This collection brings back into print one of Craig Lucas’ best known and enduring works, A Prelude to a Kiss, which was both a hit on Broadway and a popular motion picture. Frank Rich in The New York Times wrote about Prelude, "It is rare to find a play so suffused with sorrow that sends one home so high." Also included are Missing Persons, "a truly intelligent play, one that is literary and heartfelt, beautifully written…a well-crafted, moving story, a dramatic rarity in these or any times "(New York Post), and Three Postcards, an offbeat and uniquely imaginative free form musical play. Craig Lucas is also the author of Reckless and Blue Window and What I Mean Was. He lives in Putnam Valley, New York.
Irresistible . . . intoxicating. . . . Enduringly original sensibility."—New York Times Adele is a painter and an addict. Through her eyes, we meet her two lovers, Mala and Bill, and follow her destructive relationships over the course of fourteen years. A vulnerable exploration of the interplay between art, love, and addiction, Ode to Joy is an affecting new drama from respected playwright Craig Lucas. Renowned playwright Craig Lucas's newest work is a sensitive look at illness, addiction, and love. Craig Lucas's plays include Missing Persons, Reckless, Blue Window, Prelude to a Kiss, God's Heart, The Dying Gaul, Stranger, Small Tragedy, Prayer for My Enemy, The Singing Forest, and the book for the The Light in the Piazza (music and lyrics by Adam Guettel).
THE STORY: At home on Christmas Eve, Rachel is informed by her guilty husband that he has hired a hitman to kill her, and she must flee for her life--which she does by scrambling out the kitchen window and into the snowy night. She meets and joins u
THE STORY: Independently wealthy, a published author and tenured professor at Swarthmore College, Addie Pencke spends the Thanksgiving holiday struggling to hold together her splintered ego and her fractured family. Her capacious, book-lined home i
THE STORY: Abbey and Donald, best friends, have just graduated college. Sharing a birth date, Donald travels to visit Abbey and his parents at a remote country house to celebrate their twenty-second birthdays together as an uncertain future looms a
THE STORY: The place is a trendy restaurant in Greenwich Village, empty except for Bill (the pianist) and Walter (the waiter). Three young women, Big Jane, Little Jane and K.C., arrive for dinner, and for the conversation, daydreams and memories wh
Craig Lucas is a premier American dramatist and now a major film director. These are his scripts for The Dying Gaul, The Secret Lives of Dentists, and Longtime Companion - which The New York Times called 'still the truest fictional screen chronicle of the advent of AIDS.' Commentary by Lucas and luminaries such as Mary-Louise Parker and Alan Rudolph provide insight.
THE STORY: At Peter and Rita's wedding, a mysterious old man insists on kissing the bride. While honeymooning, Peter gradually realizes that the woman by his side is not his wife. The wedding kiss caused Rita's soul and the old man's to change plac
Reaching into the darkness of American life at its extremes from the lives of the wealthy and fortunate to the struggles of the invisible and neglected, this play follows three protagonists who share a dream. An African American teenager fights to overcome his family's cycle of despair and drug dependency, a thirty-five-year-old white advertising executive with a new baby suffers from a deep sense of her own spiritual worthlessness, and a forty-five-year-old documentary film maker, also white, is losing her African American lover to breast cancer. Using newspaper headlines, cyber chat rooms, online data bases and a dreamlike array of startling, sometimes beautiful often terrible images carved from the nightmares of these disparate souls, God's Heart seeks compassion for those who cry out for connection, peace and kindness in the face of the unspeakable cruelty and exploitation that erode the heart of American culture.
Louis Edmonds was well known for his TV soap opera roles as Dark Shadows Roger Collins and ,All My Children's Langley Wallingford, but his career was not limited to these characters. Working with such performers as Charlton Heston, Kaye Ballard, Joan Bennett, and Carol Burnett, he was a pioneer actor on live television in the 1950s and played numerous critically acclaimed roles on and off Broadway and on TV for five decades. Throughout his life, the gay actor battled?and conquered?depression, alcoholism, and cancer. Author Craig Hamrick chronicles the life and career of this remarkable man in the revealing biography, Big Lou: The Life and Career of Actor Louis Edmonds. "Craig Hamrick is a wonderful, gifted young writer with a heart-breaking story to tell. Big Lou is an insightful look at the theater world, crafted with warmth, humor and just the right dash of cynicism."- Craig Lucas
Lucas Jameson has given up on women. In his opinion, they're only good for one thing, and one thing only. That's one of the reasons he became a park ranger. The other reason was to get away from the big city and his ex-girlfriend. He's not the type to take orders from anyone, especially a woman. Living in a cabin in the woods, alone, was more his style. That is until he happens upon a woman, lost and afraid, and with no idea who, or where she is. Lucas has no idea how to handle this fragile wisp of a woman and has no intention of trying to. But, there's something about her that reminds him of someone he lost years ago. Can Lucas keep the walls he built around is heart intact or will a stranger that reminds him of yesterday help him to lower his guard and try one more time at love?
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian short story writer and a playwright. His playwriting career produced four classics, while his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practiced as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: Medicine is my lawful wife, he once said, and literature is my mistress . Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896; but the play was revived to acclaim by Constantin Stanislavski s Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Uncle Vanya and premiered Chekhov s last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a special challenge to the acting ensemble as well as to audiences, because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a theatre of mood and a submerged life in the text . His originality consists in an early use of the stream-of-consciousness technique combined with a disavowal of the moral finality of traditional story structure.
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