Theatre Communications Group: 261 books

A revised edition of one of the most influential plays of our time, published with a new foreword by the author.

A revelatory new translation of Gogol’s comedy by renowned playwright Richard Nelson and Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky – the foremost contemporary translators of classic Russian literature including the best-selling Oprah’s Book Club selection, Anna Karenina – marks the first of a series of translations of important Russian plays over the next ten years.

In his brashest solo show, performer and playwright Eric Bogosian once again aims his searing social commentary at the contemporary urban and suburban scene. "Never miss Bogosian, because the sharp-tongued, sharp-shooting Bogosian never misses."--Clive Barnes, New York Post

“All forward thrust and hot-damn urgency…A brilliant, brawling epic. Screenwriter Tony Kushner blows the dust off history by investing it with flesh, blood, and churning purpose. . . . A great American movie.” –Peter Travers, Rolling Stone “Lincoln is a rough and noble democratic masterpiece....

Cover art by noted artist Maurice Sendak. Major New York production of A Dybbuk scheduled for 1997. The volume also includes never-before-translated tales by S. Ansky.

*His novel, Mall, is to be published by Simon and Schluster, October 2000. Supported by an eight city tour. *Wake Up and Smell the Coffee will tour numerous cities in the U.S. over the next year and half.

Culture Clash performs nationally throughout the year, including numerous university appearances. L.A.-based, they are currently performing for a month in San Francisco after 3 weeks in Dallas.

"Sly, weird, and thoroughly winning . . . Bracing, funny, and, yes, consoling."—The New York Times "Young Jean Lee will give you whiplash. Her ability to stake out aesthetic territory and then abruptly abandon it makes her unpredictable; her tendency to excel at each new genre...

Named one of the "Ten Best Plays of 2008" by The New Yorker “Sarah Ruhl’s bold, inventive, and ironic triptych [is] a meditation on devotion and its appropriation by the state. . . . Ruhl is an original; a storyteller with a fine mind evolving her own theatrical idiom.”—John...

"A jewel box of a musical: small, delicate, brimming with emotion and charm."-Vogue "It may sound like heresy to fans of the 2006 film, but this bewitching stage adaptation arguably improves on the movie, expanding its emotional breadth and elevating it stylistically while remaining...

“Your fear, your own lives, have become your entertainment.”—Talk Radio “More timely today than it was twenty years ago . . . Radio crackles with intensity.”—Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News “The most lacerating portrait of a human meltdown this side of a Francis...

This new collection by one of America’s premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists includes 100 monologues from his acclaimed plays and solo shows including: Drinking in America; Men Inside; Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead; Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and more. Also included are additional pieces from Talk Radio and Notes from Underground.

This critically acclaimed, searing play cycle about loss, memory and remembrance follows the Apple family of Rhinebeck, NY as they grapple with events both personal and current in the immediate present: the 2010 election (That Hopey Changey Thing), the tenth anniversary of 9/11 (Sweet and Sad), Obama’s...

Audition monologues for female characters selected from recent works by American playwrights including Tony Kushner, Jon Robin Baitz, Constance Congdon, Paula Vogel, Donald Margulies, Emily Mann, Eric Bogosian, Nicky Silver, and others. Unique to the TCG monologue series is a bibliography of other works by the playwrights included.