETH DO US PART ...... 30 BOOM ...... 13 Rajiv Joseph COLORADO ...... 14 ANIMALS OUT OF PAPER ...... 11 HUNTER GATHERERS ...... 19

Moisés Kaufman Lynn Nottage 33 VARIATIONS ...... 11 RUINED ...... 27 Wendy Kesselman THE BLACK MONK: A CHAMBER MUSICAL Deirdre O’Connor inspired by the Anton Chekhov story . . . . 13 JAILBAIT ...... 20 Greg Kotis Edgar Oliver THE TRUTH ABOUT SANTA (AN APOCALYPTIC HOLIDAY TALE) ...... 30 EAST 10TH STREET: SELF PORTRAIT WITH EMPTY HOUSE ...... 15 Neil LaBute REASONS TO BE PRETTY ...... 26 Craig Pospisil

Marcy Lafferty CHOOSING SIDES ...... 13 VIVIEN LEIGH: THE LAST PRESS OUTSTANDING MEN’S MONOLOGUES . . . . 70 CONFERENCE ...... 32 OUTSTANDING WOMEN’S MONOLOGUES . . . 70

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Keith Reddin and Meg Gibson Nick Stafford TOO MUCH MEMORY ...... 30 KATHERINE DESOUZA ...... 20

Yasmina Reza Stew and Heidi Rodewald GOD OF CARNAGE translated by Christopher PASSING STRANGE ...... 25 Hampton ...... 17 Richard Stockton Philip Ridley PRISONER OF THE CROWN additional material and VINCENT RIVER ...... 31 original concept by Richard Herd ...... 26

Mark Roberts Paula Vogel and Daryl Waters WHERE THE GREAT ONES RUN ...... 32 A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL CELEBRATION ...... 14 Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. Chapman Laura Wade THE BEEBO BRINKER CHRONICLES based on the OTHER HANDS ...... 24 books by Ann Bannon ...... 12

Mark Schultz Wendy Weiner HILLARY: A MODERN GREEK TRAGEDY WITH A DEATHBED ...... 15 (SOMEWHAT) HAPPY ENDING ...... 19 THE GINGERBREAD HOUSE ...... 17 Michael Weller Mark Setlock and Matthew Wilkas BEAST ...... 11 PAGEANT PLAY ...... 25 FIFTY WORDS ...... 16

John Patrick Shanley and Henry Krieger Beau Willimon ROMANTIC POETRY ...... 27 FARRAGUT NORTH ...... 16

Sam Shepard Lauren Wilson KICKING A DEAD HORSE ...... 20 THE GOLDEN STATE inspired by Molière’s The Miser ...... 18 Martin Sherman A PASSAGE TO INDIA from the novel by E.M. Tracey Scott Wilson Forster ...... 25 THE GOOD NEGRO ...... 18

Nicky Silver Charlayne Woodard THREE CHANGES ...... 29 FLIGHT ...... 16

Blair Singer Craig Wright THE MOST DAMAGING WOUND ...... 22 LADY ...... 21

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33 Variations becomes absorbing and is near flawless…Ms. Chetkovich provides a by Moisés Kaufman vehicle which rings of emotional truth, clarity, and personal impact.” —Hi! Drama. ”There’s both pathos and humor…ACTS OF LOVE is a Drama tribute to the diversity and purpose of families. It beautifully illustrates Full Length the needs that bring individuals together and the love that keeps them 4 men, 4 women together under the most desperate of times.” —Electronic Link Journey. $75 per performance $7.50 acting edition ISBN: 978-0-8222-2392-4 Animals Out of Paper THE STORY: A mother coming to terms with her daughter. A composer by Rajiv Joseph coming to terms with his genius. And, even though they’re separated by Drama 200 years, these two people share an obsession that might, even just Full Length for a moment, make time stand still. Drama, memory and music combine 2 men, 1 woman to transport you from present-day New York to nineteenth-century $75 per performance Austria in this extraordinary American play about passion, parenthood $7.50 acting edition and the moments of beauty that can transform a life. ISBN: 978-0-8222-2335-1

THE REVIEWS: “You don’t have to know Beethoven from Bach to THE STORY: When a world-renowned origami artist opens her studio find yourself thoroughly absorbed by the theatricality with which to a teenage prodigy and his school teacher, she finds that life and love Kaufman has tied a historic event—the legendary mystery surround- can’t be arranged neatly in this drama about finding the perfect fold. ing one of Beethoven’s compositions—to a drama about a fatally ill Beethoven scholar, her relationship with her daughter and the daugh- THE REVIEWS: “Mr. Joseph’s observant, pitch-perfect script…is ter’s burgeoning romance.” —CurtainUp. “It’s a compellingly original really quite ambitious, dealing ruthlessly…with the fragility of hap- and thoroughly watchable play for today that deserves to remem- piness, the tragedy of impulsiveness and the tenuousness of hope.” bered.” —Talkin’ Broadway. —NY Times. “Whether they end poorly or well, relationships always leave a mark, like a new memory, etching a groove into our brains. That’s a familiar idea, but Rajiv Joseph makes it feel fresh. In ANIMALS OUT OF PAPER, he begins with a quirky comedy and transforms it into a melan- Acts of Love choly reminder that close friends make the worst messes. His journey by Kathryn Chetkovich from one extreme to the other…is surprising and specific, pulling honest Drama insights out of unusual situations.” —Variety. “…an exhilarating way to Full Length examine the tough subjects of loss, pan, and the balm of creativity…In 2 men, 2 women this wise and richly layered work, the practice of origami…operates as $75 per performance a metaphor for numerous thing—from crafting a meaningful life out of $7.50 acting edition positive and negative components to Joseph’s snazzily extruding art out ISBN: 978-0-8222-2327-6 of raw, often corrosive ideas.” —TheaterMania.com. “You’ll find plenty to educate and charm you in Rajiv Joseph’s delicately explosive new play THE STORY: Ed, a physician, and Sheila, a well-known anthropolo- ANIMALS OUT OF PAPER…sharp-edged exploration…searingly simple, gist, are celebrating their twentieth wedding anniversary at their but richly satisfying, drama.” —Talkin’ Broadway. summer cottage. Their son, Tom, joins them, bringing with him his new girlfriend, Annie, who is apparently thrilled to discover that her boyfriend’s stepmother is one of her academic heroines. As the weekend unfolds, it becomes increasingly unclear whether Annie’s Beast presence at the house is a matter of fate, coincidence or deliberate by Michael Weller manipulation—and the peculiar tension between the women leads Drama to other deeper, long-avoided questions about Ed and Sheila’s mar- Full Length riage and the intertwined acts of love and deceit that brought and 5 men, 2 women (doubling) have kept them together. $75 per performance $7.50 acting edition THE REVIEWS: “…a tight, compact domestic drama that is engaging ISBN: 978-0-8222-2349-8 throughout. In examining the lengths to which its characters go in the name of love, the play detonates its share of dramatically satisfying THE STORY: Two American war veterans, mutilated in a firefight in moments and unveils a couple of unexpected plot surprises that keep Iraq, find their way home from a military hospital in Germany in a har- the audience hooked.” —NYTheatre.com. “…a scenario which rowing and hilarious road trip that includes an illegal arms dealer, an

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Asian pimp, prostitutes with special skills, a wife, a fellow war vet, a that most plays wouldn’t dare. BECKY’S NEW CAR is a thoroughly lunatic born-again longhaul trucker and finally, in Crawford, Texas, their original comedy with serious overtones, a devious and delightful romp Commander in Chief, whom they thank and offer a plan to win the war. down the road not taken.

THE REVIEWS: “Michael Weller approaches a painful subject from an THE REVIEWS: “Perhaps the highest praise that can be given to Steven unusual perspective in his new play, BEAST, a macabre drama…forsakes Dietz’s praiseworthy new comedy is that it’s funny. Not ironic. Not hys- documentary realism—the staple aesthetic for much theater about the terical in a slapsticky kind of way. Just gently and consistently funny— current conflict—in favor of something more adventurous…pungently right up to the point that it’s touching, and then even a little bit after that. written…grimly comic.” —NY Times. “…a surreal combination of BECKY’S NEW CAR takes the audience on a smart, comic cruise through Frankenstein and Of Mice and Men…[a] striking approach.” —NY Post. the perils of middle-aged longing and regret.” —Variety. “On a classic mistaken-identity premise, playwright Steven Dietz has constructed a warmly humorous and nimble romantic farce that doesn’t oversell itself, or ever sell its American Everywoman protagonist short. Dietz has creat- Becky Shaw ed a comedy of modern manners…one that derives as much power from by Gina Gionfriddo its humanity as its fine-tuned craftsmanship.” —Seattle Times. “The Comedy world premiere production of Steven Dietz’s warm and amiable new Full Length comedy is the perfect two-hour escape from the endless political cam- 2 men, 3 women paign, stock market collapse, and other daily woes of modern life. You $75 per performance won’t see a comedy this good on television or in the neighborhood multi- $7.50 acting edition plex.” —Talkin’ Broadway. “Playwright Steven Dietz’s new production is ISBN: 978-0-8222-2402-0 a laugh-out-loud amusement-park ride where the comedy spins out of control like a bumper car. BECKY’S NEW CAR is witty and droll, with deli- THE STORY: In Gina Gionfriddo’s BECKY SHAW, a newlywed couple cious deadpan humor and U-turn plot twists. But it turns out there’s more fixes up two romantically challenged friends: wife’s best friend, meet under the hood of BECKY’S NEW CAR than just the comedy. The story husband’s sexy and strange new co-worker. When an evening calcu- has depth. It has themes like confronting the unexpected. It has conflict lated to bring happiness takes a dark turn, crisis and comedy ensue in such as a woman being pulled in two directions. It has, like Yogi Berra this wickedly funny play that asks what we owe the people we love once suggested, a person coming to a fork in the road and taking it.” and the strangers who land on our doorstep. —Everett Herald. “BECKY’S NEW CAR is that perfect blend of hilarious comedy and substantial weight, a story about choices and conse- THE REVIEWS: “Gina Gionfriddo’s comedy of bad manners, a tangled quences that could believably happen to anyone.” —Broadway Hour. tale of love, sex and ethics among a quartet of men and women in their thirties, is as engrossing as it is ferociously funny, like a big box of fireworks fizzing and crackling across the stage from its first moments to its last…deftly plotted, scabrous and sharp-witted…One The Beebo Brinker Chronicles of the great pleasures of BECKY SHAW is the way the moral ground by Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. Chapman, based keeps shifting underneath your feet. Characters you think you’ve on the books I am a Woman, Women in the drawn a bead on reveal new, sometimes unsettling nuances, as the Shadow and Journey to a Woman by Ann Bannon relationships among them gather kinks and wrinkles, just as people do in real life as you get to know them better.” —NY Times. “…scathing, Comedy class-conscious comedy…BECKY SHAW exerts a hypnotic pull, Full Length thanks in large part to the wonderfully witty dialogue and complex 2 men, 4 women (doubling) characterizations.” —NY Post. “Blithely cynical and devastatingly $75 per performance $7.50 acting edition funny…witty observations on the emotional damage inflicted by neu- ISBN: 978-0-8222-2346-7 rotic people in the name of love…Gionfriddo is some kind of genius.” —Variety. “The perfect nourishment for theatergoers starved for a THE STORY: Set in pre-Stonewall Greenwich Village, THE BEEBO dramatic conflagration or two…Gionfriddo’s creations talk with rat- BRINKER CHRONICLES follows the lives and loves of Laura, Beth and tat-tat ferocity…the laughs flow freely.” —Associated Press. Beebo as they navigate uncharted territories of desire. Beth and Laura, secret lovers in college, went separate ways after graduation: Beth married and had children; Laura moved to New York. Both pine for each other, but before they can reunite, they find themselves entangled in the Becky’s New Car web of Beebo Brinker, a butch denizen of the bars with a soft spot for by Steven Dietz young lesbians fresh off the bus. Adapted from the 1950’s and 1960’s Comedy lesbian pulp novels by Ann Bannon, the play celebrates the era when Full Length “the love that dares not speak its name” began breaking the old rules. 4 men, 3 women $75 per performance THE REVIEWS: “THE BEEBO BRINKER CHRONICLES aggressively goes $7.50 acting edition after laughs, playing with the novels’ more dated and histrionic ele- ISBN: 978-0-8222-2393-1 ments. But it doesn’t settle for caricature…complex emotions darkly edge the play’s absurdities, anchoring what could easily have been an THE STORY: Have you ever been tempted to flee your own life? Becky exercise in camp.” —NY Times. “…there’s gold in that dime-store Foster is caught in middle age, middle management and in a middling pulp...far from being a simple sepia-toned snapshot of the past, this col- marriage—with no prospects for change on the horizon. Then one orful portrait of gay life in the Village startles with the truths it flashes night a socially inept and grief-struck millionaire stumbles into the car amid the one-liners and melodramatic confrontations.” —NY Magazine. dealership where Becky works. Becky is offered nothing short of a new “[Linda Chapman and Kate Moira Ryan] gently kid the pulpy melodra- life…and the audience is offered a chance to ride shotgun in a way ma of Bannon’s dialogue, while always making sure to render her

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sharp psychological portraits with lots of flesh on their bones…every magic.” —Time Out. “A grandly whacked-out apocalypse fantasy…one theatergoing lesbian and gay man must see this sexy and historically of those charmed evenings.” —Washington Post. “It’s literate, coarse, important show—and straight audiences will find it very entertaining thoughtful, sweet, scabrously inappropriate, wracked by existential anx- and enlightening as well.” —NY Blade. iety, and wonderfully humane…this is one end-of-the-world story that’s likely to leave you grinning from ear to ear.” —Washington City Paper. “Both the funniest play seen hereabouts this season and one of the The Black Monk: A Chamber Musical most thoughtful.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. book, music and lyrics by Wendy Kesselman, inspired by the Anton Chekhov story Choosing Sides Drama by Craig Pospisil Musical 3 men, 1 woman Comedy/Drama Performance fee quoted upon application Short Plays $8.50 acting edition $75 per performance when produced together; $20 for ON THE ISBN: 978-0-8222-2369-6 WINGS OF A BUTTERFLY, NO CHILD LEFT, GUNS DON’T KILL and IN A WORD; $30 per performance for all other titles when THE STORY: After five intense years of study in Moscow, Andrei produced individually returns home to his faithful guardian Igor and rekindles his attachment $7.50 acting edition to Tanya, his childhood love. Andrei’s artistic obsession thrives in the ISBN: 978-0-8222-2340-5 embrace of this adoring family, but the Black Monk, a spectral and charming figure only Andrei sees, threatens to lure him into the THE STORIES: Award-winning playwright Craig Pospisil’s collection unknown. A spellbinding chamber musical inspired by Anton runs the gamut from lighthearted comedy to dramatic pieces. ON THE Chekhov’s classic story, THE BLACK MONK shows us a man in the grip WINGS OF A BUTTERFLY. A playwright tries to come to terms with the of genius, madness and loss, despite the enduring power of love. scope of the disaster in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. (1 man or woman.) FREE. A panicked man on a subway car tries to conquer his THE REVIEWS: “THE BLACK MONK, Wendy Kesselman’s dark and anxiety by taking his clothes off…much to the chagrin of a couple in dainty musical about a young painter who goes gracefully mad in his the same car. (2 men, 1 woman.) WHAT PRICE? A woman finds herself little house by the sea, is just the ticket for small art venues with interrogated by a nameless official, who threatens her and her chil- refined tastes. [An] atmospheric chamber piece from a Chekhov short dren unless she gives him a name. (1 man, 1 woman.) NO CHILD LEFT. story delicately retooled into a musical meditation on the fine line Mrs. O’Reilly instructs her first-grade class on the four Rs—reading, between artistic genius and manic-depression.” —Variety. ‘riting, ‘rithmatic and Republicanism. (1 woman.) GUERILLA GORILLA. It’s some time in the future, and the theatre has been declared illegal, but that won’t stop Alana and Sandy from trying to see an under- ground theatre group perform A Midsummer Night’s Dream. (2 men, 2 Boom women.) TRAIN OF THOUGHT. Wade is obsessed with Nina, a woman by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb he sees on the train, while she imagines her boyfriend, Frank, thinks Comedy of nothing but her, and Wade’s girlfriend, Marcy, can’t make sense of Full Length her own thoughts. (2 men, 2 women.) QUANDARY IN QUANDO. The 1 man, 2 women president of the United States will do anything to stop a crisis in a for- $75 per performance eign land he’s never heard of from ruining his weekend at Camp David. $7.50 acting edition (2 men.) GUNS DON’T KILL. Mrs. O’Reilly is back, and this time she’s ISBN: 978-0-8222-2370-2 come to class armed. (1 woman.) IN A WORD. Char explains why she’s avoiding people and the things they have to say. (1 woman.) PER- THE STORY: “Sex to Change the Course of the World”—A grad stu- CHANCE. It’s hazy, but what Robbie remembers is that he and Cass are dent’s online personal ad lures a mysterious journalism student to his in love. Unfortunately, she’s decided to move to San Diego to be with subterranean research lab under the pretense of an evening of “no Antonio. (2 men, 2 women.) A QUIET, EMPTY LIFE. As Stephanie qui- strings attached” sex. But when a major global catastrophic event etly tries to get dressed for a function she has to attend, a Narrator strikes the planet, their date takes on evolutionary significance and reveals the secrets of the life she didn’t know she had. (1 man, 1 the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. Will they survive? What woman.) MANHATTAN DRUM-TAPS. A young Irish immigrant and an about the fish in the tank? And who is that woman pulling levers and African-American dockworker are caught up in the 1863 New York playing the timpani? An epic and intimate comedy that spans over bil- Draft Riots. (2 men, 2 women.) lions of years, BOOM explores the influences of fate versus random- ness in the course of one’s life, and life as we know it on the planet. THE REVIEWS: “[TRAIN OF THOUGHT is a] clever, contemporary urban comedy that takes us inside the heads of four late-night travelers headed THE REVIEWS: “Mr. Nachtrieb has a gift for darkly funny dialogue downtown…Pospisil draws out neat surprises from his characters as and an appealing way of approaching big themes sideways. [BOOM] they move toward their destinations (metaphorical as well as literal); the winds up speaking, quietly and piquantly, to our enduring fascination writing is crisp and witty and has the ring of truth.” —NYTheatre.com. with and need for myths about the beginning of life as well as its end.” “In FREE, we find a grown man who strips completely nude on an —NY Times. ”From pants-around-the-ankles comedy to hipster Twilight empty train car. Once he has re-clothed, he persuades a fellow rider to Zone takeoff…BOOM is imaginative and easy to like.” —The New remove her clothes as he guards the doors from peeping eyes. There is Yorker. “Sex! Planet-ruining cataclysms! Loads of booze! We’re ready something so sneaky and satisfying about the thought of stripping on for whatever strange places BOOM wants to take us.” —Variety. “A the subway, and the quiet way the story is revealed is wonderfully fulfill- dark-themed, light-toned allegory of survival and change: a piquant ing.” —TheCinemaSource.com. “In Pospisil’s A QUIET EMPTY LIFE…the theatrical effort to give evolution a taste of creationism’s narrative fraught emotions [are] quite affecting.” —Portland Phoenix.

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A Civil War Christmas: An American plantation shutters.” —Contra Costa Times. “…big laughs, twisted Musical Celebration subject matter and a provocative surprise or two. Nachtrieb is a skillful writer, and the new play delivers.” —Oakland Tribune. “Nachtrieb by Paula Vogel, music arranged and orchestrated weaves a deliciously sinful web that capitalizes on a family in serious by Daryl Waters turmoil. With all its sharp dialogue, twisted characters, and deranged Drama plot points, it even has a poignant ending that draws sympathy and Musical maybe a few tears from its audiences.” —Daily Californian. 12 men, 5 women (flexible casting) Performance fee quoted upon application $8.50 acting edition ISBN: 978-0-8222-2361-0 Coming Home by Athol Fugard

THE STORY: It’s 1864, and Washington, D.C. is settling down to the Drama coldest Christmas Eve in years. In the White House, President and Full Length Mrs. Lincoln plot their gift-giving. On the banks of the Potomac, a 4 men, 1 woman young rebel challenges a Union blacksmith’s mercy. In the alleys $75 per performance downtown, an escaped slave loses her daughter just before finding $7.50 acting edition freedom. This musical by Pulitzer Prize–winner Paula Vogel and Daryl ISBN: 978-0-8222-2376-4 Waters intertwines many lives, showing us that the gladness of one’s heart is the best gift of all. THE STORY: Years ago, Veronica Jonkers departed for the big city in the brave New South Africa, set on making her dreams of fame and THE REVIEWS: “Ms. Vogel manages to humanize most of her many fortune come true. In COMING HOME, Veronica returns to Nieu characters in a few crisp strokes of dialogue, so they come across as Bethesda several years later to die of AIDS, but she is determined to full-blooded people, glimpsed clearly if quickly, rather than talking first secure a future for her child, bright word-loving little Mannetjie. statues in a historical diorama.” —NY Times. “Artfully weaves his- After a rocky beginning, Veronica’s childhood playmate and school toric details into the play [and] pulls it together with economical writ- friend Alfred agrees to marry Veronica and take care of Mannetjie, but ing that reflects the poetry of the day.” —Variety. “Deep-rooted and Mannetjie resents Alfred’s intrusion into the close relationship he has ambitious…a fascinating interface of history and fiction…boldly with his mother. The ghost of old Buks Jonkers, Veronica’s beloved inventive theater, warm and affecting.” —Talkin’ Broadway. grandfather, appears to Veronica and to Mannetjie, teaching them how to appreciate the miracle of life, how it is part of God’s Plan and that one has to take the good with the bad and learn to survive. With his elders’ guidance, Mannetjie will, in turn, learn that the harsh realities Colorado of life can be softened by hope and redemption. by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

Dark Comedy THE REVIEWS: “COMING HOME quietly condemns the shameful Full Length policies of the South African government, which failed to confront the 2 men, 2 women reality of AIDS or to offer the necessary drugs to its impoverished cit- $75 per performance izens as they became available, resulting in untold thousands of unnec- $7.50 acting edition essary deaths. But as always with Mr. Fugard, censure of policy comes ISBN: 978-0-8222-2371-9 only through careful observation of its human costs. Mr. Fugard doesn’t need to raise his voice, or even have Veronica raise hers, to make his THE STORY: “I want to use this crown to change the world! If I can points.” —NY Times. “Ghosts fill Athol Fugard’s COMING HOME, a just change one life, one little insignificant life, I think it will justify haunting yet clear-eyed play of lost dreams…There’s the ghost of the the beauty that God has given me.” So ends the victory speech of new South Africa set in stark contrast to its harsh, heartbreaking seventeen-year-old Tracey Ackhart upon her coronation as Miss Late reality today. And then there’s the spirit of a playwright whose works Teen Colorado. Alas, a day before the national pageant in Virginia served as a moral beacon prior to Apartheid’s fall in the 1990s. [Fugard] Beach, Tracey disappears, hurling the rest of her family, whose lives raises that authoritative voice through the power of plain-speaking sto- until then had revolved around her, into disarray. Grace and Ron, Tracey’s rytelling. The political and social themes may be buried beneath the mismatched parents, differ in the way they cope. Travis, Tracey’s awk- modest tale of return and redemption, but make no doubt about it, they ward, sexually awakening younger brother, is unsure how to feel about are burning at the molten core of his latest play…creates a lasting a sister who ruthlessly tormented him. The ties of family begin to fray, impression and an influence that continue to be felt well beyond the flashbacks uncover mystery, and startling discoveries and revelations stage.” —Variety. “The poignant but humor-laced drama COMING hurtle the entire family towards an emotional abyss. Darker memories HOME is a tale of hope and the loving bonds of family and friend- emerge, nervous breakdowns erupt, the cause of Tracey’s disappearance ship…Fugard’s image-rich and lyrical text, as well as the actions and is uncovered. COLORADO is a sharp, dark comedy tinged with tragedy reactions of his well-defined characters, are fully realized.” —Hartford and sadness. It’s a play about disappointment American-style, the Courant. “Fugard has always written plays about ideas…presented dreams of a family, and the traps set to keep those dreams far, far away. through flesh-and-blood people who spar with each other, prodding, poking, and preserving their humanity against nearly impossible odds.” THE REVIEWS: “Funny, sassy and often penetrating…Nachtrieb has —New Haven Independent. “…[this] poignant drama is a testament to a keen eye for the ridiculous excesses in American culture and a finely the resilience and bravery of richly drawn characters hovering between tuned ear for comically contorted or flatly self-absorbed locutions.” life and death.” —Norwalk Hour. “It’s because of scenes like these that —San Francisco Chronicle. “Those with a global view and an NPR one returns to the theater time after time. [Fugard] has a gifted eye for membership would say Peter Sinn Nachtrieb has his finger on the pulse locating (and putting into words!) such moments of touching vulnera- of the suburban zeitgeist. Since it’s just us, though, let’s say Nachtrieb bility and humanity that, in this case, move one to reevaluate people knows what’s under the stadium blanket in the Volvo, and behind the who appear to fit a certain preconceived mold.” —Yale Daily News.

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Death by Fatal Murder made up a championship doubles team. When they meet again at the by Peter Gordon U.S. Open, the women—now at the end of their lives—find themselves trying to make sense of the professional partnership that brought them Comedy/Thriller to the top of the sports world in their youth. Full Length 4 men, 4 women $75 per performance $15.50 acting edition Dividing the Estate ISBN: 978-0-8567-6292-5 by Horton Foote

THE STORY: Inspector Pratt’s record of crime detection at Bagshot Comedy House is not enviable. In his two previous visits, chronicled in Full Length Murdered to Death and Secondary Cause of Death, the body count 4 men, 9 women mounted disastrously as he looked on, helpless and hopeless! Now he $75 per performance is back and, as usual, chaos reigns supreme. During the course of his $7.50 acting edition latest investigations, Pratt meets the new owner of the house, Nancy ISBN: 978-0-8222-2398-6 Allwright and soon he is embroiled in more mystery, aided and abetted by Miss Maple and Constable Thomkins. Upper-crust Ginny and THE STORY: Matriarch Stella Gordon is determined not to divide her Italian gigolo Enzo help with inquiries, but danger soon looms with an 100-year-old Texas estate, despite her family’s declining wealth and unexpected arrival and a frightening suggestion by Welsh busybody, the looming financial crisis. But her three children have another plan. Blodwyn Morgan. Old resentments and sibling rivalries surface as the members of this hilariously dysfunctional family go head to head to see who might claim the biggest piece of the pie in DIVIDING THE ESTATE.

Deathbed THE REVIEWS: “DIVIDING THE ESTATE goes for laughs and suc- by Mark Schultz ceeds, and at the same time comments on more sweeping notions of Drama avarice, entitlement and carpetbagging karma.” —NY Daily News. Full Length “Horton Foote’s DIVIDING THE ESTATE—about a rapacious Southern 5 men, 4 women family tangling over finances—contains echoes of Cat on a Hot Tin $75 per performance Roof and The Little Foxes, but its elegiac tone and rich humor clearly $7.50 acting edition reflect the spirit of its playwright.” —NY Post. “DIVIDING THE ISBN: 978-0-8222-2334-4 ESTATE will draw you into its drawing room and the shadows beyond with the theatrical equivalent of a page-turner, capturing your undi- THE STORY: Martha has cancer and demands attention. Danny doesn’t vided attention as you hang on its teasing turmoil in guiltlessly glad want to deal. Thomas has things he’d like to forget. Steven loves too complicity.” —Bloomberg.com. much. Susan feels betrayed. Martin is confused. And Ian wants to know what death is really like. Standing at the intersection of death, desire, memory and disease, how can we reasonably articulate our own pain in the face of another’s suffering? Maybe it’s just easier to read a book. East 10th Street: Self Portrait with Empty And have a sandwich. House by Edgar Oliver THE REVIEWS: “…a coolly thoughtful and taut meditation by the stylish playwright Mark Schultz…Mr. Schultz writes with a miniatur- Drama ist’s sense of scale. Following the lead of Mamet and Albee, he prunes Full Length his dialogue to one- and two-word sentences (pronouns are the first to 1 man go) and builds deceptively complex exchanges out of short, punchy $75 per performance $7.50 acting edition scenes.” —NY Times. “A moving comedy-drama blessed with a splen- ISBN: 978-0-8222-2387-0 did production…Schultz creates a quirky, occasionally funny threnody on the painful uncertainties of life and the lure and mystery of death.” THE STORY: Edgar Oliver weaves a fantastical and hilarious voyage —BackStage. “Shrewd and funny.” —Village Voice. “[Schultz] has a through the dark and strange rooms of his East Village tenement biting disregard for self-pity and a paradoxically spectacular grasp on building, inhabited by a dwarf cabalist, a possible Nazi, the landlord’s grief.” —Time Out. former wet nurse and other memorable persons. Edgar leads the audience up to the final room, his own, at the top of the derelict stairs, wherein lie the secrets of his family and the unbelievable Deuce odyssey that brought him there. by Terrence McNally THE REVIEWS: “It’s hard to imagine anyone like him, with a similar set Comedy/Drama of stories…sweet and sinister…[Oliver is] a living work of theater all Full Length by himself.” —NY Times. “…outrageous…with murderous house- 2 men, 3 women mates, oddball ghost stories and late-night debauchery. [Edgar Oliver is] $75 per performance a seasoned storyteller…” —Show Business Weekly. “…an outlandish $7.50 acting edition cast, worthy of Dostoyevsky…creepy and droll beyond words…a pitch- ISBN: 978-0-8222-3021-2 perfect delivery…profoundly affecting.” —NY Press. “Nowhere do the lines between legend and history, living and haunting, so noticeably THE STORY: Warmly funny and unexpectedly touching, DEUCE tells the blur…a bewitching presence…” —BackStage. “…unsentimental yet story of retired tennis stars Leona Mullen and Midge Barker, who once utterly captivating…sadness mixed with the barest hint of ghoulish

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glee…EAST 10TH STREET manages to take you into another world.” Fifty Words —New Theater Corps. by Michael Weller

Drama Full Length Farragut North 1 man, 1 woman by Beau Willimon $75 per performance $7.50 acting edition Drama ISBN: 978-0-8222-2348-1 Full Length 5 men, 2 women THE STORY: While their nine-year-old son is away for the night on his $75 per performance first sleepover, Adam and Jan have an evening alone together, their $7.50 acting edition first in years. Adam’s attempt to seduce his wife before he leaves on ISBN: 978-0-8222-2357-3 business the next day begins a suspenseful nightlong roller-coaster ride of revelation, rancor, passion and humor that explores a modern- THE STORY: Stephen Bellamy is a wunderkind press secretary who has day marriage on the verge of either a breakup or deepening love and built a career that men twice his age would envy. During a tight presiden- understanding. tial primary race, Stephen’s meteoric rise falls prey to the backroom politics of more seasoned operatives. FARRAGUT NORTH is a timely story THE REVIEWS: “Mr. Weller is a bold and productive dramatist.” about the lust for power and the costs one will endure to achieve it. —NY Times. “The best thing about Weller’s play is that it offers no easy answers for making a relationship work. Its shades of gray are less THE REVIEWS: “FARRAGUT NORTH is juicy entertainment. [A] whip- than comforting but realistic as husband and wife struggle to describe smart insider look at the soul-sucking world of political campaigns…the and resolve their complex feelings for each other.” —International play’s taut scenes crackle with pithy talk, gripping plot turns and intrigu- Herald Tribune. ing revelations.” —Variety. “You will find yourself drawn into FARRAGUT NORTH, Beau Willimon’s supremely entertaining dissection of the machi- nations behind getting elected.” —Associated Press. “If you think the race for the presidency is over, step into the world of FARRAGUT Flight NORTH. Beau Willimon’s juicy and timely drama is a potent reminder by Charlayne Woodard that, like Hollywood, politics is a high-stakes game where one wrong Drama liaison can finish you off.” —NY Daily News. “Willimon writes freshly Full Length about ravenous political appetites. He’s attuned to the circuitry of polit- 2 men, 4 women (flexible casting) ical careerists, to the ego-stroking access they seek and the particular $75 per performance ways they seek it.” —Washington Post. $7.50 acting edition ISBN: 978-0-8222-2330-6

THE STORY: In 1858, on a plantation in Georgia, a young mother is Fault Lines suddenly sold, leaving behind her husband and their five-year-old son. by Stephen Belber Through a magical evening of storytelling, music and dance, the Comedy/Drama enslaved community comes together, not only to comfort father and Full Length son but to heal and strengthen themselves. FLIGHT is an inspirational 3 men, 1 woman theatrical experience for the whole family. These empowering stories, $75 per performance based on actual slave narratives, as well as African and African- $7.50 acting edition American folktales, celebrate the African-American oral tradition as it ISBN: 978-0-8222-2347-4 passes from generation to generation…to you.

THE STORY: When Jim and Bill get together to celebrate Bill’s thirty- THE REVIEWS: “Woodard’s drama is about the toll that slavery took ninth birthday, they meet Joe, who’s slightly older and odder, and their on the human soul of blacks as well as the tools they employed to boys’ night out quickly turns sour. Whole Foods, mini-hot dogs and withstand the pain and triumph over it. Its universal themes and over- Edie Brickell abound as together they attempt to delineate loyalty, all message transcend race, ethnicity and class.” —Pittsburgh conviction and betrayal. Tribune-Review. “There’s no denying its soaring power.” —Variety. “Woodard’s vibrant voice comes through, particularly during the enact- THE REVIEWS: “A cautionary comedy about the fragility of friend- ment of her own versions of African and African-American fables and ship.” —NY Daily News. “Crackles with terrific dialogue, expertly folk tales that are salty, soulful and alive with wit.” —LA Times. delivered.” —NY Post. “FAULT LINES, a sly and extremely satisfying “Woodard superbly weaves these tales into the slaves’ own new work…is not only cleverly constructed, it’s also very funny. lives…They remind us that we don’t need props, sets, costumes and Punctuated with laughs that come out of character, rather than out of huge casts to provide the stories told so exquisitely by this gorgeous joke lines, this is a show that deserves to run and run—provided crit- collection of griots. Flight is a giant step for Charlayne Woodard who, ics and audience members don’t give too much away and ruin it for after three solo autobiographical plays, proves that she can skillfully future playgoers.” —Talkin’ Broadway. “For a while, one wonders if create a dramatic funny ensemble piece.” —CurtainUp. “A deeply felt the playwright is simply planning a threesome variation on Edward work, marked by the same talent for storytelling with which Woodard Albee’s The Zoo Story; but happily for the audience, he’s concocted has endowed her solo performance shows.” —Talkin’ Broadway. something far more intricate—a play that will have spectators literally “Heartbreaking…The revelation of Woodard’s Flight is the play- gasping as surprise succeeds surprise.” —TheaterMania.com. wright’s knockout ability to recount a tale.” —LA Daily News. “Brittle, blunt and also wonderfully cryptic… Belber’s riveting play defies expectations at every turn.” —CurtainUp.

