Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Ne=6664&N=3+4006 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667872 Its a curious homecoming for Vince, the son nobody seems to remember. Violence is never far from the surface as his unexpected return uncovers a deep, dark secret that triggers catastrophe in Sam Shepards Pulitzer Prize winning Buried child. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1621958 The play is a powerful account of the case filed by the American Federation for Equal Rights (AFER) in the U.S. District Court in 2010 to overturn Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that eliminated the rights of same-sex couples to marry in the state of California. Framed around the trials historic closing arguments in June 2010, 8 provides an intimate look what unfolded when the issue of same-sex marriage was on trial.--Content Reserve web site. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392363 A searing portrait of the physical, emotional, and psychological costs of the American dream. Willy Loman is the iconic traveling salesman, whose family is torn apart by his desperate obsession with greatness and social acceptance. As his two sons cast about aimlessly for their station in life, Willy begins to come unraveled when the reality of his life threatens his long-cherished illusions. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298974 In 1950s Chicago, three generations of Youngers live in a run-down apartment. As these black Americans struggle to overcome a variety of challenges, hope suddenly looms on the horizon. The familys matriarch is poised to receive insurance money from her husbands death. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1522284 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1608959 A ... play about a family coming to terms with long held secrets. When a once-promising novelist returns home to Palm Springs to visit her parents conflict ensues after she announces the imminent publication of her memoir--a book that focuses on the politically explosive and tragic death of her antiwar-activist brother. With her parents trying to cling to their Reaganesque social status, the family is torn apart and must come to grips with its painful past.--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1391214 Luke and Adam are in love and have been living together for several years even though Luke, a closeted, conservative Christian, feels his homosexual desires are sinful. When Luke is in an accident and dying, his parents arrive on the scene, marginalizing Adam. The play includes flashbacks of Luke and Adams developing relationship, plus the drama unfolding in the hospital. A look at love and marriage, and how we face death, regardless of faith or sexual orientation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1213485 Four couples arrive, in turn, from New York, Philadelphia, London and Chicago and seprately inhabit a suite at The Beverly Hills Hotel, bringing along their problems, anxieties, and comical marital dilemmas. The view from Beverly Hills will never look the same!--Cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1720721 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1110205 In 19th century England, two roguish bachelors unwittingly use the same pseudonym for their romantic activities. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=804342 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1055789 [This drama] is a portrait of the dysfunctional American family at its finest-and absolute worst. When the patriarch of the Weston clan disappears one hot summer night, the family reunites at the Oklahoma homestead, where long-held secrets are unflinchingly and uproariously revealed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=810934 In 1950s Chicago, three generations of Youngers live in a run-down apartment. As these black Americans struggle to overcome a variety of challenges, hope suddenly looms on the horizon. The familys matriarch is poised to receive insurance money from her husbands death. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705960 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=729481 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=721509 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=735714 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=614572 ONeills themes and concerns find expression in his one-act plays which are the dramatic equivalent of short stories. Here are nine one-act plays that span the playwrights career. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=729483 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=724364 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=654179 When Gus Edwards discovered that the majority of the young actors, playwrights, and teachers he encountered didnt know who Nat Turner was - nor many other key men and women in black history - he summoned the power of theatre to correct the situation. Black Heroes in Monologues brings these and other influential African Americans to life once again.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=641817 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=627087 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=649081 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=614408 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=651216 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=734636 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=652989 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=620401 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=707080 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=614400 In the inaugural volume of its collected edition of Millers plays, The Library of America gathers the works from the 1940s and 1950s that electrified theatergoers and established Miller as one of the indispensable voices of the postwar era.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=652987 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=620324 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=620351 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=636796 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=637610 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=604779 One hundred years after the first publication of The Voysey Inheritance, David Mamet resurrects Harley Granville-Barkers classic investigation into the capitalist soul in this adaptation. For generations, the Voysey family business has been secretly skimming money from its clients accounts. When Edward, designated to take over the firm from his aging father, discovers the embezzlement that has been keeping his relatives in a life of luxury, he must weigh the trappings of wealth and the imperative to preserve his familys good name against the better principles of his conscience. But moral righteousness turns to self-protection when he comes to understand fully the consequences of his inheritance.