John Guare
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Death, desire, and tabloid sensationalism converge in "this delirious heartbreaker of a comedy" by the Tony Award-winning playwright (Ben Brantley, The New York Times).
Along with Six Degrees of Separation and The House of Blue Leaves, Landscape of the Body is one of John Guare's most celebrated plays. It tells the story of a woman's unfulfilled life and premature death-and her reflections from the grave.
Betty Yearn first came to New York City...
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A Free Man of Color is set in boisterous New Orleans prior to the historic Louisiana Purchase. Before law and order took hold and class, racial, and political lines were drawn, New Orleans was a carnival of beautiful women, flowing wine, and pleasure for the taking. At the center of this Dionysian world is Jacques Cornet, a mixed-race gentleman who commands men, seduces women, and preens like a peacock. But it is 1801 and the map of New Orleans is...
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In his new play, Chaucer in Rome, it is the year 2000, and Ron and his wife come to Rome to search for their son. And with his inimitable wit and understanding, Guare has written a scathingly funny satire on the warping hunger for fame, and the betrayal involved in creating art.
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Arthur Schlesinger calls A Few Stout Individuals "a political extravaganza." This latest work from award-winning playwright John Guare, author of House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation, addresses ideas of history and memory, fame and ignominy, reason and insanity with his trademark Guare imagination.
In a Fifth Avenue brownstone in 1880s New York, former president and Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant is penniless, dying of throat cancer,...
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After letting a young conman into their home, a rich New York couple is embarrassed when they discover his true identity. However, rather than instantly banishing the young man to the street, the couple find themselves intrigued by his manners and his charming deception.
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John Guare poignant Obie Award-winning comedy unfolds in New York City on the day the Pope is expected to visit. Hearts are palpitating in the sleepy borough of Queens, but not entirely on account of His Holiness. Bunny Flingus, a femme-fatale from Flushing (or thereabouts) is stirring things up in the quiet, unfulfilled life of aspiring songwriter Artie Shaughnessy. Artie longs to leave his unhappy marriage, elope with Bunny, and write a hit song...