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Fifteen One-Act Plays: An Expanded Edition of the Collection the Unseen Hand and Other Plays
$17.00 Add to cartFilled with wry, dark humor, unparalleled imagination, unforgettable characters, and exquisitely crafted storytelling, Sam Shepard’s plays have earned him enormous acclaim over the past five decades. … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Shepard, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0345802764
- Language: English
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Our Town American Classics Edition: A Play in Three Acts
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize
“Our Town leaves us with a sense of blessing, and the unspoken but palpable command to achieve gratitude in what remains of our days on earth.” — The New Yorker
In celebrat
- Series: HarperCollins American Classics #5
- Author: Wilder, Thornton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0063496674
- Language: English
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Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Drama of the Greatest Courtroom Clash of the Century
$9.99 Add to cartA classic work of American theatre, based on the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, which pitted Clarence Darrow against William Jennings Bryan in defense of a schoolteacher accused of teaching the theory o… [more below]
- Author: Lawrence, Jerome
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0345466276
- Language: English
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The Arthur Miller Tapes: A Life in His Own Words
$29.95 Add to cart- Author: Bigsby, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1009636928
- Language: English
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Bug: A Play
$16.00 Read moreTracy Letts’s tale of love, paranoia, and government conspiracy is a thought-provoking psycho-thriller that mixes terror and laughter at a fever pitch.
This dark comedy takes place in a seedy motel roo
- Author: Letts, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 95
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0810123487
- Language: English
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What We Did Before Our Moth Days
$15.95 Add to cartWallace Shawn’s first new play in ten years, a dark moral fable.
And so yes, well, I’d simply dropped that whole idea of being a good person, I’d dropped it right down into some hole in the street, and… [more below]
- Author: Shawn, Wallace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0571399908
- Language: English
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Flight 853
$15.99 Add to cartOn a quiet September day in 1969, the skies over Indiana turned into a nightmare.
A single-engine Piper Cherokee collided with the tail of Allegheny Flight 853, a DC-9 carrying dozens of passengers. Wi… [more below]
- Author: Stephens, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 9798899717901
- Language: English
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The Exonerated: A Play
$16.00 Add to cartWhat effect does it have on a person–a soul, a life–to have freedom and self-respect stripped away and then, ostensibly, returned years later after decades of incarceration? The Exonerated attempts
- Author: Blank, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 15 2003
- ISBN10: 0571211836
- Language: English
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Three Plays by Monica Wood: Papermaker, The Half-Light, Saint Dad
$24.95 Add to cartAward-winning novelist Monica Wood’s first play, Papermaker, debuted at Portland Stage in Portland, Maine, setting the theater’s all-time attendance record and enjoying successful runs at other region
- Author: Wood, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1684752523
- Language: English
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Our Town and the Cosmic One-Acts: The Long Christmas Dinner, the Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, and Pullman Car Hiawatha
$19.99 Add to cart“Thornton Wilder will survive. . . as long as there are people around who are willing to sit in something called a theater and be reminded of their common humanity.” –New York Times
A beautifully desi
- Series: Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions #51
- Author: Wilder, Thornton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063465620
- Language: English
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Zapata
$32.00 Add to cartBefore there was Viva Zapata!, the acclaimed film for which John Steinbeck received Academy Award nominations for best story and screenplay, there was the original Zapata.
In the research library of UC
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0140173226
- Language: English
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Coral Bay: An island adventure book series (Book 1)
$15.99 Add to cartMichael Bennett was once a rising star in the fight against overdevelopment and the environmental decline of South Florida, until he was betrayed by a trusted partner and lost everything. Now living o
- Series: Michael Bennett #1
- Author: Dean, Shawn Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: July 31 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218691202
- Language: English
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Clybourne Park
$18.00 Read moreWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and winner of the Tony Award for Best Play
Clybourne Park spans two generations fifty years apart. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bedroom- Author: Norris, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0865478686
- Language: English
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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume II: The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Summer and Smoke, the Rose Tattoo, Camino Real
$32.95 Add to cart- Series: Theatre of Tennessee Williams Vol. II #2
- Author: Williams, Tennessee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 604
- Publish Date: October 21 2010
- ISBN10: 0811211363
- Language: English
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If the Song Doesn’t Work, Change the Dress: The Illustrated Memoirs of Broadway Costume Designer Patricia Zipprodt
$35.00 Add to cartIconic Broadway costume designer Patricia Zipprodt (1925-99) tells her own colorful story from a tumultuous childhood in Depression-era Chicago to Bohemian New York in the 1950s, becoming one of the 2
- Author: Zipprodt, Patricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 06 2025
- ISBN10: 135043065X
- Language: English
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The Signet Book of Short Plays
$7.95 Read moreA new collection: 12 short plays by Tennessee Williams, Horton Foote, Wendy Wasserstein, and more.
This introduction to the ever-evolving tradition of American theater includes works from Kia Corthron,
- Author: Weiss, M. Jerry
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0451529642
- Language: English
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Fool for Love and Other Plays: Angel City, Geography of a Horse Dreamer, Action, Cowboy Mouth, Melodrama Play, Seduced, Suicide in B Flat
$17.00 Add to cartHere are eight of Pulitzer-prizewinning Sam Shepard’s most stunning plays. This brilliant American dramatist creates what The New Yorker dubbed “Shepard Country”–a landscape of the imagination, a uni… [more below]
- Author: Shepard, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0553345907
- Language: English
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Doubt: A Parable
$18.95 Add to cartNow a major motion picture! Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams. Written and directed by John Patrick Shanley from his Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
“The best new play of the se
- Author: Shanley, John Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1559363479
- Language: English
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Fat Pig
$16.00 Add to cartCow. Slob. Pig. How many insults can you hear before you have to stand up and defend the woman you love? Tom faces just that question when he falls for Helen, a bright, funny, sexy young woman who hap
- Author: Labute, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 29 2004
- ISBN10: 057121150X
- Language: English
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Spinning Into Butter: A Play
$16.00 Add to cartSet on a college campus in Vermont, Spinning into Butter is a new play by a major young American playwright that explores the dangers of both racism and political correctness in America today in a man
- Author: Gilman, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 07 2000
- ISBN10: 0571199844
- Language: English
