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3 Guys Naked from the Waist Down: A New Musical

by Michael Rupert, Jerry Colker

ISBN 0573681481 (0-573-68148-1)
Softcover, S. French

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Absurd Person Singular

by Alan Ayckbourn

ISBN 0573010234 (0-573-01023-4)
Softcover, French

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Acting Up

by David Hare

ISBN 0571201350 (0-571-20135-0)
Softcover, Faber & Faber, Limited

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Agnes of God

by John Pielmeier

ISBN 0573630224 (0-573-63022-4)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays

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Amy's View : A Play

by David Hare

ISBN 0571191797 (0-571-19179-7)
Softcover, Faber & Faber, Incorporated

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Arguments With England: A Memoir

by Michael Blakemore

ISBN 0571224458 (0-571-22445-8)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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Bach at Leipzig: A Play

by Tom Stoppard, Itamar Moses

ISBN 0571211119 (0-571-21111-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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Leipzig, Germany, 1722: Johann Kuhnau, revered organist of the Thomaskirche, suddenly dies, leaving his post vacant. In order to fill the position, the city council invites a small number of musicians to audition for the appointment, including Johann Sebastian Bach. This, however, is not his story. Based on actual events, Bach at Leipzig imagines with uncommon intelligence and wit how six little-known musicians resorted to bribery, blackmail, and betrayal in an attempt to secure the most coveted musical post in all of Europe.

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Barefoot in the Park

by Neil Simon

ISBN 0573605858 (0-573-60585-8)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays

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Bash Latterday Plays

by Neil Labute

ISBN 0571204910 (0-571-20491-0)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd

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A trio of brilliantly scathing plays by the renowned writer-director of In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors.

With the success of his first two films, In The Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, writer-director Neil LaBute has been hailed as a first-rate dramatic talent with a caustic wit reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick. bash--a collection of three stunning one-act plays that mark LaBute's return to the New York stage after ten years--forms a trio of unforgettable personal accounts: in Medea Redux, a woman tells of her complex and ultimately tragic relationship with her grade school English teacher; in Iphigenia in Orem, a Utah businessman confides in a stranger in a Las Vegas hotel room, confessing a most chilling crime; and in A Gaggle of Saints, a young Mormon couple separately recounts the violent events of an anniversary weekend in New York City. All three are unblinking portraits of the complexities of evil in everyday life, exhibiting LaBute's signature raw lyrical intensity.

"The most important playwright to emerge in a decade."-- John Lahr, The New Yorker

"A transfixing evening."-- Ben Brantley, The New York Times [via]

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Beau Jest: A Comedy

by James Sherman

ISBN 0573692084 (0-573-69208-4)
Hardcover, S. French

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Beyond Therapy

by Christopher Durang

ISBN 0573605742 (0-573-60574-2)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays

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Comedy

Christopher Durang

Chacrters: 4 male, 2 female

Interior Set

(Set may be simply suggested.)

Bruce and Prudence are deeply into therapy. Prudence's macho therapist is urging her to be more assertive while Bruce's wacky female therapist wants him to meet women by placing a personal ad. She does not fully comprehend that Bruce has a male lover who is not pleased by Bruce's desire to date a woman: Prudence. Bruce doesn't know how to handle poor nervous Prudence and Prudence doesn't know what to make of her unpredictable new boyfriend. They do learn to live beyond therapy in this delightful Off Broadway hit that moved successfully to Broadway.

"Offers the best therapy of all: guaranteed laughter." Time.

"Filled with off beat laugh lines, wry observations on the contemporary urban psyche and situations that range from farcical to absurd." Women's Wear Daily.

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Brighton Beach Memoirs

by Neil Simon

ISBN 0573619417 (0-573-61941-7)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays

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Cloud Nine

by Caryl Churchill

ISBN 0573618747 (0-573-61874-7)
Hardcover, Samuel French Trade

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Colored Lights: Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz

by Greg Lawrence, John Kander, Fred Ebb

ISBN 057121133X (0-571-21133-X)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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Colored Lights: Forty Years Of Words And Music, Showbiz, Collaboration, And All The Jazz

by John Kander, Fred Ebb

ISBN 0571211690 (0-571-21169-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean

by Graczyk

ISBN 0573607648 (0-573-60764-8)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays

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Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking

by Noonan

ISBN 0573630178 (0-573-63017-8)
Hardcover, Samuel French Inc Plays

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Dancing at Lughnasa: A Play

by Brian Friel

ISBN 0573019347 (0-573-01934-7)
Hardcover, S. French

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The Devil's Disciple

by George Bernard Shaw

ISBN 0582254108 (0-582-25410-8)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group

