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Cosbyology: Essays and Observations from the Doctor of Comedy
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Now in paperback, the national bestseller from the funniest man in America, who looks back at his life . . . bit by bit. With more than 200,000 ha...
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Fucking A
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Fucking A is an otherworldly tale involving a noble mother, her wayward son and others. Hester Smith, the revered and reviled local abortionist, ha...
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365 Days/365 Plays
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /On November 13, 2002, the incomparable Suzan-Lori Parks got an idea to write a play every day for a year. She began that very day, finishing one ye...
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The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World AKA The Negro Book of the Dead
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A woman tries to feed her husband a fried drumstick. Dragons roam a flat earth. The last Black man in the whole entire world dies again. And again....
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Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Pulitzer Prize & Tony Award winner Suzan-Lori Parks (Topdog/Underdog) delivers the stunning first installment of a new American Odyssey, set ov...
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The Amen Corner
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Comic Drama Characters: 4 male, 10 female Compelete interior Self-anointed Harlem store front preacher Margaret Alexander is the leader of her flo...
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A long-running success of the 1968/69 Off-Broadway season. Fast paced, powerful, touching and hilarious, this kaleidoscope of constantly shifting s...
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A Raisin in the Sun
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Drama / 7m, 3f, 1 boy / Int. This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production ...
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Native Son
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Paul Green and Richard WrightAdapted from the classic novel by Richard Wright DramaCharacters: 15 male, 14 female (w/doubling)Multiple SetsThe stor...
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Les Blancs
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /New Revised Version 5 black m, 3 white m, 2 white f, 1 black f, 6 extras including 1 child Unit set Best American play of 1970, Les Blancs propheti...
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The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /This is the probing, hilarious and provocative story of Sidney, a disenchanted Greenwich Village intellectual, his wife Iris, an aspiring actress, ...
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When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Kenan Thompson has spent his life on screen, now he's coming to the page to get personal. With essays written in that hilarious tone he's known for...
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Jitney
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Drama Characters: 8 male, 1 female Interior SetSet in 1970 in the Hill District of Pittsburgh that is served by a makeshift taxi company, Jitney i...
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Fences
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Drama / 5m, 2f / 1 Set Winner of the New York Drama Critic's and Tony Awards as well as the Pulitzer Prize, this sensational drama starred James Ea...
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August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Set in 1904, August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean begins on the eve of Aunt Esther's 287th birthday. When Citizen Barlow comes to her Pittsburgh's Hill...
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August Wilson's Two Trains Running
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Finalist 1992 Pulitzer Prize in Drama This is the 1960s chapter of the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright's decade by decade saga of ordinary Afric...
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Seven Guitars
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Full Length, Tragic comedy Characters: 4 male, 3 female Exterior Set The sixth in the author's decade by decade exploration of the black experience...
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August Wilson's King Hedley II
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Finalist 2000 Pulitzer Prize in DramaPeddling stolen refrigerators in the feeble hope of making enough money to open a video store, King Hedley, a...
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August Wilson's The Piano Lesson
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Winner 1990 Pulitzer Prize for DramaWinner 1990 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding New PlayNominee 1990 Tony Award, Best PlayNominee 2013 Outer Crit...
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Joe Turner's Come and Gone
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Drama / Casting: 6m, 5f / Scenery: Interior Sets Set in a black boardinghouse in Pittsburgh in 1911, this drama by the author of The Piano Lesson, ...
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Play with music Characters: 8 males (5 black, 3 white) 2 black females Scenery: Unit set It's 1927 in a rundown studio in Chicago where Ma Rainey i...
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The Fall of Heaven
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /> Dramatic comedy Cahracters: 3 male, 2 female A hip and inventive new play by Walter Mosley, best-selling author of more than 25 books and most...
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Radio Golf
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Radio Golf is a fast-paced, dynamic, and wonderfully funny work about the world today and the dreams we have for the future. Set in Pittsburgh in t...
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The Devil Finds Work
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /From "the best essayist in this country" (The New York Times Book Review) comes an incisive book-length essay about racism in American movies that ...
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