Prodigal Son (TCG Edition)
By: John Patrick Shanley
4.13
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
"A keen, passionate portrait of the author as a poetry-spouting romantic punk torn between literary…
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1. Waiting for Lefty
By: Clifford Odets
3.37
Format: 31 pages, Hardcover
Play script,a politiacal story based on a 1934 strike of unionized New York cab drivers. read more
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"Christ, cut us up to little pieces. We'll die for what is right! Put fruit trees where our ashes are!"-Clifford Odets, Waiting for Lefty
2. The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique
By: William Esper , Damon DiMarco
4.48
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
William Esper, one of the leading acting teachers of our time, explains and extends Sanford Meisner… read more
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"Discipline is what separates the artist from the appreciator of art."-William Esper, The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique
"Impulses are the most important things we have as artists. Stop judging them. Get out of their way and follow wherever they lead."-William Esper, The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique
"Certain words, certain expressions. Things like ‘I love you’ and ‘I hate you.’ They’re big traps for actors. They can tempt you away from the connection you’ve developed with your partner and lead yo…"-William Esper, The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique
3. The Wild Iris
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 65 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more
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"things that can't move learn to see"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
" No one's despair is like my despair-- "-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
4. The Vagina Monologues
By: Gloria Steinem , V (formerly Eve Ensler)
3.87
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
I decided to talk to women about their vaginas, to do vagina interviews, which became vagina monolo… read more
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"Falo porque não devia falar."-Gloria Steinem, The Vagina Monologues
"Minha revolução vai dar um golpe no Estado mental chamado patriarcado."-Gloria Steinem, The Vagina Monologues
"We have to say that what happens to women matters to everyone and it matters a lot."-Gloria Steinem, The Vagina Monologues
"Saying the word I was not supposed to say is the thing that gave me a voice in the world."-Gloria Steinem, The Vagina Monologues
5. Sanford Meisner on Acting
By: Sanford Meisner , Dennis Longwell , Sydney Pollack
4.20
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
This book, written in collaboration with Dennis Longwell, follows an acting class of eight men and … read more
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"The text is your greatest enemy."-Sanford Meisner, Sanford Meisner on Acting
"The American actor is very lucky... Because so little is asked of him."-Sanford Meisner, Sanford Meisner on Acting
"... as a convention, you get up and walk to the window to make the audience believe that you're looking out. It's for the audience , not for you! And what it means to you is something emotional [...]…"-Sanford Meisner, Sanford Meisner on Acting
6. The Pillowman
By: Martin McDonagh
4.30
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories an… read more
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"It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind"-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman
"Oh, I almost forgot to mention... I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop! - Tupolski"-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman
"Oh, I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop." - Tupolski"-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman
7. Fleabag: The Original Play
By: Phoebe Waller-Bridge
3.95
Format: 768 pages,
'I sit on the loo and think about all the people I can have sex with now. I'm not obsessed with sex… read more
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8. All My Sons
By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby
4.50
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
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9. I Am My Own Wife
By: Doug Wright
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
I Am My Own Wife is the winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. From the Obie Award-winning au… read more
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10. The Three Sisters
By: Anton Chekhov
3.06
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
First performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901, The Three Sistersprobes the lives and dreams of … read more
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11. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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12. Lobby Hero
By: Kenneth Lonergan
3.64
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
With his acclaimed plays This Is Our Youth and The Waverly Gallery and his Oscar-nominated film You… read more
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13. Endgame
By: Samuel Beckett
4.67
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, no… read more
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14. 4000 Miles
By: Amy Herzog
2.33
Format: None pages,
After suffering a major loss while he was on a cross-country bike trip, 21 year-old Leo seeks solac… read more
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15. The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
By: Stephen Adly Guirgis
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
From one of our most admired playwrights, "an ambitious, complicated and often laugh-out-loud relig… read more
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16. Love Is a Dog from Hell
By: Charles Bukowski
3.79
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
Poems rising from and returning to Bukowski's personal experiences reflect people, objects, places,… read more
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17. This is Our Youth
