Welcome!

 

 IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

Our website uses a shared database and most of our best selling items are not yet listed here. For availability and pricing, please call our expert staff at 212 944-0595 or 1-800-322-0595 (US & Canada).

STORE HOURS (GMT-5)
Monday—Saturday: 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Thursdays until 8:00 p.m.

Telephone calls are welcome weekdays beginning at 10:00 a.m.

To arrange for RUSH SHIPMENTS and INTERNATIONAL DELIVERY, please call during business hours.

PAULA VOGEL: An evening with the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE

Feb 8 2012 5:30 pm

How I Learned to Drive

PAULA VOGEL: An evening with the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE
Paula Vogel’s acclaimed play is returning to New York City for the first time since its premiere 15 years ago.

Wednesday, February 8, from 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Paula Vogel's plays include A Civil War Christmas, The Long Christmas Ride HomeThe Mineola TwinsThe Baltimore WaltzHot'N'ThrobbingDesdemonaAnd Baby Makes Seven, and The Oldest Profession.

Work in progress includes a collaboration for Yale Repertory and Oregon Shakespeare Festival (based on The God of Vengeance), with director/cowriter Rebecca Taichman and an adaptation of Von Horvath's Don Juan Comes Home from the War with director Blanka Ziska at the Wilma Theatre.

Theatre Communications Group has published three books of her work, The Mammary PlaysThe Baltimore Waltz and Other Plays and The Long Christmas Ride HomeA Civil War Christmas will be published this spring.

She received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize, the Lortel, Drama Desk, Outer Critics and New York Drama Critics Awards for best play, as well as her second OBIE. In 2004-5 she was in residence at The Signature Theatre in New York. Other awards include the 2004 Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Pew Charitable Trust Award, Laura Pels Award, the Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, the Fund for American Plays, the Stephen and Christine Schwarzman Legacy Award, and the Thirtini from 13P. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Dramatists Guild and Writers Guild of America.

She recently received the lifetime achievement award from the Dramatists Guild. She is the Eugene O'Neill Professor at the Yale School of Drama, and lives with her wife, scientist/writer Anne Fausto-Sterling in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

"Paula Vogel has a gift for sustaining humor and pathos at the same time without trivializing either emotion." --The New York Times

The event is FREE and open to the public.

The DRAMA BOOK SHOP, Inc.
250 West 40th Street
New York, NY 10018

212-944-0595
www.dramabookshop.com

How I Learned to Drive at the Second Stage Theatre

$16.95
ISBN-13: 9781559361446
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Theatre Communications Group, 2/1997

$9.50
ISBN-13: 9780822216230
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Dramatists Play Service, 12/1997

$18.95
ISBN-13: 9781559361095
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Theatre Communications Group, 11/1995

$15.95
ISBN-13: 9781559363785
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Theatre Communications Group, 3/2012

Location: 
Street:
The Drama Book Shop, Inc
Additional:
250 West 40th Street
City:
New York
,
Province:
New York
Postal Code:
10018-1511
Country:
United States

David Henry Hwang Reads from CHINGLISH and Other Plays

Dec 15 2011 6:00 pm

David Henry Hwang at The DRAMA BOOK SHOP
Tony award winning playwright David Henry Hwang reading and book signing at The Drama Book Shop Thursday December 15, 2011, at 6:00 pm. Free admission.


A rare opportunity to hear one of America’s finest playwrights.

David Henry Hwang, with special guests, will read and discuss his current Broadway offering, Chinglish as well as his award-winning plays M. Butterfly and Yellow Face at The Drama Book Shop, 250 West 40th Street on Thursday, December 15th.

David Henry Hwang's works include the Tony Award-winning M. BUTTERFLY, the hit musical AIDA, and his current Broadway comedy, CHINGLISH. He is a three-time Tony Award nominee, a three-time Obie Award winner, and has twice been a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.

Location: 
Street:
The Drama Book Shop, Inc.
Additional:
250 West 40th Street
City:
New York
,
Province:
New York
Postal Code:
10018-1511
Country:
United States
Syndicate content