Tag Archives: American/General
Sexual Perversity in Chicago and The Duck Variations
by David Mamet“Sexual Perversity in Chicago is like a sleazy sonata of seduction . . . Mamet is the first playwright to create a formal and…
Selected Works
by Terrence McNallyFrom one of America’s most important contemporary playwrights, a definitive collection of work, including two never-before-published plays, interspersed with personal essays unique to this…
Rain on the River
by Jim Dodge“Jim’s words are his gift to the world. His life is his art; his words are merely tokens of appreciation. . . . Reading…
A Question of Mercy
by David Rabe“Beautifully considered, piercingly clear-eyed . . . Mr. Rabe, in a play that reestablishes him as one of America’s preeminent dramatists . . . has written an exquisitely controlled about what will forever lie beyond human control.” –Ben Brantley, The New York Times…
Primate Behavior
by Sarah Lindsay“As a poet, Sarah Lindsay is fearless. Subjects others would find unpromising or intimidating she forms into poems of eerie, spectral beauty. Antarctic exploration,…
Porcelain and A Language of Their Own
by Chay YewOn A Language of Their Own: “A telling inquiry into love, loss, language and the endless process of self-definition.” –Margo Jefferson, The New York…
Plot
by Claudia Rankine“Plot is inexhaustibly complex, varied, and difficult–and as fearlessly and even grimly inventive and searching as one can conceive any book of poems as being. It instantly joins the few contemporary works. . .whose gravity is synonymous with the passion and integrity of their intelligence.” –Calvin Bedient, Verse…
Polish Joke and Other Plays
by David Ives“Ives [is] wizardly . . . magical and funny . . . a master of language. He uses words for their meanings, sounds and…
