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Donald Margulies

DONALD MARGULIES

  (1954 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC  represented by Derek Zasky

Donald Margulies received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for DINNER WITH FRIENDS (Actors Theatre of Louisville [KY], South Coast Repertory [Costa Mesa, CA], Variety Arts Theatre [New York], Comedie des Champs-Elysees [Paris], Hampstead Theatre [London]; American Theatre Critics' Association New Play Citation, Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk nominee; a Burns Mantle Best Play). His many plays include THE COUNTRY HOUSE (Geffen Playhouse [Los Angeles], Manhattan Theatre Club/Friedman Theatre [Broadway]); CONEY ISLAND CHRISTMAS (Geffen Playhouse); TIME STANDS STILL (Geffen Playhouse, MTC/Friedman, Cort Theatre [Broadway]; nominated for Tony, Outer Critics Circle, and L.A. Ovation Awards; American Theatre Critics' Association New Play Citation, a Burns Mantle Best Play); SHIPWRECKED! AN ENTERTAINMENT  THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF LOUIS DE ROUGEMONT (AS TOLD BY HIMSELF) (South Coast Repertory, Long Wharf Theatre [New Haven], Geffen Playhouse, Primary Stages [New York]; Outer Critics Circle Award nomination); BROOKLYN BOY (South Coast Repertory, MTC/Biltmore Theatre [Broadway], Comedie des Champs-Elysees; American Theatre Critics' Association New Play Award finalist, Outer Critics Circle nominee, a Burns Mantle Best Play); SIGHT UNSEEN (South Coast Repertory, MTC/Biltmore Theatre [2004], Manhattan Theatre Club/Orpheum Theatre [1992], Comedie des Champs-Elysees; OBIE Award, Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner Award, Drama Desk nominee, Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Burns Mantle Best Play); COLLECTED STORIES (South Coast Repertory, MTC [1996], MTC/Friedman [2010], HB Studio/Lucille Lortel Theatre, Theatre Royal Haymarket [London]; Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle/Ted Schmitt Awards, L.A. Ovation Award, Drama Desk nominee, Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner Award finalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, Drama Desk nominee); GOD OF VENGEANCE [based on the Yiddish classic by Sholem Asch], (ACT Theatre [Seattle], Williamstown [MA] Theatre Festival); TWO DAYS (Long Wharf Theatre); THE MODEL APARTMENT (Los Angeles Theatre Center, Primary Stages [1995, 2013], La Jolla [CA] Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre; OBIE Award, Drama-Logue Award, Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner Award finalist, Drama Desk nominee): THE LOMAN FAMILY PICNIC (MTC [1989, 1993]; Drama Desk nominee; a Burns Mantle Best Play); WHAT's WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? (MTC, Jewish Repertory Theatre [New York], Brooks Atkinson Theatre); BROKEN SLEEP: THREE PLAYS (Williamstown Theatre Festival); JULY 7, 1994 (Actors Theatre of Louisville); FOUND A PEANUT (Joseph Papp/New York Shakespeare Festival); PITCHING TO THE STAR (West Bank Cafe); RESTING PLACE (Theatre for the New City); GIFTED CHILDREN, ZIMMER and LUNA PARK (Jewish Repertory Theatre). His plays have been performed at major theatres across the United States and around the world. Theatre Communications Group has published seven volumes of his work. DINNER WITH FRIENDS was made into an Emmy Award-nominated film for HBO, and COLLECTED STORIES was presented on PBS. Currently, he is adapting the novel "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides into an HBO miniseries. Mr. Margulies has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He was the recipient of the 2000 Sidney Kingsley Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Theatre by a playwright. In 2005 he was honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with an Award in Literature and by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture with its Award in Literary Arts. Mr. Margulies is an alumnus of New Dramatists and serves on the council of The Dramatists Guild of America. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1954, Mr. Margulies now lives with his wife, Lynn Street, a physician, and their son, Miles, in New Haven, Connecticut, where he is an adjunct professor of English and Theatre Studies at Yale University.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Anthony         Back Story         Broken Sleep         Brooklyn Boy         Collected Stories         Coney Island Christmas         Country House, The         Death In the Family         Dinner With Friends         Father And Son         First Love         Found A Peanut         Gifted Children         God Of Vengeance         Homework         I Don't Know What I Am Doing         Joey         July 7 1994         Kibbutz         La         Last Tuesday         Lola         Loman Family Picnic, The         Louie         Luna Park         Manny         Misadventure         Model Apartment, The         New Year's Eve         Nocturne         Pitching To the Star         Resting Place         Shipwrecked! An Entertainment - the Amazing Adventures Of Louis De Rougemont (As Told By Himself)         Sight Unseen         Somnambulist         Space         Time Stands Still         Two Days         What's Wrong With This Picture         Women In Motion         Zimmer

