Introduction
Acknowledgments
David Auburn: MISS YOU
Alan Ball: YOUR MOTHER’S BUTT
Gina Barnett: ALONE AT LAST!
Glen Berger: THE GALLOWS MONOLOGUE
—FROM SIDNEY RYAN’S
—GUNPOWDER AND BLOOD
David Cale: POODLES
Eric Coble: TIES THAT BIND
Sharon E. Cooper: MISTAKEN IDENTITY
Laura Shaine Cunningham: OUTSOURCED
Adrienne Dawes: HERITAGE, HER-I-TAGE, & HAIR-I-TAGE
Steven Dietz: THE SPOT
Paul Dooley & Winne Holzman: POST-ITS (Notes on a Marriage)
Christopher Durang: WANDA’S VISIT
Peter Hedges: THE VALERIE OF NOW
Mikhail Horowitz: WE CANNOT KNOW
—THE MIND OF GOD
Seth Kramer: THE TARANTINO VARIATION
Eric Lane: THE STATUE OF BOLÍVAR
Warrent Light: MARS HAS NEVER BEEN THIS CLOSE
Mark Harvey Levine: SURPRISE
David Lindsay-Abaire: HOW WE TALK IN SOUTH BOSTON
Steve Martin: THE ZIG-ZAG WOMAN
Elaine May: THE WAY OF ALL FISH
Mark O’Donnell: THERE SHALL BE NO BOTTOM (a bad play for worse actors)
Jonathan Rand: CHECK, PLEASE
Wayne Rawley: CONTROLLING INTEREST
Jacquelyn Reingold: 2B (OR NOT 2B)
Edwin Sánchez: POPS
Nina Shengold: FORTY TO LIFE
Shel Silverstein: THE BEST DADDY
David Smilow: THE FLYING WOLIMSKIES RETURN
Tommy Smith: STREAK
Richard Strand: ROSA’S EULOGY
Frederick Stroppel: CHOCOLATE
Joyce Van Dyke: THE EARRING
Daryl Watson: THE BLUEBERRY HILL ACCORD
Lauren Wilson: WEDDING DUET
Garth Wingfield: PLEASE HAVE A SEAT AND SOMEONE WILL BE WITH YOU SHORTLY
Contributors
About the Editors
Index
Permissions and Acknowledgments
