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"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."—[i]New YorkOffered his freedom if he joins his master in the ranks of the Confederacy, Hero, a slave, must choose whether to leave the woman and people he loves for what may be another empty promise. As his decision brings him face to face with a nation at war with itself, the ones Hero left behind debate whether to escape or wait for his return, only to discover that for Hero, freedom may have come at a great spiritual cost. A devastatingly beautiful dramatic work, [i]Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3) is the opening trilogy of a projected nine-play cycle that will ultimately take us into the present.[b]Suzan-Lori Parks became the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play [i]Topdog/Underdog in 2002. Her other plays include [i]The Book of Grace, [i]In the Blood, [i]Venus, [i]The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, [i]Fucking A, [i]Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom and [i]The America Play. In 2007 her [i]365 Days/365 Plays was produced at more than seven hundred theaters worldwide. Parks is a MacArthur Fellow and the Master Writer Chair at the Public Theater.

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*Just appointed Chair of the Playwrighting Program at the Yale School of Drama

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In Karen Hartman’s «juicyfruit tragedy,» two young sisters discover new appetites within the walls of their father’s garden. Gum explores the need to tame nature in a fictional fundamental country where the title candy is contraband and every desire has its price. «A brief, intense, beguiling, sensual, witty, impassioned, deeply moving and brightly burnished gem»—San Francisco Examiner. Also includes The Mother of Modern Censorship.Karen Hartman is the author of Girl Under Grain, Troy Women and Alice: Tales of a Curious Girl. She is a native of San Diego who lives in Brooklyn and is currently the playwright-in-residence at Princeton University.

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"Bradshaw has proved in play after play that he has a confident vision of the theater that is his own. The politically incorrect plots jump merrily from one outrage to another, never pausing to explain motivation or linger on subtext. His dramas ask: What would happen if every dark urge, lingering resentment and unedited ugly insult that popped into your head came spilling out of your mouth? . . . No playwright applies as ruthlessly Hitchcock's definition of drama as 'life with the boring parts taken out.'"—The New York TimesInterracial couple Jerry and Pat borrow tools from their recently widowed, white evangelical neighbor James, and they even share the same Latino contractor, the mysterious Fred. Everything's suburban bliss until James, after discovering his neighbors' daughter Janet is a budding porn star, shuns the family. But what James doesn't know is that his aspiring-filmmaker son Matthew has other ideas…An outrageous and revealing comedy about race, sex, and familiarity, Intimacy, the newest work by playwright Thomas Bradshaw, premiered Off-Broadway with The New Group in winter 2014. This collection from the fiercely provocative and funny playwright also includes Dawn, Fulfillment, Southern Promises, Job, Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist, Lecture on the Blues and Purity.Thomas Bradshaw's other plays include The Bereaved, declared a New York Times Critic's Pick and one of the Best Plays of 2009 by Time Out New York; Mary; and Burning. He was hailed as the Best Provocative Playwright of 2007 by the Village Voice.

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– Premiered at Yale Rep starring playwright-actor Tracy Letts (author of August: Osage County) in May 2012 to great critical acclaim- March 13 – July 6, 2014: Will receive its Broadway premiere directed by Sam Gold and starring Marisa Tomei, Michael C. Hall (Dexter), Tracy Letts, Toni Collette (Little Miss Sunshine, The Sixth Sense)– Will Eno has been called “A Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation” – New York TimesAwards for Will Eno:– Pulitzer finalist for Thom Pain (based on nothing)– 2012 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award- 2004 Oppenheimer Award for best debut by an American playwright (The Flu Season)– Horton Foote Prize for MiddletownOther productions of Eno’s work:– The Flu Season: Jan 22 – Feb 16, 2014: Single Carrot Theatre in Baltimore, MD- The Open House *world premiere*: Feb 11 – Mar 23 at Signature Theatre in NYC- Gnit (soon to be published by TCG): Feb 20 – Mar 15, 2014 at The Blue Barn Theatre in Omaha, NE- Middletown: May 23 – Jun 14, 2014 at Catastrophic Theatre in Houston, TX and Aug 21 – Sept 19, 2014 with Harlequin Productions in Olympia, Washington – Lives in Brooklyn, NY

