An Evening with David Lindsay-Abaire
(Mandy Greenfield and David Lindsay-Abaire) Does it matter if a protagonist is a man or woman? If not, David Lindsay-Abaire will undoubtedly make his a woman. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of...
View ArticleNew Voices in the American Theatre
In celebration of its 50th anniversary TCG has partnered with The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space to present TCG Playwrights in Conversation – a series of readings and discussions – that will occur...
View ArticleOther Within The Other
We’re thrilled here at TCG to have recently published David Adjmi’s Stunning and Other Plays. This new collection includes Stunning, set in an insular Syrian-Jewish community, where Lily, a teenage...
View ArticleA Preoccupation with Vermont
At TCG, we’re absolutely thrilled to have just published the first collection of plays by Obie Award-winning playwright Annie Baker. Circle Mirror Transformation, The Aliens, Nocturama and Body...
View ArticleLanguage, A Drug
In just a couple weeks, TCG Books will publish Quiara Alegría Hudes’s Water by the Spoonful, the 2012 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (you can pre-order your copy here). The play follows a...
View Article(re)Defining the Undesirable
TCG Books recently published Ping Chong’s Undesirable Elements: Real People, Real Lives, Real Theater. A community-specific theatre works series that examines the lives of those born into one culture...
View ArticleFamily: Can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em…
Last month, TCG published The Lyons, a deliciously savage new comedy by Nicky Silver. In the play, Ben Lyon is dying, and his wife Rita and their grown children gather together to say goodbye, but in...
View ArticleArtistry as Mystery: Conversations with twenty directors
In November, TCG published The Director’s Voice, Volume 2. A follow-up to the immensely popular first volume, this new book collects twenty interviews, presenting a cross-section of the most diverse...
View ArticleSarah Ruhl on adaptations and delving into the minds of masters Chekhov and...
Later this month, TCG will publish Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl’s Chekhov’s Three Sisters and Woolf’s Orlando, a pairing of adaptations: Anton Chekhov’s classic of ennui and frustration and...
View ArticleAmy Herzog: On Family, Grief and Playwriting
Back in June, TCG published Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles & After the Revolution. After the Revolution is a moving portrait of an American family forced to reconcile its thorny and delicate legacy,...
View ArticleMelissa James Gibson: On Spaces and Bodies, and the Movement In Between
Back in July, TCG published Melissa James Gibson’s This and Other Plays. The debut collection by the Obie Award-winning playwright includes This, an un-romantic comedy about a group of friends;...
View ArticleTodd London Dreams of An Ideal Theater
In September, TCG published An Ideal Theater: Founding Visions for a New American Art, a wide-ranging documentary history of the American theatre movement as told by the visionaries who goaded it into...
View ArticleEric Bogosian: Let’s Talk About Sex
Back in October, TCG published Sex Plays, a single volume of two new plays Eric Bogosian, one of America’s premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists. Skunkweed details the culture...
View ArticleIntersecting Lives, One Hallway: Adam Rapp on extending moments and digging deep
Back in January, TCG published The Hallway Trilogy, a harrowing collection of plays by Adam Rapp that premiered, in rep, at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in 2011. The plays – Rose, Paraffin and...
View Article“Why Not Us?”: Lisa Kron on 9/11 and In the Wake
(Photo by Joan Marcus) Back in March, TCG published In the Wake by the Obie award-winning playwright of 2.5 Minutes and the book writer for the recent hit musical, Fun Home. In her newest published...
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