Isn't It Romantic
Author(s): Wendy Wasserstein
The play deals with the post-college careers (and dilemmas) of two former classmates, a short, slightly plump would-be writer named Janie Blumberg, and her tall, thin gorgeous WASP friend, Harriet Cornwall. Both are struggling to escape from lingering parental domination and to establish their own lives and identities. In Janie’s case this leads to an inconclusive involvement with a young Jewish doctor who calls her "Monkey"; while Harriet assails the world of big business and has an affair with her hard-driving (and married) boss. Told in a fast-moving series of inventive, alternately hilarious and touchingly revealing scenes, the play explores their parallel stories with uncommon wit and wisdom-- resulting, ultimately, in a heightened awareness which, while not providing all the answers, goes a long way toward achieving the maturity and self-assuredness that both protagonists so desperately desire.
Five Women Wearing the Same Dress
Alan Ball
Comedy Full Length
1 man, 5 women: 6 total Interior
An irreverent and funny look at the intricacies of friendship and the power of similar dressing. "…[a] wonderfully entertaining play…" —NY Post. "FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS is a fresh-as-a-daisy comedy, funny as can be…" —NY Daily News. "Ball has the comic writer's requisite talent for dialogue that ricochets snappily around the stage." —TheaterWeek.
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THE STORY: During an ostentatious wedding reception at a Knoxville, Tennessee, estate, five reluctant, identically clad bridesmaids hide out in an upstairs bedroom, each with her own reason to avoid the proceedings below. They are Frances, a painfully sweet but sheltered fundamentalist; Mindy, the cheerful, wise-cracking lesbian sister of the groom; Georgeanne, whose heartbreak over her own failed marriage triggers outrageous behavior; Meredith, the bride's younger sister whose precocious rebelliousness masks a dark secret; and Trisha, a jaded beauty whose die-hard cynicism about men is called into question when she meets Tripp, a charming bad-boy usher to whom there is more than meets the eye. As the afternoon wears on, these five very different women joyously discover a common bond in this wickedly funny, irreverent and touching celebration of the women's spirit.
Isn't It Romantic
Wendy Wasserstein
Comedy Full Length
4 men, 4 women (plus recorded voices): 8 total Flexible Set
A brightly witty, trenchantly observant contemporary comedy which enjoyed the unique distinction of two critically-hailed Off-Broadway productions—the second a long-run, record-setting presentation which was the most successful in the history of New York's renowned Playwright's Horizons. "ISN'T IT ROMANTIC is romantic—also bright, funny, sentimental, and throughout, inching toward wisdom." —Time Magazine. "…one of the funniest and most satisfying shows in town…If Dorothy Parker were a playwright today, she might have written this endearingly acid comedy." —Variety. "…among the funniest and most inventive writers around…" —The New Yorker. "…a nouvelle cuisine comedy." —NY Times.
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THE STORY: The play deals with the post-college careers (and dilemmas) of two former classmates, a short, slightly plump would-be writer named Janie Blumberg, and her tall, thin gorgeous WASP friend, Harriet Cornwall. Both are struggling to escape from lingering parental domination and to establish their own lives and identities. In Janie's case this leads to an inconclusive involvement with a young Jewish doctor who calls her "Monkey"; while Harriet assails the world of big business and has an affair with her hard-driving (and married) boss. Told in a fast-moving series of inventive, alternately hilarious and touchingly revealing scenes, the play explores their parallel stories with uncommon wit and wisdom—resulting, ultimately, in a heightened awareness which, while not providing all the answers, goes a long way toward achieving the maturity and self-assuredness that both protagonists so desperately desire. Agnes of God John Pielmeier
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Full Length Play, Drama
3f
ISBN: 9780573630224
"Riveting, powerful, electrifying drama...the dialogue crackles." - New York Daily News "Outstanding play [that]...deals intelligently with questions of religion and psychology." - The New York Times
Description Full Length Play
Drama
120 minutes (2 hours)
Time Period - Present Day
Settings Of Play - Bare stage. One chair. FEATURES / CONTAINS
Play w/ Music
Bare Stage/Simple Set CAUTIONS
Smoking TAGS
Christianity, Love, Religion TARGET AUDIENCE
Adult, Senior, Teen (Age 14 - 18) PERFORMANCE GROUP
College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Reader's Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups RECOGNITION / AWARDS
From Broadway
Summoned to a covent, Dr. Martha Livingstone, a court-appointed psychiatrist, is charged with assessing the sanity of a novice accused of murdering her newborn. Miriam Ruth, the Mother Superior, determindly keeps young Agnes from the doctor, arousing Livingstone's suspicions further. Who killed the infant and who fathered the tiny victim? Livingstone's questions force all three women to re-examine the meaning of faith and the power of love leading to a dramatic, compelling climax. A hit on Broadway and later on film.
