It’s been a year since Paul and Lucille’s son Craig committed suicide, and their once-solid family bonds are starting to break down. While the now-separated couple tries to honor their son, Lucille’s
Francisco will forever be haunted by the sight of his best friend Juan lying on the floor of a train station, pierced by five bullets. He’ll remember that sight as he flees the political uprising in U
Annie Runningbird doesn’t have time for any kind of games that boys want to play. Like the games that subtly put women in the background as insignificant sex workers or the mind tricks that manipulate
In Up the Garden Path, a young Barbadian seamstress is coerced into posing as her half-brother to go to the Niagara region in Ontario and work on a vineyard. There, she meets an aspiring actress obses
Winner of the 2009 Carol Bolt AwardFrance. 1917. Aided by a nurse from Nova Scotia, four wounded Canadian soldiers recover in a field hospital in the wake of the battle for Vimy Ridge.
Selected and edited by the award-winning American playwright Reginald Edmund, who produced Black Lives, Black Words across the US, which premiered in Chicago, July 2015. This ongoing international pro
Yusuf needs a break – his philosophy degree from NYU isn't opening any doors, but his new job would help him pay his overdue rent; Xiomara doesn’t want to settle for the marriage scenario her Dominica
Children of God is a powerful musical about an Oji-Cree family whose children were taken away to a residential school in Northern Ontario. The play tells the story of one family: Tommy and Julia, who
Darren, newly on parole from prison, has been ordered by the court to live with his father on the rez. Wally and Darren have always had a contentious relationship: Wally is a problem drinker, and Darr
One moment, Mona's father is teaching her to make pasta sauce at 2 AM and the next, she sits next to him in a hospital room, counting the seconds between beeps. When a curiously familiar barefooted bo
In 1964, a white man walks into a public restroom in a Washington, DC park looking for sex. The next man who enters is a black man.The Seat Next to the King explores the lives of two men who literally
A play centering on the tensions between a political demagogue and the tailor who makes his suitIn his Upper East Side atelier, a bespoke tailor, Anselm Kassar, is persuaded by the vulgar real estate
In his five decades of work in theatre, Richard Foreman has become known as the figurehead of the downtown” scene, the king of all things experimental and unconventional. This brand new an
Past and present merge in this suspense thriller. Chase Wolf escapes an abusive father and lives with his stoic grandfather in the northern forests of Arizona. He learns about his native American a
(Applause Acting Series). The theater of the 21st century, in many ways, is expanding to require new muscles of its actors, and so should their monologue choices. Contemporary Monologues for Twentyso
Inspired by the tragic events of the Fort Hood massacre in 2009, Emily Mann's new documentary-style play uses first-person accounts to examine the response of a nation in a fear-driven political clima
This politically charged play about the ad men behind Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 presidential campaign shows how American politics changed during the 1960s. The "daisy ad" aired only once, but its prese
This book contains selected poems which run the gamut of emotional experience. Some of the poems are quite personal in nature, but non embarrassingly so. On the whole, the poems attempt to discover
