Grove Press imprint: 1036 books

by Larry Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

Two award-winning plays from the legendary activist and dramatist who has been called “one of the best writers of our times.” (Lambda Book Report) The Normal Heart, set during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, is the impassioned indictment of a society that allowed the plague to happen,...
by Christopher Durang
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013

Winner of the 2013 Tony Award® for Best Play Winner of the Outer Circle Critics Award for Best Play Winner of the Drama League Award for Best Production of a Play Winner of the Drama Desk Award for Best Play Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Production Winner of the Off-Broadway...
by Tom Stoppard
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017

**“It is a defect of God’s humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.”—Tom Stoppard, Arcadia In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may...

Polish Joke and Other Plays

Including Don Juan in Chicago, Ancient History, The Red Address

by David Ives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

This collection brings together four full-length plays from the same dazzling pen that produced the one-act comic masterpieces of All In The Timing: Polish Joke is about a young Polish-American's trip through ethnic stereotypes. Nine-year-old Midwesterner Jan Bogdan Sadlowski, nicknamed, Jasiu,...

Hamlet

Globe to Globe: Two Years, 190,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play

by Dominic Dromgoole
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017

A New York Times Notable Book: “A loving testament to the enduring ability of Shakespeare’s play to connect in myriad ways across countries and cultures” (Pop Matters). For the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, the Globe Theatre undertook an unparalleled journey: to take Hamlet...

Waiting for Godot

A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011

From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, Waiting for Godot has become of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. As Clive Barnes...
by Harold Pinter
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014

“One of the most essential artists produced by the twentieth century. Pinter’s work gets under our skin more than that of any living playwright.” -New York Times Upon its premiere at the National Theatre, Betrayal was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. It won the Olivier Award for...

Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom

The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth

by Charles Beauclerk
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011

“A book for anyone who loves Shakespeare . . . One of the most scandalous and potentially revolutionary theories about the authorship of these immortal works.” —Mark Rylance, First Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre It is perhaps the greatest story never told: the truth...
by John Hodge
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013

Taking its inspiration from historical fact, Collaborators explores the intense, paradoxical, and ultimately deadly friendship between the dissident writer Mikhail Bulgakov and Josef Stalin, centering around a play which Bulgakov was forced to write to commemorate Stalin's sixtieth birthday. Stalin...
by Tom Stoppard
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this...

I Can't Go On, I'll Go On

A Samuel Beckett Reader

by Samuel Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and acknowledged as one of the greatest writers of our time, Samuel Beckett has had a profound impact upon the literary landscape of the twentieth century. In this one-volume collection of his fiction, drama, poetry, and critical writings, we get an unsurpassed...

The Balcony

A Play

by Jean Genet
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 1994

A wildly fantastical and ever relevant dramatic masterpiece that reinvented modern theater in the twentieth century. In the midst of a war-ravished city, a brothel caters to the elaborate role-playing fantasies of men from all walks of life. A of the gas company employee pretends to be a bishop,...

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

And Other Stories of Africa

by Rian Malan
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012

An essay collection that offers “a fascinating glimpse of post-apartheid South Africa” from the bestselling author of My Traitor’s Heart (The Sunday Times). The Lion Sleeps Tonight is Rian Malan’s remarkable chronicle of South Africa’s halting steps and missteps, taken as blacks and...
by Tom Stoppard
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018

With his characteristically brilliant wordplay and extraordinary scope, Tom Stoppard has in Hapgood devised a play that “spins an end-of-the-Cold-War tale of intrigue and betrayal, interspersed with explanations of the quixotic behavior of the electron and the puzzling properties of light” (New...
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