By: Kenneth Lonergan
0.00
Format: None pages,
Starring Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hamilton and Missy Yager, the original cast was reunited for this exclu… read more
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18. Death of a Salesman
By: Arthur Miller
3.57
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you t… read more
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"I’m tired to the death."-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"LINDA [with infinite patience]"-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"Be liked and you will never want."-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?"-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
19. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
By: Tennessee Williams
4.06
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers v… read more
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"BRICK [to the moon]: I envy you--you cool son of a bitch."-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
"We mustn't scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears..."-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
"Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door."-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
"A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing"-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
20. The Seagull
By: Anton Chekhov , Michael Frayn
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation. When … read more
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21. In a Dark Dark House
By: Neil LaBute
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Two brothers meet on the grounds of a private psychiatric facility. Drew, has been court-confined f… read more
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22. The Flick
By: Annie Baker
3.98
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In a rundown movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees sweep up popcorn in … read more
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23. Clybourne Park
By: Bruce Norris
3.78
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Clybourne park had its UK premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London. Set in Chicago, the play "ap… read more
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24. Killer Joe
By: Tracy Letts
2.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Full Length, Black ComedyCharacters: 3 male, 2 female Interior Set This exciting first play by the … read more
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25. The Aliens
By: Annie Baker
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Professional slackers and best friends KJ and Jasper spend their days talking music and Bukowski ou… read more
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26. Indecent
By: Paula Vogel
4.46
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
“Revelatory…As intimate and immediate as a whispered secret. Vogel’s play thrums with music, desire… read more
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"I too have lost audience members. Six million have left the theater."-Paula Vogel, Indecent
"How do we as artists question our sins in front of a greater audience? How do we as Jews show ourselves as flawed and complex human beings?"-Paula Vogel, Indecent
"God forbid the goyim think ladies who work the street are human beings! God forbid the goyim think that Jewish ladies love each other as human beings!"-Paula Vogel, Indecent
"As you know, six nights a week we gather together to sing songs we know and love, to dance, to escape our daily lives. But on the seventh night … God created Yiddish theater."-Paula Vogel, Indecent
27. Lie With Me
By: Philippe Besson
4.26
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage … read more
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"Desire does not go out like a match, it extinguishes slowly as it burns into ash."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"I also know how much of yourself you have to leave behind in order to look like everyone else."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"You get used to everything, even the defection of those you thought you were bound to forever."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
28. Misunderstanding in Moscow
By: Simone de Beauvoir
3.71
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Nicole and André, a retired French couple, take a summer holiday to Russia. It is the 1960s and Rus… read more
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"I could have been someone else, but then it would be someone else questioning herself about her self."-Simone de Beauvoir, Misunderstanding in Moscow
"Já se passaram três anos? [...] A rapidez com que os anos se passaram era angustiante. Quantas vezes ainda teria três anos para viver?"-Simone de Beauvoir, Misunderstanding in Moscow
"Sim, ela vai esquecer a igreja branca e dourada como tinha esquecido tantas outras. Aquela curiosidade que havia mantido quase intacta lhe parecia com frequência como uma sobrevivência obstinada: mas…"-Simone de Beauvoir, Misunderstanding in Moscow
"Cada manhã, antes mesmo de abrir os olhos, ela reconhecia sua cama, seu quarto. Mas, às vezes, quando dormia de tarde, experimentava ao acordar aquela estupefação pueril: por que eu sou eu? Como se a…"-Simone de Beauvoir, Misunderstanding in Moscow
29. Fraternity
By: Andy Mientus
4.03
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A queer, dark academia YA about a mysterious boarding school, a brotherhood that must stay in the s… read more
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30. A Comedy of Nobodies: A Collection of Stories
By: Baron Ryan
4.04
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Seinfeld meets Fleabag in Charlie's Harvard , the debut story collection from popular TikTok filmma… read more
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31. Prodigal Son (TCG Edition)
By: John Patrick Shanley
4.13
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
"A keen, passionate portrait of the author as a poetry-spouting romantic punk torn between literary… read more
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