"The poetry of Cruz's writing is what those who love his work cite most often about his style, and [i]Sotto Voce has that. Yet it also contains passages that are realistic, whimsical, sensual and heartbreaking. Cruz may be that rarity, a poet of the stage, but he is first and foremost a dramatist."—[i]The Miami HeraldAriel Strauss, a Jewish Cuban man, strives to explore his cultural history when he encounters Bemadette Kahn, ...
• Winner of the Oppenheim Award • First production in 1997 at the Public Theater in New York • Major new production currently at A.C.T. in San Francisco • First published in American Theatre magazine • Playwright is 26 years old. • Gay theme with academic appeal. ...
"The greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world."— Time "If there is a more urgent and indispensable playwright in world theater than South Africa's Athol Fugard, I don't know who it could be."— Newsweek "Athol Fugard can say more with a single line than most playwrights convey in an entire script."— Variety Legendary theatre artist Athol Fugard returns to the stage for the fir ...
"Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue is that rare and rewarding thing: a theatre work that succeeds on every level while creating something new. The playwright combines a lyrical ear with a sophisticated sense of structure to trace the legacy of war through three generations of a Puerto Rican family. Without ever invoking politics, Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue manages to be a deeply poetic, touching and often funny indictment of the war in Ira ...
"In the Blood is an extraordinary new play…It is truly harrowing…we cannot turn away, and we do not want to. The play strikes us as Hawthorne claimed his first glimpse of the scarlet letter struck him, with «a sensation not altogether physical yet almost so, as of a burning heat, as if the letter were not of red cloth but of red-hot iron.’»—Margo Jefferson, The New York TimesThe playwright who «has ...
previously published: The America Play and Other Works (TCG, 1995, 1-55936-092-5 sold 2000) • premiered at Yale Repertory and the Public Theatre in New York under the direction of Richard Foreman. ...
