[NEohioPAL]Cleveland Public Library: New Plays

[Donald Boozer]

This week's posting from the Literature Department at
Cleveland Public Library highlights new plays now available
in the Department. The Literature Department is located on the second
floor of the Main Library, downtown Cleveland, at East Sixth
Street and Superior Avenue. Click on the link provided to
access the library=92s catalog to reserve any of these titles.
For more information, visit our location, call 216-623-2881,
or email us at =93literature <at> cpl.org.=94


Intimate Apparel.
Lynn Nottage.
Winner of the 2004 New York Drama Critics Circle
and the Outer Critics Circle Awards.
Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 2005.
(PS3564.O795 I67 2005)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D0822220091
"The time is 1905, the place New York City, where Esther, a black sea=
mstress,
lives in a boarding house for women and sews intimate apparel for cli=
ents...Her plan
is to find the right man and use the money she's saved to open a beau=
ty parlor where=20
black women will be treated as royally as the white women she sews fo=
r."
-- from the back cover


5 Short Plays.
Israel Horovitz.
(PS3558.O69 A6 2006)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D0573628467
Contents include Free Gift, 3 Weeks After Paradise,
Speaking Well of the Dead, Security, and A Mother's Love.
The playwright and screenwriter Israel Horovitz has won numerous
awards for his work and has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.


In Real Life.
Charlayne Woodard.
(PS3573.O614 I5 2005)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D0822219433
This the final play in Woodard's award-winning autobiographical trilo=
gy that
included Pretty Fire and Neat. She pursues her dreams in New York Cit=
y
along with a colorful cast of characters. The play is written to be p=
erformed
by one woman (or a flexible cast can be employed to tell the story).=
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Remember, books highlighted here can be borrowed through any CLEVNET =
library with the touch of a button. Whether you're from Cleveland, Tw=
insburg, Wadsworth, or Willowick, just place a hold through the link =
provided and choose your library as the pickup location.

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Donald Boozer, Literature Department
Cleveland Public Library
325 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114
donald.boozer <at> cpl.org
216-623-2881 / 216-623-7050 (fax)
http://www.cpl.org