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The Framer The Gingerbread House by Edward Allan Baker by Mark Schultz

Dark Comedy Dark Comedy Full Length Full Length 4 men, 2 women 4 men, 3 women $75 per performance $75 per performance $7.50 acting edition $7.50 acting edition ISBN: 978-0-8222-2326-9 ISBN: 978-0-8222-2404-4

THE STORY: A frame shop in a southern New England town is the set- THE STORY: Brian and Stacey want a better life, the life they ting for this tragicomedy in which a dying man toils ceaselessly in deserve. Raising two children has left them unsatisfied, running back order to leave his once-abused wife some postmortem financial secu- and forth endlessly from work to Little League games. To advance rity. He unwittingly experiences the emotional and physical brutality of their careers and penetrate the secretive ranks of “The Club,” the his past, motivating him to sincerely atone for his sins—but his plan beleaguered parents propose to ditch their little bundles of responsi- to repent is sidetracked by his high-strung loser brother-in-law. bility. With the aid of Brian’s friend Marco acting as broker, they’ll sell their kids to Albanian buyers. THE REVIEWS: “Baker deals with mortality and tragic influences by creating characters that are brutally honest, fascinatingly quirky, and THE REVIEWS: “Mark Schultz’s morality play THE GINGERBREAD jaded enough to find humor in almost anything.” —ELJNYC.com. HOUSE is a devilish comedy so brimstone-black as to make Jakob and “There is an exuberant creativity in Edward Allan Baker’s THE FRAMER.” Wilhelm Grimm’s ‘Hansel and Gretel’ (to which the play alludes) sound —TheaterMania.com. “Baker, with a talent for good old-fashioned like a limerick by Pat Boone…Schultz has created unforgettable char- storytelling and a flair for robust humor, turns it all into some two acters with unforgivable behavior.” —NYTheatre.com. “It’s a darkly hours of totally arresting theatre…entertaining, seething stew of a funny, sometimes chilling, comedy with shades of Edward domestic drama.” —BackStage. Albee…Schultz’s dialogue is whip-smart.” —NY Daily News.

Geometry of Fire God of Carnage by Stephen Belber by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher

Drama Hampton Full Length Comedy 3 men, 1 woman Full Length $75 per performance 2 men, 2 women $7.50 acting edition $75 per performance ISBN: 978-0-8222-2406-8 $7.50 acting edition ISBN: 978-0-8222-2399-3 THE STORY: In this play based on a true story, we find an investment- banker-turned-Marine-sniper recently returned from Iraq and a Saudi- THE STORY: A playground altercation between eleven-year-old boys American who just wants to get laid. In any other world, these two brings together two sets of Brooklyn parents for a meeting to resolve guys would be best friends. But when their lives collide in this one, the matter. At first, diplomatic niceties are observed, but as the each is forced to survive on the fly. meeting progresses, and the rum flows, tensions emerge and the gloves come off, leaving the couples with more than just their liber- THE REVIEWS: “There are no heroics in this edgy drama about a al principles in tatters. Marine who comes home from Iraq with a bad case of post-combat stress. There’s no glory, either, in the sad story of how he alienates THE REVIEWS: Winner of the 2009 Tony Award. “[A] streamlined friends and menaces strangers. What the play has, instead, is sub- anatomy of the human animal…delivers the cathartic release of stance and purpose—and plenty of guts. Tough subject matter is pre- watching other people’s marriages go boom. A study in the tension sented with few compromises.” —Variety. “[Stephen Belber] writes between civilized surface and savage instinct, this play is itself a fluid, naturalistic dialogue and shapes his characters with satisfyingly primitive entertainment.” —NY Times. “Elegant, acer- care…Smartly woven…quietly probing.” —NY Times. “Starting out bic and entertainingly fueled on pure bile. It’s Reza’s sharpest work slow, ultimately reaching a climax of dizzying heights, raw, haunting since ‘Art’.” —Variety. “Brutally entertaining…in another of emotion is very apparent in Belber’s script…a very powerful com- Christopher Hampton’s exquisite translations, [Reza] cannily manip- mentary on the state of the (post-Iraq) world.” —NYTheatre.com. ulates social observations that appeal to vast audiences and cre- “[GEOMETRY OF FIRE] sees the daily skirmishes at home as important ates characters that bring out the best in actors.” —NY Newsday. as those waged on foreign soil…bold strokes that, for once, result in “Reza has established herself as a master [of] magnificently con- something more provocative than just another paint-by-numbers inter- structed plays.” —Entertainment Weekly. pretation of a difficult and nuanced conflict.” —Talkin’ Broadway.

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The Golden State ing into a world of panic and greed. Witty, smart and wildly satirical, by Lauren Wilson, inspired by Molière’s The Miser this timely and spirited adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s classic play exposes the corruption of a provincial town with biting hilarity. Comedy (Reduced cast version also available.) Full Length 3 men, 5 women (doubling) $75 per performance THE REVIEWS: “…a comedy of galumphing, harrumphing hilarity. $7.50 acting edition One part farce, one part slapstick, with a dash of musical theater, this ISBN: 978-0-8222-2329-0 naughty, frothy play is wholly entertaining…[A] clever, fearless script…[The] characters feel contemporary in a show where official THE STORY: In her dilapidated Southern California mansion, ignorance and incompetence are compounded by corruption and Gertrude Hopper rules over her adult children and illegal servants hubris.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune. “A first-rate farce…Hatcher is with an iron fist. With a fortune in her bra and a maternal instinct an inspired choice to take a fresh run at this material, not least warped by the profit motive, Gertrude plans to marry off her son and because his writing is so consistently deft and funny, swinging wildly farm out her daughter’s womb to a wealthy widow. Her plans run in tone from one line to the next…a mountain of firecracker witti- aground, however, as her children make a final, desperate bid for love cisms.” —CityPages.com. and independence in this twenty-first-century reinvention of Molière’s classic comedy The Miser.

THE REVIEWS: “The characters are deftly drawn, the comedy builds Great Falls to hilarious peaks…Wilson’s update of Molière is cogent and caution- by Lee Blessing ary.” —San Francisco Chronicle. “As compelling as it is relevant. Very Drama witty and very unorthodox…” —LA’s the Place. “A very contemporary Full Length comic romp…Pulls no punches…” —BackStage West. 1 man, 1 woman $75 per performance $7.50 acting edition The Good Negro ISBN: 978-0-8222-2323-8 by Tracey Scott Wilson THE STORY: A man lost in his adult life drives across the West with Drama his stepdaughter—a young girl at the beginning of hers. The broken Full Length ground is echoed by their broken past. He’s trying to fit together a new 7 men, 2 women life using pieces of the old; she’s just trying to survive. Two characters, $75 per performance Bitch and Monkey Man (the only names the young girl will allow), $7.50 acting edition roam through the northern Rockies on a long loop from home, with two ISBN: 978-0-8222-2380-1 very different agendas. In a series of increasingly desperate attempts to rescue something from the wreckage of divorce, they test how THE STORY: In THE GOOD NEGRO, three emerging black leaders try much they can trust each other—or whether they can ever trust each to conquer their individual demons as the local KKK fights for its old other again. Along the way darker and darker secrets emerge, and the way of life, and everyday black men and women must overcome their questions they face ineluctably become those of life and death. fears—all under the ever-watchful eye of the FBI. THE REVIEWS: “[GREAT FALLS]…reminded me that writers today THE REVIEWS: “Skillful new historical drama…In hindsight the ulti- can create plays that address lasting and universal human issues.” mate triumph of the civil rights movement seems inevitable, the bright —Citybeat.com. “Blessing’s pointedly symbolic, impeccably paced sun of enlightenment inevitably burning through clouds of ignorance scenes unfold like a road map…certainly the best-crafted play of the and injustice. Ms. Wilson reminds us how precarious it seemed at the [2008 Humana] festival.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “…a great time, as each day brought new evidence of human fear and cruelty and play…outstanding and searingly honest.” —Lexington Herald-Leader. weakness. The play does not diminish the actors in the struggle by exploring its psychic costs; on the contrary, to see them as troubled, sometime troublesome human beings makes their achievement shine ever brighter.” —NY Times. The Hallelujah Girls by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten

Comedy The Government Inspector Full Length 2 men, 6 women adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the original $75 per performance by Nikolai Gogol $7.50 acting edition ISBN: 978-0-8222-2378-8 Comedy Full Length 10 men, 7 women THE STORY: Hilarity abounds when the feisty females of Eden Falls, $75 per performance Georgia, decide to shake up their lives. The action in this rollicking $7.50 acting edition Southern comedy takes place in SPA-DEE-DAH!, the abandoned ISBN: 978-0-8222-2337-5 church-turned-day-spa where this group of friends gathers every Friday afternoon. After the loss of a dear friend, the women realize THE STORY: When the locals in a small Russian hamlet learn that an time is precious, and if they’re going to change their lives and achieve undercover government inspector is coming for a surprise visit, an their dreams, they have to get on it now! But Sugar Lee, their high- unfortunate case of mistaken identity sends the whole village spiral- spirited, determined leader, has her hands full keeping the women

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motivated. Carlene’s given up on romance, having buried three hus- tion of the woman who would be president offers a refreshingly funny bands. Nita’s a nervous wreck from running interference between her and unexpected interpretation of HRC’s life in politics by taking the problematic son and his probation officer. Mavis’ marriage is so stag- form of a Greek tragedy…who’d have thought we’d be sorry to see nant she’s wondering how she can fake her own death to get out of it. the show end?” —Variety. “Surprisingly—and eerily—the Greek- And sweet, simple Crystal entertains them all, singing Christmas car- tragedy conceit works well with this epic figure…Weiner does an ols with her own hilarious lyrics. The comic tension mounts when a impressive job of mining the media detritus of the Clinton years—the sexy ex-boyfriend shows up unexpectedly, a marriage proposal comes stained dress, the Starr Report, Bill’s penchant for fast food—for the from an unlikely suitor and Sugar Lee’s archrival vows she’ll stop at right materials to paint a portrait that is both loving and lacerating.” nothing to steal the spa away from her. By the time the women rally —The New Yorker. “The play merges elements of Greek tragedy together to overcome these obstacles and launch their new, improved (including a chorus) with real-life events to create a screwball version of lives, you’ve got a side-splitting, joyful comedy that will make you recent history. It works remarkably well…It feels fresh at the same time laugh out loud and shout “Hallelujah!” that it feels like a flashback…The laughs come steadily.” —NY Times. “No story is played out if it’s played right. Despite two years of having Ms. Rodham Clinton shoved in our faces at all times, Wendy Weiner’s Mount Olympus spin on Hillary is cringingly, groaningly Hedda Gabler fantastic…There’s more than just laughs. To Weiner’s credit, tragic by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Brian Friel flaws, an epic journey, and a kind of catharsis manage to come Drama through…If only the campaign had been so succinct.” —BackStage. Full Length “One could see this play remaining relevant fifteen years from now, 3 men, 4 women not only as a political or historical document, but as a portrait of a $75 per performance compelling character uniquely of our time.” —NYTheatre.com. $7.50 acting edition ISBN: 978-0-8222-2379-5

THE STORY: Hedda Gabler returns, dissatisfied, from a long honey- Hunter Gatherers moon. Bored by her aspiring-academic husband, she foresees a life of by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb tedious convention. And so, aided and abetted by her predatory confi- Dark Comedy dante, Judge Brack, she begins to manipulate the fates of those Full Length around her to devastating effect. 2 men, 2 women $75 per performance THE REVIEWS: “Brian Friel’s new version—taking liberties that only $7.50 acting edition a master playwright might—invests Ibsen’s social realist original with ISBN: 978-0-8222-2372-6 psychological realism, presenting the harridan’s gradual mental break- down as a physiological consequence of an entirely inflexible social THE STORY: Pam and Richard are hosting their best friends, Wendy milieu. Friel finds wry humour in historical hindsight; however, while and Tom, for their annual dinner get-together. An animal sacrifice kicks the dated attitudes of Hedda’s husband, lovers and lady companions off the evening, followed by a little more sex, violence, deception, rev- provoke laughter from a contemporary audience, Hedda’s final actions elations, wrestling and dancing than previous years. A darkly comic become an almost logical defense against a world that refuses her evening where the line between civilized and primal man is blurred, agency. Crucially, they still have the capacity to shock.” —Irish Times. and where not everyone will survive long enough to enjoy the brown- “[Brian Friel] has taken Ibsen’s play and given it his own twist. His ies for dessert. translation enlivens the dialogue between the characters, gives the play energy and brings out a wry and dark humour for a modern audi- THE REVIEWS: “Outrageously libidinous knockabout farce meets ence.” —RTE.ie penetrating social satire in Peter Nachtrieb’s hilariously revelatory comedy, an almost two-hour laugh riot.” —San Francisco Chronicle. “With abundant irony and well-turned barbs, Nachtrieb’s sharply crafted dialogue follows in Edward Albee’s footsteps, peeling away layers Hillary: A Modern Greek Tragedy with a of well-mannered repression and hypocrisy as the foursome succumb (Somewhat) Happy Ending to their basest impulses.” —LA Times. “[Nachtrieb’s] in possession of by Wendy Weiner a genuine talent for queasy absurdism that produces generous flashes of original off-kilter wit.” —Variety. ”A shocker, but the amazing Comedy thing about this San Francisco–bred work is how the playwright elic- Full Length its a cockeyed sort of empathy for the flipped-out characters who 3 men, 5 women (doubling) inhabit this unnerving dramatic universe.” —BackStage. “Like a $75 per performance mash-up of the most brutal episode of Wild Kingdom and any episode $7.50 acting edition ISBN: 978-0-8222-2375-7 of South Park.” —San Francisco Bay Guardian. “As sophisticated in its worldview as it is barbaric in its energy.” —San Francisco Weekly. THE STORY: Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, and Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, have been at war since time immemorial. When a young girl named Hillary Rodham devotes herself to Athena alone, Aphrodite takes revenge by having her fall in love with a man of mythical charm and appetites: Bill Clinton.

THE REVIEWS: “HILLARY is that all-too-rare political play that merrily ignores all the expectations and opinions around it. Far from whipping the dead horse of the Clinton campaign, Wendy Weiner’s clever dissec-

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Impressionism Katherine Desouza by Michael Jacobs by Nick Stafford

Comedy/Drama Drama Full Length Full Length 4 men, 4 women 3 men, 1 woman $75 per performance $75 per performance $7.50 acting edition $7.50 acting edition ISBN: 978-0-8222-2386-3 ISBN: 978-0-8222-2362-7

THE STORY: IMPRESSIONISM is set in the small art gallery of THE STORY: Katherine Desouza is missing, possibly murdered. Katharine Keenan, where she and her assistant, Thomas Buckle, have Possibly by Kevin, possibly not. Languishing in prison for a series of been hiding from a world that has shattered them. Thomas has been killings of which he claims to be innocent, Kevin’s regular visitor is his hurt by what he’s seen behind his camera as a world-traveling photo- old flame Fay. Katherine’s father befriends Fay to establish the truth journalist, and Katherine has been disappointed by incredibly failed behind his daughter’s disappearance. But who is being used, and who relationships. Through gradually opening up to each other, they find is playing the mind games? that love is not always painted in the style of Realism, and they discover the art of repairing broken lives. THE REVIEWS: “It is Stafford’s mission to suspend you in a constant state of uncertainty: He unwinds a skein of conversations in which THE REVIEWS: “Sit back and enjoy the play’s brazen sweetness and everything you are told has to be taken on trust, yet none of the char- openhearted humor.” —The New Yorker. “[IMPRESSIONISM] prac- acters is entirely to be trusted…each scene subtly erodes the assump- tices the art of romantic comedy with a nice mix of pathos, intellect, tions behind the one before, until the only remaining certainty seems to and wit.” —Entertainment Weekly. “Extremely funny and immensely be that the most we can ever know about another person is whatever touching.” —Talk Entertainment. “I enjoyed IMPRESSIONISM more tissue of falsehoods they choose to wrap themselves in.” —Guardian than any other new play on Broadway this season.” —NYTheatre.com. (London). “It is a play of moral ambiguity, of big questions with no “A mature, intelligent and witty play about love and art.” —New answers, of loneliness, of uncertainty, of a certain justice, of elements Jersey Courier. of tragedy and redemption…” —BBC.co.uk.

Jailbait Kicking a Dead Horse by Deirdre O’Connor by Sam Shepard

Comedy/Drama Drama Full Length Full Length 2 men, 2 women 1 man, 1 woman $75 per performance $75 per performance $7.50 acting edition $7.50 acting edition ISBN: 978-0-8222-2403-7 ISBN: 978-0-8222-2336-8

THE STORY: Through the course of one dizzying night at a club, JAIL- THE STORY: The play begins with a man alone in a desert landscape BAIT follows the parallel stories of two fifteen-year-old girls, desper- digging a grave. Hobart Struther’s horse has just dropped dead. He ate to grow up, and two thirty-something men who are looking to be stands there in the vast open desert trying to figure out what to do twenty-one again. High-school sophomores Claire and Emmy make a about his predicament. Every once in a while, he gives the corpse an game of posing as college students in order to meet older men. Brash audible kick for having let him down. Struther made his fortune buying bachelor Mark thinks a night out with attractive girls will be just what paintings for $20 from Wyoming saloons and reselling them for mil- his friend Robert needs to recover from his recent breakup. When this lions. In the throes of some midlife crisis, he has abandoned his wife unlikely foursome collides, they discover some surprising and danger- and his posh life for a “grand sojourn”—what will turn out to be a ous compatibilities. But when Emmy encounters the sexual expecta- doomed “quest for authenticity.” In an eighty-minute monologue, the tions of the slick Mark, and Claire finds herself surprisingly drawn to former art dealer laments his situation. He engages in a debate the heartbroken Robert, both girls must decide how far they are will- between his cynical side and the ingenuous one. He discusses what ing to go while playing at adulthood. Smart, funny, and disturbing, path brought him here in the first place, the fate of his marriage, his JAILBAIT asks the question: When do you really become an adult? career, politics and eventually the nature of the universe.

THE REVIEWS: “…a terrific little play that finds something funny, THE REVIEWS: “It is wonderful to hear these fresh words from one shocking and sad about two fifteen-year-old girls who grow up fast of our true American playwrights.” —CurtainUp. “The brilliance of when they con their way into a Boston club…O’Connor is amazingly KICKING A DEAD HORSE is in the infinite reverberations Shepard good at rendering the tonal pitch and vocal rhythms of overheard dia- extracts from his simple metaphor.” —TheaterMania. “This deeply logue…” —Variety. “…a complicated and darkly comic cautionary instinctual and intuitive artist here seems to be giving fullest rein to tale about the illusion of intimacy at any age…keenly honed dialogue, his intellect.” —NY Times. punctuated by little lies and poignant pauses.” —Time Out. “O’Connor provides a humorous take on the excitement and pitfalls of dating at any age, through a nightclub visit for four singles that will change each in different ways.” —Associated Press. “[O’Connor’s] flavorful dialogue aptly captures adolescence peering into maturity, and the exchanges amongst all four actors are natural-sounding and often quite funny, but never in a preciously designed manner.” —TheaterOnline.com.

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King of Shadows THE REVIEWS: “…a most effective vehicle…an explosion of inspired by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa craziness…I can’t recall the last time I laughed so hard…” —Wall Street Journal. “This shaggy poodle story…is Feydeau at his Thriller silliest…in which a maze lurks behind every door and cases of mistak- Full Length en identity multiply like May-flies.” —NY Times. “…delirious absurd 2 men, 2 women $75 per performance madness…giving us the opportunity to laugh in abandon for two full $7.50 acting edition hours…simply brilliant, a comic confection…Ohh la, la, I loved every ISBN: 978-0-8222-2356-6 minute of it.” —Democrat and Chronicle. “…a comic minefield…the marriage of a bourgeois doctor and his much younger wife endures a THE STORY: In this urban thriller loosely inspired by A Midsummer series of disasters, nudged at the start like a row of dominoes whose Night’s Dream, a fifteen-year-old runaway named Nihar is living on the fall picks up speed through two hilarious acts…” —Indianapolis Star. streets, hustling to survive. When he meets a well-intentioned (and “A wickedly funny French farce…one of the funniest plays I have seen well-off) graduate student named Jessica, he tells her an unbelievable in years…this is as close to ROTFL (rolling on the floor laughing) as you story—there is a mythical world beneath our world, ruled by the King will probably ever experience.” —Berkshire Fine Arts. “This is one com- of Shadows. Nihar claims the terrifying, demon-like creature is hunt- edy you won’t want to miss…be prepared to laugh so hard your sides ing San Francisco’s homeless population, trying to find him. Can will hurt.” —North Adams Transcript. “…boils over with the classic Jessica protect Nihar? Will she? And could the boy somehow…possi- earmarks of period farce…hilarious…a bona fide regional theatre bly…be telling the truth? The answers in this unsettling play have blockbuster.” —Salt Lake Tribune. frightening repercussions for both Jessica and Nihar, as well as for Jessica’s boyfriend, Eric, and her sister, Sarah.

THE REVIEWS: “Sci-fi and horror are not genres you often Lady encounter on the legitimate stage. Yet in KING OF SHADOWS, by Craig Wright Aguirre-Sacasa has concocted a diverting and intriguing thriller by Drama blending elements of Shakespeare and Stephen King…The play- Full Length wright is very adept at building a sense of mystery, cleverly feeding 3 men bits of new information to deepen it as the play unfolds…Just as the $75 per performance audience thinks it has the whole picture figured out, Aguirre-Sacasa $7.50 acting edition adds more pieces to the puzzle, leading to a series of twists at the ISBN: 978-0-8222-2344-3 end.” —NY Times. “Both trick and treat, the play’s tightly plotted twists and naturalistic dialogue stay so consistently engrossing it THE STORY: Deep in the woods of Illinois, three childhood friends come doesn’t occur to you until the end of the evening that the little four- together for their annual hunting trip. Now middle-aged, divided by their hander is actually a remarkably ambitious fantasy…KING OF SHAD- changing political attitudes, and facing mortality in a number of guises, OWS is a gift to the audience…” —Variety. “…stirring…wonder- they find that the common fabric of friendship has been shredded by time. fully walks the line of fantasy and reality with touches of lush imagery, bringing to mind the works of smart fantasy/horror writers THE REVIEWS: “Wright’s script gives [actors] plenty of red meat to like Richard Matheson and Rod Serling. The script moves deliberately shred…[Wright] cleverly nests his political angst inside an examina- for much of the first act, carefully introducing us to the four richly tion of friendship, fuzzy memories and shifting values…LADY leads drawn characters. By intermission, we are deeply involved with the you deep into the dark thickets of male camaraderie turned bitter and plight of each one. The tension-filled second act zips by at a rapid deadly.” —Time Out. “…tremendously moving…During George W. pace.” —NYTheatre.com. Bush’s two presidential terms, a lot of performers and filmmakers have ridiculed him and his staff, but his administration’s views have rarely been personified with such forthright precision.” —NY Times. “Wright writes crackling dialogue peppered with meaningful pauses and likely The Ladies Man to take unsettling turns. And while his stories take on major issues, he by Georges Feydeau, freely translated and adapted has us view them through a darkly comic and very personal lens…” from Tailleur pour dames by Charles Morey —CurtainUp. “…provocative and nuanced dark comedy.” —NY Sun.

Comedy Full Length 4 men, 4 women The Language of Trees $75 per performance by Steven Levenson $7.50 acting edition ISBN: 978-0-8222-2389-4 Drama Full Length THE STORY: In Belle Époque Paris, the recently married Dr. Hercule 3 men, 2 women Molineaux tells “one, tiny, little, hardly noticeable lie” to cover an $75 per performance innocent but embarrassing indiscretion. From that single untruth tum- $7.50 acting edition bles a cascade of increasingly convoluted deceptions, misunderstand- ISBN: 978-0-8222-2350-4 ings and mistaken identities. Compounding Molineaux’s troubles are a suspicious wife, a gorgon of a mother-in-law, an outrageously aggres- THE STORY: When an American translator ventures to a Middle East sive female patient, her violently jealous Prussian husband, a well- combat zone, an overfriendly neighbor back home volunteers to help intentioned friend with a serious lisp, a valet with attitude, a maid his wife and son as they come to terms with his absence. As events with a secret and more slamming doors than realistic architecture abroad begin to spiral out of control, lives are turned upside down, and should ever accommodate, all adding up to a hilariously zany and all are forced to confront the complexities of war, the fragility of lan- infectiously charming farce. guage, and the meaning of neighborliness in an age of terror.

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THE REVIEWS: “Imaginative and engaging. Plays about the conflict reached each other, but not in the way the audience sees coming.” in Iraq have mostly focused on the experience of soldiers or the politi- —TheaterMania.com. “Linney reminds us that no matter how differ- cians who put them in danger, but Steven Levenson’s sensitive drama ent we may appear to be from one another, as humans we share uni- is welcome for the imaginative sympathy it extends to the families versal emotions that influence our actions, fuel our dreams, and left behind.” —NY Times. “Affecting, stylistically ambitious and cause our pain.” —Electronic Link Journey. poignant. Levenson displays a refreshing willingness to experiment with language and tone.” —Variety. “Impressive and ambitious in scope.” —Associated Press. “Heart-tugging. This keenly scripted drama tells a deeply human tale about connection and communication. Love, Loss and What I Wore Levenson’s tools include sharp, slow-burning dialogue and startling by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron, based on the levels of empathy.” —Time Out. “Riveting. THE LANGUAGE OF TREES book by Ilene Beckerman is full of nail-biting suspense [and] snappy dialogue.” —Village Voice. Comedy/Drama Full Length 5 women (doubling, flexible casting) Leaves $75 per performance $7.50 acting edition by Lucy Caldwell ISBN: 978-0-8222-2355-9 Drama Full Length THE STORY: A play of monologues and ensemble pieces about 1 man, 4 women women, clothes and memory covering all the important subjects— $75 per performance mothers, prom dresses, mothers, buying bras, mothers, hating purses $7.50 acting edition and why we only wear black. Based on the bestselling book by Ilene ISBN: 978-0-8222-2328-3 Beckerman.

THE STORY: After attempting suicide during her first term at univer- THE REVIEWS: “Funny, compelling…Brought down the house…but sity, Lori has come back home. Her parents can’t fathom what has [the play] is not a comedy: A story about black cowboy boots becomes caused the sudden change in their daughter, and her two young sisters a sad tale of being underappreciated in a relationship; a tale of two are confused by their feelings of abandonment and betrayal. A women shopping for their wedding outfits ends bittersweetly; and the poignant family drama, LEAVES displays Lucy Caldwell’s gift for keenly recollection of a new bra is a quiet testament to a women’s search for sensitive observation. dignity while undergoing treatment for breast cancer.” —NY Times. “So funny and so powerful; so dear and sweet; so remindful of our female THE REVIEWS: “Rightly, Caldwell leaves open the source of Lori’s wiles, our worries, our insecurities, our remembrances of mother, father, malaise: It may spring from fears of the global future, Belfast’s strained sisters, brothers, lovers—I think it can’t miss.” —WowOwow.com. normality or London exile. What gives the play its peculiar tang is Caldwell’s sensitivity to the fluctuations of family life…[she] confirms the Tolstoyan truth that all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way…” —Guardian (London). “Spectacularly good…Caldwell has The Most Damaging Wound done a remarkable job of character creation, each one a totally credi- by Blair Singer ble, rounded individual; she also has an extraordinary grasp of the Comedy/Drama reality of suffering, as well as the triggers of self-preserving selfish- Full Length ness.” —Irish Independent. “An unmissable play…This is Lucy 5 men, 1 woman Caldwell’s first full-length play, but it has the maturity, thoughtful com- $75 per performance passion and controlled theatricality of experience.” —Sunday Times $7.50 acting edition (London). “[A] strikingly mature work, both upsetting and, in the end, ISBN: 978-0-8222-2359-7 uplifting.” —Daily Mail (London). THE STORY: On a cold November night, new parent Kenny gathers his college buddies to complete an unfinished rite of passage. The guests include Alan, a pharmaceutical lobbyist; Dicky, a carpet salesman with Love Drunk a big personality and a bigger appetite for the sauce; GG, a new by Romulus Linney restaurateur; and Bo, a former musician. When Alan’s friend Christine Comedy/Drama shows up unexpectedly, the guys discover just how different they are Full Length from the men they aspired to be. Reliving the glory days is not easy in 1 man, 1 woman this Generation X comedy with booze, buddies and breakthroughs. $75 per performance $7.50 acting edition THE REVIEWS: “I found [Singer’s] honesty and raw emotion very ISBN: 978-0-8222-2382-5 refreshing. His treatment of friendship is very well thought out and the relationships among the boys are marked by essential checks and bal- THE STORY: LOVE DRUNK is a comic drama of sex, love and alcohol ances…[a] real roller-coaster ride of emotion and elation. Along the addiction. An older man, having picked up a younger woman in an way, Singer makes us laugh (and I laughed a lot) at their chest-pound- Appalachian diner, takes her to his mountain home, where they battle ing…THE MOST DAMAGING WOUND is dramedy at its funny and their passions, their destinies and each other. touching best.” —NYTheatre.com.

THE REVIEWS: “…consistently intriguing…what begins as a May–December one-night stand evolves into something far more sinister…By the time the lights fade on Wilbur and Karen, they have

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The Muckle Man mysterious death of the house’s owner. It soon becomes clear that the by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa murderer isn’t finished yet, but will the murderer be unmasked before everyone else has met their doom, or will readers and audiences die Thriller laughing first? Full Length 5 men, 2 women $75 per performance $7.50 acting edition My Buddy Bill ISBN: 978-0-8222-2333-7 by Rick Cleveland

THE STORY: Off the icy shores of Newfoundland, on a remote island, Comedy the Clarke family threatens to break apart. The father, Addison, a marine Full Length biologist, desperately pursues the ocean’s most elusive creature— 1 man Architeuthis, the giant squid—while his estranged wife Marina freezes $75 per performance by degrees. Their son Harvey, after a near-drowning, is unable to speak. $7.50 acting edition The family’s grief and isolation are bottomless. Then, inexplicably, from ISBN: 978-0-8222-2338-2 out of the ocean, a man named Arthur walks into their lives…and the order of the natural world starts to collapse around them. Part horror THE STORY: On a visit to the White House, a dog-loving screenwriter story, part myth, THE MUCKLE MAN mixes science with folklore and reprimands Buddy, the First Dog, for piddling on the Oval Office rug. Little domestic drama with high tragedy, to chilling effect. does he know that this canine interaction will spark a lasting friendship with President Clinton and give him a rare and hilarious glimpse into the THE REVIEWS: “You can’t really slap a label on Aguirre-Sacasa’s private life of the most talked about president in history. play, which has no trouble hooking the audience…Explaining what a muckle man is (in case you don’t know) would spoil the plot—a plot THE REVIEWS: “…plenty of humor…[Cleveland] manages to pro- that is, at bottom, a folkloric thriller. Aguirre-Sacasa, who has a frisky vide a pretty convincing glance at a man whose fame and power sense of humor, fashions a swift, dark ending that races like the limit his ability to be fully himself.” —Variety. “…Cleveland is very wind.” —Washington Post. “A fascinating new play…a postmodern good at telling stories, and has a sincerity that is hard to question.” delight…a highly original blend of influences and styles adding up to —CurtainUp. something new and entirely fresh…As in the best stories of Garcia Marquez, [events] in Aguirre-Sacasa’s play quickly become simultane- ously darker and funnier…The playwright’s bright future seems assured.” —Washington Blade. “A smart, crisply written and engross- My Pal George ing sci-fi narrative in which a mysterious creature does what aliens or by Rick Cleveland the unknown usually do, intensify and illuminate human needs and Comedy passions…Aguirre-Sacasa writes so winningly, I fear he’ll be snapped Full Length up for sit-com writing, rather than go on building what promises to be 1 man a fine career as a playwright.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “Like any $75 per performance good thriller, THE MUCKLE MAN sucks you into its world and holds $7.50 acting edition you captive. More than one person at the opening night performance ISBN: 978-0-8222-2339-9 compared its effects to the movie Jaws—without the special effects, of course. The playwright knows how to ratchet up the necessary THE STORY: President Clinton’s unlikely canine consultant finds him- sense of foreboding and inevitability for what is first and foremost a self crossing party lines in this sequel to MY BUDDY BILL. George W. really good example of high-tension storytelling.” —Pittsburgh Bush calls on Clinton’s unofficial advisor to train his Scottish Terrier, Tribune-Review. “THE MUCKLE MAN is a science-fiction mystery, a Barney, not to “urinificate” on White House furnishings. Taking him family-drama, and something of a modern folk tale that draws the from the Lincoln Bedroom to the Crawford Ranch, the task of curing audience in…It is quite easy to admire the imagination and skill of Barney’s incontinence affords us a poignantly funny peek into the pri- this young, prolific playwright.” —Talkin’ Broadway. vate life of Dubya.

Murdered to Death New Jerusalem, The Interrogation of by Peter Gordon Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Comedy/Thriller Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656 Full Length 5 men, 5 women by David Ives $75 per performance Drama $15.50 acting edition Full Length ISBN: 978-0-8567-6105-8 5 men, 2 women $75 per performance THE STORY: This hilarious spoof of the best of Agatha Christie tradi- $7.50 acting edition tions is set in a country manor house in the 1930s, with an assembled ISBN: 978-0-8222-2385-6 cast of characters guaranteed to delight—Bunting, the butler; an English Colonel with the prerequisite stiff upper lip; a shady French art THE STORY: Baruch de Spinoza is a young merchant and the heir dealer and his moll; the bumbling local inspector and a well-meaning apparent of Saul Mortera, the chief Rabbi of Amsterdam. But local sleuth who seems to attract murder wherever she goes—they’re Amsterdam’s Sephardic Jews have made a fatal arrangement with the all here, and all caught up in the side-splitting antics which follow the city: They have agreed to police their own community for unorthodox

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beliefs. When the city accuses Spinoza of atheism, Mortera must sum- makes the SAT as funny as it does; that it finds time to examine a mon Baruch to the synagogue to defend himself. Spinoza’s best friend, number of weighty psychological subjects and imbue them with his sister and the woman he loves are all drawn into the controversy, humor is more remarkable still…a breezy, almost-romantic comedy a historical event that shook up not only the entire Jewish community that, for two hours, will keep the sun brightly shining.” —Talkin’ of Amsterdam, but changed Spinoza’s and Mortera’s lives—and all of Broadway. “A beguiling and often very funny look at entitlement, Western thought—irrevocably. No written record survives of what addiction, and young love.” —AmericanTheatreWeb.com. “Tart was said at Temple Talmud Torah on July 27, 1656. In this eloquent social comedy.” —NY Newsday. and masterful drama, David Ives attempts to open the temple doors and let us listen in on a dispute whose philosophical and political echoes still reverberate today. Opus THE REVIEWS: “This thoughtful work…paints the conflict by Michael Hollinger between Spinoza’s radical ideas and the oppressive religious doc- Drama trines of his times in an entertaining, highly accessible way…An Full Length engrossing historical drama.” —NY Sun. “By focusing on Spinoza’s 4 men, 1 woman expulsion from the Jewish community, fictionalizing facts and distill- $75 per performance ing Spinoza’s philosophical writings into the interchanges at the $7.50 acting edition excommunication, Ives has managed to create an intriguing court- ISBN: 978-0-8222-2363-4 room drama—and he’s done so with just seven characters and a good deal of Ivesian wit.” —CurtainUp. “A richly intellectual work THE STORY: After firing one of their founding members due to his of theatre that will stimulate all sorts of curiosities about the most erratic behavior, a world-class string quartet takes a chance on a gift- fundamental questions facing humanity. What nobler purpose for ed but relatively inexperienced young woman. With only a few days to the stage exists?” —nytheater.com. “Theocracy versus universalist rehearse a grueling Beethoven masterpiece, the four struggle to pre- science, a Reformation-era prequel to the Scopes trial, Inherit the pare their highest-profile performance ever—a televised ceremony at Wind with a chilling extra touch of proto-Nazism…Comic imagery the White House. Their rehearsal room becomes a pressure-cooker as renders the ideas tangible without coarsening them…we learn passions rise, personalities clash, and the players are forced to con- enough to sense both the urgent bigness of Ives’ subject and the front the ephemeral nature of their life’s work. Recipient of the power with which he’s captured it.” —Village Voice. “Riveting…Ives’ Barrymore Award for Outstanding New Play, a Steinberg New Play fictionalized account of the event is fascinating and heartbreaking.” Citation from the American Theatre Critics Association, and nomina- —Huffington Post. tions for Lucille Lortel and John Gassner Awards for Best New Play.

