“A kind, warm, beautifully observed and deeply moving new play, a celebration of working-class familial imperfection and affection and a game-changing work for this gifted young playwright.”Chicago TribuneKaram is in rare form here, showing a remarkable ear for the way families converse For all the characters’ woes, this is a warm, funny, sharply observed portrait of their abiding …
“Baker may just have the subtlest way with exposition of anyone writing for the theater today… There is something distinctly Chekhovian in the way her writing accrues weight and meaning simply through compassionate, truthful observation.” –Charles Isherwood, New York Times”Baker has a soft spot for the abandoned, the discarded, the hard luck case… her heartbreaking works of staggering …
“Guirgis, like other storytellers who explore the sacred and profane, is most interested in how grace transforms us.”—The New YorkerWritten with humor, tenderness, grit, and wonderment by acclaimed playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, Between Riverside and Crazy is an extraordinary new play: a dark comedy about a man trying to maintain control as the world unravels around him.City Hall …
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for DramaAngels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes includes Part One, Millennium Approaches and Part Two, PerestroikaGlorious. A monumental, subversive, altogether remarkable masterwork Details of specific catastrophes may have changed since this Reagan-era AIDS epic won the Pulitzer and the Tony, but the real cosmic and human obsessionspower, religion, sex, responsibility, the …
Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for DramaFunny, heartbreaking, sly and unblinking The Flick may be the best argument anyone has yet made for the continued necessity and profound uniqueness of theater.” Jesse Green, New YorkHilarious and ineffably touching Ms. Baker’s peerless aptitude for exploring how people grope their way toward a sense of equanimity, even as they learn …