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First edition thus, of this play based on Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of a pair of short stories by Ryunoske Akutagawa, a psychological murder mystery set in Heian era Japan.
First edition thus, of this play based on Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of a pair of short stories by Ryunoske Akutagawa, a psychological murder mystery set in Heian era Japan.
Signed first printing of Albee's greatest work, the Tony award-winning play and the basis for the film starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
First printing of this collection of four plays by short story writer and novelist Sherwood Anderson, his only foray into drama.
First edition of Beckett's three-act play, written in French just before the composition of WAITING FOR GODOT, posthumously published by permission of the Beckett estate in the English translation of Michael Brodsky.
First edition of this landmark neoclassical tragedy — the first documented performance using moveable scenes — with exquisite double-page etchings of the stage by an influential innovator of the form.
First edition thus of this pair of comedies by 18th-century playwright William Congreve, with stylish Beardsley-esque illustrations.
Interesting newspaper promoting a play by this this puppet theatre company in the city of Hradec Králové.
First printing of this examination of the Moscow Revolutionary Theater, established in 1922 to stage productions that promoted Soviet ideology – with signed woodcut print by Vladimir Favorsky.
First printing of this tragedy-farce by Soviet playwright, poet, and translator, with attractive cover and frontispiece art by multifaceted artist Vladimir Favorski.
First printing of this collection of four short plays by Pushkin, with atmospheric woodcut illustrations by multifaceted artist Vladimir Favorski – one of Favorski's final works.
Book club edition of Gillette's own signature piece, issued by Doubleday following the play's mid-'70s stage revival, and bearing a gift inscription to noted actor and Sherlockian Curtis Armstrong.
Warmly inscribed first edition of this play inspired by a con artist who ingratiated himself with New York's elites.
Signet movie tie-in edition, of the play that "changed American theater forever" (NEW YORK TIMES).
Beautiful book edition of Housman's play about Queen Victoria, illustrated in black and white by famed Pooh illustrator E.H. Shepard.
Limited first US edition of James Joyce's only play, a semi-autobiographical story of the tangled lives of two couples.
First trade editions of Kushner's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning two-part play, in two volumes.
First printing of the first complete one-volume hardcover edition of Kushner's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning two-part play, in original slipcase.
First edition, first printing of the Arthur Laurents-penned book of the Tony-award winning musical, a US American ROMEO AND JULIET.
Association copy first printing of the famous play, inscribed by both authors to Bryna Untermeyer and Louis Untermeyer, the poet, editor, and critic who was an early supporter of the playwrighting duo.
First printing of one of the best-known American plays of the 20th century, tackling freedom of thought with the contemporary threat of McCarthyism as underlying subtext.
First printing of the script of the beloved Tony-winning Broadway musical based on Bernard Shaw's PYGMALION.
First edition of these plays, including the Agatha Christie-an CLEVER DICK and the Holmesian SHERLOCK'S LAST CASE, by a playwright with "no great partiality for the works of A. Conan Coyle" and "no particular interest" in the detective genre.
Signed first edition of McNally's play, a reimagined life of Christ and his apostles as gay men in contemporary Texas.
Attention must be paid to this handsome first printing of the classic play by a giant of the American theater.
Signed first edition of Milne's first collection of plays, an aspect of his writing career now criminally overlooked.