THE REVIEWS: “Sex, drugs and chamber music! OPUS considers the matter of music making with an intimate, appraising eye, showing us the None of the Above sweat, the drudgery and the delicate balance of personalities that lie by Jenny Lyn Bader behind the creation of a seemingly effortless performance. An absorbing Comedy new play, marked with a nuanced intelligence in its depiction of the com- Full Length plex relationship between musicians’ lives and their art.” —NY Times. 1 man, 1 woman “A taut, smart, thoroughly entertaining drama.” —Newsday. “A tart and $75 per performance witty chamber piece about the politics and passions that threaten a clas- $7.50 acting edition sical string quartet. Like a good quartet, OPUS is an intimate, intense and ISBN: 978-0-8222-2364-1 profoundly moving conversation among artists.” —Time Out. “From its opening strains to its stunning climax, OPUS is worthy of scores of THE STORY: Jamie, 17, a sophisticated New York City private school bravissimos.” —BroadwayWorld.com. student, answers the door one day expecting her drug dealer—and instead finds her SAT tutor. Things degenerate from there. First Jamie tries to get out of being tutored and then she tries to cut a deal with the tutor, Clark. He doesn’t have much sympathy for her plight. They Other Hands clash right away and seem to have very different values and priorities. by Laura Wade But as the play progresses, Jamie and Clark negotiate an unusual Drama pact. Soon enough, all the snap judgments these two have about each Full Length other will get thrown out the window, and they’ll both be surprised by 2 men, 2 women what they learn. $75 per performance $7.50 acting edition THE REVIEWS: “A snappy new comedy by the playwright Jenny Lyn ISBN: 978-0-8222-2381-8 Bader about the risks people end up taking when they’re trying to safe- guard themselves…with wit and candor, the two characters deftly dis- THE STORY: In a world of systematic, high-speed technology, some sect entitlement, intelligence, and isosceles triangles.” —The New people expect to live life as efficiently as the machines they depend Yorker. “A teen comedy, urban satire, intellectual caper and romance, all on…and when a machine breaks down, there is usually someone with rolled into one…Plenty of charm and smarts!” —Time Out. “A creatively the skills to fix it. But in an age where things that don’t work and can’t original plot line…appealing, rounded characters…Bader’s dialogue be mended are thrown away, what do we do with something as has conviction and her character development shows a remarkably human and messy as love? restrained hand.” —BackStage. “…hits all the right notes. It’s smart, subtle, and very funny…To say that NONE OF THE ABOVE has a THE REVIEWS: ‘It is an original and moving play with moments of future is an understatement. It’s a small masterpiece.” —NY Metro. blistering wit and poignancy…Laura Wade’s skill is in making the dia- “One of the surprises in store in [NONE OF THE ABOVE]…is that it logue totally credible and natural…her play is full of wonderful

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humour.” —CurtainUp. “Written in [Laura Wade’s] precise style, and Passing Strange with her trademark attention to the problems of communication, this book and lyrics by Stew, music by Stew and Heidi is an emotionally true account of love in an age of hi-tech. It is beau- Rodewald tifully observed, touching and funny.” —TheStage.co.uk. Comedy Musical 4 men, 3 women Pageant Play Performance fee quoted upon application by Matthew Wilkas and Mark Setlock $8.50 acting edition ISBN: 978-0-8222-2400-6 Comedy Full Length THE STORY: From singer-songwriter and performance artist Stew 2 men, 2 women (doubling) comes PASSING STRANGE, a daring musical that takes you on a jour- $75 per performance ney across boundaries of place, identity and theatrical convention. $7.50 acting edition Stew brings us the story of a young bohemian who charts a course for ISBN: 978-0-8222-2353-5 “the real” through sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. Loaded with soulful lyrics and overflowing with passion, the show takes us from black mid- THE STORY: Welcome to the hilarious, terrifying and surreal world of dle-class America to Amsterdam, Berlin and beyond on a journey child beauty pageants. Pinky Corningfield will do anything to make towards personal and artistic authenticity. sure her little angel wins the ultimate title, Supreme Queen. When Marge, a newcomer to the pageant circuit, shows up and starts grab- THE REVIEWS: “Fresh, exuberant, bracingly inventive, bitingly funny, bing all the glory, Pinky and her minions, Bob and Bobby, use some and full of heart.” —NY Times. “Smashes Broadway clichés with an unorthodox methods in order to ensure her darling, Chevrolet, is victo- electric guitar and the funniest libretto I can remember.” —New York rious. Glitz. Glamour. Kidnapping. Money. Really, really small false Magazine. “The freshest musical in town! The songs rock harder than teeth. PAGEANT PLAY. anything else on Broadway.” —Wall Street Journal. “With excellent songs and a vulnerable heart, PASSING STRANGE could join Hedwig THE REVIEWS: “…hilarious…a crowd pleaser…this endeavor seems and the Angry Inch as a punk musical milestone.” —Variety. “Stew assured of a long afterlife on the theater circuit.” —TheaterMania.com. tweaks the received wisdom of racial identity as cannily and wittily as “…really, really funny…hilarious…also about something real…one any playwright since George C. Wolfe when he unleashed The Colored of the funniest plays of 2008.” —Boston Globe. “…a lot of silly fun.” Museum in 1986.” —NY Sun. —CurtainUp. Persephone or Slow Time A Passage to India by Noah Haidle by Martin Sherman from the novel by E.M. Forster Drama Drama Full Length Full length 2 men, 2 women 8 men, 3 women $75 per performance $75 per performance $7.50 acting edition $7.50 acting edition ISBN: 978-0-8222-2374-0 ISBN: 978-0-8222-2276-7 THE STORY: Meet Demeter, an exquisite statue of the Greek god- THE STORY: A powerful dramatization of E.M. Forster’s classic. dess, as she’s being created during the Italian Renaissance. Those Recently arrived from England, Adela Quested longs to see the “real who admire her see only stone and fortitude, but her thoughts and India” for herself before deciding to marry Chandrapore’s local magis- desires are all too real; she pines for her lost daughter’s return and for trate. She agrees to go to the Marabar caves with Aziz, a young Indian the love of her sculptor, Giuseppe. Giuseppe, however, is too busy lust- doctor—unaware of the passions and dark fears their visit will ing after the city’s most popular artist’s model to notice Demeter’s unearth. Martin Sherman’s adaptation dramatically captures the pain. Fast forward five hundred years: Demeter stands in a present- explosive tensions that exist when two cultures collide. day American city park. She has become a symbol of hope amidst illic- it activity and a target for more than just pigeon droppings. Witness to THE REVIEWS: “…a work of great literature that has been adapted human foibles both hilarious and horrible, Demeter is desperate for with fierce intelligence; a thrilling devotion to movement, music and someone—anyone—to hear her thoughts. And when her life seems design; and a unique feel for place and character.” —Chicago Sun- bleakest, redemption comes in the unlikeliest of forms. Times. “…Martin Sherman has written a smart, sensitive, even wise stage version of the E.M. Forster novel about a clash of cultures in THE REVIEWS: “[An] imaginative, funny and deeply serious allegori- British India.” —Chicago Reader. “Martin Sherman’s stage adaptation cal play about eternal yearning…the work begins with a playful idea is a tight, nuanced work that conveys the gripping essence of Forster’s that turns into something else entirely as Haidle explores the role of look into the world of British colonialism in India…a bold masterwork art as a refuge—and witness—in a chaotic, cruel and mortal world.” that underscores Forster’s contempt for imperialism, political and sex- —Variety. “[Haidle is] formidably talented, with a sort of freewheeling ual repression…It is pure joy to witness an epic novel come alive on intuitive daring…he has a firm command of the theatrical idiom to stage.” —ChicagoCritic.com. back up his ambition for originality.” —The New Yorker.

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Prisoner of the Crown telling play…if the basic setup—loose cannon in a sound booth— by Richard F. Stockton, additional material and recalls Eric Bogosian’s Talk Radio, rest assured that Grellong has created original concept by Richard Herd a uniquely abrasive and compelling character of his own, and one who lives in his own messy but sharply realized world.” —Boston Globe. Drama “Grellong proves himself a master of the comic touch.” —Providence Full Length Journal. “Entertaining…brilliant…a moving and original insight into 12 men, 1 woman the American character.” —Providence Phoenix. “Quick, witty, well- $75 per performance paced, heavy on words-per-minute and stuffed full of black humor.” $7.50 acting edition ISBN: 978-0-8222-2352-8 —BroadwayWorld.com. THE STORY: PRISONER OF THE CROWN, a broad and bitter indict- ment of judicial abuse, is the riveting story of the trial of Sir Roger Casement, an Irish patriot and one of the world’s great humanitarians. The Rant A few short years after being knighted, Casement was sentenced to by Andrew Case be hanged for treason in what was called “The Trial of the Century.” Drama The sensational trial was tainted by the presence of the “Black Full Length Diaries”—an alleged explicit account of Casement’s promiscuous 2 men, 2 women homosexual lifestyle. Were the diaries real? Or, were they, as many $75 per performance believed, forged by the crown forces determined that he pay the ulti- $7.50 acting edition mate price for his role in the Easter 1916 uprising? The play, set in the ISBN: 978-0-8222-2395-5 jury room of the Old Bailey and elsewhere in the minds of twelve jurors who reenact key events during their deliberation, paints a cap- THE STORY: A taut drama exploring racial bias and the slippery path tivating picture of heroism, passion and manipulative deception. to justice. One summer night in Brooklyn, a sixteen-year-old boy is gunned down by the police. When the department closes ranks around THE REVIEWS: “…deftly intertwines the themes of politics, power the accused officer, an investigator assigned to the shooting takes and prejudice.” —The New Yorker. “…a satirical iron laced courtroom what she knows to a tabloid reporter. But she quickly learns that the drama…artful dialogue…historical abuse of power will certainly res- story she fed to the press is still only part of the truth. Alone, she must onate with today’s theatregoers.” —Associated Press. “…as strong a wade through prejudice, deceit, and a volley of anonymous threats to condemnation of British judicial malpractice as you’re ever likely to find where culpability and truth really lie. see.” —Irish Voice. “Awash in shadowy satire, quick-cut bitterness, and rapier commentary…it seems it could have been ripped from yes- THE REVIEWS: “The moral dilemmas in THE RANT are awesome in terday’s headlines.” —Talkin’ Broadway. “…incisive [and] eerily rele- their current relevance.” —Broad Street Review (Philadelphia). “In vant dialogue…based on facts that date back almost a hundred years, Case’s story there are no absolute truths. The characters’ fears and life but contemporary parallels will pop into your consciousness as fast as experiences influence their perceptions of what occurred…In his you can say Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib.” —CurtainUp. “A rare tri- sharp new play, Case challenges us to examine how our own preju- umph…[it] has distinction, substance, and dramatic force…sharp dices affect our most firmly held beliefs.” —Philadelphia Weekly. earthy dialogue, biting lines, situations with punch, humor and ten- “Case wants to make us wonder, wants us to assemble the pieces of sion.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. a jigsaw puzzle without a prescribed final form.” —Miami Herald. “…undeniably moving and thought-provoking…electrifying…a police officer’s mea culpa that gets us as close to the truth as we’re going to Radio Free Emerson get.” —South Florida Sun-Sentinal. by Paul Grellong Dark Comedy Reasons to be Pretty Full Length 5 men, 3 women by Neil LaBute $75 per performance Comedy/Drama $7.50 acting edition Full Length ISBN: 978-0-8222-2366-5 2 men, 2 women $75 per performance THE STORY: When a beloved Rhode Island radio talk-show host dies, $7.50 acting edition his estranged son, Al Gregory, returns home for the funeral. Hijacking ISBN: 978-0-8222-2394-8 the farewell broadcast of his father’s show, Al ignites the airwaves as he begins preaching his morally questionable philosophy based on a THE STORY: A love story about the impossibility of love, REASONS TO warped reading of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance.” Al quickly BE PRETTY introduces us to Greg, who really, truly adores his girlfriend, develops a rabid following. His old friend Henry Dale, an architect, is Steph. Unfortunately, he also thinks she has a few physical imper- his most dedicated acolyte, while Henry’s wife, Gina, the former object fections, and when he casually mentions them, all hell breaks loose. of Al’s desire, is his reluctant producer at the station. Henry risks both A hopelessly romantic drama about the hopelessness of romance, marriage and career putting Al’s teachings into practice. Soon dark REASONS TO BE PRETTY is a gorgeous play. and long-buried family secrets are uncovered, threatening the founda- tion of every relationship onstage. Loosely based on Ibsen’s The Wild THE REVIEWS: “Mr. LaBute is writing some of the freshest and most Duck, RADIO FREE EMERSON examines the funny, dark and some- illuminating American dialogue to be heard anywhere these days.” times violent consequences of following desires unchecked. —NY Times. “No contemporary writer has more astutely captured the brutality in everyday conversation and behavior: That kind of THE REVIEWS: “Crackles with humor, insight…a sharp, funny, and insight requires sensitivity and soul-searching.” —USA Today. “It is

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tight, tense and emotionally true, and it portrays characters who actu- our need for dreams and for each other, ROMANTIC POETRY puts the ally seem part of the world that the rest of us live in.” —Time Magazine. lunatic, the lover and the poet onstage and lets them sing. “The playwright delivers the goods, in a work that’s lively and compul- sively watchable and that offers a fresh take on the eternal matter of achieving adulthood.” —The Record. Rough Magic by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa RFK Fantasy Full Length by Jack Holmes 7 men, 5 women (doubling) Drama $75 per performance Full Length $7.50 acting edition 1 man ISBN: 978-0-8222-2332-0 $75 per performance $7.50 acting edition THE STORY: Transplanting characters from The Tempest to present- ISBN: 978-0-8222-2365-8 day New York, ROUGH MAGIC is a Shakespearean action-adventure- fantasy in the tradition of Harry Potter and The X-Men that conjures a THE STORY: By late summer, 1964, Attorney General Robert F. mythical, magical meta-universe in which the evil sorcerer Prospero is Kennedy was a deeply wounded man. Still in shock and consumed willing to do anything to recover his stolen book of magic—even if it with grief and guilt over the assassination of his older brother, means Manhattan’s destruction. Lucky for us, New York’s defenders President John F. Kennedy, on November 22nd, 1963 in Dallas, Texas, include a quartet of unlikely heroes: a plucky, raven-haired dramaturg he was at a crossroads. The 1964 presidential election was approach- named Melanie Porter, who has the ability to free characters from ing and President Lyndon Johnson, who had been dangling the possi- plays; Prospero’s hunky (though not-too-bright) son, Caliban; a bility of a vice-presidential role to RFK, finally called Kennedy over to revenge-seeking Fury from Ancient Greece named Tisiphone; and a the White House to tell him his decision. The result of that meeting seventeen-year-old lifeguard from Coney Island named Chet Baxter. and the subsequent direction for the next, and last, four years of May the forces of evil beware… Robert Kennedy’s life are the focus of this play. THE REVIEWS: “ROUGH MAGIC is an engaging new play and a highly THE REVIEWS: “RFK hurtles through the theater with surprising force, entertaining spectacle that takes an appreciative audience across the expanding the well-known facts of a politician’s life into a stirring gamut of emotions, and closes with an ominous ending that, like the metaphor for the struggle to believe in governments and leaders. best comic fantasies, sets the seeds for its sequel…There’s more than [Holmes] has artistic statements to make that are larger than the charac- just horror—there’s romance, heroism, and plenty of camp.” —Ithaca ter, and he delivers them subtly enough to demand an audience’s con- Times. “Have you already seen every action movie that’s out this summer, stant attention. Sophisticated, spellbinding work!” —Variety. “A well- and are you numb from all those car chases and explosions? Head over wrought labor of love and conscience. Holmes’ moving portrayal makes to ROUGH MAGIC for an adventure more original than anything Bobby not a sequel but a feature in his own right.” —The New Yorker. Hollywood has done in years…Despite his obvious influences from “[Holmes] has put together the words of Robert F. Kennedy and chan- movies and comic books, Aguirre-Sacasa has written a play that is really neled his persona so effectively that the illusion comes close to being more about the power, and quite literally about the magic, of theater.” complete: This play is like an evening with RFK brought back to life, to —Ithaca Journal. “ROUGH MAGIC is like a ‘Classics Illustrated’ comic remind us of the real American Dream that we used to really chase and book of Shakespeare’s Tempest on the stage…Aguirre-Sacasa has sea- believe in. I was amazed how resonant and potent the words of this man soned his creation with other ingredients from the current cultural have proven to be.” —NYTheatre.com. “A wealth of detailed, keenly stew…and snappy bits of humorous repartee that would not seem out contextualized information that makes for a gripping historical drama.” of place in a Hollywood action flick.” —Syracuse Post-Standard. —BackStage.”Overwhelmingly accurate” —Theodore C. Sorensen, Speechwriter, Special Counsel and Adviser to President John F. Kennedy. Ruined Romantic Poetry by Lynn Nottage book and lyrics by John Patrick Shanley, music by Drama Full Length Henry Krieger 8 men, 4 women $75 per performance Comedy $7.50 acting edition Musical ISBN: 978-0-8222-2390-0 4 men, 2 women Performance fee quoted upon application $8.50 acting edition THE STORY: From Lynn Nottage, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of ISBN: 978-0-8222-2354-2 such plays as Fabulation and Intimate Apparel, comes this haunting, probing work about the resilience of the human spirit during times of THE STORY: From the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of war. Set in a small mining town in Democratic Republic of Congo, this Doubt and the two-time Tony Award–nominated composer of Dream- powerful play follows Mama Nadi, a shrewd businesswoman in a land girls comes this crackpot musical romance. Connie of Woodmere has torn apart by civil war. But is she protecting or profiting by the women just married Fred of Newark, but her exes are back in the picture and not she shelters? How far will she go to survive? Can a price be placed on sure they approve of the union. Mary of Greenpoint climbs Frankie of a human life? Little Italy’s fire escape with amorous and erotic intent—but things go awry as she reaches for her dream. A fanciful musical romance about THE REVIEWS: Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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“RUINED takes us inside an unthinkable reality and into the heads of Secondary Cause of Death victims and perpetrators to create a full-immersion drama of shock- by Peter Gordon ing complexity and moral ambiguity. What’s more surprising is the exquisite balance the playwright brings—of brutality and poetry, Comedy/Thriller hope and even humor.” —Variety. “Strong and absorbing…a raw Full Length 4 men, 6 women and genuine agony pulses within…a cleareyed celebration of $75 per performance endurance.” —NY Times. “Sincere, passionate, courageous and $15.50 acting edition acutely argued, RUINED is a remarkable theatrical accomplish- ISBN: 978-0-8567-6243-7 ment…” —Chicago Tribune. “In the hands of this talented playwright, what might have been a predictable political polemic instead THE STORY: SECONDARY CAUSE OF DEATH is the eagerly anticipated emerges as a richly stirring and complex drama that even includes sequel to the author’s hit comedy thriller Murdered to Death. It’s now generous doses of humor.” —NY Post. 1939, and storm clouds are gathering over Europe. Having inherited Bagshot House, Colonel Charles Craddock has converted the property into a hotel for the discerning visitor. Soon Inspector Pratt arrives once again at Bagshot House, bearing grim news for Colonel Craddock. But Saturn Returns that’s just the beginning—who is the strange Polish Count? Is by Noah Haidle Henrietta really an army captain? And where does the flamboyant Drama thespian Cardew Longfellow fit into the picture? When Joan Maple’s Full Length sister Cynthia arrives to stage a murder mystery evening, it’s not long 3 men, 1 woman before Pratt’s visit turns into a chaotic nightmare as the bodies pile $75 per performance higher than ever! $7.50 acting edition ISBN: 978-0-8222-2358-0

THE STORY: An astrological phenomenon presupposes that when the Seven planet Saturn completes its cycle every thirty years of a human’s life, by Paula Cizmar, Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, that life is affected by deep trauma and change. The play SATURN Carol K. Mack, Ruth Margraff, Anna Deavere RETURNS follows Gustin, a radiologist living in Grand Rapids Smith, Susan Yankowitz Michigan at the ages of 88, 58 and 28. Gustin in inextricably bound to the women in his life. At 88 his nurse, Suzanne; at 58 his daughter, Documentary Zephyr; and at 28, his wife, Loretta. Gustin endures as the women Full Length come and go, live and die. By the end of the play all three ages are rep- 7 women resented onstage, watching the former versions of themselves make $75 per performance $7.50 acting edition decisions and mistakes that define their future. ISBN: 978-0-8222-2351-1 THE REVIEWS: “[Noah Haidle’s] most prodigious gift may be his psy- THE STORY: A collaboration of seven award-winning women play- chological sophistication. Beautifully written…the limpid play is really wrights, SEVEN is based on personal interviews with seven women a haunting, in which Haidle finds a way of dramatizing the presence of leaders of the Vital Voices Global Partnership network who have absence in all of us.” —The New Yorker. triumphed over huge obstacles to create major changes in human rights in their home countries. In the seven interwoven stories we see the commonality of challenge and of bravery, and in the individual monologues that follow, we experience each fascinating The Seagull whole true story. by Anton Chekhov in a new version by Christopher Hampton

Drama Shipwrecked! An Entertainment— Full Length 8 men, 5 women The Amazing Adventures of Louis de $75 per performance Rougemont (as Told by Himself) $7.50 acting edition ISBN: 978-0-8222-2345-0 by Donald Margulies Adventure THE STORY: THE SEAGULL is one of the great plays about writing. It Full Length superbly captures the struggle for new forms, the frustrations and ful- 2 men, 1 woman (doubling) fillments of putting words on a page. Chekhov, in his first major play, $75 per performance stages a vital argument about the theatre that still resonates today. $7.50 acting edition ISBN: 978-0-8222-2341-2 THE REVIEWS: “Christopher Hampton’s sharp-witted translation is perfect…The finest and most fully involving production of Chekhov THE STORY: The adventurous Louis de Rougemont invites you to that I have ever known.” —NY Times. “How thrilling, finally, to have hear his amazing story of bravery, survival and celebrity that left a version of THE SEAGULL that understands why we cherish Anton nineteenth-century England spellbound. Dare to be whisked away Chekhov.” —NY Newsday. in a story of the high seas, populated by exotic islanders, flying wombats, giant sea turtles and a monstrous man-eating octopus. SHIPWRECKED examines how far we’re willing to blur the line between fact and fiction in order to leave our mark on the world.

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THE REVIEWS: “Recreating the pleasures of nineteenth-century plat- This Beautiful City form entertainment with a tart contemporary twist, Donald Margulies’ by The Civilians, written by Steven Cosson and SHIPWRECKED offers a self-promoting fabulist a forum to inform and Jim Lewis from interviews by the company, music persuade, and it delights in both respects.” —Variety. “The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Donald Margulies scampers to the defense and lyrics by Michael Friedman of good old-fashioned yarn spinning with SHIPWRECKED. The breath- Documentary Musical less story of a Victorian gentleman [and] seafaring wanderer springs Full Length to life like a theatrical pop-up book. The audience is left to judge 3 men, 3 women (doubling, flexible casting) whether he is an inspirational figure touched by imaginative genius or Performance fee quoted upon application a mere con man. We can also consider the possibility that the hero of $8.50 acting edition this true story based on an untrue story is a little of each.” —NY Times. ISBN: 978-0-8222-2383-2 “Margulies gives a sympathetic nod to the audacious autobiographer’s creative overreach in SHIPWRECKED, a deft literate narrative folded THE STORY: THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY investigates the growth of the into a vaudevillian romp with radio theater overtones. Colorful [and] evangelical movement in Colorado Springs. While The Civilians were compassionate speculations on the real-life deficiencies and pain conducting interviews with people involved with or affected by the that may have been at the root of Louis’ need for self-aggrandize- mega-church movement and the battle raging over gay marriage, the ment.” —LA Times. scandal broke about New Life Church pastor Ted Haggard, which shook the entire city of Colorado Springs, providing the play’s creators with an unprecedented opportunity to capture an important event as it was taking place, and providing the people of Colorado Springs with Sonia Flew the opportunity to express their opinions and concerns as those events by Melinda Lopez unfolded. THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY is a fascinating and timely look at Drama faith and how it affects the American landscape. Full Length 3 men, 3 women THE REVIEWS: “Engaging, inquisitive and evenhanded work of the- $75 per performance ater about the transformation of an American city and many $7.50 acting edition American lives.” —NY Times. “A fascinating crazy quilt on faith’s ISBN: 978-0-8222-3020-5 role in American life.” —Variety. “An entertaining and thoughtful portrait of a large segment of society.” —NY Post. “Praise the Lord THE STORY: When Sonia learns of her son’s decision to leave college, and pass the tape recorder! A lively docudrama with a generosity of enlist in the military and fight against terror in Afghanistan in the weeks spirit.” —Associated Press. following 9/11, memories of her own childhood overwhelm her. She struggles to reconcile being forced as a young girl to leave Cuba at the dawn of Fidel Castro’s rule with her own responsibilities as a mother facing uncertainty. Sonia must find a way to come to terms with her past, Three Changes her lost parents, her own children and her adopted country—or risk by Nicky Silver losing everything that she loves. Set between post-revolutionary Cuba Dark Comedy and post-9/11 America, SONIA FLEW telescopes the large cultural and Full Length political forces of a historic moment to examine their impact on the inti- 3 men, 2 women mate lives of ordinary men and women. What do we owe our parents? $75 per performance Can we forgive the past? This poetic and urgent play bridges time and $7.50 acting edition culture in a drama about the cost of forgiveness. ISBN: 978-0-8222-2343-6

THE REVIEWS: “SONIA FLEW is a play for our age.” —Boston THE STORY: Nate and Laurel are a seemingly happy couple living on Globe. “SONIA FLEW is compelling…Lopez draws tragicomic por- New York’s Upper West Side, busy, content and comfortable—until traits of loving but chafing family interactions.” —WBUR. “[An] the surprising arrival of Hal, Nate’s long-lost brother. A once-success- engaging new play about family, flight, and forgiveness…What ful television writer, Hal is just out of rehab. He’s out of cash and alone makes SONIA FLEW so moving is [its] feisty portrayal of family life, in the world. But what seems to be a casual visit, a chance to recon- whether bathed in the sunlight and fear of early Castro Cuba or nect, is quickly revealed to be something much more ominous. As he tucked into a bicultural jumble of tchotchkes and adamancy in the attempts to write his first novel, Hal insidiously usurps Nate’s place in post-September 11 Midwest…Sonia flies.” —Boston Phoenix. the home. He unearths long-buried feelings in Laurel and adds to the “Bursts with a synergy between political ideas and theatrical con- household by bringing in a young man, a runaway, who seems to ceits…it brims with character and incident.” —EdgeBoston.com. somehow complete the family. A family that ultimately has no place “Melinda Lopez has delivered a script that seems lifted from real for Nate. And as the play builds to its climax, we understand that life, where profound truths exist side-by-side with petty arguments, these two men, these brothers who have tried to find a way to love trivial annoyances and flashes of humor—all of it boiling down to each other, are locked in a battle that will cost one of them their life. scared ways of saying ‘I love you.’” —Orange County Weekly. “Melinda Lopez’s moving and smartly structured play…is an exami- THE REVIEWS: “A born playwright, Nicky Silver is a creator of lan- nation of the fragility of a reality built on denial and a troubled past guage that unscrolls across the stage like luminous skywriting. His that defies easy reconciliation with the present…Lopez knows the instinctive theatrical gracefulness is still in evidence in THREE precise and painful calibrations of a soul in torment about a painful CHANGES, [which] considers the hunger for a cohesive family in a frag- past. SONIA FLEW builds to an emotional catharsis and long-delayed mented world.” —NY Times. “Silver’s play leaves lots to discuss on the closure that are undeniably moving.” —Orange County Register. way home…He’s joining Lillian Hellman, Tracy Letts, Edward Albee and Horton Foote in prying the truth loose from its hiding places in family dramas.” —DCTheatreScene.com.

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‘Til Beth Do Us Part last 2,500 years, but TOO MUCH MEMORY gives both an invigorating by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten new spin.” —Talkin’ Broadway. “[The authors] have certainly used their interpretation of Antigone’s story to ‘speak up’ in a chilling yet Comedy entertaining way that you won’t be likely to forget all that quickly.” Full Length —CurtainUp. “The play successfully returns a sense of urgency to the 2 men, 4 women $75 per performance theater. In an age of being bashed over the head with so-called facts, $7.50 acting edition facts that often overlook the truth of the matter, facts that are given ISBN: 978-0-8222-2377-1 a spin to benefit who is speaking them, it is important that theater such as this be seen and discussed by as many people as possible.” THE STORY: In this side-splitting comic romp about marriage, career- —OffOffOnline.com. driven Suzannah Hayden needs a lot more help on the home front than she’s getting from her husband, Gibby. Lately, nurturing his marriage of twenty-seven years hasn’t been the highest priority for Gibby, but pretty soon he’ll wish it had been. Enter Beth Bailey, Suzannah’s newly-hired The Truth About Santa (An Apocalyptic assistant, a gregarious, highly-motivated daughter of the South. To Holiday Tale) Suzannah’s delight, Beth explodes into the Hayden household and book, music and lyrics by Greg Kotis whips it into an organized, well-run machine. This couldn’t have hap- pened at a better time for Suzannah, since her boss, Celia Carmichael, Comedy the C.E.O. of Carmichael’s Chocolates, is flying in soon for an impor- Musical tant make-or-break business dinner. Gibby grows increasingly wary as 5 men, 3 women Beth insinuates herself into more and more aspects of their lives. In no Performance fee quoted upon application $8.50 acting edition time, she exceeds her duties as a household assistant and interjects ISBN: 978-0-8222-2360-3 herself into Suzannah’s career. As Suzannah’s dependence on Beth grows and Gibby’s dislike of the woman deepens, Suzannah gives Beth THE STORY: Santa Claus is tired of the lies. Like the gods of old, he, carte blanche to change anything in the household that “will make it too, has his mortal mistresses. This Christmas Eve he will bring Mary, run more efficiently.” And the change Beth makes is convincing his favorite earthly consort, and Luke and Freya, their illegitimate, Suzannah that Gibby must go! When he realizes it’s Suzannah’s career semi-divine children, back to his North Pole compound to live with Beth is really after, a newly-determined Gibby sets out to save his mar- him—forever! Not surprisingly, Mrs. Claus resists. First she withholds riage aided by Suzannah’s best friend, Margo, a wisecracking and self- Santa’s beloved joy-weed. Then she tries to poison Mary and the chil- deprecating divorcee and her ex-husband, Hank, who is in the midst of dren with some delicious candy-wine. And as the singing elf-slaves his own mid-life crisis. Their effort to stop Beth at any cost sets up the Jo-Jo and Jim-Jim, and Mary’s drunkard husband, George, are drawn wildly funny climax in which things go uproariously awry just as into the marital mêlée, all Hell—quite literally—breaks loose. Suzannah’s boss arrives for that all-important dinner. Whether you’re married, single, rethinking your divorce or currently being controlled by THE REVIEWS: “If you cringe at the ads for White Christmas on someone up to no good, you’re sure to enjoy this family-friendly, Broadway or roll your eyes at the plaintive pleas of Tiny Tim, then have laugh-out-loud Jones/Hope/Wooten comedy! I got a jolly good time for you. THE TRUTH ABOUT SANTA, a giddy, pleasingly sloppy downtown satire…is a holiday show for people sick of holiday shows. It stars Santa, but this isn’t the happy man at Macy’s. He doesn’t just slip down the chimney, bearing gifts. He also Too Much Memory sleeps with your wife, smokes magic weed and chuckles ‘ho ho ho’ by Keith Reddin and Meg Gibson with a leer that suggests more than good cheer…While deconstruct- Tragedy ing the Santa story will shock few skeptical teenagers, the show pack- Full Length ages some sweetly funny humor (the deadpan songs by the elves, who 6 men, 3 women act as a kind of chorus, are highlights) and an epic story with hints of $75 per performance Disney and Greek myth in a warm-hearted family affair.” —NY Times. $7.50 acting edition “For a big holiday helping of slapstick, madcap family fare, nothing ISBN: 978-0-8222-2368-9 beats discovering THE TRUTH ABOUT SANTA. This fast-paced, campy romp shows the darker side of the Santa myth—including the fallout THE STORY: A theatrical explosion of myth and revolution, TOO that comes after Mommy is caught kissing Santa Claus. With the help MUCH MEMORY is a retelling of the classic Greek story of Antigone of the strange powers of Santa’s two illegitimate children, the North set firmly in the present. This inventive adaptation straddles a line Pole goes from murderous mayhem to peace on earth, just in time for between the classic Greek tragedy and modern storytelling. Children Christmas.” —EdgeNewYork.com. “Marvelously silly…an authentic fight to break away from their parents’ shadows; a trophy wife ago- treat for harried minds…” —StageAndCinema.com. nizes over her diminishing role in both public and private spheres; and soldiers required to obey their commander-in-chief reject their roles in the battle between order and unrest. At its heart the story is the same: Antigone defies the ruler Creon’s law and her sister’s pleas in order to give her brother, who has been labeled a traitor, an honorable burial. Caught in her attempt, Creon decrees that Antigone be buried alive, despite her engagement to his son, Haemon. Haemon kills himself and Creon’s wife follows suit, leaving Creon to run an administration in shambles. A play about collective history, TOO MUCH MEMORY explores what this means as we try to revamp and refocus it.

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The Velvet Sky cent, poignant dialogue…VIGILS is the work of a sophisticated play- by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa wright.” —The New Yorker. “A simple, sweet exploration of human memory and grief…Haidle displays plenty of gentle humor, and also Fantasy capable craft…[he] brings a fundamentally theatrical imagination.” Full Length —Variety. “Charmingly life-affirming…positive comic energy…[a] 4 men, 2 women $75 per performance generous take on human frailty…the play never stops spreading $7.50 acting edition goodwill.” —Washington Post. “A wise, zany, bittersweet, sexy ISBN: 978-0-8222-2331-3 play, with much to say about matters far beyond Sept. 11 (a date that hovers only in the subtext)…How can we say goodbye and let go, THE STORY: Poor Bethany Palmer hasn’t slept in thirteen years. When even to something that was far from ideal? How do we cope with all her husband, Warren, steals their son, Andrew, away in the middle of the idealization and guilt that can follow loss? These are the ques- the night, her already fragile grip on reality starts to weaken—even as tions that Haidle’s play grapples with so beautifully and sensitively, she sets off after them on a nightmarish phantasmagoria through an though those expecting a dark weeper will happily be tripped up by urban wasteland. Chronicling Bethany’s desperate flight, THE VELVET the often hilarious yet truly heartbreaking comedy he has devised.” SKY is a dark fairytale for grown-ups, about the stories and lies adults —Chicago Sun Times. tell children to keep them safe from the things that lurk in the dark. Things like the macabre Sandman, who is hungry to steal the innocent gleam from young Andrew’s eyes… Vincent River THE REVIEWS: “Aguirre-Sacasa’s THE VELVET SKY blends childhood by Philip Ridley fantasies with adult nightmares into a dark and surreal adventure Drama laced with just enough honesty that it’s absolutely, terrifically terrify- Full Length ing… There’s a real lesson buried beneath the potential for blood and 1 man, 1 woman gore, subtly reminding us of our obligation to protect children from $75 per performance their beastly predators. It’s an unsettling conclusion that bears the $7.50 acting edition mark of a playwright who appreciates finishing the story just as much ISBN: 978-0-8222-2324-5 as conceiving it.” —Metroweekly. “Enter the world of Aguirre- Sacasa’s creepy, mesmeric play—if you dare. If you are prone to bad THE STORY: Davey has seen something he can’t forget. Anita has dreams, THE VELVET SKY may give you a sleepless night or two…” been forced to flee her home. These two have never met. Tonight their —Washington Times. “A dark domestic fantasy designed to spook paths cross, with devastating consequences. Thrilling, heartbreaking any adult who’s ever considered parenting…Aguirre-Sacasa’s fan- and darkly humorous by turns, VINCENT RIVER is an upfront look at tastical chase-nightmare races past psychological stumbling blocks self-deception’s power to destroy. and into the audience’s collective unconscious, triggering laughs, fears, and that sense of helplessness that comes of realizing—when THE REVIEWS: “Ridley’s play, with an appallingly sadistic killing at childhood innocence cracks wide open—that the world really is a its heart, has a stark simplicity that belies the intricacy of its language scary place and that protecting the ones you love isn’t always possi- and imagery…[The play] conveys powerfully the way in which fiercely ble.” —Washington City Paper. held fictions within families, while they remain unchallenged, prop up the familial construct at the cost of dangerously defining and restricting the individuals within it and their relationships…Ridley scatters poetic fragments throughout, like a trail of bread-crumbs Vigils leading to the supposed safety of home.” —Times (London). “I rely on by Noah Haidle Philip Ridley to leave me shaken and shocked. His considerable imag- Dark Comedy ination reaches places I prefer not to visit, unless escorted by a writer Full Length of his moral seriousness.” —Evening Standard (London). “What gives 3 men, 2 women VINCENT RIVER its particular and considerable power is how it uses a $75 per performance classic, creaky structure to cast big, disturbing shadows that wind up $7.50 acting edition following you home…The chances of the image of the dead Vincent ISBN: 978-0-8222-2373-3 River ever getting up and walking out of Davey’s head are very slim. That’s just as true for us as it is for him.” —NY Times. “Writer Philip THE STORY: Two years ago the Widow’s husband, a fireman, died in Ridley is a master at dispensing information a bit at a time…the a burning building trying to save a baby. Instead of grieving, she keeps stakes and the tension remain high, keeping audience members locked his Soul in a box in her bedroom and takes it out for conversation and in. The ending is especially well-written; it’s surprising but, upon the occasional hug. She and the Wooer, a friend of her husband, go on reflection, exactly right.” —CurtainUp. a date—one that he has been looking forward to for years. While they are out, the Soul and the Body play out moments from their life with the Widow, and their death. Finally, the Widow decides to let her husband go; she puts the body in the ground where it belongs and watches the Soul ascend to heaven. Instead of accepting new love from the Wooer, she walks into a field of marigolds, the flowers that have come to symbolize both her husband’s love and his imperfection.

