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Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival, KY, USA >>>

1999-00

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Dramatic Anthology

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by Joan Ackermann Courtney Baron Neena Beber Constance Congdon Jon Klein Shirley Lauro Craig Lucas Eduardo Machado Donald Margulies Jane Martin Susan Miller John Olive Tanya Palmer David Rambo Edwin Sanchez Adele Edling Shank Mayo Simon Val Smith. Based

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When Ethan is born in the worst blizzard of the century, two-year-old sister Ainsley nearly sacrifices a toe trying to clear a path for the baby's arrival. That initial gesture of devotion blossoms into a tale of sibling loyalty, rivalry and love that spans two decades. Inspired by Joan Ackermann's narrative "Back Story," each of the eighteen playwrights in this collective creation puts a distinctive spin on Ainsley's and Ethan?s amusing and poignant struggles with life, with each other, and with the phantom dad who abandoned them for the wilds of Alaska

Williamstown Theatre Festival , MA, USA >>>

1997

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Short Musical

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written with Michael-John La Chiusa

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Drama, full length

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The play isnt about Brooklyn, nor is it about a boyits about a man without a home

South Coast Repertory Theatre, California

1996

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1998

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Play/Drama

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The conflict between the established artist and the adulatory fan who becomes a protégé, disciple, colleague and friendand finally threatening rivalis one of those great topics&It resurfaces in Donald Margulies's provocative new play, COLLECTED STORIES, which confronts the prominent short-story writer Ruth Steiner with her student turned confidante turned competitor Lisa Morrison. What is new here is that the women are teacher and student both in academia and in life, that they come from different social milieus, and that for her first novel, Lisa has also cannibalized Ruth's experiences, to wit her youthful, shattering affair with the poet Delmore Schwartz. As always, Margulies is literate, intellectually stimulating, and able to create characters of both dramatic and human interest. And he sustains this interest through six scenes covering six years that only briefly leave Ruth's cozily messy, book-infested Greenwich Village apartment. Here two worlds clash in age-old, ecumenical dueling, led up to by great mutual emotional investment, and all the more bitter for it. NY Magazine.

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Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY, USA >>>

1998

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Humana Festival 1998: The Complete Plays, ed Michael Bigelow Dixon & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus

1998

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Comedy Drama

Comedy

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As described by New York Magazine: "Two married couples have been best friends for years. In their Connecticut home, Karen and Gabe, international food writers, are giving a dinner for Beth and Tom, which he doesn't attend. It emerges from the heartbroken Beth that he has left her for another woman. Gabe and Karen are almost as crushed, having expected to grow old and fat together, the four of us. When Tom shows up at his home in the next scene, late at night, he is enraged that Beth broke the news of their breakup in his absence. Late as it is, he rushes over to his friends in the next scene to present his side of the story. Act Two begins with another dinner, twelve and half years earlier, in a summer house on Martha's Vineyard, where Karen and Gabe are introducing Beth to Tom. Then we skip five months after the events in Act One, as Beth reveals to Karen&that she has fallen in love with an old friend whom she intends to marry&Later that day, in a Manhattan bar, Tom, a lawyer, tells Gabe about his [newfound

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Public Theatre, NY >>>

1984

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1984

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The setting is the backyard of a Brooklyn tenement on the last day of summer vacation, where a group of children aged five to fourteen (portrayed by adult actors) are at play. Finding a dying bird they decide to have a ritual burial, which leads to the discovery of a bag of money, probably buried by a reclusive miser who had recently died in the adjacent building. This discovery, in turn, results in squabbles and bitterness among the children, as the microcosm of their games gradually yields an awareness of greed, betrayal and violence-elements of life heretofore unknown to them but, regrettably, so much a part of the grownup world which they are approaching. In a sense the play, with deft irony and lively humor, marks the coming of age of the children, as the carefree innocence of youth is sobered by the emergence of emotions which, while not yet fully comprehended, will have a profound effect on their lives in the years to come.

