This Pulitzer Prize-winner is a deeply touching and funny play about three eccentric sisters from a small Southern town rocked by scandal when Babe, the youngest, shoots her husband. Humor and pathos abound as the sisters unite with an intense young lawyer to save Babe from a murder charge, and overcome their familys painful past. A BBC co-production. 
 A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Ray Baker, Donna Bullock, Arye Gross, Glenne Headly, Sondra Locke and Belita Moreno.

Crimes of the Heart

Literature & Fiction

Henley, Beth

Dramas & Plays

Penguin??Books

On Lenny's birthday, her youngest sister Babe is arrested for shooting her husband, while their middle sister, Meg, a singer, returns to their home in North Carolina from Los Angeles

Crimes of the Heart (Plays, Penguin)

Henley: Four Plays

History & Criticism

Heinemann Drama

VIKING

Crimes Of The Heart

Dramatists Play Service

Beth Henley Collected Plays Volume I - 1980-1989

Smith & Kraus

In The Jacksonian, Beth Henley returns to the Southern Gothic storytelling that made her reputation with both critics and audiences. Set in a seedy motel in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964, the play centers around Rosy, a troubled teenager, and Bill, her dentist father who has been living at the motel for several months as his wife, Susan, considers the disgrace of divorce. Fred, the motel bartender, and Eva, a waitress, are locked in a gruesome pact: he’ll marry her if she agrees to help him evade punishment for a hideous crime. But Bill, turning to nitrous oxide to ease the pain of his life collapsing around him, is a convenient target for Eva’s desperate desire for companionship. At the height of the violence associated with the civil rights movement, these characters gradually reveal the shameful secrets and psychological turmoil just beneath the surface of their insistent Southern gentility.

The Jacksonian: A Play

Northwestern University Press

From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Crimes of the Heart comes this poignant but unromanticized story of the hard lives of pioneers on the high plains of Wyoming in the 1860's. Macon and Bess are two mail-order brides, lured to the West by the promise of new beginnings through marriage to men they have never met. While waiting for their respective husbands-to-be, one bubbling with optimism, the other mousy and plain, the two women become instant best friends. As Abundance follows the two women through their friendship and adventures for the next 25 years, this Western epic unearths the dark underside of American mythology.
 A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Ed Begley Jr., Gary Cole, Amy Madigan, Steven Weber and JoBeth Williams.

Abundance.

Beth Henley

Dramatist's Play Service

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley spins one of her most colorful tales, as she follows a hilarious band of ne er-do-wells trying to scratch dreams from the Louisiana mud. It is Christmas Eve, 1938, and 15-year-old Cassidy Smith is very pregnant with the child of 40ish Reed Hooker. Cassidy is desperate to marry Reed, Reed is desperate to open the hottest new taxi-dancing emporium in Louisiana and neither are prepared for the arrival of Reed s wife, Sue Jack Hooker, a dangerous beauty who has just been let out of the penitentiary.  A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Jean Smart, Jack Black, Brandon Maggart, Jim McLure, Laurel Moglen, Elizabeth Ruscio, and Kurtwood Smith.

The Lucky Spot.

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

The Miss Firecracker Contest (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

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