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Vivien Leigh: The Last Press Conference WHO LOVE THEM tells the story of a young woman suddenly in crisis: by Marcy Lafferty Is her new husband, whom she married when drunk, a terrorist? Or just crazy? Or both? Is her father’s hobby of butterfly collecting really Drama a cover for his involvement in a shadow government? Why does her Full Length mother enjoy going to the theatre so much? Does she seek mental 1 woman $75 per performance escape, or is she insane? Honing in on our private terrors both at home $7.50 acting edition and abroad, Durang oddly relieves our fears in this black comedy for ISBN: 978-0-8222-2388-7 an era of yellow, orange and red alerts.

THE STORY: Vivien Leigh is holding her last press conference in a the- THE REVIEWS: “Christopher Durang, our Poet Laureate of the atre, taking questions from members of the press. We learn her Absurd, has written a smashing new play.” —NY Observer. “You may thoughts on the five stages of an actress’ professional life as well as laugh yourself silly at this silly symphony whose every movement is a the specifics of her own career, including all the juicy details: her rise scherzo.” —Bloomberg News. “Is there a living playwright more will- to fame; her love life in and out of Laurence Olivier’s arms; behind-the- ing to take on the big-picture questions with such unwavering trust in scenes looks at A Streetcar Named Desire and Gone with the Wind; the power of the truly silly?” —NY Newsday. and the physical and mental illnesses that led to terrible difficulties during the making of Elephant Walk and her eventual replacement with Elizabeth Taylor. A living biography of a fading star, VIVIEN LEIGH: THE LAST PRESS CONFERENCE captures an image of a funny, frank Women Beware Women performer who continues to fascinate. by Jesse Berger, adapted from Thomas Middleton Tragicomedy THE REVIEWS: “Lafferty amiably rescues the fascinating life of this Full Length actress from the annals of theater history.” —Talkin’ Broadway. “The 8 men, 4 women (flexible casting) story of [Leigh’s] life has enormous dramatic potential, which Ms. $75 per performance Lafferty’s recounting successfully explores.” —NY Sun. “Lafferty rises $7.50 acting edition to the legend’s challenge, demonstrating Leigh’s fragile philosophy, ISBN: 978-0-8222-2367-2 that poise and charm can lift her above the emotional detritus of the stories she tells.” —Evening Standard (London). “[A] tour-de-force THE STORY: Thomas Middleton’s rarely performed masterpiece, sojourn into the tortured soul of an artist who could overcome every- WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN, is a fascinating and entertaining tragi- thing but her own conscience.” —Variety. comedy (or is it a comi-tragedy?) by one of Shakespeare’s most popular contemporaries. This provocative play portrays a ruling class unable to divorce power from lust as three young people are seduced by the lies and treachery of the sophisticated players in the glamorous Where the Great Ones Run court of the Duke of Florence, including the powerful widow, Lady by Mark Roberts Livia. WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN speaks with a shockingly contempo- Drama rary voice. A playful parody of serious sexual games ultimately show- Full Length ing a society imploding under the pressure of sexual manipulation, vic- 9 men, 4 women timization and gender inequality, Middleton’s outrageous masterpiece $75 per performance is as funny, sexy, frightening and entertaining today as it must have $7.50 acting edition been 400 years ago. Red Bull Theater’s critically acclaimed, extended- ISBN: 978-0-8222-2342-9 run production of WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN was the first Off- Broadway revival of Middleton’s uproarious masterpiece in nearly THE STORY: Country legend Sonny Burl returns to his hometown to forty years, and has paved the way for many more revivals at theatres play one last concert at the county fair. While there, he tries to recon- across the country. nect with the wife he never divorced, the brother he abandoned, and the daughter he never knew. THE REVIEWS: “WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN is proof not just that classic theater is alive, but that it can still be surprising after hundreds THE REVIEWS: “A real slice of American life that plays out like a per- of years.” —Variety. “Classical theater with a sharply modern edge: fectly written country-western song.” —Illinois News-Gazette. Lust without the Dust.” —Time Out. “The female sex is at the turbulent center of WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN, a tragedy spiced with comedy, or a comedy with a hyperactively tragic conclusion, by Shakespeare’s contemporary Thomas Middleton. A Jacobean rarity…this sizzling brew of Why Torture is Wrong, and the People adultery, incest and murder, murder and more murder has been spruced Who Love Them up, juiced up and set scampering across the stage…” —NY Times. by Christopher Durang “Highly entertaining and visually rich…quickly and excitingly proves to have contemporary blood in its veins. A most worthwhile theatrical Comedy experience.” —TheaterMania.com. “Delicious fun…A guilty pleasure Full Length and a delectable bit of artistry.” —AmericanTheaterWeb.com. 4 men, 3 women “Delicious and dizzying…wickedly entertaining…vibrant and capti- $75 per performance vating.” —BackStage. $7.50 acting edition ISBN: 978-0-8222-2401-3 THE STORY: Christopher Durang turns political humor upside down with this raucous and provocative satire about America’s growing homeland “insecurity.” WHY TORTURE IS WRONG, AND THE PEOPLE

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Yankee Tavern by Steven Dietz

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THE STORY: Just when you thought you’d heard every crazy 9/11 conspiracy theory, a stranger walks into the Yankee Tavern. There, inside the walls of this crumbling New York tavern, a young couple finds themselves caught up in what might be the biggest conspiracy of all. Steven Dietz’s acclaimed and already widely produced dramatic thriller—a selection of the National New Play Network’s Continued Life Project—is a fierce, funny and ultimately mind-bending work of theatrical power that grips you until the final word. What you don’t know can hurt you.

THE REVIEWS: “A guy walks into a bar and orders two beers, one for himself and one for his absent buddy. Yes, it sounds like the setup for a joke, but with his chilling new play, YANKEE TAVERN, the prolific Steven Dietz has something darker and more sobering in mind. Dietz is a master of smart dialogue and wily storytelling. He draws us in with characters that intrigue, but the stories they spin can do a number on our beliefs and leave us shattered. The American theater has a rich tradition of barroom plays, of which YANKEE TAVERN now becomes a part. Here’s a toast to Dietz and his play, which should work its way through the nation’s new play network with the staying power of a juicy conspiracy theory.” —Palm Beach Arts Paper. “YANKEE TAVERN is one helluva show. You’ll be scared by the intimations of Act One. You’ll be moved by the awful events of Act Two. And when the terrible day is discussed, you will hear the millennium’s fresh ghosts rattling through the walls of the theater…and feel their unhappy gaze beaming from the tavern’s smudged, stained- glass windows.” —Palm Beach New Times. “YANKEE TAVERN is a cousin to John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: The play isn’t really about what did or didn’t happen; it’s about the agony of uncertainty. The play’s lightning flashes come from Dietz’s insights into Americans’ obsession with conspiracies.” —Miami Herald. “A superb playwright…an edge-of-your-seat thriller.” —Palm Beach Daily News.

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100 Saints You Should Know All About Al And Baby Makes Seven Assembly Line 1-900-Desperate All Because of Agatha And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little Asterisk! 1918 All Cotton And People All Around At Home 2 All God’s Chillun Got Wings And the Winner Is At Home at the Zoo 24 Hours am All in the Timing And They Dance Real Slow in At Long Last Leo 24 Hours pm All Men are Whores: An Inquiry Jackson At This Evening’s Performance 27 Wagons Full of Cotton All My Sons And Things That Go Bump in the The Atheist 2B (or not 2B) All Over Town Night August: Osage County 2B (or not 2B) Part 2 All Saints’ Day The Andersonville Trial August Snow 3 by E.S.T. All That I Will Ever Be Andrea’s Got Two Boyfriends Aunt Dan and Lemon 3 More by E.S.T. ’98 All the King’s Men (Hall) André’s Mother Aunt Dan Meets the Madwoman of ★ 33 Variations All the King’s Men (Warren) Andromache Challiot 6:15 on the 104 All the Rage Andy and Claire Auntie Mame 74 Georgia Avenue All the World’s a Stage Angel in the Pawnshop The Author’s Voice The 75th Alligator Man Angels Fall Auto-Da-Fé 9 Parts of Desire Almost Blue Animal Auto-Destruct 90° in the Shade Almost Done Animal Keepers The Autograph Hound 99 Histories An Almost Holy Picture ★ Animals Out of Paper The Autumn Garden A is for All Almost Like Being Anna Christie Ave Maria Abandon All Hope Almost, Maine Anna in the Tropics Avenue of Dream Abe Lincoln in Illinois An Altar Boy Talks to God Anna Lucasta Avow About Time The Altruists Anne of the Thousand Days Babel’s in Arms Abraham Lincoln Dies at Versailles Am I Blue Anniversary Waltz Baby Anger The Absence of a Cello Amateurs Another Antigone Baby Food Abstinence The Amazing Activity of Charley Another Part of the Forest Baby Talk Abundance Contrare and the Ninety-Eighth Another Season’s Promise Baby with the Bathwater Accelerando Street Gang Answers (Thompson) Babylon Gardens The Accomplices Ambrosio Answers (Topor) The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer According to Goldman America Hurrah Anteroom Bachelor Holiday Achilles in Sparta The America Play Anthony Back in the Race Acrobats American Blues Anthony Rose Back of the Throat The Acting Lesson The American Century Any Wednesday Bad Bad Jo-Jo The Action Against Sol Schumann The American Clock Anybody Out There? A Bad Friend The Actor The American Dame Apartment 3A Bad Habits Actors An American Daughter Apocalyptic Butterflies Bad Seed The Actor’s Nightmare The American Dream (Albee) Apple Pie A Bad Year for Tomatoes ★ Acts of Love The American Dream Revisited Approximating Mother Bad-Ass of the Rip Eternal Adam Baum and the Jew Movie American Dreams (Frisch, Terkel) April Fish Bag Lady Adaptation American Landscape April Snow The Ballad of the Sad Cafe An Adult Evening of Shel An American Millionaire Arabian Nights Ballad of Yachiyo Silverstein American Modern The Archbishop’s Ceiling Balloon Shot The African Company Presents The American Nightmare The Architecture of Loss Balm in Gilead Richard III American Notes Are You Ready? The Baltimore Waltz After Ashley The American Plan The Armored Dove Bang Bang Beirut After Easter American Primitive (or John and Arsenic and Old Lace Bang the Drum Slowly After the Fall Abigail) ‘Art’ Baptized to the Bone After the Quake American Roulette Art of Murder A Barbarian in Love After-Play An American Sunset The Art of Remembering Barefoot in Athens The Age of Pie The American Way The Art of Self-Defense Barefoot Woman in the Red Dress Agnes Amicable Parting Artichoke Bargains The Agony & The Agony Amici, Ascoltate The Artist and the Model A Barrel Full of Pennies The Agreement A.M.L. The Artist and the Model/2 The Barretts of Wimpole Street Ah, Eurydice! Among Friends As Bees in Honey Drown Barrymore’s Ghost Air Raid Amphibians As Is Bartok as Dog Akhmatova Amphitryon As It is in Heaven Based on a Totally True Story Album Amphitryon 38 Ascension Day The Basement (Pinter) Alfred the Great Amulets Against the Dragon Forces Ashes to Ashes The Basement (Schisgal) Alice in Wonderland Ancient History Asian Shade Bat Boy: The Musical Alien Boy Ancient Lights Asleep on the Wind The Batting Cage

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Battle of Angels Billy Irish Boy Meets Girl (Wasserstein) Pear Tree Be Aggressive Bindle Stiff The Boy with Green Hair Button, Button Be Your Age The Bird Cage Boys and Girls Buy Me Blue Ribbons The Bear Bird of Ill Omen Boys’ Life Buy One Get One Free The Beard Birds in Church The Boys Next Door By Hex ★ Beast The Birthday Present Brand By the Bog of Cats Beautiful Child Bite the Hand The Brass Ring By the Sea By the Sea By the Beautiful Thing Bits and Pieces Bravo Beautiful Sea Beauty and the Beast The Black and White Break Cabin 12 Beauty of the Father Black Angel Breakfast in Bed Cacciatore: Three Short Plays Beauty on the Vine Black Cloud Morning New York Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner Cafe Crown Beauty Parade Black Girl Breaking Legs Café Moon The Beauty Queen of Leenane ★ The Black Monk: A Chamber Breaking the Prairie Wolf Code Cages Beauty’s Daughter Musical Breath, Boom Cahoots Because Their Hearts were Pure (or Black Sheep (Blessing) Breathing Corpses Cakewalk The Secret of the Mine) Black Sheep (Rice) Brendan The Call ★ Becky Shaw Black Snow Brewsie and Willie Call Me by My Rightful Name ★ Becky’s New Car Blackbird The Brick and the Rose Call Me Shakespeare Bed and Sofa Blade to the Heat The Bridal Night The Cameo ★ The Beebo Brinker Chronicles Blessed Assurance The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky Camino Real Been Taken Blind Date The Bride’s Bouquet Can Can Before Breakfast Blind Willie and the Talking Dog The Brides of March Canadian Gothic Before It Hits Home The Blizzard A Brief Period of Time Candle in the Wind Beggars in the House of Plenty Blood Orange Bright Ideas Candy & Shelley Go to the Desert The Beggar’s Opera Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole Brighten the Corner Canker Sores and Other The Beginning of August Blood Wedding Brilliant Traces Distractions Belfry Bloody Mary Bringing It All Back Home Capitalism 101 Bell, Book and Candle The Blowin of Baile Gall Broken Glass Captains and Courage A Bell for Adano Blowing Whistles Brontosaurus Captive Audience Belmont Avenue Social Club Blue Door Brooklyn Boy The Captivity of Pixie Shedman Benito Cereno Blue Heaven Brother Rat Carbondale Dreams Benjamin Falling The Blue Hour: City Sketches Brotherhood Cardinal O’Connor Bernadine Blue/Orange The Brothers Karamazov (Fishelson) Career Angel (Female Version) Bernice/Butterfly: A Two-Part Blues for an Alabama Sky The Brothers Karamazov (Sydow, Career Angel (Male Version) Invention Bodies Tumarin) The Caretaker Bertha, the Bartender’s Beautiful Bodies, Rest and Motion Brown Pelican Carl the Second Baby The Body & The Wheel Brutality of Fact Carnal Knowledge The Best Daddy A Body of Water (Blessing) The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Carol Mulroney Best Half Foot Forward A Body of Water (Zark) Chameleon Skin The Carpenters The Best Man The Bodybuilders Buddies The Carpetbagger’s Children Best of Friends Bondage Buffalo Hair The Case of the Crushed Petunias Betrayal Bonjour, La, Bonjour Bug Cash Flow A Betrothal Bontche Schweig Bugs The Castle Bette and Me Book of Days Buicks The Castro Complex Better Days Book of Leviticus Show The Bungler The Cat Act Betty the Yeti The Book of Liz The Burial of Esposito Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Betty’s Summer Vacation The Book of Murder Buried Child The Catch Colt Between Us ★ Boom Buried Inside Extra Catfish Moon Beyond the Horizon Boom Town Burkie Cat’s Cradle Beyond Your Command Borak Burn This The Cavalcaders BFE Borderline Burning Bright The Cave BFF (“Best Friends Forever”) Borderlines Bury the Dead Cave Life Bhutan Born Yesterday Bus Riley’s Back in Town Cavedweller A Bicycle Country Bosoms and Neglect Bus Stop (Inge) Cavern of the Jewels Big Al Boston Marriage Bus Stop (Silverstein) Celebration (Perrin) Big Fish, Little Fish Botticelli Bus Stop Diner Celebration (Pinter) The Big Funk Bouncers Business Lunch at the Russian Tea Cellini The Big Knife Bound East for Cardiff Room Cemetery Man Big Mary Boundary Waters Businessmen The Ceremony of Innocence Big Mother Bourbon at the Border Busman’s Honeymoon Chain of Circumstances The Big Slam Box The Busy World is Hushed The Champagne Charlie Stakes Big Sur Boy The Butler Did It Character Lines The Biggest Thief in Town The Boy in the Basement The Butterfingers Angel, Mary & Charity The Billion Dollar Saint Boy Meets Family Joseph, Herod the Nut & The Charlie and Vito Billy Budd Boy Meets Girl (Spewack) Slaughter of 12 Hit Carols in a Charlie Blake’s Boat

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Charlie’s Farewell Clutterbuck Crafty A Day of Absence The Chase The Coal Diamond Crawling Arnold The Day Room Chase Me, Comrade! Cobb Crazy Eights Day Standing on Its Head Chaucer in Rome Cockeyed Kite The Creation of the World and The Day They Shot John Lennon Cheating Cheaters The Cocktail Hour Other Business Days Ahead A Cheever Evening Cocktails with Mimi Creative Development The Days and Nights of BeeBee Chemical Imbalance: A Jekyll and Coco Puffs The Credeaux Canvas Fenstermaker Hyde Play Cold Creditors Days of Wine and Roses The Chemistry of Change Cold Sweat Crimes of the Heart Daytrips The Cherry Orchard (Corrigan) Colder Than Here The Cripple of Inishmaan The Dazzle The Cherry Orchard (Mann) Collected Stories Crisscross D.C. The Cherry Orchard (van Itallie) The Collection Criss-Crossing ¿De Donde? Chick ★ Colorado Critic’s Choice Dead Certain Chicken Come Down Burning The Crocodile Smile Dead End Childe Byron Come on Strong Crossin’ the Line The Dead Eye Boy Children Come Slowly, Eden Crossings Dead Giveaway Children of a Lesser God The Comeback Crowns The Dead Guy Children of the Wind Comes a Day The Crucible A Dead Man’s Apartment The Children’s Crusade ★ Coming Home Crumbs from the Table of Joy The Deadly Game The Children’s Hour Coming of Age in Soho Crunch Time Deaf Day The Children’s Story Coming of the Hurricane A Cry of Players The Deal The Chinese The Coming World The Cryptogram Dealer’s Choice Chinese Coffee Command Decision ¡Cuba Si! Dear Delinquent The Chinese Restaurant Syndrome The Common Pursuit The Cuban Swimmer Dear Friends The Chiropodist Companions of the Fire Cuckoos on the Hearth Dear Kenneth Blake Chocolate Cake The Company of Heaven Cue for Passion Dear Ruth ★ Choosing Sides Compleat Female Stage Beauty The Curate’s Play Dearborn Heights Chopin in Space Complete Works Volume 1 (Pinter) The Curious Savage The Dearest of Friends The Chopin Playoffs Complete Works Volume 2 (Pinter) Curse of the Starving Class Dearly Beloved The Chosen Compulsion (Levin) Curtains (Bill) Dearly Departed Christmas Belles Compulsion (Patrick) Curtains (Gonzalez) The Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch A Christmas Carol (Baizley) Confession Cyrano de Bergerac ★ Death by Fatal Murder A Christmas Carol (Linney) Confluence Da-Show Must Go On (Dashow) Death Comes to Us All, Mary A Christmas Carol (Schario) The Conscientious Objector Daddies Agnes A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story The Consequences of Goosing The Dadshuttle Death in the Family of Christmas (Wilson) The Constituent Dalton’s Back Death of a Salesman A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Continental Divide Damage Control The Death of Bessie Smith Marley (Horovitz) Continental Divide: Daughters of The Dance and the Railroad The Death of Frank Christmas on Mars the Revolution A Dance Lesson The Death of King Philip Christopher Blake Continental Divide: Mother’s Dance of Death (Greenberg) The Death of Papa Chug Against The Dance of Death (Parts 1 & 2) The Death of the Old Man The Cider House Rules, Part One: Contribution The Dancers The Death of Zukasky Here in St. Cloud’s Contributions Dancing at Lughnasa ★ Deathbed The Cider House Rules, Part Two: Control Freaks The Dancing Mice Deathtrap In Other Parts of the World The Controversy of Valladolid Dancing on Moonlight Debbie Does Dallas Cinderella Wore Combat Boots Convenience Danger: Memory! The Debutante Ball Circus Lady Conversation with a Sphinx The Dangers of Tobacco Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams ★ A Civil War Christmas: An Conversations with the Spanish Danny and the Deep Blue Sea Deep are the Roots American Musical Celebration Lady Daphne in Cottage D Deep Sleepers Clair de Lune The Corn is Green The Dark at the Top of the Stairs The Deer and the Antelope Play Claire Corpus Christi Dark Hammock Defender of the Faith Clandestine on the Morning Line The Couch The Dark is Light Enough Defiance Clara The Countess Dark Matters Deflowering Waldo Class Conflict Counting the Ways Dark, No Sugar Degas C’est Moi A Clearing in the Woods The Country Club Dark Play or Stories for Boys The Delusion of Angels Clever Dick The Country Girl Dark Ride Democracy Click Coup The Dark Room Demon Wine Cliffhanger Courtship Dark Sun Den of Thieves The Climate of Eden The Courtship of Morning Star Dark Victory ’Dentity Crisis Close of Play Cousins Darwin in Malibu The Departure of Brian O’Callahan Close Ties The Cowboy, the Indian and the A Dash of Bitters Desdemona, A Play About a Closer Fervent Feminist Daughters of Atreus Handkerchief Clothes for a Summer Hotel Cowgirls Dawn The Designated Mourner Cloud Seven Coyote on a Fence A Day for Surprises Desire Desire Desire Clucks Coyote Ugly Day in the Sun Desire Under the Elms

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Desperadoes Don Juan (Porter) Eat the Taste Everybody’s Secret Desperate Affection Don Juan (Wilbur) The Eccentricities of a Nightingale Everyman Today Detective Story Don Juan in Chicago An Educated Lady Everything in the Garden ★ Deuce Doña Rosita the Spinster Edward, My Son Everything Will be Different The Devil and Daniel Webster Dottie and Richie Edwin Booth Evolution A Devil Inside Double Solitaire The Effect of Gamma Rays on The Exact Center of the Universe The Devils Double Wedding Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds Exact Change Devour the Snow Doubt, a Parable The Egghead An Examination of the Whole Dial M for Murder The Doughgirls Eh? Playwright/Actor Relationship Diana Does It Down and Out Einstein and the Polar Bear Presented As Some Kind of Cop The Diary of Anne Frank (Goodrich, Down the Road The Einstein Project Show Parody Hackett) Down the Shore El Hermano Excursion The Diary of Anne Frank The Dozens Eleanor Sleeps Here The Exercise (Kesselman) Dr. Cook’s Garden Election Year The Exhibition A Different Moon Dr. Fish Eleemosynary Exits and Entrances Diff’rent Dr. Fritz Elegy for a Lady The Exonerated Digby Dr. Hero Elephants Expecting Isabel Dilemma Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Eleven Short Plays by William Inge An Experiment with an Air Pump Diminished Capacity Dracula (Dietz) Elliot, a Soldier’s Fugue Extensions Dimly Perceived Threats to the Dracula (Johnson) Elliot Loves Eye of God System Dragon Country Elm Circle The Eye of the Beholder The Dining Room Dragonwings Embarrassments Eyes for Consuela The Dinosaur Musical The Drapes Come Emma’s Child The E.Z. Snooz Motel Dink’s Blues The Dream Coast Empathy A Fable Dinner with Friends Dream Girl Emperor and Galilean Fables for Friends Dinner with the Superfriends Dream of Passion The Emperor Jones Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Dinny and the Witches A Dream Play An Empty Plate in the Café du Undine Direct from Death Row The The Dreamer Examines His Pillow Grand Boeuf The Fabulous Invalid Scottsboro Boys Dreamers Enchanted April Face Divided Dirty Story Dreams of Flight The Enclave The Facts Dirty Talk (Pintauro) Dreamtime for Alice End of Summer A Fair Country The Dirty Talk (Puzzo) The Dreamy Kid Endecott and the Red Cross Fair Exchange Disciples Dreyfus in Rehearsal Endpapers Fair Game Disconnect Driving Miss Daisy An Enemy of the People (Meyer) The Fairy Garden The Disintegration of James Cherry The Drop of a Hat An Enemy of the People (Miller) Faith Disneyland on Parade Drowning Sorrows English Made Simple The Fall of the City The Disposal The Druid Circle The English Teachers Falling Man Distant Fires Drums Under the Windows The Enigma Fam and Yam Distracted Dublin Carol Enigma Variations (Ives) Fame Takes a Holiday ★ Dividing the Estate Duck Enigma Variations (Schmitt) Family Business Divorce—Anyone? Duck Hunter Shoots Angel Entertaining Mr. Helms The Family Continues Divorce Southern Style Duck Hunting Epic Proportions Family Devotions The Dixie Swim Club Ducks and Lovers Epilogue The Family Man DMV Tyrant Duel of Angels Epiphany Family Meeting Do Not Feed the Animal Dumb Show Erik the Fourteenth Family Voices Doctor The Dumb Waiter Eris Fancy Meeting You Again Doctor Galley Dumping Ground The Eros Trilogy The Fantod The Doctor Will See You Now Dunelawn Escanaba in da Moonlight Farewell, Farewell, Eugene (Durang) Durang/Durang Eternal Triangle The Farmer’s Daughter The Doctor Will See You Now Durango Ethan Frome ★ Farragut North (Patrick) Dusa, Fish, Stas & VI Etta Jenks Fast Women Dodge Dusk Eudora Welty’s The Hitch Hikers Fat Men in Skirts Dodsworth Dust in Your Eyes Eulogy for Mister Hamm Father and Son Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? The Dwarfs Eve-Olution Father Dreams Dog Eat Dog Dying City An Evening for Merlin Finch Father Malachy’s Miracle Dog Lady Early Dark Evening Star Father of the Bride Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Early Warnings Everett Beekin The Father (Hailey) Teenage Blockhead Earth and Sky Every Night When the Sun Goes The Father (Meyer) The Dog Sitters ★ East 10th Street: Self Portrait with Down Father Uxbridge Wants to Marry Dogbrain Empty House Every Seventeen Minutes the Fathers and Sons Doing a Good One for the Red Man Easter (Scheffer) Crowd Goes Crazy! Father’s Day A Doll’s House (McGuinness) Easter (Strindberg) Every Year at the Carnival ★ Fault Lines A Doll’s House (Meyer) Easter Night Everybody Has to be Somebody Faustus Dolores Eastern Standard Everybody Loves Opal Fear Network News Domestic Issues Eat Cake Everybody’s Girl Feathertop

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Feedlot F.O.B. Full Moon (Price) Going to See the Elephant Feiffer’s People Fog on the Mountain Fully Committed Going to St. Ives Ferryboat The Folding Green Fun Gold The Festivities The Food Chain Funeral Parlor Gold and Silver Waltz The Fever Food for Fish Fur Hat The Golden Age A Few Stout Individuals Food Related The Further Adventures of Hedda Golden Boy Fiat Fool for Love Gabler Golden Child The Fiery Furnace The Footsteps of Doves Further Than the Furthest Thing The Golden Six Fifth of July For-Everett Galahad Jones The Golden State (Spewack) Fifth Planet For Love or Money Gallows Humor ★ The Golden State (Wilson) ★ Fifty Words For the Use of the Hall The Gamester The Golden Years The Filmmaker’s Mystery For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls Garbage Bags The Golem The Final Interrogation of Force Continuum The Gardens of Frau Hess Gone Goth Ceausescu’s Dog Force of Nature The Gay Deceiver Gone Missing Final Orders The Foreigner The Gazebo Gone to Take a… Final Passages Foreplay or: The Art of the Fugue Gemini Gone Tomorrow Final Performance, or The Curtain Forever Yours, Marie-Lou General Gorgeous Good as New Falls The Former One-on-One Basketball The General of Hot Desire Good Boys and True Final Placement Champion General Seeger Good Day Finding Claire Fortinbras The Gentle People ★ The Good Negro Finding the Sun The 49th Cousin ★ Geometry of Fire Good Night, Caroline Finishing Touches Found a Peanut George Washington Slept Here The Good Parts Fire Dance Four Gettin’ It Together The Good Thief Fire in the Hole Four Baboons Adoring the Sun Getting Away with Murder Good Thing Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Four Dogs and a Bone Getting Frankie Married—and A Good Time Brooklyn and Other Identities Four from E.S.T. Marathon ’99 Afterwards Goodbye Freddy The First Actress Four One-Act Plays by Robert Getting Out Goodbye, Howard The First Gentleman Schenkkan Ghost Children Goodbye Oscar First Lady Four Plays by Conor McPherson The Ghost of Rhodes Manor Goodly Creatures First Lady Suite Four Short Plays by Jerome Kass The Ghost Sonata Gorgo’s Mother First Love (Margulies) Four Short Plays by Lanford Wilson A Ghost Story A Gothic Tale First Love (Taylor) Four Short Plays by Mark Medoff Ghost World ★ The Government Inspector The First Night of “Pygmalion” Four Twelves are 48 Ghosts (Meyer) (Hatcher) The Firstborn The Fourth Wall Ghosts (Wilson) The Government Inspector (Raby) Fish Foxhole in the Parlor Ghosts of the Loyal Oaks G.R. Point Fit to be Tied The Fragile Fox The Giants’ Dance The Grace of Mary Traverse Five Course Love Fragments (Albee) Gideon Graceland Five Evenings Fragments (Schisgal) Gift of Murder! Gramercy Ghost Five in Judgment Frame 312 The Gifted Program Grand Prize Five Kinds of Silence ★ The Framer The Gifts of the Magi A Grand Romance Five of Us Frankenstein The Gimmick The Grand Tour Five One-Act Plays by Alan Ball Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de ★ The Gingerbread House Grandma Duck is Dead Five One-Act Plays by Murray Lune The Gingham Dog Grandma Steps Out Schisgal Franklin’s Apprentice Gint The Grapes of Wrath Five Women Wearing the Same Fran’s Bed The Girl and the Soldier The Grass Harp Dress ★ Free A Girl Can Tell Grass Widows Flag Day Freedomland Girl Gone A Grave Undertaking Flatboatman Freeman The Girl Who Loved The Beatles The Great American Cheese The Flatulist The French Touch The Girls of the Garden Club Sandwich Flaubert’s Latest Fresh Horses Girls’ Talk The Great American Trailer Park A Flea in Her Ear (Galati) Freud’s house Girls We Have Known Musical A Flea in Her Ear (Ives) Friday Night Give Me Your Answer, Do! A Great Career Flesh and Blood (Gaitens) Fridays The Glass Menagerie Great Expectations Flesh and Blood (Hanley) The Froegle Dictum Glimmer, Glimmer & Shine ★ Great Falls ★ Flight From Above Glutt The Great God Brown Flight into Egypt Frost/Nixon The Gnadiges Fraulein The Great Labor Day Classic Flight Lines The Frosted Glass Coffin The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? The Great Nebula in Orion Flight to the West Frozen Goblin Market Great Scot! The Flounder Complex Frozen Dog ★ God of Carnage The Great Sebastians The Flowering Peach The Frying Pan The God of Hell Great Solo Town The Flu Season Fuddy Meers God of Vengeance Green Julia Flyin’ West Full Frontal Nudity God Says There is No Peter Ott The Green Pastures The Flying Gerardos Full Gallop God’s Great Supper Greenwich Mean Flywheel and Anna Full Hookup God’s Man in Texas Grey Gardens F.M. Full Moon (Krasna) Going Once The Grey Zone

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Griller Hedda Gabler (Baitz) Dreams Myself Gross Indecency: The Three Trials ★ Hedda Gabler (Friel) The Hot L Baltimore Ikke, Ikke, Nye, Nye, Nye of Oscar Wilde Hedda Gabler (Hughes) Hot ’n’ Throbbing ’Ile The Ground Zero Club Hedda Gabler (Meyer) Hotel I’ll be Home for Christmas Group Hedwig and the Angry Inch A Hotel on Marvin Gardens I’m Herbert The Groves of Academe The Heidi Chronicles The Hotel Play I’m Really Here Guardians Heights The Hothouse The Imaginary Cuckold, or ★ Guerilla Gorilla The Heiress The Hound of the Baskervilles Sganarelle Guests of the Nation Hellcab House Arrest: A Search for The Imaginary Invalid Gulf View Drive Hello Again American Character In and An Imaginary Life Gum Hello from Bertha Around the White House, Past Imagining “America” Gunfighter: A Gulf War Chronicle Henrietta the Eighth and Present Imagining Brad ★ Guns Don’t Kill Henry (After Pirandello) The House in Town The Immoralist Gus and Al Henry Flamethrowa House Made of Air Impassioned Embraces The Guys Henry Lumper The House of Bernarda Alba Impossible Marriage Gym Teacher Her Majesty, Miss Jones The House of Sleeping Beauties ★ Impressionism The Gynecologist The Herbal Bed The House of Yes Impromptu Habit Hesh House Without Windows In a Northern Landscape The Habitation of Dragons Hey You, Light Man! The Houseguests ★ In a Word The Habitual Acceptance of the Hidden Agendas The Housekeeper In Any Language Near Enough The Hidden River How I Got That Story In Arabia We’d All be Kings Hagar’s Children Hide and Seek How I Learned to Drive In Fireworks Lie Secret Codes The Hairy Ape The Hide and Seek Odyssey of How Much, How Much? In Old Vermont Halcyon Days Madeline Gimple How to Say Goodbye In Place ★ The Hallelujah Girls The Hiding Place How We Reached an Impasse on In Real Life Hamlet ESP High Cockalorum Nuclear Energy In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel The Hammerstone High Dive Howie the Rookie In the Blood A Handful of Rainbows The High School How’s the World Treating You? In the Desert of My Soul A Handful of Stars High Sign Hrosvitha In the Summer House The Hands of Its Enemy High Tor Hughie In the Zone Handy Dandy The Highest Tree Human Error In-Betweens Hangnail Highway A Human Interest Story (or The An Incident at the Standish Arms Hank Williams: Lost Highway Hilda Crane Gory Details and All) Incident at Vichy Hannah and Martin ★ Hillary: A Modern Greek Tragedy Humpty Dumpty Incommunicado The Happiest Millionaire with a (Somewhat) Happy Ending The Hundred and First The Incomparable Max Happy Ending His Dish The Hunter and the Bird Incorruptible Happy for You The Hitch-Hiker ★ Hunter Gatherers Independence The Happy Time Hocus Pocus Hurricane of the Eye The Indian Wants the Bronx Hard Hat Area Hold Me! Hysterical Blindness Infant Mortality The Hardy Boys and the Mystery of Hold Please I am a Camera An Infinite Ache Where Babies Come From The Holdup I am My Own Wife Inherit the Wind Harold Holiday for Lovers I Can’t Imagine Tomorrow Innocent Thoughts, Harmless The Harry and Sam Dialogues Hollywood Arms I Can’t Remember Anything Intentions Harry Outside Hollywood Pinafore or The Lad I Don’t Know What I’m Doing The Innocents’ Crusade The Harvesting Who Loved a Salary I Hate Hamlet Insect Love Harvey The Hologram Theory I-Kissandtell An Inspector Calls The Hasty Heart Holy Ghosts I Knock at the Door Insurrection: Holding History The Hat The Homage that Follows I Love Lucy Who? Integrity The Haunted Honeymoon Home (Cahill) I Never Sang for My Father The Intelligent Design of Jenny Haunted Lives Home (Williams) I Remember Mama Chow The Haunting of Hill House Home at Six I Remember Mama (High School Interlock Have a Nice Day Home Free! Version) Intermezzo Having Our Say, The Delany Home Front I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix Intermission Sisters’ First 100 Years Home Life of a Buffalo I Sailed with Magellan Interurban Having Wonderful Time Home of the Brave I was Dancing The Interview (Swet) He Ain’t Heavy The Homecoming Ice Glen Interview (van Itallie) Heart of a City Homework The Ice-Breaker Intimate Apparel Heart of a Dog Honour The Iceman Cometh Inventing Van Gogh The Heart Outright Hoodoo Love The Idiot Invitation to a March Hearts Beating Faster Hooters Idiot’s Delight Iphigenia Heathen Valley Hope The Idiots Karamazov The Iron Cross Heaven and Hell (on Earth): A Hope is the Thing with Feathers If the Shoe Pinches Isadora Duncan Sleeps with the Divine Comedy Hopscotch If Walls Could Talk Russian Navy Heaven Can Wait The Horse Latitudes If We are Women Isn’t It Romantic Heaven on Earth Hortensia and the Museum of If You were My Wife I’d Shoot Isn’t Nature Wonderful?

