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It is 1958, and New York City is in the midst of a major building boom; a four-lane highway is planned for the heart of Washington Square; Carnegie Hall is designated for demolition; entire neighborhoods on the West Side are leveled to make room for a new «palace of art.» Meanwhile, a young Joe Papp and his colleagues face betrayals, self-inflicted wounds, and anger from the city’s powerful elite as they continue their free Shakespeare productions in Central Park.<p><p> From the creator of the most celebrated family plays of the last decade comes a drama about a different kind of family – one held together by the simple and incredibly complicated belief that the theater, and the city, belong to all of us.

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&ldquo;Spectacular&hellip;This new Vanya has a conversational smoothness that removes the cobwebs sticking to those other translations that never let you forget that the play was written in 1897&hellip; One of the most exquisite renderings of Uncle Vanya I&rsquo;ve encountered.&rdquo; &mdash;Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times &ldquo;Quietly arresting&hellip; A canny and colloquial world-premiere translation&hellip; A beautifully rewarding exploration of stunted lives still bending toward the meager sunlight, like wildflowers sprouting from a cracked sidewalk.&rdquo; &mdash;James Hebert, San Diego Union-Tribune As the sixth play in the TCG Classic Russian Drama Series, Richard Nelson and preeminent translators of Russian literature, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, continue their collaboration with Chekhov&rsquo;s most intimate play. &nbsp; Other titles in this series include: The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov The Inspector by Nikolai Gogol Moli&egrave;re, or The Cabal of Hypocrites and Don Quixote by Mikhail Bulgakov A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev The Seagull by Anton Chekhov

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&ldquo;This is a fresh take on the American road story, filled with people and ideas we rarely get to see onstage&hellip;It offers two seriously rich roles for women, each with important things worth singing about&hellip;<em>Miss You Like Hell </em>is a powerful example of what musicals do best: explore the unprotected border where individual needs and social issues intermix.&rdquo; &mdash;Jesse Green, <em>New York Times</em><p> <p>A troubled teenager and her estranged mother&mdash;an undocumented Mexican immigrant on the verge of deportation&mdash;embark on a road trip and strive to mend their frayed relationship along the way. Combined with the musical talent of Erin McKeown, Hudes artfully crafts a story of the barriers and the bonds of family, while also addressing the complexities of immigration in today&rsquo;s America.

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Pipeline had its premiere at Lincoln Center Theater (Off-Broadway) in the summer of 2017. Dominique Morisseau won the 2015 Steinberg Playwright Award for promising dramatists. Morriseau is an actor and playwright. She has been Award the NAACP Image Award twice for outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts and for promoting social justice through her work. Morriseau&rsquo;s plays often comment on racial, economic and social tensions. Morriseau grew up in Detroit and is currently working on a collection of plays titled The Detroit Projects, inspired by August Wilson's ten play cycle set in Pittsburg. Detroit &lsquo;67 explores racial and economic challenges for the characters. The play received the 2014 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History. Paradise Blue tell the story of a musician who must overcome moral dilemmas to live out his dream. This play received the L. Arnold Weissberger Award (2012) and the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. Skeleton Crew delves into the real challenges of a group of workers confront when faced with the possibilities of unemployment. The play had its world premiere in Linda Gross Theater with the Atlantic Theatre Company in spring of 2016. Morrisseau was awarded the City of Detroit: Spirit of Detroit Award.

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In reaction to the extraordinary events of the first hundred days of the presidency of Donald J. Trump, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks has created a unique and personal response to one of the most tumultuous times in our recent history—a play diary for each day of the presidency, to capture and explore the events as they unfolded. Known for her distinctive lyrical dialogue and powerful sociopolitical themes, Parks’s <em>100 Plays for the First Hundred Days</em> is the powerful and provocative everyman’s guide to the Trumpian universe of uncertainty, confusion, and chaos.

