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From the Marrow Vol. 1 collects five ritual/jazz performance texts by Sharon Bridgforth, including lovve/rituals & rage, no mo blues, dyke/warrior-prayers, blood pudding, and con flama. Rooted in blues and bristling with the voices of ancestors, lovers, aunties, neighbors, and friends, these texts document the first decade of Bridgforth’s thirty-year practice, including the founding of The root wy’mn Theatre Company. Shapeshifting, polyvocal, multi-gendered, genre-bending, nonlinear, Bridgforth’s writing innovates form the way the ocean carves the coast: with sensuality, salty humor, aching grief and rage, and with vast, various, and invariable love. This volume—the first of two—includes essays, interviews, and witnessings by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Sonja Parks, Stacey Karen Robinson, Sonja Perryman, and Robbie McCauley.

For each edition of the Occasional, guest editors invite artists, thinkers, and members of our community to consider questions that we have and topics that move us. For Occasional No. 3, playwrights Lucas Baisch and Emma Horwitz have invited Liza Birkenmeier, Theresa Buchheister, Lisa D'Amour, dots, Diane Exavier, Zoë Geltman, Miguel Gutierrez, nazareth hassan, Orlando Hernández, Julia Izumi, Imani Elizabeth Jackson, Kate Kremer, Lisa Kron, Shayan Lotfi, Sam Max, Kate McGee, Eli Nixon, Marissa Joyce Stamps, reid tang, Jesús I. Valles, Noah Weinman, and Bailey Williams to respond to the question, “What are you obsessed with? And how are you holding it?”

"A double-volume of plays by acclaimed playwright Will Arbery that explore communities of outsiders who strive to help one another persevere in the face of despair. In the small town of Corsicana, Texas, two half-siblings-a woman with Down Syndrome named Ginny and Christopher, an aspiring filmmaker-are adrift following their mother's recent death. When close family friend Justice introduces the siblings to a reclusive local artist named Lot, the four slowly form an unlikely yet powerful bond that reshapes them all in necessary and surprising ways. This delicate quartet examines the long-lasting scars of grief, as well as the universal human need to care and be cared for. In Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, Basil and Peter spend long nights during the winters in Evanston, IL driving a salting truck, passing the time by talking about the increasingly harsh weather outside and their own internal turmoil. Their supervisor Jane Maiworm tries to boost morale by reminding them of the quiet heroism of public service, but Jane herself is privately struggling with the possibility of adopting a new technology that would undoubtedly be better for the environment-but would also put Basil and Peter out of a job. A surreal and sensitive play that gazes unflinchingly into the chasm of despair, suggesting that crisis, both climatic and personal, can only be reckoned with when faced head-on"--

2023 Tony Award winner for Best Musical!Now on Broadway: Kimberly Akimbo opened fall 2022 at the Booth Theatre on Broadway.Winner of Numerous Awards: Awards for Kimberly Akimbo include the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Outer Critics Circle Award.Reunites the Tony-nominated creators of Shrek The Musical: Lindsay-Abaire and Tesori’s previous collaboration Shrek The Musical was nominated for numerous Tony and Drama Desk Awards, as well as the Grammy for Best Musical Show Album.Awards for Lindsay-Abaire and Tesori: David Lindsay-Abaire has won the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, The Horton Foote Prize, and The Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award. Tesori has won the Tony Award for Best Musical, and has been the composer of four other Tony-nominated musicals. She has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

"Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, James Ijames' Fat Ham reinvents Shakespeare's masterpiece in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbecue in the American South. Juicy is a queer, Southern college kid, already grappling with some serious questions of identity, when the ghost of his father shows up in their backyard, demanding that Juicy avenge his murder. It feels like a familiar story to Juicy, well-versed in Hamlet's woes. What's different is Juicy himself, a sensitive and self-aware young Black man trying to break the cycles of trauma, violence, and toxic masculinity in service of his own liberation. From an uproarious family barbecue emerges a vibrant and compelling examination of love and loss, pain and joy"--

A wry, innovative reckoning with the legacy of the Salem witch trials from one of America's foremost playwrights.

A collection of insightful, compelling plays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Cost of Living.

A fiercely intelligent new play about a group of young conservative Catholics encountering crises of confidence in faith, country, and self.

"She's more than just a wicked old witch. Baba Yaga is a legend, usually known as that elderly woman who lives alone in the woods and grinds the bones of the wicked. But what if she was actually a sexy, smart, modern woman operating off of morally ambiguous motives? A detective finds himself in a small, isolated town asking what does the disappearance of the young heir to a yoghurt empire has to do with some random lore about an old witch? Matched by an apprehensive local sheriff, a university professor with a taste for younger men, and a whole cast of curious characters, the Slavic myth of Baba Yaga twists into a new labyrinth of secret lives, ancient magic, and multiple suspects. This genre-bending comedic fairy tale meets thrilling whodunit gives voice to an antihero of epic proportions while interrogating how her story has historically been told by men. From now on, you'll remember the name Baba Yaga for the right reasons."--

"Convinced the world at large can't be trusted to prioritize the well-being of adolescent girls in the event of a cataclysmic event (or just in general), a determined troupe of preteen "doomers" commit to preparing for survival in the post-collapse society they anticipate inheriting. When Maureen, Jo, Sarah, Vic, and Robbie sneak out at night to investigate an ominous hidden lair in the woods, they believe they have stumbled onto proof of what happened to a mysterious local cult that vanished over a decade ago. As they search for vital clues, examining small bones and dusty cans of food for signs of life, they fight to understand how to be understood in a world that seems to reject them. What they discover changes everything--eighth grade will never be the same. Part Judy Blume, part Rambo, this darkly comic coming-of-age story for complicated times is for any young woman who has ever been told that she is "too much," or that what she fears is illegitimate, or that what she has to say is less important than keeping the peace."--

Fabulous andbedraggled: a defiant and beautiful mess Welcome to the world of Gary: ASequel to Titus Andronicus, where carnage and camp coexist. Jesse Green, NewYork TimesIn Gary: ASequel to Titus Andronicus, Taylor Macs singular worldview intersects withWilliam Shakespeares first tragedy, Titus Andronicus. Set during thefall of the Roman Empire, Macs extraordinary play picks up where Shakespearesblood-soaked tale left off: the coup has ended, the country has been stolen bymadmen, and there are casualties everywhere. Two lowly servants, Gary andJanice, are charged with cleaning up the bodies. Its the year 400but it feelslike the end of the world.

A masterpiece . . .Trouble in Mindstill contains astonishing power; it could have been written yesterday. VultureAhead of its time,Trouble in Mind, written in 1955, follows the rehearsal process of an anti-lynching play preparing for its Broadway debut. When Wiletta, a Black actress and veteran of the stage, challenges the plays stereotypical portrayal of the Black characters, unsettling biases come to the forefront and reveal the ways so-called progressive art can be used to uphold racist attitudes. Scheduled to open on Broadway in 1957, Childress objected to the requested changes in the script that would sanitize the play for mainstream audiences, and the production was canceled as a result. Childresss final script is published here with an essay by playwrightBranden Jacobs-Jenkins, editor of TCG Illuminations.

The author presents two satirical plays that explore the modern-day Native American experience.