What is the purpose of a stage direction? These italicized lines written in between the lines of spoken dialogue tell us a great deal of information about a pla

(Applause Acting Series). For this book, Lawrence Harbison has interviewed successful playwrights who have developed relationships with theaters that regularly

A mother's attempt to sell an expensive family lamp produces unexpected results.

One of Manhattan's most established play festivals, the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival fosters the work of young writers, giving them the ex

Sheila Callaghan is one of the most distinctive playwrights working in the theater today. Fiercely political, unblinkingly experimental, yet emotionally true, h