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Dracula, the Musical: Book, Music, and Lyrics

by Rick Abbot

ISBN 0573608415 (0-573-60841-5)
Softcover, S. French

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ISBN 9780571194292 (0-571-19429-X, 057119429X)

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An Enemy of the People

by Henrik Ibsen, Christopher Hampton

ISBN 057119429X (0-571-19429-X)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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An Enemy of the People concerns the actions of Doctor Thomas Stockmann, a medical officer charged with inspecting the public baths on which the prosperity of his native town depends. He finds the water to be contaminated. When he refuses to be silenced, he is declared an enemy of the people. Stockmann served as a spokesman for Ibsen, who felt that his plays gave a true, if not always palatable, picture of life and that truth was more important than critical approbation.

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The Exonerated: A Play

by Erik Jensen, Jessica Blank

ISBN 0571211836 (0-571-21183-6)
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Fallen Angels

by Noel Coward

ISBN 0573608806 (0-573-60880-6)
Hardcover, French

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Fat Change

by Simon Gray

ISBN 0571177921 (0-571-17792-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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Fat Pig

by Neil Labute

ISBN 057121150X (0-571-21150-X)
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The Fifteen Minute Hamlet: A Play

by Tom Stoppard, William Hamlet Shakespeare

ISBN 0573025061 (0-573-02506-1)
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A Flea in Her Ear

by Georges Feydeau

ISBN 0573011486 (0-573-01148-6)
Hardcover, French

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From Agent to Actor: An Unsentimental Education or What the Other Half Knows

by Edgar Small

ISBN 0573606145 (0-573-60614-5)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays

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Ghosts

by Henrik Ibsen

ISBN 0573609829 (0-573-60982-9)
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Gilbert and Sullivan's London

by Andrew Goodman

ISBN 0571200168 (0-571-20016-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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The Gin Game

by Donald L. Coburn

ISBN 0573609764 (0-573-60976-4)
Hardcover, French

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Comedy/Drama

Characters: 1 male, 1 female

Exterior Set

This winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize, which originally starred Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn and later revived with Julie Harris and Charles Durning, uses a game as a metaphor for life. Weller Martin is playing solitaire on the porch of a seedy nursing home. Enter Fonsia Dorsey, a prim, self righteous lady. They discover they both dislike the home and enjoy gin rummy so they begin to play and to reveal intimate details of their lives. Fonsia wins every time and their secrets become weapons used against one another. Weller longs for a victory to counter a lifetime of defeats but it doesn't happen. He leaves the stage a broken man and Fonsia realizes her self-righteous rigidity has led to an embittered, lonely old age.

"A thoroughly entertaining lesson in the fine art of theatrical finesse. The closest thing the theatre offers to a duel at 10 paces."-The New York Times

"Extremely intelligent..fine bittersweet comedy...Funny, sad, profane, eloquent, touching, beautiful."-WABC-TV

"Perfect...A vibrant study on loneliness, disillusion, old age and death yet fiercely funny."-The Boston Globe

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God's Country

by S. Dietz

ISBN 0573691584 (0-573-69158-4)
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Harold and Maude

by Colin Higgins

ISBN 0573609853 (0-573-60985-3)
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A Hatful of Rain

by Michael V. Gazzo

ISBN 0573610029 (0-573-61002-9)
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Henceforward: A Play

by Alan Ayckbourn

ISBN 0573016917 (0-573-01691-7)
Hardcover, S. French

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The History Boys

by Alan Bennett

ISBN 0571224644 (0-571-22464-4)
Softcover, Faber & Faber

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"A play of depth as well as dazzle, intensely moving as well as thought-provoking and funny." -- The Daily Telegraph An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form (or senior) boys in a British boys' school are, as such boys will be, in pursuit of sex, sport, and a place at a good university, generally in that order. In all their efforts, they are helped and hindered, enlightened and bemused, by a maverick English teacher who seeks to broaden their horizons in sometimes undefined ways, and a young history teacher who questions the methods, as well as the aim, of their schooling. In The History Boys , Alan Bennett evokes the special period and place that the sixth form represents in an English boy's life. In doing so, he raises--with gentle wit and pitch-perfect command of character--not only universal questions about the nature of history and how it is taught but also questions about the purpose of education today. [via]

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Hurly Burly

by David Rabe

ISBN 0573619816 (0-573-61981-6)
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The Imaginary Invalid

by Moliere, Miles Malleson

ISBN 0573619271 (0-573-61927-1)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays

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Farce / Characters: 8 males, 4 females

