Clybourne Park spans two generations fifty years apart. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bedroom at a bargain price, unknowingly bringing the first black family into the neighborhood (borrowing a plot line from Lorraine Hansberry'’s A Raisin in the Sun) and creating ripples of discontent among the cozy white residents of Clybourne Park. In 2009, the same property is being bought by a young white couple, whose plan to raze the house and start again is met with equal disapproval by the black residents of the soon-to-be-gentrified area. Are the issues festering beneath the floorboards actually the same, fifty years on?

Bruce Norris'’s excruciatingly funny and squirm-inducing satire explores the fault line between race and property. Clybourne Park is the winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and the winner of the 2012 Tony Award for Best Play.

In this brief but staggering two-act, playwright Norris demonstrates his skill at drawing out the dark truth that lurks beneath the surface of the “perfect” family. His crackling satire takes dead aim at the self-satisfied, left-leaning American upper-middle class and its many self-delusions.

On a winter afternoon, Kelly and Clay——an attractive, prosperous, seemingly happy couple with a four-year-old daughter and a newborn baby——must explain to a visitor the events of the previous Thanksgiving, on which, so it seems, someone or something had been gnawing at the avocados on their kitchen table. In the course of this holiday gathering——attended by Clay'’s mother, a well-meaning but clueless first-grade teacher who spouts pointless liberal bromides; his brother, a plastic surgeon with a nihilistic streak and a taste for martinis; and his brother's girlfriend, a sexy Balkan immigrant with a love for all things American (racism included)——the recent past is unearthed along with revelations of failed marriages, fraternal hatred, infidelity and venereal disease, in the form of their daughter’'s nasty genital infection. And it’'s a comedy. As the story is gradually unfolded to their visitor, a Muslim cab driver, his relationship to the events becomes increasingly clear, as does the emptiness of the family’'s supposed benevolence and sensitivity.

With its crashing emotion and cutting humor, this vicious dissection of the comfortable progressive life lays bare the lies that people use to feel righteous even as they veer off a genuinely ethical path.

Mullins's early one-act play about a patient in a home for eating disorders, anthologized in the collection Lucky Thirteen.

Anne Marie has an epiphany on the subway when she reads this poster: "No One Ever Remembered a Great Accountant: TEACH." She quickly decides to ditch her lucrative advertising career, and dreams of pursuing a more meaningful life of teaching inner-city high school students. But despite her over-qualifications, a lack of teaching credits lands her at Staten Island Community College. Armed with enthusiasm, she throws herself into her work, but an insanely unruly student and an indifferent department begin to upend all of her good intentions. How long can she hold out?

The tale of one family's journey through humor and heartache, seperation and self-discovery, Marvin's Room examines the ties that bind families together . . . whether they like it or not. The play was later turned into an acclaimed movie starring Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Diane Keaton, and Robert De Niro.

Bessie lives in Florida where she cares for her Aunt Ruth and her ailing father, Marvin. When she is diagnosed with leukemia, Bessie's only hope is to contact her long-estranged sister Lee in the hopes of finding a match for a bone marrow transplant. Complicating matters is Lee's troubled son, Hank, who has just been released from a mental institution following a wave of arson. Veering between high tragedy and absurd comedy, McPherson's play is a dazzling call for strength, good-humor, and compassion, even in the midst of debilitating illness.

The Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys is dedicated to the creation of strong, ethical black men. Pharus wants nothing more than to take his rightful place as leader of the school's legendary gospel choir, but can he find his way inside the hallowed halls of this institution if he sings in his own key? Known for his unique brand of urban lyricism, Tarrell Alvin McCraney follows up his acclaimed trilogy The Brother/Sister Plays with this affecting portrait of a gay youth trying to find the courage to let the truth about himself be known. Set against the sorrowful sounds of hymns and spirituals, Choir Boy premiered at the Royal Court in London before receiving its Off-Broadway premiere in summer 2013 to critical and popular acclaim.

This is the first collection by Tarell Alvin McCraney, a major new playwright of the American theater. Lyrical and mythic, provocative and contemporary, McCraney’s dramas of kinship, love, and heartache are set in the bayou of Louisiana and loosely draw on West African myths. Comprising all three plays in the trilogy: In the Red and Brown Water, The Brothers Size, and Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet.

It'’s 1967 and the map of the Middle East is about to change drastically. Fueled by a love of English Romantic poetry, Adham journeys from Palestine to London with his new wife, Abir, to deliver a career-defining lecture. As the young couple'’s marriage is tested, Adham struggles to reconcile his ambitions with the pull of family and home. But what if seizing the moment means letting go of everything he knows?