"By turns philosophical and playful, lyrical and earthy, [i]Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), swoops, leaps, dives and soars, reimagining a turbulent point in American history through a cockeyed contemporary lens . . . The finest work yet from this gifted writer."—[i]The New York Times"Thrilling. . . . A masterpiece . . . A story that engages the deepest possible issues in the most gripping possible ways."& ...
•Currently running at Lincoln Center in NYC •Film of Substance of Fire opens this Fall Previous publications Three Hotels (Sold 2,400) The Substance of Fire (Sold 2,800) ...
" The Assembled Parties is Greenberg's most richly emotional work in years, and the most beautifully detailed."— New York magazine"This tragicomedy shocks us into realizing how hungry we have been for witty and wounded grown-ups who toss off gorgeously written observations without knowing how little we know about what we think we know."— Newsday Meet the Bascovs, an Upper West Side Jewish family in 1980. In an opu ...
"After the Revolution is a smart, funny and provocative play. . . . Herzog deftly avoids simple-minded polemics in favor of richly detailed people who are as ready to examine their relationships as they are their consciences."—Variety «A funny, moving new play . . . 4,000 Miles is a quiet meditation on mortality. But it's hardly a downer: Ms. Herzog's altogether wonderful drama also illuminates how companionship can make ...
New play by the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of How I Learned to DrivePositioned to become a perennial holiday season production in theatres across the countryIncludes traditional hymns, historical background and photographs chronicling the playwrights researchVogel now runs the playwriting program at Yale UniversityIllustrated with Photographs ...
Best known for his precision-blade language and hot-button subject matter, David Mamet shows off a lighter side with his equally dexterous screwball comedy Keep Your Pantheon. Featuring an over-the-hill acting guru who lusts after both his toga-clad protégé Philius and a spot in the Sicilian Cork Festival, Mamet’s play returns to the roots of comedy, paying homage to the Roman playwright Plautus, whose works also insp ...
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. ...
