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"Beautiful…a last transmission from a dying star." – Time OutOne of the last works completed by beloved pop icon David Bowie before his death in early 2016, the otherworldy musical Lazarus is a poignant homage to his legacy. Inspired by the 1963 novel The Man Who Fell to Earth, Lazarus weaves a thrilling rock opera from new compositions by Bowie as well as many of his classic songs.
Mary Page Marlowe (TCG Edition)
Best known for his portrayals of large-scale family drama, Tracy Letts’ new play narrows in focus, zooming in on the life of just one woman, though her story is no less complex. This intimate snapshot of a simple life provides an enlightening examination of a complicated human mind.
Coming to Terms: American Plays & the Vietnam War
An anthology of plays inspired by the era during or around the Vietnam War.Includes introduction by James Reston, Jr., noted historian and biographer.Originally published by TCG in 1985, the year marking the Fall of Saigon. It has been unavailable since 1998, and is being reprinted now as part of a series of TCG’s Blue Star Family Theatre Initiative.Plays include Streamers by David Rabe, Botticelli by Terrence McNally, Moonchildren by Michael Weller, Still Life by Emily Mann and Strange Snow by Stephen Metcalfe:Streamers premiered at the Long Wharf Theatre in 1976 under the direction of Mike Nichols. It later transferred to Off-Broadway with a cast including Paul Rudd.Streamers won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play and was nominated for two Tony Awards.Moonchildren premiered on Broadway in 1972. It is considered the definitive play about 60s college students.Still Life premiered at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in 1980. Mann is currently the artistic director of the McCarter Theatre in NJ, and has had an award-winning directing career there spanning over 25 productions. Strange Snow premiered at Manhattan Theatre Club in 1982. It was later made into the film Jacknife.
Ripcord (TCG Edition)
"A lyrical and understanding chronicler of people who somehow become displaced within their own lives…Mr. Lindsay-Abaire has shown a special affinity for female characters suddenly forced to re-evaluate the roles by which they define themselves."— New York Times Set in the Bristol Place Assisted Living Facility, this glorious and biting new comedy from David Lindsay-Abaire centers around Abby, who takes pride in her residence in one of the most coveted rooms in the rest home. Things turn sour quickly when she must take in Marilyn, a new roommate to share her precious space. In a satirical conflict of territory and control, Lindsay-Abaire spins a benign, typically mundane setting into an absurdist, colorful battleground. This high-stakes comedy examines our expectations of what it means to grow old in twenty-first century America, and what happens when a sense of possession collides with a mania of obsession. David Lindsay-Abaire 's plays include Good People , Fuddy Meers , Kimberly Akimbo , Wonder of the World , High Fidelity , A Devil Inside , and Rabbit Hole , winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Lindsay-Abaire wrote the book for Shrek the Musical , and the screen adaptation of Rabbit Hole starring Nicole Kidman. Lindsay-Abaire is a proud New Dramatists alum, a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the Juilliard School, as well as a member of the WGA and the Dramatists Guild Council.
Night is a Room (TCG Edition)
"Naomi Wallace commits the unpardonable sin of being partisan, and, the darkness and harshness of her work notwithstanding, outrageously optimistic. She seems to believe that the world can change. She certainly writes as if she intends to set it on fire."—Tony Kushner"Wallace is that unfashionable thing – a deeply political US playwright who unashamedly writes about ideas rather than feelings."—[i]The GuardianLauded for her topical, searing explorations of the intricate and pressing issues that affect humanity, Naomi Wallace's new work [i]Night is a Room centers around the timeless subject of love and relationships, specifically in their tenuousness. This story of a seemingly ideal married couple is torn apart when the husband's previously unknown birth mother makes a surprise visit for his fortieth birthday. In [i]Night is a Room, Wallace examines the heart of human connections, and the intimate challenges love can create, romantic or otherwise. [b]Naomi Wallace's plays—which have been produced in the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States, and the Middle East—include [i]In the Heart of America, [i]Slaughter City,[i] One Flea Spare, [i]The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, [i]Things of Dry Hours, [i]The Fever Chart: Three Short Visions of the Middle East,[i] And I and Silence, [i]The Hard Weather Boating Party, and [i]The Liquid Plain. She has been awarded the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize twice, the Joseph Kesselring Prize, the Fellowship of Southern Writers Drama Award, an Obie Award, and the 2012 Horton Foote Award for most promising new American play.
