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New Light Shine
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Product Description: When he was twelve, Joe snuck into the field on the edge of town and saw the Town Mayor with his sister Peregrine. This one moment has overwhelmed and transformed his life, becoming the only thing that holds any importance to him...read more
By John Guare (foreword by)
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9780300184853 | Yale Univ Pr, September 25, 2012, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: When he was twelve, Joe snuck into the field on the edge of town and saw the Town Mayor with his sister Peregrine.

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A Free Man of Color
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Product Description: John Guare’s new play is astonishing, raucous and panoramic. A Free Man of Color is set in boisterous New Orleans prior to the historic Louisiana Purchase. Before law and order took hold, and class, racial and political lines were drawn, New Orleans was a carnival of beautiful women, flowing wine and pleasure for the taking...read more
By John Guare
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9780802145666 | Grove Pr, October 4, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: John Guare’s new play is astonishing, raucous and panoramic.

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An Enemy of the People: An Adaptation of the Play by Henrik Ibsen
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Product Description: When Dr. Stockmann discovers that his town's water is poisoned, he does what any responsible citizen would do: reports it to the authorities. But Stockmann's good deed has the potential to ruin the town's reputation as a popular spa destination, and instead of being hailed as a hero, Stockmann is labeled an enemy of the people...read more
By John Guare (introduced by) and Arthur Miller
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9780143105589 | Penguin Classics, June 29, 2010, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: When Dr.

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House of Blue Leaves
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Product Description: On the day the Pope is expected to visit, hearts are palpitating in the sleepy borough of Queens, but not entirely on account of His Holiness. Bunny Flingus, a femme-fatale from Flushing (or thereabouts) is stirring things up in the quiet, unfulfilled life of aspiring songwriter Artie Shaughnessy...read more
By John Guare
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9780573610288 | Samuel French Inc Plays, January 1, 2000, cover price $6.00 | About this edition: FarceCharacters: 4 male, 6 femaleInterior SetArtie Shaugnessy is a songwriter with visions of glory.

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9781580813822, titled "The House of Blue Leaves" | Unabridged edition (L A Theatre Works, June 18, 2008), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: On the day the Pope is expected to visit, hearts are palpitating in the sleepy borough of Queens, but not entirely on account of His Holiness.

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9781580810623, titled "The House Of Blue Leaves" | Unabridged edition (L A Theatre Works, September 30, 1996), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: FarceCharacters: 4 male, 6 femaleInterior SetArtie Shaugnessy is a songwriter with visions of glory.

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Landscape of the Body
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Product Description: One of John Guare’s classic plays,Landscape of the Bodytells the story of a woman’s unfulfilled life and premature death — and her reflections from the grave. Betty travels to New York to convince her sister Rosalie to leave her gritty New York City life and come home to bucolic Maine...read more
By John Guare
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9780802142986 | Grove Pr, March 1, 2007, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: One of John Guare’s classic plays,Landscape of the Bodytells the story of a woman’s unfulfilled life and premature death — and her reflections from the grave.
9780822206323 | Dramatist''s Play Service, June 1, 1978, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: One of John Guare’s classic plays,Landscape of the Bodytells the story of a woman’s unfulfilled life and premature death — and her reflections from the grave.

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Three Plays: Our Town, the Skin of Our Teeth, and the Matchmaker
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An omnibus edition containing the acclaimed playwright's three most famous plays includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning duo Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, as well as The Matchmaker, which was later adapted into the blockbuster musical Hello Dolly!. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
By John Guare and Thornton Wilder
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9780060512644 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, January 1, 2007), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Three works which parody old-fashioned playwriting and depict life against the vast dimensions of time and space.

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Purple Heart And The Infidel: Two Plays
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Product Description: In Purple Heart, Carla, a Vietnam War widow deep in drink and depression, is living with a troubled son and her controlling mother. One day a stranger arrives at the door, a soldier with one hand who is seemingly connected to her late husband and comes to offer condolences to the grieving family...read more
By John Guare (foreword by) and Bruce Norris
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9780810122147 | Northwestern Univ Pr, May 30, 2005, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In Purple Heart, Carla, a Vietnam War widow deep in drink and depression, is living with a troubled son and her controlling mother.

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John Guare
By John Guare
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9781575253169 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, June 1, 2004, cover price $19.95

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The Sweet Smell of Success
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Product Description: Based on the famous film starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis, this well-received Broadway musical starred John Lithgow, who won the Tony Award for Best Actor for his performance. A controlling, sometimes vicious columnist (a character modeled after Wa
By Car and John Guare
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9780634049354 | Hal Leonard Corp, January 1, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Based on the famous film starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis, this well-received Broadway musical starred John Lithgow, who won the Tony Award for Best Actor for his performance.

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John Wulp
By John Guare (introduced by) and John Wulp
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9780965164559 | Commonplace Pub Llc, December 1, 2003, cover price $85.00

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Few Stout Individuals
Product Description: This latest work from award-winning playwright John Guare, author of House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation, addresses ideas of history and memory, fame and ignominy, reason and insanity with his trademark Guare imagination...read more
By John Guare
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9780822219071 | Dramatist''s Play Service, October 1, 2003, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: This latest work from award-winning playwright John Guare, author of House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation, addresses ideas of history and memory, fame and ignominy, reason and insanity with his trademark Guare imagination.

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A Few Stout Individuals: A Play in Two Acts
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Product Description: This latest work from award-winning playwright John Guare, author of House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation, addresses ideas of history and memory, fame and ignominy, reason and insanity with his trademark Guare imagination...read more
By John Guare
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9780802140029 | 1 edition (Grove Pr, May 1, 2003), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: This latest work from award-winning playwright John Guare, author of House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation, addresses ideas of history and memory, fame and ignominy, reason and insanity with his trademark Guare imagination.