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=561126 Sterling Houston is an innovative African American writer whose plays are known for biting social commentary combined with eye-popping theatricality. Despite many successful productions, his work has never before been widely available in print. The four plays in this collection represent Houstons full range of themes and styles, from Texas history fo African mythology, from farce to domestic drama. All four plays contain characters that actors can sink their teeth into, as well as themes and theatrical techniques of interest to the scholar and the teacher. Houstons is an important voice in theatre, available for the first time to a wide audience.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=749130 Explores the history of Chavez Ravine, the immigrant community that once existed on the site that is now Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=699996 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=619130 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=584901 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=547545 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=634491 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=584897 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=703449 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=534124 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=516050 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=491017 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 now the neighborhood residents are waiting for her proper return. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=381152 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=546386 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=521209 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=500735 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=491018 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=570393 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=514456 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=482729 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=450757 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=491019 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=405301 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=501081 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=486560 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=492918 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=405302 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=450756 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=530118 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=529566 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=488201 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=451080 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=630717 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=529621 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=450747 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=423823 First performed in a hit off-off-Broadway production, and soon to be a film starring Sigourney Weaver and Anthony LaPaglia, The Guys is a timeless drama about the surprising truths people can discover in ordinary lives, and the connections we make with others and ourselves in times of tragedy. Paralyzed by grief and unable to put his thoughts into words, Nick, a fire captain, seeks out the help of a writer to compose eulogies for the colleagues and friends he lost in the catastrophic events of September 11, 2001. As Joan, an editor by trade, draws Nick out about the guys, powerful profiles emerge, revealing vivid personalities and the substance and meaning that lie beneath the surface of seemingly unremarkable people. As the individual talents and enthusiasms of the people within the small firehouse community are realized, we come to understand the uniqueness and value of what each person has to contribute. And Nick and Joan, two people who under normal circumstances never would have met, jump the well-defined tracks of their own lives, and so learn about themselves, about life, and about the healing power of human connection, through talking about the guys.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=440894 Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming women of fashion who have long lived together on the fringes of upper-class society. Anna has just become the mistress of a wealthy man, from whom she has received an enormous emerald and an income to match. Claire, meanwhile, is infatuated with a respectable young lady and wants to enlist the jealous Annas help for an assignation. As the two women exchange barbs and take turns taunting Annas hapless Scottish parlor maid, Claires young inamorata suddenly appears, setting off a crisis that puts both the valuable emerald and the womens futures at risk.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=536484 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=487695 A collection of monologues for teenage girls, exploring such topics as parents, dating, drug abuse, friendship, and sex. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=428646 September 11, 2001, began like any other fall day at Stuyvesant High School near the World Trade Center. Then the attacks happened. In an effort to respond and rebuild, one group of students created with their eyes. Thought-provoking, sometimes funny, always moving, these monologues of their thoughts describe a day that shook their school to its foundation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=431115 Abby Manns Judgment at Nuremberg not only brought some of the worst Nazi atrocities to public attention, but has become, along with Elie Wiesels Night and Anne Franks Diary of a Young Girl, one of the twentieth centurys most important records of the Holocaust. Originally produced on television in 1957, made into an Academy Award-winning film in 1961, and now available in this edition of Manns 2001 Broadway adaptation, Judgment at Nuremberg is as potent and relevant as ever. To this day, the Nuremberg trials stand as a model for international criminal tribunals, due in large measure to the spotlight thrown on them by Manns dramatic interpretation of the historic events. Manns compassion strikes at the heart of human suffering - his achievement has been to reaffirm humanity and justice in the wake of unspeakable evil.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=440896 Playwrights include Shay Youngblood, Imani Harrington, Sandra Rodriquez, Candido Tirado, Marijo, Mario Golden, Chiori Miyagawa, Michael John Garcs, Migdalia Cruz, Carmen Rivera, and Alfonso Ramirez. