Tennessee Williams' classic drama studies the emotional disintegration of a Southern woman whose last chance for happiness is destroyed by her vindictive brother-in-law.

The Crump family is adrift and in trouble. Widowed Godfrey is under the spell of Sweet Father Divine, while his teen daughters, Ernestine and Ermina, immerse themselves in the illusions of Hollywood to escape racial prejudice. But things change quickly when free-spirited Aunt Lily shows up: Godfrey remarries a white woman, Ermina discovers boys, and Ernestine is torn between Communism and bebop! Playwright Lynn Nottage received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize...

Presents the text of the 1988 Tony Award-winning play in which diplomat Rene Gallimard, a captive of the French government, relives his twenty-year affair with a beautiful, elusive Chinese actress who turned out to be not only a spy, but a man in disguise, and includes comments by the author.

This beautiful new edition features an eye-opening Afterword written by Tappan Wilder that includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material. Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned...

Based on thorough research and courtroom transcripts, John Grogan unfolds the dramatic story of Chicago's Leopold and Loeb, two wealthy teenage boys who kidnapped and brutally murdered fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924. In this off-Broadway production, the plot divides between scenes of courtroom hearings and the boys' developing relationship, culminating in the murderous act and the boys' conviction.

One of the most influential Christian martyrs in history is presented in this translation from the original German in sixteen volumes: v. 1. Sanctorum Communio: a theological study of the sociology of the church -- v. 2. Act and being: transcendental philosophy and ontology in systematic theology -- v. 3. Creation and fall -- v. 4. Discipleship -- v. 5. Life together and the Prayerbook of the Bible: an introduction to the Psalms -- v. 6 Ethics --...

This Pulitzer Prize-winner is a deeply touching and funny play about three eccentric sisters from a small Southern town rocked by scandal when Babe, the youngest, shoots her husband. Humor and pathos abound as the sisters unite with an intense young lawyer to save Babe from a murder charge, and overcome their familys painful past. The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch,...

No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie.

Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura piece for great...

Presents a dark comedy about two brothers, one a Hollywood scriptwriter, and the other a petty thief and drifter, who find themselves in a situation where they must come to terms with each other, with themselves, and with family

Paddy Chayefsky and L.A. Theatre Works present the story of unadorned 53-year-old widower and his love affair with a twenty-four-year-old woman.