Plays and Playwrights 2005 [Paperback]

Martin Denton (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2005 | Series: Plays and Playwrights

This is the sixth book in the Plays and Playwrights series. The book includes the complete scripts of twelve plays with permission and contact information for each. They are:

Vampire Cowboy Trilogy by Qui Nguyen and Robert Ross Parker

Second. by Neal Utterback

Bull Spears by Josh Chambers

Animal by Kevin Augustine

Odysseus Died from AIDS by Stephen Svoboda

Maggie May by Tom O'Brien

Elephant by Margie Stokley

Walking To America by Alberto Bonilla

The 29 Questions Project by Katie Bull and Hillary Rollins

Honor by TheDrillingCompaNY

Kalighat by Paul Knox

Platonov! Platonov! Platonov! or the Case of a Very Angry Duck by Eric Michael Kochmer

Foreword by Steven Drukman

Introduction by Martin Denton

Product Details

• Paperback: 488 pages
• Publisher: The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. (February 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967023467
• ISBN-13: 978-0967023465
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,108,545 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I'm the founder and editor of nytheatre.com, a website that provides lots of information about the New York City theatre scene, from Broadway to off-Broadway to the exciting indie theater sector. It was as editor of nytheatre.com that I became interested in bringing new American plays by emerging or unpublished authors to the attention of readers in the "Plays and Playwrights" anthology series. I've been working on nytheatre.com since 1997. I'm also the producer of nytheatrecast, the first weekly podcast series about NYC theatre. I'm a member of the American Theatre Critics Association; I probably see about 300 shows every year. Last year I was proud to receive (with NYTE's Managing Director) the Stewardship Award from the New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, in recognition of my work on nytheatre.com and as editor of the "Plays and Playwrights" books.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Love the Entire Plays & Playwrights Series, May 1, 2008

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Mill 6 Collaborative (Boston, MA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Plays and Playwrights 2005 (Paperback)

The Mill 6 Collaborative, a small theatre company in Boston has had the pleasure of producing a number of plays from the Plays & Playwrights Series; Starting with Cafe Society by Robert Simonson Plays and Playwrights for the New Millennium through to Match by Marc Chun Plays and Playwrights 2002 . We always look forward to the new publications and love the breadth and outstanding quality of selection!

5.0 out of 5 stars A true testament to Indie Theatre!, February 26, 2006

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Jackie G. "Jacks" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Plays and Playwrights 2005 (Paperback)

Without a doubt, there is a Renaissance happening in the Off-Off Broadway community right now. Groups of consistency exciting and truly innovative work such as Partial Comfort Productions, Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company, Les Freres Corbusier, Youngblood, Boomerang, Redbull, and others are pushing the definition of what a young company can do on the fringes of Broadway and are quickly showing that they can do it just as well with a smaller budget. It's theatre that's pulling in more younger and more audacious crowds, reminding us that theatre does not have to be a place for just the wealthy and pretentious, but it can and is about us too. Martin Denton and NYTheatre.com have gone a good way towards helping this new rebirth of theatre happen and this book series, as well as their website, stands as one of the sole pieces of documentation of the rapidfire growth of these fresh, imaginative, and sometimes deliberately outrageous groups destined for legendary status. Each year, the books just keep getting better and PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS 2005 is no exception. All the plays are exciting, unique, and engrossing. They prove that the art of theatre is alive and well. I highly recommend picking up this book and going out and checking out more Indie theatre. It'll be the stuff you will tell your friends about in the years to come. Particular highlights in PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS 2005 include "Vampire Cowboy Trilogy"; "Animal"; "Elephant"; "Platonov! Platonov! Platonov! or the Case of a Very Angry Duck".