Product Description: (Best American Short Plays). Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 70 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. As previous series editor Ramon Delgado wrote in his introduction to The Best American Short Plays of 1989 , the choice of entries for each edition has been based on the same goal: "to include a balance among three categories of playwrights: 1) established playwrights who continue to practice the art and craft of the short play, 2) emerging playwrights whose record of productions indicate both initial achievement and continuing artistic productivity, and 3) talented new playwrights whose work may not have had much exposure but evidences promise for the future...read more

Product Description: Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 60 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception The ÊBest American Short PlaysÊ has identified new cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers including Tennessee Williams Edward Albee Wendy Wasserstein Terrence McNally and David Mamet...read more

Product Description: (Best American Short Plays). Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 70 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, The Best American Short Plays has identified new, cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, Terrence McNally, and David Mamet...read more

Product Description: Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 60 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. Our editor Barbara Parisi has selected the following 14 plays: A Roz by Any Other Name and Weird, by B...read more

Product Description: (Best American Short Plays). Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 60 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. Our editor Barbara Parisi has selected the following 16 plays: DEBOOM: WHO GIVES THIS WOMAN? , by Mark Medoff; And Then , by Amelia Arenas; The Cleaning , by Zilvinas Jonusas; Breakfast and Bed , by Amy Fox; The News from St...read more

Product Description: The acclaimed series has a new editor. Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 60 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. Our new editor, Barbara Parisi, has selected the following 14 plays: Crazy Eights by David Lindsay-Abaire; He Came Home One Day While I Was Washing Dishes by K...read more

Product Description: Applause is proud to continue the series that for over sixty years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. Our new editor Barbara Parisi has selected the following 15 plays: The Other Woman, by David Ives; The Hunchback of Central Park West, by Murray Schisgal; Props, by Michael Roderick; It's a ...read more

Product Description: Brooklyn's cultural life has always been deeply embedded in its educational and social life, a life that has seen many changes through the 19th and 20th centuries. Although it was one of the largest cities in the US before the Civil War, Brooklyn did not have a permanent performance institution, forcing the residents to look to New York City for culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)