TINA HOWE (1937 - )
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Tina Howe
Appearances |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1982 | ||
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Approaching Zanzibar |
| 1st Produced: | Second Stage Theatre, New York | 1989 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Approaching Zanzibar", Theatre Communications Group, USA | 1989 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 6 |
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Synopsis: Wallace Blossom, a middle-aged composer who teaches at Juilliard, hasn't written a note in years. Charlotte, his wife, suffers from hot flashes and dreams of crying babies. Together with their colourful children, Turner, 12, and Pony, 9, they set out to drive across the country to visit Charlotte's dying aunt, a renowned artist. | ||||
Art Of Dining, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York Shakespeare Festival, NYC; Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. | 1979 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1980 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: couple are owners and sole staff of a small, elegant gourmet restaurant, however one wants quality and the other quantity | ||||
Birth And After Birth |
| 1st Produced: | Philidelphia, PA | 1995 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "The New Woman's Theatre", Vintage Books, New York | 1977 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Satire | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: Birth and After Birth is a wildly comic tale that explores the joys and terrors of birth and parenthood. Sandy and Bill have been up all night preparing a birthday party for Nicky, their rambunctious four year-old son. Desperate to impress, Sandy and Bill frantically ready the house for their party guests, Jeffrey and Mia, childless anthropologists who study primitive children in far flung places. The party spins out of control as each couple tries to convince the other of their social and personal superiority. nytheatre.com | ||||
Closing Time |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1959 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Coastal Disturbances |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1986 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1987 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 |
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Synopsis: four generations of vacationers on a Massachusetts beach, it focuses on a romance between a lifeguard and a kooky young photographer | ||||
Divine Fallacy, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1999-00 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: A comic and revelatory session in a photographer's studio suggests that beauty may be found in the mind of the beheld | ||||
Museum |
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles Actors Theater, LA, CA | 1976 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1979 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 19 | Female | 21 |
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Synopsis: a gallery becomes a parable of humanity on the final day of a group show of three fictitious contemporary American artists | ||||
Nest, The |
| 1st Produced: | Act IV Theater, Provincetown, MA | 1969 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Night Rides |
| 1st Produced: | Frederick Loewe Theater, NY | 2004 | ||
| Company: | En Avant Playwrights | |||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Notes: written by Tina Howe, David Marrero, Dan Shore, Ed Valentine, Kathleen Warnock | ||||
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One Shoe Off |
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| 1st Published: | in "Approaching Zanzibar", Theatre Communications Group, USA | 1989 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: Wildly eccentric middle-aged couple acting out their lust and careerism in front of startled guests. | ||||
Painting Churches |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1983 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1984 | ||
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| Genre: | Comedy/Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: A painter on the verge of artistic celebrity hopes by painting her parents to come to terms with them, and they her. | ||||
Pride's Crossing |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: a vibrant portrait of a 90 year old women shown through the annual croquet match celebrating her daughters and grand daughter's visit | ||||
Rembrant's Gift |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||
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| 1st Published: | in Humana Festival 2002: The Complete Plays, Edited by Tanya Palmer and Amy Wegener, Smith and Kraus | 2002 | ||
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| Genre: | Full-Length, 1 Act | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: In Rembrandt's Gift, award-winning playwright Tina Howe introduces us to Walter Paradise and Polly Shaw. They're in their sixties and have been married forever. She's a world-class photographer; he's a former actor turned hoarder. Their Soho loft is disappearing under stacks of old costumes that block the windows and doors, creating a fire hazard. The landlord is on his way to evict them when the great Dutch painter Rembrandt suddenly appears in full 17th century regalia. The three then spend the day together testing the limits of art, love and old age. | ||||
Skin Deep |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | The Open Book | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: part of Summer Shorts, a festival of nine new American short plays | ||||
Synopsis: A fleeing nymph with a greenish cast to her skin dashes into the R train late at night. The only other rider is a celebrated dermatologist who happens to be sitting under his own ad. Can he save her? - nytheatre.com | ||||
such small hands |
| 1st Produced: | Syracuse Stage | 2003 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Solo | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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Swimming |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1991 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Teeth |
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| 1st Published: | in "Antaeus, 66", New York | 1991 | ||
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Toccata and Fugue |
| 1st Produced: | American Airlines Theatre, New York | 2006 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Performed as part of 24 Hour Plays | ||||
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