Painting Churches, Tina Howe "The Churches - she in her 60's, he in his 70's - are packing. They are leaving their elegant home on Boston's Beacon Hill and moving - ''just the gulls, the oysters and us'' - into a Cape Cod cottage ''the size of a handkerchief,'' as Fanny puts it. Living in the Boston house has become ''too complicated,'' Fanny says - and too expensive. Gardner is a prize-winning poet with faculties and income diminishing, and Fanny is resigned to having to look after him constantly." (New York Times)
365 Days/365 Plays, Suzan-Lori Parks "This collection of 365 impeccably crafted pieces, each with its own distinctive characters and dramatic power, is a complete work by an artist responding to her world, each and every day." (Powells)
Fences, August Wilson Troy Maxon, a strong, hard man who has learned to Black and proud in the 1950’s, finds the changing time of the 1960’s difficult. This is one in the Pulitzer Prize winning series The August Wilson Century Series.
Seven Plays, Sam Shepard "Brilliant, prolific, uniquely American, Pulitzer prizewinning playwright Sam Separd is a major voice in contemporary theatre. And here are seven of his very best." (from the publisher)