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This Pride, we are celebrating great plays by LGBTQIA+ playwrights!⁠For our final Pride Play, we ae highlighting Brief C...
27/06/2024

This Pride, we are celebrating great plays by LGBTQIA+ playwrights!⁠

For our final Pride Play, we ae highlighting Brief Chronicle Books 6-8 by Agnes Borinsky from our Partner Publisher 53rd State Press!

In Brief Chronicle, Books 6–8, Agnes Borinsky delivers a play in a single column. A history play that grounds epic themes—longing, violence and imperialism, and the bond between mother and son—in the quiet ways we talk.

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This Pride, we are celebrating great plays by LGBTQIA+ playwrights!⁠Today we are highlighting Marie Antoinette / 3C by D...
25/06/2024

This Pride, we are celebrating great plays by LGBTQIA+ playwrights!⁠

Today we are highlighting Marie Antoinette / 3C by David Adjmi!

The first play in this dual volume is Marie Antoinette. The eyes of the court are on Marie Antoinette. Times change, and even the most fashionable queens go out of style. Drawing comparison of the gluttonous excess of Marie’s era to the decadent materialism of the present day, Marie Antoinette holds up a mirror to our contemporary society, which just might be entertaining itself to death.

This volume also includes 3C. The war in Vietnam is over and Brad, an ex-serviceman, lands in L.A. to start a new life. When he winds up trashed in Connie and Linda’s kitchen after a wild night of partying, the three strike a deal for an arrangement that has hilarious and devastating consequences for everyone. Inspired by 1970s sitcoms and 1950s existentialist comedy, 3C is a terrifying yet amusing look at a culture that likes to amuse itself—even as it teeters on the brink of ruin.

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This Pride, we are celebrating great plays by LGBTQIA+ playwrights!⁠Today we are highlighting Indecent by Paula Vogel, w...
20/06/2024

This Pride, we are celebrating great plays by LGBTQIA+ playwrights!⁠

Today we are highlighting Indecent by Paula Vogel, which tells the behind-the-scenes saga of the classic Yiddish play God of Vengeance by Sholem Asch.

When Sholem Asch wrote God of Vengeance in 1907, he didn’t imagine the height of controversy the play would eventually reach. Performing at first in Yiddish and German, the play’s subject matter wasn’t deemed contentious until it was produced in English, when the American audiences were scandalized by the onstage depiction of an amorous affair between two women. Paula Vogel’s newest work traces the trajectory of the show’s success through its tour in Europe to its abrupt and explosive demise on Broadway in 1923—including the arrest of the entire production’s cast and crew.

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This Pride, we are celebrating great plays by LGBTQIA+ playwrights!⁠Today we're highlighting Su***de Forest by Haruna LE...
18/06/2024

This Pride, we are celebrating great plays by LGBTQIA+ playwrights!⁠

Today we're highlighting Su***de Forest by Haruna LEe, published by our Partner Publisher 53rd State Press.

Written to be performed by a Japanese heritage cast, Su***de Forest is a bilingual play that breaks through the silence and submissiveness often associated with Japanese and Japanese American identity, exploring questions of emotional, psychic and social su***de through the playwright's lived stories and inner landscape.

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This Pride, we are celebrating great plays and musicals by LGBTQIA+ playwrights!⁠Today we are highlighting A Strange Loo...
13/06/2024

This Pride, we are celebrating great plays and musicals by LGBTQIA+ playwrights!⁠

Today we are highlighting A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson, a radical, metafictional musical wherein a q***r black writer confronts the impossibility of fully understanding the self.

Usher is a Black, q***r writer, working a day job he hates while writing his original musical: a piece about a Black, q***r writer, working a day job he hates while writing his original musical. This blistering musical follows a young artist at war with a host of demons—not least of which are the punishing thoughts in his own head—in an attempt to understand his own strange loop.

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Congratulations to James Ijames, winner of the 2024 Lammy award in LGBTQ+ Drama for Fat Ham! Since 1989, the Lambda Lite...
12/06/2024

Congratulations to James Ijames, winner of the 2024 Lammy award in LGBTQ+ Drama for Fat Ham! Since 1989, the Lambda Literary Awards have celebrated the very best in LGBTQ+ literature. Congrats, James!

