Alibris: American drama

AUDIOBOOKS | NEW BOOKS OF NOTE | BARGAIN BOOKS | Find a seller

» advanced search

Save on a few of their favorite things: Give bargain books

Get your gifts by December 24: Learn how

browse BOOKS

Page 1 of 20

sort by

1	Wit more books like this by Margaret Edson add to wishlist This Pulitzer Prize-winning play concerns the intersection of metaphysical poetry and terminal cancer. The character Vivian Bearing, a prominent professor, assesses her life during a traumatic hospital stay. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.97! \| signed copies \| SVS
2	Raisin in the Sun more books like this by Lorraine Hansberry add to wishlist The award-winning, now classic drama about a working-class African-American family on the South Side of Chicago--their hopes, their dreams, their aspirations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts more books like this by Robert Bolt (Preface by) add to wishlist Robert Bolt's classic play about Thomas More, the Catholic saint beheaded by Henry VIII at the birth of the Church of England, is now in trade paperback for the first time. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.25! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts more books like this by Arthur Miller add to wishlist Set during the Salem witchcraft trials, this play is most famous for its metaphor for McCarthyism--in fact, three years after the play was produced, Miller himself was called before HUAC. In the play, Miller used colonial language to near-poetic effect; the plot involves characters who have to make certain moral choices concerning their ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Death of a salesman certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem more books like this by Arthur Miller add to wishlist Arthur Miller's classic portrait of an ordinary man's struggle to leave his mark on the world -- now in Twentieth-Century Classics for the first time On its New York premiere in 1949, Death of a Salesman was hailed as the first great play to lay bare the emptiness of America's relentless drive for material success. The extraordinary success of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 more books like this by Anna Deavere Smith add to wishlist Anna Deavere Smith used transcripts of interviews she conducted over nine months following the Los Angeles riots to compose this theatrical documentary of the human impact of the violence that has savaged Southern California since the Rodney King verdict. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Zoot Suit and Other Plays more books like this by Luis Valdez add to wishlist Here are three of playwright and screenwriter Luis Valdez's most important and recognized plays: Zoot Suit, Bandido! and I Don't Have to Show You No Stinking Badges! The anthology also includes an introduction by noted theater critic Dr. Jorge Huerta of the University of California-San Diego. Luis Valdez, the most recognized and celebrated ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $10.04! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Two or Three Things I Know for Sure more books like this by Dorothy Allison add to wishlist This memoir by the author of BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA reveals the true story behind Allison's fiction. She explores the effects on her of her troubled childhood that included poverty, an abusive stepfather who raped her when she was 5, and a collection of relatives from whom she received both love and cruelty. Originally a performance piece, this ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Three Plays: Desire Under the Elms; Strange Interlude; Mourning Becomes Electra more books like this by Eugene Gladstone O'Neill add to wishlist Three plays by Eugene O'Neill: "Desire Under the Elms," "Strange Interlude," and "Mourning Becomes Electra." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	All My Sons more books like this by Arthur Miller add to wishlist All my Sons: set by NICCEA at GCSE. Hereford Plays: the best of twentieth-century drama for study and performance. A set of plays that are perfect for class reading and performance, providing effective solutions to today?s teaching needs. Offers the widest range of texts for GCSE and A-Level available. Each play is supported by practical advice ... see all copies from $2.04! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Fires in the Mirror more books like this by Anna Deavere Smith add to wishlist Last year's acclaimed off-Broadway play is as much a commentary on current racial tensions as it is a work of drama. Award-winning writer and solo performer Smith derived her scripts from interviews with people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Crown Heights racial riots. As seen on PBS. Photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	24 Favorite One Act Plays more books like this by Van Cartwell, Bennett A Cerf (Editor), Van H Cartmell (Editor) add to wishlist Two dozen classic dramas by some of the finest and most famous playwrights of the last hundred years--Anton Chekhov, Noel Coward, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Miller, and A.A. Milne. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.29! \| SVS
