Plays and Playwrights 2007 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0967023491 ISBN 13: 9780967023496

Publisher: New York Theatre Experience Inc, 2007

Synopsis

Plays included: LENZ by bluemouth inc. A unique theatre happening in a mind-blowing interactive/experiential format. OFFICE SONATA by Andy Chmelko A satirical comedy about corporate life in the high-powered, high-tech era. KISS AND CRY by Tom Rowan America's sweethearts, a rising movie star and a figure skater on his way to the Olympics, turn out to be gay. THEY'RE JUST LIKE US by Boo Killebrew This unconventional one-act comedy looks at the American Dream of celebrity with intelligence, wit, and tenderness. CONVERGENCE by Bryn Manion A meditation on memory, perspective, and the shared collisions and coincidences that can alter lives forever. RED TIDE BLOOMING by Taylor Mac -- A musical celebration of freakhood gleefully subverting every rule of musical comedy. THE ADVENTURES OF NERVOUS-BOY by James Comtois A contemporary play about the scary commonplaces of life in urban America in the new millennium.ANOTHER BRIEF ENCOUNTER by Stan Richardson An homage to Noel Coward's stiff-upper-lip romance as well as a riff on gay relationships and social politics. CORPS VALUES by Brendon Bates A father and son go head-to-head when the latter returns home from serving in Iraq and announces he is going AWOL. DIVING NORMAL by Ashlin Halfnight An unlikely trio of urbanites balance love, friendship and sexual compulsion. 'NAMI by Chad Beckim Two inner-city couples become enmeshed in the kidnapping of a little girl, a survivor of the Indian Ocean tsunami.

About this title

About the Author

Martin Denton is the editor of this and all the previous anthologies published by The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. He is the founder and chief executive of this nonprofit corporation, In addition, he is the editor of the popular theatre website, nytheatre.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: New York Theatre Experience Inc
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0967023491
• ISBN 13: 9780967023496
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 484
• Editor: Anthology