Anthony

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Back Story

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When Ethan is born in the worst blizzard of the century, two-year-old sister Ainsley nearly sacrifices a toe trying to clear a path for the baby's arrival. That initial gesture of devotion blossoms into a tale of sibling loyalty, rivalry and love that spans two decades. Inspired by Joan Ackermann's narrative "Back Story," each of the eighteen playwrights in this collective creation puts a distinctive spin on Ainsley's and Ethan?s amusing and poignant struggles with life, with each other, and with the phantom dad who abandoned them for the wilds of Alaska

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by Joan Ackermann Courtney Baron Neena Beber Constance Congdon Jon Klein Shirley Lauro Craig Lucas eduardo Machado Donald Margulies Jane Martin Susan Miller John Olive Tanya Palmer David Rambo edwin Sanchez Adele edling Shank Mayo Simon Val Smith. Based

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Broken Sleep

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written with Michael-John La ChiUSA

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Brooklyn Boy

Brooklyn Boy
the play isn't about Brooklyn, nor is it about a boy-it's about a man without a home

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Collected Stories

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the conflict between the established artist and the adulatory fan who becomes a protege, disciple, colleague and friend-and finally threatening rival-is one of those great topics. . .It resurfaces in Donald Margulies's provocative new play, COLLeCTeD STORIeS, which confronts the prominent short-story writer Ruth Steiner with her student turned confidante turned competitor Lisa Morrison. What is new here is that the women are teacher and student both in academia and in life, that they come from different social milieus, and that for her first novel, Lisa has also cannibalized Ruth's experiences, to wit her youthful, shattering affair with the poet Delmore Schwartz. As always, Margulies is literate, intellectually stimulating, and able to create characters of both Dramatic and human interest. And he sustains this interest through six scenes covering six years that only briefly leave Ruth's cozily messy, book-infested Greenwich Village apartment. Here two worlds clash in age-old, ecumenical dueling, led up to by great mutual emotional investment, and all the more bitter for it. -NY Magazine.

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South Coast Repertory Theatre, California    1996

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Coney Island Christmas

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Pulitzer Prize-winner Donald Margulies weaves together nostalgia, music and merriment in this new seasonal classic. A holiday show for people of all ages and all faiths, CONEY ISLAND CHRISTMAS introduces us to Shirley Abramowitz, a young Jewish girl who (much to her immigrant parents' exasperation) is cast as Jesus in the school's Christmas pageant. As Shirley, now much older, recounts the memorable story to her great-granddaughter, the play captures a timeless and universal tale of what it means to be an American during the holidays.

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Donald Margulies, based on the story "The Loudest Voice" by Grace Paley

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2014)   978-0822231516

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comedy

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Male:  8            Female:  10            Other:  doubling, flexible casting

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Country House, The

Country House, The
Tony and Emmy winner Blythe Danner (The Commons of Pensacola, Meet the Parents) stars as Anna Patterson, the matriarch of a brood of famous and longing-to-be-famous creative artists who have gathered at their Berkshires summerhouse during the Williamstown Theatre Festival. But when the weekend takes an unexpected turn, everyone is forced to improvise. . .inciting a series of simmering jealousies, romantic outbursts and passionate soul-searching. This witty and compelling new play provides a piercing look at a family of performers coming to terms with the roles they play in each other's lives.

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Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 261 West 47th Street, New York, NY 10036    02 Oct 2014

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Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. (30 April 2015)
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Death In the Family

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Dinner With Friends

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As described by New York Magazine: "Two married couples have been best friends for years. In their Connecticut home, Karen and Gabe, international food writers, are giving a dinner for Beth and Tom, which he doesn't attend. It emerges from the heartbroken Beth that he has left her for another woman. Gabe and Karen are almost as crushed, having expected to grow old and fat together, the four of us. When Tom shows up at his home in the next scene, late at night, he is enraged that Beth broke the news of their breakup in his absence. Late as it is, he rushes over to his friends in the next scene to present his side of the story. Act Two begins with another dinner, twelve and half years earlier, in a summer house on Martha's Vineyard, where Karen and Gabe are introducing Beth to Tom. then we skip five months after the events in Act One, as Beth reveals to Karen. . .that she has fallen in love with an old friend whom she intends to marry. . .Later that day, in a Manhattan bar, Tom, a lawyer, tells Gabe about his [newfound

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Comedy Drama Comedy

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Father And Son

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First Love

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Found A Peanut

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the setting is the backyard of a Brooklyn tenement on the last day of summer vacation, where a group of children aged five to fourteen (portrayed by adult actors) are at play. Finding a dying bird they decide to have a ritual burial, which leads to the discovery of a bag of money, probably buried by a reclusive miser who had recently died in the adjacent building. This discovery, in turn, results in squabbles and bitterness among the children, as the microcosm of their games gradually yields an awareness of greed, betrayal and violence-elements of life heretofore unknown to them but, regrettably, so much a part of the grownup world which they are approaching. In a sense the play, with deft irony and lively humor, marks the coming of age of the children, as the carefree innocence of youth is sobered by the emergence of emotions which, while not yet fully comprehended, will have a profound effect on their lives in the years to come.