13 view cover	Plays for Actresses more books like this by Nina Shengold (Editor), N Sheilgold, E Lave add to wishlist The seven full-length and ten one-act selections in "Plays for Actresses" range in tone from the unabashed theatricality of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Three Tall Women" to the blistering black comedy of Laura Cunningham's "Beautiful Bodies". see all copies from $2.53! new only from $11.34! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	A History of African American Theatre more books like this by James V Hatch, Errol Hill, Don B Wilmeth (Editor) add to wishlist This is the first definitive history of African-American theatre. The text embraces a wide geography investigating companies from coast to coast as well as the anglophone Caribbean and African-American companies touring Europe, Australia, and Africa. This history represents a catholicity of styles - from African ritual born out of slavery to ... see all copies from $14.75! new only from $35.55! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Plays by and about Women more books like this by Victoria Sullivan (Editor), James Hatch (Editor) add to wishlist The theater has always been considered a mirror of its time, and many twentieth-century plays have reflected changing views of women. A large number of these, however, have been by men. Here is a volume of eight plays, all written in this century, in which leading women dramatists present their own pictures of their sex. The plays were chosen ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.24! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Our Country's Good more books like this by Timberlake Wertenbaker add to wishlist Australia 1789. A young married lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in that country. With only two copies of the text, a cast of convicts, and one leading lady who may be about to be hanged, conditions are hardly ideal..."Wertenbaker has searched history and found in it a humanistic lesson for hard modern times: ... see all copies from $2.28! new only from $12.45! \| first editions
17 view cover	13 by Shanley: Thirteen Plays more books like this by John Patrick Shanley add to wishlist Includes: "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea", "Welcome to the Moon", "The Red Coat", "Down and Out", "Let Us Go Out Into The Starry Night", "Out West", "A Lonely Impulse of Delight", "Savage in Limbo", "Women of Manhattan", "The Dreamer Examines His Pillow"and "An Italian-American Reconciliation". see all copies from $6.95! new only from $9.58! \| SVS
18 view cover	The Best Plays of .. more books like this by Otis Guernsey (Editor), Al Hirschfeld (Illustrator) add to wishlist Covering one of the most successful New York Theatre seasons in decades, this edition of the Best Plays annuals contains all the many features that make it the indispensable reference work in its field. What distinguishes the series is its unequalled depth and breadth of information on the season just concluded and its records of the key ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.57! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Fool for Love more books like this by Sam Shepard add to wishlist A one-act play that was also made into a full-length movie (starring Shepard), "Fool for Love" tells the story of the emotional give-and-take between two lovers who might also be half-siblings. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| first editions
20 view cover	Six characters in search of an author more books like this by Professor Luigi Pirandello add to wishlist Six people arrive in a theatre during rehearsals for a play. But they are not ordinary people. They are the characters of a play that has not yet been written. Trapped inside a traumatic event from which they long to escape, they desperately need a writer to complete their story and release them. Intrigued by their situation, the director ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Heroes and Saints and Other Plays: Giving Up the Ghost, Shadow of a Man, Heroes and Saints more books like this by Cherrie L Moraga add to wishlist Heroes and Saints and Other Plays is Chicana playwright Cherrie Moraga's premiere collection of theatre. Included are: 'Shadow of a Man', winner of the 1990 Fund for New American Plays Award; 'Heroes and Saints', winner of the Dramalogue, the PEN West, and the Critics Circle awards, as well as the Will Glickman Prize for Best Play of 1992; and ... see all copies from $6.99! new only from $19.14! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays more books like this by Steve Martin add to wishlist Steve Martin is one of America's treasured comedic actors, having appeared in some of the most popular movies of our time. He is also an accomplished screenwriter who has for the past few years turned his attention to writing plays. The results, collected here, demonstrate new facets of the range and talent he possesses on screen. His plays ... see all copies from $3.35! new only from $4.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook: An Actor's Guide to Over 1000 Monologues and Dialogues from More Than 300 Contemporary Plays more books like this by Ed Hooks add to wishlist This invaluable resource is the intelligent actor's alternative to scene books. It lists over 1,000 audition-suitable monologues and dialogues from more than 300 plays and provides important background information on the plot and characters. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
24 view cover	Man for All Seasons more books like this by Robert Bolt add to wishlist A Man for All Seasons dramatises the conflict between King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More. It depicts the confrontation between church and state, theology and politics, absolute power and individual freedom. Throughout the play Sir Thomas More's eloquence and endurance, his purity, saintliness and tenacity in the face of ever-growing threats to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.71! \| first editions \| SVS
25	Butterflies are free. more books like this by Leonard Gershe add to wishlist see all copies from $2.98! new only from $9.98! \| signed copies \| first editions

Page 1 of 20: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next>

Browse authors

Browse subjects

Our Money-Back Guarantee

We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.

	Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald see all from $1.99! new only from $2.19!
	Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams see all from $1.99! new only from $2.50!
	Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison see all from $1.99! new only from $2.51!
	Proof: A Play by David Auburn see all from $1.99! new only from $2.45!
	Pure Drivel by Steve Martin (Read by) see all from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
	Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett see all from $1.99! new only from $4.45!