drama

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Speed-the-plow

a play
1988
Hollywood studio executives Bob Gould and Charlie Fox are planning to produce a blockbuster movie, when an ambitious office temp tries to convince Gould he should produce a movie with substance instead.

A raisin in the sun, and

The sign in Sidney Brustein's window
1995
Presents twentieth-century American playwright Lorraine Hansberry's most famous works, "A Raisin in the Sun," about inner-city African-American family life, and "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window," about a man struggling in a world of racial and social injustice; also includes three essays about the plays.

The glass menagerie

1999
Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to the make-believe world of her glass animal collection. Tom eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura.

The full monty

2002
Presents the complete script and lyrics to the Broadway musical "The Full Monty," about six steel-mill workers who start a strip show for extra money, and includes color photos from performances.

Driving Miss Daisy

1988
Presents the script of the play "Driving Miss Daisy," the story of the strong bond that develops over the course of twenty-five years between an elderly Jewish widow and her chauffeur, an African-American man.

Cat on a hot tin roof

2004
Presents the script of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a wealthy Southern family and the secrets that are revealed when they all gather to celebrate Big Daddy's birthday.

Angels in America

a gay fantasia on national themes
2003
Presents parts one and two of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning stage drama "Angels in America," which follows the thread of AIDS through the lives of several gay men.

A house not meant to stand

a gothic comedy
2008
A two-act play which Tennessee Williams called a "Southern gothic spook sonata," in which Cornelius McCorkle of Pascagoula, Mississippi, is searching for a large amount of moonshine money that his wife Bella has hidden, on the stormy Christmas night they returned from their eldest son's funeral.

Resurrection blues

a prologue and two acts
2006
Presents the script of the Arthur Miller play in which Latin American general Felix Barriaux, having captured a rebel leader who is reputed to have performed miracles, makes plans to crucify the mysterious man and sell the television rights to an American network.

The effect of gamma rays on man-in-the moon marigolds

a drama in two acts
1998
A two-act play depicting an embittered mother who vents her frustrations upon her two daughters.

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