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Two trains running

In Pittsburg in 1969, the regulars of Memphis Lee's restaurant are struggling to cope with the impending loss of the diner, a casualty of the city's renovation project that is sweeping away the buildings of a community, but not its spirit.

The piano lesson

A Pulitzer Prize winning play about the black experience in twentieth-century America.

Luther

a play
1994
Contains the text of John Osborne's play "Luther" in which the main character is a rebel priest who changed the spiritual world of his time.

Brighton Beach memoirs

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

Two trains running

Paints a potrait of the African-American experience in the changing decade of the 1960s through the lives of restaurant owner Memphis Lee and the people who live in his Pittsburgh block, which is scheduled for demolition.
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A delicate balance

a play
1997
A drama which examines the lives and values of two middle-aged couples and two younger women.

Lost in Yonkers

1991
After the death of their mother, two boys in 1940s New York are sent to live with their difficult grandmother.

The piano lesson

1990
Dramatizes the struggles of an African-American family as they consider selling a prized possession, an ornate upright piano, in order to buy the tract of land upon which they were once enslaved.

Seven guitars

1996
Chapter six in a continuing theatrical saga that explores the African-American experience in the twentieth century, following a small group of friends who have gathered together in Pittsburgh's Hill district in 1948 to mourn the death of local blues guitarist Floyd "Schoolboy" Barton.

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