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Gifted Children

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God Of Vengeance

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Pultizer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies has transported Sholom Asch's 1906 Yiddish meloDrama from Asch's native Poland to the Lower east Side of Manhattan in 1923 and in the process has transformed a classic morality tale into a Drama of spellbinding power and sweep. Jack Chapman lives on the second floor of his tenement with his ex-prostitute wife, Sara, and seventeen-year-old daughter, Rivkele, and runs a brothel downstairs. the brothel has made Jack prosperous, but he aspires to something more-respectability, and towards that end, he hopes to marry his precious daughter to a Talmudic scholar. But the sheltered Rivkele has struck up a friendship with Manke, Jack's most-desired prostitute, and the gentle and genuine love affair that develops between the two young women threatens to destroy Jack's dreams for the future

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Original Playwright - Sholom Asch, based on A literal translation by Joachim Neugroschel

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Adaptation. - - Lesbian, theme/character, full length

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Homework

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I Don't Know What I Am Doing

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Joey

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July 7 1994

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Capturing a recent day of disturbance and fear, Donald Margulies' play, set in an inner-city clinic, charts the vital signs of our society. As a woman physician struggles to reconcile the extremes of hope and despair that define a typical day in her life, we are given a unique window on the way we live now

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Kibbutz

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La

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a washed-up young movie star explains to a willing fan in a bar how he went from a happy, married young novice to a wealthy, gambling, overnight sensation, and back to a hungry, divorced wanna-be who only wants to recapture his original dream of having "enough," and being married for life.

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Last Tuesday

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finds commuters on a train from New York to New Haven absorbed with the sometimes comical, quotidian details of their lives as the horror of the outside world insistently-and shockingly-intrudes.

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Lola

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Loman Family Picnic, The

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the setting is a new "luxury" high-rise apartment with Spanish decor in Coney Island, the home of a middle-class Jewish family struggling to put up a good front even though continually short of cash. the father, Herbie, who sells lighting fixtures, is chronically overworked and underpaid; his wife, Doris, tells herself (and whomever may be listening) that she loves her life-even though, as the play begins, she is shredding her wedding dress to make a Halloween costume; their older son, Stewie, eagerly awaits his bar mitzvah with an eye less on its religious aspects than on the potential loot to be gained in gifts; and the youngest son, Mitchell, is absorbed in writing a musical version of Death of a Salesman (entitled Willy!) for his class at school. While they all strive to present an appearance of contentment and closeness, the family is beset by underlying tensions which burst forth when Herbie seizes his son's bar mitzvah money and, after an unseemly confrontation with everyone about how the bills for the

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New York    1989

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Comedy Drama Comedy

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Louie

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Luna Park

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Manny

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Misadventure

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Model Apartment, The

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A brilliant and bizarre black comedy about a pair of elderly Holocaust survivors and their outlandish, deranged daughter, which, in a series of sometimes hilarious, sometimes moving scenes, traces the pervasive, baleful effect of their earlier trauma on the "better life" they have tried to build. Having retired to Florida, Max and Lola are dismayed to find that their new condo is not yet ready for occupancy and that they are obliged to stay temporarily in a "model apartment" - a tacky, gaudily decorated horror with a fake television set and refrigerator where even the ashtrays are cemented in place. Max and Lola had hoped to escape not only the nagging memories of their earlier lives, and the terrors of present-day Brooklyn, but also their fat, schizophrenic daughter, Debby, whom they had tried to "pay off" with generous amounts of cash before their hasty departure. But Debby, who seems to symbolize for them the awfulness of their past and their failures in the present, soon appears, followed in short order b

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Los Angeles    1988

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1990   -

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New Year's Eve

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Nocturne

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Pitching To the Star

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When Peter finally gets a good break for his Hollywood script, he finds himself PITCHING TO the STAR of the pilot show. Promised control over something he's worked long and hard on, he finds his integrity and his story line attacked every time the star makes a suggestion to completely change his script and make the lead character exactly like herself.