Scenery: Interior

The famous hypochondriac in this classic farce not only complains of a million imaginary ills, but also of his astronomical medical bills. If he marries his daughter to a doctor, he reasons, he will have free medical care. He chooses a double-Latin talking numbskull without consulting the daughter who is already smitten by another. The inventive maid exposes the doctyor and his father as charlatans and demonstrates to the master that his second wife loves his money, not him. Thus are truth and love triumphant and all troubles, real and imaginary, relieved by laughter. [via]

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The Insanity of Mary Girard: A Dream in One Act

by Lanie Robertson

ISBN 0573622272 (0-573-62227-2)
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Invitation to a Funeral

by Molly Brown

ISBN 0575061324 (0-575-06132-4)
Hardcover, Victor Gollancz

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Jake's Women

by Neil Simon

ISBN 0573694354 (0-573-69435-4)
Hardcover, S. French

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La Cage Aux Folles: The Broadway Musical

by Harvey Fierstein, Jerry Herman, Jean Poiret

ISBN 0573681635 (0-573-68163-5)
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Lady in the Van

by Alan Bennett

ISBN 0571204716 (0-571-20471-6)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd

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Life imitates art in The Lady in the Van, the story of the itinerant Miss Shepherd, who lived in a van in Alan Bennett's driveway from the early1970s until her death in 1989. It is doubtful that Bennett could have made up the eccentric Miss Shepherd if he tried, but his poignant, funny but unsentimental account of their strange relationship is akin to his best fictional screen writing.

Bennett concedes that "One seldom was able to do her a good turn without some thoughts of strangulation", but as the plastic bags build up, the years pass by and Miss Shepherd moves into Bennett's driveway, a relationship is established which defines a certain moment in late 20th-century London life which has probably gone forever. The dissenting, liberal, middle-class world of Bennett and his peers comes into hilarious but also telling collision with the world of Miss Shepherd: "there was a gap between our social position and our social obligations. It was in this gap that Miss Shepherd (in her van) was able to live".

Bennett recounts Miss Shepherd's bizarre escapades in his inimitable style, from her letter to the Argentinean Embassy at the height of the Falklands War, to her attempts to stand for Parliament and wangle an electric wheelchair out of the Social Services. Beautifully observed, The Lady in the Van is as notable for Bennett's attempts to uncover the enigmatic history of Miss Shepherd, as it is for its amusing account of her eccentric escapades. --Jerry Brotton [via]

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The Learned Ladies

by Moliere, Freyda Thomas

ISBN 0573692890 (0-573-69289-0)
Hardcover, S. French, Inc.

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Classic comedy / 5 m., 6 f. (doubling possible). / Int. This rollicking version of Les Femmes Savantes delighted audiences Off Broadway in a production starring Jean Stapleton as Philamente, a most unliterary lady intent on having a high toned literary salon. She has neither literary nor common sense, which makes her easy prey for sycophantic con artist Trissotin. He passes himself off as a famous poet and becomes a permanent house guest. Philamente hopes to marry her daughter to Trissotin, but the daughter wishes to marry the unsuitable Clitandre. This version strays from a strictly literal translation of Moliere's play, often employing anachronisms in the rhymed couplets that will appall purists and absolutely delight everyone else. If you want your audiences to roll with laughter as they watch a play by a "famous dead playwright," this version is for you. "Thomas' modernisms smartly put the satire's emphasis on the pomposity rather than the feminism of the Precieuse Movement." Variety. FEE: $75 per performance. [via]

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Little Shop of Horrors

by Howard Ashman, Alan Menken

ISBN 0573681821 (0-573-68182-1)
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Little Shop of Horrors is a rock musical, by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a hapless florist shop worker (Seymour) who nurtures a plant (Audrey II) and discovers that it's bloodthirsty and highly intelligent, forcing him to kill to feed it. The musical is based on the low-budget 1960 black comedy film The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman. The music, composed by Menken in the style of early 1960s rock and roll, doo-wop and early Motown, includes several well-known tunes, including the title song, "Skid Row (Downtown)", "Somewhere That's Green", and "Suddenly, Seymour". Author's Note: Little Shop of Horrors satirizes many things: science fiction, "B" movies, musical comedy itself, and even the Faust legend. There will, therefore, be a temptation to play it for camp and low comedy. This is a great and potentially fatal mistake. The script keeps its tongue firmly in cheek, so the actors should not. Instead, they should play with simplicity, honesty, and sweetness-- even when events are at their most outlandish. The show's individual "style" will evolve naturally from the words themselves and an approach to acting and singing them that is almost child-like in its sincerity and intensity. By way of example, AUDREY poses like Fay Wray from time to time. But she does this because she's in genuine fear and happens to see the world as her private "B" movie--not because she's "commenting" to the audience on the stillness of her situation. Having directed the original New York production of LITTLE SHOP myself, and subsequently having seen it in many versions and even many languages, I can vouch for the fact that when LITTLE SHOP is at its most honest, it is also at its funniest and most enjoyable. -- Howard Ashman [via]

