Theatre Communications Group: 261 books

- Premiered at Yale Rep starring playwright-actor Tracy Letts (author of August: Osage County) in May 2012 to great critical acclaim - March 13 – July 6, 2014: Will receive its Broadway premiere directed by Sam Gold and starring Marisa Tomei, Michael C. Hall (Dexter), Tracy Letts, Toni Collette...

• World premiere in the spring of 2016 at Signature Theatre Company (Off-Broadway, New York), directed by Thomas Kail (Hamilton) • Hudes’ work deals with both human interest stories as well as more specifically cultural topics relevant to Hispanic Americans. Target readership might be...

• World premiere was co-produced by American Repertory Theatre (Cambridge, MA) and Yale Repertory Theatre (New Haven, CT) in 2012. • New York premiere Off-Broadway at Soho Rep in 2013, starring Marin Ireland (who also starred in the Yale production). Received rave reviews. • Upcoming...

"I was totally unprepared for the transformation that Seth's technique created in me. . . . I realized that what I thought I knew about acting up to that point was largely misguided . . . but I now had a great, talented, dedicated teacher who generously wanted to share his tools with everyone....

"The superheroines of the theater are back-and better and bolder than ever."- Backstage "These plays have been developed and vetted for artistic excellence; they just happen to possess the added bonus of representing a voice that's currently being underproduced. It's part of...

"Mr. Shinn is among the most provocative and probing of American playwrights today."-The New York Times "Chris Shinn explores politics and ethics without moralizing and finds justice and beauty in intimate life, keenly observed and rendered scrupulously, unapologetically, fearlessly...

Premiered at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in 2009, and opened Off-Broadway at The Public Theater in the fall of 2015. Danai Gurira is the recipient of the Whiting Award, is a former Hodder Fellow, and has been commissioned by Yale Rep, Center Theatre Group, Playwrights Horizons, and the Royal...

• World premiere in 2011 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington DC, where it received strong reviews. • Additional production at The Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia in 2013. • Upcoming New York premiere, Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in fall 2014, as the opening production...

The innovative Brazilian playwright, director and international lecturer explicates Aristotle's poetics and the philosophies of Machiavelli, Hegel and Brecht to determine the extent to which their chief components--imitation, catharsis and, ultimately, audience control--serve up to support the status quo of a society rather than facilitate change.

Winner of the 2003 Pulitizer Prize for Drama . . . there are many kinds of light. The light of fires. The light of stars. The light that reflects off rivers. Light that penetrates through cracks. Then there’s the type of light that reflects off the skin. —Nilo Cruz, Anna in the Tropics This...

This anthology marks the emergence of one of the finest and most innovative new artists writing for the theater today. “The secret of Shinn’s success is in the way he exploits the dramatic gap between what is said and that which is left unsaid . . . writing like this is rare,” said the London...

"These guys are funny daredevils of performance, totally fearless as they skewer convention and lazy thinking. Cool."—Eric Bogosian "Important social satire for these urgent times."—Dolores Huerta, Vice President, United Farm Workers Union "Keep kicking them...

Plays in this collection: Rest, A Great Wilderness, The Few, Pocatello. Rest premiered at South Coast Repertory Theatre (Costa Mesa, CA) in the spring 2014. A Great Wilderness premiered at Seattle Repertory Theatre in the winter 2014. The Few premiered at The Old Globe (San Diego,...

“Satire is her oxygen. . . . In her new oddball comedy, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl is forever vital in her lyrical and biting takes on how we behave.”—The Washington Post “Ruhl’s zany probe of the razor-thin line between life and death delivers a fresh and humorous look at...