by Annie Baker
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TCG is proud to publish our fifth book from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker. John takes place the week after Thanksgiving in a bed and breakfast in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In this mysterious drama, a young couple struggles to stay together in a town steeped in historical turmoil. Annie Baker's compelling new work is revolutionary in theme and structure and challenges the boundaries of what theatre can be.
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Edited by Caridad Svich
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TCG is very excited to announce our second title in the new TCG Sourcebook series, Audience (R)Evolution: Dispatches from the Field, curated and edited by Caridad Svich. As Svich writes in the Introduction, "Throughout the pages of this collection, a wide range of voices sound the joy and fury of being in the trenches of the volatile discourse of enacting, staging, and sharing the experience of performance."
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by Nilo Cruz
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New from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz, this poetic and emotional work blends history and the modern world. A young researcher is eager to learn about 80-year-old Bemadette Kahn's long-lost lover, Ariel Strauss, who set sail in 1939 aboard the St. Louis, never to be seen again. With layered lyrical language and vibrant intimacy, Sotto Voce is an imaginative exploration of the power of memory, love, and human connection.
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Adapted by Thornton Wilder
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This is the first publication of this adaptation of A Doll's House as revitalized through the shrewd lens of American drama master Thornton Wilder. With clarifying dialogue, Wilder uproots this classic from Norway and funnels it through an American lens. The marriage of Ibsen's naturalistic style melds with Wilder's knack for emotional nuance to create a demonstrative edition of the revered classic.
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by Naomi Wallace
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This "epic and poetic" play by award-winning playwright Naomi Wallace is her fourth title published by TCG (Time Out New York). On the docks of eighteenth-century Rhode Island, two runaway slaves plan a desperate and daring run to freedom. As the mysteries of their identities come to light, painful truths about the past and present collide. Told with lyricism and power, The Liquid Plain brings to life the people whose stories have been erased from history.
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A Girl with a Book and Other Plays from Aurora Metro Press is a topical collection of new plays by UK playwright Nick Wood. A Girl with a Book is an honest response to the story of Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban. This play has been produced many times in Germany and the UK and raises serious questions about the West's complex relationship and attitudes to the Muslim world.
art is (Speaking Portraits) is a new volume in the Performance Ideas series from PAJ Publications. The series is drawn from the ongoing video work art is/poetry is/music is (Speaking Portraits), which features over 1000 artists -- painters, poets, musicians, dancers, actors, video/filmmakers -- in eleven countries saying what art is.
The Javier Plays from 53rd State Press is an inventive and epic trilogy from Chicago-based playwright Carlos Murillo that delves into themes of authenticity, truth, and self-made mythology . This collection includes the plays Diagram of a Paper Airplane, A Thick Description of Harry Smith (Volume 1), and Your Name Will Follow You Home.
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Each month, a TCG staff member will select a TCG Books title that holds 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 -- and we will offer a special 50% discount off that title for the month.
For August, Rob Weinert-Kendt, the Editor-in-Chief for American Theatre magazine, has selected Tracy Letts' August: Osage County, and here's why.
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TCG Bestsellers
(July 2016)
by John Patrick Shanley
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Stephen Karam's Latest Project Lands Star-Studded Cast
Stephen Karam, TCG playwright of The Humans, is on a roll. He recently won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play, shortly after being named a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Now his 2007 Off-Broadway show Speech & Debate is being adapted into a film with an all-star cast, featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda, Roger Bart, Sarah Steele, and many more. The movie's release date is yet to be announced.
Stephen Adly Guirgis Talks The Get Down
If you're a fan of Netflix, you may already be well into your binge marathon of the new show The Get Down, co-created by Baz Lurhmann and TCG playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis of Between Riverside and Crazy. Recently, Guirgis discussed his experience working on the show in a podcast for Vulture. Take a listen!
New Yorkers:
Meet Some of Your Favorite TCG Authors at the Brooklyn Book Festival!
This year's annual Brooklyn Book Festival is Sunday, September 18 in Downtown Brooklyn. TCG Books will have a booth all day selling must-have titles for 30% off the regular price! On top of that, we have already built quite a line-up of authors who will be stopping by to sign copies of their plays. So far, we have award-winning authors Annie Baker, Stephen Adly Guirgis, and Tarell
McCraney scheduled to join TCG at the festival, and possibly more to come! See you there!
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