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¿Priceless and peerless¿a thrilling work of theatricality.¿ ¿Wayman Wong, San Francisco ExaminerFor over three decades, Stephen Sondheim has been the foremost composer and lyricist writing regularly for Broadway. His substantial body of work now stands as one of the most sustained achievements of the American stage.Pacific Overtures, originally produced in 1976, combines an unsurpassed mastery of the American musical with such arts as Kabuki theatre, haiku, dance, and masks to recount Commander Matthew Perry¿s 1835 opening of Japan and its consequences right up to the present.This new edition of Pacific Overtures incorporates substantial revisions made by the authors for the successful 1984 revival.

A companion volume to Love Like Light that features a book-length conversation between Daniel Alexander Jones and poet, scholar, and activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs about Daniel's work.Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a recipient of Yale's Wyndham-Campbell Prize.

From one of Canada's boldest playwrights comes an intimate look into the sexual life of a young woman as she struggles with the power of her desires.

Twelve-year-old Genevieve has been having a hard time at home, and all she really wants is to be an altar server at her church. Except it's 1963 and Father Paul tells her that's not allowed. After having her dreams crushed and being made fun of by her classmate and star altar boy Martin, Genevieve prays to God hoping for an exception. Instead, a fourteen-year-old martyr from the fourth century, Saint Pancras, appears and promises to get her an answer from God. But with her mom missing for weeks and Martin disappearing on his way home from school the next day, she fears her prayers have been answered in dire ways. Do This in Memory of Me is for anyone who has ever questioned the relationship between faith and trust or wondered where they fit in the bigger picture.

"A significant moment in Canadian history is portrayed in this documentary musical about race relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Weaving hundreds of real interviews conducted with Saskatchewan residents and the court transcripts surrounding the killing of Colten Boushie and trial of Gerald Stanley, a kaleidoscopic picture is formed of the views of the incident, the province, and Indigenous people in Canada. Reasonable Doubt--with interviews by Joel Bernbaum, music by Lancelot Knight, and dramaturgy by Yvette Nolan--provides a space to honestly talk to each other about what has happened on this land and how we can live together." --

"Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, James Ijames' Fat Ham reinvents Shakespeare's masterpiece in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbecue in the American South. Juicy is a queer, Southern college kid, already grappling with some serious questions of identity, when the ghost of his father shows up in their backyard, demanding that Juicy avenge his murder. It feels like a familiar story to Juicy, well-versed in Hamlet's woes. What's different is Juicy himself, a sensitive and self-aware young Black man trying to break the cycles of trauma, violence, and toxic masculinity in service of his own liberation. From an uproarious family barbecue emerges a vibrant and compelling examination of love and loss, pain and joy"--

A funny, moving, and urgent new play from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage.

A wry, innovative reckoning with the legacy of the Salem witch trials from one of America's foremost playwrights.

A collection of insightful, compelling plays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Cost of Living.

An essential work on theatre in America by one of its foremost practitioners.

A fiercely intelligent new play about a group of young conservative Catholics encountering crises of confidence in faith, country, and self.

Guirgis, a lifelong New Yorker and a properly profane bard of the city, is a wizard at getting language to flow hot, funny, and fastGuirgiss rough-cut gem of a play is rich with revelation and barbed empathy. Alexandra Schwartz,New YorkerStephen Adly Guirgis brings his prodigious gifts for exploring the lives of social outcasts to new heights in this play about the inner workings of a womens halfway house in New York City, where the unmoored residents struggle with addiction, abuse, and mental illness. Between daily therapy sessions, they clash with the staff and each other, form alliances, and fall in love. Harrowing, humorous, and heartbreaking,Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heavenroaringly brings to life the experiences of women who society has tried to shuffle out of sight and out of mind.

"She's more than just a wicked old witch. Baba Yaga is a legend, usually known as that elderly woman who lives alone in the woods and grinds the bones of the wicked. But what if she was actually a sexy, smart, modern woman operating off of morally ambiguous motives? A detective finds himself in a small, isolated town asking what does the disappearance of the young heir to a yoghurt empire has to do with some random lore about an old witch? Matched by an apprehensive local sheriff, a university professor with a taste for younger men, and a whole cast of curious characters, the Slavic myth of Baba Yaga twists into a new labyrinth of secret lives, ancient magic, and multiple suspects. This genre-bending comedic fairy tale meets thrilling whodunit gives voice to an antihero of epic proportions while interrogating how her story has historically been told by men. From now on, you'll remember the name Baba Yaga for the right reasons."--

Eurydice is a luminous retelling of the Orpheus myth from his beloved wifes point of view. Watching it, we enter a singular, surreal world, as lush and limpid as a dreaman anxiety dream of love and losswhere both author and audience swim in the magical, sometimes menacing, and always thrilling flow of the unconscious Ruhls theatrical voice is reticent and daring, accurate and outlandish. John Lahr, New YorkerA reimagining of the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice journeys to the underworld, where she reunites with her beloved father and struggles to recover lost memories of her husband and the world she left behind.

"Convinced the world at large can't be trusted to prioritize the well-being of adolescent girls in the event of a cataclysmic event (or just in general), a determined troupe of preteen "doomers" commit to preparing for survival in the post-collapse society they anticipate inheriting. When Maureen, Jo, Sarah, Vic, and Robbie sneak out at night to investigate an ominous hidden lair in the woods, they believe they have stumbled onto proof of what happened to a mysterious local cult that vanished over a decade ago. As they search for vital clues, examining small bones and dusty cans of food for signs of life, they fight to understand how to be understood in a world that seems to reject them. What they discover changes everything--eighth grade will never be the same. Part Judy Blume, part Rambo, this darkly comic coming-of-age story for complicated times is for any young woman who has ever been told that she is "too much," or that what she fears is illegitimate, or that what she has to say is less important than keeping the peace."--

Fabulous andbedraggled: a defiant and beautiful mess Welcome to the world of Gary: ASequel to Titus Andronicus, where carnage and camp coexist. Jesse Green, NewYork TimesIn Gary: ASequel to Titus Andronicus, Taylor Macs singular worldview intersects withWilliam Shakespeares first tragedy, Titus Andronicus. Set during thefall of the Roman Empire, Macs extraordinary play picks up where Shakespearesblood-soaked tale left off: the coup has ended, the country has been stolen bymadmen, and there are casualties everywhere. Two lowly servants, Gary andJanice, are charged with cleaning up the bodies. Its the year 400but it feelslike the end of the world.

Your Healing is Killing Me is a performance manifesto based on lessons learned in San Antonio free health clinics and New York acupuncture schools; from the treatments and consejos of curanderas, abortion doctors, Marxist artists, community health workers, and bourgie dermatologists. One artist's reflections on living with post-traumatic stress disorder, ansia, and eczema in the new age of trigger warnings, the master cleanse, and crowd-funded self-care. Capitalism is toxic but the Revolution is not in your body butter.

Super-charged work from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Between Riverside and Crazy.