This Pride, we are celebrating great plays by LGBTQIA+ playwrights!⁠Every Day She Rose by Andrea Scott and Nick Green, f...
11/06/2024

This Pride, we are celebrating great plays by LGBTQIA+ playwrights!⁠

Every Day She Rose by Andrea Scott and Nick Green, from our Partner Publisher Playwrights Canada Press, is a powerful exploration of white supremacy, privilege, and patriarchy in supposed safe spaces.

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After the Black Lives Matter protest at the 2016 Toronto Pride Parade, two friends find their racial and q***r politics aren’t as aligned as they thought, and the playwrights behind them must figure out how to write about the fallout.

Cathy Ann, a straight Black woman, and her roommate Mark, a gay white man, came home from the parade with such differing views of what happened and how it affected their own communities. Cathy Ann agrees with the protest that the police presence at the parade doesn’t make her feel safe, while Mark felt safer with them there, especially in the wake of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. Frustrated he can’t see the bigger issue, Cathy Ann questions if she can continue living with Mark. Simultaneously, playwrights Andrea and Nick—who share the same identities as their characters—pause throughout the show to figure out how to work together to tell the story of a significant turning point in a friendship.

Join us on Wednesday, June 12th at 2 PM ET for an Instagram Live with Rainn Wilson and Todd London in celebration of The...
10/06/2024

Join us on Wednesday, June 12th at 2 PM ET for an Instagram Live with Rainn Wilson and Todd London in celebration of The Long Revolution: Sixty Years on the Frontlines of a New American Theater by Zelda Fichandler, edited by Todd London.

Join us on our Instagram page at https://www.instagram.com/bookstcg/

Rainn Wilson, who was a student of Zelda’s at NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, is an acclaimed actor and writer. He played the iconic role of Dwight Schrute on The Office, receiving three consecutive Emmy nominations for the role. He is also the cofounder of media company Soul Pancake and the host of Soul Boom, a podcast covering creativity, spirituality and psychology. Wilson is also a star of the new film Ezra, in theaters now!

Todd London is a wearer of many hats in the American theatre, including writer, administrator, and educator. For 18 years he was an artistic director at New Dramatists. London was the first Managing Editor of American Theatre magazine and has published several books with TCG, including An Ideal Theater: Founding Visions for a New American Art and The Artistic Home: Discussions with Artistic Directors of America’s Institutional Theatres.

This Pride, we are celebrating great plays by LGBTQIA+ playwrights!First up, The Intelligent Homos*xual's Guide to Capit...
04/06/2024

This Pride, we are celebrating great plays by LGBTQIA+ playwrights!

First up, The Intelligent Homos*xual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures by Tony Kushner! In this extraordinary play from the renowned author of Angels in America, retired longshoreman Gus Marcantonio summons his adult children home to the family’s Brooklyn brownstone to discuss his recent decision to commit su***de. With his trademark mix of soaring intel­lect, searing emotion, and biting wit, Kushner unfurls an epic tale of revolu­tion, radicalism, family, love, s*x, politics, real estate, unions, and debts both unpaid and unpayable.

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Happy Pub Day for Corsicana / Evanston Salt Costs Climbing by Will Arbery!In this two-play volume, acclaimed playwright ...
28/05/2024

Happy Pub Day for Corsicana / Evanston Salt Costs Climbing by Will Arbery!

In this two-play volume, acclaimed playwright Will Arbery explores the dynamics within tight-knit communities of outsiders working together to persevere against despair, whether intimate or cosmic. From wildly different angles, Corsicana and Evanston Salt Costs Climbing both examine the shape-shifting specters of grief, the pull of desire and dreams, and the universal human need for receiving and giving care.

