Tag Archives: American/General
Ten Unknowns
by Jon Robin Baitz“Jon Robin Baitz has a singular talent as a playwright for combining smart and biting social criticism with humor and tenderness.” –Sean Mitchell, The…
The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife & Other Plays
by Charles Busch“An uproarious, window-rattling comedy of midlife malaise . . . Busch demonstrates a sure gift for hearty comedy. . . . The Allergist’s Wife earns its wall-to-wall laughs.” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times…
The Stendhal Syndrome
by Terrence McNally“In the opener, a trio of tourists . . . contemplate Michelangelo’s David in hilarious Restoration comedy-like asides as they are overcome by the statue’s, uh, size and power. . . . In the second play, a philandering super conductor is driven to a, well, unexpected climax by Wagner. The…
The Spoils
by Jesse EisenbergThe hilarious and poignant third play by award-winning actor, playwright, and writer Jesse Eisenberg, The Spoils continues Eisenberg’s exploration of the privilege of the…
Speed-the-Plow
by David Mamet“A brilliant black comedy, a dazzling dissection of Hollywood cupidity and another tone poem by our foremost master of the language of moral epilepsy….
Song of Napalm
by Bruce Weigl“Song of Napalm is more than a collection of beautifully wrought, heart-wrenching and often very funny poems… Weigl may have written the best novel…
Some Men and Deuce
by Terrence McNally“A breezy series of sketches . . . droll observations on the difficulties of translating the classic gay sensibility . . . a pageant…
Singing at the Gates
by Jimmy Santiago BacaFrom Jimmy Santiago Baca, “a poet whose voice, brutal and tender, is unique in America” (The Nation), a revelatory collection of new and previously…
Side Man
by Warren Leight“Side Man is a memory play with a difference. For it is not simply the story of its first-person narrator, a young man called…
The Shawl and Prairie Du Chien
by David Mamet“A beautifully crafted piece of work, with a sharp, hurting edge. . . . [Mamet’s] spinning of the yarn . . . is ingenious,…
