Gay and Lesbian Drama
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Anthologies/Collections | Selected Individual Playwrights | Critical Studies
Anthologies/Collections
Allen Claudia. She's Always Liked the Girls Best. Third Side Press, 1993.
PS 3551 .L39215 S47 1993
Gay and Lesbian Plays Today. Heinemann, 1993.
PS 627 .H67 G38 1993
Gay Plays. Methuen, 1984-1990.
PR 1259 .H65 G39 1984
Gay Plays: An International Anthology. Ubu Repertory Theater Publications, 1989.
PN 6120 .H6 G394 1989x
Lesbian Plays. 2 v. Methuen, 1987-1989.
PR 1259 .L47 L4 1987
Making Out: Plays by Gay Men, ed. Robert Wallace. Coach House Press, 1992.
PR 9196.37 .G38 M35 1992
O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance. Grove Press, 1998.
PS 627 .H67 O2 1998
Out Front: Contemporary Gay and Lesbian Plays. Grove Press, 1988.
PS 627 .H67 O9 1988
Sharing the Delirium: Second Generation AIDS Plays and Performances. Heinemann, 1994.
PS 627 .A53 S53 1994
Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance. Routledge, 1996.
PS 627 .L48 S65 1996
Staging Gay Lives: An Anthology of Contemporary Gay Theater. Westview Press, 1996.
PS 627 .H67 S73 1996
Tough Acts to Follow: One-Act Plays on the Gay/Lesbian Experience. Alamo Square Press, 1992.
PS 627 .H67 T68 1992
The Way We Live Now: American Plays & the AIDS Crisis. Theatre Communications Group, 1990.
PS 627 .A53 W38 1990
Selected Individual Playwrights
Sarah Dreher
Lesbian Stages: Plays. New Victoria Publishers, 1988.
PS 3554 .R36 L4 1988
Christopher Durang
Christopher Durang Explains It All for You: Six Plays. Grove Weidenfeld, 1990.
PS 3554 .U666 A6 1990
Complete Full-Length Plays, 1975-1995. Smith and Kraus, 1997.
PS 3554 .U666 A6 1997t
Naomi in the Living Room & Other Short Plays: A Collection of One-Acts. Dramatists Play Service, 1998.
PS 3554 .U666 N28 1998
Larry Kramer
The Destiny of Me: A Play in Three Acts. Plume, 1993.
PS 3561 .R252 D47 1993
Just Say No: A Play About a Farce. St. Martin's Press, 1989.
PS 3561 .R252 J8 1989
The Normal Heart. New American Library, 1985.
PS 3561 .R252 N6 1985
Tony Kushner
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Pts. 1-2. Theatre Communications Group, 1993-1994.
PS 3561 .U778 A85 1993
A Bright Room Called Day. Theatre Communications Group, 1994.
PS 3561 .U778 B7 1994
Slavs!: Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness. Broadway Play Publishing, 1996.
PS 3561 .U778 S49 1996t
Terrence McNally
Corpus Christi: A Play. Grove Press, 1998.
PS 3563 .A323 C67 1998
Love! Valor! Compassion!; and A Perfect Ganesh: Two Plays. Plume, 1995.
PS 3563 .A323 L6 1995
Terrence McNally: 15 Short Plays. Smith and Kraus, 1994.
PS 3563 .A323 T47 1994
David Rabe
A Question of Mercy: Based Upon the Journal by Richard Selzer. Dramatists Play Service, 1998.
PS 3568 .A23 Q47 1998bp
Hurlyburly, and, Those the River Keeps: Two Plays. Grove Press, 1995.
PS 3568 .A23 T48 1995
The Vietnam Plays. 2v. Grove Press, 1993.
PS 3568 .A23 A6 1993
Megan Terry
High Energy Musicals from the Omaha Magic Theatre. Broadway Play Publishing, 1983.
ML 48 .H54 1983x
Two by Terry Plus One. I. E. Clark, 1984.
PS 628 .W6 T48 1984
Critical Studies
Clum, John M. Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama. Columbia University Press, 1992.
PS 338 .H66 C58 1992
Curtin, Kaier. "We Can Always Call Them Bulgarians": The Emergence of Lesbians and Gay Men on the American Stage. Alyson Publications, 1987.
PN 2277 .N5 C87 1987
De Jongh, Nicholas. Not in Front of the Audience: Homosexuality on Stage. Routledge, 1992.
PN 1861 .D43 1992
Freeman, Sandra. Putting Your Daughters on the Stage: Lesbian Theatre from the 1970s to the 1990s. Cassell, 1997.
PN 2270 .L47 F74 1997
Furtado, Ken. Gay and Lesbian American Plays: An Annotated Bibliography. Scarecrow Press, 1993.
Z 1229 .G25 F87 1993
Gage, Carolyn. Take Stage!: How to Direct and Produce a Lesbian Play. Scarecrow Press, 1997.
PN 2270 .L47 G34 1997
Loeffler, Donald L. An Analysis of the Treatment of the Homosexual Character in Dramas Produced in the New York Theatre from 1950 to 1968. Arno Press, 1975.
PN 1861 .L6 1975
O'Connor, Sean. Straight Acting: Popular Gay Drama from Wilde to Rattigan. Cassell, 1998.
PR 635 .H65 O28 1998
Passing Performances: Queer Readings of Leading Players in American Theater History. University of Michigan Press, 1998.
PN 2286.5 .P37 1998
Roman, David. Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, and AIDS. Indiana University Press, 1998.
PN 2266 .R66 1998