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6 best books like Yellow Face (David Henry Hwang): The Laramie Project, The Heidi Chronicles, Top Girls, Stop Kiss, Water by the Spoonful, An Octoroon

The Laramie Project
AuthorMoisés Kaufman
ISBN0375727191
For a year and a half following the murder of Matthew Shepard, Moisés Kaufman and his Tectonic Theater Project–whose previous play, Gross Indecency, was hailed as a work of unsurpassed originality–conducted hundreds of interviews with the citizens of Laramie, Wyoming, to create this portrait...
AuthorWendy Wasserstein
ISBN0822205106
Comprised of a series of interrelated scenes, the play traces the coming of age of Heidi Holland, a successful art historian, as she tries to find her bearings in a rapidly changing world. Gradually distancing herself from her friends, she watches them move from the idealism and political radicalism...
Top Girls
AuthorCaryl Churchill
ISBN0413554805
Now this is one dinner party I would have loved to participate in, shame it was a women's only affair. I guess playing the waiter would come a close second, just so I could overhear the conversation on offer between six charming ladies, five of which return from history.

There is the host of course,...
AuthorDiana Son
ISBN0879517379
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:...
Water by the Spoonful
AuthorQuiara Alegría Hudes
ISBN1559364386
The 2012 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned from Iraq and is struggling to find his place in the world. Somewhere in a chat room, recovering addicts forge an unbreakable bond of support and love. The boundaries of family and community...
AuthorBranden 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...
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