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Now a major motion picture! Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams. Written and directed by John Patrick Shanley from his Pulitz...
“Defiance is a necessary step in the life of an individual and in the life of a nation.”—John Patrick Shanley “As thoughtful and probing as it...
'What I admire most is that his plays are beautifully well made, economical, sharp and coherent. He's not a misanthrope, but he's in pursuit of why pe...
Dramatists Play Service is proud to present six new short plays by John Patrick Shanley: In FRENCH WAITRESS, Ricky and his girlfriend Pamela sit down ...
“Some of Shanley’s sharpest comic writing in years… His intense engagement with questions of religion and ethics remains distinctive and invigor...
Three new works by Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Patrick Shanley, one of our country's most politically current and theatrically elastic playwrig...
THE STORY: When aspiring novelist Wanda seeks the advice of successful writer Brutus, she gets more than she bargained for. Of the manuscript she sent...
Thirteen Plays
(Applause Books). Thirteen plays by the Oscar-winning author of Moonstruck . Includes: "The Big Funk," "Savage in Limbo," "Danny & The Deep Blue Sea,"...
THE STORY: Marriage and its discontents are the subject of WHERE'S MY MONEY? When Celeste, an out-of-work actor who's cheating on her boyfriend with a...
"In the work of John Patrick Shanley, the truth is as charming as it is painful, reality as touched with magic as it is factual, and existence as abso...
In Providence, Rhode Island, habitually widowed Atalanta pays a visit to her second-rate lawyer, Barry Dragonetti. Intending to settle her latest husb...
Missing Marisa, Kissing Christine
THE STORIES: MISSING MARISA. Terry and Eli are friends with a woman in common: Marisa. Marisa was Eli's wife. Then she ran off with Terry. Now she has...
THE STORY: A quartet of black women spanning four generations makes up this heartwarming dramatic comedy. The four, plus the white woman friend of the...
THE STORY: From the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Doubt and the two-time Tony Award-nominated composer of Dreamgirls comes this crac...
THE STORY: Arthur, an obscure young painter struggling in the art world of Manhattan, announces to his self-satisfied friend, Howard, that he is engag...
Joe Versus the Volcano ; And, Five Corners : Screenplays
The screenplays of award-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley have earned him a reputation as a gifted writer with a great range and imagination. H...
1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. Father Flynn is a charismatic priest who is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercel...
THE STORY: Johnny is the youngest and most sensitive of three siblings stranded in a surreal Irish Catholic household lorded over by their father, a b...
And, The Wild Goose
THE STORIES: FOUR DOGS AND A BONE. Brenda, a seemingly guileless young actress, takes a meeting with Bradley, a troubled, middle-aged producer, to dis...
THE STORY: The first scene of the play is a conversation between two lovers, Tommy and Donna, who broke up some time earlier but who are obviously sti...
In 1990, CNN was a 24-hour news network in search of a 24-hour story. They were about to find it in Baghdad. Up against the three big networks, Wiener...
A Dinosaur's Story
Four dinosaurs travel through time to take part in a crusade against evil on the streets of New York City....
In this applause edition of John Patrick Shanley's complete plays, the reader will encounter one of America's major dramatists in all his many express...
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Typescript, 1993. Unmarked script of a play that opened November 1993 at the Manhattan Theatre Club, New York, New York....
"In the wake of her mother’s suicide, Esperanza spends her tenth birthday dancing with Tito, a boy from school. Soon, reality intertwines with dream...
(Book). A major new collection of plays by the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning author of Doubt and Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Moonstr...