Regional Best 2011

by William Roetzheim

Overview

According to a 2008 NEA report, 2,000 regional theaters in the U.S. were presenting plays and musicals to over 58 million audience members each year. A significant percentage of this work was new plays, often written by playwrights living outside of New York City. Regional Best is a collection of nine of the best of those plays, each of which premiered regionally but with national and international quality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933769547
Publisher:	Level 4 Press, Inc.
Publication date:	04/01/2011
Series:	Regional Best
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	480
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

William Roetzheim is the author of seventeen published books, over 100 articles, three columns, and fifteen spoken word audio CDs (Producer and Director). He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. His writing has won 8 gold medals and 21 honorable mentions in national and international competitions, including “Best Books” National Book Award; London Book Festival; IPPY Award; Indie Excellence Award; Benjamin Franklin Award; Foreword MagazineBook of the Year; New York Book; New England Book Festival; DIY Book Festival; and the Bill Fisher Award. His stageplay Frost has won a Seahorse award at the Moondance International Film Festival for Best Stageplay, and was a finalist for the Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus Verse Drama award and the National Best Books award for Best Drama. His musical Eliot has won a Seahorse award at the Moondance International Film Festival for Best Musical Libretto and was a finalist for the National Best Books award for Best Drama.

Table of Contents

Preface v

The Pie Dialogues 1

Alien Hand Syndrome 87

Besides, you lose your soul or the History of Western Civilization 115

Laying Off 177

Safe 191

The Boston Forty-Nine Flamingo 203

Causa Mortis or The Medical Student 269

Small Things 337

The Sweet Abyss 373