Editorial Reviews From Booklist Margulies' best-known play, Sight Unseen, is a moody, intelligent meditation on modern art and the creative process. In his new play, he returns to those themes, this time focusing on two writers--one just starting out, the other a grizzled old veteran--and the relationship that blossoms between them as the older mentors her student, shepherding her toward the first glimmers of success and acclaim. Beautiful, heartfelt, tightly written, the play never resorts to easy cliche s or cinematic notions of what it is to be a writer: there are no great scenes of agonized genius at work--or at play. Instead, Margulies shows us, in six sharp, clear-eyed scenes, set in each of six years in his characters' lives, the everyday moments that make up two lives, the small disappointments and smaller triumphs, the white lies and seemingly minor betrayals that mark a relationship. And it all makes fascinating reading. Once started, the 85-page play is hard to put down. Jack Helbig

Collected Stories: A Play

Literature & Fiction

Donald Margulies

Dramas & Plays

Theatre Communications Group

Dinner with Friends: A Play

Self-Help

Relationships

The Loman Family Picnic - Acting Edition [Paperback]

The Loman Family Picnic - Acting Edition

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Book by Donald Margulies, Margulies, Donald

The Model Apartment.

MARGULIES, Donald

Donald Margulies studied visual arts at the Pratt Institute before transferring to State University of New York to pursue a degree in playwriting. During the early 80’s he collaborated with Joseph Papp, and his first Off-Broadway play, Found a Peanut, was produced at the Public Theatre. In 1992, Sight Unseen won an Obie for Best New American Play. Some of this other plays include The Loman Family Picnic, Pitching to the Star, Zimmer, Luna Par and Dinner With Friends which won Mr. Margulies a 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He had previously been nominated for a Pulitzer for Collected Stories. Starring: Anna Gunn, Adam Arkin, Jordan Baker, and Randy Ogelsby

Sight Unseen

Dramatist's Play Service

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for DramaOver the past decade, Donald Margulies has written some of the most insightful works in contemporary American drama. His body of work includes The Loman Family Picnic, Sight Unseen, The Model Apartment and Collected Stories, and with each succeeding work his audiences have grown. It is no surprise that his newest work is his most critically successful yet. As with all of Margulies’s work, he is a master of observing what might be considered the ordinary moments of life and its foibles with fresh ears. Dinner with Friends is a funny yet bittersweet examination of the married lives of two couples who have been extremely close for dozens of years. Although it seems to be treading on familiar ground, Dinner keeps changing its perspective to show how one couple’s breakup can have equally devastating effects on another’s stability. "This is a smart and subtle play that understand there ar

Dinner With Friends (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

Misadventure: Monologues and Short Pieces - Acting Edition (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

Shipwrecked! An EntertainmentThe Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as Told by Himself) - Acting Edition

this collection contains seven full-length plays: MURDER OF CROWS by Mac Wellman, YOU SHOULD BE SO LUCKY by Charles Busch, DON JUAN IN CHICAGO by David Ives, THE MODEL APARTMENT by Donald Margulies, BAREFOOT BOY WITH SHOES ON by Edwin Sanchez, WHEN THEY SPEAK OF RITA by Daisy Foote, & THE FOURTH WALL by A R Gurney. Primary Stages, celebrating twenty years as once of America's most dynamic theater companies, presents this collection of seven plays by a splendid mix of writers. THE MODEL APARTMENT by the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Donald Margulies, is a haunting drama about a family struggling to put the Holocaust behind them. Obie winner Mac Wellman explores the toxic landscape of America with SECOND-HAND SMOKE. THE FOURTH WALL, by Off-Broadway favorite A R Gurney deals with a suburban Joan of Arc who takes her politics very seriously. WHEN THEY SPEAK OF RITA by Daisy Foote is a character study of a New Hampshire woman who struggles to find meaning in her life. BAREFOOT BOY WITH SHOES ON by Eddie Sanchez follows Rosario, a young man determined to create a better life for his unborn child. In DON JUAN IN CHICAGO, David Ives' comic hero leaps centuries in his pursuit of the perfect mate. And YOU SHOULD BE SO LUCKY by Charles Busch is a riotously funny comedy about an out of luck electrologist whose life suddenly changes, like a fairy tale. All of these plays were produced by Primary Stages during their productive twenty year history Off-Broadway, and all of these writers represent the best in American playwriting.

Plays From Primary Stages

A.R. Gurney

Mac Wellman

David Ives

Charles Busch

Edwin Sanchez

Daisy Foote

Broadway Play Pub

Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for drama, Dinner With Friends examines the lives of two couples and the repercussions of divorce on their friendships. With wit, compassion and consummate skill, playwright Donald Margulies weighs the cost of breaking up and of staying together. A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Matthew Arkin, Lisa Emery, Kevin Kilner and Deirdre O'Connell.

Dinner with Friends (Library Edition Audio CDs)

L.A. Theatre Works

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