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Loose Knit

by Theresa Rebeck

ISBN 0573694524 (0-573-69452-4)
Hardcover, S. French

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Lunch Hour

by Jean Kerr

ISBN 0573618623 (0-573-61862-3)
Softcover, Samuel French

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Lunch Hour: ISBN 0573618623 (0-573-61862-3)
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Marina Carr Plays 1: Low in the Dark, the Mai, Portia Coughlan, by the Bog of Cats

by Marina Carr

ISBN 0571200117 (0-571-20011-7)
Softcover, Faber & Faber

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Matchmaker

by Wilder

ISBN 0573612226 (0-573-61222-6)
Softcover, Varsitybooks.Com

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The Mercy Seat: A Play

by Neil Labute

ISBN 0571211380 (0-571-21138-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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Set on September 12, 2001, The Mercy Seat continues Neil LaButes unflinching fascination with the often-brutal realities of the war between the sexes. In a time of national tragedy, the world changes overnight. A man and a woman explore the choices now available to them in an existence different from the one they had lived just the day before. Can one be opportunistic in a time of universal selflessness?

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Miracle Worker

by William Gibson

ISBN 0573612382 (0-573-61238-2)
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Drama / 7m, 7f / Unit set Immortalized onstage and screen by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, this classic tells the story of Annie Sullivan and her student, blind and mute Helen Keller. The Miracle Worker dramatizes the volatile relationship between the lonely teacher and her charge. Trapped in a secret, silent world, unable to communicate, Helen is violent, spoiled, almost sub-human and treated by her family as such. Only Annie realizes that there is a mind and spirit waiting to be rescued from the dark, tortured silence. With scenes of intense physical and emotional dynamism, Annie's success with Helen finally comes with the utterance of a single, glorious word: "water". "Interesting, absorbing and moving." - New York Post [via]

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Modigliani: A Play in Three Acts

by Dennis McIntyre

ISBN 0573618534 (0-573-61853-4)
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ISBN 9780573640469 (0-573-64046-7, 0573640467)

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The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful

by Charles Ludlam, Ridiculous Theatrical Company

ISBN 0573640467 (0-573-64046-7)
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Comedy

Characters: 2 men playing various roles

Simple sets

This definitive spoof of Gothic melodramas, recently revived Off-Broadway to raves, is a quick change marathon in which two actors play all the roles. A sympathetic werewolf, a vampire and an Egyptian princess brought to life when her tomb is opened make this a comedy that has everything.

"Far and away the funniest two hours on a New York stage....What more meaningful gift could Ludlam bequeath [audiences] than to leave them eternally laughing." -The New York Times

"A really good laugh ... The story has to be seen to be believed." -The New York Post

"Lunatic fun that keeps you in stitches." -The New York Daily News

"A true vaudeville tour de farce.... It's wonderful." -Time

"A hearty mixture of thrills, laughter and extravagant showmanship." -The Village Voice

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Mythic Women/Real Women: Plays and Performance Pieces by Women

by Lizbeth Goodman

ISBN 0571191401 (0-571-19140-1)
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The Nerd: A Comedy

by Larry Shue

ISBN 0573016356 (0-573-01635-6)
Softcover, French

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Night and Day

by Tom Stoppard

ISBN 0573613249 (0-573-61324-9)
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No Applause-Just Throw Money Or The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous: A high-Class, Refined Entertainment

by Trav S. D.

ISBN 0571211925 (0-571-21192-5)
Hardcover, Faber & Faber

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Nuts: A Play in Three Acts

by Tom Topor

ISBN 0573613257 (0-573-61325-7)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays

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Obedience, Struggle & Revolt: Lectures on Theatre

by David Hare

ISBN 0571228720 (0-571-22872-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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ISBN 9780573613319 (0-573-61331-1, 0573613311)

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The Odd Couple

by Neil Simon

ISBN 0573613311 (0-573-61331-1)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays

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Comedy / 6m, 2f / Int. This classic comedy opens as a group of the guys assembled for cards in the apartment of divorced Oscar Madison. And if the mess is any indication, it's no wonder that his wife left him. Late to arrive is Felix Unger who has just been separated from his wife. Fastidious, depressed and none too tense, Felix seems suicidal, but as the action unfolds Oscar becomes the one with murder on his mind when the clean-freak and the slob ultimately decide to room together with hilarious results as The Odd Couple is born. "His skill is not only great but constantly growing...There is scarcely a moment that is not hilarious." - The New York Times "Fresh, richly hilarious and remarkably original. Wildly, irresistibly, incredibly and continuously funny." - New York Daily News [via]

