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“This is a fresh take on the American road story, filled with people and ideas we rarely get to see onstage…It offers two seriously rich roles for women, each with important things worth singing about…<em>Miss You Like Hell </em>is a powerful example of what musicals do best: explore the unprotected border where individual needs and social issues intermix.” —Jesse Green, <em>New York Times</em><p> <p>A...
| Автор | Quiara Alegría Hudes |
Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama “Dazzling and ruthless…One of the most exquisitely and systematically arranged ambushes of an unsuspecting audience in years…A glorious, scary reminder of the unmatched power of live theater to rattle, roil and shake us wide awake.” — Ben Brantley, New York Times Grandma’s birthday approaches. Beverly is organizing the perfect dinner, but everything seems doomed from the start: the...
| Автор | Jackie Sibblies Drury |
![Thom Pain (based on nothing) [Revised TCG Edition]](https://knigism.online/covers/ed/90/886698.jpg "Thom Pain (based on nothing) [Revised TCG Edition]")
– Thom Pain (based on nothing) will run at Signature Theatre in New York from October 23 – November 25, 2018. Will Eno was the first writer to complete Signature's Residency 5 program, and this will be his first Legacy production at the theater. The production will feature Golden Globe Award-winner Michael C. Hall (“Dexter,” “Six Feet Under,” The Realistic Joneses ). – Thom Pain was a...
| Автор | Will Eno |
• All three parts of this play cycle premiered in 2016 at The Public Theatre, Off-Broadway, in New York City: Hungry in March, What Did You Expect in September, and Women of a Certain Age on November 8 – the night of the 2016 presidential election, which is the topic of the plays.• Selected as a New York Times Critics’ Pick• A play cycle that hinges on the national election, this would do well with political and history-centric audiences, as well as the academic arena.• Nelson is also known for...
| Автор | Richard Nelson |
• World premiere in the spring of 2016 at Signature Theatre Company (Off-Broadway, New York), directed by Thomas Kail (Hamilton)• Hudes’ work deals with both human interest stories as well as more specifically cultural topics relevant to Hispanic Americans. Target readership might be as broad as anyone with an interest in theatre, as well as any Hispanic/Latino-leaning organizations or academic curricula.• Daphne’s Dive is Hudes’ first contribution to her residency as part of Signature’s...
| Автор | Quiara Alegría Hudes |
“Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English.” – James Wood, New Yorker Best known for his novel The Master and Margarita , Mikhail Bulgakov had a knack for political allegory. Both Molière, or the Cabal of Hypocrites and Don Quixote were contentious in their time, written as a challenge to Soviet politics of the early twentieth century, especially Stalin’s harsh regime. Charged...
| Автор | Mikhail Bulgakov |
The Sound Inside received its world premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in the summer of 2018. The production starred Mary-Louise Parker and was directed by David Cromer. The Williamstown production will transfer to Broadway in the fall of 2019 at Studio 54, with the same cast. The play was commissioned by Lincoln Center Theater. The Sound Inside was a New York Times Critic’s Pick. NYT critic Jesse Green named the play one of his top 10 shows of 2018. Rapp’s...
| Автор | Adam Rapp |
Slave Play received its world premiere Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop in the fall of 2018 in a sold-out, extended run. The production was directed by Robert O’Hara. The NYTW production will transfer to Broadway’s Golden Theatre in the fall of 2019, marking the Broadway debut for both Harris and O’Hara. Slave Play was a New York Times Critic’s Pick. Harris is a swiftly rising young star in the theatre world. Slave Play ...
| Автор | Jeremy O. Harris |
“ Gloria: A Life is a unique, deeply moving performance created in the hopeful, conversational spirit of its extraordinary subject.” —Sara Holdren, New York Magazine’s Vulture “One part theater, one part consciousness-raising group therapy session, Gloria: A Life offers an experience that promises to be a more intimate recollection of Steinem’s journey, not only because it’s been singularly shaped by the hands of...
| Автор | Emily Mann |
“How many plays make us long for grace? Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Hudes is such a rare play; it is a yearning, funny, deeply sad and deeply lyrical piece, a worthy companion to Hudes’s Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue. The play infects us with the urge to find connection within our families and communities and remains with us long after we’ve left the theater.” –Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of How I Learned to Drive “Hudes’s writing is controlled and graceful. Each of the...
| Автор | Quiara Alegría Hudes |
“There’s an irresistible joy to reading these plays…examining them at leisure without the urgent propulsive forward movement of the theater, reveals beauties and resonances uniquely literary.” —Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director, The Public Theater, from his foreword Plays for The Public includes: The Gods Are Pounding My Head! (AKA Lumberjack Messiah) “Richard Foreman is the ultimate theater auteur and mind-roiling warlock of...
| Автор | Richard Foreman |
Premiered at the Lincoln Center Theater (Off-Broadway) in the winter of 2017<p><p> Ruhl teaches playwriting at Yale School of Drama<p><p> Sarah Ruhl's other plays include the Pulitzer Prize finalists <i>In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)</i> and <i>The Clean House</i><p><p> One of the top five most-produced playwrights from 2014 – 2016. <p><p> Ruhl is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a...
