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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1982A black sergeant cries out in the night, "They still hate you," then is shot twice and falls dead. Set in 1944 at Fort Neal, a segregated army camp in Louisiana, Charles Fuller's forceful drama--which has been regularly seen in both its original stage and its later screen version starring Denzel Washington--tracks the investigation of this murder. But A Soldier's Play is more than a detective story: it is a tough, incisive exploration of racial tensions and ambiguities among blacks and between blacks and whites that gives no easy answers and assigns no simple blame.

"Lanford Wilson is the rare dramatist, witty and humorous, who sees all his characters from the inside...Balm is life itself trapped in a play."--New YorkBalm in Gilead and Other Plays features Lanford Wilson's first full-length play. It takes place in upper Manhattan at a greasy, slum diner, Frank's cafe, where drug addicts, sex works, and petty criminals come to escape their boredom and suffering.

In Lanford Wilson's moving and powerful play, Redwood Curtain, an adolescent Eurasian girl-the child of a union between an American GI and a Vietnamese woman, adopted by a wealthy California couple and obsessive in her search for her father-is drawn to the redwood forests of northern California, where thousands of Vietnam veterans have taken refuge to escape the harsh realities of life in America.

Arthur Kopit has been one of our most imaginative, acclaimed, and produced playwrights. Now his three classics plays are available in one volume: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You In The Closet And I'm Feelin' So Sad, Indians, and Wings."Kopit is one of America's most playful and prophetic playwrights, by turns ingenious, hilarious and sensational. His plays are among the high-water marks of American theatre."--The New Yorker