drama

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Anna in the tropics

2003
A Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Nilo Cruz set in 1929 Florida in a Cuban-American cigar factory, where a new lector unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid listeners.

Quilters

1986
A play including twenty-one songs which weaves the interrelated stories of the lives of pioneer women of different ages and in different circumstances together to present a total picture of the dignity and steadfastness of women on the frontier.

The last night of Ballyhoo

1997
The Freitags, a family of elitist German Jews, are thrown into turmoil in the winter of 1939 when daughter Lala falls for her uncle's new assistant, Joe Farkas, and hints for him to take her to Ballyhoo, the social event of the season, but Joe sets his sights on Lala's cousin, Sunny.

Metamorphoses

a play
2002
A retelling of Ovid's classic tale that interweaves the original and contemporary versions.

Topdog

2001

Picasso at the Lapin Agile and other plays

1996
Contains the text of four plays written by comedic actor Steve Martin, featuring the title selection about an imagined meeting between Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein in 1904.

Proof

a play
2001
A play by David Auburn which explores the unknowability of love and the mysteries of mathematics.

Yellowman

My red hand, my black hand : two plays
2002
Contains two plays by Dael Orlandersmith which examine the racial tensions that fracture families, communities, and individual lives.

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