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Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the town of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play. It is now reissued in this handsome hardcover edition, featuring a new Foreword by Donald Margulies, who writes, "You are holding in your hands a great American play. Possibly...
8) Nine plays
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In search of lost time volume 3
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A collection of nine plays by the American playwright, including "The Emperor Jones" and "Desire Under the Elms."
11) Steel Magnolias
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1989.
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In the South, a diabetic girl decides to risk having a baby and is supported by her mother and four loyal friends.
13) Lost in Yonkers
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[1991]
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An insightful drama about one woman's drive and its emotional toll on her and her family. Grandma Kurnitz has endured many crises, ranging from a harsh childhood in Germany to being a young widow with six children in a foreign country. From her life she learned to be strong, hard, and cold, and this is the lesson she tries to instill in her four remaining children. While her two teenage grandsons are in her care, the three learn the importance of...
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This play is Wagner's latest starring vehicle for Lily Tomlin, and it is a wonderfully comic and painful dose of truth direct to the heart. In this satire, a form all too lacking in American theater, Trudy the bag lady, Wagner's central character, tries to explain modern American material society to an alien (i.e., interstellar) committee. In the first act a variety of types are seen suffering in their lives. The more full of anxiety and terror they...
20) Fortress
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Based on actual events. When the commander of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber is killed in action in a raid over Siciliy in 1943, his replacement, a young, naive pilot struggles to be accepted by the plane's already tight-knit Irish American crew.