Author: Terrence McNallyPublisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822204206
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Romantic comedy concerning a waitress and short-order cook from the same restaurant.
Lips Together, Teeth Apart
Author: Terrence McNallyPublisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822206705
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
THE STORY: A gay community in Fire Island provides an unlikely setting for two straight couples who are discovered lounging poolside, staring out to sea. Sally, married to Sam, a New Jersey contractor, has inherited the house from her brother who died of
Mothers and Sons
Author: Terrence McNallyPublisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 0822231832
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
At turns funny and powerful, MOTHERS AND SONS portrays a woman who pays an unexpected visit to the New York apartment of her late son's partner, who is now married to another man and has a young son. Challenged to face how society has changed around her, generations collide as she revisits the past and begins to see the life her son might have led.
Corpus Christi
Author: Terrence McNallyPublisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822216964
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
THE STORY: The most controversial and talked about play of the 1998 theatrical season begins: We are going to tell you an old and familiar story. But from that point on, nothing feels quite familiar again. What follows is a story that parallels t
Selected Works
Author: Terrence McNallyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780802123572
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Terrence McNally is one of our most original and audacious dramatists, and one of our funniest."--New Yorker Since his first play, And Things That Go Bump in the Night, which premiered in 1965, McNally has proven himself to be a trailblazing figure and unique voice in American theater, known for his exploration of gay themes and his chronicling of America's changing social attitudes over the past fifty years. His thirty-three plays, nine musicals, three operas, and seven scripts for film and television, are a testament to his astonishing commitment to writing. In Selected Plays, for the very first time, McNally collects a set of eight plays that he considers the most important of his oeuvre, including the Tony-nominated Mothers and Sons and the critically acclaimed And Away We Go, neither of which have been previously published. Introducing each play with a personal essay that recounts an anecdote or discusses an aspect of the play that proceeds it, McNally himself frames his own life in the theater. Selected Plays is a landmark publication, a memoir in plays from one of America's most highly regarded and best-loved playwrights.
Happy Talk
Author: Jesse EisenbergPublisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802148026
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
A suburban woman with a love for community theater attempts to play matchmaker in this play by the Academy Award–nominated actor. Lorraine is a saint of the suburbs. On top of trying to save her dying mother, miserable husband and estranged daughter, she’s starring as Bloody Mary in the Jewish Community Center production of South Pacific. When her mother’s home aide, Serbian immigrant Ljuba, asks for help finding a husband, Lorraine takes on her most challenging role to date: matchmaker. In Jesse Eisenberg’s hysterical and devastating play, Happy Talk, he reveals the absurd lengths people go to save themselves in the name of saving others.
It's Only a Play
Author: Terrence McNallyPublisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822205821
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
THE STORY: It's the opening night of The Golden Egg on Broadway, and the wealthy producer (Julia Budder) is throwing a lavish party in her lavish Manhattan townhouse. Downstairs the celebrities are pouring in, but the real action is upstairs
Spike Heels
Author: Theresa RebeckPublisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573693816
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
"Pygmalion goes awry in contemporary comedy of manners which explores sexual harassment, misplaced amour and the possibility of a four sided love triangle."--Doollee.com.
Dedication, Or, The Stuff of Dreams
Author: Terrence McNallyPublisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802142450
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Four-time Tony Award-winning author Terrence McNally returns with a powerful new play about how far one will go for one's love of the theater. In a small upstate New York town, Lou, a speech and drama teacher, and Jessie, a dog groomer at The Dapper Dog, bring joy to their community through running an amateur theater company. They become obsessed with buying a derelict movie theater and turning it into Captain Lou and Miss Jessie's Magic Theater for Children of All Ages. The only obstacle in reaching their dream is Annabelle Willard -- a terminally ill and manipulative widow who owns half the town. Will these naive dreamers be able to grasp the brass ring, and at what cost?
Author: Adrienne Kennedy