Man of La Mancha

eBook | 112 pages | Random House | Drama
978-0-307-78667-8 (0-307-78667-6)

April 27, 2011 | $11.00



Winner of the New York Drama Critics Award for Best Musical, 1966

"To me the most interesting aspect of the success of Man of La Mancha is the fact that it plows squarely upstream against the prevailing current of philosophy in the theater. That current is best identified by its catch-labels--Theater of...

November

eBook | 128 pages | Vintage | Drama - American
978-0-307-79374-4 (0-307-79374-5)

April 27, 2011 | $12.95



David Mamet's new Oval Office satire depicts one day in the life of a beleaguered American commander-in-chief. It's November in a Presidential election year, and incumbent Charles Smith's chances for reelection are looking grim. Approval ratings are down, his money's running out, and nuclear war might be imminent. Though his staff...

Kicking a Dead Horse

eBook | 80 pages | Vintage | Drama - American
978-0-307-79373-7 (0-307-79373-7)

April 20, 2011 | $11.95



A solitary man digs a hole in the ground, near a dead horse. Amidst the clutter of food and equipment stands Hobart Struther, who has ridden all the way out to the middle of nowhere on a holy mission. But one day into his “Great Sojourn,” things are looking bleak. His...

The Cabin

eBook | 176 pages | Vintage | Drama - American
978-0-307-78751-4 (0-307-78751-6)

April 13, 2011 | $12.00



In these mordant, elegant, and often disquieting essays, the internationally acclaimed dramatist creates a sort of autobiography by strobe light, one that is both mysterious and starkly revealing.

The pieces in The Cabin are about places and things: the suburbs of Chicago, where as a boy David Mamet helplessly watched his stepfather...

Lolita: A Screenplay

eBook | 240 pages | Vintage | Drama - American
978-0-307-78760-6 (0-307-78760-5)

February 16, 2011 | $15.00



The screenplay for Kubrik's 1962 film tells the story of an older man's obsession with a young girl.

The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me

eBook | 112 pages | Anchor | Drama - American; Social Science - Gay Studies
978-0-307-77376-0 (0-307-77376-0)

January 5, 2011 | $15.00



David Drake's smash hit one-man show tells the story of his call to gay pride and activism through a series of vignettes exploring thoughts and emotions shared by a whole generation of gay men and women.


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La Muerta y la Doncella

eBook | pages | Siete Cuentos | Drama - Caribbean & Latin American; Political Science - Political Ideologies - Fascism & Totalitarianism; Philosophy - Ethics & Moral Philosophy
978-1-60980-021-5 (1-60980-021-4)

January 4, 2011 | $16.95



La muerte y la doncella, la obra latinoamericana mas representada en la historia del mundo, ha llegado a constituirse en un clasico sobre la justicia y el perdon, la memoria y el olvido. Dorfman se ha propuesto a explorar preguntas pocas veces hechas en voz alta: "¿Como pueden los represores y...

The World in an Orange

eBook | pages | Seven Stories Press | Drama - African; Biography & Autobiography - Entertainment & Performing Arts; Performing Arts - Individual Director
978-1-60980-098-7 (1-60980-098-2)

January 4, 2011 | $57.00



Barney Simon (1932-1995) was the legendary artistic director, writer, and co-creator ofthe Market Theatre in Johannesburg, one of the most influential and distinguished theatres in South Africa and the world. He workshopped, wrote, and directed unforgettable and pertinent plays in his quest to "hold a mirror up high to society." These...

The Duchess of Malfi

eBook | 688 pages | Modern Library | Drama - Anthologies (multiple authors); Drama - Shakespeare
978-0-307-76968-8 (0-307-76968-2)

December 29, 2010 | $17.95



Edited and with an Introduction by Frank Kermode

A Woman Killed with Kindness by Thomas Heywood
Volpone by Ben Jonson
The Revenger’s Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur
The Maid’s Tragedy by John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley

The...

Plays of Oscar Wilde

eBook | 480 pages | Vintage | Drama - British & Irish
978-0-307-77260-2 (0-307-77260-8)

December 29, 2010 | $16.00



This Vintage edition of The Plays_of Oscar Wilde contains the plays that made Wilde one of the most important dramatists of his time, including The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the great works of modern literature.

Oscar Wilde's plays demonstrate once again why their author must be seen as both an...

All in the Timing

eBook | 336 pages | Vintage | Drama - American
978-0-307-77261-9 (0-307-77261-6)

November 10, 2010 | $15.95



The world according to David Ives is a very add place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives's characters plunge into black holes called "Philadelphias," where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton...

Playing Shakespeare

eBook | 288 pages | Anchor | Drama - Shakespeare
978-0-307-77391-3 (0-307-77391-4)

November 10, 2010 | $14.00



Now in its first American edition, Playing Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world’s greatest playwright.

Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors-among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet-John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage...

Belle Moral

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Drama
978-0-307-36991-8 (0-307-36991-9)

October 22, 2010 | $19.95



Ann-Marie MacDonald’s love of the fabulous is in full force with this multi-layered reworking of her earlier play, The Arab’s Mouth.

Following her father’s death, amateur scientist Pearl MacIsaac struggles to discover the secret of her family’s past, which her father had been kept hidden with the help of the family doctor...

Soul of the Age

Trade Paperback | 496 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Drama - Shakespeare; Literary Criticism & Collections - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
978-0-8129-7181-1 (0-8129-7181-7)

October 12, 2010 | $20.00



“One man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”

In this illuminating, innovative biography, Jonathan Bate, one of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, has found a fascinating new way to tell the story of the great dramatist. Using the Bard’s own immortal list of a man’s seven ages in...

Measure for Measure

Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Modern Library | Drama
978-0-8129-6928-3 (0-8129-6928-6)

September 14, 2010 | $6.99



Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this powerful play that explores sexual hypocrisy and questions morality at all levels of society. This volume also includes more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including:
 
• an original Introduction to Measure for Measure
• incisive scene-by-scene...