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A classic work of American theatre, based on the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, which pitted Clarence Darrow against William Jennings Bryan in defense of a schoolteacher accused of teaching the theor

Set in the First World War, Journey's End concerns a group of British officers on the front line and opens in a dugout in the trenches in France.

Richard III belongs to Shakespeare's folio of King Richard plays, and is the longest of his plays after Hamlet.

Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work.

Anyone who's never watched someone die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity. Look Back in Anger premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1956.

One of Shakespeare's early comedies, Love's Labour's Lost follows the travails of the King of Navarre and three of his companions as they make a vow to eschew the attentions of women

David Henry Hwang’s beautiful, heartrending play featuring an afterword by the author – winner of a 1988 Tony Award for Best Play and nominated for the 1989 Pulitzer Prize Based on a true story tha

Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and one of his best-known plays. Often referred to as an archetypal tale, it warns against lust for power and the betrayal of friends.

In his very first attempt at playwriting, British author G.K.

Anna Deavere Smith's stunning new work of "documentary theater," in which she uses verbatim the words of people who experienced the Los Angeles riots to expose and explore the devast

A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival—featuring an introduction by David Mamet A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot an

A landmark in women's empowerment—as relevant as ever in the age of #MeToo—that honors female sexuality in all its complexity.

The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C.

A timeless statement about human foibles...and human endurance, The Skin of Our Teeth is Thornton Wilder's brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning play, now reissued with a beautiful new cover and u

Two of Tennessee Williams's most revered dramas in a single paperback edition for the first time.