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A small prairie community is blown apart when an audacious teenaged girl challenges long-held views of spirituality and sexuality. Suspected of being gay, she is brutalized by her classmates. This searing drama of bigotry and transcendence challenges the fallout of the Catholic Church's response to the same-sex marriage rulings in Canada.

The complete text and lyrics to the off-Broadway smash, now also an award-winning film. Also featuring dazzling film stills, this spectacular rock musical tells the story of Hedwig Schmidt, victim of a gruesomely botched sex change operation, recounted by him/her in the form of a sleazy lounge act. As Stephen Holden of the New York Times wrote, If the glam-rock era is long gone, Hedwig reminds us, its subversive spirit... lives on.' '...with ferocious energy and enough sexual variety to match la...

"An exhilarating, multi-layered new play." The Guardian "Stirring and stylishly told . . . McCraney's crispest and most confident work." Daily News "Greatly affecting. . . . It takes a brave writer to set his language against the plaintive beauty of the hymns and spirituals . . . but McCraney's speech holds its own, locating poetry even in casual vernacular and again demonstrating his gift for simile and metaphor." The Village Voice The Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys is dedicated to the...

A brilliant and painfully truthful portrait of Stanley Spencer, the wayward genius of modern British painting. Coming from humble origins, Stanley Spencer never lost his 'rough edges', despite being taken up by the smart set. His stubborn championing of ordinary people and local places as suitable subjects for religious painting was revolutionary. His appetite for life was hugely attractive, though his attitude to women in general and his long-suffering wife in particular was deeply selfish: 'W...