Author : John Bolen
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 2017-09-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1387207334
The fourth annual anthology of short plays from New Voices Playwrights Theatre and Workshop.
Author : John Bolen
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 27,93 MB
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1387341510
The first New Voices Playwrights Theatre anthology of holiday themed plays.
Author : John Bolen
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 138793757X
New Voices Playwrights Theatre annual anthology of short plays, 2018.
Author : John Bolen
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 37,5 MB
Release : 2017-09-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1387207180
The fourth annual anthology of short plays from the New Voices Playwrights Theatre and Workshop.
Author : John Bolen
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0359150152
The 2018 anthology of holiday plays from the New Voices Playwrights Theatre.
Author : Lawrence Harbison
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 29,21 MB
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1493060465
The Best New Ten-Minute Plays, 2021 presents thirty new ten-minute plays, selected by renowned editor Lawrence Harbison. This volume is ideal for theatre enthusiasts looking for new and compelling short pieces from some of the finest playwrights of our time. Selections include: The Architecture of Desire by Brian Leahy Doyle Count Dracula's Café by Scot Walker Extended Play by B.V. Marshall Go to the Light by Laurie Allen Greater than Nina by Bruce Bonafede The Home for Retired Canadian Girlfriends by John Bavoso Judas Iscariot's Day Off by David Macgregor Last Dance with MJ by Lindsay Partain The Lobster Quadrille by Don Nigro Meanwhile at the Pentagon by Jenny Lyn Bader Most Wonderful by Jennifer O'grady Reconcile, Bitch by Desi Moreno-Penson Trumpettes Anonymous by Rex Mcgregor You Are Here by Nandita Shenoy
Author : David Adjmi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 28,14 MB
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1472503430
The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays is an anthology of six outstanding plays from some of the most exciting playwrights currently receiving critical acclaim in the States. It showcases work produced at a number of the leading theatres during the last decade and charts something of the extraordinary range of current playwriting in America. It will be invaluable not only to readers and theatergoers in the U.S., but to those around the world seeking out new American plays and an insight into how U.S. playwrights are engaging with their current social and political environment. There is a rich collection of distinctive, diverse voices at work in the contemporary American theatre and this brings together six of the best, with work by David Adjmi, Marcus Gardley, Young Jean Lee, Katori Hall, Christopher Shinn and Dan LeFranc. The featured plays range from the intimate to the epic, the personal to the national and taken together explore a variety of cultural perspectives on life in America. The first play, David Adjmi's Stunning, is an excavation of ruptured identity set in modern day Midwood, Brooklyn, in the heart of the insular Syrian-Jewish community; Marcus Gardley's lyrical epic The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry deals with the migration of Black Seminoles, is set in mid-1800s Oklahoma and speaks directly to modern spirituality, relocation and cultural history; Young Jean Lee's Pullman, WA deals with self-hatred and the self-help culture in her formally inventive three-character play; Katori Hall's Hurt Village uses the real housing project of "Hurt Village" as a potent allegory for urban neglect set against the backdrop of the Iraq war; Christopher Shinn's Dying City melds the personal and political in a theatrical crucible that cracks open our response to 9/11 and Abu Graib, and finally Dan LeFranc's The Big Meal, an inter-generational play spanning eighty years, is set in the mid-west in a generic restaurant and considers family legacy and how some of the smallest events in life turn out to be the most significant.
Author : Claire Syler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 37,22 MB
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 042994828X
Casting a Movement brings together US-based actors, directors, educators, playwrights, and scholars to explore the cultural politics of casting. Drawing on the notion of a "welcome table"—a space where artists of all backgrounds can come together as equals to create theatre—the book’s contributors discuss casting practices as they relate to varying communities and contexts, including Middle Eastern American theatre, Disability culture, multilingual performance, Native American theatre, color- and culturally-conscious casting, and casting as a means to dismantle stereotypes. Syler and Banks suggest that casting is a way to invite more people to the table so that the full breadth of US identities can be reflected onstage, and that casting is inherently a political act; because an actor’s embodied presence both communicates a dramatic narrative and evokes cultural assumptions associated with appearance, skin color, gender, sexuality, and ability, casting choices are never neutral. By bringing together a variety of artistic perspectives to discuss common goals and particular concerns related to casting, this volume features the insights and experiences of a broad range of practitioners and experts across the field. As a resource-driven text suitable for both practitioners and academics, Casting a Movement seeks to frame and mobilize a social movement focused on casting, access, and representation. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author : Basil Kreimendahl
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 26,30 MB
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822238071
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, two average American families build a slapdash bomb shelter on their shared property line. With nuclear warfare looming, they wonder: Is it the end? The end of baseball…and table manners…and macramé? But as they fret about the fall of civilization, they start to worry that something more personal is at stake. A slyly hilarious, compassionate look at anxiety in America, WE’RE GONNA BE OKAY is about finding the courage to face who we are—and who we want to be.
Author : Alexis Scheer
Publisher : Samuel French , Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,26 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573709470
A gang of teenage girls gathers in an abandoned treehouse to summon the ghost of Pablo Escobar. Are they messing with the actual spirit of the infamous cartel kingpin? Or are they really just messing with each other? A roller coaster ride through the danger and damage of girlhood - the teenage wasteland - has never been so much twisted fun. Critic's Pick! "Highly entertaining - equally funny and scary." - The New York Times Four Stars! "Just when you think you know where the play is heading there's a disorienting coup de théâtre that leaves you shaken. Our Dear Dead Drug Lord isn't for the faint of heart but neither is coming of age." - Raven Snook Time Out Critic's Pick! "Highly entertaining - equally funny and scary - the play starts off as a hoot and winds up a primal scream. They're throwing quite a seance at the McGinn/Cazale Theater." - Ben Brantley The New York Times "As funny as it is violent and dark... Our Dear Dead Drug Lord is not quiet small or apologetic. It is loud and messy and truthful. It is incredibly complicated and a thing of extreme beauty. It is everything in women that society tells them they need to repress and in this I found it incredibly enjoyable and inspiring." - Brittany Crowell New York Theatre Guide "The challenges of female adolescence... explored with a remarkably fresh honest and sometimes hilarious perspective." - Brian Scott Lipton Theater Pizzazz "Unsettling... Scheer's characters are brilliantly drawn... the work of a born playwright and a unique new voice... As a story of female empowerment it is both scary and revealing." - Victor Gluck Theater Scene "An imaginative and ultimately savage new play... An offbeat Mean Girls sort of dramedy that unexpectedly concludes in a violent burst of magical realism." - Michael Sommers New York Stage Review