| Автор | Sarah Ruhl |
Three provocative dramas, <em>Paradise Blue</em>, <em>Detroit ’67 </em>and <em>Skeleton Crew</em>, make up Dominique Morisseau’s <em>The Detroit Project</em>, a play cycle examining the sociopolitical history of Detroit. Each play sits at a cross-section—of race and policing, of labor and recession, of property ownership and gentrification—and comes alive in the characters and relationships that look toward...
| Автор | Dominique Morisseau |
After their father dies, five siblings find themselves around the kitchen table of their childhood, pouring whiskey and sharing memories. The eldest, Ann, reminisces about her days playing Peter Pan at the local children’s theater, and soon the five are transported back to Neverland. For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday is a fantastical exploration of the enduring bonds of family, the resistance to “growing up,” and the inevitability of growing old.
| Автор | Sarah Ruhl |
World premiere at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, C.T. in the spring of 2017, which opened to critical acclaim from regional reviewers. Subsequent Off-Broadway premiere at New York Theatre Workshop in the fall of 2017 starring Carrie Coon. <p><p> Early talk of Broadway transfer in spring 2018.<p><p> Herzog’s work is a popular for drama courses; Also, with themes of motherhood and caregiving, could do well targeting audiences with those interests....
| Автор | Amy Herzog |
“Smart, funny and utterly engrossing…This unexpectedly rich sequel reminds us that houses tremble and sometimes fall when doors slam, and that there are living people within, who may be wounded or lost…Mr. Hnath has a deft hand for combining incongruous elements to illuminating ends.” —Ben Brantley, New York Times It has been fifteen years since Nora Helmer slammed the door on her stifling domestic life, when a knock comes at that same door....
| Автор | Lucas Hnath |
Darkly you sweep on, Eternal Fugitive, round whose bodiless rush stagnant space frets into eddying bubbles of light.<br><br>Is your heart lost to the Lover calling you across his immeasurable loneliness?<br><br>Is the aching urgency of your haste the sole reason why your tangled tresses break into stormy riot and pearls of fire roll along your path as from a broken necklace? Your fleeting steps kiss the dust of this world into sweetness, sweeping aside all waste; the...
| Автор | Rabindranath Tagore |
Often called the «Father of French Comedy,» Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 1622–1673) was a master at exposing the foibles and complexities of humanity in plays notable for their dramatic construction, varied and diverse humor, and subtlety of psychological observation. This convenient dual-language volume contains the original French texts and English translations of two of Molière's most praised and popular comedies: Tartuffe and The Bourgeois Gentleman....
| Автор | Molière |
Here in one compact and modestly priced edition are the celebrated Russian playwright's most popular works. In addition to five full-length plays—The Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, and Ivanov—this anthology features five of Anton Chekhov's one-act comedies: The Anniversary, An Unwilling Martyr, The Wedding, The Bear, and The Proposal.Chekhov's taste for vaudeville shows and French farces influenced his comic one-acts, which are...
| Автор | Anton Chekhov |
"Fifty Words has a gimlet eye, providing meticulously chosen, artfully integrated details that let us understand why its characters so love and loathe each other. Like Mr. Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? it understands how closely hate and love can be linked in marriage."—The New York TimesIn Fifty Words, a Brooklyn brownstone becomes a marital battleground for Adam and Jan; Do Not Disturb dramatizes Adam's infidelity at a hotel with former lover Melinda; and...
| Автор | Michael Weller |
“Mr. Kushner’s glorious specialty is in giving theatrical life to internal points of view, in which our thoughts meld with a character’s wayward speculations or fantasies… He makes the personal and the universal, the trivial and the cosmic come simultaneously to life in a single character’s bewilderment.” –Ben Brantley, New York Times“An extraordinary play…a deeply felt, expansively ruminative drama.”...
| Автор | Tony Kushner |
"Nottage is one of our finest playwrights, a smart, empathetic, and daring storyteller who tells a story an audience won't expect."— Time Out New York "Lynn Nottage's work explores depths of humanness, the overlapping complexities of race, gender, culture and history—and the startling simplicity of desire—with a clear tenderness, with humor, with compassion."—Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright In her first new play since the critically acclaimed ...
| Автор | Lynn Nottage |
"By turns philosophical and playful, lyrical and earthy, [i]Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), swoops, leaps, dives and soars, reimagining a turbulent point in American history through a cockeyed contemporary lens . . . The finest work yet from this gifted writer."—[i]The New York Times"Thrilling. . . . A masterpiece . . . A story that engages the deepest possible issues in the most gripping possible ways."—[i]New YorkOffered his freedom if he...
| Автор | Suzan-Lori Parks |
Named one of the «Ten Best Plays of 2008» by The New Yorker “Sarah Ruhl’s bold, inventive, and ironic triptych [is] a meditation on devotion and its appropriation by the state. . . . Ruhl is an original; a storyteller with a fine mind evolving her own theatrical idiom.”—John Lahr, The New Yorker “It’s a different kind of morality play . . . an often wondrous work . . . with [Ruhl’s] own special lyrical blend of poetry, humor...
| Автор | Sarah Ruhl |