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It Can’t Happen Here Juliet Lake Street Extension Let’s Make Up Italian American Reconciliation Juliet, Yancey, April Snow The Land is Bright A Letter from Ethel Kennedy It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie July 7, 1994 The Land of Cockaigne Levitation It’s a Small World Jumpin’ Jupiter The Land of the Astronauts Levittown It’s Been Wonderful Jumping for Joy Land O’Fire The Liar It’s Called the Sugar Plum Jungle Rot Landscape of the Body The Librarian It’s Only a Play Junior Miss ★ The Language of Trees A Lie of the Mind It’s Showdown Time Junk Yard The Laramie Project The Lieutenant of Inishmore Ivanov (Corrigan) Juno’s Swans Large Window on a Small World The Life and Adventures of Ivanov (Schmidt) Just Hold Me The Lark Nicholas Nickleby, Part I I’ve Got Sixpence K2 Las Meninas The Life and Adventures of Ivory Tower Karima’s City The Last Days of Judas Iscariot Nicholas Nickleby, Part II Jackie Lantern’s Hallowe’en ★ Katherine Desouza The Last December The Life and Death of Almost Revenge The Keepers Last Gasps Everybody Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol Keepin’ an Eye on Louie The Last Good Moment of Lily Life and Limb Jacobowsky and the Colonel The Kentucky Cycle Baker Life During Wartime Jacob’s Ladder The Kentucky Marriage Proposal Last Looks Life is a Dream Jacques Brel is Alive and Well & Key Exchange The Last Meeting of the Knights of Life is Short Living in Paris Key Largo the White Magnolia Life Science ★ Jailbait Keyhole Lover The Last Night of Ballyhoo Life Under Water The Jammer Kibbutz The Last of Mrs. Lincoln Life with Father Jar the Floor ★ Kicking a Dead Horse The Last of My Solid Gold Watches Life with Mother Jason Kid Champion Last of the Boys Life with Mother Superior Jealousy Kid Purple The Last of the Thorntons A Life with No Joy in It Jeffrey Killers The Last Straw Life x 3 Jenny Keeps Talking Killers and Other Family The Last Sunday in June The Lifeboat is Sinking Jenny Kissed Me Kimberly Akimbo Last to Go Light Up the Sky Jest a Second! A Kind of Alaska Last Train to Nibroc Lighting Up the Two-Year Old Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train Kind Sir Last Tuesday Lightning Jesus on the Oil Tank King of Hearts The Last Word… The Lights Jiley Nance and Lednerg ★ King of Shadows The Last Yankee (Full Length) The Lilies of the Field Jimmy Shine The King of the United States The Last Yankee (One Act) Lillian Jitters Kingdom Come The Late George Apley Lily Jo Kingdom of Earth The Late Henry Moss Lily Dale Joan of Lorraine Kiss and Tell Later A Limb of Snow Joe and Stew’s Theatre of Kiss the Boys Good-bye Later Life Limbo Tales Brotherly Love and Financial Kissing Christine Laughing Stock (Linney) Linda Her Success Kissing Sweet Laughing Stock (Morey) Line Joey Kit Marlowe Laughing Wild Lips Together, Teeth Apart Joey-Boy Kith and Kin Laughs, Etc. The Lisbon Traviata John and Mary Doe Kitty Kitty Kitty Laughter in the Shadow of the Listening John Brown’s Body Kitty the Waitress Trees Litko: A Dramatic Monologue John Gabriel Borkman Klonsky and Schwartz Laundry and Bourbon Little Bird John Loves Mary Komachi Laura Little Brother: Little Sister John Turner Davis The Kramer Laura Dennis Little David Johnny Belinda Kringle’s Window The Laws The Little Dog Laughed Johnny Bull L.A. Lazarus Laughed Little Egypt Johnny No-Trump La Bête Leader Little Eyolf Johnny Pye L.A. Sketches The Leading Lady Little Fears The Johnstown Vindicator Labor Day The Learned Ladies Little Fish Joined at the Head Ladies at the Alamo The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue The Little Flower of East Orange The Joke Code Ladies in Retirement ★ Leaves Little Footsteps Jonah ★ The Ladies Man The Left Hand Singing The Little Foxes Joseph Dintenfass The Ladies of the Camellias Legend The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Josephine: The Mouse Singer The Ladies Should be in Bed Legend of Camille Lane The Journals of Mihail Sebastian ★ Lady Legend of Sarah The Little Hut Journey to Bahia The Lady and the Clarinet The Legendary Stardust Boys Little Joe Monaghan Journey to Jerusalem The Lady from Dubuque Lemon Sky Little Johnny Journey to the Day The Lady from Havana Lemonade Little Miss Fresno The Joy Luck Club The Lady from the Sea Lemons The Little Tommy Parker Celebrated The Joy of Going Somewhere The Lady of Fadima Lenten Pudding Colored Minstrel Show Definite The Lady of Larkspur Lotion Les Belles Soeurs Little Victories Judaic Park The Lady with All the Answers A Lesson Before Dying Live Spelled Backwards Judith The Lady’s Not for Burning Let Me Hear You Whisper The Live Wire Julie Johnson Lake Hollywood Let Us Go Out into the Starry Night The Lively Lad

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Lives of the Saints Oberlander The Marriage of Figaro The Miss Firecracker Contest Living at Home Lucky Nurse Marriage Play Miss Julie Living in this World The Lucky Spot Marvin’s Room Miss Lonelyhearts Living Out Ludlow Fair Mary Agnes is Thirty-Five Miss Witherspoon Lobby Hero Lullaby Mary Macgregor Miss You Lola Luminescence Dating Mary, Mary Missing/Kissing Lolita Luna Park Mary Stuart Missing Marisa The Loman Family Picnic Lunatic and Lover The Masque of Kings Missing Persons Lone Star Lunch Break Mass Appeal Missouri Legend The Loneliest Wayfarer Luv Master and Margarita or, The Devil The Mistakes Madeline Made A Lonely Impulse of Delight Lydie Breeze Comes to Moscow. Mister Angel Lonely Planet M. Butterfly The Master Builder Mister Johnson The Lonesome West The M Word Master Class Mister Roberts Long Ago and Far Away Macbeth Did It Master Olof Mixed Babies The Long Christmas Ride Home Madagascar Masterpieces Mixed Couples Long Day’s Journey into Night Madam, Will You Walk? Masters of the Trade Mixed Emotions The Long Goodbye Made for a Woman Match Mizlansky/Zilinsky or Schmucks The Long Stay Cut Short or The The Maderati Mating Dance Moby-Dude, or: The Three-Minute Unsatisfactory Supper The Madness of Lady Bright Max and Maxie Whale The Long Voyage Home The Madwoman of Chaillot McReele The Model Apartment The Long Watch The Magenta Moth Me and Jezebel Modern Orthodox Look: We’ve Come Through The Magic Act Me and Thee Mojo (Butterworth) Looking for Normal The Magic Fire “Me, Candido!” Mojo (Childress) Lord Byron’s Love Letter The Mai Measure for Pleasure Molly Sweeney Lorenzo The Maiden’s Prayer Medea Moloch Blues A Loss of Roses The Majestic Kid Meet Me in Disneyland Mombo The Lost Colony Make Like a Dog The Meeting (Barlow) The Moment When Lot 13: The Bone Violin Make Room for Rodney The Meeting (Stetson) Momma’s Little Angels Lou Gehrig Did Not Die of Cancer Makin’ Sense of Nothin’ Mel Says to Give You His Best Monday After the Miracle Louie Malcolm The Member of the Wedding Money Love Among the Ruins The Mall Memorial Day Money and Friends Love and Happiness The Man Memory Money Mad Love and Kisses Man Dangling Memory of Summer The Monogamist Love and Understanding Man from Nebraska A Memory of Two Mondays Monologue Love Diatribe The Man in a Case The Memory of Water Monologue, February 1990 ★ Love Drunk Man in a Restaurant Men Without Dates Monster Love in E-Flat The Man in the Dog Suit Men Without Wives A Month in the Country (Nicolaeff) Love is a Time of Day The Man Who Came to Dinner Men’s Lives A Month in the Country, After Love is Contagious The Man Who Climbed Pecan Men’s Singles Turgenev (Friel) Love Letters Trees Mercy Months on End ★ Love, Loss and What I Wore The Man Who Had All the Luck Mere Mortals The Moon is Blue Love Me Long The Man Who Never Died The Mermaids Singing The Moon is Down Love Minus The Manchurian Candidate Meshugah The Moon of the Caribbees The Love of Four Colonels The Mandrake The Metamorphosis Moon over the Brewery Love of the Game Manhattan Class Company Class Metropolitan Operas Mooncastle Love Rides the Rails (or Will the One-Acts, 1992 Mickey Moonlight Mail Train Run Tonight?) ★ Manhattan Drum-Taps Mickey’s Teeth Moonlight and Magnolias Love Song Manny The Middle Ages The Moonlight Room The Love Suicide at Schofield Manuscript Midgie Purvis The Moonshot Tape Barracks (Full Length) Many Happy Returns The Midnight Caller Moony’s Kid Don’t Cry The Love Suicide at Schofield Marathon 33 The Mighty Gents Moose Mating Barracks (One Act) Marching As to War A Mighty Man is He More Solo Readings The Love Talker Marco Millions The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here The Morning After Love! Valour! Compassion! Marco Polo Anymore Morning Becomes Olestra Love-Lies-Bleeding Marco Polo Sings a Solo The Millennium Fallacy Morning Star The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year Marcus is Walking: Scenes from The Mineola Twins ★ The Most Damaging Wound Lovely Day the Road Minor Demons The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur Margaret’s Bed Minor Murder Motel The Lover Margin for Error Minutes from the Blue Route The Mother of Modern Censorship Lovers’ Quarrels Marie and Bruce Misadventure A Mother’s Love A Lovesong for Miss Lydia Marie Antoinette: The Color of The Misanthrope The Mound Builders Lower Ninth Flesh The Miser (Chambers) Mountain Language Loyalty Marisol The Miser (Magruder) Mountain Memory L-Play Marriage Miss Evers’ Boys Mountain—The Journey of Justice Lu Ann Hampton Laverty The Marriage of Bette and Boo Miss Farnsworth Douglas

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Mourning Becomes Electra Natural Affection Nobody One Thing More Mr. 80% Natural Disasters Nobody Loves an Albatross Only an Orphan Girl Mr. & Mrs. The Nature and Purpose of the Nocturne The Only Thing Worse You Could Mr. Arcularis Universe ★ None of the Above Have Told Me… Mr. Barry’s Etchings Neat Norm-Anon Only You Mr. Charles, Currently of Palm Nebraska North of Providence Opal is a Diamond Beach Necessary Targets North Shore Fish Opal’s Baby Mr. Flannery’s Ocean The Necklace is Mine Northeast Local Opal’s Husband Mr. Hobbs’ Vacation Ned Crocker Not I Opal’s Million Dollar Duck Mr. Marmalade Needs Not My Fault Opera Comique Mr. Morton Waits for His Bus Neighbors Not Now, Darling Operation Midnight Climax Mr. Peters’ Connections. Nellie Toole & Co. Not Waving The Optimist Mr. Pickwick The Nerd Note to Self ★ Opus Mr. Williams and Miss Wood Nerve The Notebook Orange Flower Water Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas A Nervous Smile The Notebook of Trigorin An Ordinary Man Binge Neville’s Island Now Oregon Mrs. Cage Nevis Mountain Dew The Number The Orphans Mrs. California New Beat on an Old Drum Oatmeal and Kisses Orpheus Descending Mrs. Dally Has a Lover The New Century Objective Case Orrin Mrs. Harper’s Bazaar ★ New Jerusalem, The Interrogation The Observatory Orson’s Shadow Mrs. Lincoln of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud The O’Conner Girls ★ Other Hands Mrs. McThing Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, The Odyssey of Jeremy Jack Other People Mrs. Murray’s Farm July 27, 1656 Of Mice and Men Other Places Mrs. Sedgewick’s Head A New Life The Ofay Watcher The Other Player Mrs. Sorken The New World Order Off the Map The Other Woman ★ The Muckle Man New Year’s Eve The Offering Our Girls Mud, River, Stone New York Actor Oh, Mama! No, Papa! Our Lady of 121st Street A Murder Next The Oil Well Our Lady of Sligo A Murder, a Mystery & a Marriage Next Time I’ll Sing to You The Old Beginning Our Lady of the Tortilla Murder by Poe The Nice and the Nasty The Old Boy Ourselves Alone Murder in Green Meadows Nice People Dancing to Good The Old Glory Out Cry Murder Mistaken Country Music The Old Jew Out of Gas on Lovers Leap Murder, My Sweet Matilda Nickel and Dimed Old Man Joseph and His Family Out of the Flying Pan Murder Once Removed Night and Her Stars Old Phantoms Out West ★ Murdered to Death Night Dance The Old Settler Outlanders Murderers The Night Heron Old Times Outstanding Men’s Monologues Murdering Marlowe Night Life Old Wicked Songs Volume One Music from a Sparkling Planet Night Maneuver Old Wine in a New Bottle ★ Outstanding Men’s Monologues The Musical Comedy Murders of ’Night, Mother The Oldest Living Graduate Volume Two 1940 Night of the Dunce The Oldest Profession Outstanding Women’s Monologues The Mutilated The Night of the Iguana Oldtimers Game Volume One Mutual Benefit Life The Night of the Tribades Oleanna ★ Outstanding Women’s Monologues Muzeeka A Night Out Olio Volume Two My Boy Jack Night Seasons The Omelet Murder Case Over My Dead Body ★ My Buddy Bill Night Thoughts On an Average Day Over Texas My Cousin Rachel Night Train to Bolina On Borrowed Time Over the River and Through the My Cup Ranneth Over Night Watch On Golden Pond Woods My Dear Children Nightclub Cantata On Raftery’s Hill Over Twenty-One My Emperor’s New Clothes A Nightingale On the Bum, or The Next Train Overtime My Kinsman, Major Molineux Nina in the Morning Through The Overwhelming My Life The Nina Variations On the Edge (Hibbert) The Owl Killer My Mother, My Father and Me Nine Armenians On the Edge (Pospisil) Pagan Day My Name is Rachel Corrie Nine-Ten On the Line ★ Pageant Play ★ My Pal George Ninotchka On the Mountain The Pain and the Itch My Red Hand, My Black Hand Nixon’s Nixon ★ On the Wings of a Butterfly The Palace at 4 a.m. My Side of the Story No Child… On Whitman Avenue Pale Horse My Sister Eileen ★ No Child Left Once for the Asking A Palm Tree in a Rose Garden My Three Angels No Dogs Allowed Once More with Feeling Papp My Uncle Sam No Man’s Land The One-Armed Man Parakeet Eulogy The Mystery at Twicknam Vicarage No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs One Bright Day Parallel Lives The Mystery of Attraction No One Will be Immune One for the Road Parasite Drag Mystery Play No Skronking One Man’s Meat The Paris Letter The Mystery Plays No Soliciting One Minute Play Parted on Her Wedding Morn Naomi in the Living Room No Time One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show Party Time National Velvet No Time for Sergeants One Tennis Shoe ★ A Passage to India

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The Passing of an Actor Play It by Ear (The Festival) Pure Confidence Remains to be Seen ★ Passing Strange Play Time The Purification The Remarkable Susan Passing Through Play Yourself Purple Dust Remedial English Passing Through from Exotic Places Playing with Fire (After The Pushcart Peddlers Request Stop Passione Frankenstein) (Field) Pvt. Wars (Full Length) Requiem for Us Passport Playing with Fire (Strindberg) Pvt. Wars (One Act) Responsible Parties The Past is the Past Please Communicate Pyretown The Rest of the Night Pasta The Pleasure of His Company QED The Retreat from Moscow Patient A The Plumber’s Apprentice Quack The Return of Herbert Bracewell or Patio Plunge Quail Southwest (Why am I Always Alone When Patio/Porch The Pokey ★ Quandary in Quando I’m with You?) Patrick Henry Lake Liquors Polish Joke The Queen of Bingo Reunion In Vienna The Patriots Ponies A Question of Figures Revelers Paul Robeson Poor Beast in the Rain A Question of Mercy The Revenger’s Tragedy The Pavilion Poor Fellas The Quick-Change Room Rex Pay-Per-Kill The Pope’s Nose ★ A Quiet, Empty Life ★ RFK The Peacock Season Popkins Quiet in the Land The Rhesus Umbrella Peer Gynt Pops Quiet, Please Rib Cage Pen Porch Quills Rich and Famous Penny Wise Port Authority Throw Down Quilters Richard Cory People be Heard Portia Coughlan Quotations from Chairman Mao Riches People in the Wind Portrait of a Madonna Tse-Tung The Ride Down Mount Morgan The People Next Door Postcards Rabbit Ridiculous Fraud The People’s Violin A Poster of the Cosmos Rabbit Hole Riff Raff ★ Perchance Potholes Race The Right Honourable Gentleman A Perfect Analysis Given by a Power Lunch The Radiant Abyss Right Behind the Flag Parrot Prairie du Chien ★ Radio Free Emerson Righting A Perfect Ganesh Praying for Rain Raft of the Medusa The Rimers of Eldritch The Perfect Marriage Precisely Rag and Bone Ring of Men A Perfect Mermaid Prelude & Liebestod Rain Dance Ring Round the Moon The Perfect Party Prelude to a Crisis The Rainy Afternoon The Riot Act Period of Adjustment Pre-nuptial Agreement Raised in Captivity Riot Grrrrl Guitar ★ Persephone or Slow Time The Prescott Proposals Ramshackle Inn The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket The Person I Once Was Present Tense ★ The Rant The Rivalry Personal Effects Press Conference The Rat Race The River Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would The Pretenders Rats Road Show Not Grow Up Pretty Fire Ravenswood The Road to the Graveyard The Petrified Forest The Price Raw Youth The Roads to Home Phaedra Pride and Joy Ready for the River Robin The Philadelphia The Primary English Class Reasonable Circulation Rocket Man Philip The Prince and Mr. Jones ★ Reasons to be Pretty Rocket to the Moon Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread Princess Rebecca Birnbaum Rebecca Rocks A Phoenix Too Frequent The Principality of Sorrows Rebel Armies Deep into Chad Roger & Miriam Photo Finish The Prisoner Rebel Women Roman Candle Photographs: Mary and Howard ★ Prisoner of the Crown Recent Tragic Events Romance Phyllis and Xenobia The Prisoner’s Song Recipe for a Crime Romance in D The Physician Private Contentment Reckless Romance, Inc. The Piano Teacher Private Eyes The Reckoning Romanoff and Juliet A Picasso Private Jokes, Public Places Reclining Figure ★ Romantic Poetry Picnic Privilege The Red Address Romulus Picture The Prize Play Red Angel Room Service Pig The Prodigal (Richardson) The Red Coat The Room Pig Farm The Prodigals (Evans) The Red Devil Battery Sign A Roomful of Roses The Pigman Progress Red Herring The Rooming House The Pillars of Society Prologue Red Popcorn Roommates Pillow Talk Prologue: American Twilight Red Roses for Me Roosters The Pillowman The Promise Red Rover, Red Rover The Root of Chaos Pitching to the Star Proof Redwood Curtain Roots in a Parched Ground A Place at Forest Lawn The Proposal Refuge The Rope A Place on the Magdalena Flats Prymate Regarding Electra Rosalee Pritchett Plan Day The Psychiatrist Regrets Only Rosary Planet Fires Psychopathia Sexualis Reindeer Soup Rosa’s Eulogy Plantation Pterodactyls The Reluctant Rogue (or Mother’s The Rose Tattoo The Play About the Baby The Pull of Negative Gravity Day) Rosebloom Play for Germs Punch and Judy A Reluctant Tragic Hero Rosemary with Ginger

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A Rosen by Any Other Name Scotland Road Shel’s Shorts The Sleeper Rosen’s Son Scrooge Sheridan or, Schooled in Scandal Sleeping Beauty Rosmersholm Scuba Duba Sherlock Holmes and the Curse of Sleeping Dogs Rouge Atomique The Sea Gull (Corrigan) the Sign of Four The Sleeping Prince ★ Rough Magic The Sea Gull (van Itallie) Sherlock Holmes: The Final A Slight Ache Roulette ★ The Seagull (Hampton) Adventure A Slight Case of Murder Routed Sea of Tranquility Sherlock’s Last Case Slow Dance on the Killing Ground A Royal Affair The Seafarer Sherlock’s Veiled Secret Slow Memories The Ruby Sunrise Search and Destroy Shining City Small Craft Warnings ★ Ruined The Searching Wind ★ Shipwrecked! An Entertainment— The Small Hours The Rules of Charity Seascape The Amazing Adventures of Louis A Small, Melodramatic Story Rules of Love Season of Choice de Rougemont (as Told by Small War on Murray Hill Rum and Vodka Season’s Greetings Himself) Smash Run, Thief, Run! Second Best Bed The Shock of Recognition A Smell of Burning The Runner Stumbles Second Overture Shoes Smile Running on Empty Second Prize: Two Months in Shoeshine The Smile of the World Rupert’s Birthday Leningrad Shooting Gallery Smoke Rush Limbaugh in Night School Second Threshold Shooting High Snakebit Sabrina Fair ★ Secondary Cause of Death Shooting Stars The Snow Ball Sailor’s Song The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild The Shop at Sly Corner Snow Orchid Saint Stanislaus Outside the House The Secret of Freedom Short and Sweet Snowangel Saints at the Rave Seduced Short Plays and Monologues by Snowing at Delphi Sally and Marsha See My Lawyer David Mamet So When You Get Married... Sally Blane, World’s Greatest Girl See Rock City The Shortchanged Review Soap Opera (Ives) Detective See What I Wanna See The Show Must Go On (Klavan) Soap Opera (Pape) Sally’s Shorts See the Jaguar Show People Sociability Salt Lake City Skyline Seeing Someone Showdown on Rio Road A Social Event Salt-Water Moon Seeking the Genesis The Shrike Soft Dude Sammi Semi-Detached Shyster The Solid Gold Cadillac Samuel Hoopes Reading from His A Sense of Place or Virgil is Still [Sic] Solitaire Own Works the Frogboy Side Man Solo Readings for Radio and Class The Sand Castle Sequel to a Verdict Sight Unseen Work Sand Mountain Serenading Louie Signature Solomon’s Child Sand Mountain Matchmaking Serendipity and Serenity Signs of Trouble Some Kind of Love Story The Sandbox A Sermon Silent Partners Some Men Santa Fe Sunshine The Serpent Silver Linings Some Things You Need to Know The Santaland Diaries The Servant of Two Masters The Silver Whistle Before the World Ends (A Final Sarah and the Sax ★ Seven Simpatico Evening with the Illuminati) Sarah, Sarah Seven in One Blow, or The Brave A Simple Kind of Love Story Some Voices Satellites Little Kid The Simple Truth Someone Waiting Saturday Adoption Seven Menus Simply Heavenly Something Cloudy, Something Saturday Night Seven Nuns at Las Vegas Sin Clear ★ Saturn Returns Seven Nuns South of the Border Sin (A Cardinal Deposed) Something I’ll Tell You Tuesday The Savage Dilemma Seven One-Act Plays by Wendy The Sin of Pat Muldoon Something to Hide Savage in Limbo Wasserstein Sing Me No Lullaby Something Unspoken Savages Seven Short and Very Short Plays Sing This Somewhere in Between Save Me a Place at Forest Lawn by Jean-Claude van Itallie The Sirens Somnambulist Saved from Obscurity Seven Short Farces by Anton Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All The Son Who Hunted Tigers in Saved or Destroyed Chekhov for You Jakarta Say De Kooning Seven Sisters Sisters of the Winter Madrigal A Song for Coretta Say Goodnight, Gracie Seven Times Monday The Sisters Rosensweig The Song of Louise in the Morning Say You Love Satan The Seven Year Itch Six Degrees of Separation Songs of Love Scandal Point Sexaholics Six Years ★ Sonia Flew Scapin Sexaholics and Other Plays Skipper Next to God Sons and Fathers Scarcity Sextet (YES) The Skirmishers Sophistry Scattergood Seymour in the Very Heart of Skirmishes The Sorrows of Frederick A Scene: Australia Winter The Skull Sorry, Wrong Number A Scent of Flowers Shadow and Substance A Skull in Connemara The Sound of a Voice Scent of the Roses A Shadow of My Enemy Skylark Southern Cross Scheherazade The Shaker Chair Skyscraper Southern Exposure School for Husbands Shakers Slacks and Tops Southern Hospitality The School for Scandal Shakespeare’s R&J Slam! The Southwest Corner The School for Wives The Shallow End Slam the Door Softly Souvenir Scooter Thomas Makes It to the A Shayna Maidel Sleep Deprivation Chamber The Spa Top of the World Shel Shocked A Sleep of Prisoners Space

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Spain String A Tale of Chelm Third and Oak: The Laundromat Spared String Fever The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck Third and Oak: The Pool Hall Sparks Fly Upward The Strong Breed Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Third Best Sport Speaking in Tongues The Stronger Me Listen Thirteen Things About Ed Speech & Debate Stuck Talking Dog Carpolotti Speed-the-Play Stuffings Talking Pictures ★ This Beautiful City The Spiral Staircase Stumps Tall Story This Bird of Dawning Singeth All Splash Hatch on the E Going Down Stupid Kids Tall Tales Night Long Splendor in the Grass The Sty of the Blind Pig Talley & Son This Day and Age Splendora A Stye of the Eye Talley’s Folly This is Our Youth Spring Awakening Subfertile Tantalus This is the Rill Speaking Spring Dance Suburban Tragedy Tape This Lime Tree Bower Spring Song Suburbia Tartuffe This Property is Condemned Spunk Such a Beautiful Voice is Sayeda’s Tatjana in Color This Thing of Darkness Squirrel The Sudden and Accidental Re- Tea Thom Pain (Based on Nothing) St. Francis Talks to the Birds Education of Horse Johnson Tea Party Thor, with Angels St Nicholas Suddenly Last Summer Teach Me How to Cry Those That Play the Clowns St. Scarlet Suds in Your Eye The Teahouse of the August Moon Thoughts on the Instant of Greeting Stage Directions Sugar-Mouth Sam Don’t Dance No The Tears of My Sister a Friend on the Street Stage Door More Telemachus Clay The Thracian Horses Stage Fright The Sugar Syndrome Tell-Tale Threads Stalag 17 Suicide—Anyone? Tempodyssey ★ Three Changes Standing on My Knees Suitcase or, Those That Resemble Ten Blocks on the Camino Real Three Days of Rain Standup Shakespeare Flies from a Distance The Ten O’Clock Scholar Three Hand Reel Star Eternal The Suitors Ten Unknowns Three Men on a Horse The Star-Spangled Girl Summer and Smoke Tender Offer Three Monologues The Star Wagon Summer Brave The Tender Trap The Three Musketeers The Staring Match Summer Cyclone Ten-Dollar Drinks Three One-Act Plays by Jason State of the Union Summer Morning Visitor The Ten-Minute Play About Miller States of Shock Summer of ’42 Rosemary’s Baby Three One-Acts by David Lindsay- Status Quo Vadis Summertree Tennessee Abaire Stay Sunday Afternoon Tennessee and Me Three Plays by Beth Henley Stay Carl Stay Sunday in New York The Tennis Game Three Poets Steel Magnolias Sunrise at Campobello Tent Meeting Three Postcards Stefanie Hero Sunset Freeway Terminal Three Rings for Michelle The Stendhal Syndrome The Sunset Limited Terminal Cafe Three Short Plays by Archibald Stephen D Sunstroke Terra Nova MacLeish Stephen Foster or Weep No More Sure Thing Terrible Jim Fitch Three Short Plays by Christopher My Lady The Survivalist The Terrible Tattoo Parlor Durang Stephen Vincent Benét’s Stories of The Survivors Terror by Gaslight Three Short Plays by Jonathan America Susan and God Tevya and His Daughters Marc Sherman Steve & Idi Suspect Thanks The Three Sisters (Corrigan) The Steward of Christendom Swamp Gothic That Championship Season Three Sisters (Friel) Still Life Swan Song That Other Person Three Sisters (van Itallie) Still More Solo Readings The Swan That Serious He-Man Ball Three Sisters (Wilson) The Stonewater Rapture Swans Flying That’s All Three Tall Women Stoop Sweet Bird of Youth That’s It, Folks! Three Viewings Stop Kiss The Sweet By ’N’ By That’s My Cousin Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Stop, You’re Killing Me Sweet Eros That’s Where the Town’s Going Story Stops Along the Way Sweet Sue That’s Your Trouble Throckmorton, TX. 76083 Storm Swing Fever Theda Bara and the Frontier Rabbi Throwing Smoke Storm Operation Swinging on a Star (The Johnny Then... (Campton) Thunder in the Index The Story Burke Musical) Then (Simms) Thunder Rock The Story of Mary Surratt Swirling with Merlin There are No Sacher Tortes in Our Thymus Vulgaris The Strains of Triumph Sylvia Society! The Tibetan Book of the Dead (or Strange Boarders Sympathetic Magic There Shall be No Night “How Not to Do It Again”) Strange Interlude The Syringa Tree Thicker Than Water Ties Strangers on Earth T Bone n Weasel The Thief of Tears Ties That Bind The Strangest Kind of Romance Tabletop Thief River The Tiger The Straw Tadpole Things Between Us ★ ’Til Beth Do Us Part Stray Cats Take a Deep Breath Things We Want Time and Ginger Stray Dogs Take Me Out The Things You Least Expect Time Flies The Street of Good Friends Taken in Marriage Thinking Up a New Name for the Time for Elizabeth Street Talk Taking Leave Act Time Out A Streetcar Named Desire Taking Sides Third Time Out for Ginger

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Times and Appetites of Toulouse- ★ The Truth About Santa (An Utopia, Inc. Washington Square Moves Lautrec Apocalyptic Holiday Tale) The Vagina Monologues Watbanaland Tiny Alice Trying to Find Chinatown Valentine’s Day Watch on the Rhine The Tiny Closet Tuesdays with Morrie The Valerie of Now Watch the Birdie Tiny Island Tunnel of Love Valhalla Watchman of the Night Tiny Tim is Dead The Turn of the Screw Valparaiso The Water Children Tira Tells Everything There is to TV The Value of Names Waterborn Know About Herself Twain Plus Twain The Vampires (Kondoleon) Watercolor Titanic Twelve Dreams The Vampyre (Kelly) The Way Down To be Continued Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 Vanishing Act The Wayside Motor Inn To Bobolink, for Her Spirit Twilight Walk Variations on the Death of Trotsky The Wayward Saint To Bury a Cousin Twinkle, Twinkle The Vast Difference We Had a Very Good Time To Culebra Twister Veins and Thumbtacks We Have Always Lived in the To Damascus (Part 1) Two Blind Mice ★ The Velvet Sky Castle To Damascus (Parts 2 & 3) Two Days Venus Web of Murder To Fool the Eye Two Dozen Red Roses Venus Observed The Wedding of the Siamese Twins To Forgive, Divine Two Eclairs Vernon Early The Wedding Reception Today I am a Fountain Pen Two Eggs Scrambled Soft Veronica Weekend Today is Independence Day Two Enthusiasts A Very Common Procedure Weekends Like Other People Tommy J & Sally Two Fools Who Gained a Measure A Very Special Baby The Weir Tomorrow of Wisdom The Victimless Crime The Weird The Tomorrow Box Two on an Island Victoria Station Welcome Back, Buddy Combs Too Close for Comfort Two Plays by William Inge Victory Welcome to the Moon ★ Too Much Memory Two Short Plays by Lewis John Victory on Mrs. Dandywine’s Island Welded Top of 16 Carlino The Vietnamization of New Jersey Wenceslas Square Topdog/Underdog Two Short Plays by Owen G. Arno Vieux Carré The West Side Waltz Touch Two Rooms A View from the Bridge The Wexford Trilogy A Touch of Spring (or Avanti!) Two Sisters and a Piano ★ Vigils The Whales of August A Touch of the Poet Two Small Bodies Village Green What a Life Tough Guys Two Thirds Home Villainous Company What Didn’t Happen Tour The Two-Character Play ★ Vincent River What Do You Believe About the Toys in the Attic Two’s a Crowd The Violet Hour Future? Tracers The Typists The Virgin Bride What I Did Last Summer The Trading Post Ubu Cuckolded Virtual Virtue What I Did Wrong ★ Train of Thought Ubu Enchained Visions of Grandeur ★ What Price? Transfers The Ubu Plays Visit to a Small Planet Whatever (Pospisil) The Transfiguration of Benno Ubu Rex Visiting Mr. Green Whatever (Sheppard) Blimpie Ug, The Caveman Musical ★ Vivien Leigh: The Last Press What’s Wrong with the Girls The Transparency of Val The Ultimate Grammar of Life Conference What’s Wrong with This Picture? The Traveler Ulysses in Traction Voice of Good Hope The Wheeler Dealers Traveler in the Dark Unchanging Love A Voice of My Own When Shakespeare’s Ladies Meet The Traveling Lady Uncle Bob The Voice of the Turtle When the World was Green Treasure Island Uncle Chick Voir Dire When We Dead Awaken Treasures on Earth Uncle Lumpy Comes to Visit The Voysey Inheritance When You Comin’ Back Red Ryder? The Treatment Uncle Snake The Wager Where Do We Live Trees Uncle Vanya (Corrigan) Wait Until Dark Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? The Trials and Tribulations of Uncle Vanya (Friel) Waiting for Godot Where is de Queen? Staggerlee Booker T. Brown Uncle Vanya (van Itallie) Waiting for Lefty Where the Cross is Made The Trials of Brother Jero Uncle Zepp Waiting for Philip Glass ★ Where the Great Ones Run The Triangle Factory Fire Project Uncommon Women and Others The Waiting Room Where We’re Born The Trickeries of Scapin The Undefeated Rhumba Champ The Wake of Jamey Foster Where’s Daddy? The Tricky Part Under Control Wake Up and Smell the Coffee Where’s Mamie? The Trip to Bountiful Under Duress Wake Up, Darling Where’s My Money? Triptych Under Observation A Walk in the Woods Which Side are You On? The Triumph of Love Under the Sycamore Tree Walking the Dead Whiskey Trophies Under the Yum Yum Tree Wallflower Whisper into My Good Ear Tropical Depression The Uneasy Chair Walter White Elephants The Trouble Begins at 8 The Unexpected Man Wanda’s Visit White People Trouble in the Works Unfinished Stories Wandering The White Rose Trousers to Match The Uninvited War A Whitman Portrait Truckline Cafe United The War on Poverty The Whiz Bang Cafe True Crimes The Universal Language The War on Tatem Who was That Lady I Saw You Trumpery Unwrap Your Candy Warm and Tender Love With? Trunk Crime U.S. Drag The Wash The Whole World Over Trust Used Car for Sale Wash and Dry Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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Who’s Happy Now? The Winner (Rice) Quixote Years Ago Why I am a Bachelor The Winning Streak Wonderful Party! The Years Why the Lord Come to Sand The Winslow Boy Wonderful Time Yellow Face Mountain Winterset The Wood Demon Yellow Jack ★ Why Torture is Wrong, and the The Wisdom of Eve The Wooden Dish Yellowman People Who Love Them The Wise Have Not Spoken The Wooing of Lady Sunday Yemaya’s Belly The Wibbly, Wobbly Wiggly Dance The Wisteria Trees Word Games Yes Means No that Cleopatterer Did Wit Words, Words, Words The Yiddish Trojan Women The Widow and the Colonel A Witch’s Brew Work Song: Three Views of Frank You Can’t Take It with You The Widow Claire With and Without Lloyd Wright You Know I Can’t Hear You When The Widow’s Blind Date Witness Workout the Water’s Running Widow’s Mite The Wizards of Quiz World of Mirth Young Adventure The Wild Duck Woman Before a Glass The World of Sholom Aleichem The Young and Fair The Wild Goose Woman Bites Dog The World Over The Young Elizabeth Wild Oats Woman Stand Up The World We Make The Young Girl and the Monsoon Wilde West A Woman Without a Name Worldness A Young Lady of Property Wildwood Park The Women Wormwood The Young Man from Atlanta Will the Real Jesus Christ Please Women and Wallace Wrestlers Stand Up? Women and Water Write Me a Murder Young Man Praying Willie’s Lie Detector ★ Women Beware Women The Wrong Way Light Bulb A Young Man’s Fancy The Willow and I Women in a Playground Xingu Young Marrieds at Play Win/Lose/Draw Women in Motion Xmas in Las Vegas Your Every Wish A Wind Between the Houses Women Must Weep Yancey Your Mother’s Butt The Wind Cries Mary Women Must Work Yankee Dawg You Die Zelda Windows The Women of Lockerbie Yankee Doodle Zero Positive Windshook Women of Manhattan ★ Yankee Tavern Zimmer Wine in the Wilderness Women Still Weep Yard Gal Zombies from the Beyond The Wingless Victory Wonder of the World A Yard of Sun Zones of the Spirit The Winner! (Kaufman) The Wonderful Adventures of Don Year of the Duck The Zulu and the Zayda

