american drama

Profiles ten influential modern American plays, with an introductory overview of modern American drama and a biography of each play's author with discussion of themes, major characters, historical background, and critical reception.

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

A guide to over one thousand scenes and monologues for actors, featuring an alphabetical listing of three hundred plays, each with a synopsis, an analysis, and a listing of scenes and monologues; and including entries on individual audition pieces, grouped in six categories.

A collection of ten-minute plays for two actors. Explores the creativity of playwrights faced with a time limit and offers theater students a source of material.

A collection of twelve short plays written by American playwrights in 1995 and 1996.

Provides instructors and students with novel, age-appropriate plays that may be used to teach acting, design, directing, and research, with reproducible scripts for non-profit performance.

Includes five new plays from the American Conservatory Theater.

This collection of plays focusing on the Black experience in America includes "The Hall of Black American Heroes," "John Henry," I Have a Dream," and eight others.

Offers advice to aspiring actors on how to find, prepare, and present the right audition monologue, discussing the pupose of an audition monologue, identifying source material for monologues, discussing the general interview, and including monologue anecdotes from established actors, as well as a selection of audition monologues.