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"In the work of John Patrick Shanley, the truth is as charming as it is painful, reality as touched with magic as it is factual, and existence as absolute as it is illusory."— BOMB magazineFor Anthony and Rosemary, introverted misfits straddling forty, love seems unlikely. In this very Irish story with a surprising depth of poetic passion, these yearning, eccentric souls fight their way towards solid ground and happiness. Their journey is heartbreaking, funny as hell, and ultimately, deeply moving. Set in the Irish countryside, Outside Mullingar has been dubbed the "Irish Moonstruck " and will premiere on Broadway in 2014, starring Debra Messing and Brian F. O'Byrne and helmed by Doug Hughes, the Tony Award–winning director of Doubt . John Patrick Shanley is from the Bronx. His plays include Danny and the Deep Blue Sea , Savage in Limbo , and Dirty Story . His trilogy Church and State began with Doubt , followed by Defiance and Storefront Church . For his play Doubt , the playwright received both the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He has nine films to his credit, including the five-time Oscar-nominated Doubt with Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis. Other films include Five Corners , Alive , Joe Versus The Volcano , and Live From Baghdad for HBO (Emmy nomination). For Moonstruck , he received both the Writers Guild Award and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The Writers Guild of America awarded Shanley the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award in Writing.

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This new collection by one of America’s premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists includes 100 monologues from his acclaimed plays and solo shows including: Drinking in America; Men Inside; Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead; Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and more. Also included are additional pieces from Talk Radio and Notes from Underground.

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"The Great God Pan is a haunting, deeply affecting play about the interaction of identity, psychology and pathology. Ms. Herzog writes with keen sensitivity to the complex weave of feelings embedded in all human relationships, with particular attention to the way we tiptoe around areas of radioactive emotion." – New York Times"Whatever the ideal contemporary American drama is, it has to look a lot like The Great God Pan. It is provocative and subtle, slowly, carefully revelatory, sweetly moving, thought-provoking, funny and insightful." – New York Observer"An intelligent, delicately articulate writer." – Village Voice"A moving and unsettling look at the nature of identity and the vagaries of memory. With subtlety and compassion, Herzog contemplates how well we can really know ourselves." – BackstageJamie's life in Brooklyn seems just fine: a beautiful girlfriend, a burgeoning journalism career, and parents who live just far enough away. But when a possible childhood trauma comes to light, lives are thrown into a tailspin. Unsettling and deeply compassionate, The Great God Pan tells the intimate tale of what is lost and won when a hidden truth is suddenly revealed.Amy Herzog's plays include 4000 Miles (Pulitzer Prize finalist), After the Revolution and Belleville. Ms. Herzog is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Whiting Writers' Award, an Obie Award and the Helen Merrill Award for Aspiring Playwrights.

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"Funny, moving, and undeniably sexy. The heady blend of smart dialogue and characters. . .makes it a candidate to be the Angels in America of the Bush II decade."—San Francisco Chronicle "The two works [Angels in America and In the Wake] use a volatile chapter in American history as background in their exploration of how the sociopolitical maladies of an age play out in the personal conduct of characters."— Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times Lisa Kron, author of Broadway's Well and the OBIE-winning solo show 2.5 Minute Ride, has taken on the big question of our country's character. On the Thanksgiving after the controversial 2000 election, political junkie Ellen gathers with family and friends in her cramped New York apartment. But she soon discovers—with an unexpected passionate encounter—that ideas about America and our own selves are not as fixed as they once seemed. A play with plenty of humor and passion to go with its politics, Kron's work premiered last year at Berkeley Rep and Los Angeles' Center Theater Group, and debuted at The Public Theater in New York this fall. Lisa Kron's plays have been performed on Broadway, off-Broadway, and around the world. She is a founding member of the award-winning theater group The Five Lesbian Brothers, and teaches playwriting at Yale University.

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–First collection of plays by the author of 'Thom Pain' -'Flu Season' won the Oppenheimer Award for Best Debut Play of the 2004 Season, given by Newsday -Cover design by John Gall

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