drama

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The iceman cometh

2006
Presents the text of the 1946 play about a group of pipe-dreaming drunks in 1912 who hang out at a skid row bar awaiting the annual appearance of the fast-talking, big-spending salesman, Hickey, only to be disappointed by the changes that have occurred in his life.

Death of a salesman

certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem
1998
Pulitzer Prize-winning play concerned with the despair of a sixty-three-year-old traveling salesman when he is forced to face the reality he has evaded all his life.

Brighton Beach memoirs

1995
A comedy built around the Jerome family during the Depression and focusing on fifteen-year-old, Eugene, preoccupied with sex and the Yankees.

Glengarry Glen Ross

a play
1984
Comedy about small-time real estate salesmen trying to earn a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers.

Fences

a play
1986
Troy Maxson, a strong, hard man who has learned how to be Black and proud in the 1950s, finds the changing spirit of the 1960s hard to deal with.

Joe Turner's come and gone

a play in two acts
1988
When Herald Loomis arrives at an African-American Pittsburgh boardinghouse, after seven years' impressed labor on Joe Turner's chain gang, he is a free man--in body.

To be young, gifted, and Black

Lorraine Hansberry in her own words
1995
A selection of prose, dramatic writings, and drawings done by African-American playwright Lorraine Hansberry, which, combined with other fiction and non-fiction commentary, provide insight into her life, thoughts, feelings, and career.

Zap

2005
Contain a juxtaposition of several different plays that parody the works of Tennessee Williams, Anton Chekhov, Samuel Beckett, Neil Simon, and others.

Under 30

plays for a new generation
2004
An anthology of plays with roles for actors in their teens and twenties.

Twenty 10-minute plays for teens

2004
Presents a collection of twenty ten-minute plays that reflect the interests and speech patterns of modern teens, written for four to twenty-two characters.

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