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Abbott, George Malcolm I’m Herbert Nine Armenians Three Men on a Horse Marriage Play The Shock of Recognition Plan Day Ableman, Paul The Play About the Baby Solitaire, Double Solitaire Babe, Thomas Green Julia Seascape You Know I Can’t Hear You When Billy Irish Ackerman, Rob Three Tall Women the Water’s Running Buried Inside Extra Disconnect Tiny Alice Anderson, Walt Demon Wine Tabletop Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? “Me, Candido!” Fathers and Sons Ackermann, Joan Albom, Mitch Anouilh, Jean Great Solo Town The Batting Cage And the Winner Is The Lark Kid Champion Ice Glen Duck Hunter Shoots Angel Ring Round the Moon Planet Fires Marcus is Walking: Scenes from Tuesdays with Morrie To Fool the Eye Rebel Women the Road Aleichem, Sholom Appell, Don Salt Lake City Skyline Off the Map Bontche Schweig Lullaby Taken in Marriage Ackland, Rodney The High School Arbuzov, Aleksei Bader, Jenny Lyn Farewell, Farewell, Eugene A Tale of Chelm The Promise ★None of the Above Adams, John and Abigail Tevya and His Daughters Archer, Daniel Worldness American Primitive (or John and The World of Sholom Aleichem Mr. Barry’s Etchings Baer, Richard Abigail) Alexander, Robert Ardrey, Robert Mixed Emotions Aerenson, Benjie Red Popcorn Sing Me No Lullaby Bagnold, Enid Lighting Up the Two-Year Old Riot Grrrrl Guitar Thunder Rock National Velvet Aguirre-Sacasa, Roberto Alexander, Ronald Arley, Catherine Bailey, Peter John Based on a Totally True Story Grand Prize Tantalus Passing Through Bloody Mary Holiday for Lovers Arno, Owen G. Baitz, Jon Robin Dark Matters Nobody Loves an Albatross Once for the Asking A Fair Country Dinner with the Superfriends Time and Ginger The Other Player Hedda Gabler The Filmmaker’s Mystery Time Out for Ginger The Street of Good Friends Mizlansky/Zilinsky or Schmucks Ghost Children Allen, Claudia Two Short Plays by Owen G. Arno The Paris Letter Good Boys and True I Sailed with Magellan Arrighi, Mel Ten Unknowns Insect Love Allensworth, Carl The Castro Complex Baizley, Doris ★King of Shadows Interurban An Ordinary Man A Christmas Carol Morning Becomes Olestra The Simple Truth Asch, Sholom Mrs. California ★The Muckle Man Village Green God of Vengeance Baker, Edward Allan The Mystery Plays Allensworth, Dorothy Auburn, David A Dead Man’s Apartment, Rosemary ★Rough Magic Interurban Are You Ready? with Ginger, Face Divided Say You Love Satan Allison, Dorothy Damage Control ★The Framer Swamp Gothic Cavedweller Fifth Planet and Other Plays The Ten-Minute Play About Anderson, Jane The Journals of Mihail Sebastian North of Providence, Dolores, The Rosemary’s Baby Looking for Normal Miss You Lady of Fadima ★The Velvet Sky Anderson, Maxwell Proof Baker, Paul The Weird Anne of the Thousand Days Skyscraper Hamlet ESP Aiken, Conrad Bad Seed Three Monologues Ball, Alan Mr. Arcularis Barefoot in Athens We Had a Very Good Time All That I Will Ever Be Akutagawa, Ryunosuke Candle in the Wind What Do You Believe About the Bachelor Holiday See What I Wanna See The Golden Six Future? Five One-Act Plays by Alan Ball Albee, Edward High Tor Aurthur, Robert Alan Five Women Wearing the Same The American Dream, The Joan of Lorraine A Very Special Baby Dress Sandbox, The Death of Bessie Journey to Jerusalem Axelrod, George The M Word Smith, Fam and Yam Key Largo The Seven Year Itch Made for a Woman At Home at the Zoo The Masque of Kings Axlerod, David Power Lunch The Ballad of the Sad Cafe Second Overture Money Your Mother’s Butt Box and Quotations from Chairman The Star Wagon Axis Company Banci, Lewis Mao Tse-Tung Storm Operation Seven in One Blow, or The Brave The Ten O’Clock Scholar Counting the Ways and Listening Truckline Cafe Little Kid Banks, Nathaniel Everything in the Garden The Wingless Victory Ayvazian, Leslie The Curate’s Play Finding the Sun Winterset 3 More by E.S.T. ’98 Season of Choice Fragments Anderson, Robert Deaf Day Bannon, Ann The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? The Footsteps of Doves Four from E.S.T. Marathon ’99 ★The Beebo Brinker Chronicles The Lady from Dubuque I Never Sang for My Father High Dive Barber, Matthew Lolita I’ll be Home for Christmas Lovely Day Enchanted April

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Barfield, Tanya Tape Black, Jean Ferguson Bovell, Andrew Blue Door The Transparency of Val Penny Wise Speaking in Tongues Barlow, Anna Marie Bell, Neal Black, Stephen Bowles, Jane Ferryboat Cold Sweat The Horse Latitudes In the Summer House A Limb of Snow and The Meeting On the Bum, or The Next Train The Pokey Brampton, Joan Baron, Courtney Through Blake, Lisabeth Dilemma A Very Common Procedure Operation Midnight Climax Brewsie and Willie Braverman, Carole Baron, Jeff Raw Youth Blank, Jessica The Yiddish Trojan Women Visiting Mr. Green Ready for the River The Exonerated Breen, Patrick Barr, Nancy Sleeping Dogs Blankman, Howard Manhattan Class Company Class Mrs. Cage Two Small Bodies By Hex One-Acts, 1992 Barrett, William E. Belluso, John Blau, Eric Saint Stanislaus Outside the House The Lilies of the Field Henry Flamethrowa Jacques Brel is Alive and Well & Brel, Jacques Barrie, J.M. A Nervous Smile Living in Paris Jacques Brel is Alive and Well & Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would Pyretown Blessing, Lee Living in Paris Not Grow Up The Rules of Charity Black Sheep Brevoort, Deborah Barry, P.J. Beloin, Edmund A Body of Water The Women of Lockerbie Reasonable Circulation In Any Language Cobb Brewer, George Barry, Philip Benét, Stephen Vincent Down the Road Dark Victory Second Threshold The Devil and Daniel Webster Eleemosynary Broadhurst, Kent Barry, Sebastian John Brown’s Body Flag Day The Eye of the Beholder Our Lady of Sligo Stephen Vincent Benét’s Stories of Fortinbras The Habitual Acceptance of the The Steward of Christendom America Going to St. Ives Near Enough Batistick, Mike Benjamin, Keith Alan ★Great Falls Lemons Chicken 3 More by E.S.T. ’98 Independence Brod, Max Ponies Mary Macgregor The Castle Lake Street Extension Port Authority Throw Down Benson, Sally Bromberg, Conrad Nice People Dancing to Good Batson, George Junior Miss Actors and At Home Country Music Gift of Murder! Bentley, Eric Doctor Galley Oldtimers Game Her Majesty, Miss Jones Silent Partners The Rooming House Patient A Ramshackle Inn Berg, Dick Transfers Riches Strange Boarders The Drop of a Hat Brooke, Eleanor Thief River Bauer, P. Seth Berger, Jesse King of Hearts Two Rooms Iphigenia The Revenger’s Tragedy Brooks, Laurie A Walk in the Woods Bayer, Eleanor ★Women Beware Women Franklin’s Apprentice The Winning Streak Third Best Sport Berkman, Zak Brooks, Norman Bloch, Bertram Bayer, Leo Beauty on the Vine The Fragile Fox Dark Victory Third Best Sport Berry, David Brown, Carlyle Block, Anita Rowe Beane, Douglas Carter G.R. Point The African Company Presents As Bees in Honey Drown The Whales of August Love and Kisses Richard III The Country Club Besier, Rudolf Blomquist, David Buffalo Hair The Little Dog Laughed The Barretts of Wimpole Street Weekends Like Other People The Little Tommy Parker Celebrated Music from a Sparkling Planet Bevan, Donald Bock, Adam Colored Minstrel Show Beaumarchais Stalag 17 The Shaker Chair Pure Confidence The Marriage of Figaro Bicknell, Arthur Bogosian, Eric Brown, K.C. Beckerman, Ilene Masterpieces Griller Sherlock’s Veiled Secret ★Love, Loss and What I Wore Biddle, Cordelia Drexel Humpty Dumpty Bruckner, Ferdinand Beckett, Samuel The Happiest Millionaire Red Angel Race Not I Bigelow, Otis Suburbia Buermann, Howard Waiting for Godot The Giants’ Dance Wake Up and Smell the Coffee Quiet, Please Behrman, S.N. The Peacock Season Boland, Bridget Bulgakov, Mikhail Amphitryon 38 Bill, Stephen The Prisoner Black Snow End of Summer Curtains Bolt, Jonathan Heart of a Dog Jacobowsky and the Colonel Bishop, Conrad Threads Master and Margarita or, The Beich, Albert Full Hookup To Culebra Devil Comes to Moscow The Man in the Dog Suit Bishop, John Bontempo, James Bullock, Walter Belber, Stephen Borderline A Place at Forest Lawn Mr. Barry’s Etchings Carol Mulroney Borderlines Boretz, Allen Bunin, Keith The Death of Frank Cabin 12 Room Service The Busy World is Hushed ★Fault Lines Confluence and The Skirmishers Bosakowski, Phil The Credeaux Canvas ★Geometry of Fire The Harvesting Chopin in Space The Principality of Sorrows Match Keepin’ an Eye on Louie Crossin’ the Line The World Over McReele The Musical Comedy Murders of Bottrell, David Burke, Johnny A Small, Melodramatic Story 1940 Dearly Departed Swinging on a Star (The Johnny

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Burke Musical) Case Mickey Chodorov, Jerome Burnett, Carol Sarah and the Sax Midgie Purvis Anniversary Waltz Hollywood Arms The School for Scandal Mrs. McThing The French Touch Butler, Dan Snowangel The Prize Play Junior Miss The Only Thing Worse You Could Telemachus Clay The Terrible Tattoo Parlor My Sister Eileen Have Told Me… Two Short Plays by Lewis John Chaves, Richard Civilians, The Butterfield, Catherine Carlino Tracers Gone Missing Joined at the Head Used Car for Sale Chayefsky, Paddy ★This Beautiful City The Sleeper Carnelia, Craig Gideon Cizmar, Paula Snowing at Delphi Three Postcards Cheever, John Candy & Shelley Go to the Desert Butterworth, Jez Carolan, Stuart A Cheever Evening ★Seven Mojo Defender of the Faith Chekhov, Anton Clark, Maurice The Night Heron Carr, Marina The Bear Button, Button Byrne, M. St. Claire By the Bog of Cats ★ The Black Monk: A Chamber Clavell, James Busman’s Honeymoon The Mai Musical The Children’s Story Byron, Ellen On Raftery’s Hill The Cherry Orchard (Corrigan) Cleage, Pearl Election Year and So When You Portia Coughlan The Cherry Orchard (Mann) Blues for an Alabama Sky Get Married Carrière, Jean-Claude The Cherry Orchard (van Itallie) Bourbon at the Border Graceland and Asleep on the Wind The Controversy of Valladolid The Dangers of Tobacco Flyin’ West Cahill, Laura Carroll, Lewis The Festivities A Song for Coretta 3 by E.S.T. Alice in Wonderland Ivanov (Corrigan) Clements, Colin Home Carroll, Paul Vincent Ivanov (Schmidt) Isn’t Nature Wonderful Hysterical Blindness Shadow and Substance The Proposal Cleveland, Rick Mercy The Wayward Saint A Reluctant Tragic Hero ★My Buddy Bill Caird, John The Wise Have Not Spoken The Sea Gull (Corrigan) ★My Pal George The Beggar’s Opera Carson, Jo The Sea Gull (van Itallie) Clork, Harry Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would Daytrips ★The Seagull (Hampton) See My Lawyer Not Grow Up Carter, Arthur Seven Short Farces by Anton Coble, Eric Calarco, Joe The Number Chekhov Bright Ideas Shakespeare’s R&J Carter, Steve Swan Song The Dead Guy Calderón de la Barca, Pedro Nevis Mountain Dew The Three Sisters (Corrigan) Coen, Larry Life is a Dream Cary, Joyce Three Sisters (Friel) Epic Proportions Caldwell, Joseph Mister Johnson Three Sisters (van Itallie) Coffin, Gregg Cockeyed Kite Cary, Morland Three Sisters (Wilson) Convenience Caldwell, Lucy Because Their Hearts were Pure Two Fools Who Gained a Measure Five Course Love ★Leaves (or The Secret of the Mine) of Wisdom Cohen, Burton Cameron, Kenneth Love Rides the Rails (or Will the Unchanging Love The Great American Cheese The Hundred and First Mail Train Run Tonight?) Uncle Vanya (Corrigan) Sandwich Papp Casale, Mick Uncle Vanya (Friel) Campbell, Mark Elm Circle Uncle Vanya (van Itallie) Jackie Lantern’s Hallowe’en Splendora Case, Andrew The Wedding Reception Revenge Campton, David ★The Rant The Wood Demon The Wedding of the Siamese The Life and Death of Almost Caspary, Vera Chetkovich, Kathryn Twins Everybody Laura ★ Acts of Love Cole, Tom Little Brother: Little Sister and Out Chaikin, Joseph Childress, Alice About Time of the Flying Pan When the World was Green Mojo and String Connelly, Marc A Smell of Burning and Then Chamberlain, Marisha Wine in the Wilderness The Green Pastures Capote, Truman Scheherazade Childs, Kirsten Little David The Grass Harp Chambers, David The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her The Traveler Carbajal, Ruben The Miser Chameleon Skin Connolly, Cyril The Gifted Program Chapman, John Chimonides, Jason Ubu Cuckolded Cariani, John The Brides of March The Optimist Ubu Enchained Almost, Maine Not Now, Darling Chislett, Anne The Ubu Plays Caristi, Vincent Chapman, Linda S. Another Season’s Promise Ubu Rex Tracers ★The Beebo Brinker Chronicles Quiet in the Land Conradt, Mark Carlino, Lewis John Chapman, Robert The Tomorrow Box Great Scot! The Brick and the Rose Billy Budd Cho, Julia Cooney, Ray Cages Chase, Jerry 99 Histories Bang Bang Beirut The Dirty Old Man Cinderella Wore Combat Boots The Architecture of Loss Chase Me, Comrade! Epiphany Chase, Mary BFE Not Now, Darling The Exercise Bernadine Durango Cooper, Giles High Sign Cocktails with Mimi The Piano Teacher Everything in the Garden Junk Yard The Dog Sitters Chodorov, Edward Coppel, Alec Mr. Flannery’s Ocean and Objective Harvey The Spa The Gazebo

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Coppel, Myra Beauty of the Father Dean, Phillip Hayes Inventing Van Gogh The Gazebo A Bicycle Country The American Nightmare Last of the Boys Corbett, Bill Doña Rosita the Spinster Dink’s Blues Lonely Planet The Big Slam Hortensia and the Museum of Dream of Passion The Nina Variations Corbin, Barry Dreams Every Night When the Sun Goes Private Eyes The E.Z. Snooz Motel Life is a Dream Down Rocket Man Throckmorton, TX. 76083 Night Train to Bolina Freeman Sherlock Holmes: The Final The Whiz Bang Cafe Two Sisters and a Piano Moloch Blues Adventure Corle, Edwin Cucci, Frank The Owl Killer Trust The Man in the Dog Suit The Ofay Watcher Paul Robeson ★Yankee Tavern Corrie, Rachel Cullen, Ian The Sty of the Blind Pig DiFusco, John My Name is Rachel Corrie Tantalus This Bird of Dawning Singeth All Tracers Corrigan, Robert W. Cullinan, Thomas Night Long Diggs, Elizabeth The Cherry Orchard Mrs. Lincoln Thunder in the Index Close Ties Ivanov Cunningham, Michael Delany, A. Elizabeth Dumping Ground The Sea Gull Flesh and Blood Having Our Say, The Delany Goodbye Freddy The Three Sisters Curran, Keith Sisters’ First 100 Years Dinelli, Mel Uncle Vanya Dalton’s Back Delany, Sarah L. The Man The Wood Demon Walking the Dead Having Our Say, The Delany The Spiral Staircase Corthron, Kia Damashek, Barbara Sisters’ First 100 Years DiPietro, Joe Breath, Boom Quilters DeLillo, Don Art of Murder Come Down Burning Damato, Anthony The Day Room Over the River and Through the Force Continuum The Flounder Complex Love-Lies-Bleeding Woods Seeking the Genesis D’Andrea, Paul Valparaiso Dizenzo, Charles Splash Hatch on the E Going Down The Einstein Project Denham, Reginald Big Mother Corwin, Norman Be Your Age The Drapes Come Daniels, Jeff The Rivalry Blue Heaven An Evening for Merlin Finch Apartment 3A Cosson, Steven Dark Hammock A Great Career Boom Town Gone Missing A Dash of Bitters The Last Straw and Sociability Escanaba in da Moonlight ★This Beautiful City Dead Giveaway The Metamorphosis The Vast Difference Courts, Randy Ladies in Retirement Doherty, Brian Danz, Cassandra The Gifts of the Magi Minor Murder Father Malachy’s Miracle Fame Takes a Holiday Johnny Pye Oh, Mama! No, Papa! Dolginoff, Stephen Dashow, Ken Cowen, Ron Recipe for a Crime Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story Da-Show Must Go On: Six Plays The Book of Murder Suspect Donaghy, Tom About Love, Death and Bad Acting Saturday Adoption Trunk Crime The Beginning of August He Ain’t Heavy Summertree Wallflower Boys and Girls Joey-Boy Coxe, Louis O. Devine, Jerry The Dadshuttle Sing This Billy Budd Children of the Wind Down the Shore Crane, David Thanks Devlin, Anne From Above Epic Proportions Time Out After Easter Minutes from the Blue Route Crane, Stephen Top of 16 Ourselves Alone Northeast Local The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky DaSilva, Howard Dewberry, Elizabeth Donatus, Sister Mary Crichton, Kyle The Zulu and the Zayda Virtual Virtue Career Angel (Female Version) The Happiest Millionaire Davis, Bill C. Dickens, Charles Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Cristofer, Michael Avow A Christmas Carol (Baizley) The Brothers Karamazov (Fishelson) Black Angel Mass Appeal A Christmas Carol (Linney) The Brothers Karamazov (Sydow, The Lady and the Clarinet Wrestlers A Christmas Carol (Schario) Tumarin) Crocitto, Frank Davis, Donald A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of The Devils The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky Ethan Frome Christmas (Wilson) The Idiot Crothers, Rachel Davis, Owen A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Dougherty, Joseph Susan and God Ethan Frome Marley (Horovitz) Digby Crouse, Russel Davis, Russell Great Expectations Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan The Great Sebastians The Last Good Moment of Lily The Life and Adventures of The Hound of the Baskervilles Life with Father Baker Nicholas Nickleby, Part I Sherlock Holmes and the Curse of Life with Mother Dawson, Gregory The Life and Adventures of the Sign of Four The Prescott Proposals Great Scot! Nicholas Nickleby Part II Sherlock Holmes: The Final Remains to be Seen Day, Clarence Dietz, Dan Adventure State of the Union Life with Father Tempodyssey Sherlock’s Veiled Secret Tall Story Life with Mother Dietz, Steven Driver, Donald Crump, Owen Dayton, Katharine ★Becky’s New Car Status Quo Vadis Southern Exposure First Lady Dracula du Maurier, Daphne Cruz, Nilo de Hartog, Jan Force of Nature My Cousin Rachel Anna in the Tropics Skipper Next to God Halcyon Days Rebecca

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Duff, James Stye of the Eye Emerson, Eric E. Field, Barbara Home Front Three Short Plays by Christopher Tracers Boundary Waters Dulack, Tom Durang Endore, Guy Great Expectations Breaking Legs Titanic Call Me Shakespeare Marriage Diminished Capacity Under Duress Eno, Will Playing with Fire (After Incommunicado The Vietnamization of New Jersey The Flu Season Frankenstein) Solomon’s Child Wanda’s Visit Thom Pain Fields, Joseph Dumas, Alexandre ★Why Torture is Wrong, and the Enquist, Per Olov Anniversary Waltz The Three Musketeers People Who Love Them The Night of the Tribades The Doughgirls Dunn, Mark Woman Stand Up Ensler, Eve The French Touch The Deer and the Antelope Play Women in a Playground Necessary Targets Junior Miss Dunning, Philip Dürrenmatt, Friedrich The Treatment My Sister Eileen Sequel to a Verdict The Deadly Game The Vagina Monologues Filloux, Catherine Dunphy, Jack D’Usseau, Arnaud Ephron, Delia ★Seven Café Moon Deep are the Roots ★Love, Loss and What I Wore Fingleton, Anthony Squirrel Legend of Sarah Ephron, Nora Over My Dead Body Too Close for Comfort Dybek, Stuart ★Love, Loss and What I Wore Finklehoffe, Fred F. Durang, Christopher I Sailed with Magellan Epstein, David Brother Rat 1-900-Desperate Dyer, William Exact Change Firth, Tim The Actor’s Nightmare Jo Evans, Don Neville’s Island An Altar Boy talks to God Dyne, Michael It’s Showdown Time Fishburne, Laurence Aunt Dan Meets the Madwoman The Right Honourable Gentleman A Lovesong for Miss Lydia Riff Raff of Chaillot Eberhard, Leslie One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show Fishelson, David Baby with the Bathwater Sally Blane, World’s Greatest Girl Orrin The Brothers Karamazov Betty’s Summer Vacation Detective The Prodigals The Castle Book of Leviticus Show Edelstein, Barry Sugar-Mouth Sam Don’t Dance No The Golem Business Lunch at the Russian Tea Race More The Idiot Room Edgar, David The Trials and Tribulations of Flemming, Brian Canker Sores and Other Continental Divide: Daughters of Staggerlee Booker T. Brown Bat Boy: The Musical Distractions the Revolution Evans, Scott Alan Fletcher, Lucille Cardinal O’Connor Continental Divide: Mother’s The Triangle Factory Fire Project Sorry, Wrong Number and The Death Comes to Us All, Mary Against Falk, Lee Hitch-Hiker Agnes The Life and Adventures of Eris and Home at Six Night Watch ’Dentity Crisis Nicholas Nickleby, Part I Farley, Keythe Fodor, Kate Desire, Desire, Desire The Life and Adventures of Bat Boy 100 Saints You Should Know DMV Tyrant Nicholas Nickleby, Part II Faulkner, William Hannah and Martin The Doctor Will See You Now Edson, Margaret Tomorrow Fogle, Sonya Durang/Durang Wit Feffer, Steve More Solo Readings Entertaining Mr. Helms Edwards, Gus The Wizards of Quiz Solo Readings for Radio and Class For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls The Offering Feibleman, Peter Work Funeral Parlor Old Phantoms Cakewalk Still More Solo Readings Gym Teacher Egloff, Elizabeth Feiffer, Jules Fontaine, Robert The Hardy Boys and the Mystery The Devils Anthony Rose The Happy Time of Where Babies Come From The Swan A Bad Friend Foote, Daisy The Idiots Karamazov Ehrenreich, Barbara Carnal Knowledge Bhutan John and Mary Doe Nickel and Dimed Crawling Arnold Foote, Horton Kitty the Waitress El Guindi, Yussef Elliot Loves 1918 Laughing Wild Back of the Throat Feiffer’s People Blind Date and The Actor The Marriage of Bette and Boo Such a Beautiful Voice is Sayeda’s Hold Me! The Carpetbagger’s Children Medea and Karima’s City Feingold, Michael The Chase Miss Witherspoon Elliott, Sumner Locke Times and Appetites of Toulouse- Courtship Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Buy Me Blue Ribbons Lautrec Cousins Binge Ellis, Edith Feldshuh, David The Dancers Mrs. Sorken Seven Sisters Miss Evers’ Boys The Dearest of Friends Naomi in the Living Room and Ellison, Karen Fennelly, Parker W. The Death of Papa Other Short Plays The Harry and Sam Dialogues Cuckoos on the Hearth The Death of the Old Man The Nature and Purpose of the Elman, Irving Ferber, Edna ★Dividing the Estate Universe The Brass Ring Bravo Getting Frankie Married—and Nina in the Morning Elward, James The Land is Bright Afterwards Not My Fault Best of Friends Stage Door The Habitation of Dragons One Minute Play Friday Night Feydeau, Georges John Turner Davis Phyllis and Xenobia Mary Agnes is Thirty-Five A Flea in Her Ear (Galati) The Land of the Astronauts Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All Passport A Flea in Her Ear (Ives) The Last of the Thorntons for You The River ★The Ladies Man Laura Dennis

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Lily Dale Give Me Your Answer, Do! Win/Lose/Draw The Girl Who Loved The Beatles The Man Who Climbed Pecan Trees ★Hedda Gabler Windshook The Legendary Stardust Boys The Midnight Caller Molly Sweeney Gallavan, Rick Men’s Singles Night Seasons A Month in the Country, After Tracers Gillette, William A Nightingale Turgenev Garson, Henry Sherlock Holmes: The Final The Oil Well Three Sisters In Any Language Adventure The Old Beginning Uncle Vanya Gay, John Gillis, Graeme The One-Armed Man Frisch, Peter The Beggar’s Opera Charlie Blake’s Boat The Prisoner’s Song American Dreams Gehman, Richard Thicker Than Water The Road to the Graveyard Frockt, Deborah Lynn By Hex Gilman, Rebecca The Roads to Home The Victimless Crime Geiger, Milton Capitalism 101 Roots in a Parched Ground Fry, Christopher Edwin Booth Ginsbury, Norman Spring Dance The Dark is Light Enough Gelb, Alan The First Gentleman Talking Pictures Duel of Angels Mombo Ginty, E.B. The Tears of My Sister The Firstborn Gems, Pam Missouri Legend Tomorrow Judith Dusa, Fish, Stas & VI Gionfriddo, Gina The Traveling Lady The Lady’s Not for Burning Geoghan, Jim After Ashley The Trip to Bountiful One Thing More Ug, The Caveman Musical ★Becky Shaw Valentine’s Day A Phoenix Too Frequent George, Charles U.S. Drag Vernon Early Ring Round the Moon Bertha, the Bartender’s Beautiful Giraudoux, Jean The Widow Claire A Sleep of Prisoners Baby Amphitryon 38 A Young Lady of Property and Six Thor, with Angels Everybody’s Secret Duel of Angels Other Short Plays Venus Observed Final Performance, or The Curtain Judith The Young Man from Atlanta A Yard of Sun Falls The Madwoman of Chaillot Forbes, Kathryn Fry, Ray Legend of Camille Glass, Joanna McClelland I Remember Mama The Cameo When Shakespeare’s Ladies Meet Artichoke Forgette, Katie Fugard, Athol Germann, Greg Canadian Gothic and American The O’Conner Girls ★Coming Home 3 by E.S.T. Modern: Two Plays Forster, E.M. Exits and Entrances The Observatory If We are Women ★A Passage to India Victory Gialanella, Victor Glines, John Foster, Hunter Fulham, Mary Frankenstein In the Desert of My Soul Summer of ’42 Fame Takes a Holiday Giardina, Anthony Glore, John Fox, Amy Fuller, Elizabeth Living at Home The Company of Heaven Heights Full Hookup Gibbons, Thomas Glover, Keith Summer Cyclone Fuller, Elizabeth L. The Exhibition Coming of the Hurricane Thicker Than Water Me and Jezebel Gibson, Elizabeth Dancing on Moonlight Francke, Caroline Furth, George Widow’s Mite Swirling with Merlin Father of the Bride Getting Away with Murder Gibson, Meg Godber, John The 49th Cousin Gaffney, Mo ★Too Much Memory Bouncers Frank, Otto Parallel Lives Gibson, Melissa James Shakers The Diary of Anne Frank Gagliano, Frank [Sic] Goetz, Augustus Frankel, Doris Big Sur Suitcase or, Those That Resemble The Heiress Love Me Long Father Uxbridge Wants to Marry Flies From a Distance The Hidden River Frankel, Scott The Hide and Seek Odyssey of Gibson, William The Immoralist Grey Gardens Madeline Gimple American Primitive (or John and Goetz, Ruth Franklin, J.E. Night of the Dunce Abigail) The Heiress Black Girl Gaitens, Peter The Body & The Wheel The Hidden River Franzen, Jonathan Flesh and Blood The Butterfingers Angel, Mary & The Immoralist Spring Awakening Galati, Frank Joseph, Herod the Nut & The Gogol, Nikolai Freed, Amy After the Quake Slaughter of 12 Hit Carols in a ★The Government Inspector Freedomland A Flea in Her Ear Pear Tree (Hatcher) French, David The Grapes of Wrath A Cry of Players The Government Inspector (Raby) Jitters Heart of a Dog Dinny and the Witches Marriage Salt-Water Moon Gallagher, Mary Goodly Creatures Gold, Lloyd Freni, Edith L. Buddies Handy Dandy A Grave Undertaking Thicker Than Water Chocolate Cake Monday After the Miracle Goldberg, Dick Waterborn ¿De Donde? Gide, Andre Family Business Friedman, Bruce Jay Dog Eat Dog The Immoralist Goldberg, Jessica Scuba Duba Father Dreams Gien, Pamela Good Thing Friedman, Michael Final Placement The Syringa Tree The Hologram Theory Gone Missing How to Say Goodbye Gilford, C.B. Refuge ★This Beautiful City Little Bird Widow’s Mite Stuck Friel, Brian Little Miss Fresno Gilles, D.B. Goldemberg, Rose Leiman Dancing at Lughnasa Love Minus Cash Flow Marching As to War

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Golden, Alfred L. Grae, David Griffin, Tom Later Life A Young Man’s Fancy Moose Mating Amateurs Love Letters Goldfarb, Daniel Graham, Barbara The Boys Next Door The Middle Ages Adam Baum and the Jew Movie Jacob’s Ladder Einstein and the Polar Bear The Old Boy Modern Orthodox Graham, Bruce Mrs. Sedgewick’s Head Overtime Sarah, Sarah According to Goldman Pasta The Perfect Party Goldman, James Belmont Avenue Social Club Grimm, David Richard Cory Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole Burkie Chick The Snow Ball Goldman, William The Champagne Charlie Stakes Kit Marlowe Sweet Sue Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole Coyote on a Fence The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue Sylvia Goldoni, Carlo Desperate Affection Measure for Pleasure The Wayside Motor Inn The Liar Minor Demons Sheridan or, Schooled in Scandal What I Did Last Summer The Servant of Two Masters Moon over the Brewery Steve & Idi Guyer, Murphy Goldsmith, Clifford Grant, David Marshall Groag, Lillian The American Century What a Life Pen Blood Wedding World of Mirth Your Every Wish Snakebit The Ladies of the Camellias Hackett, Albert Goldstone, Jean Stock Granville-Barker, Harley The Magic Fire The Diary of Anne Frank Mary Stuart The Voysey Inheritance The White Rose Haidle, Noah Goluboff, Bryan Graves, Warren Groff, Rinne Kitty Kitty Kitty Big Al Beauty and the Beast The Ruby Sunrise Mr. Marmalade ★ In-Betweens Gray, Amlin Gross, Joel Persephone or Slow Time My Side of the Story The Fantod Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh Rag and Bone ★ Shyster How I Got That Story Grumberg, Jean-Claude Saturn Returns ★ Gomes, Dias Kingdom Come Dreyfus in Rehearsal Vigils Journey to Bahia Mickey’s Teeth and Bindle Stiff Guare, John Haig, David Outlanders Bosoms and Neglect My Boy Jack Gonzalez, Gloria Villainous Company Chaucer in Rome Hailey, Oliver Curtains Wormwood A Few Stout Individuals Continental Divide Goodman, George Zones of the Spirit Four Baboons Adoring the Sun The Father The Wheeler Dealers Gray, Simon The General of Hot Desire Father’s Day Goodrich, Frances Close of Play Greenwich Mean For the Use of the Hall The Diary of Anne Frank The Common Pursuit In Fireworks Lie Secret Codes Hey You, Light Man! Gordon, Kurtz Gray, Virginia H. Kissing Sweet and A Day for Kith and Kin The Bride’s Bouquet Willie’s Lie Detector Surprises Picture, Animal and Crisscross Fair Exchange Green, Janet Lake Hollywood Red Rover, Red Rover Henrietta the Eighth Murder Mistaken Landscape of the Body Who’s Happy Now? Jumpin’ Jupiter Murder, My Sweet Matilda Lydie Breeze Haines, William Wister Money Mad Greenberg, Richard Marco Polo Sings a Solo Command Decision New Beat on an Old Drum The American Plan Muzeeka Haislip, Harvey That’s My Cousin The Author’s Voice New York Actor The Long Watch Utopia, Inc. Dance of Death Rich and Famous Hall, Adrian Gordon, Peter The Dazzle Six Degrees of Separation All the King’s Men ★ Death by Fatal Murder Eastern Standard Something I’ll Tell You Tuesday Hall, Katori ★ Murdered to Death Everett Beekin and The Loveliest Afternoon of Hoodoo Love ★ Secondary Cause of Death The House in Town the Year Hamilton, Carrie Gordon, Ruth Jenny Keeps Talking Talking Dog Hollywood Arms The Leading Lady Life Under Water Women and Water Hammond, Wendy Over Twenty-One The Maderati Guirgis, Stephen Adly Julie Johnson Years Ago Night and Her Stars Den of Thieves Hampton, Christopher Gorman, Christopher Take Me Out In Arabia We’d All be Kings ‘Art’ A Letter from Ethel Kennedy Three Days of Rain Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train ★God of Carnage Gotanda, Philip Kan Vanishing Act The Little Flower of East Orange Life X 3 Ballad of Yachiyo The Violet Hour The Last Days of Judas Iscariot ★The Seagull Day Standing on Its Head Greene, Will Our Lady of 121st Street The Unexpected Man The Wash The Riot Act Gurney, A.R. Hampton, Mark The Wind Cries Mary Greenfeld, Josh Another Antigone Full Gallop Yankee Dawg You Die Clandestine on the Morning Line A Cheever Evening Hanley, William Gottlieb, Alex Greenland, Seth Children Flesh and Blood Wake Up, Darling Jungle Rot The Cocktail Hour Mrs. Dally Has a Lover Gow, James Gregory, Andre The Comeback Slow Dance on the Killing Ground Deep are the Roots Alice in Wonderland The Dining Room Today is Independence Day Legend of Sarah Grellong, Paul The Fourth Wall Whisper into My Good Ear Gower, Douglas Manuscript The Golden Age Hare, Bill Daddies ★Radio Free Emerson Labor Day God Says There is No Peter Ott

