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  • A Free Man of Color

    by John Guare ...
    The Tony Award-winning playwright spins "a tale of adultery, racism and the Louisiana Purchase…with daring and dizzying skill" (Ben Brantley, The New York Times).The author of classics American plays such as Six Degrees of Separation and The House of Blue Leaves, Tony and Obie Award-winning playwright John Guare is celebrated for his theatrically playful, intellectually dazzling imagination. His ... Read more

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  • Landscape of the Body

    A Play

    by John Guare ...
    Death, desire, and tabloid sensationalism converge in "this delirious heartbreaker of a comedy" by the Tony Award-winning playwright (Ben Brantley, The New York Times).Along with Six Degrees of Separation and The House of Blue Leaves, Landscape of the Body is one of John Guare's most celebrated plays. It tells the story of a woman's unfulfilled life and premature death—and her reflections from the ... Read more

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  • The House of Blue Leaves and Chaucer in Rome

    Two Plays

    by John Guare ...
    From an American playwright who "is in a class by himself," two acclaimed plays linked by a character who comes of age in the sixties. ( The New York Times)In John Guare's classic play The House of Blue Leaves, winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play, the Pope is visiting New York, and eighteen-year-old Ronnie goes AWOL from the army to come home to New York and blow up the ... Read more

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  • Lydie Breeze

    by John Guare ...
    "Two previously produced full-length plays . . . welded into a seamless whole . . . is wonderful theater and satisfying, compelling reading." — BooklistFrom award winning playwright John Guare, an extensive reworking of his two 1981 plays about a nineteenth-century commune in Nantucket. Lydie Breeze is a two-play, six-hour cycle about four seekers who come to the island to create a special model ... Read more

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  • Six Degrees of Separation

    A Play

    by John Guare ...
    In this soaring and deeply provacative tragicomedy of race, class, and manners, John Guare has created the msot important American play in years. Six Degrees of Separation is one of those rare works that capture both the supercharged pulse of our present era and the deepest and most mysterious movements of the human heart.Six Degrees of Separation won the 1990 New York Drama Critics Circle Award ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A Few Stout Individuals

    by John Guare ...
    Ulysses S. Grant faces mortality and his own failing memory in this "exciting and vivid" play by the Tony Award-winning author of Six Degrees of Separation (Michael Feingold, Village Voice).Arthur Schlesinger calls A Few Stout Individuals "a political extravaganza." This latest work from award-winning playwright John Guare, author of House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation, addresses ... Read more

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  • An Enemy of the People

    An Adaptation of the Play by Henrik Ibsen

    by Arthur Miller, Arthur Miller ...
    A Penguin ClassicWhen Dr. Stockmann discovers that the water in the small Norwegian town in which he is the resident physician has been contaminated, he does what any responsible citizen would do: reports it to the authorities. But Stockmann's good deed has the potential to ruin the town's reputation as a popular spa destination, and instead of being hailed as a hero, Stockmann is labeled an enemy ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Four Baboons Adoring the Sun and Other Plays

    by John Guare ...
    The setting is Sicily, the island where the gods once spent their holidays. The principals are a newlywed couple in their forties, who hope to meld the children of their previous marriages into a brave, new, postnuclear family. But in John Guare's vastly original and eerily beautiful new play, any family may be reconstructed as a tragic pantheon, enacting passion as ancient as the strata of an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume I

    by Thornton Wilder ...
    Series Book 1 - The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder
    Thornton Wilder, author of such landmark works for the stage as Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth as well as the classic novel The Bridges of San Luis Rey is considered one of America's greatest man of letters. This two volume publication collects the complete short works for the stage, including a never-before-published one act play. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Beautiful Province

    by Mr. Clarence Coo ...
    Series series Yale Drama Series
    The 2012 winner of the Yale Drama SeriesA fifteen-year-old boy decides to accompany his severely depressed high school French teacher on a road trip to the Canadian province of Quebec, where the mother tongue of Voltaire and Balzac is still spoken and cherished. Clarence Coo’s mesmerizing new play is a delicious amalgam of farce and tragedy, a carnival funhouse with very dark corners. Wildly ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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    Lots of Laughs!

    by Nicholson Baker, John Updike, David Schickler, Etgar Keret, Leonard Michaels, Neil Gaiman, Ron Carlson ...
    Narrated by Thomas Gibson, Charles Keating, Christina Pickles, David Rakoff, Isaiah Sheffer, John Guare, Laura Esterman ...
    Series series Selected Shorts

    Unabridged

    3 hours 5 min

    Selected Short's most popular volume! Over three hours of stories to tickle your funny bone.Nicholson Baker's "Subsoil"performed by Thomas GibsonA darkly comic thriller about a tractor historian besieged by man-eating potatoes.David Schickler's "Jamaica"performed by Isaiah ShefferA man with his head stuck between the banisters has no choice but to listen in on his wife's "Gorgon Book Club."Neil ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    House of Blue Leaves, The

    by John Guare ...
    Narrated by Sharon Gless, Ron Leibman, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 31 min

    John Guare poignant Obie Award-winning comedy unfolds in New York City on the day the Pope is expected to visit. Hearts are palpitating in the sleepy borough of Queens, but not entirely on account of His Holiness. Bunny Flingus, a femme-fatale from Flushing (or thereabouts) is stirring things up in the quiet, unfulfilled life of aspiring songwriter Artie Shaughnessy. Artie longs to leave his ... Read more

    $6.99 USD