by August Wilson Samuel French Bernice and Boy Willie It is 1936, and Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh from the South in a battered truck loaded with watermelons to sell. He has an opportunity to buy some land down home, but he has to come up with the money right quick. He wants to sell […]
by August Wilson Samuel French Cory and Troy This sensational drama starred James Earl Jones as Troy Maxson, a former star of the Negro baseball leagues who now works as a garbage man in 1957 Pittsburgh. Excluded as a black man from the major leagues during his prime, Troy’s bitterness takes its toll...
by Lanford Wilson Dramatists Play Service Carol and Penny THE STORY: At seventeen, Alan visits the California home of his father and his father’s former mistress turned wife. His father’s life now centers around his two young sons, a tiresome job at an aircraft plant, and two teenage girls...
by Lanford Wilson Dramatists Play Service Douglas and Alan THE STORY: At seventeen, Alan visits the California home of his father and his father’s former mistress turned wife. His father’s life now centers around his two young sons, a tiresome job at an aircraft plant, and two teenage girls...
by Lanford Wilson Dramatists Play Service Judy and Rust THE STORY: The setting is an all-night coffee shop on New York’s upper Broadway, where the riff-raff, the bums, the petty thieves, the lost, the desperate of the big city come together. The movement of the kaleidoscopic in effect, a surging...
by Lanford Wilson Dramatists Play Service Pale and Burton THE STORY: The place is a Manhattan loft shared by Anna, a lithe young dancer-choreographer, and her two gay roommates—her collaborator, Robby, who has just been killed in a freak boating accident, and Larry, a world-weary, caustically funny...
by George C. Wolf Dramatists Play Service Man, Kid THE STORY: THE COLORED MUSEUM has electrified, discomforted, and delighted audiences of all colors, redefining our ideas of what it means to be black in contemporary America. Its eleven “exhibits” undermine black stereotypes old and new and return...
By Anthony Wood Playscripts Pink Wasp and Mole man The Pink WASP and his long-suffering sidekick Yellow Jacket combat a gang of ridiculous villains in this spoof of TV superheroes like the Green Hornet. The play revels in the thick-headed political incorrectness that permeated society in the early 1960s,...
