Samuel French Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey Rizzo and Sandy Here is Rydell High’s senior class of 1959: duck-tailed, hot-rodding “Burger Palace Boys” and their gum-snapping, hip-shaking “Pink Ladies” in bobby sox and pedal pushers, evoking the look and sound of the 1950s in this...
Dramatists Play Service Beth Henley Chick and Lenny THE STORY: The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried at thirty...
Samuel French William Gibson Helen and Annie 2 scenes Immortalized onstage and screen by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, this classic tells the story of Annie Sullivan and her student, blind and mute Helen Keller. The Miracle Worker dramatizes the volatile relationship between the lonely teacher and her charge....
Dramatists Play Service Federico Garcia Lorca Bride and Mother Amateur and professional productions of this passionate tragedy have won singular fame for a play the critics acclaim as second only to The House of Bernarda Alba. The Mother has lost in feuds with the Felix family all her menfolks except...
Methuen Drama Shelagh Delaney Helen and Jo It’s chaotic – a bit of love, a bit of lust and there you are. We don’t ask for life, we have it thrust upon us. Written by Shelagh Delaney when she was nineteen, A Taste of Honey is one of the great defining and taboo-breaking plays of […]
Dramatists Play Service Kia Corthron Jupiter and Prix THE STORY: Fourteen years in the life of Prix, a Bronx native, from her ruthless girl-gang leadership at sixteen through her coming to maturity at thirty. But children do not become violent in a vacuum: As a small child Prix was raped by her mother’s...
Cassarotto Ramsay & Associates Caryl Churchill Kit and Angie Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a serminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a world of women’s experience at a pivotal moment in British history. Told by an eclectic group of historical and modern characters in a continuous...
Samuel French Ann-Marie MacDonald Juliet and Constance In this exuberant comedy – and original revision of Shakespeare’s Othello and Romeo and Juliet – Constance Ledbelly, a drab and dusty academic, deciphers a cryptic manuscript she believes to be the original source for the tragedies,...
Samuel French Ann-Marie MacDonald Desdemona and Constance In this exuberant comedy – and original revision of Shakespeare’s Othello and Romeo and Juliet – Constance Ledbelly, a drab and dusty academic, deciphers a cryptic manuscript she believes to be the original source for the tragedies,...
