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 Lavishly illustrated with over 500 images in both color and black and white, Ming Cho Lee: A Life in Design by Arnold Aronson chronicles Lee's career, from his early training as a watercolorist in China to his designs for over 300 productions and his esteemed 40-year career at the Yale School of Drama. This elaborately-illustrated, hardbound retrospective would make a gorgeous gift for any design, theatre or art lover. For a closer look at Lee's career and images from the book, click here.
The Happiest Song Plays Last is Quiara Alegría Hudes' final installment to her award-winning three-play cycle, which began with Pulitzer Prize-finalist Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue and Pulitzer Prize-winner Water by the Spoonful. The critically-acclaimed final chapter completing this provocative, thoughtful, and moving trilogy, The Happiest Song Plays Last, delves into the search for redemption, humility and one's place in the world.
Each play in Richard Nelson's critically-acclaimed cycle in The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country follows the Apple family of Rhinebeck, New York, as they grapple with events both personal and political in their immediate present. Delicately constructed and precisely observed, this quartet of plays is a masterpiece of stage naturalism and a powerful reminder of the theatre's unique capacity for civic dialogue and public communion.
 Into the Woods, the famous musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, is now a major motion picture from Disney, starring Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine and Johnny Depp. The new edition from TCG includes eight full-color pages of photographs from the movie. Interwoven with classic fairy tales is the story of the baker and his wife, whose longing for a child is thwarted by the mischievous witch who lives next door.
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Save up to 50% on TCG's new Holiday Gift Guide bundles!
For this year's holiday season, TCG Books has a solution for all your gift-shopping stress. In our new Holiday Gift Guide, we have created the perfect packages for the theatre-lovers in your life, whether they're actors, directors, or simply avid readers of great plays. You can choose from 10 different sets, including "Stage-to-Screen," "Musicals," or a pack of all the TCG Pulitzer Prize winners! And finally, with a purchase of certain book bundles, you could also get a free TCG tote bag, just because we like you.
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Awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama,
Annie Baker's The Flick makes a great holiday gift
for theatre lovers. Set in a rundown movie theater in central Massachusetts, the play features three underpaid employees who sweep up popcorn in the empty aisles and tend to one of the last thirty-five-millimeter projectors in the state. With keen insight and a ceaseless attention to detail, The Flick pays tribute to the power of movies and paints a heartbreaking portrait of three characters and their working lives.
Tony Award winner Hugh Jackman is back on Broadway in The River, a spellbinding new play by Jez Butterworth, directed by Ian Rickson, the creators of Jerusalem. The thriller is set on a moonless night in August when the sea trout are ready to run, and a man brings his new girlfriend to the remote family cabin where he has come for fly-fishing since he was a boy. But she's not the only woman he has brought here, or indeed the last. The River asks: when we find each other, are we trying to recapture someone we once lost?
In Peter Brook's The Quality of Mercy, one of the world's most revered theatre directors reflects on a fascinating variety of Shakespearean topics. In this sequence of essays, Brook debates such questions as who was the man who wrote Shakespeare's plays, why Shakespeare is never out of date, and how actors should approach Shakespeare's verse. Taken as a whole, this short but immensely wise book offers an illuminating and provocative insight into a great director's relationship with our greatest playwright.
 100 (monologues) collects all of Eric Bogosian's monologues, originally performed as part of his six off-Broadway solo shows, including Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll; Pounding Nails in the Floor with my Forehead; Wake Up and Smell the Coffee; Drinking in America; Funhouse; Men Inside and selections from his play Talk Radio. For these solo shows, first performed between 1980 and 2000, Bogosian was awarded three Obie awards and a Drama Desk award-earning him living icon status in the downtown theatre scene.
The recent Broadway hit from Pulitzer prize-winning author John Patrick Shanley, Outside Mullingar, is about Anthony, an introverted farmer and Rosemary, the woman who vows to have him at all costs. When Anthony's father threatens to disinherit his son, Rosemary steps into the middle of a land feud and family eccentricities beyond what one might imagine. On the brink of romantic catastrophe, this one-of-a-kind Irish heroine fights against time and mortality in hopes of securing her dream of love.
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Give the gift of Membership to TCG for only $25!
(That's almost 30% off the regular price)
TCG Individual Membership is the perfect gift for students, professionals and theatregoers. This holiday season give the gift of membership to friends and family OR take advantage of this discount and extend your own membership today!
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Having trouble finding a gift for the theatre-lover in your life? Let us pick for you!
 Each month, a TCG staff member selects a TCG Books title that holds a special meaning -- whether it's a show the staffer performed in, a dog-eared acting resource, a writer that continually inspires or simply a favorite play - there's plenty to choose from for a great holiday gift!
For December, Megan Wrappe, American Theatre intern, has selected Doubt by John Patrick Shanley, and here's why. We're offering a special 50% discount off that title for this month!
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TCG Titles Currently in Production in
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Into the Woods, from Stage to Screen
On December 25th, one of Sondheim's most beloved musicals becomes a major motion picture. Watch the extended trailer here for Disney's Into the Woods, and don't forget to purchase your copy of the movie tie-in edition now available from TCG!
The New Yorker features The River author Jez Butterworth
Read about the life and eccentricities of playwright Jez Butterworth in Emma Brockes' New Yorker article, " All or Nothing." Be sure to see Butterworth's latest Broadway play, The River, starring Hugh Jackman and currently running at the Circle in the Square Theatre
at BAM, Dec. 3 - 7
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