Theatre Communications Group: 261 books

“The finest American author of his generation.” —Sunday Mail “Viewed as an indictment of journalism or the law—take your pick—The Penitent is timely and exciting and, in the best of ways, awfully depressing.” —NBC New York “David Mamet is an American theater icon for...

“This is a fresh take on the American road story, filled with people and ideas we rarely get to see onstage…It offers two seriously rich roles for women, each with important things worth singing about…Miss You Like Hell is a powerful example of what musicals do best: explore the unprotected...

"One of our most valuable playwrights."-Time Out New York "A hideously funny tabloid noir. . . . Letts' balance of irony and empathy continues to impress."-LA Weekly A definitively dysfunctional family gives in to its basest instincts and is forced to face hidden...

"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English."—The New Yorker There have always been two versions of Chekhov’s heartrending and humorous masterwork: the one with which we are all familiar, staged by Konstatine Stanislavski at the Moscow...

Winner of the 2018 Tony Award for Best Musical After a mix-up at the border, Egypt’s Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra, bound for the cosmopolitan Israeli city Petah Tikvah, is stranded in a small desert town. With no transportation until the next day, the band is taken in by the locals....

“The play nicely combines Pinterian menace with caustic political commentary.” –Time “Acerbic, elusive, poetic and chilling, the writing is demanding in a rarefied manner. Its implications are both affecting and disturbing.” –Los Angeles Times “In his exquisitely written...

• Originally premiered Off-Broadway with the Roundabout Theatre Company in the fall of 2016 • Original production starred Academy Award-nominated actress Diane Lane • Karam won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play for his smash hit play The Humans • Karam has written two...

• All three parts of this play cycle premiered in 2016 at The Public Theatre, Off-Broadway, in New York City: Hungry in March, What Did You Expect in September, and Women of a Certain Age on November 8 -- the night of the 2016 presidential election, which is the topic of the plays. • Selected...

“It took courage to do what Spalding did—courage to make theatre so naked and unadorned, to expose himself in this way and fight the demons in public. In doing so, he entered our hearts—my heart—because he made his struggle my struggle. His life became my life.”—Eric Bogosian“Virtuosic....

Previous Publications Marisol Cloud Tectonics Each day Dies with Sleep • Will be showing at the Alliance Theatre Dec 20-Feb 20 Will also show in Berkeley Jan 15-Feb 7th

“You might think a play that grapples with serious modern social issues—homophobia, teenage alienation, the limits of online privacy—would have no room for a warbling Abraham Lincoln doing an interpretive dance. But then you might not expect to encounter a piece of theater as ingenious and cannily...

Includes: Found a Peanut, The Loman Family Picnic, The Model Apartment, What's Wrong with This Picture?, and Sight Unseen.. With a palpable affection for the traditions of the stage and a taste for surreal comedy, Margulies "manages to transform what might have been kitchen-sink drama into theatre...

Winner of the 2017 Tony Award for Best Musical   “Dear Evan Hansen lodges in your head long after you’ve seen it or heard it or read it. It feels like a pure expression from young writers at a crossroad of coming to terms with who they are and what they want to say about the world....

In this remarkable memoir, Athol Fugard, author of The Road to Mecca, A Lesson From Aloes, Master Harold...and the boys, Valley Song and numerous other works for the stage, paints a moving study of his early years in South Africa. Cousins focuses on Fugard's relationship with his two cousins and their impact, which led the author to a lifelong pursuit of a writing career.