"[A] startlingly brilliant new play. . . . A tragic and hilarious vision of life in an English country community. Butterworth’s new work was the most talked about new work of the season."— The London …
"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In the same way, audiences and critics alike could not get enough of Edward …
Based on the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is W. Somerset Maugham's ode to the powerful forces behind creative genius. Charles Strickland is a staid banker, a man of wealth and privilege…
Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs (first published under the French title L'Homme qui Rit in April 1869) is a sad and sordid tale -- not the sort of tale of the moment Hugo was known for. It starts on …
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that became a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare.
'Everything human beings do finishes up bad in the end. Everything good human beings ever make is built on something monstrous. Nothing lasts. We certainly won't...'
One of the most bracing and critically acclaimed plays in recent history, August: Osage County is a portrait of the dysfunctional American family at its finest—and absolute worst. When the patriarch o…
ژیل بر اثر حادثه‌ای مرموز دچار فراموشی می‌شود. همسرش لیزا او را به خانه می‌آورد اما ژیل حافظه‌اش را از دست داده است و سعی می‌کند از صحبت‌ها و تعریف‌های همسرش گذشته را بازسازی کند و هویت خود را باز یاب…
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened…
در جایی از نمایشنامه، یکی از آدم‌ها می‌گوید: «انسان نخستین نمی‌گفت، می‌رم، می‌رفت. نمی‌گفت بده، می‌گرفت. نمی‌گفت می‌خوام بخورم، می‌خواست و می‌خورد.» نمایشنامه «فعل» شرح هبوط «فعل» به مثابه کنش است در…