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Harelik, Mark Havoc, June Herbert, F. Hugh Hope, Nicholas Hank Williams: Lost Highway Marathon 33 For Love or Money Christmas Belles Harling, Robert Hawthorne, Nathaniel A Girl Can Tell Dearly Beloved Steel Magnolias Feathertop Kiss and Tell The Dixie Swim Club Harman, Donn Hayes, Catherine The Moon is Blue ★The Hallelujah Girls Her Majesty, Miss Jones Skirmishes Herd, Richard Southern Hospitality Harmon, Peggy Hearth, Amy Hill ★Prisoner of the Crown ★’Til Beth Do Us Part Goblin Market Having Our Say, The Delany Herlihy, James Leo Hooker, Brian Harris, Elmer Sisters’ First 100 Years Bad Bad Jo-Jo Cyrano de Bergerac Johnny Belinda Hedden, Roger Laughs, Etc. Horine, Charles Harris, Mark Been Taken Stop, You’re Killing Me Me and Thee Bang the Drum Slowly Bodies, Rest and Motion Terrible Jim Fitch Horne, Kenneth Harris, Zinnie Hedges, Peter Hersey, John Two Dozen Red Roses Further Than the Furthest Thing The Age of Pie A Bell for Adano Horovitz, Israel Harrity, Richard Andy and Claire Heuer, John Acrobats and Line Gone Tomorrow Baby Anger Cavern of the Jewels Alfred the Great Home Life of a Buffalo Food Related Innocent Thoughts, Harmless Captains and Courage Hope is the Thing with Feathers Good as New Intentions The Chopin Playoffs Harrower, David Imagining Brad and The Valerie of Heyn, Ernest A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Blackbird Now Day in the Sun Marley Hart, Moss Oregon and Other Short Plays Hibbert, Guy Dr. Hero The American Way Heelan, Kevin On the Edge Faith Christopher Blake Distant Fires Hicks, Jr., Hilly Faith, Hope and Charity The Climate of Eden Right Behind the Flag Note to Self The Former One-on-One Basketball The Fabulous Invalid Heggen, Thomas Higgins, Frank Champion The Sweet By ’N’ By The Good Parts George Washington Slept Here Mister Roberts Hill, Maurice The Great Labor Day Classic Light Up the Sky Heifner, Jack Large Window on a Small World Henry Lumper The Man Who Came to Dinner 24 Hours AM A Wind Between the Houses Hopscotch and the 75th You Can’t Take It with You 24 Hours PM Hilton, Tony The Indian Wants the Bronx Hartman, Jan Bargains Bang Bang Beirut It’s Called the Sugar Plum Every Year at the Carnival Natural Disasters Hines, Karen North Shore Fish Flatboatman Patio/Porch Young Man Praying Play for Germs Samuel Hoopes Reading from His Running on Empty Hirson, David The Primary English Class Own Works Tropical Depression La Bête Rats Hartman, Karen Twister Hirson, Roger O. A Rosen by Any Other Name Gum and The Mother of Modern Hellman, Lillian Journey to the Day Shooting Gallery Censorship Another Part of the Forest Hochhauser, Jeff Stage Directions and Spared Harvey, Jonathan The Autumn Garden Theda Bara and the Frontier Rabbi Today I am a Fountain Pen Beautiful Thing The Children’s Hour Hock, Robert D. Trees and Leader Harwood, Ronald The Lark Borak Uncle Snake Taking Sides The Little Foxes Hoffman, Stephen The Widow’s Blind Date Hatcher, Jeffrey My Mother, My Father and Me Splendora Year of the Duck Compleat Female Stage Beauty The Searching Wind Hoffman, William M. Hortua, Joe Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Toys in the Attic As Is Between Us ★ The Government Inspector Watch on the Rhine Holbrook, Marion Horwin, Jerry Murder by Poe Henley, Beth Make Room for Rodney My Dear Children Murderers Abundance Holden, Joan Houstle, Alice H. A Picasso Am I Blue The Marriage of Figaro The Kentucky Marriage Proposal Scotland Road Control Freaks Nickel and Dimed Houston, Velina Hasu The Servant of Two Masters Crimes of the Heart Hollinger, Michael Tea Smash The Debutante Ball An Empty Plate in the Café du Howard, Anto Tell-Tale Impossible Marriage Grand Boeuf Scattergood The Thief of Tears L-Play Incorruptible Howard, Eleanor Harris Thirteen Things About Ed The Lucky Spot ★Opus Mating Dance Carpolotti The Miss Firecracker Contest Red Herring Howard, Sidney Three Viewings Revelers Tiny Island Dodsworth To Fool the Eye Ridiculous Fraud Holm, John Cecil Madam, Will You Walk? Tuesdays with Morrie Signature Brighten the Corner Yellow Jack The Turn of the Screw Sisters of the Winter Madrigal Gramercy Ghost Howie, Betsy Work Song: Three Views of Frank Three Plays by Beth Henley The Southwest Corner Cowgirls Lloyd Wright The Wake of Jamey Foster Three Men on a Horse Hudes, Quiara Alegría Havard, Lezley Hensel, Karen Holmes, Jack Elliot, a Soldier’s Fugue Hide and Seek Going to See the Elephant ★RFK Yemaya’s Belly

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Huggett, Richard The Dark at the Top of the Stairs Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, Jenkins, Ken The First Night of “Pygmalion” The Disposal and Margaret’s Bed July 27, 1656 Cemetery Man Hughes, Babette Eleven Short Plays by William Inge The Other Woman and Other Short Chug If the Shoe Pinches An Incident at the Standish Arms Pieces An Educated Lady Mrs. Harper’s Bazaar A Loss of Roses The Philadelphia Rupert’s Birthday and Other Hughes, Doug The Mall Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread Monologues Hedda Gabler Memory of Summer Polish Joke Jensen, Erik Hughes, Glenn A Murder The Red Address The Exonerated Romance, Inc. Natural Affection Seven Menus Jensen, Julie Hughes, Langston People in the Wind Soap Opera Stray Dogs Simply Heavenly Picnic Speed-the-Play Johns, Andrew Humphrey, Harry E. The Rainy Afternoon St. Francis Talks to the Birds Fridays The Skull A Social Event Sure Thing The Return of Herbert Bracewell or Hurston, Zora Neale Splendor in the Grass Time Flies (Why am I Always Alone When Spunk The Strains of Triumph The Universal Language I’m with You?) Hutchinson, Ron Summer Brave Variations on the Death of Trotsky Johns, Patti Moonlight and Magnolias The Tiny Closet Words, Words, Words Going to See the Elephant Hutton, Arlene To Bobolink, for Her Spirit Jacker, Corinne Johnson, Carleene As It is in Heaven Two Plays by William Inge Bits and Pieces The Odyssey of Jeremy Jack Gulf View Drive Where’s Daddy? Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner Johnson, Cindy Lou Last Train to Nibroc Innaurato, Albert Domestic Issues Brilliant Traces See Rock City Coming of Age in Soho Harry Outside The Person I Once Was Hwang, David Henry Gemini In Place and The Chinese The Years The Dance and the Railroad and Gus and Al Restaurant Syndrome Johnson, Crane Family Devotions The Idiots Karamazov Later Dracula F.O.B. and The House of Sleeping Passione My Life Johnson, Dave Beauties The Transfiguration of Benno Night Thoughts and Terminal Baptized to the Bone Golden Child Blimpie Jackson, Nagle Johnson, Trish M. Butterfly Ulysses in Traction At This Evening’s Performance The Art of Self-Defense The Sound of a Voice Irving, John Bernice/Butterfly: A Two-Part Second Prize: Two Months in Trying to Find Chinatown and The Cider House Rules, Part One: Invention Leningrad Bondage Here In St. Cloud’s Hotel on Marvin Gardens Johnston, Bob Yellow Face The Cider House Rules, Part Two: Opera Comique Theda Bara and the Frontier Rabbi Hyman, Mac In Other Parts of the World The Quick-Change Room Johnston, Rick No Time for Sergeants Irwin, Bill Taking Leave Cahoots Ibsen, Henrik Scapin This Day and Age Jones, Elinor Brand Isherwood, Christopher Jackson, Shirley 6:15 on the 104 A Doll’s House (McGuinness) I am a Camera The Haunting of Hill House If You were My Wife I’d Shoot A Doll’s House (Meyer) Ives, David We Have Always Lived in the Castle Myself Emperor and Galilean All in the Timing, Six One-Act Jacobs, Michael Under Control An Enemy of the People (Meyer) Comedies ★Impressionism A Voice of My Own An Enemy of the People (Miller) Ancient History Jacobson, Steven M. Jones, Jessie Ghosts (Meyer) Arabian Nights Needs Christmas Belles Ghosts (Wilson) Babel’s in Arms James, Henry Dearly Beloved Hedda Gabler (Baitz) The Blizzard The Heiress Dearly Departed ★Hedda Gabler (Friel) Captive Audience The Turn of the Screw The Dixie Swim Club Hedda Gabler (Hughes) Degas C’est Moi Jameson, Storm ★The Hallelujah Girls Hedda Gabler (Meyer) Don Juan in Chicago The Hidden River Southern Hospitality John Gabriel Borkman Dr. Fritz Jarrett, Jennifer ★’Til Beth Do Us Part The Lady from the Sea English Made Simple Divorce Southern Style Jones, Preston Little Eyolf Enigma Variations Jarry, Alfred The Last Meeting of the Knights of The Master Builder A Flea in Her Ear Ubu Cuckolded the White Magnolia Peer Gynt Foreplay or: The Art of the Fugue Ubu Enchained Lu Ann Hampton Laverty The Pretenders The Land of Cockaigne The Ubu Plays Oberlander Rosmersholm Lives of the Saints Ubu Rex The Oldest Living Graduate When We Dead Awaken Long Ago and Far Away and Other Jenkin, Len A Place on the Magdalena Flats The Wild Duck Short Plays American Notes Santa Fe Sunshine Illick, Hilary Mere Mortals: Six One-Act Dark Ride Jones, Rolin Eve-Olution (Krier) Comedies Five of Us The Intelligent Design of Jenny Inge, William Moby-Dude, or: The Three-Minute Highway Chow The Boy in the Basement Whale Hotel The Jammer Bus Riley’s Back in Town The Mystery at Twicknam Vicarage Intermezzo Jordan, Julia Bus Stop ★New Jerusalem, The Interrogation Limbo Tales Boy The Call of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud My Uncle Sam St. Scarlet

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Tatjana in Color Kelly, Tim The World We Make Search and Destroy Joselovitz, Ernest A. The Cave Kipling, Rudyard Under Observation Hagar’s Children Fog on the Mountain Captains and Courage Wonderful Party! Righting The Omelet Murder Case Kirkland, Jack Korie, Michael Sammi The Remarkable Susan Strange Boarders Grey Gardens Joseph, Rajiv Second Best Bed Suds in Your Eye Kotis, Greg ★Animals Out of Paper Terror by Gaslight Kirshenbaum, David Eat the Taste Joudry, Patricia Two Fools Who Gained a Measure Summer of ’42 An Examination of the Whole The Song of Louise in the Morning of Wisdom Klavan, Laurence Playwright/Actor Relationship Teach Me How to Cry The Uninvited Bed and Sofa Presented As Some Kind of Cop Three Rings for Michelle The Vampyre Embarrassments Show Parody Joyce, James Kelso, Betsy Freud’s House Pig Farm Stephen D The Great American Trailer Park Gorgo’s Mother ★The Truth About Santa (An Kafka, Franz Musical If Walls Could Talk Apocalyptic Holiday Tale) The Castle Kennedy, Adam P. The Magic Act Kraft, Hy The Metamorphosis Sleep Deprivation Chamber No Time Cafe Crown Kaikkonen, Gus Kennedy, Adrienne Seeing Someone Kramm, Joseph Potholes Sleep Deprivation Chamber The Show Must Go On The Shrike Kanin, Garson Kent, Elana Sleeping Beauty and Smoke Krasna, Norman Born Yesterday Going to See the Elephant Uncle Lumpy Comes to Visit Dear Ruth Dreyfus in Rehearsal Kern, Will Klein, Jon Full Moon Kaplan, Jack A. Hellcab Betty the Yeti John Loves Mary Alligator Man Kerr, E. Katherine Dimly Perceived Threats to the Kind Sir Karam, Stephen Juno’s Swans System Love in E-Flat Speech & Debate Kerr, Jean The Einstein Project Sunday in New York Kass, Jerome Finishing Touches Southern Cross Time for Elizabeth Four Short Plays by Jerome Kass Jenny Kissed Me T Bone n Weasel Watch the Birdie Make Like a Dog King of Hearts Knott, Frederick Who was That Lady I Saw You Princess Rebecca Birnbaum Mary, Mary Dial M for Murder With? Saturday Night Kerr, Laura Wait Until Dark Kriegel, Gail Suburban Tragedy The Farmer’s Daughter Write Me a Murder ★Seven Young Marrieds at Play Kesselman, Wendy Kober, Arthur Krieger, Henry Kassin, Michael ★The Black Monk: A Chamber Having Wonderful Time ★Romantic Poetry I-Kissandtell Musical A Mighty Man is He Krier, Jennifer Kaufman, Florence Aquino The Diary of Anne Frank (New Koenig, Laird Eve-Olution The Winner! Adaptation) The Dozens Kurnitz, Harry Kaufman, George S. The Notebook The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Once More with Feeling The American Way Kesselring, Joseph Lane Reclining Figure Amicable Parting Arsenic and Old Lace Kolvenbach, John Bravo Four Twelves are 48 Love Song Kyle, Christopher The Fabulous Invalid Ketron, Larry On an Average Day The Monogamist Fancy Meeting You Again Asian Shade Kondoleon, Harry Plunge First Lady Character Lines Anteroom Labiche, Eugene George Washington Slept Here Eudora Welty’s The Hitch Hikers Christmas on Mars 90° in the Shade and Dust in Your Hollywood Pinafore or The Lad Fresh Horses The Houseguests Eyes Who Loves a Salary Ghosts of the Loyal Oaks Linda Her and The Fairy Garden LaBute, Neil ★ The Land is Bright Patrick Henry Lake Liquors Love Diatribe Reasons to be Pretty The Late George Apley Quail Southwest Play Yourself LaChiusa, Michael John The Man Who Came to Dinner Rib Cage Saved or Destroyed Agnes The Small Hours The Trading Post Slacks and Tops Break The Solid Gold Cadillac Keveson, Peter The Vampires Eleanor Sleeps Here Stage Door How Much, How Much? Zero Positive Eulogy for Mister Hamm You Can’t Take It with You Nellie Toole & Co. Korder, Howard First Lady Suite Kaufman, Lynne Kilroy, Thomas Boys’ Life Hello Again The Couch Henry The Facts Little Fish Kaufman, Moisés Kim, Susan Fun and Nobody Lucky Nurse and Other Short ★33 Variations Dreamtime for Alice Girls’ Talk Musical Plays Gross Indecency: The Three Trials Four from E.S.T. Marathon ‘99 Imagining “America” Olio of Oscar Wilde The Joy Luck Club The Laws Over Texas The Laramie Project Kingsley, Sidney The Lights See What I Wanna See Kazan, Molly Dead End Man in a Restaurant Where’s Mamie? The Egghead Detective Story Night Maneuver Lafferty, Marcy Keeler, Eloise Night Life The Pope’s Nose ★Vivien Leigh: The Last Press Grandma Steps Out The Patriots Sea of Tranquility Conference

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Lahr, John Lee, Mark The Hound of the Baskervilles State of the Union The Manchurian Candidate Rebel Armies Deep into Chad The Lilies of the Field Tall Story Lamkin, Speed Lee, Robert E. Mr. Hobbs’ Vacation Lindsay-Abaire, David Comes a Day Auntie Mame The People Next Door Baby Food Lamont, Jr., Alonzo D. The Crocodile Smile The Pigman Crazy Eights That Serious He-Man Ball The Incomparable Max The Spiral Staircase A Devil Inside Lampley, Oni Faida Inherit the Wind Splendor in the Grass Fuddy Meers Mixed Babies Sparks Fly Upward Stephen Vincent Benét’s Stories of Kimberly Akimbo Landi, Paolo Emilio Leeds, Michael America Rabbit Hole The Servant of Two Masters Swinging on a Star (The Johnny The Wheeler Dealers That Other Person Landis, Joseph C. Burke Musical) Lettich, Sheldon Three One-Acts The Golem Leeds, Nancy Tracers Wonder of the World Langley, Noel Great Scot! Letton, Francis Linney, Romulus Edward, My Son Lees, Russell The Young Elizabeth 2 Lapine, James Nixon’s Nixon Letton, Jenette Akhmatova Fran’s Bed Leichter, Aaron The Young Elizabeth Ambrosio The Moment When The Castle Letts, Tracy Ave Maria Twelve Dreams Leight, Warren August: Osage County Can Can Larson, Larry Amici, Ascoltate Bug The Captivity of Pixie Shedman Some Things You Need to Know Dark, No Sugar Man from Nebraska Childe Byron Before the World Ends (A Final Fame Takes a Holiday Levenson, Steven A Christmas Carol ★ Evening With the Illuminati) Fear Network News The Language of Trees Clair de Lune Tent Meeting The Final Interrogation of Levi, Stephen The Death of King Philip LaRusso II, Louis Ceausescu’s Dog Daphne in Cottage D Democracy Momma’s Little Angels Glimmer, Glimmer & Shine Levin, Ira El Hermano Happy for You Critic’s Choice F.M. Lasswell, Mary Judaic Park Deathtrap Four from E.S.T. Marathon ’99 Suds in Your Eye Love of the Game Dr. Cook’s Garden Gint Latham, Jean Lee The Morning After General Seeger Gold and Silver Waltz The Ghost of Rhodes Manor Mr. Morton Waits for His Bus Interlock Goodbye, Howard Laurents, Arthur Nine-Ten No Time for Sergeants Goodbye Oscar The Bird Cage Norm-Anon Levin, Meyer Heathen Valley A Clearing in the Woods Pay-Per-Kill Compulsion Holy Ghosts The Enclave Side Man Levitt, Saul Hrosvitha Home of the Brave Stray Cats The Andersonville Trial Juliet/Yancey/April Snow Invitation to a March United Levy, Benn W. Klonsky and Schwartz Lauro, Shirley What I Did Wrong Clutterbuck Komachi The Coal Diamond Leipart, Charles Levy, David Laughing Stock Lavery, Bryony Deep Sleepers Sally Blane, World’s Greatest Girl A Lesson Before Dying Frozen The Undefeated Rhumba Champ Detective ★Love Drunk Law, Alma H. Leivick, H. Levy, Jonathan The Love Suicide at Schofield Duck Hunting The Golem Marco Polo Barracks (Full Length) Lawrence, Jerome Lengyel, Melchior Lewis, Ira The Love Suicide at Schofield Auntie Mame Ninotchka Chinese Coffee Barracks (One Act) The Crocodile Smile Leo, Carl Lewis, Jim Mountain Memory The Incomparable Max The Family Man ★This Beautiful City Old Man Joseph and His Family Inherit the Wind Leokum, Arkady Lewis, Philip C. Pops Live Spelled Backwards Neighbors The American Dame Sand Mountain Sparks Fly Upward Leon, Felis Lewis, Sinclair Sand Mountain Matchmaking Leary, Helen The Zulu and the Zayda It Can’t Happen Here Songs of Love Yes Means No Leonard, Jr., Jim Liebman, Steve The Sorrows of Frederick Leary, Nolan And They Dance Real Slow in The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck Spain Yes Means No Jackson Lichtenstein, Jonathan Tennessee Lebow, Barbara Leonard, Hugh Memory Three Poets The Keepers Stephen D The Pull of Negative Gravity True Crimes The Left Hand Singing LeRoy, Gen Lillis, Padraic Unchanging Love Little Joe Monaghan Not Waving Two Thirds Home Why the Lord Come to Sand A Shayna Maidel Leslee, Ray Lindsay, Howard Mountain Tiny Tim is Dead Standup Shakespeare The Great Sebastians A Woman Without a Name Lee, Levi Leslie, F. Andrew Life with Father Yankee Doodle Some Things You Need to Know The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer Life with Mother Litvack, Barry Before the World Ends (A Final The Boy with Green Hair The Prescott Proposals Slow Memories Evening with the Illuminati) The Farmer’s Daughter Remains to be Seen Livings, Henry Tent Meeting The Haunting of Hill House A Slight Case of Murder Eh?

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Lloyd, Marcus The Small Hours Sunday Afternoon The Amazing Adventures of Dead Certain Machiavelli, Niccolo Two Enthusiasts Louis de Rougemont (as Told by Locke, Sam The Mandrake The Voysey Inheritance Himself) Fair Game Mack, Carol K. Manchester, Joe Sight Unseen Logan, Joshua ★Seven Balloon Shot Somnambulist Mister Roberts Mackey, William Wellington Run, Thief, Run! Space The Wisteria Trees Family Meeting Manhattan Class Company Two Days London, Roy MacLachlan, Angus Manhattan Class Company Class What’s Wrong with This Picture? The Amazing Activity of Charley The Dead Eye Boy One-Acts, 1992 Women in Motion Contrare and the Ninety-Eighth The Radiant Abyss Mann, Emily Zimmer Street Gang MacLeish, Archibald The Cherry Orchard Marivaux, Pierre Disneyland on Parade Air Raid Having Our Say, The Delany The Triumph of Love It’s a Small World The Fall of the City Sisters’ First 100 Years Marks, Peter Meet Me in Disneyland The Secret of Freedom The House of Bernarda Alba The Butler Did It Mrs. Murray’s Farm Three Short Plays by Archibald Meshugah Marks, Ross Lonergan, Kenneth MacLeish Still Life Showdown on Rio Road Lobby Hero MacLeod, Wendy Mantello, Joe Marks, Walter This is Our Youth Apocalyptic Butterflies The Santaland Diaries The Butler Did It Long, Quincy The House of Yes Marans, Jon Marmorstein, Malcolm The Johnstown Vindicator The Lost Colony Jumping for Joy Will the Real Jesus Christ Please The Joy of Going Somewhere The Shallow End Old Wicked Songs Stand Up? Definite Sin Marber, Patrick Marnich, Melanie The Lively Lad The Water Children Closer Gone Goth People be Heard Magdalany, Philip Dealer’s Choice Marowitz, Charles Loomer, Lisa Criss-Crossing March, William Clever Dick Accelerando Watercolor Bad Seed Disciples Distracted Magruder, James Marchant, William Murdering Marlowe Expecting Isabel The Imaginary Invalid To be Continued Quack Living Out The Miser Marcus, Milton Frederick Sherlock’s Last Case The Waiting Room The Triumph of Love The Gardens of Frau Hess Silent Partners Lopez, Melinda Maibaum, Richard Mardirosian, Tom Stage Fright ★Sonia Flew See My Lawyer Saved from Obscurity Wilde West Lorca, Federico García Mamet, David Subfertile Marquand, John P. Blood Wedding All Men are Whores: An Inquiry Margraff, Ruth The Late George Apley Doña Rosita the Spinster Almost Done ★Seven Marston, Merlin The House of Bernarda Alba The Blue Hour: City Sketches Margulies, Donald Tracers Loving, Boyce Boston Marriage Anthony Martin, David Galahad Jones Businessmen Brooklyn Boy Simply Heavenly Lowe, Florence Cold Collected Stories Martin, E. The 49th Cousin The Cryptogram Death in the Family Dust in Your Eyes Lowell, Robert Doctor Dinner with Friends Martin, Jane Benito Cereno Dodge Father and Son Barefoot Woman in the Red Dress Endecott and the Red Cross Epilogue First Love Coup/Clucks My Kinsman, Major Molineux Faustus Found a Peanut White Elephants The Old Glory Fish God of Vengeance Marx, Groucho Lucas, Craig The Hat Homework Time for Elizabeth Missing Persons In Old Vermont I Don’t Know What I’m Doing Mason, Timothy Reckless The Joke Code Joey Ascension Day This Thing of Darkness Joseph Dintenfass July 7, 1994 Babylon Gardens Three Postcards L.A. Sketches Kibbutz The Fiery Furnace Luce, Clare Boothe A Life with No Joy in It L.A. In a Northern Landscape Kiss the Boys Good-bye Litko: A Dramatic Monologue Last Tuesday Levitation Margin for Error Monologue, February 1990 Lola Only You Slam the Door Softly No One Will be Immune and Other The Loman Family Picnic Mastrosimone, William The Women Plays and Pieces Louie Just Hold Me Luce, William Oleanna Luna Park Matthiessen, Peter Lillian A Perfect Mermaid Manny Men’s Lives Lucie, Doug Prairie du Chien Misadventure: Monologues and May, Elaine Progress Prologue: American Twilight Short Pieces Adaptation Macardle, Dorothy Romance The Model Apartment Mayer, Oliver The Uninvited A Scene: Australia New Year’s Eve Blade to the Heat MacGrath, Leueen A Sermon Nocturne Mayer, Paul Avila Amicable Parting Shoeshine Pitching to the Star The Bridal Night Fancy Meeting You Again Short Plays and Monologues ★Shipwrecked! An Entertainment— Eternal Triangle

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The Frying Pan Dunelawn The Majestic Kid Meyers, Patrick Three Hand Reel Dusk The Odyssey of Jeremy Jack Feedlot McAfee, Don Faith, Hope and Charity Prymate K2 Great Scot! Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Showdown on Rio Road Michels, Jeanne McAvity, Helen Lune Stefanie Hero The Queen of Bingo Everybody Has to be Somebody Full Frontal Nudity Stumps Middleton, George Mating Dance Hidden Agendas Tommy J & Sally Diana Does It McCarthy, Cormac Hope The Ultimate Grammar of Life Middleton, Thomas The Sunset Limited It’s Only a Play The Wager ★ Women Beware Women McClure, Michael Lips Together, Teeth Apart The War on Tatem Miller, Arthur The Beard The Lisbon Traviata When You Comin’ Back Red Ryder? After the Fall General Gorgeous Love! Valour! Compassion! Melfi, Leonard All My Sons Josephine: The Mouse Singer Master Class Charity The American Clock McCormack, Thomas Next Faith, Hope and Charity The Archbishop’s Ceiling American Roulette A Perfect Ganesh Melville, Herman Broken Glass Endpapers Prelude & Liebestod Billy Budd Clara McCullers, Carson Ravenswood Mercier, Mary The Creation of the World and The Ballad of the Sad Café Some Men Johnny No-Trump Other Business The Member of the Wedding The Stendhal Syndrome Meredith, Sylvia The Crucible McDonagh, Martin Street Talk Going to See the Elephant Danger: Memory! The Beauty Queen of Leenane Sweet Eros and Witness Meriwether, Elizabeth Death of a Salesman The Cripple of Inishmaan Tour The Mistakes Madeline Made Elegy for a Lady The Lieutenant of Inishmore Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? Merrill, Kim An Enemy of the People The Lonesome West Whiskey Finding Claire The Golden Years and The Man The Pillowman The Wibbly, Wobbly Wiggly Dance Metcalfe, Felicia Who Had All the Luck A Skull in Connemara that Cleopatterer Did I Can’t Remember Anything Shooting High McDonald, Heather McNamara, John Incident at Vichy Meyer, Marlane An Almost Holy Picture Present Tense and Personal Effects The Last Yankee (Full Length) The Chemistry of Change McEnroe, Robert E. McNeely, Jerry The Last Yankee (One Act) Etta Jenks The Silver Whistle The Staring Match A Memory of Two Mondays The Mystery of Attraction McGuinness, Frank McOwen, J.B. Mr. Peters’ Connections Meyer, Michael A Doll’s House The Skull The Price Brand McKeaney, Grace McPherson, Conor The Ride Down Mount Morgan Creditors Last Looks Dublin Carol Some Kind of Love Story The Dance of Death (Parts 1 & 2) McKenzie, Neil Four Plays by Conor McPherson A View from the Bridge A Doll’s House Guests of the Nation The Good Thief Miller, JP A Dream Play McLaine, Patricia Rum and Vodka Days of Wine and Roses Easter Love is Contagious The Seafarer The People Next Door Emperor and Galilean McLiam, John Shining City Miller, Jason The Sin of Pat Muldoon St Nicholas An Enemy of the People Barrymore’s Ghost McLure, James This Lime Tree Bower Erik The Fourteenth Circus Lady The Day They Shot John Lennon The Weir The Father It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie Ghost World McPherson, Scott The Ghost Sonata Lou Gehrig Did Not Die of Cancer Laundry and Bourbon Marvin’s Room Ghosts That Championship Season Lone Star McRae, John Hedda Gabler Three One-Act Plays by Jason Miller Max and Maxie Young Adventure John Gabriel Borkman Miller, Sigmund Pvt. Wars (Full Length) Meara, Anne The Lady from the Sea One Bright Day Pvt. Wars (One Act) After-Play Little Eyolf Milner, Roger Wild Oats Medley, Cassandra Lunatic and Lover How’s the World Treating You? McNally, Terrence 3 by E.S.T. The Master Builder Mitchell, John Cameron And Things That Go Bump in the Dearborn Heights Master Olof Hedwig and the Angry Inch Night Medoff, Mark Miss Julie Mitford, Nancy André’s Mother and Other Short Big Mary Peer Gynt The Little Hut Plays Children of a Lesser God The Pillars of Society Mode, Becky Apple Pie Crunch Time Playing with Fire Fully Committed Bad Habits Doing a Good One for the Red Man The Pretenders Moffit, John C. Botticelli Four Short Plays by Mark Medoff Rosmersholm It Can’t Happen Here By the Sea By the Sea By the The Froegle Dictum Storm Molette, Barbara Beautiful Sea Gunfighter: A Gulf War Chronicle The Stronger Rosalee Pritchett Corpus Christi The Hands of Its Enemy To Damascus (Part 1) Molette, Carlton ¡Cuba Si!, Bringing It All Back The Heart Outright To Damascus (Parts 2 & 3) Rosalee Pritchett Home, Last Gasps The Homage that Follows The Virgin Bride Molière, Jean Baptiste Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams The Kramer When We Dead Awaken Amphitryon ★Deuce Kringle’s Window The Wild Duck The Bungler

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Don Juan (Porter) Sin (A Cardinal Deposed) Nicholson, Kenyon O’Hara, Robert Don Juan (Wilbur) Murphy, Phyllis The Flying Gerardos Insurrection: Holding History ★The Golden State The Queen of Bingo Nicholson, William O’Keefe, Laurence The Imaginary Cuckold, or Murray, Gerard Majella The Retreat from Moscow Bat Boy: The Musical Sganarelle Career Angel (Male Version) Nicolaeff, Ariadne Oldfield, Mary The Imaginary Invalid Murray, John Five Evenings Please Communicate The Learned Ladies Room Service A Month in the Country Oliensis, Adam Lovers’ Quarrels Murray, Robert The Promise Ring of Men The Misanthrope High Cockalorum Noone, Ronan Olive, John The Miser (Chambers) Murray-Smith, Joanna The Atheist Killers The Miser (Magruder) Honour The Blowin of Baile Gall Standing on My Knees Scapin Myler, Randal Brendan Oliver, Edgar School for Husbands Hank Williams: Lost Highway Norman, Marsha ★East 10th Street: Self Portrait with The School for Wives Nabokov, Vladimir Getting Out Empty House Tartuffe Lolita The Holdup Olson, Esther E. The Trickeries of Scapin Nachtrieb, Peter Sinn ’Night, Mother Let’s Make Up Molnar, Ferenc ★Boom Third and Oak: The Laundromat A Question of Figures The Spa ★Colorado Third and Oak: The Pool Hall Swing Fever Monks, Jr., John ★Hunter Gatherers Traveler in the Dark O’Neill, Eugene Brother Rat Najimy, Kathy Norris, Bruce All God’s Chillun Got Wings Moody, Michael Dorn Parallel Lives The Pain and the Itch Anna Christie The Shortchanged Review Napier, Edward Nottage, Lynn Before Breakfast Moore, Douglas The English Teachers Crumbs from the Table of Joy Beyond the Horizon The Devil and Daniel Webster Nash, N. Richard Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Bound East for Cardiff Moran, Martin Rouge Atomique Undine Desire Under the Elms The Tricky Part Diff’rent See the Jaguar Intimate Apparel Morey, Charles The Dreamy Kid The Young and Fair Las Meninas ★The Ladies Man The Emperor Jones Nass, Elyse Mud, River, Stone Laughing Stock Gold Avenue of Dream ★Ruined Morgan, Diana The Great God Brown Neary, Jack Nunn, Trevor My Cousin Rachel The Hairy Ape To Forgive, Divine Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would Morgan, Peter Hughie Nehls, David Not Grow Up Frost/Nixon The Iceman Cometh The Great American Trailer Park O’Brien, Edna Mori, Brian Richard ’Ile Musical Triptych Dreams of Flight In the Zone Neiman, Irving Gaynor O’Casey, Sean Morley, Robert Lazarus Laughed Murder Once Removed Drums Under the Windows Edward, My Son Long Day’s Journey into Night Nelms, Henning I Knock at the Door Morris, Edmund The Long Voyage Home Only an Orphan Girl Purple Dust The Wooden Dish Marco Millions Morris, Peter Nelson, Anne Red Roses for Me The Moon of the Caribbees Guardians The Guys O’Connor, Deirdre Mourning Becomes Electra ★ Mosel, Tad Savages Jailbait The Rope Impromptu Nelson, Richard O’Connor, Edwin Strange Interlude That’s Where the Town’s Going The Controversy of Valladolid I was Dancing The Straw Moss, Howard Nelson, Tim Blake O’Connor, Frank A Touch of the Poet The Folding Green Eye of God The Bridal Night Welded The Palace at 4 A.M. The Grey Zone Eternal Triangle Where the Cross is Made Mueller, Lavonne Nemerov, Howard The Frying Pan Oppenheimer, George Breaking the Prairie Wolf Code Tall Story Three Hand Reel A Mighty Man is He Little Victories Nemeth, Sally Odets, Clifford Orkow, Ben Mula, Tom Black Cloud Morning New York The Big Knife The First Actress Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol The Cat Act The Country Girl Orlandersmith, Dael Murakami, Haruki Lily The Flowering Peach Beauty’s Daughter After the Quake Living in this World Golden Boy The Gimmick and Other Plays Murfitt, Mary Pagan Day Rocket to the Moon Monster Cowgirls Pre-Nuptial Agreement Waiting for Lefty My Red Hand, My Black Hand Murillo, Carlos Sally’s Shorts O’Donnell, Mark Yellowman Dark Play or Stories for Boys Visions of Grandeur Fables for Friends O’Rowe, Mark A Human Interest Story (or The Word Games The Nice and the Nasty Howie the Rookie Gory Details and All) Neugroschel, Joachim Scapin Orr, Mary Murphy, Gregory God of Vengeance Strangers on Earth Be Your Age The Countess Newman, Molly That’s It, Folks! Dark Hammock Murphy, Michael Quilters O’Hara, Mary Dead Giveaway The Conscientious Objector Shooting Stars The Catch Colt Grass Widows