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=484405 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=423043 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=405016 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=412406 A dinner party in an ornate mansion on the fashionable Upper East Side of Manhattan provides the scene for this witty and incisive play. Set in two eras - the early 1900s and our own Gilded Age - the characters move effortlessly from one period to the other. The host, a contemporary master of high-risk arbitrage, steps in and out of character as a robber baron of an earlier time. His guests of today include a Hollywood director, a not-so-cutting-edge sculptor, an online lingerie designer, an aggressive publicist, and an aging historian. Their counterparts from the past are the great mans rebellious son, a grand dame of New York society, the architect who built the mansion originally, and the maids and servants who maintain it. In this dance of rich storytelling and social commentary, it becomes strikingly clear that while old money has become new, little else has changed over the years. Children still rebel against their controlling parents, women still hope for love, and greed, snobbery, and angst persist. Black-and-white photos within text.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=484404 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=434600 In the latest edition of the 60-year-old series, editor Mark Glubke presents a group of fresh voiced, cutting-edge plays for the new millennium, including Sheri Wilners poignant Relative Strangers, Gary Sunshines lyrical Al Takes a Bride, and Laurence Klavans darkly humorous The Summer Sublet. The plays in this volume are sure to inspire, challenge, and entertain. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=418646 Showcasing several Pulitzer- and Academy Award-winning playwrights, as well as pieces by cutting edge Off-Broadway and regional theater writers, Leading Women presents challenging roles for women of all ages, experiences, and ethnic backgrounds. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=487692 A collection of original monologues for elementary and high school students to use in auditions and competitions, intended to reflect the complex world of today. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=431118 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=725092 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=451240 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=431116 These three plays by Sam Shepard are bold, explosive, and ultimately redemptive dramas propelled by family secrets and illuminated by a searching intelligence. In The Late Henry Moss - which premiered in San Francisco, starring Sean Penn and Nick Nolte - two estranged brothers confront the past as they piece together the drunken fishing expedition that preceded their fathers death. In Eyes for Consuela, based on Octavio Pazs classic story The Blue Bouquet, a vacationing American encounters a knife-toting Mexican bandit on a gruesome quest. And in When the World Was Green, cowritten with Joseph Chaikin, a journalist in search of her father interviews an old man who resolved a generations-old vendetta by murdering the wrong man. Together, these plays form a powerful trio from an enduring force in American theater.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=423171 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=700445 Portrays a mutiny of naval officers aboard the U.S.S. Caine, whose suspicions concerning the sanity of the captain lead to their rebellion and subsequent court-martial. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=369839 A poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone, The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. Hailed as the bible for a new generation of women, it has been performed in cities all across America and at hundreds of college campuses, and has inspired a dynamic grassroots movement -- V-Day -- to stop violence against women. Witty and irreverent, compassionate and wise, Eve Enslers Obie Award-winning masterpiece gives voice to real womens deepest fantasies and fears, guaranteeing that no one who reads it will ever look at a womans body, or think of sex, in quite the same way again.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=316913 Eve Ensler tells the story of two American women, a Park Avenue psychiatrist and a human rights worker, who go to Bosnia to help women confront their memories of war and emerge deeply changed themselves. Necessary Targets is a groundbreaking play about women and war - about the violence of dark memories and the enduring resilience of the human spirit. Melissa, an ambitious young writer, and J.S., a successful but unsatisfied middle-aged psychiatrist, have nothing in common beyond the methods they have been taught to distance themselves from other people. As J.S. begins to feel compassion for the women whose tragedies she has been sent to expose, she turns on Melissa, who finds safety in control. In an unexpected moment of revelation, J.S. and the women she is supposedly treating find a common ground, a place to be taught and a place to learn.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=386655 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=380616 This book collects Lisa Krons two extraordinary solo performance works. Best known for her ongoing work as a member of The Five Lesbian Brothers, Krons solo pieces are very personal examinations of both herself and her family history. This is singularly clear in 2.5 Minute Ride, where her writing deftly maneuvers between the tragic drama of the Holocaust and the wry comedy of her familys attempts to pursue pleasure at the local amusement park. This critically acclaimed work played to sold out audiences for over six months at New Yorks Public Theatre. Also included is the riotous 101 Most Humiliating Stories, which first premiered in 1993, and in fact only consists of seventeen tales but each, as the author observes, has several humiliations. It recounts the adventures and misadventures of a self-described Big Lesbian as she tests the boundaries of decorum in social and professional situations.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=404635 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=362896 One of the most acclaimed plays of recent seasons, Proof explores the unknowability of love as much as it does the mysteries of mathematics. On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a young woman who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, Robert, must deal not only with his death but with the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire, and with the attentions of Hal, a former student of her fathers who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that Robert left behind. As Catherine confronts Hals affections and Claires plans for her life, she struggles to solve the most perplexing problem of all: How much of her fathers madness - or genius - will she inherit?--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=451237