Editorial Reviews From Booklist Margulies' best-known play, Sight Unseen, is a moody, intelligent meditation on modern art and the creative process. In his new play, he returns to those themes, this time focusing on two writers--one just starting out, the other a grizzled old veteran--and the relationship that blossoms between them as the older mentors her student, shepherding her toward the first glimmers of success and acclaim. Beautiful, heartfelt, tightly written, the play never resorts to easy cliche s or cinematic notions of what it is to be a writer: there are no great scenes of agonized genius at work--or at play. Instead, Margulies shows us, in six sharp, clear-eyed scenes, set in each of six years in his characters' lives, the everyday moments that make up two lives, the small disappointments and smaller triumphs, the white lies and seemingly minor betrayals that mark a relationship. And it all makes fascinating reading. Once started, the 85-page play is hard to put down. Jack Helbig

Collected Stories: A Play

Literature & Fiction

Donald Margulies

Dramas & Plays

Theatre Communications Group

Dinner with Friends: A Play

Self-Help

Relationships

THE STORY: The setting is the backyard of a Brooklyn tenement on the last day of summer vacation, where a group of children aged five to fourteen (portrayed by adult actors) are at play. Finding a dying bird they decide to have a ritual burial, whi

Found a Peanut.

MARGULIES, Donald

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Book by Donald Margulies, Margulies, Donald

The Model Apartment.

Donald Margulies studied visual arts at the Pratt Institute before transferring to State University of New York to pursue a degree in playwriting. During the early 80’s he collaborated with Joseph Papp, and his first Off-Broadway play, Found a Peanut, was produced at the Public Theatre. In 1992, Sight Unseen won an Obie for Best New American Play. Some of this other plays include The Loman Family Picnic, Pitching to the Star, Zimmer, Luna Par and Dinner With Friends which won Mr. Margulies a 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He had previously been nominated for a Pulitzer for Collected Stories. Starring: Anna Gunn, Adam Arkin, Jordan Baker, and Randy Ogelsby

Sight Unseen

Dramatist's Play Service

5 short one act plays. When Peter finally gets a good break for his Hollywood script, he finds himself PITCHING TO THE STAR of the pilot show. Promised control over something he's worked long and hard on, he finds his integrity and his storyline attacked every time the star makes a suggestion to completely change his script and make the lead character exactly like herself. (2 men, 3 women, flexible casting). In L.A. a washed-up young movie star explains to a willing fan in a bar how he went from a happy, married young novice to a wealthy, gambling, overnight sensation and back to a hungry, divorced wanna-be who only wants to recapture his original dream of having "enough" and being married for life. (1 man, 1 woman.) The SPACE in this play of the same name covers what comes between couples, what is out in the universe and even time spent between friends. Relating the story of his break-up with his girlfriend, one friend reveals to another how space-in whatever form-invades all his thoughts about himself and his world. (2 men.) Two WOMEN IN MOTION work together and take a tropical vacation together, surveying the territory and the men. When Monica reveals to Libby her crush on a co-worker, Mike, Libby takes little interest, but when Libby's island date sours, she interrupts Monica's fling to tell her Mike has no interest in Monica and, in fact, he gave Libby a long passionate kiss by the copy machine right before this trip. The women travel home in silence. (2 women.) We meet ZIMMER in the record store where he advises young buyers about the real rock and roll, before their time. He knows it all, and imparts his storehouse of knowledge while relating his experiences growing up: the expectations, his family, the friends who freaked out, the expectations, where he was when Kennedy died, his Bar Mitzvah, his girlfriend, and maybe a few more expectations. Always there is the music to tie it together, and tide him over. (1 man.)

Pitching to the Star and Other Short Plays.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for DramaOver the past decade, Donald Margulies has written some of the most insightful works in contemporary American drama. His body of work includes The Loman Family Picnic, Sight Unseen, The Model Apartment and Collected Stories, and with each succeeding work his audiences have grown. It is no surprise that his newest work is his most critically successful yet. As with all of Margulies’s work, he is a master of observing what might be considered the ordinary moments of life and its foibles with fresh ears. Dinner with Friends is a funny yet bittersweet examination of the married lives of two couples who have been extremely close for dozens of years. Although it seems to be treading on familiar ground, Dinner keeps changing its perspective to show how one couple’s breakup can have equally devastating effects on another’s stability. "This is a smart and subtle play that understand there ar

Dinner With Friends

Misadventure: Monologues and Short Pieces - Acting Edition (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

this collection contains seven full-length plays: MURDER OF CROWS by Mac Wellman, YOU SHOULD BE SO LUCKY by Charles Busch, DON JUAN IN CHICAGO by David Ives, THE MODEL APARTMENT by Donald Margulies, BAREFOOT BOY WITH SHOES ON by Edwin Sanchez, WHEN THEY SPEAK OF RITA by Daisy Foote, & THE FOURTH WALL by A R Gurney. Primary Stages, celebrating twenty years as once of America's most dynamic theater companies, presents this collection of seven plays by a splendid mix of writers. THE MODEL APARTMENT by the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Donald Margulies, is a haunting drama about a family struggling to put the Holocaust behind them. Obie winner Mac Wellman explores the toxic landscape of America with SECOND-HAND SMOKE. THE FOURTH WALL, by Off-Broadway favorite A R Gurney deals with a suburban Joan of Arc who takes her politics very seriously. WHEN THEY SPEAK OF RITA by Daisy Foote is a character study of a New Hampshire woman who struggles to find meaning in her life. BAREFOOT BOY WITH SHOES ON by Eddie Sanchez follows Rosario, a young man determined to create a better life for his unborn child. In DON JUAN IN CHICAGO, David Ives' comic hero leaps centuries in his pursuit of the perfect mate. And YOU SHOULD BE SO LUCKY by Charles Busch is a riotously funny comedy about an out of luck electrologist whose life suddenly changes, like a fairy tale. All of these plays were produced by Primary Stages during their productive twenty year history Off-Broadway, and all of these writers represent the best in American playwriting.

Plays From Primary Stages

A.R. Gurney

Mac Wellman

David Ives

Charles Busch

Edwin Sanchez

Daisy Foote

Broadway Play Pub

Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for drama, Dinner With Friends examines the lives of two couples and the repercussions of divorce on their friendships. With wit, compassion and consummate skill, playwright Donald Margulies weighs the cost of breaking up and of staying together. A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Matthew Arkin, Lisa Emery, Kevin Kilner and Deirdre O'Connell.

Dinner with Friends (Library Edition Audio CDs)

L.A. Theatre Works

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