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We are so excited to announce that next Wednesday, May 29th at 4:30 PM ET, we will host a special TCG Books Presents pan...
23/05/2024

We are so excited to announce that next Wednesday, May 29th at 4:30 PM ET, we will host a special TCG Books Presents panel discussion featuring Lauren Yee, Haruna Lee, Shayok Misha Chowdhury, and Dr. Ju Yon Kim on the past, present, and future of Asian American & Pacific Islander drama! This discussion will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel. ⁠

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP6M9hCsqrg

Lauren Yee is a playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include Cambodian Rock Band (with music by Dengue Fever), The Great Leap, and King of the Yees. Cambodian Rock Band and The Great Leap and Other Plays are forthcoming from TCG Books.⁠

Haruna Lee (they/them) is a Taiwanese/Japanese/American theater maker, screenwriter, educator and community steward. Plays include War Le***an, Memory Retrograde, plural (love) and Su***de Forest for which they received an Obie Award for Playwriting and Conception and was on the 2020 Kilroys List. ⁠

Shayok Misha Chowdhury is the Obie and Whiting Award winning writer and director of Public Obscenities, recently named one of three finalists for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Currently, he is collaborating with his physicist mother on a concert-memoir called Rheology, for which he was awarded a Sundance Asian American Fellowship. The piece will premiere at The Bushwick Starr next year, as a co-production with HERE Arts Center and Ma-Yi Theatre Company. ⁠

Ju Yon Kim is the Patsy Takemoto Mink Professor of English at Harvard University. Her research and teaching interests include modern and contemporary American literature and theater, with a particular focus on Asian American culture. Her first book, The Racial Mundane: Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday, received the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize from the New England American Studies Association. Kim serves on the board of Boston’s Company One Theatre.

Happy Publication Day to Clyde's by Lynn Nottage! Get your copy of this funny, moving, and urgent new play from two-time...
21/05/2024

Happy Publication Day to Clyde's by Lynn Nottage! Get your copy of this funny, moving, and urgent new play from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage today!⁠

With a chance at reclaiming their lives, the formerly incarcerated people working at Clyde’s, a roadside sandwich stop, strive hard to overcome their personal challenges. Not so easy under their boss Clyde. In this razor-sharp comedy, this motley crew of line cooks, under a visionary chef, are given purpose and permission to dream through their shared quest to create the perfect sandwich.⁠

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Happy Publication Day to Clyde's by Lynn Nottage! Get your copy of this funny, moving, and urgent new play from two-time...
21/05/2024

Happy Publication Day to Clyde's by Lynn Nottage! Get your copy of this funny, moving, and urgent new play from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage today!⁠

With a chance at reclaiming their lives, the formerly incarcerated people working at Clyde’s, a roadside sandwich stop, strive hard to overcome their personal challenges. Not so easy under their boss Clyde. In this razor-sharp comedy, this motley crew of line cooks, under a visionary chef, are given purpose and permission to dream through their shared quest to create the perfect sandwich.⁠

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TCG Books is thrilled to publish our tenth title by Sarah Ruhl, Becky Nurse of Salem! Becky Nurse of Salem is a wry, inn...
14/05/2024

TCG Books is thrilled to publish our tenth title by Sarah Ruhl, Becky Nurse of Salem! Becky Nurse of Salem is a wry, innovative reckoning with the legacy of the Salem witch trials from one of America’s foremost playwrights.

Becky Nurse is an outspoken, sharp-witted tour guide at the Salem Museum of Witchcraft who’s just trying to get by in post-Obama America. She’s also the descendant of Rebecca Nurse, who was infamously executed for witchcraft in 1692—but things have changed for women since then…haven’t they? After losing her job for calling out The Crucible in front of schoolkids, Becky visits a local witch for help. One spell leads to another, and then everything really goes off the rails. A darkly comic play about a woman coming to terms with her family’s legacy and finding her voice in the “lock her up” era.

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Thank you to everyone who joined us at The Center for Fiction for last night's wonderful conversation with Branden Jacob...
03/05/2024

Thank you to everyone who joined us at The Center for Fiction for last night's wonderful conversation with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Jocelyn Bioh!

Our next event at Center for Fiction is a celebration of My Broken Language by Quiara Alegría Hudes on Monday, May 13th at 7 PM ET. In this memoir-turned-play, Hudes showcases a handful of key life moments that mark subtle changes in her sense of self and her place in the world. Interlaid between these vignettes are moments of song, dance, and ritual that evoke her boisterous girlhood in a house run by the Perez women. Featuring performances by the original cast (Yadira Correa, Zabryna Guevara, Yani Marin, Samora la Perdida, Daphne Rubin-Vega, and Marilyn Torres) and a rich discussion with Hudes on her coming of age, the craft of book-to-stage adaptation, and the communal nature of autobiography, this is a can’t-miss event. After the event, Hudes will sign copies of the play.

