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The Inheritor
The first English-language translation of the 1968 Théâtre de l’Aquarium activist play about two students from different backgrounds as they prepare for an exam, The Inheritor speaks forcefully as ever on education access and inequality.
Queer Velocities
Series: Rethinking the Early Modern
This book explores the sensations of haste and delay as represented in seventeenth-century French theater. Jennifer Eun-Jung Row proposes that these disruptive velocities—occasions when the tempos of desire subverted society's rhythms and norms—sparked new queer attachments and intimacies.
This Is My Office and Notes on My Mother’s Decline
These plays by Andy Bragen examine the intimacies and shadows that exist between parents and children. How do we care for those we love, and what does it take to live with—and without—them?
Underground, Monroe, and The Mamalogues
This book features three new plays exploring family and race by Lisa B. Thompson, the feminist author of Single Black Female.
Sweet Tea
This book is the stage version of E. Patrick Johnson’s Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History, a groundbreaking text for the fields of black studies, queer studies, and Southern oral history and ethnography.
The Wolf at the End of the Block
Part of award-winning playwright Ike Holter’s seven-play Rightlynd Saga, The Wolf at the End of the Block is a taut thriller that explores the aftermath of a police beating.
Sovereignty
Sovereignty unfolds over two parallel timelines. In present-day Oklahoma, a young Cherokee lawyer, Sarah Ridge Polson, and her colleague Jim Ross defend the inherent jurisdiction of Cherokee...
Comfort Stew
The titular stew of Angela Jackson's urban drama is the spicy meal cooked by the main character, a dish that conjures up memories of her own brief childhood, which she fears will be repeated in the lives of her rebellious daughter Sojourner and neighborhood teen mother Patrice Rodgers.
Prowess
Prowess is a superhero-inspired play by renowned young playwright Ike Holter. The play is one of seven in his Rightlynd Saga, set in Chicago’s fictional fifty-first ward.
Treasure Island
Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman’s highly praised and popular retellinng of Robert Louis Stevenson’s perennial pirate classic, Treasure Island.
The Inheritor
The first English-language translation of the 1968 Théâtre de l’Aquarium activist play about two students from different backgrounds as they prepare for an exam, The Inheritor speaks forcefully as ever on education access and inequality.
Queer Velocities
Series: Rethinking the Early Modern
This book explores the sensations of haste and delay as represented in seventeenth-century French theater. Jennifer Eun-Jung Row proposes that these disruptive velocities—occasions when the tempos of desire subverted society's rhythms and norms—sparked new queer attachments and intimacies.
This Is My Office and Notes on My Mother’s Decline
These plays by Andy Bragen examine the intimacies and shadows that exist between parents and children. How do we care for those we love, and what does it take to live with—and without—them?
Underground, Monroe, and The Mamalogues
This book features three new plays exploring family and race by Lisa B. Thompson, the feminist author of Single Black Female.
Sweet Tea
This book is the stage version of E. Patrick Johnson’s Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History, a groundbreaking text for the fields of black studies, queer studies, and Southern oral history and ethnography.
The Wolf at the End of the Block
Part of award-winning playwright Ike Holter’s seven-play Rightlynd Saga, The Wolf at the End of the Block is a taut thriller that explores the aftermath of a police beating.
Sovereignty
Sovereignty unfolds over two parallel timelines. In present-day Oklahoma, a young Cherokee lawyer, Sarah Ridge Polson, and her colleague Jim Ross defend the inherent jurisdiction of Cherokee...
Comfort Stew
The titular stew of Angela Jackson's urban drama is the spicy meal cooked by the main character, a dish that conjures up memories of her own brief childhood, which she fears will be repeated in the lives of her rebellious daughter Sojourner and neighborhood teen mother Patrice Rodgers.
Prowess
Prowess is a superhero-inspired play by renowned young playwright Ike Holter. The play is one of seven in his Rightlynd Saga, set in Chicago’s fictional fifty-first ward.
Treasure Island
Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman’s highly praised and popular retellinng of Robert Louis Stevenson’s perennial pirate classic, Treasure Island.