The Mountaintop

Author

Walter Dean Myers

Myers is at his clever best in this witty and action-packed, coming-of-age story of a teenager's summer during the Harlem Renaissance and his run-ins with famous gangsters, writers, and musicians.

It's 1925 and Mark Purvis is a 16-yr-old with a summer to kill. He'd rather jam with his jazz...

Author

Gina Gionfriddo

"I'm also going to give you some advice. Your husband is not the Red Cross. The last time he started consoling a cute, suicidal chick, he married her. "

"Becky Shaw" is an amusing and cleverly constructed comedy about ambition, the cost of being truthful, and the perils of a blind date. The fast...

Author	Sophie Treadwell
ISBN	1854592114

Sophie Treadwell was a campaigning journalist in America between the wars. Among her assignments was the sensational murder involving Ruth Snyder, who with her lover, Judd Gray, had murdered her husband and gone to the electric chair. Out of this came MACHINAL, a powerful expressionist drama about...

Author	Diana Son
ISBN	0879517379

Ben Brantley of the New York Times summed up the critical reaction to Diana Son's play Stop Kiss when he stated that it "generated the warmest advance word of mouth of any downtown production this season" and heralded it as a Barefoot in the Park for a new generation. Son's story is deceptively simple:...

Author	David Levering Lewis
ISBN	0140170367

What is a Renaissance? What makes up a Renaissance and how is it sustained? Is it artists, musicians, inventors, and other gifted people all thinking the same way and moving the same way? Or is it similar ideas expressed in different ways? The common goal that African-American people came together and...

Author	Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
ISBN	0195067851

In 1900, a mere 35 years after the Civil War had ended the practice of one human being owning another, Pauline Hopkins, black and female, published Contending Forces, whose rediscovery here shocks us into recognition that our national literature does indeed con­tain examples of black awareness...

Author	Virginia Hamilton
ISBN	1416914137

"We'll spend the whole summer on the farm with Uncle Ross. I ought to make up something special just because we've never ever gone alone like this!" And the first thing Elizabeth does is give herself and her younger brother, John, new names -- Geeder and Toeboy.

The farm is special too, with its...

Author	Sarah Ruhl
ISBN	1559363487

Passion Play is Sarah Ruhl’s “biggest, most ambitious effort yet” (The New York Times), a three-and-a-half hour intimate epic, plunging the depths of the timely intersection of politics and religion. Ruhl dramatizes a community of players rehearsing their annual staging of the Easter Passion...

Author	Mike Bartlett
ISBN	1848423977

"The most spectacular, gripping and wickedly entertaining piece of lèse-majesté that British theatre has ever seen... blessed with wit, clarity and moments of deeper feeling. Outstanding and provocative... There is barely a moment when the fizz goes out of the writing and the narrative keeps...

Author	Martin Crimp
ISBN	0571236693

Attempts on her Life 17 scenarios for the theatre
by Martin Crimp
Attempts to describe her?
Attempts to destroy her?
Or attempts to destroy herself?
Is Anne the object of violence?
Or its terrifying practitioner?
Martin Crimps 17 scenarios for the theatre, shocking...

Author	Deborah Tannen
ISBN	0195101243

Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand spent nearly four years (in cloth and paper) on The New York Times Best Seller list and has sold over a million and a half copies. Clearly, Tannen's insights into how and why women and men so often misunderstand each other when they talk has touched a nerve. For...

Author	Ann Petry
ISBN	0618007105

When Link Williams, a college-educated twenty-six-year-old African-American man, falls for Camilo Sheffield, a wealthy married white woman, things will never be the same in the sleepy New England town of Monmouth, Connecticut. Set in the 1950s, this unforgettable classic deftly evokes a tragic...

Author	David Lindsay-Abaire
ISBN	1559363932

Good People is set in South Boston, the blue-collar neighborhood where Lindsay-Abaire himself grew up: Margie Walsh, let go from yet another job and facing eviction, decides to appeal to an old flame who has made good and left his Southie past behind. Lindsay-Abaire offers us both his "quiet three-dimensional...

Author	Tracy Letts
ISBN	1559363614

Superior Donuts takes place in the historic Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, where Arthur Przybyszewski runs the donut shop that has been in his family for sixty years. Franco Wicks, a young black man and Arthur's only employee, wants to modernize the shop, while Arthur is more content to spend the day...

Author	David Harrower
ISBN	0571233198

Fifteen years ago Una and Ray had a relationship.
They haven't set eyes on each other since.
Now, years later, she's found him again.

Blackbird premiered at King's Theatre as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, in August 2005, and transferred to the Albery Theatre in London's...

Author	Rajiv Joseph
ISBN	0822225654

Inspired by actual events during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo is the ripple effect in action: a play about how one brief moment affects multiple lives.

In comparing dramas dealing with the Iraq War, I’d give a slight edge to Christopher Shinn’s Dying City, but...

Author	Adam Rapp
ISBN	0571211321

"Fifteen years ago I killed my sister."

So begins Adam Rapp's highly acclaimed play Nocturne, in which a 32-year-old former piano prodigy recounts the tragic events that tore his family apart.

With a keen eye for human relationships and a deft ear for language, Rapp explores the aftershock...

Author

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Winner of the 2014 OBIE Award for Best New American Play.

Judge Peyton is dead and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton’s handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful octoroon. But the evil overseer M’Closky has other...

Author

Edward Albee

رؤیای آمریکایی تمثیلی است از چشم انداز آمریکایی که منحرف شده است، چشم انداز و تصویری که اینجا با‌ شخصیت های مامی سادیستی، دَدی عقیم و مادربزرگ بدخلق نمود...

Author	Paula Vogel
ISBN	1559365471

“Indecent reminds us of the power of art to tell us truths long before we are able to recognize them as such.” — Los Angeles Times

“Indecent sheds an eye-opening light on a little-known time when theatrical history, Jewish culture, and the frank depiction of homosexuality intersected,...

Author	Christopher Durang
ISBN	0802122388

Nominated for six Tony Awards®, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is one of the most lauded and beloved Broadway plays of recent years. Vanya and his adopted sister Sonia live a quiet life in the Pennsylvania farmhouse where they grew up, but their peace is disturbed when their movie star sister Masha...

Author	Tom Stoppard
ISBN	0802150454

Another two amazing plays by the Czech-born British writer Tom Stoppard. The first play is a black comedy about how the Soviet Union used to treat political dissidence as a form of mental illness. "Two men share a cell in a psychiatric hospital. Alexander is a political prisoner, Ivanov a genuine mental...

Author	Charles Alexander Eastman
ISBN	1582186006

INDIAN HEROES AND GREAT CHIEFTAINS provides biographical sketches of 15 great Native American leaders, mostly Sioux, including portraits of Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Spotted Tail. Eastman traces their historical importance to both white and Native peoples. Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) was...