The Credeaux Canvas

The Credeaux Canvas
Author: Keith Bunin
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780822218388

THE STORY: Winston, a young painter, shares an East Village apartment with Jamie, the son of a prominent art dealer. The death of Jamie's father, who has disinherited him, sets him spinning into the depths of despair. It seems that neither Winston

Tartuffe

Tartuffe
Author: Molière
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1991
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822211112

THE STORY: The story takes place in the home of the wealthy Orgon, where Tartuffe--a fraud and a pious imposter--has insinuated himself. He succeeds magnifi-cently in winning the respect and devotion of the head of the house and then tries to marry h

Endpapers

Endpapers
Author: Thomas McCormack
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2003
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822219088

THE STORY: The regal Joshua Maynard, the old and ailing head of Joshua Maynard Books, a mid-sized, family-owned book-publishing house in New York City, must name a successor. One faction in the house backs a smart, pragmatic manager, the other fa

Ned Crocker

Ned Crocker
Author: Robin Short
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1968
Genre: Humorous plays
ISBN: 9780822208075

THE STORY: The place is rural New England, the time the latter part of the nineteenth century. Ned Crocker, a twelve-year-old trained from infancy as a bare-back rider, runs away from the circus and works as a stable boy for a young New England spi

The Past is the Past ; And, Gettin' it Together

The Past is the Past ; And, Gettin' it Together
Author: Richard Wesley
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1979
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822208792

THE STORIES: THE PAST IS THE PAST. The scene is a pool hall, where Earl Davis, a man in his mid-forties, plays a solitary game. He is joined by Eddie Green, a young college student, who watches the older man in silence, and then challenges him to a

The Ten O'clock Scholar

The Ten O'clock Scholar
Author: Lewis Banci
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1969
Genre:
ISBN: 9780822211174

THE STORY: Walker McCormick is a perennial graduate student (and college instructor) who has put off writing his Ph.D. thesis so many times that his no-longer-patient wife, Nell, has decided on divorce and a fresh start--this time with a real go-get

Brotherhood

Brotherhood
Author: Douglas Turner Ward
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 28
Release: 1970
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822201588

Music from a Sparkling Planet

Music from a Sparkling Planet
Author: Douglas Carter Beane
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2002
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822218593

THE STORY: Whatever became of Tamara Tomorrow? In the early seventies, this local television host, in her antennae and space suit, made cheery predictions of how exciting the future was going to be. Her sudden disappearance from the public eye was

The Beauty Queen of Leenane

The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Author: Martin McDonagh
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1999
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822216643

THE STORY: Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag, her manipulative aging mother, whose interference in Maur

La Bête

La Bête
Author: David Hirson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1992
Genre: Actors
ISBN: 9780822206217

THE STORY: The play is set in France in 1654, and revolves around an upheaval in a famous acting troupe. Elomire, the troupe's renowned leader, is furious because Prince Conti, the troupe's patron, is forcing a street performer, Valere, upon them.