<p>"My mother is determined to make me happy. Whether I like it or not." Ever the dutiful daughter, Sarah Goldman invents the perfect boyfriend and has the Heaven Sent excort service deliver hom to her father's birthday party. Only he's not Jewish...the foremost ingredient for Sarah's happiness, according to Mom.</p>

Beau Jest: A Romantic Comedy

James Sherman

Fireside Theatre

The Old Boy

A.R. Gurney

Drama Desk Award Winner for Outstanding New Play "One of Mr. McNally's finest plays-and one that hasn't dated, despite its apparently topical subject matter."-The New York Times "McNally's wit and wild comedy invariably score, and his darker intentions resonate, making Lips Together one of his most accomplished plays."-New York Daily News "A brilliant comedy."-The New Yorker At the heart of this haunting play is a dramatically incisive portrait of two married couples-the Trumans and the Haddocks. Uncomfortable with themselves and each other, they are forced to spend a Fourth of July weekend at the Fire Island house that the brother of one of the women left his sister when he died of AIDS. Though the house is beautiful, it is as empty as their lives and marriages have become, a symbol of their failed hopes, their rage, their fears, and of the capricious nature of death. Acerbic and haunting, Lips Together, Teeth Apart probes the stifled lives of people and their prejudices with a stunning clarity that resonates long after. The author of such critically acclaimed plays as The Lisbon Traviata and Frankie and Johnnie in the Clair de Lune, Terrence McNally has graced the American theater with a voice that captures our fear of intimacy in the modern age with dead-on insight, wit, and poignancy. But never has he blended these disparate elements into such a brilliantly cohesive whole as he has in Lips Together, Teeth Apart, hailed by Frank Richard of the New York Times as McNally's "most ambitious and most accomplished play yet."

Lips Together, Teeth Apart

MCNALLY, Terrence

1994 Fireside Theatre hardcover. ISBN: 156865135x. Playwright A.R Gurney(What I Did Last Summer;Scenes from An American Life) pitch-perfect adaption of seventeen of John Cheever's stories. The superficial gloss of upper middle class WASPS laid bare.

A Cheever evening: A new play based on stories of John Cheever

Gurney, A. R.|

<p>This award winning play is hilarious and engaging. A good read for those who love the story, it's a great place to start for anyone interested in stage comedy.</p>

Moon over Buffalo: A Comedy

Ken Ludwig