With the doors locked, the windows welded shut, and MetaNet.com's water cooler empty for days, poor Roger has done the unthinkable—he drank the tap water. Now the Department of New Media is short-handed and behind schedule, plus there's a dead body cluttering the hallway. But Roger will be remembered fondly—especially by the lucky employee who manages to swipe his ergonomic keyboard.The surviving employees plot for survival and escape, under the close inspection of Dirk, the new Vi...

"I will not embellish and I will not romanticize. Frankly, this is simply not a story of romance—it is a story of love. And the two haven't a thing to do with each other."Winner:Phoenix Theatre Playwriting CompetitionWinner:City Attic Theatre Playwriting CompetitionParens. is the story of Brook and William, a wife and husband, the impressionable student and the lover of language, who now speak only through voice recorders, their lives encoded in battle...

The Collected Plays of Shay Youngblood includes Shakin' the Mess Outta Misery, Flying Blind, Square Blues, Talking Bones and There are Many Houses in my Tribe.

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 6 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 12 minutes"The Souls of Black Folk" is a book written by W.E.B. Du Bois that discusses the history of African Americans and their struggle for equality and justice. Du Bois coined the term "double-consciousness" to describe the feeling of al...

Suzan-Lori Parks continues her examination of black people in history and stage through the life of the so-called "Hottentot Venus," an African woman displayed semi-nude throughout Europe due to her extraordinary physiognomy; in particular, her enormous buttocks. She was befriended, bought and bedded by a doctor who advanced his scientific career through his anatomical measurements of her after her premature death.

“McCraney’s richly drawn characters and colloquial poetry . . . manages to sound both epic and rooted in a specific place. Listen closely, and you might hear that thrilling sound that is one of the main reasons we go to the theater, that beautiful music of a new voice.”—The New York Times“Taut, expressive drama, The Brothers Size realizes the potential of theater to elevate the ordinary. . . . McCraney’s writing can be arresting.”—Time Out New York

Derived from interviews with a wide range of people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Crown Heights racial riots, Fires In The Mirror is as distinguished a work of commentary on black-white tensions as it is a work of drama. In August 1991 simmering tensions in the racially polarized Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood of Crown Heights exploded into riots after a black boy was killed by a car in a rabbi's motorcade and a Jewish student was slain by blacks in retaliation*. F...

Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most important dramatists America has produced.”-Tony KushnerThe plan was that no matter what I did, how busy I was, what other commitments I had, I would write a play a day, every single day for a year. It would be about being present and being committed to the artistic process every single day, regardless of the weather.’ It became a daily meditation, a daily prayer celebrating the rich and strange process of a writing life.”-Suzan-Lori Parks...

This stage adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is perfect for all ages. All the famous characters are seen with a minimal amount of props and set.

Down in the desolation of the desert of MedicanBow, Wyoming standing off depression and different verisations of the dark night of the soul. four characters nurse there troubles away with coffee, cigarettes and over done under done to luke worm steaks at the Virginian motel. a tragic comedy of the battle of over the sexes, with in the femanist mind set of the new man. a nonwyoming tail of wyoming.

When an old man discovers his most valuable possession is missing, he summons a detective to help him find it. All in vain.

THE ANTICIPATED SEQUEL TO "DON'T ASK MY NEIGHBOR"Syreeta Mercer, a successful Lawyer from Atlanta, lived her life as daddy’s little girl, and she wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. She’s known only one man as her father, but two weeks after laying him to rest, she is startled by the news that this might not be her truth and everyone else’s lie. Against her mother’s wishes and warnings, Syreeta embarks on her own search that may result in more harm than good, re...