Tickets are available at https://centerforfiction.org/event/story-teller-arts-quiara-alegria-hudes-on-my-broken-language/

The Center for Fiction and TCG Books are thrilled to welcome Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, one of America’s most inventive and...
17/04/2024

The Center for Fiction and TCG Books are thrilled to welcome Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, one of America’s most inventive and profound playwrights, in conversation with Jocelyn Bioh on Thursday, May 2 at 7pm ET at The Center for Fiction, 15 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217, and via livestream. This event will celebrate the publication of the revised edition of Appropriate / An Octoroon, including changes made to Appropriate for its current critically-acclaimed Broadway run.

Appropriate unearths the buried secrets of a dysfunctional family as they gather at a former plantation home to sift through the belongings of their deceased patriarch.

An Octoroon is an audacious investigation of a 1859 play about slavery with a metatheatrical, surreal punch. In 2018, The New York Times named An Octoroon the second-best American play since Angels in America.

Award-winning Ghanaian-American writer/performer Jocelyn Bioh (Jaja’s African Hair Braiding) will join Jacobs-Jenkins in conversation. After the event, Jacobs-Jenkins will sign copies of the book.

https://centerforfiction.org/event/story-teller-arts-branden-jacobs-jenkins-on-appropriate-an-octoroon-with-jocelyn-bioh/

Join us on our YouTube Channel on Monday, April 15th at 6:30 PM EST for Zelda: Her Words, Her Vision, Her Legacy.This ev...
03/04/2024

Join us on our YouTube Channel on Monday, April 15th at 6:30 PM EST for Zelda: Her Words, Her Vision, Her Legacy.

This event will celebrate the release of The Long Revolution: Sixty Years on the Frontlines of a New American Theater by Zelda Fichandler, edited by Todd London (TCG Books) and To Repair the World: Zelda Fichandler and the Transformation of American Theater by Mary B. Robinson (Routledge).

Corey Stoll (Billions, Appropriate), Maggie Siff (Billions), Karen Pittman (The Morning Show, And Just Like That), Nadia Bowers (Macbeth), Cherise Boothe (The Ally), and Miriam Silverman (The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window; Tony Award) will perform excerpts from both books.

The event will also include a panel discussion featuring Todd London, Mary B. Robinson, Carl Cofield (Chair, NYU Grad Acting), Patricia McGregor (Artistic Director, NYTW), Hana Sharif (Artistic Director, Arena Stage), and Bill Rauch (Artistic Director, PAC).

Register for an event reminder at the link below:
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Please join Todd London and Arena Stage Artistic Director Hana S. Sharif in conversation to celebrate the release of Zel...
01/04/2024

Please join Todd London and Arena Stage Artistic Director Hana S. Sharif in conversation to celebrate the release of Zelda Fichandler’s The Long Revolution: Sixty Years on the Frontlines of a New American Theater edited by Todd London, from TCG Books. Todd will lead a book-signing in the lobby following the conversation.

WHERE? The Robert & Arlene Kogod Cradle at Arena Stage
WHEN? Tuesday, April 9 at 6:30 p.m.

​This volume gathers sixty years of essays, speeches, and manifestos by the founding mother of the resident professional theatre movement. As Founding Artistic Director of Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and chair of New York University’s Graduate Acting program, the late Zelda Fichandler changed the where and how of the American theatre. The Long Revolution collects Fichandler’s most prescient writing about that movement, ranging over such topics as The Institution as Art-Work, the Profit in NonProfit, Race and a Deepening Aesthetic, and Creativity and the Public Mind. It also includes intimate portraits of artists with whom she frequently collaborated and director’s notes from the major productions that defined her vision. Celebrated as the defining architect and builder of the most sweeping transformation of twentieth-century American theatre, her brilliant writing reestablishes Fichandler as one of its most expansive and provocative thinkers.

