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New Books & Media: Drama & Poetry

March through May 2024

Theater Plays and Musicals

The Complete Plays by Joe Orton
Call Number: PR6065.R7 A19 1990
ISBN: 9780802132154
Publication Date: 1994-01-12
Longman Anthology of American Drama by Lee A. Jacobus (Editor)
Call Number: PS625 .L66 1982
ISBN: 9780582282421
Publication Date: 1982-01-01
Plays for Actresses by Eric Lane (Editor); Nina Shengold (Editor)
Call Number: PS627.W66 P58 1997
ISBN: 9780679772811
Publication Date: 1997-03-25
The Play about the Baby by Edward Albee
Call Number: PS3551.L25 P58 2003
ISBN: 9781585673537
Publication Date: 2003-01-27
Drinks Before Dinner by E. L. Doctorow
Call Number: PS3554.O3 D7 1979
ISBN: 9780394400921
Publication Date: 1979-06-12
Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein
Call Number: PS3556.I4213 T6 1983b
ISBN: 9780394534282
Publication Date: 1983-08-12
Is God Is / What to Send up When It Goes Down by Aleshea Harris
Call Number: PS3608.A78198 I8 2021
ISBN: 9781559369633
Publication Date: 2022-04-05
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Absurd person singular / by Alan Ayckbourn

Bedroom farce / by Alan Ayckbourn

Woman in mind : December bee / Alan Ayckbourn

The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby / by Charles Dickens ; adapted for the stage by David

The road to Mecca : suggested by the life and work of Helen Martins of New Bethesda / Athol Fugard

Breaking ground : adventurous new plays from adventurous theaters / edited and with an introduction by Kent Nicholson ; plays by Glen Berger [and others]

Roots in a parched ground ; Convicts ; Lily Dale ; the Widow Claire : the first four plays of the orphans' home cycle / Horton Foote ; with an introduction by the author

Courtship ; Valentine's Day ; 1918 : three plays from the orphans' home cycle / Horton Foote ; introduction by Reynolds Price

A thousand clowns ; Thieves ; the goodbye people / by Herb Gardner

I'm not Rappaport / by Herb Gardner

The Octette Bridge Club / by P.J. Barry

Social security : a play in two acts / by Andrew Bergman

The musical comedy murders of 1940 / John Bishop

To Gillian on her 37th birthday / Michael Brady

Barnum : a musical suggested by the life of P.T. Barnum / by Mark Bramble ; lyrics by Michael Stewart

Mass appeal / Bill C. Davis

Paul Robeson / by Phillip Hayes Dean

Close ties : a play in two acts / by Elizabeth Diggs

Scapino / adapted by Frank Dunlop and Jim Dale

Baby with the bathwater / by Christopher Durang

The marriage of Bette and Boo / by Christopher Durang

Knock, knock : a play / by Jules Feiffer

A soldier's play / by Charles Fuller

Zooman and the sign / by Charles Fuller

Tracers : a play / conceived by John DiFusco ; written by the original cast, Vincent Caristi, Richard Chaves, John DiFusco, Eric E. Emerson, Rick Gallavan, Merlin Marston, Harry Stephens with Sheldon Lettich

Drama: Theory and History

Modern Theories of Drama by George W. Brandt (Editor)
Call Number: PN1655 .M59 1998
ISBN: 9780198711407
Publication Date: 1999-02-18
The Complete Stanislavsky Toolkit by Bella Merlin
Call Number: PN2062 .M46 2007b
ISBN: 9780896762596
Publication Date: 2007-04-01
A Journey Through Other Spaces by Tadeusz Kantor; Michal Kobialka (Editor, Translator)
Call Number: PN2859.P6 K36 1993
ISBN: 9780520079113
Publication Date: 1993-08-02
The Other American Drama by Marc Robinson
Call Number: PS350 .R63 1997
ISBN: 9780801856303
Publication Date: 1997-04-21

New Poetry

The Historians by Eavan Boland
Call Number: PR6052.O35 H57 2020
ISBN: 9781324006879
Publication Date: 2020-10-13
The Radiant Lives of Animals by Linda Hogan
Call Number: PS3558.O34726 A6 2020
ISBN: 9780807047927
Publication Date: 2020-10-13
The Age of Phillis by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Call Number: PS3560.E365 A74 2020
ISBN: 9780819579492
Publication Date: 2020-03-03
Then the War by Carl Phillips
Call Number: PS3566.H476 T47 2022
ISBN: 9780374603762
Publication Date: 2022-02-01
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Climbing a Burning Rope by John Paul Davis
Call Number: PS3604.A9645 C65 2024
ISBN: 9780822967224
Publication Date: 2024-01-09
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Pretend the Ball Is Named Jim Crow by Dorian Hairston
Call Number: PS3608.A545345 P74 2024
ISBN: 9780813198873
Publication Date: 2024-02-06
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Voice Message by Katherine Barrett Swett
Call Number: PS3619.W49 V65 2020
ISBN: 9781938769528
Publication Date: 2020-03-15
100 Great Catholic Poems by Sally Read (Editor)
Call Number: PN6109.3 .O6 2023
ISBN: 9781685780746
Publication Date: 2024-11-17