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 | | Award Winning Titles | | | | |  | | | BENT | | | By: Martin Sherman | | | Martin Sherman's worldwide hit play Bent took London by storm in 1979 when it was first performed by the Royal Court Theatre, with Ian McKellen as Max (a character written with the actor in mind). The play itself caused an uproar. “It educated the world,” Sherman explains. “People knew about how the Third Reich treated Jews and, to some... read more |
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| | | | |  | | | A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY | | | By: Tony Kushner | | | A powerful portrayal of individual resolution, irresolution and dissolution in the face of political catastrophe in 1930s Berlin, as well as the morally outraged outpourings of a contemporary New York woman. |
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| | | | |  | | | THE CLEAN HOUSE AND OTHER PLAYS | | | By: Sarah Ruhl | | | “Passionate. Show-stopping. Daringly over-the-top and impressively consistent in its delirious excess. The Clean House shines.” — The New Haven Advocate
“The Clean House is not, by any means, a traditional boy-meets-girl story. In fact disease, death and dirt are among the subjects it addresses. This comedy is... read more |
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| | | | |  | | | DEAD MAN'S CELL PHONE | | | By: Sarah Ruhl | | | An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man—with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by playwright Sarah Ruhl, recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Grant and Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play The Clean... read more |
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| | | | |  | | | DEFIANCE | | | By: John Patrick Shanley | | | Defiance is the "very rich and satisfying" (The Village Voice) second work in John Patrick Shanley’s trilogy that began with Doubt. The play is set in 1971 at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, where Lt. Col. Morgan Littlefield and his reluctant protégé Capt. Lee King — a young African American officer — clash over issues of... read more |
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| | | | |  | | | DOUBT | | | By: John Patrick Shanley | | | Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Doubt is set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, where a strong-minded woman wrestles with conscience and uncertainty as she is faced with concerns about one of her male colleagues.
“A superb new drama written by John Patrick Shanley. It is an inspired study in moral... read more |
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| | | | |  | | | EDWARD ALBEE | | | By: Toby Zinman | | | Edward Albee is without doubt one of the giants of American theater, in the same pantheon with Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, and Tennessee Williams. His prolific career includes three Pulitzer Prizes and the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Tony Award.
At the age of 80, Albee is still producing major works for the theater - most recently... read more |
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| | | | |  | | | FENCES | | | By: August Wilson | | | With a foreword by Samuel G. Freedman.
Set in the Hill District of Pittsburgh in 1957. Troy Maxson was never allowed to play baseball growing up because of his color. Now as a grown man in a changing society, he lets his old anger burn away his son's chances of playing football. The family finds themselves in a timeless... read more |
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| | | | |  | | | THE GOD OF CARNAGE | | | By: Yasmina Reza | | | Translated by Christopher Hampton. What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behavior of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups about the need to teach kids how to behave properly? Or a hysterical night of name-calling, tantrums, and tears before bedtime? Christopher Hampton’s... read more |
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| | | | |  | | | IN THE HEIGHTS | | | By: Quiara Alegria Hudes, Lin-Manuel Miranda | | | In the Heights is an exciting musical about life in Washington Heights, a tight-knit community where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open, and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music.
During its acclaimed Off-Broadway and Broadway runs, In the Heights... read more |
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