The Motherfucker with the Hat (TCG Edition)
"By far the most accomplished and affecting work from the gifted Mr. Guirgis, a prolific and erratic chronicler of marginal lives."—[i]The New York Times"The lifeblood of Guirgis's dialogue is the most expressive cursing since Shakespeare."—[i]The GuardianAs an expert in the art of blurring lines, Stephen Adly Guirgis is known for projects that are at once comically poignant and dramatically raucous. Following the recently rehabilitated drug dealer Jackie, trying to improve his life after being paroled, [i]The Motherfucker with the Hat (Guirgis's first on Broadway) examines the fragile line between ignited passions and the struggle to remain clean in the underbelly of New York City. With expressive dialogue and a captivating story, Guirgis's widely-acclaimed play delves into the challenges of pride, self-transformation, and the intricacies of love in a lower-class world. This volume also includes the acclaimed one-act play [i]Dominica: The Fat Ugly Ho.[b]Stephen Adly Guirgis's other plays include [i]Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, [i]Our Lady of 121st Street, [i]In Arabia We'd All Be Kings, [i]The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, [i]The Little Flower of East Orange, [i]Den of Thieves, and [i]Race Religion Politics. His play [i]Between Riverside and Crazy won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2015. He is a former co-artistic director of LABryinth Theater Company. He received the Yale Wyndham-Campbell Prize, a PEN/Laura Pels Award, a Whiting Award and a fellowship from TCG in 2004.
Three Sisters
"Zestier and more colloquial than most translations . . . Letts' main achievement here is to make Chekhov more emotional, accessible and active."—[i]Chicago Tribune"I've seen over a dozen [i]Three Sisters, but never has the final scene . . . registered so hard. It's the cumulative effect of . . . searing truth-telling—from Letts, who knows family dysfunction as only the author of [i]August: Osage County can, and Chekhov, the good doctor who diagnoses all our weaknesses that are so strong."—[i]Chicago Theater BeatWhen the champion of modern family drama takes on the genre's patriarch, the result is an energetic and vitalizing adaptation of one of Anton Chekhov's most beloved plays. A cruder, gruffer outline of the plight of the wistful Prozorov sisters serves to emphasize the anguish of their Chekhovian stagnation. This latest work from Letts envisions the revered classic through a fresh lens that revives the passionate characters and redoubles the tragic effect of their stunted dreams. [b]Tracy Letts was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play for [i]August: Osage County. His other plays include [i]Superior Donars; Pulitzer Prize-finalist [i]Man from Nebraska; Killer Joe, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed film; and [i]Bug, which has played in New York, Chicago and London and was adapted into a film. Letts garnered a Tony Award for his performance in the Broadway revival of [i]Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Barbecue / Bootycandy (TCG Edition)
• World premiere in 2011 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington DC, where it received strong reviews.• Additional production at The Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia in 2013.• Upcoming New York premiere, Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in fall 2014, as the opening production of Playwrights Horizons’ season.• O’Hara is also a director, and has directed all three productions of Bootycandy so far.• Play is structured as a collection of short sketches, which has earned it comparisons to George C. Wolfe’s play The Colored Museum (1986).• Play is about the experience of growing up gay and black. Should appeal to readers interested in African American content, LGBT content, and especially those interested in African American LGBT content. • O'Hara's est-known previous play is Insurrection: Holding History, which premiered at The Public Theater in 1996. • O'Hara has worked at theaters all over the country as a director. Directed the world premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brother/Sister Plays at McCarter Theatre (Princeton, NJ) and The Public Theater. He won a 2006 Obie Award for directing In the Continuum by Danai Gurira at Primary Stages, Off-Broadway.
Ode to Joy (TCG Edition)
• World premiere Off-Broadway at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in 2014, directed by Craig Lucas and starring Kathryn Erbe (Law and Order: Criminal Intent) and Arliss Howard (True Blood). • Play deals with issues of substance abuse and addiction, and is inspired by Lucas’s own struggles with addiction, about which he has spoken openly.• Lucas’s other most recent play, The Lying Lesson, about Bette Davis, ran Off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company in 2013, starring Carol Kane.• Other recent projects include the libretto to Two Boys, an opera by Nico Muhly that was produced by English National Opera (London) in 2011 and Metropolitan Opera (New York) in 2013.• Lucas wrote the book and lyrics for a musical adaptation of King Kong that premiered in Melbourne, Australia in 2013 and is expected to open on Broadway in late 2014 or 2015. • Lucas has also been announced as the book writer for a musical based on the film Amelie. No production date has been announced yet. • Lucas has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist (Prelude to a Kiss, 1991), and is a two-time Tony Award nominee (Best Play, Prelude to a Kiss, 1990 and Best Book of a Musical, The Light in the Piazza, 2005), among other awards.
The Man Who Killed the World
Groff ruled the world through Fear. Fear of his awful power … his twisted, mad brain. For one day that brain would crack. When it did, the World would dissolve in cataclysmic Chaos.