Two Sisters and a Piano and Other Plays

Two Sisters and a Piano and Other Plays

Author: Nilo Cruz

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2010-02-16

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 1458766799

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Nilo Cruz is the most produced Cuban-American playwright in the U.S. and was the first dramatist of Hispanic descent to receive the Pulitzer-Prize. In his plays, Cruz almost always journeys back to Cuba, even when the play is not set there. Cruz is a sensualist, a conjurer of mysterious voyages and luxuriant landscapes. He is a poetic chronicler, a documentarian of the presence of Latin people in American life. He conveys the strength and persistence of the Cuban spirit through a wholly dramatic imagination. This volume also includes A Bicycle Country and the one-act play, Capricho.


Two Sisters and a Piano

Two Sisters and a Piano

Author: Nilo Cruz

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9780822219828

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THE STORY: Set in 1991, during the Pan American Games in Havana and while the Russians are pulling out of Cuba, this play portrays two sisters, Maria Celia, a novelist, and Sofia, a pianist, serving time under house arrest. Passion infiltrates poli


Three Sisters

Three Sisters

Author: Anton Chekhov

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Published: 2017-12-11

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13:

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The play focuses on the lives of three sisters, Olga, Masha, and Irina, young women of the Russian gentry who try to fill their days in order to construct a life that feels meaningful while surrounded by an array of military men, servants, husbands, suitors, and lovers, all of whom constitute a distractions from the passage of time and from the sisters' desire to return to their beloved Moscow.


Anna in the Tropics

Anna in the Tropics

Author: Nilo Cruz

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2010-10

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 1458781240

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Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this lush romantic drama depicts a family of cigar makers whose loves and lives are played out against the backdrop of America in the midst of the Depression. Set in Ybor City (Tampa) in 1930, Cruz imagines the catalytic effect the arrival of a new ''lector (who reads Tolstoys Anna Karenina to the workers as they toil in the cigar factory) has on a Cuban-American family. Cruz celebrates the search for identity in a new land.


Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams

Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams

Author: Nilo Cruz

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 0822219786

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Winning...A seductive story of clashing theatrical titans. Mr. Pendleton creates an engrossing picture of success, failure, betrayal, guilt, and ravening fear among a shifting constellation of stars of film and theater. --NY Times. In this highly entertai


The Other Bennet Sister

The Other Bennet Sister

Author: Janice Hadlow

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company

Published: 2020-03-31

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1250129435

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A NPR CONCIERGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Jane fans rejoice! . . . Exceptional storytelling and a true delight." —Helen Simonson, author of the New York Times bestselling novels Major Pettigrew's Last Stand and The Summer Before the War Mary, the bookish ugly duckling of Pride and Prejudice’s five Bennet sisters, emerges from the shadows and transforms into a desired woman with choices of her own. What if Mary Bennet’s life took a different path from that laid out for her in Pride and Prejudice? What if the frustrated intellectual of the Bennet family, the marginalized middle daughter, the plain girl who takes refuge in her books, eventually found the fulfillment enjoyed by her prettier, more confident sisters? This is the plot of Janice Hadlow's The Other Bennet Sister, a debut novel with exactly the affection and authority to satisfy Jane Austen fans. Ultimately, Mary’s journey is like that taken by every Austen heroine. She learns that she can only expect joy when she has accepted who she really is. She must throw off the false expectations and wrong ideas that have combined to obscure her true nature and prevented her from what makes her happy. Only when she undergoes this evolution does she have a chance at finding fulfillment; only then does she have the clarity to recognize her partner when he presents himself—and only at that moment is she genuinely worthy of love. Mary’s destiny diverges from that of her sisters. It does not involve broad acres or landed gentry. But it does include a man; and, as in all Austen novels, Mary must decide whether he is the truly the one for her. In The Other Bennet Sister, Mary is a fully rounded character—complex, conflicted, and often uncertain; but also vulnerable, supremely sympathetic, and ultimately the protagonist of an uncommonly satisfying debut novel.


The Sisters Sweet

The Sisters Sweet

Author: Elizabeth Weiss

Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback

Published: 2022-09-06

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1984801562

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A young woman in a vaudeville sister act must learn to forge her own path after her twin runs away to Hollywood in this “elegant, immersive . . . exploration of sisterhood, identity, ambition and betrayal” (The New York Times). “A beautifully told coming-of-age story that embraces life with a galloping energy and irresistible curiosity.”—Maggie Shipstead, bestselling author of Great Circle Leaving was my sister’s choice. I would have to make my own. All Harriet Szász has ever known is life onstage with her sister, Josie. As “The Sisters Sweet,” they pose as conjoined twins in a vaudeville act conceived of by their ambitious parents, who were once themselves theatrical stars. But after Josie exposes the family’s fraud and runs away to Hollywood, Harriet must learn to live out of the spotlight—and her sister’s shadow. As Josie’s star rises in California, the Szászes fall on hard times. Striving to keep her struggling family afloat, Harriet molds herself into the perfect daughter. She also tentatively forms her first relationships outside her family and begins to imagine a life for herself beyond the role of dutiful daughter that she has played for so long. Finally, Harriet must decide whether to honor her mother, her father, or the self she’s only beginning to get to know. Full of long-simmering tensions, buried secrets, questionable saviors, and broken promises, this is a story about how much we are beholden to others and what we owe ourselves. Layered and intimate, The Sisters Sweet heralds the arrival of an accomplished new voice in fiction.


Beauty of the Father

Beauty of the Father

Author: Nilo Cruz

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 9780822221715

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THE STORY: This play by Pulitzer Prize-winner Nilo Cruz is set in Andalusia, Spain, where the restless ghost of the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca still wanders through the streets and converses with the living. BEAUTY OF THE FATHER is about a


A Bicycle Country

A Bicycle Country

Author: Nilo Cruz

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9780822219774

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THE STORY: Three characters whose lives seem to be moving nowhere set out to build a dream, even if that dream seems perilous. This stirring portrait of three Cuban exiles and their harrowing journey across the Caribbean Sea examines the universal


Ana María Reyes Does Not Live in a Castle

Ana María Reyes Does Not Live in a Castle

Author: Hilda Eunice Burgos

Publisher: Tu Books

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781620143629

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"The Penderwicks" meets "In the Heights" in this sparkling middle-grade debut about a young Dominican American girl in New York City.