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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 Eisenberg

The 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 Baca

From 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,…