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&ldquo;Smart, funny and utterly engrossing&hellip;This unexpectedly rich sequel reminds us that houses tremble and sometimes fall when doors slam, and that there are living people within, who may be wounded or lost&hellip;Mr. Hnath has a deft hand for combining incongruous elements to illuminating ends.&rdquo; &mdash;Ben Brantley, New York Times It has been fifteen years since Nora Helmer slammed the door on her stifling domestic life, when a knock comes at that same door. It is Nora, and she has returned with an urgent request. What will her sudden return mean to those she left behind? Lucas Hnath&rsquo;s funny, probing, and bold play is both a continuation of Ibsen&rsquo;s complex exploration of traditional gender roles, as well as a sharp contemporary take on the struggles inherent in all human relationships across time.

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World premiere at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, C.T. in the spring of 2017, which opened to critical acclaim from regional reviewers. Subsequent Off-Broadway premiere at New York Theatre Workshop in the fall of 2017 starring Carrie Coon. <p><p>
Early talk of Broadway transfer in spring 2018.<p><p>
Herzog’s work is a popular for drama courses; Also, with themes of motherhood and caregiving, could do well targeting audiences with those interests. <p><p>
Herzog was a finalist for the 2017 Susan Smith Blackburn Award for <i>Mary Jane. </i><p><p>
Herzog won the 2012 Obie Award in the category Best New American Play for <i>4000 Miles</i><p><p>
She was a finalist for the 2012-2013 Susan Smith Blackburn Award for <i>Belleville</i>.<p><p>
She won a 2011 Whiting Award and the Lilly Award in 2011 for playwriting. <p><p>
She received the 2008 Helen Merrill Award for Aspiring Playwrights.

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Premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in the spring of 2016<p><p>
Selected as a <i>Time Out New York</i> Critics’ Pick<p><p>
Washburn is a member of 13P and The Civilians, and a New Georges affiliated artist<p><p>
Washburn has been commissioned by The Civilians, Soho Rep, the Williamstown Theater Festival, and Yale. <p><p>
Her plays have been produced across the country and in London<p><p>
One of the most exciting contemporary voices in the American theatre

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Premiered at the Lincoln Center Theater (Off-Broadway) in the winter of 2017<p><p>
Ruhl teaches playwriting at Yale School of Drama<p><p>
Sarah Ruhl's other plays include the Pulitzer Prize finalists <i>In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)</i> and <i>The Clean House</i><p><p> One of the top five most-produced playwrights from 2014 – 2016. <p><p> Ruhl is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a PEN/Laura Pels Award, and a MacArthur “Genius” Grant<p><p> Her plays have premiered on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in many theatres around the world<p><p> 2017 recipient of Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award<p><p> <i>Letters from Max</i>, her correspondence with Max Ritvo, will be published by Milkweed Editions<p><p> <i>100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write</i> was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and was selected as a Best Book of the Year by the <i>New York Times</i><p><p> Her plays have been translated into fifteen languages

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&ldquo;There&rsquo;s an irresistible joy to reading these plays&hellip;examining them at leisure without the urgent propulsive forward movement of the theater, reveals beauties and resonances uniquely literary.&rdquo; &mdash;Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director, The Public Theater, from his foreword Plays for The Public includes: The Gods Are Pounding My Head! (AKA Lumberjack Messiah) &ldquo;Richard Foreman is the ultimate theater auteur and mind-roiling warlock of avant-garde drama&hellip; Gods is an extravaganza of tightly orchestrated hallucinogenic visual effects, bruising slapstick and intense, cryptic lines&hellip; It is majestically mad and funny.&rdquo; &mdash; New York Times Idiot Savant &ldquo;Vintage Foreman: ravishing, perplexing, scary, a sensual and intellectual message for those weary of causality and psychology.&rdquo; &mdash; Time Out New York Old-Fashioned Prostitutes &ldquo;What makes Mr. Foreman&rsquo;s work so entertaining is his ability to turn these classic, head-scratching concerns into phantasmagorical vaudevilles in which all the world&rsquo;s a stage that keeps changing shape on you&hellip; Mr. Foreman is a grandmaster.&rdquo; &mdash; New York Times This volume features the two plays sumptuously produced at The Public Theater in New York City that mark the culmination of Richard Foreman&rsquo;s unstintingly inventive, astonishing career in theater, just as he was beginning to devote his creative energies entirely to filmmaking.