Isn't It Romantic

Author(s):
WendyWasserstein

The play deals with the post-college careers (and dilemmas) of two former classmates, a
short, slightly plump would-be writer named Janie Blumberg, and her tall, thin gorgeous
WASP friend, Harriet Cornwall. Both are struggling to escape from lingering parental
domination and to establish their own lives and identities. In Janies case this leads to an
inconclusive involvement with a young Jewish doctor who calls her "Monkey"; while
Harriet assails the world of big business and has an affair with her hard-driving (and
married) boss. Told in a fast-moving series of inventive, alternately hilarious and touchingly
revealing scenes, the play explores their parallel stories with uncommon wit and wisdom-resulting, ultimately, in a heightened awareness which, while not providing all the answers,
goes a long way toward achieving the maturity and self-assuredness that both protagonists so
desperately desire.

Five Women Wearing the Same Dress

Alan Ball
Comedy
Full Length
1 man, 5 women: 6 total
Interior

An irreverent and funny look at the intricacies of friendship and the power of similar
dressing. "[a] wonderfully entertaining play" NY Post. "FIVE WOMEN WEARING
THE SAME DRESS is a fresh-as-a-daisy comedy, funny as can be" NY Daily News.
"Ball has the comic writer's requisite talent for dialogue that ricochets snappily around the
stage." TheaterWeek.
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THE STORY: During an ostentatious wedding reception at a Knoxville, Tennessee, estate,
five reluctant, identically clad bridesmaids hide out in an upstairs bedroom, each with her
own reason to avoid the proceedings below. They are Frances, a painfully sweet but sheltered
fundamentalist; Mindy, the cheerful, wise-cracking lesbian sister of the groom; Georgeanne,
whose heartbreak over her own failed marriage triggers outrageous behavior; Meredith, the
bride's younger sister whose precocious rebelliousness masks a dark secret; and Trisha, a
jaded beauty whose die-hard cynicism about men is called into question when she meets

Tripp, a charming bad-boy usher to whom there is more than meets the eye. As the afternoon
wears on, these five very different women joyously discover a common bond in this wickedly
funny, irreverent and touching celebration of the women's spirit.

Isn't It Romantic
Wendy Wasserstein
Comedy
Full Length
4 men, 4 women (plus recorded voices): 8 total
Flexible Set

A brightly witty, trenchantly observant contemporary comedy which enjoyed the unique
distinction of two critically-hailed Off-Broadway productionsthe second a long-run,
record-setting presentation which was the most successful in the history of New York's
renowned Playwright's Horizons. "ISN'T IT ROMANTIC is romanticalso bright, funny,
sentimental, and throughout, inching toward wisdom." Time Magazine. "one of the
funniest and most satisfying shows in townIf Dorothy Parker were a playwright today, she
might have written this endearingly acid comedy." Variety. "among the funniest and
most inventive writers around" The New Yorker. "a nouvelle cuisine comedy." NY
Times.
Book/Item: ISN'T IT ROMANTIC
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ISBN/Code: 978-0-8222-0577-7
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THE STORY: The play deals with the post-college careers (and dilemmas) of two former
classmates, a short, slightly plump would-be writer named Janie Blumberg, and her tall, thin
gorgeous WASP friend, Harriet Cornwall. Both are struggling to escape from lingering
parental domination and to establish their own lives and identities. In Janie's case this leads to
an inconclusive involvement with a young Jewish doctor who calls her "Monkey"; while
Harriet assails the world of big business and has an affair with her hard-driving (and married)
boss. Told in a fast-moving series of inventive, alternately hilarious and touchingly revealing
scenes, the play explores their parallel stories with uncommon wit and wisdomresulting,
ultimately, in a heightened awareness which, while not providing all the answers, goes a long
way toward achieving the maturity and self-assuredness that both protagonists so desperately
desire.

Agnes of God
John Pielmeier
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Full Length Play, Drama
3f
ISBN: 9780573630224
"Riveting, powerful, electrifying drama...the dialogue crackles." - New York Daily News
"Outstanding play [that]...deals intelligently with questions of religion and psychology." - The
New York Times

Description
Full Length Play
Drama
120 minutes (2 hours)
Time Period - Present Day
Settings Of Play - Bare stage. One chair.

