Books from Theatre Communications Group

  • Chinglish (TCG Edition)
    By David Henry Hwang

    ... the Longacre Theatre on October 27, 2011, with these changes: Daniel Cavanaugh was played by Gary Wilmes; the understudies were Tony Carlin, Angela Lin, Brian Nishii and Vivian Chiu; the production stage manager was Stephen M. Kaus.

  • The Mysteries: The passion
    By Edward Kemp

    Edward Kemp is a freelance writer and director. Earlier work includes a two-part adaptation of The Mysteries for the RSC, published by Nick Hern Books and available from TCG. He is literary manager at Chichester Festival Theatre.

  • The Greek Plays 2: Ajax in Iraq, Kissing the Floor, Penelope, Mercury's Footpath, and the Oresteia
    By Ellen McLaughlin

    A follow-up volume to McLaughlin's The Greek Plays, this is a striking collection of modern adaptations inspired by classic Greek texts.

  • The Director's Voice, Vol. 2
    By Jason LoeAdditional Writer

    It was there that McClinton performed under the directorial hand of Claude Purdy in Melvin Van Peebles's Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death, and McClinton points to Purdy (and Penumbra founder Lou Bellamy) as his biggest directorial ...

  • This and Other Plays
    By Melissa James Gibson

    "Beautifully conceived, confidently executed . . . not just her finest to date, but also the best new play to open Off Broadway this fall."—The New York Times A witty, melancholy comedy about a group of friends pushing against middle age, ...

  • The Presence of the Actor
    By Joseph Chaikin

    This conversational review of his efforts details his methods and reveals the struggles involved in the creation of some of the most exciting theatre of our time.

  • Evening at the Talk House (TCG Edition)
    By Wallace Shawn

    The cast was: ROBERT Josh Hamilton NELLIE Anna Calder-Marshall JANE Sinéad Matthews TED Stuart Milligan ANNETTE Naomi Wirthner BILL Joseph Mydell TOM Simon Shepherd DICK Wallace Shawn Evening at The Talk House received its U.S. premiere ...

  • Master / The Convention of Cartography
    By W. David Hancock

    A double volume containing two works of astonishing invention that blend theater with art and artifact. In these two works, Hancock explores the liminal spaces between language and silence, fiction and truth, and the known and the unknown.

  • Crumbs from the Table of Joy and Other Plays
    By Lynn Nottage

    It was the year white folk had burned out old Johnston, and we'd gathered at Reverend Duckett's church, listening to him preach on the evils of Jim Crow for the umpteenth time, speaking the words as though they alone could purge the ...

  • Middletown (TCG Edition)
    By Will Eno

    Doris Kim, Lauren Hutton, Hal Brooks, Rachel Hicks, Saxon Palmer, Christopher Grallert, Mark Rossier, and my sister Madeleine. Thank you for helping me and it to be all right. —W.E. Acknowledgments.

  • Uncle Vanya
    By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Annie Baker

    "? The Village VoiceOne of the most-produced playwrights in the United States, Annie Baker lends her truthful observation and elegant command of the colloquial to Chekhov's despairing masterpiece.

  • The Light in the Piazza
    By Craig Lucas, Adam Guettel

    The cast was as follows: MARGARET JOHNSON Victoria Clark CLARA JOHNSON Celia KeenanBolger ROY JOHNSON Andrew Rothenberg SIGNOR NACCARELLI Mark Harelik SIGNORA NACCARELLI Patti Cohenour FABRIZIO NACCARELLI Wayne Wilcox GIUSEPPE ...

  • Illegal Alien
    By James Robinson, Phil Elliott

    Re-presenting the classic and out-of-print original graphic novel by Eisner award winning writer James Robinson (Starman, London's Dark) and artist Phil Elliott.

  • How to transcend a happy marriage (TCG Edition)
    By Sarah Ruhl

    Epigraphs: Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes, Faber and Faber, 1997; Conversations with Paul Bowles, edited by Gena Dagel Caponi, University Press of Mississippi, 1993; A Miscellany by e e cummings, Liveright Publishing, 2018; ...

  • Contemporary American Monologues for Women
    By Todd London

    ANNULLA BY EMILY MANN A young woman, fresh out of college and in search of oral histories from Eastern Europe, encounters Annulla Allen in her clean but chaotic home in England. Annulla is “seventy-four years old, Eastern European.

  • Emma
    By Jane Austen, Martin Millar, Doon Mackichan

    Cast size: medium.

  • Invitation to the Party: Building Bridges to the Arts, Culture and Community
    By Donna Walker-Kuhne

    The handbook to attract and involve audiences of color for arts and cultural institutions.

  • The Mammary Plays: Two Plays
    By Paula Vogel

    (Myrna stifles a giggle) Operation Jane Roe. Not yet. Well, yes, of course I have it. I'm a little scared of putting it down. —Do you know how many speed bumps there are in Nassau County? I haven't had this much fun since Halloween!

  • The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition
    By Anne Bogart, Tina Landau

    Along comes Samuel Beckett and the actors' relationship is with the void, the emptiness. The focus of Relationship has shifted from the cosmic, to the human, to the existential. It is a bleak and distinct relationship.

  • Speech & Debate (TCG Edition)
    By Stephen Karam

    You see, Mr. Healy was foolish enough to include his email address on the bottom of his class syllabus; so I say, let the e-campaign begin: if you think that I should play the lead in the spring play, write to the fool at ...