Sugawara and the secrets of calligraphy

A complete translation of a major Japanese puppet drama written in 1746, with an investigation into the play's many authors and the use of bunraku puppets.

Apocolocyntosis

Apocolocyntosis depicts a posthumous trial in which the recently deceased Emperor Claudius makes the case for his elevation to the company of the gods.

Reading the past, understanding the present

This book is a collection of essays by students from nine European universities, who took part in a strategic partnership aiming to promote historical understanding of the crises plaguing Europe and the world today. They examine early modern theater, the works of Shakespeare in particular, and co...

Gloria: a life (tcg edition)

A vital new biographical play based on the life of feminist and activist Gloria Steinem.

Slave play

An audacious new play that explores the ways in which historical trauma affects the present-day intersections of race, gender, and sexuality.

Exquisite agony

An poignant new play about love and life beyond death from the Pulitzer Prize- winning playwright of Anna in the Tropics.

Cost of living (tcg edition)

A Pulitzer Prize-winning play that powerfully explores the realities of living with physical disabilities.

The prisoner

Somewhere in the world, a man sits alone outside a prison. Who is he, and why is he there? Is it a choice, or a punishment?

Ironbound & sanctuary city

“Majok has made it her mission to bring to the stage those characters who historically have played a subordinate role in the theater—the nameless, faceless workers who are hanging on by a thread.” —Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times Two compelling, uncompromising plays about the immigrant expe...

The collected plays of chaim potok

First publication of the complete plays of Chaim Potok. With the exception of the The Chosen, none have been previously available.

Workers play time (vol 1)

Seven plays bring to life workers' struggles through the ages, keeping the tradition of political theatre alive and kicking.

A doll's house, part 2 (tcg edition)

An incendiary new play that picks up fifteen years after the conclusion of Henrik Ibsen’s legendary portrait of a marriage in crisis.

Plays for the plague year

A stunning collection of plays from a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright that captures the societal rupture of the early days of COVID-19. On March 13, 2020, as theaters shut their doors and the world went into lockdown, Suzan-Lori Parks picked up her pen and set out to write a play every day. Wh...

The theatre of fake news

This book examines the topic of ‘fake news’ through the lens of theatre and drama, looking at the way in which issues of audience, authorship, and accuracy are intertwined.

A case for the existence of god

A heartrending yet hopeful play about two men’s parallel desires to build a secure foundation for their families even as everything around them is falling apart. At first glance, Ryan and Keith are two men in Twin Falls, Idaho, who have nothing in common. Ryan, a factory worker in the throes of ...

Trouble in mind

“A masterpiece…Trouble in Mind still contains astonishing power; it could have been written yesterday.” —Vulture Ahead of its time, Trouble in Mind, written in 1955, follows the rehearsal process of an anti-lynching play preparing for its Broadway debut. When Wiletta, a Black actress and veteran...

Tribunal

Vladimir Voinovich’s Tribunal: A Courtly Comedy in Three Acts is a wildly satiric send-up of the 1960s/1970s Soviet show-trials by a Soviet dissident who was sometimes called ‘Russia’s greatest living satirist.’ Voinovich is also the author of Moscow 2042 and The Life and Extraordinary Adventures...

Fences

Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. A landmark play about Troy Maxson, once a baseball star in the Negro Leagues, now fighting for the right to be first black man to drive a garbage truck in 1950s Pittsburgh.

A lesson from aloes

Two former political activists confront each other and the events which led to their sudden falling-out years ago.

The piano lesson

Winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Brother is pitted against sister over the fate of their heirloom piano.

Joe turner's come and gone

The second play of Wilson's Century Cycle, set in 1911.

Marisol and other plays

First major collection by a leading Hispanic-American playwright.

The ferryman (tcg edition)

A widely anticipated new drama from the award-winning playwright of Jerusalem.

Drama games for classrooms and workshops

A hundred-and-one great drama games for everyone from 6 upwards. For teachers, workshop leaders and directors.

Gem of the ocean

The first installment in Wilson's Century Cycle.

The kilroys list, volume one

A groundbreaking new collection of monologues—brought together by women in theatre for everyone in theatre.

The clean house and other plays

The first publication of a major new voice of the American Theatre.

Seventh generation

The first major collection of dramatic works by Native Americans.

Thinking about the longstanding problems of virtue

Essays, a play, two poems and a prayer from award-winning playwright Tony Kushner.

Fool for love & the sad lament of pecos bill

The banquet

The complete plays, including never before published work, from one of the major writers of the twentieth century.Kenneth Koch was a prominent American poet of the New York School and one of America’s most diversely talented writers. The Banquet celebrates his work as an avant-garde playwright, g...

King hedley ii

A petty thief named King returns after seven years in prison to the devastation of Reaganomics. Set in 1985, this is the ninth play of Wilson's Century Cycle.

The gabriels

From the author of The Apple Family plays, this illuminating trilogy reflects on American life during the 2016 national election.

Two trains running

Set in 1969, during the Civil Rights Movement and the rise of Black Power, at the lunch counter of Memphis Lee's diner.

Playland and a place with the pigs

A moving, personal portrayal of the conflicts, fears, and hopes that reshaped the political landscape of South Africa Set in a traveling amusement park's temporary encampment on the outskirts of a small town, Playland charts the unlikely relationship between a white man recently released from mi...

Anna in the tropics (tcg edition)

2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Spring awakening

"The best new musical in a generation."--The New York Observer

Between riverside and crazy (tcg edition)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning dark comedy about one's struggle to hold on to the past.

Marx in soho

Marx in Soho is a brilliant introduction to Marx's life, his analysis of society, and his passion for radical change.

The painted rocks at revolver creek (tcg edition)

A challenging examination of race relations in post-apartheid South Africa from an iconic playwright.