FEATURES / CONTAINS
Play w/ Music
Bare Stage/Simple Set

CAUTIONS
Smoking

TAGS
Christianity, Love, Religion

TARGET AUDIENCE
Adult, Senior, Teen (Age 14 - 18)

PERFORMANCE GROUP
College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Reader's Theatre,

Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups

RECOGNITION / AWARDS
From Broadway
Summoned to a covent, Dr. Martha Livingstone, a court-appointed psychiatrist, is charged
with assessing the sanity of a novice accused of murdering her newborn. Miriam Ruth, the
Mother Superior, determindly keeps young Agnes from the doctor, arousing Livingstone's
suspicions further. Who killed the infant and who fathered the tiny victim? Livingstone's
questions force all three women to re-examine the meaning of faith and the power of love
leading to a dramatic, compelling climax.
A hit on Broadway and later on film.
"Riveting, powerful, electrifying drama...the dialogue crackles." - New York Daily News
"Outstanding play [that]...deals intelligently with questions of religion and psychology." - The
New York Times
"Unquestionably blindingly theatrical...cleverly executed blood and guts evening in the
theatre." - New York Post
Read at the 1979 Eugene O'Neill Playwrights' Conference.
Professional premiere at Actors' Theatre of Louisville, March, 1980.
Characters

CASTING
3f

CASTING ATTRIBUTES
All Female, Non-Traditional casting, Minority casting, Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star
Vehicle)

CHORUS SIZE
No Chorus
Woman, 40's.
Woman, 60's.
Woman, 20's.
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Fadima
Edward Allan Baker
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NORTH OF PROVIDENCE is a painful domestic crisis between brother and sister,
uncovering old wounds on the last day of their father's life. (1 man, 1 woman.) DOLORES is
the story of two sisters drawn together because of domestic violence which influences the
lives of both characters more than they've ever admitted. (2 women.) In LADY OF FADIMA,
because her husband is unable to work a young mother is forced to work as a cleaning
woman in a hospital where her innocence is preyed upon by a threatening and malicious boss.
(1 man, 2 women.)
First produced with great success by the Ensemble Studio Theatre. "In NORTH OF
PROVIDENCE Edward Allan Baker takes a painful domestic crisis and transforms it into a
one-act play of emotional depth and conviction. There are enough conflicts for a novel or
mini-seriesdistilled to an essential momentan exemplar of the one-act art." NY Times.

In the Boom Boom Room

David Rabe
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"Compassion for anguished people leavened by a black wit and a powerful sense of the
surreal nature of modern life." - Newsweek
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A revised version from the author of Sticks and Bones and Hurlyburly turns his attention to
the seedy underbelly of American life. Chrissy is a go-go dancer in the squalid "Boom Boom
Room". Resigned to a life populated by denizens offering little more than drugs, sex and
violence, she searches for love and beauty against this backdrop of nihilistic hedonism. Her
desperate need to survive at any cost offers a glimmer of hope amid the glare of broken neon.
"Compassion for anguished people leavened by a black wit and a powerful sense of the
surreal nature of modern life." - Newsweek
"A superior play, perhaps a masterpiece." - WINS
Originally produced by Joseph Papp at New York's Lincoln Center.

Women of Manhattan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Women of Manhattan is a play written by John Patrick Shanley and originally produced in
1986.

Contents

1 Production
2 Plot overview
3 Critical response
4 Notes
5 References
6 External links

Production
Women of Manhattan premiered Off-Broadway in a Manhattan Theatre Club production at
the City Center Theater on May 26, 1986 and closed on June 15, 1986 after 25 performances.
Directed by Ron Lagomarsino, the cast featured Nancy Mette as Billie, J. Smith-Cameron as
Rhonda, Jayne Haynes as Judy, Keith Szarabajka and Tom Wright.[1][2]
The play was revived in New York City by The Barrow Group, at the John Houseman Studio
Theater, running from May 30, 1997, officially on June 6, and ending June 29, 1997.[3]
The play was produced in Santa Ana, California in a Way Off Broadway production in
February and March 1990.[4] The play ran in San Francisco at the Next Stage in January
1999.[5]

Plot overview
The play revolves around the lives of three women who are living in the Upper West Side of
Manhattan. Rhonda has recently split with her boyfriend, Billie is married, and Judy is
considered a "fag hag" by the other two as she often unknowingly dates men who turn out to
be homosexual.

Critical response

Spike Heels
Theresa Rebeck
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2m, 2f
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"Stinging one liners." - N.Y. Daily News.
"Places a superior wryly pleasing ... fashionable feminist spin on sexual shenanigans. Neatly
written with smart funny lines." - N.Y. Post.
"Full of tart wit, feminist insight
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Full Length Play
Comedy
Time Period - Present Day
Settings Of Play - Boston

FEATURES / CONTAINS

Interior Set

TAGS
Feminism, Love

TARGET AUDIENCE
Adult
Pygmalion goes awry in this contemporary comedy of manners which explores sexual
harassment, misplaced amour, and the possibility of a four sided love triangle. The
combatants are a sexy, volatile young woman and three Back Bay types a writer, a lawyer and
a fiancee in sensible shoes. The setting is Boston, the ending is happy and laughter abounds.
"Stinging one liners. " - N.Y. Daily News.
"Places a superior wryly pleasing ... fashionable feminist spin on sexual shenanigans. Neatly
written with smart funny lines." - N.Y. Post.
"Full of tart wit, feminist insight and quirky detours of plot." - Time
Spike Heels premiered at the Second Stage Theater in New York in 1992.
Characters

CASTING
2m, 2f
ANDREW
EDWARD
GEORGIE
LYDIA