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Elizabeth Heyert: The Sleepers
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Product Description: Do we reveal our hidden, inner self when we sleep? In The Sleepers, Elizabeth Heyert's camera bears witness to moments rarely seen, when our public fa ade has vanished, and we are completely unaware of scrutiny. Working with a large format view camera from a balcony, Heyert documented modern men and women, in all their diversity, sleeping naked, singly and in couples...read more
By Stacey D'Erasmo, John Guare and Elizabeth Heyert
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9781564661050 | Les Presses Du Reel, February 1, 2003, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Do we reveal our hidden, inner self when we sleep?

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Chaucer in Rome
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By John Guare
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9780822218401 | Dramatist''s Play Service, October 1, 2002, cover price $8.00

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The House of Blue Leaves and Chaucer in Rome: Two Plays
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Product Description: InJohn Guare's classic play The House of Blue Leaves (winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play), the Pope is visiting New York, and eighteen-year-old Ronnie goes AWOL from the army to come home to New York and blow up the Pope as he passes his house...read more
By John Guare
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9781585672912 | Overlook Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: InJohn Guare's classic play The House of Blue Leaves (winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play), the Pope is visiting New York, and eighteen-year-old Ronnie goes AWOL from the army to come home to New York and blow up the Pope as he passes his house.

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Lydie Breeze: Bullfinch's Mythology/the Sacredness of the Next Task
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Product Description: An extensive reworking of two earlier (1981) plays by John Guare about a nineteenth-century commune in Nantucket, Lydie Breeze is a two-play, six-hour cycle about four seekers who come to the island to create a special model for a better world in the ashes of the Civil War and end up as a model for the corruption of twentieth-century idealism...read more
By John Guare
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9781585671588 | Overlook Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An extensive reworking of two earlier (1981) plays by John Guare about a nineteenth-century commune in Nantucket, Lydie Breeze is a two-play, six-hour cycle about four seekers who come to the island to create a special model for a better world in the ashes of the Civil War and end up as a model for the corruption of twentieth-century idealism.

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Women & Water, a Book of Judith, Lydie Breeze, Bullfincn's Mythology: Collected Plays
By John Guare
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9781575251479 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, August 1, 2001, cover price $19.95

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Lydie Breeze
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Product Description: An extensive reworking of two earlier (1981) plays by John Guare about a nineteenth-century commune in Nantucket, Lydie Breeze is a two-play, six-hour cycle about four seekers who come to the island to create a special model for a better world in the ashes of the Civil War and end up as a model for the corruption of twentieth-century idealism...read more
By John Guare
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9780822218159 | Revised edition (Dramatist''s Play Service, June 1, 2001), cover price $8.00 | About this edition: An extensive reworking of two earlier (1981) plays by John Guare about a nineteenth-century commune in Nantucket, Lydie Breeze is a two-play, six-hour cycle about four seekers who come to the island to create a special model for a better world in the ashes of the Civil War and end up as a model for the corruption of twentieth-century idealism.
9780822207108 | Dramatist''s Play Service, August 1, 1995, cover price $6.50 | About this edition: An extensive reworking of two earlier (1981) plays by John Guare about a nineteenth-century commune in Nantucket, Lydie Breeze is a two-play, six-hour cycle about four seekers who come to the island to create a special model for a better world in the ashes of the Civil War and end up as a model for the corruption of twentieth-century idealism.

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The Theater Posters of James McMullan
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A beautifully designed collection of posters that immortalize the contemporary American theater through the eyes of one of its top poster artists features more than thirty-five posters, along with with preparatory drawings, photographs, and variants. (view table of contents)
By Bernard Gersten (foreword by), John Guare (introduced by), Lincoln Center Theater (other contributor) and James McMullan
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9780141003634 | Penguin USA, May 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Collects forty posters depicting the theater, including posters for 'Six Degrees of Separation' and 'Anything Goes', and discusses the artist's process of sketching and revising the posters until they reach their final image.

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Six Degrees of Separation
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Product Description: The extraordinary tragicomedy of race, class and manners.From the Trade Paperback edition.
By John Guare
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9780822210344 | Dramatist''s Play Service, June 1, 1999, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: The extraordinary tragicomedy of race, class and manners.

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9780613293464 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $25.70 | About this edition: The extraordinary tragicomedy of race, class and manners.

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Lake Hollywood
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By John Guare
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9780822217374 | Dramatist''s Play Service, December 1, 2000, cover price $8.00

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Six Degrees of Separation
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Inspired by a true story, a young con man insinuates himself into the lives of a wealthy New York City couple.
By Alan Alda (editor), John Guare (editor), Chuma Hunter-Gault (editor) and Swoosie Kurtz (editor)
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9781580811736 | L A Theatre Works, December 1, 2000, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Inspired by a true story, a young con man insinuates himself into the lives of a wealthy New York City couple.

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The General of Hot Desire: And Other Plays
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By John Guare
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9780822216933 | Dramatist''s Play Service, June 1, 1999, cover price $8.00

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Bosoms and Neglect
By John Guare
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9780822217282 | Revised edition (Dramatist''s Play Service, June 1, 1999), cover price $8.00
9780822201373 | Dramatist''s Play Service, December 1, 1979, cover price $6.50

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The Theater Posters of James McMullan
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Reproduces thirty-six posters commissioned by New York's Lincoln Center Theater and includes sketches, reference photographs, and alternate versions that show the creative evolution of each poster. (view table of contents)
By John Guare (introduced by) and James McMullan
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9780670876839 | Studio, October 1, 1998, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Reproduces thirty-six posters commissioned by New York's Lincoln Center Theater and includes sketches, reference photographs, and alternate versions that show the creative evolution of each poster.

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