Tag Archives: American/General
Cousins and The Death of Papa
by Horton FooteThe final two plays of Horton Foote’s Orphans’ Home Cycle both expand and contract the circle of a family that unifies all nine of…
The Colored Museum
by George Wolfe“Brings forth a bold new voice that is bound to shake up blacks and whites with separate-but-equal impartiality. True satire.” –Jack Kroll, Newsweek
The Collected Plays of Bernard Pomerance
by Bernard Pomerance“Bernard Pomerance’s writing is beautifully realized in all respects.” –Douglas Watt, New York Daily News
Christopher Durang Explains It All For You
by Christopher Durang“Durang uses his absurd humor to challenge the rigidity of some religious beliefs, as well as homophobia, methods of psychoanalysis, marriage, and parenthood… His…
C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans
by Jimmy Santiago Baca“[Jimmy Santiago Baca] travels outward and inward as a Chicano in America, with all the complications that the identity entails. . . . [He…
Boys’ Life and Other Plays
by Howard KorderThe New York Production of Boys’ Life – which won rave reviews and a Pulitzer prize nomination – established Howard Korder as one of…
Book of Days
by Lanford Wilson“A significant addition to the Lanford Wilson canon . . . his best work since 5th of July. . . . Book of Days…
Betty’s Summer Vacation
by Christopher Durang“With a style that incorporates Brechtian alienation and Alfred Jarry grotesquerie, the deliriously assaultive, brashly funny Vacation defines to perfection the lurid, scandal-starved past…
The Best Minds of My Generation
by Allen GinsbergA unique and compelling history of the Beats, in the words of the movement’s most central member, Allen Ginsberg, based on a seminal series…
The Best of It
by Kay Ryan“Melancholy lucidity is Ryan’s greatest gift, and it can be heard in all her most successful poems. But her most startling discovery is that…