New York

1983

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Original Playwright - Sholom Asch, based on a literal translation by Joachim Neugroschel

Synopsis:
Pultizer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies has transported Sholom Asch's 1906 Yiddish melodrama from Asch's native Poland to the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1923 and in the process has transformed a classic morality tale into a drama of spellbinding power and sweep. Jack Chapman lives on the second floor of his tenement with his ex-prostitute wife, Sara, and seventeen-year-old daughter, Rivkele, and runs a brothel downstairs. The brothel has made Jack prosperous, but he aspires to something more-respectability, and towards that end, he hopes to marry his precious daughter to a Talmudic scholar. But the sheltered Rivkele has struck up a friendship with Manke, Jack's most-desired prostitute, and the gentle and genuine love affair that develops between the two young women threatens to destroy Jack's dreams for the future

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Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY, USA >>>

1995

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Humana Festival 1995: The Complete Plays, ed Marisa Smith, Smith & Kraus

1995

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Capturing a recent day of disturbance and fear, Donald Margulies' play, set in an inner-city clinic, charts the vital signs of our society. As a woman physician struggles to reconcile the extremes of hope and despair that define a typical day in her life, we are given a unique window on the way we live now

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1993

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a washed-up young movie star explains to a willing fan in a bar how he went from a happy, married young novice to a wealthy, gambling, overnight sensation, and back to a hungry, divorced wanna-be who only wants to recapture his original dream of having "enough," and being married for life.

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finds commuters on a train from New York to New Haven absorbed with the sometimes comical, quotidian details of their lives as the horror of the outside world insistently-and shockingly-intrudes.

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New York

1989

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Garden City, NY

1990

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Comedy Drama

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music by David Shire

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The setting is a new "luxury" high-rise apartment with Spanish décor in Coney Island, the home of a middle-class Jewish family struggling to put up a good front even though continually short of cash. The father, Herbie, who sells lighting fixtures, is chronically overworked and underpaid; his wife, Doris, tells herself (and whomever may be listening) that she loves her life-even though, as the play begins, she is shredding her wedding dress to make a Halloween costume; their older son, Stewie, eagerly awaits his bar mitzvah with an eye less on its religious aspects than on the potential loot to be gained in gifts; and the youngest son, Mitchell, is absorbed in writing a musical version of Death of a Salesman (entitled Willy!) for his class at school. While they all strive to present an appearance of contentment and closeness, the family is beset by underlying tensions which burst forth when Herbie seizes his son's bar mitzvah money and, after an unseemly confrontation with everyone about how the bills for the

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New York

1982

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Los Angeles

1988

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1990

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A brilliant and bizarre black comedy about a pair of elderly Holocaust survivors and their outlandish, deranged daughter, which, in a series of sometimes hilarious, sometimes moving scenes, traces the pervasive, baleful effect of their earlier trauma on the "better life" they have tried to build. Having retired to Florida, Max and Lola are dismayed to find that their new condo is not yet ready for occupancy and that they are obliged to stay temporarily in a "model apartment" - a tacky, gaudily decorated horror with a fake television set and refrigerator where even the ashtrays are cemented in place. Max and Lola had hoped to escape not only the nagging memories of their earlier lives, and the terrors of present-day Brooklyn, but also their fat, schizophrenic daughter, Debby, whom they had tried to "pay off" with generous amounts of cash before their hasty departure. But Debby, who seems to symbolize for them the awfulness of their past and their failures in the present, soon appears, followed in short order b

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New York

1990

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in Best American Short Plays 1992-93, Applause Boofks, NY

1994

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When Peter finally gets a good break for his Hollywood script, he finds himself PITCHING TO THE STAR of the pilot show. Promised control over something he's worked long and hard on, he finds his integrity and his story line attacked every time the star makes a suggestion to completely change his script and make the lead character exactly like herself.

New York

1982

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