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New York    1990

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in Best American Short Plays 1992-93, Applause Boofks, NY, 1994   -

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Resting Place

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New York    1982

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Shipwrecked! An Entertainment - the Amazing Adventures Of Louis De Rougemont (As Told By Himself)

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A tale of adventure that left england spellbound in the 19th century is the center of attention in Donald Margulies's play. Louis de Rougemont, a would-be explorer, invites you to hear his amazing story of bravery, survival and celebrity. Dare to be whisked away in a story of exotic islanders, rustic vessels, and the high seas. Shipwrecked! An entertainment examines how far we're willing to blur the line between fact and fiction in order to leave our mark on the world
- press release

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Primary Stages

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2009   978-0822223412

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adventure Play/Drama

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Sight Unseen

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Jonathan Waxman is the artist as superstar, plunged into the exorbitant hype of the American art world where a publicist is as necessary as a brush and canvas. Just before his works are celebrated at an exhibition in London, Jonathan journeys to the village where his former lover, Patricia, lives with her British husband, Nick. Archaeologists working on a dig, their spare existence is spent sifting through a Roman rubbish heap to discover the past. In their cold, remote house, Jonathan discovers an early painting of Patricia he'd done when they were young lovers. the subsequent struggle for the painting embodies the unreconciled passions of the past. Patricia has never forgiven Jonathan for leaving her, Nick despises Jonathan and the kind of art he produces, and Jonathan has never been able to recapture the inspiration and purity he felt when he painted Patricia. In taut scenes that dart from past to present and back, the characters are forced to deal with the unanswerable question of anti-Semitism, the legac

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Costa Mesa, California    1991

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1992    -

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Comedy Drama Comedy

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Somnambulist

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Space

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the SPACe in this play of the same name covers what comes between couples, what is out in the universe and even time spent between friends. Relaying the story of his break-up with his girlfriend, one friend reveals to another how space-in whatever form-invades all his thoughts about himself and his world.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1993   -

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Time Stands Still

Time Stands Still
This is from the press release: "Are we supposed to deny ourselves ordinary happiness because there's misery in the world? This is one of many questions Donald Margulies (Brooklyn Boy, Sight Unseen, Dinner With Friends) poses in his intelligent and timely new play. James and Sarah, a journalist and a photographer, have been together for nine years and share a passion for documenting the realities of war. But when injuries force them to return home to New York, the adventurous couple confronts the prospect of a more conventional life. Time Stands Still is a blazingly important new work about responsibility-to ourselves, to our loved ones, to our community, and to our world."
- nytheatre.com

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Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles    39855

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Theatre Communications Group; 1 edition (April 1, 2010)   978-1559363655

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Two Days

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With TWO DAYS, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Donald Margulies offers a gripping evening of theatre that explores the impact of enormous external events on our daily lives. This double-cast double-bill opens with a twenty-minute chamber piece, LAST TUeSDAY, which finds commuters on a train from New York to New Haven absorbed with the sometimes comical, quotidian details of their lives as the horror of the outside world insistently-and shockingly-intrudes. (2M, 4W). JULY 7, 1994 is a haunting hour-long exploration of a day in the life of a female physician working in an inner-city health clinic. (2M, 4W)

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Short Plays One Act

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What's Wrong With This Picture

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L.A. Weekly writes: "Donald Margulies' very Jewish Blithe Spirit is full of surprises. . .Opening at the end of shiva, the play is the story of grief-stricken dry-cleaner Mort, whose wife, Shirley, died the week before after choking on a tough piece of moo shoo pork, leaving a house full of extra furniture because she was in the middle of redecorating. His all-too-loving but increasingly less supportive family is telling him 'enough already, it's time to live your life.' Once Mort is left uncomfortably alone with his teenage son, Artie, the play begins to take its odd turns which happily removes it from the path of Neil Simon family farce. As he convinces Artie to wear his dead mother's sexiest dress, Mort seems to be losing his mind, while Artie does his best to humor him. then the sudden arrival of a very much alive Shirley explodes everything. the play continues to take every unexpected path as the three try to cope with the situation among themselves and with the rest of the family. Margulies skillfully tosse

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New York    1990

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Broadway Play Publishing, New York, 1988   -

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Comedy

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Women In Motion

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Two WOMeN IN MOTION, work together and take a tropical vacation together, surveying the territory and the men. When Monica reveals to Libby her crush on a co-worker, Mike, Libby takes little interest, but when Libby's island date sours, she interrupts Monica's fling to tell her Mike has no interest in Monica and, in fact, he gave Libby a long passionate kiss by the copy machine right before this trip. the women travel home in silence

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1993   -

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Zimmer

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We meet ZIMMeR in the record store where he advises young buyers about the real rock and roll, before their time. He knows it all, and imparts his storehouse of knowledge while relating his experiences growing up: the expectations, his family, the friends who freaked out, the expectations, where he was when Kennedy died, his Bar Mitzvah, his girlfriend, and maybe a few more expectations. Always there is the music to tie it together, and tide him over.

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1st Produced:
New York    1988

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1993   -

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