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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorAngels in America, Part Two: Perestroika
Tony Kushner · 158 pages
The second half of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic Angels in America, Perestroika steers the characters introduced in Millennium Approaches from the opportunistic eighties to a new sense of community in the nineties. "Not only a stunning resolution of the resounding human drama of Millennium Approaches, but also a true millennial work of art."--Frank Rich, The New York Times
Eurydice
Sarah Ruhl · 71 pages
In Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love. With contemporary characters, ingenious plot twists, and breathtaking visual effects, the play is a fresh look at a timeless love story,
No Exit and Three Other Plays
Jean-Paul Sartre · 166 pages
4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict and an arresting attack on American racism.
Love! Valour! Compassion!
Terrence McNally · 120 pages
Eight friends leave the city for three weekends of rest and relaxation in the country.
The Children's Hour
Lillian Hellman · 92 pages
A serious and adult play about two women who run a school for girls. After a malicious youngster starts a rumor about the two women, the rumor soon turns to scandal. As the young girl comes to understand the power she wields, she sticks by her story, which precipitates tragedy for the women. It is later discovered that the gossip was pure invention, but it is too late. Irreparable damage has been
The History Boys
Alan Bennett · 109 pages
In Alan Bennet's new play, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it; about education and its purpose.
The Normal Heart & The Destiny of Me
Larry Kramer · 254 pages
The Boys in the Band
Mart Crowley · 145 pages
Theatre Four, Richard Barr and Charles Woodward, Jr. present "The Boys in The Band," by Mart Crowley, production designed by Peter Harvey, directed by Robert Moore, with Frederick Combs, Leonard Frey, Cliff Gorman, Reuben Greene, Robert La Tourneaux, Laurence Luckinbill, Kenneth Nelson, Keith Prentice, Peter White.
The Elephant Man
Bernard Pomerance · 71 pages
A play about a horribly deformed young man in 19th century England who becomes a favorite among the aristocracy and literati.
Six Degrees of Separation
John Guare · 120 pages
When Manhattan art dealers take a younger man into their home believing him to be a friend of their children and Sidney Portier's son, he leaves them with a lasting impression.
Alcestis
Euripides, William Arrowsmith · 96 pages
"Euripides' Alcestic - perhaps the most anthologized Attic drama - is an ideal test for students reading their first play in the original Greek. Literary commentaries and language aids in most editions are too advanced or too elementary for intermediate students of the language, but in this new student edition, C. A. E. Luschnig and H. M. Roisman remedy such deficiencies." "The introductory sectio
M. Butterfly
David Henry Hwang · 100 pages
During the Cultural Revolution in China in the mid-1960s, a French diplomat falls in love with a singer in the Beijing Opera, not knowing that the object of his affection is a man. Interwoven with allusions to the Puccini opera "Madama Butterfly", a story of love and betrayal unfolds.--Adapted from imdb.com.
Frogs
Aristophanes · 125 pages
Among extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to literature in general. It merits a much more extensive commentary than it has so far received, for the establishment of the text itself has rested for over a century on collations which were inadequate and inaccurate. At the same time, its most problematic passages have been the
Stop Kiss
Diana Son · 102 pages
"The story of Stop Kiss is deceptively simple: two young women in New York meet, talk about their boyfriends, feel a growing, unspoken attraction for each other, and finally kiss. And that one innocent kiss sets off a savage gay-bashing. But even as Stop Kiss confronts the reality of physical violence, Diana Son's imaginative, moving, and surprising comedy brings audiences - and her principal char