Theatre Communications Group: 261 books

“McCraney’s richly drawn characters and colloquial poetry . . . manages to sound both epic and rooted in a specific place. Listen closely, and you might hear that thrilling sound that is one of the main reasons we go to the theater, that beautiful music of a new voice.”—The New York Times “Taut,...

Numerous centennial productions of Wilder’s work throughout the country, including the first production of four previously unproduced one-acts scheduled at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Volume One of Collected Short Plays was published May, 1997. (1-55936-131-X) sales to date, 1600 copies. Highly original work, very fresh to theatre community. Short plays out of print since 1950’s

“A mischievous new translation by the poet Richard Wilbur, [The Bungler] is great good fun and should open the gate for the play to be presented with the regularity it deserves.”—Bruce Weber, The New York Times “My notion of translation is that you try to bring it back alive. Speak-ability...

"Mr. Suzuki's art seeks to reach audiences not through the intellect but through the senses and instincts."—New York Times "In my opinion, a 'cultured' society is one where the perceptive and expressive abilities of the human body are used to the full; where they provide the...

This collection includes Lynn Nottage’s best known work, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, which has been produced widely since its premiere in May 1995 and which the Chicago Tribune hailed as "a complex and thought provoking new play." Also included are Mud, River, Stone, Poof, Por’Knockers...

“The marvel of Mr. Eno’s new version is how closely it tracks the original while also being, at every moment and unmistakably, a Will Eno play. After climbing the craggy peaks of Ibsen’s daunting play, Mr. Eno has brought down from its dizzying heights a surprising crowd-pleasing (if still strange)...

“It is a meditation on Chicago’s old soul . . . a witty, seductive, live-wire and greatly entertaining dark comedy that you just don’t want to end.” –Chicago Tribune“The sting, the speed and marksmanship of the gimcracks his characters fire at each other . . . drips the kind of...

• Hydriotaphia premieres at Houston’s Alley Theatre this spring and will also be staged at the Berkeley Rep Theatre • The first new work since Angels in America (CBSD sold over 200,000 total in combined formats) • His last book, a re-telling of A Dybbuk with Joachim Neugrochel, just shipped this Spring. • University of Michigan has published studies of Angels in America. •

Mineola Twins was first produced at The Perseverance Theatre in Alaska and is currently running at Trinity Repertory in Providence. How I Learned to Drive is currently in its premiere production at New York’s Vineyard Theatre.

World premiere at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, C.T. in the spring of 2017, which opened to critical acclaim from regional reviewers. Subsequent Off-Broadway premiere at New York Theatre Workshop in the fall of 2017 starring Carrie Coon. Early talk of Broadway transfer in spring 2018. Herzog’s...

• Original production was a collaboration between Yale Repertory Theatre in Connecticut and La Jolla Playhouse in California, beginning at Yale Rep in October 2015 and moving to La Jolla Playhouse in November. The play received its Off-Broadway premiere at The Vineyard Theatre in the spring of 2016,...

• Highly anticipated world premiere at the National Theatre in London in the fall of 2015 • London production directed by Ian Rickson, with Wallace Shawn and Josh Hamilton • Four star review in The Guardian • Wallace Shawn is an accomplished playwright and well-known screen...

• World premiere in the spring of 2017 at The Old Vic theatre in London • Includes 16 Dylan songs, including classics like: "Just Like A Woman, Like a Rolling Stone, I Want You, Ballad of a Thin Man, Slow Train Coming, Love Sick, and Forever Young" • He has been inducted...

“American theater needs more plays like Naomi Wallace’s The Liquid Plain—by which I mean works that are historical, epic and poetic, that valorize the lives of the poor and oppressed.”—Time Out New York On the docks of late eighteenth-century Rhode Island, two runaway slaves find...