Download or read book Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven TCG Edition written by Stephen Adly Guirgis and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Guirgis, a lifelong New Yorker and a properly profane bard of the city, is a wizard at getting language to flow hot, funny, and fast…Guirgis’s rough-cut gem of a play is rich with revelation and barbed empathy.” —Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker Stephen 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 women’s 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 Heaven roaringly brings to life the experiences of women who society has tried to shuffle out of sight and out of mind.
Download or read book Marisol written by José Rivera and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Marisol Perez, a young Latino woman, is a copy editor for a Manhattan publisher. Although she has elevated herself into the white collar class, she continues to live alone in the dangerous Bronx neighborhood of her childhood. As the play
Download or read book In a Word written by Lauren Yee and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today is the two-year anniversary of Fiona's son's disappearance, and still, nothing makes sense to her. Not her blasé husband, the incompetent detective, or the neighborhood kidnapper who keeps introducing himself in the checkout line. As Fiona dives back into her memories of that fateful day, to uncover that crucial missing piece, grief and comedy collide, and ordinary turns of phrase take on dangerous new meanings.
Download or read book Pipeline written by Dominique Morisseau and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 2019 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they’ll never have. When a controversial incident at his upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. But will she be able to reach him before a world beyond her control pulls him away? With profound compassion and lyricism, Pipeline brings an urgent conversation powerfully to the fore. Morisseau pens a deeply moving story of a mother’s fight to give her son a future — without turning her back on the community that made him who he is.
Download or read book The Little Flower of East Orange written by Stephen Adly Guirgis and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Therese Marie arrives in the emergency room of a small hospital in the Bronx, suffering from hypothermia and in shock, no one there knows her story. To the doctors and nurses, she is just another abandoned elderly woman who can't even tell them her name. But Therese Marie's dementia is not all that it seems. And when her prodigal son, Danny, returns to New York, Therese Marie must fight to maintain her dignity in light of her son's insistence on confronting the ugly secrets of their past. In this unconventional family drama, Stephen Adly Guirgis gives us a mother and son who must face a long family legacy of abuse in order to find the true meaning of grace.
Download or read book Our Lady of 121st Street written by Stephen Adly Guirgis and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The Ortiz Funeral Room is in big trouble: The body of beloved community activist and nun Sister Rose has been stolen from the viewing room, and waiting for her proper return are some of New York City's most emotionally charged, life-chal
Download or read book In Arabia We d All be Kings written by Stephen Adly Guirgis and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Lenny is a recently released ex-convict. Despite his imposing size, he was gang raped repeatedly while incarcerated and struggles to find his manhood on the outside. Daisy, his alcoholic girlfriend, craves a real life with a real man
Download or read book Den of Thieves written by Stephen Adly Guirgis and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2004 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Maggie is a newly single, junk-food-binging shoplifter looking to change her life and her self-hating ways. Paul is her passionately convicted, formerly four-hundred-pound compulsive-overeating sponsor in a twelve-step program for recove
Download or read book Father Comes Home From the Wars Parts 1 2 3 written by Suzan-Lori Parks and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning first installment of a new American Odyssey, set over the course of the Civil War.
Download or read book Heroes of the Fourth Turning TCG Edition written by Will Arbery and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Flawless… A work of singular distinction, one for which the word ‘remarkable’ is an understatement. Arbery is a greatly talented writer who has given us a drama as exciting and challenging—nay, daring—as any new play I’ve ever reviewed.” —Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal Finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Night. Wyoming. Four young conservatives have gathered to toast the newly inducted president of their tiny Catholic college. Their reunion spirals into spiritual chaos and clashing generational politics, becoming less a celebration than a vicious fight to be understood. On a dark night, in the middle of America, Will Arbery’s haunting play speaks to the heart of a country at war with itself.
Download or read book Between Riverside and Crazy written by Stephen Adly Guirgis and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Ex-cop and recent widower Walter “Pops” Washington and his newly paroled son Junior have spent a lifetime living between Riverside and crazy. But now, the NYPD is demanding his signature to close an outstanding lawsuit, the landlord wants him out, the liquor store is closed—and the church won’t leave him alone. When the struggle to keep one of New York City’s last great rent-stabilized apartments collides with old wounds, sketchy new houseguests, and a final ultimatum, it seems that the old days may be dead and gone.
Download or read book Mary Jane TCG Edition written by Amy Herzog and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most profound and harrowing of Ms. Herzog’s many fine plays.” —Jesse Green, New York Times Armed with medicines, feeding tubes, and various medical equipment, Mary Jane is a single mother and indefatigable force when it comes to caring for her young, sick child. A moving play about the stalwart endurance of a devoted mother, Mary Jane demonstrates the prevailing strength of the human will when fueled by unconditional love.
Download or read book Jesus Hopped the A Train written by Stephen Adly Guirgis and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Angel Cruz is a thirty-year-old bike messenger from NYC who has lost his best friend to a religious cult. At the opening of the play, he is in his second night of incarceration, awaiting trial for shooting the leader of that cult in the
Download or read book Drunk Enough to Say I Love You written by Caryl Churchill and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest play by Britain's brilliant Caryl Churchill.
Download or read book Green Light written by Martin Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In World War II, the 81st Troop Carrier Squadron dropped paratroopers onto the battlefield, often in the face of heavy fire. This book relates the exploits of the 81st, which mirrored the combat experience of World War II troop carrier units.
Download or read book The Last Days of Judas Iscariot written by Stephen Adly Guirgis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a time-bending, seriocomically imagined world between Heaven and Hell, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a philosophical meditation on the conflict between divine mercy and human free will that takes a close look at the eternal damnation of the Bible's most notorious sinner.--[book cover].
Download or read book Well Large Print 16pt written by Lisa Kron and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed writer/performer Lisa Kron's newest work is all about her Mom. It explores the dynamics of health, family and community with the story of her mother's extraordinary ability to heal a changing neighborhood, despite her inability to heal herself. In this solo show with other people in it, Kron asks the provocative question; Are we responsible for our own illness? But the answers she gets are much more complicated than she bargained for when the play spins dangerously out of control into riotously funny and unexpected territory.