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Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad: A Farce in Three Scenes

by Arthur L. Kopit

ISBN 0573613338 (0-573-61333-8)
Hardcover, S. French

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The One-Woman Show: Monodramas

by Marjorie Moffett

ISBN 0573600716 (0-573-60071-6)
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ISBN 9780573691010 (0-573-69101-0, 0573691010)

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Other People's Money

by Jerry Sterner

ISBN 0573691010 (0-573-69101-0)
Hardcover, S. French

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includes scene design ground plan, costume plot, perishables, properties, preset lists and props lists. From the backL Jerry Sterner lives with his wife and two children in Brooklyn. at the age of 44 he left the business world to pursue his first love, playwriting. [via]

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Passing Game: A Drama in Two Acts

by Steve Tesich

ISBN 0573614431 (0-573-61443-1)
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The Permanent Way : A Play

by David Hare

ISBN 0571220940 (0-571-22094-0)
Softcover, Faber & Faber, Limited

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ISBN 9780573624285 (0-573-62428-3, 0573624283)

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Porch: A Drama

by Jeffrey Sweet

ISBN 0573624283 (0-573-62428-3)
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The Promise

by Nick Dear, Aleksei Nikolaevich Arbuzov, Ariadne Nicolaeff

ISBN 0571215955 (0-571-21595-5)
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ISBN 9780571211289 (0-571-21128-3, 0571211283)

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Public Places: My Life in the Theater, With Peter O'Toole and Beyond

by Sian Phillips

ISBN 0571211283 (0-571-21128-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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Magnificent (The Sunday Times)a fascinating portrait of one of the great love affairs of show business and a compelling account of a woman coming into her own

Siân Phillips and Peter OToole were one of the theaters most fabulous couplesa marriage perhaps rivaled only by that of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in terms of glamour, power, and public fascination. In her exceptional memoir, Phillips reveals in thoughtful detail their tumultuous life together. She describes the mad and impulsive times with the infamous hellraiser alongside the tempestuous, insecure, and often lonely periods in their marriage. When OTooles career took off with Lawrence of Arabia, Siân found life increasingly difficult in her parallel roles as wife, mother, and actress, and watched as her own career became progressively sidelined. Against all expectations, though, their union endured for twenty years. When it ended, incredibly, even to herself, Siân plunged straight into another marriage, to a much younger man. Ultimately she emerges alonetriumphant and unrepentantand the story she recounts here ranks alongside the very best in show business.

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Racing Demon: A Play

by David Hare

ISBN 0573113696 (0-573-11369-6)
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Rainmaker: Play

by Richard N. Nash

ISBN 057361461X (0-573-61461-X)
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Comedy / Casting: 6m, 1f / Scenery: Composite Int.

At the time of a paralyzing drought in the West we discover a girl whose father and two brothers are worried as much about her becoming an old maid as they are about their dying cattle. For the truth is, she is indeed a plain girl. The brothers try every possible scheme to marry her off, but without success. Nor is there any sign of relief from the dry heat. When suddenly from out of nowhere appears a picaresque character with a mellifluous tongue and the most grandiose notions a man could imagine. He claims to be a rainmaker. And he promises to bring rain, for $100. It's a silly idea, but the rainmaker is so refreshing and ingratiating that the family finally consent. Forthwith they begin banging on big brass drums to rattle the sky; while the rainmaker turns his magic on the girl, and persuades her that she has a very real beauty of her own. And she believes it, just as her father believes the fellow can actually bring rain. And rain does come, and so does love. An excellent play for all groups.

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Raisin: Based on Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun

by Lorraine Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff, Judd Woldin, Charlotte Zaltzberg, Robert Brittan

ISBN 0573680868 (0-573-68086-8)
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Based on Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. Musical Drama / 9m, 6f, chorus and extras / Unit set This winner of Tony and Grammy awards as Best Musical ran for three years on Broadway and enjoyed a record breaking national tour. A proud family's quest for a better life meets conflicts that span three generations and set the stage for a drama rich in emotion and laughter. Taking place on Chicago's Southside, it explodes in song, dance, drama and comedy. "Pure magic ... dazzling! Tremendous!... Warms the heart and touches the soul ... with a human dimension that takes the measurement of man!" - N.Y. Times "A tidal wave of soul!" - Ebony [via]

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