"Riveting, powerful, electrifying drama...the dialogue crackles." - New York Daily News "Outstanding play [that]...deals intelligently with questions of religion and psychology." - The New York Times
"Unquestionably blindingly theatrical...cleverly executed blood and guts evening in the theatre." - New York Post
Read at the 1979 Eugene O'Neill Playwrights' Conference. Professional premiere at Actors' Theatre of Louisville, March, 1980.
Characters CASTING
3f CASTING ATTRIBUTES
All Female, Non-Traditional casting, Minority casting, Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle) CHORUS SIZE
No Chorus
Woman, 40's. Woman, 60's. Woman, 20's.
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North of Providence, Dolores, Lady of Fadima
Edward Allan Baker
Collection / Anthology
ISBN: 9780822200918
NORTH OF PROVIDENCE is a painful domestic crisis between brother and s… More Information Below:
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NORTH OF PROVIDENCE is a painful domestic crisis between brother and sister, uncovering old wounds on the last day of their father's life. (1 man, 1 woman.) DOLORES is the story of two sisters drawn together because of domestic violence which influences the lives of both characters more than they've ever admitted. (2 women.) In LADY OF FADIMA, because her husband is unable to work a young mother is forced to work as a cleaning woman in a hospital where her innocence is preyed upon by a threatening and malicious boss. (1 man, 2 women.) First produced with great success by the Ensemble Studio Theatre. "In NORTH OF PROVIDENCE Edward Allan Baker takes a painful domestic crisis and transforms it into a one-act play of emotional depth and conviction. There are enough conflicts for a novel or mini-series—distilled to an essential moment…an exemplar of the one-act art." —NY Times.
In the Boom Boom Room
David Rabe
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6m, 6f
ISBN: 9780573606472
"Compassion for anguished people leavened by a black wit and a powerful sense of the surreal nature of modern life." - Newsweek "A superior play, perhaps a masterpiece." - WINS
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A revised version from the author of Sticks and Bones and Hurlyburly turns his attention to the seedy underbelly of American life. Chrissy is a go-go dancer in the squalid "Boom Boom Room". Resigned to a life populated by denizens offering little more than drugs, sex and violence, she searches for love and beauty against this backdrop of nihilistic hedonism. Her desperate need to survive at any cost offers a glimmer of hope amid the glare of broken neon. "Compassion for anguished people leavened by a black wit and a powerful sense of the surreal nature of modern life." - Newsweek "A superior play, perhaps a masterpiece." - WINS
Originally produced by Joseph Papp at New York's Lincoln Center. Women of Manhattan
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Women of Manhattan is a play written by John Patrick Shanley and originally produced in 1986.
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• 1 Production • 2 Plot overview • 3 Critical response • 4 Notes • 5 References • 6 External links
Production
Women of Manhattan premiered Off-Broadway in a Manhattan Theatre Club production at the City Center Theater on May 26, 1986 and closed on June 15, 1986 after 25 performances. Directed by Ron Lagomarsino, the cast featured Nancy Mette as Billie, J. Smith-Cameron as Rhonda, Jayne Haynes as Judy, Keith Szarabajka and Tom Wright.[1][2]
The play was revived in New York City by The Barrow Group, at the John Houseman Studio Theater, running from May 30, 1997, officially on June 6, and ending June 29, 1997.[3]
The play was produced in Santa Ana, California in a Way Off Broadway production in February and March 1990.[4] The play ran in San Francisco at the Next Stage in January 1999.[5] Plot overview
The play revolves around the lives of three women who are living in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Rhonda has recently split with her boyfriend, Billie is married, and Judy is considered a "fag hag" by the other two as she often unknowingly dates men who turn out to be homosexual. Critical response Spike Heels
Theresa Rebeck
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Full Length Play, Comedy
2m, 2f
ISBN: 9780573693816
"Stinging one liners." - N.Y. Daily News. "Places a superior wryly pleasing ... fashionable feminist spin on sexual shenanigans. Neatly written with smart funny lines." - N.Y. Post.
"Full of tart wit, feminist insight…
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Description Full Length Play
Comedy
Time Period - Present Day
Settings Of Play - Boston FEATURES / CONTAINS Interior Set TAGS
Feminism, Love TARGET AUDIENCE
Adult
Pygmalion goes awry in this contemporary comedy of manners which explores sexual harassment, misplaced amour, and the possibility of a four sided love triangle. The combatants are a sexy, volatile young woman and three Back Bay types a writer, a lawyer and a fiancee in sensible shoes. The setting is Boston, the ending is happy and laughter abounds. "Stinging one liners. " - N.Y. Daily News. "Places a superior wryly pleasing ... fashionable feminist spin on sexual shenanigans. Neatly written with smart funny lines." - N.Y. Post.
"Full of tart wit, feminist insight and quirky detours of plot." - Time
Spike Heels premiered at the Second Stage Theater in New York in 1992. Characters CASTING
2m, 2f
ANDREW EDWARD GEORGIE LYDIA