Monologues by dramatists such as Lanford Wilson, Christopher Durang, Sam Shepard, and Charles Fuller are suitable for use in auditions and classwork

Product Description: Seventeen one act and full length works by a new generation of gay and lesbian American playwrights that reflect the diversity of voices emerging in today's theater. Contributors include:• Victor Bumbalo• Claire Chafee• Constance Congdon• Keith Curran• Steven Dietz• Linda Eisenstein• The Five Lesbian Brothers• Eric Lane• Craig Lucas• Susan Miller• Cherríe Moraga• Ron Nyswaner• Joe Pintauro• Edwin Sánchez• Will Scheffer• Paula Vogel• Shay Youngbloo...read more

Gathers scenes for two characters from plays by Beth Henley, Harold Pinter, Christopher Durang, David Mamet, Athol Fugard, August Wilson, David Rabe, Caryl Chruchill, and Sam Shepard (view table of contents)

The destinies of three very different people in search of new lives--rough-hewn loner Earley Ritter; Reed Alton, a gifted Berkeley dropout and the hitchhiker Earley picks up; and Zan, the enigmatic woman Reed has been following--intertwine as the unlikely trio forges a fragile alliance that will be shattered by violence, in a novel set against the rugged backdrop of the 1970s Pacific Northwest. Original. 20,000 first printing.

An entertaining anthology of thirty-five humorous short plays features contributions by both established authors and new playwrights, including such works as 'The Zig-Zag Woman' by Steve Martin, Shel Silverstein's 'The Best Daddy,' Steven Dietz's 'The Spot,' Elaine May's 'The Way of All Fish,' and 'Wanda's Visit' by Christopher Durang, among others. Original.

Presents a second anthology of richly diverse, challenging plays, scenes, and monologues for actresses of all levels of experience and ethnic background, featuring works by Wendy Wasserstein & Christopher Durang, Diana Son, Alan Ball, Donald Margulies, Claudia Shear, Eve Ensler, and Margaret Edson. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: Moving Parts offers actors the best monologues from great plays—pieces by both well-known and up-and-coming playwrights, including many minority artists—that offer a variety of dramatic styles for beginning and experienced actors...read more

Product Description: Gather any group of actresses, from students to stars, and someone will inevitably ask, "Where are all the great roles for women?" The roles are right here, in this unprecedented and magnificently diverse collection of plays with all-female casts...read more

Product Description: PLAYS FOR THREE is a unique anthology of 23 outstanding plays for three actors by an exciting mix of established and emerging playwrights. Everyone’s heard that “Two’s company, three’s a crowd.” That may be true on a date, but on stage, three is a magic number...read more

"When you truly fall in love, whether with a person or a place, you make everything else fit around it. The last eight years of my life have been a love affair with this place." -- Gwendolyn Bounds, author of The Little Chapel By the River For centuries, writers have drawn inspiration from the Hudson River and its surroundings. John Burroughs, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edith Wharton all lived and worked in the region immortalized by the Hudson River School of painters. In River of Words, author Nina Shengold and photographer Jennifer May explore the current crop of Hudson Valley writers, offering intimate portraits of seventy-six contemporary writers who live and work in this magnificent and storied region. Included in this rich collection of emerging and established novelists, memoirists, poets, journalists, and screenwriters are Pulitzer Prize-winners John Ashbery and the late Frank McCourt, bestselling memoirists Julie Powell and Susan Orlean, and distinguished emigres Chinua Achebe and Da Chen. What draws these writers together is not only their devotion to their art but their love and affection for the Hudson Valley. Through words and photographs, River of Words offers an inside perspective on the literary life, the craft of writing, and the pull of this distinctive American landscape.

Product Description: The most famous love story of all time has been edited from Shakespeare's text for a cast of five, and with a running time of seventy-five minutes.

A second collection of diverse short plays--including comedies, dramas, monologues, and avant-garde works--features the work of such distinguished American playwrights as Steven Dietz, Rebecca Gilman, Christopher Durang, David Ives, Tina Howe, Donald Margulies, Susan Miller, Warren Leight, and Mark O'Donell, among others. Original. 12,500 first printing.

An anthology of thirty-two short plays includes works by Christopher Durang, David Mamet, John Patrick Shanley, August Wilson, Sherry Kramer, and Megan Terry

A collection of plays of all lengths, written entirely in the form of a monologue, includes dramatic works by Jon Robin Baitz, David Cale, Christopher Durang, Peter Hedges, Joyce Carol Oates, Warren Leight, Anna Deavere Smith, David Lindsay-Abaire, and other talented playwrights. Original.

A provocative selection of plays--featuring principal casts under thirty years of age--features contributions from such authors as Sam Shepard, David Auburn, Warren Leight, Kenneth Lonergan, Lynda Barry, Douglas Carter Beane, Mark O'Donnell, Kia Corthron, and Christopher Shinn. Original. 12,500 first printing.