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This March, TCG Books is celebrating Women's History Month by highlighting great plays by women playwrights.⁠ Five decad...
28/03/2024

This March, TCG Books is celebrating Women's History Month by highlighting great plays by women playwrights.⁠

Five decades after Gloria Steinem began raising her voice for equality and championing the voices of others, she remains a leader of the American feminist movement. Emily Mann’s play traces the progress of Steinem’s extraordinary life, from her undercover Pl***oy Bunny exposé in the 1960s, through her founding of Ms. Magazine in the 1970s, to her activism in today’s women’s movement.

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This March, TCG Books is celebrating Women's History Month by highlighting great plays by women playwrights.⁠When she wa...
26/03/2024

This March, TCG Books is celebrating Women's History Month by highlighting great plays by women playwrights.⁠

When she was fifteen years old, Heidi Schreck started traveling the country, taking part in constitutional debates to earn money for her college tuition. Decades later, in What the Constitution Means to Me, she traces the effect that the Constitution has had on four generations of women in her family, deftly examining how the United States’ founding principles are inextricably linked with our personal lives.

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This March, TCG Books is celebrating Women's History Month by highlighting great plays by women playwrights.⁠A rain fore...
21/03/2024

This March, TCG Books is celebrating Women's History Month by highlighting great plays by women playwrights.⁠

A rain forest bar and brothel in the brutally war-torn Congo is the setting for Lynn Nottage’s extraordinary new play. The establishment’s shrewd matriarch, Mama Nadi, keeps peace between customers from both sides of the civil war, as government soldiers and rebel forces alike choose from her inventory of women, many already “ruined” by r**e and torture when they were pressed into prostitution. Inspired by interviews she conducted in Africa with Congo refugees, Nottage has crafted an engrossing and uncommonly human story with humor and song served alongside its postcolonial and feminist politics in the rich theatrical tradition of Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage.

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This March, TCG Books is celebrating Women's History Month by highlighting great plays by women playwrights.⁠⁠After thei...
19/03/2024

This March, TCG Books is celebrating Women's History Month by highlighting great plays by women playwrights.⁠

After their father dies, five siblings find themselves around the kitchen table of their childhood, pouring whiskey and sharing memories. The eldest, Ann, reminisces about her days playing Peter Pan at the local children’s theater, and soon the five are transported back to Neverland. For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday is a fantastical exploration of the enduring bonds of family, the resistance to “growing up,” and the inevitability of growing old.⁠

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This March, TCG Books is celebrating Women's History Month by highlighting great plays by women playwrights.⁠⁠The Red Le...
14/03/2024

This March, TCG Books is celebrating Women's History Month by highlighting great plays by women playwrights.⁠

The Red Letter Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks collects two haunting riffs on Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter: In the Blood and Fu***ng A.⁠

Hester La Negrita of In the Blood is an unapologetic mother of five illegitimate children—"my treasures, my five joys"—who practices writing the alphabet to help herself "one day get a leg up. The letter A is as far as she gets. Hester Smith of Fu***ng A works the only job available—abortionist to the lower class, in order to save for a reunion picnic with her imprisoned son. Her branded A bleeds afresh every time a patient comes to see her.⁠

These are two mature, beautifully crafted, inventive and poetic plays by one of the most unique voices writing for the stage today.⁠

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This March, TCG Books is celebrating Women's History Month by highlighting great plays by women playwrights.⁠Amid the ch...
12/03/2024

This March, TCG Books is celebrating Women's History Month by highlighting great plays by women playwrights.⁠

Amid the chaos of the Liberian Civil War, the captive wives of a rebel officer band together to form a fragile community—until the balance of their lives is upset by the arrival of a new girl. Drawing on reserves of wit and compassion, Eclipsed reveals distinct women who must discover their own means of survival in this chilling and humanizing story of transformation and renewal in a hostile world of horrors not of their own making.

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Happy Publication Day to The Long Revolution: Sixty Years on the Frontlines of a New American Theatre by Zelda Fichandle...
12/03/2024

Happy Publication Day to The Long Revolution: Sixty Years on the Frontlines of a New American Theatre by Zelda Fichandler, edited by Todd London!

