Joe Turner's Come and Gone
By: August Wilson
3.54
Format: 256 pages,
When Herald Loomis arrives at a black Pittsburgh boardinghouse after seven years' impressed labor o…
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1. Dutchman & The Slave: Two Plays by LeRoi Jones
By: Amiri Baraka
3.77
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
" Dutchman is designed to shock—its basic idea, its language and its murderous rage." — New York T… read more
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- fiction
- african american
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- drama
2. J.B.: A Play in Verse
By: Archibald MacLeish
3.69
Format: 153 pages, Paperback
Based on the story of Job, this drama in verse tells the story of a 20th-century American millionai… read more
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- theatre
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"If God is God He is not good, If God is good He is not God; Take the even, take the odd...."-Archibald MacLeish, J.B.: A Play in Verse
3. Brother, I'm Dying
By: Edwidge Danticat
4.16
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Dew Breaker, a major work of nonfiction: a powerfully moving fa… read more
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- african american
"He shouldn’t be here,"-Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying
"Maybe we're all dying, one breath at a time."-Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying
"His entire life was now reduced to an odd curiosity, a looting opportunity."-Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying
"Suddenly he understood the true workings of a mob, one infuriated body morphing into another until they all became limbs to one raging monster."-Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying
4. Sweat
By: Lynn Nottage
4.06
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In one of the poorest cities in America, Reading, Pennsylvania, a group of down-and-out factory wor… read more
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- fiction
- african american
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5. The Little Foxes
By: Lillian Hellman
3.40
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Picture a charming home in the South. Into this peaceful scene put the prosperous, despotic Hubbard… read more
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- classics
- theatre
- fiction
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6. The Laramie Project
By: Moisés Kaufman , Tectonic Theater Project
3.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
For a year and a half following the murder of Matthew Shepard, Moises Kaufman and his Tectonic Thea… read more
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7. Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue
By: Quiara Alegría Hudes
3.84
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
Drama Full Length Cast: 3 men, 1 woman: 4 total Setting: EXTERIOR THE STORY:Tracing the legacy of w… read more
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- plays
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8. Topdog/Underdog
By: Suzan-Lori Parks
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the w… read more
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9. Summer and Smoke
By: Tennessee Williams
3.99
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
"Summer and Smoke" is a two-part, thirteen-scene play by Tennessee Williams, originally titled Char… read more
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- theatre
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"You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!"-Tennessee Williams, Summer and Smoke
"Oh, you know, and I know, I never had any voice. I had a crush on you, though. Those were the days when I had crushes on girls. Those days are all over— now I have crushes on boys."-Tennessee Williams, Summer and Smoke
10. The Misanthrope/ Tartuffe
By: Molière , Richard Wilbur
4.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
Critics have heralded Richard Wilbur's translations of Moliere's seventeenth-century dramas as mast… read more
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- theatre
- fiction
- plays
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11. Joe Turner's Come and Gone
By: August Wilson
3.54
Format: 256 pages,
When Herald Loomis arrives at a black Pittsburgh boardinghouse after seven years' impressed labor o… read more
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- historical fiction
- african american
- plays
- drama
12. The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr
By: Jess Winfield , None , Adam Long , Daniel Singer , None , Reduced Shakespeare Company
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Revised from the rather long original complete works of Shakespeare, this abridged version is writt… read more
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13. The Elephant Man
By: Bernard Pomerance
3.80
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
"The Elephant Man" is based on the life of John Merrick, who lived in London during the latter part… read more
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14. The Heidi Chronicles
By: Wendy Wasserstein
4.22
Format: 129 pages, Paperback
Comprised of a series of interrelated scenes, the play traces the coming of age of Heidi Holland, a… read more
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15. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
By: Tony Kushner
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more
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16. The Birthday Party
By: Harold Pinter
3.23
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seem… read more
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17. Burned Out
By: Dean Mafako
4.30
Format: 526 pages, Paperback
Eric Philson came to the Children's Hospital of Biloxi with a goal ― to build the cardiac intensive… read more
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- fiction
"The entire belief was insulting to many of us, but nonetheless, the term “top trained,"-Dean Mafako, Burned Out
"The hypocrisy was too much to bear, the institution was paying over a million dollars for Mr. Hyde to perform “values training"-Dean Mafako, Burned Out
"When I arrived, I did the job of six people and worked over one hundred hours per week for more than a year until I collapsed in my yard and nearly died!"-Dean Mafako, Burned Out
"One of the greatest realizations that I clumsily stumbled upon during this process, was that these people didn’t need someone like me to tell them what to do; they needed someone like me to show them…"-Dean Mafako, Burned Out
18. Wife For Sale
By: Tabita Gutu
4.41
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Take an unhappy married couple with a small baby, a man whose wife died in a tragic accident and ca… read more
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- drama
19. Slave Play
By: Jeremy O. Harris
4.18
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
The old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation--in the breeze, in the cotton fields...and in th… read more
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- african american
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20. Growing Up American: A Novel
By: Rafael Polo
4.29
Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1959, the Cold War was getting warmer. Cuba was the revolutionary fuel that made it hot. When Fi… read more
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"When power becomes the ultimate goal, freedom must be shackled."-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel
"It became visible as a firefly in the dark that the political climate was swiftly getting more and more oppressive."-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel
"At last, he fully understood that change comes from within. It was up to him to get up and fight for a better life."-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel
"His family could not understand the attraction to Marxism. It offered nothing and demanded everything, including your soul."-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel
21. August Wilson: A Life
By: Patti Hartigan
4.20
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The first authoritative biography of August Wilson, the most important and successful American play… read more
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