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Minor Murder The Curious Savage Trunk Crime Ten-Dollar Drinks Roommates The Dancing Mice Perl, Arnold Two Eclairs Wallflower Divorce—Anyone? Bontche Schweig Uncle Chick The Wisdom of Eve The Doctor Will See You Now The High School Uncle Zepp Women Must Weep and Women Empathy A Tale of Chelm Watchman of the Night Must Work The Enigma Tevya and His Daughters Pinter, Harold Women Still Weep Everybody Loves Opal The World of Sholom Aleichem Ashes to Ashes and Other Plays Osborn, Paul Everybody’s Girl Perloff, Carey Betrayal A Bell for Adano The Gay Deceiver Luminescence Dating The Black and White On Borrowed Time The Girls of the Garden Club Perr, Harvey The Caretaker Owens, Rochelle The Gynecologist Rosebloom Celebration The Widow and the Colonel Habit Perrin, Nat The Collection Palmieri, Marc The Hasty Heart Celebration Complete Works Volume 1 Carl the Second Integrity Petersen, Don Complete Works Volume 2 The Departure of Brian O’Callahan It’s Been Wonderful Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? The Dumb Waiter Levittown Love is a Time of Day Peterson, Agnes Emelie The Dwarfs and Seven Revue Makin’ Sense of Nothin’ Loyalty The Necklace is Mine Sketches Poor Fellas Macbeth Did It Pezzulo, Ted Family Voices Prologue The Magenta Moth April Fish and The Wooing of Lady The Hothouse Rocks Opal is a Diamond Sunday A Kind of Alaska Tough Guys Opal’s Baby Piehler, Christopher Last to Go Pape, Ralph Opal’s Husband The Triangle Factory Fire Project The Lover Beyond Your Command Opal’s Million Dollar Duck Pielmeier, John Monologue Girls We have Known and Other The Physician A Ghost Story Moonlight One-Act Plays The Psychiatrist A Gothic Tale Mountain Language Hearts Beating Faster The Reluctant Rogue (or Mother’s Haunted Lives The New World Order Say Goodnight, Gracie Day) Impassioned Embraces A Night Out Soap Opera The Savage Dilemma A Witch’s Brew Night School Warm and Tender Love Scandal Point Pintauro, Joe No Man’s Land Parks, Don The Story of Mary Surratt Benjamin Falling Old Times Jo Suicide—Anyone? Bird of Ill Omen One for the Road Parks, Suzan-Lori The Teahouse of the August Moon Birds in Church Other Places The America Play The Willow and I Bus Stop Diner Party Time In the Blood Patrick, Robert Butterball Precisely Topdog/Underdog Mutual Benefit Life By the Sea By the Sea By the Press Conference Venus My Cup Ranneth Over Beautiful Sea Request Stop Parnell, Peter Paz, Octavio Cacciatore: Three Short Plays The Room The Cider House Rules, Part One: Eyes for Consuela Charlie and Vito A Slight Ache Here in St. Cloud’s Pearson, Sybille Charlie’s Farewell Tea Party and The Basement The Cider House Rules, Part Two: Sally and Marsha Dawn That’s All In Other Parts of the World Unfinished Stories Dirty Talk That’s Your Trouble Flaubert’s Latest Peluso, Emanuel Easter Night Trouble in the Works An Imaginary Life Good Day Fiat Victoria Station QED Hurricane of the Eye Flywheel and Anna Pirandello, Luigi The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket Little Fears Frozen Dog Henry Scooter Thomas Makes It to the Pen, Polly Fur Hat Poe, Edgar Allan Top of the World Bed and Sofa His Dish Murder by Poe Trumpery Embarrassments House Made of Air Polatin, Daria Paskman, Dailey Goblin Market Lenten Pudding D.C. Scrooge Pendleton, Austin Lightning Thicker Than Water Paso, Alfonso Orson’s Shadow Men Without Wives Polsky, Abe Blue Heaven Uncle Bob Men’s Lives Devour the Snow Oh, Mama! No, Papa! Pendrell, Ernest Metropolitan Operas 27 Short Plays Popplewell, Jack Recipe for a Crime Seven Times Monday Parakeet Eulogy Breakfast in Bed Paterson, Katherine Penhall, Joe Raft of the Medusa Dear Delinquent The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck Blue/Orange Reindeer Soup Hocus Pocus Patrick, John Dumb Show Rex Porter, Stephen Anybody Out There? Love and Understanding Rosen’s Son Don Juan A Bad Year for Tomatoes Pale Horse Rules of Love Posner, Aaron A Barrel Full of Pennies Some Voices Seymour in the Very Heart of The Chosen Cheating Cheaters Percy, Edward Winter A Murder, a Mystery & a Marriage The Chiropodist Ladies in Retirement Snow Orchid Pospisil, Craig Compulsion The Shop at Sly Corner Soft Dude The American Dream Revisited Confession Suspect Swans Flying ★Choosing Sides

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Class Conflict The Librarian Redwood, John Henry Two on an Island Double Wedding Mixed Couples No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs The Winner ★Free The Orphans The Old Settler Richards, Stanley ★Guerilla Gorilla Postcards Regan, Sylvia Journey to Bahia ★Guns Don’t Kill Requiem for Us Morning Star Richardson, Jack ★In a Word Stuffings and An American Sunset Zelda Gallows Humor Infant Morality Priestley, J.B. Regnard, Jean-François Lorenzo The Last December An Inspector Calls The Gamester The Prodigal Life is Short Pryor, Deborah Reich, John Xmas in Las Vegas ★Manhattan Drum-Taps The Love Talker Mary Stuart Rickman, Alan Months on End Purdy, James Reich, Richard My Name is Rachel Corrie A Mother’s Love Malcolm House Without Windows Ridley, Philip ★No Child Left Puzzo, Michael Reingold, Jacquelyn ★Vincent River On the Edge The Dirty Talk 2b (or Not 2b) Rieser, Allan ★On the Wings of a Butterfly Rabe, David 2b (or Not 2b) Part 2 Boy Meets Family Outstanding Men’s Monologues A Question of Mercy A.M.L. Rifkin, Don Volume One Raby, Peter Creative Development A Brief Period of Time and Two ★Outstanding Men’s Monologues The Government Inspector Dear Kenneth Blake Eggs Scrambled Soft Volume Two The Three Musketeers Dottie and Richie The Delusion of Angels Outstanding Women’s Monologues Racine, Jean For-Everett Riley, Nord Volume One Andromache Girl Gone The Armored Dove ★Outstanding Women’s Monologues Phaedra Jiley Nance and Lednerg Rimmer, David Volume Two The Suitors Joe and Stew’s Theatre of Album ★Perchance Raffo, Heather Brotherly Love and Financial Rivera, Jose ★Quandary in Quando 9 Parts of Desire Success Marisol ★A Quiet, Empty Life Raine, Nina Manhattan Class Company Class Rivkin, Allen Somewhere in Between Rabbit One-Acts, 1992 The Farmer’s Daughter ★Train of Thought Rambo, David String Fever Roberts, Mark ★What Price? God’s Man in Texas Things Between Us Parasite Drag Whatever The Ice-Breaker Tunnel of Love ★Where the Great Ones Run Post, Douglas The Lady with All the Answers Rengier, John Roberts, Meade Drowning Sorrows Raphaelson, Samson By Hex A Palm Tree in a Rose Garden Earth and Sky Hilda Crane Resnik, Muriel Robertson, Lanie Murder in Green Meadows Jason Any Wednesday Woman Before a Glass Potok, Chaim The Perfect Marriage Reuter, Anna Helen Robinson, Charles K. The Chosen Skylark Life with Mother Superior The Flying Gerardos Pottle, Sam Rappoport, David Steven Reyes, Guillermo Roche, Billy Money Cave Life Saints at the Rave Amphibians Prebble, Lucy Rattigan, Terence Reza, Yasmina Belfry The Sugar Syndrome The Sleeping Prince ‘Art’ The Cavalcaders Press-Coffman, Toni The Winslow Boy ★God of Carnage A Handful of Stars Touch Raucher, Herman Life X 3 Poor Beast in the Rain Price, Leland Summer of ’42 The Unexpected Man The Wexford Trilogy Parted on Her Wedding Morn Reale, Robert Rhodes, Rick Rodewald, Heidi Price, Olive The Dinosaur Musical Ug, The Caveman Musical ★Passing Strange Star Eternal Reale, Willie Rhodes, Vivian Rogers, Howard Emmett Price, Reynolds The Dinosaur Musical Ug, The Caveman Musical Yes Means No August Snow Many Happy Returns and Fast Ribman, Ronald Rogers, J.T. Better Days Women The Burial of Esposito Madagascar Early Dark Short and Sweet The Ceremony of Innocence The Overwhelming Full Moon Reddin, Keith Passing Through from Exotic Places White People Night Dance All the Rage The Son Who Hunted Tigers in Roland, Joe Private Contentment Almost Blue Jakarta On the Line Prichard, Rebecca Black Snow Sunstroke Roman, Lawrence Yard Gal Brutality of Fact Rice, Elmer Under the Yum Yum Tree Prideaux, James Desperadoes, Throwing Smoke, American Landscape Rome, Harold Abraham Lincoln Dies at Versailles Keyhole Lover Black Sheep The Zulu and the Zayda Elephants Frame 312 Cue for Passion Rosa, Dennis The Housekeeper Human Error Dream Girl Sherlock Holmes and the Curse of The Last of Mrs. Lincoln The Innocents’ Crusade Flight to the West the Sign of Four Laughter in the Shadow of the Life and Limb The Grand Tour Rose, Reginald Trees and Other Plays Life During Wartime The Iron Cross Dear Friends Lemonade and The Autograph Nebraska Love Among the Ruins Rosenberg, James L. Hound ★Too Much Memory A New Life The Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch

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Mel Says to Give You His Best Evening Star The Cowboy, the Indian and the Scott, Douglas Rosenthal, Ben Roosters Fervent Feminist Mountain—The Journey of Thicker Than Water Sands, Leslie Ducks and Lovers Justice Douglas Welcome Back, Buddy Combs Cat’s Cradle Extensions Sedaris, Amy Ross, Lisette Lecat Something to Hide Five One-Act Plays by Murray The Book of Liz Dark Sun Santeiro, Luis Schisgal Sedaris, David Scent of the Roses The Lady from Havana Fragments The Book of Liz Rossetti, Christina Land O’Fire How We Reached an Impasse on The Santaland Diaries and Goblin Market Our Lady of the Tortilla Nuclear Energy Season’s Greetings Rostand, Edmond A Royal Affair Jealousy and There are No Sacher Segall, Harry Cyrano de Bergerac Sartin, Laddy Tortes in our Society! Heaven Can Wait Rosten, Norman Blessed Assurance Jimmy Shine Mister Angel Come Slowly, Eden Catfish Moon Little Johnny Seiler, Conrad Mister Johnson Sater, Steven Luv Beauty Parade Roth, Ari Carbondale Dreams Man Dangling Good Night, Caroline 3 More by E.S.T. ’98 Saunders, James Memorial Day Our Girls Prelude to a Crisis Bodies Oatmeal and Kisses What’s Wrong with the Girls Roulston, Keith Next Time I’ll Sing to You The Old Jew Why I am a Bachelor Another Season’s Promise A Scent of Flowers Old Wine in a New Bottle The Wonderful Adventures of Don Roussin, Andre Savage, George Play Time Quixote The Little Hut Young Adventure Popkins Sekacz, Ilona Royal, Bert V. Sayers, Dorothy L. The Pushcart Peddlers, The The Beggar’s Opera Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Busman’s Honeymoon Flatulist and Other Plays Selden, George Teenage Blockhead Schario, Christopher Road Show The Children’s Story Rudnick, Paul A Christmas Carol Sexaholics and Other Plays Seligman, Marjorie Crafty Schary, Dore A Simple Kind of Love Story More Solo Readings I Hate Hamlet The Highest Tree The Typists and The Tiger Solo Readings for Radio and Class Jeffrey Sunrise at Campobello Walter Work The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told Scheffer, Will Windows Still More Solo Readings Mr. Charles, Currently of Palm Beach Alien Boy Schmidt, Erica Seller, Thomas The New Century Easter Debbie Does Dallas Xingu Pride and Joy Falling Man and Other Schmidt, Paul Setlock, Mark Regrets Only Monologues The Bear ★Pageant Play Valhalla Fire Dance The Dangers of Tobacco Shakespeare, William Runyon, Damon One Man’s Meat The Festivities Hamlet ESP A Slight Case of Murder Tennessee and Me Ivanov Shakespeare’s R&J Ruskin, Adina L. Schenkkan, Robert The Proposal Standup Shakespeare The Art of Remembering Conversations with the Spanish Lady A Reluctant Tragic Hero Shanley, John Patrick Russell, John C. The Courtship of Morning Star Seven Short Farces by Anton Beggars in the House of Plenty Stupid Kids Final Passages Chekhov The Big Funk Ryan, James Fire in the Hole Swan Song Cellini The Young Girl and the Monsoon Four One-Act Plays by Robert The Wedding Reception Danny and the Deep Blue Sea Ryan, Kate Moira Schenkkan Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel Defiance ★The Beebo Brinker Chronicles God’s Great Supper Enigma Variations Dirty Story Cavedweller Heaven on Earth Schnee, Thelma Doubt, a Parable Ryan, Tammy The Homecoming The Whole World Over Down and Out Pig Intermission Schneider, Barbara The Dreamer Examines His Pillow Ryerson, Florence The Kentucky Cycle Flight Lines and Crossings Four Dogs and a Bone and The Isn’t Nature Wonderful Lunch Break Schrock, Gladden Wild Goose Sabath, Bernard Masters of the Trade Glutt Italian American Reconciliation A Barbarian in Love The Survivalist Schulman, Charlie Kissing Christine The Loneliest Wayfarer Tall Tales The Birthday Present and The Let Us Go Out into the Starry Night Summer Morning Visitor Ties That Bind Ground Zero Club A Lonely Impulse of Delight The Trouble Begins at 8 The War on Poverty Schulman, Sarah Missing Marisa Twain Plus Twain Which Side are You On? Robin Missing/Kissing Safdie, Oren Schisgal, Murray Schulner, David Out West The Last Word… 74 Georgia Avenue An Infinite Ache Psychopathia Sexualis Private Jokes, Public Places All Over Town This Thing of Darkness The Red Coat Sammis, Edward R. An American Millionaire Schultz, Mark ★Romantic Poetry Day in the Sun The Artist and the Model ★Deathbed Sailor’s Song Sams, Jeremy The Artist and the Model/2 ★The Gingerbread House Savage in Limbo Enigma Variations The Basement Everything will be Different Welcome to the Moon and Other Sanchez-Scott, Milcha The Chinese and Dr. Fish Schwartz, Susan L. Plays Dog Lady and The Cuban Swimmer The Consequences of Goosing Debbie Does Dallas Where’s My Money?

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Women of Manhattan Sherman, Martin Silverman, Ethan White House, Past and Present Sharp, Randy ★A Passage to India Group ★Seven Seven in One Blow, or The Brave Sherwood, Robert E. Manhattan Class Company Class Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 Little Kid Abe Lincoln in Illinois One-Acts, 1992 Smith, Conrad Sutton Shaw, Elizabeth Idiot’s Delight Silverstein, Shel Chain of Circumstances Going to See the Elephant The Petrified Forest Abandon All Hope A Dash of Bitters Shaw, Irwin Reunion In Vienna An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein Smith, Earl Hobson Bury the Dead Small War on Murray Hill All Cotton Stephen Foster or Weep No More The Gentle People There Shall be No Night The Best Daddy My Lady The Survivors Shideler, Ross Blind Willie and the Talking Dog Smith, Evan Shawn, Wallace The Night of the Tribades Bus Stop Remedial English Aunt Dan and Lemon Shiffrin, A.B. Buy One Get One Free The Uneasy Chair The Designated Mourner Angel in the Pawnshop Click Smith, Milburn The Fever Twilight Walk Do Not Feed the Animal The Ten O’ Clock Scholar The Hotel Play Shine, Ted Dreamers Smith, Robert Paul The Mandrake Contribution Duck The Tender Trap Marie and Bruce Contributions Garbage Bags Sneed, Helen Sheldon, Sidney Plantation Going Once Sally Blane, World’s Greatest Girl The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer Shoes Gone to Take a… Detective Roman Candle Shinn, Christopher Hangnail Sneider, Vern Shelley, Elsa The Coming World Hard Hat Area The Teahouse of the August Moon Foxhole in the Parlor Dying City Have a Nice Day Snyder, William Shelley, Mary Four The Lifeboat is Sinking The Days and Nights of BeeBee Frankenstein On the Mountain No Dogs Allowed Fenstermaker Playing with Fire (after Other People No Skronking Soderberg, Douglas What Didn’t Happen No Soliciting Frankenstein) (Field) The Root of Chaos Where Do We Live One Tennis Shoe Shepard, Sam Sommer, Edith Short, Robin Shel Shocked Buried Child A Roomful of Roses Ned Crocker Shel’s Shorts Curse of the Starving Class Son, Diana Shue, Larry Signs of Trouble Eyes for Consuela Satellites The Foreigner Smile Fool for Love Stop Kiss Grandma Duck is Dead Thinking Up a New Name for the Act The God of Hell Sondheim, Stephen My Emperor’s New Clothes Wash and Dry ★Kicking a Dead Horse Getting Away with Murder The Nerd Simms, Willard The Late Henry Moss Sorell, Walter Wenceslas Square The Acting Lesson A Lie of the Mind Everyman Today Shulman, Max Miss Farnsworth Seduced Soyinka, Wole The Tender Trap The Passing of an Actor Simpatico The Trials of Brother Jero and The Shuman, Mort Then and Now States of Shock Strong Breed Jacques Brel is Alive and Well & Two’s a Crowd When the World was Green Living in Paris Simon, Neil Spence, Wall Sheppard, Julian Shurtleff, Michael The Star-Spangled Girl Shooting High Buicks Call Me by My Rightful Name Simonov, K. Spencer, T.J. Love and Happiness Shyre, Paul The Whole World Over Jonah Whatever Drums Under the Windows Simonson, Eric Spewack, Bella Sheridan, Richard Brinsley I Knock at the Door Bang the Drum Slowly Boy Meets Girl and Spring Song The School for Scandal A Whitman Portrait Work Song: Three Views of Frank My Three Angels Sherman, Andrew Siefert, Lynn Lloyd Wright Trousers to Match Debbie Does Dallas Coyote Ugly Singer, Blair Woman Bites Dog Sherman, James Little Egypt ★The Most Damaging Wound Spewack, Samuel Jest a Second! Silver, Nicky Singer, Isaac Bashevis Boy Meets Girl and Spring Song Mr. 80% The Agony & The Agony Meshugah The Golden State Romance in D The Altruists Skinner, Cornelia Otis My Three Angels Sherman, Jonathan Marc Beautiful Child The Pleasure of His Company Play It by Ear (The Festival) Evolution Claire Sklar, George The Prince and Mr. Jones Jesus on the Oil Tank The Eros Trilogy And People All Around Trousers to Match Serendipity and Serenity Fat Men in Skirts Brown Pelican Two Blind Mice Sons and Fathers Fit to be Tied Laura Under the Sycamore Tree Sophistry The Food Chain Skyler, Tristine Woman Bites Dog Things We Want The Maiden’s Prayer The Moonlight Room Spigelgass, Leonard Three Short Plays by Jonathan Philip Smith, Anna Deavere The Wrong Way Light Bulb Marc Sherman Pterodactyls Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, St. Germain, Mark Veins and Thumbtacks Raised in Captivity Brooklyn and Other Identities The Gifts of the Magi Women and Wallace Roger & Miriam House Arrest: A Search for American Johnny Pye Wonderful Time ★Three Changes Character In and Around the Out of Gas on Lovers Leap

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Stafford, Nick A Dream Play Taylor, Regina Tolan, Stephanie ★Katherine Desouza Easter Crowns The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck Stavis, Barrie Erik The Fourteenth Taylor, Samuel Tolins, Jonathan The Man Who Never Died The Father (Hailey) First Love The Last Sunday in June Stein, Gertrude The Father (Meyer) The Happy Time Topor, Tom Brewsie and Willie The Ghost Sonata Legend Answers Stein, Mark Master Olof The Pleasure of His Company Tovatt, Patrick At Long Last Leo Miss Julie Sabrina Fair Bartok as Dog Direct from Death Row The Playing with Fire A Touch of Spring (or Avanti!) Trahey, Jane Scottsboro Boys Storm Taylor, Simon Watson Life with Mother Superior The Groves of Academe and The The Stronger Ubu Cuckolded Trask, Stephen Plumber’s Apprentice To Damascus (Part 1) Ubu Enchained Hedwig and the Angry Inch Stein, Sol To Damascus (Parts 2 & 3) The Ubu Plays Tremblay, Michel A Shadow of My Enemy The Virgin Bride Ubu Rex Bonjour, La, Bonjour Steinbeck, John Sugg, James Tectonic Theater Project Forever Yours, Marie-Lou Burning Bright A Murder, a Mystery & a Marriage The Laramie Project Les Belles Soeurs The Grapes of Wrath Sullivan, Sir Arthur Teichmann, Howard Treon, Phil The Moon is Down Hollywood Pinafore or The Lad Miss Lonelyhearts Crunch Time Of Mice and Men Who Loves a Salary The Solid Gold Cadillac Trow, George W.S. Stephens, Harry Sun, Nilaja Temperley, Stephen The Tennis Game Tracers No Child… Souvenir Troy, Jonathan Stephenson, Shelagh Sutton, Joe Terkel, Studs All Because of Agatha Ancient Lights Voir Dire American Dreams A Handful of Rainbows An Experiment with an Air Pump Sutton, Michael Tesich, Steve The Haunted Honeymoon Five Kinds of Silence Over My Dead Body The Carpenters Web of Murder The Memory of Water Thatcher, Kristine Svanoe, Bill Trumbo, Dalton Steppling, John Among Friends Punch and Judy The Biggest Thief in Town The Dream Coast Emma’s Child Swados, Elizabeth Trzcinski, Edmund Stetson, Jeff Voice of Good Hope Nightclub Cantata Stalag 17 The Meeting Thie, Sharon Sweet, Jeffrey Tuan, Alice Stevenson, Robert Louis Thoughts on the Instant of The Action Against Sol Schumann Coco Puffs Chemical Imbalance: A Jekyll and Greeting a Friend on the Street Responsible Parties Tumarin, Boris Hyde Play Thomas, Freyda Routed The Brothers Karamazov Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Gamester Stops Along the Way Turgenev, Ivan Treasure Island Thompson, Ernest Ties A Month in the Country (Nicolaeff) Stew Answers The Value of Names A Month in the Country, After ★Passing Strange The Constituent With and Without Turgenev (Friel) Stewart, Michael A Good Time Swet, Peter Turner, David Those That Play the Clowns On Golden Pond Stitt, Milan The Interview Twinkle, Twinkle Semi-Detached Back in the Race Sydow, Jack The West Side Waltz Turney, Catherine The Runner Stumbles The Brothers Karamazov Thompson, Paul My Dear Children Stockton, Richard Szymkowicz, Adam The Children’s Crusade Turney, Robert ★Prisoner of the Crown Deflowering Waldo Thorne, Joan Vail Daughters of Atreus Stoker, Bram Food for Fish The Exact Center of the Universe Tuttle, Jon Dracula (Dietz) Nerve The Things You Least Expect The Hammerstone Dracula (Johnson) Tabori, George Thornton, Jane Terminal Cafe Storm, Lesley Flight into Egypt Shakers Twain, Mark Heart of a City Taikeff, Stanley Thurber, Lucy A Murder, a Mystery & a Marriage Strand, Richard Ah, Eurydice! Killers and Other Family Uhry, Alfred The Death of Zukasky Tally, Ted Scarcity Driving Miss Daisy The Millennium Fallacy Hooters Stay The Last Night of Ballyhoo Rosa’s Eulogy Little Footsteps Where We’re Born Ustinov, Peter The Way Down Silver Linings Thurschwell, Harry T. The Love of Four Colonels Street Man, Chic Terra Nova A Young Man’s Fancy Photo Finish Spunk Tan, Amy Todd, Matthew Romanoff and Juliet Streeter, Edward The Joy Luck Club Blowing Whistles Valcq, James Father of the Bride Tasca, Jules Toffenetti, Laura Zombies from the Beyond Mr. Hobbs’ Vacation Tadpole Going to See the Elephant Valency, Maurice Strindberg, August Taylor, Douglas Tolan, Kathleen Conversation with a Sphinx Creditors The Agreement Approximating Mother Feathertop Dance of Death (Greenberg) Five in Judgment Tolan, Peter The Madwoman of Chaillot The Dance of Death (Parts 1 & 2) The Sudden and Accidental Re- Stay Carl Stay, Best Half Foot Regarding Electra (Meyer) Education of Horse Johnson Forward and Pillow Talk The Thracian Horses

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Valenti, Michael Viner, Katharine The Man in a Case Werfel, Franz Quack My Name is Rachel Corrie Medea Jacobowsky and the Colonel Vampilov, Aleksandr Violett, Ellen Seven One-Act Plays by Wendy Wertenbaker, Timberlake Duck Hunting Brewsie and Willie Wasserstein The Grace of Mary Traverse van Druten, John Vogel, Paula The Sisters Rosensweig Wesley, Richard Bell, Book and Candle And Baby Makes Seven Tender Offer The Mighty Gents The Druid Circle The Baltimore Waltz Third The Past is the Past and Gettin’ It I am a Camera ★A Civil War Christmas: An Uncommon Women and Others Together I Remember Mama American Musical Celebration Waiting for Philip Glass The Sirens I Remember Mama (High School Desdemona, A Play About a Workout West, Cheryl L. Version) Handkerchief Waters, Daryl Before It Hits Home I’ve Got Sixpence Hot ’n’ Throbbing ★Civil War Christmas: An American Jar the Floor The Mermaids Singing How I Learned to Drive Musical Celebration West, Nathanael The Voice of the Turtle The Long Christmas Ride Home Watkin, L.E. Miss Lonelyhearts van Itallie, Jean-Claude The Mineola Twins On Borrowed Time Wharton, Edith Almost Like Being The Oldest Profession Watson, Ara Ethan Frome America Hurrah Vogelstein, Cherie Bite the Hand, Mooncastle Xingu Bag Lady All About Al Chocolate Cake Whedon, Tom The Cherry Orchard Four from E.S.T. Marathon ’99 A Different Moon Money Early Warnings Volodin, Aleksandr Final Placement Wheeler, Hugh Eat Cake Five Evenings Little Miss Fresno Big Fish, Little Fish A Fable von Arnim, Elizabeth Treasure Island Look: We’ve Come Through Final Orders Enchanted April Win/Lose/Draw We Have Always Lived in the Castle The Girl and the Soldier Wackler, Rebecca Wax, Emanuel (Jimmy) Whelan, Peter Harold Tent Meeting 90° in the Shade and Dust in Your The Herbal Bed The Hunter and the Bird Wade, Kevin Eyes White, John I’m Really Here Key Exchange Webb, Peter Bugs and Veronica Interview Mr. & Mrs. Sally Blane, World’s Greatest Girl White, Jr., Harley The King of the United States Wade, Laura Detective Direct from Death Row The Master and Margarita or, The Breathing Corpses Splendora Scottsboro Boys Devil Comes to Moscow Colder Than Here Wedekind, Frank White, Natalie E. Motel ★Other Hands Spring Awakening The Billion Dollar Saint Mystery Play Wadud, Ali Weidman, Jerome Seven Nuns at Las Vegas Photographs: Mary and Howard Companions of the Fire Asterisk! Seven Nuns South of the Border Rosary Walden, William Ivory Tower White, Sharr The Sea Gull Treasures on Earth Weill, Gus Achilles in Sparta The Serpent Walker, Mildred To Bury a Cousin Six Years Seven Short and Very Short Plays The Southwest Corner Weiner, Wendy Whittell, Crispin Sunset Freeway Wallach, Ira ★ Take a Deep Breath The Absence of a Cello Hillary: A Modern Greek Darwin in Malibu Thoughts on the Instant of Wanshel, Jeff Tragedy with a (Somewhat) Whitty, Jeff Greeting a Friend on the Street Auto-Destruct and The Rhesus Happy Ending The Further Adventures of Hedda Three Sisters Umbrella Weinraub, Bernard Gabler The Tibetan Book of the Dead (or The Disintegration of James The Accomplices The Hiding Place “How Not to Do it Again”) Cherry Weisman, Annie Wiener, David TV Isadora Duncan Sleeps with the Be Aggressive Blood Orange Uncle Vanya Russian Navy Hold Please Wilbur, Richard War and Four Other Plays Times and Appetites of Toulouse- Weiss, Matthew Amphitryon Where is de Queen? Lautrec Hesh Andromache Vari, John Ward, Douglas Turner Weitz, Paul The Bungler Farewell, Farewell, Eugene Brotherhood Privilege Don Juan Varon, Charlie Happy Ending and A Day of Roulette The Imaginary Cuckold, or The People’s Violin Absence Show People Sganarelle Rush Limbaugh in Night School The Reckoning Weller, Michael The Learned Ladies Vaughan, Robert Lewis Ward, Pamela ★Beast Lovers’ Quarrels Praying for Rain An Almost Holy Picture Dogbrain The Misanthrope The Rest of the Night Warren, Robert Penn ★Fifty Words Phaedra Vidal, Gore All the King’s Men Tira Tells Everything There is to School for Husbands The Best Man Wasserstein, Wendy Know About Herself and The The School for Wives Romulus An American Daughter Bodybuilders The Suitors Visit to a Small Planet Bette and Me Welsh, Kenneth Tartuffe Weekend Boy Meets Girl Standup Shakespeare Wilk, Max Viertel, Peter The Heidi Chronicles Welty, Eudora Cloud Seven The Survivors Isn’t It Romantic Eudora Welty’s The Hitch Hikers Mr. Williams and Miss Wood

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Wilkas, Matthew Summer and Smoke Talley’s Folly The Pavilion ★Pageant Play Sweet Bird of Youth This is the Rill Speaking Recent Tragic Events Williams, Emlyn Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Three Sisters Wright, Doug The Corn is Green Me Listen Thymus Vulgaris Baby Talk Someone Waiting Ten Blocks on the Camino Real Victory on Mrs. Dandywine’s Grey Gardens Williams, Samm-Art This Property is Condemned Island I am My Own Wife Home The Two-Character Play Wandering Lot 13: The Bone Violin Williams, Tennessee Vieux Carré Wilson, Lauren Quills 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Williamson, David Chemical Imbalance: A Jekyll and The Stonewater Rapture Other Plays Money and Friends Hyde Play Unwrap Your Candy American Blues Willimon, Beau ★The Golden State Unwrap Your Candy: An Evening of Auto-Da-Fé ★Farragut North Wilson, Mary Louise One-Act Plays Battle of Angels Lower Ninth Full Gallop Watbanaland Camino Real Willinger, David Wilson, Michael Wildwood Park The Case of the Crushed Petunias Andrea’s Got Two Boyfriends A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story Wright, William H. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Willis, Jane of Christmas The Man in the Dog Suit Clothes for a Summer Hotel Men without Dates and Slam! Wilson, Tracey Scott Yaffe, James The Dark Room Wilson, David Henry ★The Good Negro Cliffhanger Dragon Country All the World’s a Stage The Story The Deadly Game The Eccentricities of a Nightingale Wilson, Lanford Wiltse, David Ivory Tower The Frosted Glass Coffin Abstinence A Dance Lesson Yale, Kathleen Betsko The Glass Menagerie Angels Fall A Grand Romance Johnny Bull The Gnadiges Fraulein Balm in Gilead and Other Plays Winters, Marian Yalman, Tunc Hello from Bertha A Betrothal A is for All The Liar I Can’t Imagine Tomorrow Book of Days All Saints’ Day The Trickeries of Scapin I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix Brontosaurus Animal Keepers Yankee, Luke In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel Burn This Assembly Line A Place at Forest Lawn Kingdom of Earth By the Sea By the Sea By the Witten, Matthew Yankowitz, Susan The Lady of Larkspur Lotion Beautiful Sea The Deal A Place at Forest Lawn The Last of My Solid Gold Days Ahead Washington Square Moves ★Seven Watches The Family Continues Wolfe, George C. Yep, Laurence The Long Goodbye Fifth of July Spunk Dragonwings The Long Stay Cut Short or The Four Short Plays by Lanford Wilson Wolfson, Victor Yerby, Lorees Unsatisfactory Supper Ghosts Excursion Save Me a Place at Forest Lawn Lord Byron’s Love Letter The Gingham Dog Wollner, Donald Yordan, Philip A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur The Great Nebula in Orion Kid Purple Anna Lucasta The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here The Hot L Baltimore Wong, Elizabeth Young, Stanley Anymore Ikke, Ikke, Nye, Nye, Nye Bad-Ass of the Rip Eternal Mr. Pickwick Moony’s Kid Don’t Cry Lemon Sky Wood, Maxine Zark, Jenna The Mutilated Ludlow Fair and Home Free! On Whitman Avenue A Body of Water The Night of the Iguana The Madness of Lady Bright Woodard, Charlayne Zavin, Benjamin Bernard The Notebook of Trigorin The Moonshot Tape and A Poster ★Flight The Family Man Orpheus Descending of the Cosmos In Real Life Zindel, Paul Out Cry The Mound Builders Neat Amulets Against the Dragon Forces A Perfect Analysis Given by a Rain Dance Pretty Fire And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little Parrot Redwood Curtain Wooten, Jamie The Effect of Gamma Rays on Period of Adjustment The Rimers of Eldritch Christmas Belles Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds Portrait of a Madonna The Sand Castle and Three Other Dearly Beloved Every Seventeen Minutes the The Purification Plays The Dixie Swim Club Crowd Goes Crazy! The Red Devil Battery Sign Say De Kooning ★The Hallelujah Girls Ladies at the Alamo The Rose Tattoo A Sense of Place or Virgil is Still Southern Hospitality Let Me Hear You Whisper and The Small Craft Warnings the Frogboy ★’Til Beth Do Us Part Ladies Should be in Bed Something Cloudy, Something Clear Serenading Louie Wooten, John J. The Pigman Something Unspoken Sextet (YES) Trophies The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild The Strangest Kind of Romance Stoop Wright, Craig Ziegler, Anna A Streetcar Named Desire Sympathetic Magic ★Lady BFF (“Best Friends Forever”) Suddenly Last Summer Talley & Son Orange Flower Water Life Science

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Jeffrey Hatcher SMASH THE TURN OF THE SCREW

Sam Shepard CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS

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