The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue

The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue
Author: David Grimm
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2006
Genre: Political satire, American
ISBN: 9780822221357

THE STORY: A jazz-age screwball comedy riff on Molière's biting satire of pretense and learning. Betty wants to marry Dicky. Her mother Phyllis, a self-proclaimed intellectual and political activist, has another man in mind--namely, the hack poet an

The Learned Ladies

The Learned Ladies
Author: Molière
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 92
Release: 1977
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822206484

THE STORY: Clitandre seeks the hand of Henriette, a match heartily approved of by her father, Chrysale. However, his wife, Philaminte, has other plans for her younger daughter--namely marriage to Trissotin, a foppish wit who panders to Philaminte's intelle

Rabbit

Rabbit
Author: Nina Raine
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2008
Genre: Birthdays
ISBN: 9780822222569

THE STORY: It's Bella's twenty-ninth birthday. Friends and former lovers meet for a drink to celebrate. But as the Bloody Marys flow, the bar becomes a battlefield. In the uncivil war between the sexes, what happens when the females have the real f

Yemaya's Belly

Yemaya's Belly
Author: Quiara Alegría Hudes
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2007
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822221951

THE STORY: A Cuban boy is born into a humble farming family, but after his first taste of cold Coca-Cola, he dreams of a world beyond his family's meager acre. Naively yearning to meet the President of America, the play follows his epic journey i

Boom

Boom
Author: Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2009
Genre: Armageddon
ISBN: 9780822223702

THE STORY: Sex to Change the Course of the World--A grad student's online personal ad lures a mysterious journalism student to his subterranean research lab under the pretense of an evening of no strings attached sex. But when a major global cat

Dark, No Sugar

Dark, No Sugar
Author: Warren Leight
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2007
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822220596

THE STORIES: Tony Award-winning playwright Warren Leight separates the bitter from the sweet in his new collection of one acts. THE FINAL INTERROGATION OF CEAUSESCU'S DOG. Ceausescu's dog is interrogated shortly after the Romanian revolution. (2 me

100 Saints You Should Know

100 Saints You Should Know
Author: Kate Fodor
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2008
Genre: Faith
ISBN: 9780822222705

THE STORY: Theresa is estranged from her family and working as a cleaning woman when she finds herself surprised by the unexpected desire to learn how to pray. Matthew, the priest whose rectory she cleans, is stunned and heartbroken by the realizat

On the Line

On the Line
Author: Joe Roland
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2007
Genre: Friendship
ISBN: 9780822221937

THE STORY: Three lifelong friends take on management, the union and ultimately each other when a strike wreaks havoc on their working-class town. Along the way they have to negotiate mobs of angry first graders, bat-wielding bartenders, no-neck cor

Life is a Dream

Life is a Dream
Author: Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2008
Genre: Dreams
ISBN: 9780822222347

THE STORY: Astrological omens predict that if King Basilio's son Segismundo is crowned, he will become a horrible tyrant who will bring destruction to his kingdom. Basilio imprisons Segismundo for life, but decades later he decides to let his son p

According to Goldman

According to Goldman
Author: Bruce Graham
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2008
Genre: Husband and wife
ISBN: 9780822222712

THE STORY: In an attempt to get back into the movie business, a screenwriter-turned-professor finds himself in an unorthodox collaboration with a student, while his wife struggles to define their evolving relationship. ACCORDING TO GOLDMAN pits the