Rarities & Wonders: Plays

by Phillip Howze

In the imaginative works included in his book, Rarities & Plays , Phillip Howze weaves together an array of disclosures, marvels, and meanderings to reveal the "intelligent, unruly" ( New York Times ) voice of a formidable new writer. Collected together here, and for the first-time, Rarities & Wonders is a singular assembly of "sharp and incisive" ( Talkin' Broadway ) contemporary American plays. Phillip Howze is an American writer and theater maker whose plays include Self Portraits (BRIC-Arts Media) and Frontieres Sans Frontieres (Bushwick Starr). He's currently commissioned to write new works for the American Repertory Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club/Sloan, and Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3 where he's also a Resident Writer. He was recently appointed the inaugural Associate Senior Lecturer in Playwriting at Harvard University’s Theater, Dance & Media program. This book is a part of the Sledgehammer Series with Three Plays by Christina Anderson, Doodles from the Three Plays by Hansol Jung, and Recent Alien Abductions by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas. The Sledgehammer Series lives within Tripwire's mission, with a specific focus on challenging how theater can live visually on the page.

190 pages, Paperback

Published September 16, 2022

Reviews

[Anamaria Willars · Rating 5 out of 5]

Finally plays from usa that are not all about realism or in the avangarde ones, magical realism.
Powerful, intentional and raw. Beautiful plays