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  John

  “Annie Baker’s John is so good on so many levels that it casts a unique and brilliant light… By not rushing things—by letting the characters develop as gradually and inevitably as rain or snowfall—Bak…

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  Five Women Wearing the Same Dress

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  Oleanna

  In David Mamet’s two-character play, a male college instructor and his female student sit down to discuss her grades and in a terrifyingly short time become the participants in a modern reprise of the…

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  Stop Kiss

  Ben Brantley of the New York Times summed up the critical reaction to Diana Son's play Stop Kiss when he stated that it "generated the warmest advance word of mouth of any downtown production this sea…

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  Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

  The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant translation of Sophocles' classic drama. The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Antigone is an unconventiona…

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  The Actor's Life: A Survival Guide

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  Top Girls

  Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a world of women's experience at a pivotal moment in British history. Told by an eclectic group of histori…

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  Teenage Dick

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  How I Learned to Drive

  The 1950s pop music accompanying Li'l Bit's excursion down memory lane cannot drown out the ghosts of her past. Sweet recollections of driving with her beloved uncle intermingle with lessons about the…

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  Millennium Approaches (Angels in America, #1)

  Angels in America is a play in two parts by American playwright Tony Kushner.
  
  The play is a complex, often metaphorical, and at times symbolic examination of AIDS and homosexuality in America in the 1…

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  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

  "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 …

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  A Streetcar Named Desire

  The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams’ essay “The World I Live In.”
  
  It is a …

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  Orange Flower Water

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  Dinner with Friends

  Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
  
  Filled with humor, warmth, insight and wisdom, Dinner with Friends is a modern day masterpiece on the destruction of today's marriage. Through Margulies's fl…

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  The Tale of Despereaux

  A brave mouse, a covetous rat, a wishful serving girl, and a princess named Pea come together in Kate DiCamillo's Newbery Medal–winning tale.
  
  Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is …

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  Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

  In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throu…

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  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

  Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Douglass taught himself to read and write. In 1845, seven years after escaping to the North, he published…

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  One Golden Summer (Barry’s Bay, #2)

  A radiant, new escape to the lake from #1 New York Times bestselling author Carley Fortune
  
  I never anticipated Charlie Florek.
  
  Good things happen at the lake. That’s what Alice’s grandmother says, and i…

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  Speed-the-Plow

  Speed-the-Plow's Broadway run is the most recent triumph of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's astonishingly productive career. "By turns hilarious and chilling....the culmination of this playwright'…

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  My Darling Girl

  A spine-tingling psychological thriller about a woman who, after taking in her dying, alcoholic mother, begins to suspect demonic possession is haunting her family.
  
  Alison has never been a fan of Chris…

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