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Be absorbed by the profiles of 150 of the biggest, most influential, and most important Broadway musicals and plays ever produced. Shows profiled include everything from the 1860s musical The Black Crook, which captivated and titillated audiences for more than five hours, to the Pulitzer Prize—winning 2010 play Clybourne Park.
The men and women who shaped Broadway history-Stephen Sondheim, Tennessee Williams, Bernadette Peters, Richard Rodgers,...
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The Latent Heterosexual is a play published in 1967 and performed in 1968, tells of a successful homosexual author who marries for tax purposes and finds he enjoys it. The play is a satire on corporations, business laws, taxes, trust funds, shares, debentures, and how one man allows himself to turn into a corporation
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In 10-Minute Plays for Kids, young thespians will find terrific plays by some of our most prominent playwrights such as Sharyn Rothstein, Alex Broun, Jenny Lyn Bader, Claudia I. Haas, and Mark Harvey Levine, and by others less well known but equally terrific such as Sharai Bohannon, Suzanne Bailie, and Shirley King. The characters and situations portrayed are perfect for the kid actor. Some of the plays explore relatable tales of friendship and family,...
55) 27 short plays
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"Christopher Durang is relentlessly entertaining. Whether his play is a burlesque of other playwrights or an annihilation of the myth of the happy American family, or a vitriolic challenge to organized religion, homophobia, psychoanalysis, or parenthood, the plays are constantly arousing their audiences with hilarity and mirth. He succeeds because of his imagination, inventiveness, courage, and audacity. Blessed with twin gifts -- originality and...