This volume gathers sixty years of essays, speeches, and manifestos by the founding mother of the resident professional theatre movement. As a founder and artistic director of the flagship Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and chair of New York University’s Graduate Acting program, the late Zelda Fichandler changed the where and how of the American theatre. The Long Revolution gathers Fichandler’s most prescient writing about that movement, ranging over such topics as The Institution as Art-Work, the Profit in NonProfit, Race and a Deepening Aesthetic, and Creativity and the Public Mind. It also includes intimate portraits of artists with whom she frequently collaborated and director’s notes from the major productions that defined her vision. Celebrated as the defining architect and builder of the most sweeping transformation of twentieth-century American theatre, her brilliant writing reestablishes Fichandler as one of its most expansive and provocative thinkers.

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This March, TCG Books is celebrating Women's History Month by highlighting great plays by women playwrights.Armed with m...
07/03/2024

This March, TCG Books is celebrating Women's History Month by highlighting great plays by women playwrights.

Armed with medicines, feeding tubes, and various medical equipment, Mary Jane is a single mother and indefatigable force when it comes to caring for her young, chronically ill child. A moving play about the stalwart endurance of a devoted mother, Mary Jane demonstrates the prevailing strength of the human will when fueled by unconditional love.

Mary Jane is coming to Broadway this April in a production directed by Anne Kaufmann and starring Rachel McAdams.

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Happy Publication Day to Martyna Majok! Ironbound & Sanctuary City is available now!This book collects two compelling, u...
05/03/2024

Happy Publication Day to Martyna Majok! Ironbound & Sanctuary City is available now!

This book collects two compelling, uncompromising plays about the immigrant experience by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Cost of Living. With humor, grace, and an unsentimental eye, Martyna Majok explores the challenges immigrants face as they strive to carve out a place in a harsh and often indifferent America.

In Ironbound, Darja, a Polish immigrant, negotiates the terms for her future at a rundown bus stop in New Jersey. Over the course of 20 years and three relationships, Darja’s initial search for love becomes eclipsed by her desire for security and survival.

In Sanctuary City, two undocumented teenagers seek refuge in each other and make a pact to stake their claim in America together. But as their experiences and opportunities diverge, their bonds begin to fray, and each must make a difficult choice about what they are willing to sacrifice for their dreams.

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Appropriate is an examination of the legacy of anti-Black racism, as well as a thrilling family drama. An Octoroon is an...
29/02/2024

Appropriate is an examination of the legacy of anti-Black racism, as well as a thrilling family drama. An Octoroon is an audacious investigation of theatre and identity, wherein an old play gives way to a startlingly original piece.

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Trouble in Mind, written in 1955, follows the rehearsal process of an anti-lynching play preparing for its Broadway debu...
27/02/2024

Trouble in Mind, written in 1955, follows the rehearsal process of an anti-lynching play preparing for its Broadway debut. When Wiletta, a Black actress and veteran of the stage, challenges the play’s stereotypical portrayal of the Black characters, unsettling biases come to the forefront and reveal the ways so-called progressive art can be used to uphold racist attitudes. Scheduled to open on Broadway in 1957, Childress objected to the requested changes in the script that would “sanitize” the play for mainstream audiences, and the production was canceled as a result. Childress’s final script is published here with an essay by playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, editor of TCG Illuminations.

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In a continuation of our partnership with The Center for Fiction, Tony Kushner will discuss his recently published play ...
26/02/2024

In a continuation of our partnership with The Center for Fiction, Tony Kushner will discuss his recently published play The Intelligent Homos*xual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures in conversation with author Isaac Butler (The World Only Spins Forward, The Method) on Tuesday, February 27th at 7 PM. Interspersed with the conversation, actors F. Murray Abraham, Linda Emond, James Cusati-Moyer, and Ben Shenkman will perform readings from the play. In-person and livestreamed tickets are available on The Center for Fiction's website, and include a signed copy of the book.

https://centerforfiction.org/event/story-teller-arts-tony-kushner-on-the-intelligent-homos*xuals-guide-to-capitalism-and-socialism-with-a-key-to-the-scriptures/

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