Blithe Spirit: An Improbable Farce in Three Acts by Noel Coward.
A husband who has remarried is haunted by the mischievous ghost of his former wife. The intervention of a bumbling medium does nothing to help the situation. The play was first produced in 1941. RC 20035.

Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon.
This autobiographical play is set in Brighton Beach, New York, in 1937, during the later years of the Great Depression, and humorously depicts the family spirit. Eugene, the fifteen-year-old narrator, dreams of becoming a writer and of fulfilling his sexual curiosity. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. RC 30748, BR 6536.

Butterflies Are Free by Leonard Gershe.
Play about twenty-year-old Don Baker, born blind, who moves into his own apartment in New York City. He begins a relationship with his carefree actress neighbor, nineteen-year-old divorcée Jill Tanner. When Don’s overprotective mother arrives for a surprise visit, she immediately disapproves of his new friend. Some strong language. RC 56808.

Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem by Ralph Bell.
A modern drama which indicts the optimism and materialism of American society. Willy Loman, a traveling salesman, experiences a profound sense of failure as he recognizes signs of aging in himself and decides to take stock of his accomplishments. RC 23130, BR 2719.

The Life and Times of Porgy and Bess: The Story of an American Classic by Hollis Alpert.
"Porgy" began as a novel by DuBose Heyward, who with his wife Dorothy, soon turned it into a hit play. George and Ira Gershwin joined Heyward to create the operatic version. Further spin-offs have taken the form of a movie and Truman Capote’s account of the touring cast in "The Muses are Heard." But whatever form the story takes, "Porgy" has become an American classic. RC 33270.

The Millionairess by Bernard Shaw.
In this play, a shrewish wife goes to work in a slum to prove that if she had not been born rich she could begin from scratch and become a millionairess all over again. Includes Shaw’s "Preface on Bosses." RC 20619.

The Miracle Worker: A Play for Television by William Gibson.
A play that tells how young Anne Sullivan came to work with deaf, mute, and blind Helen Keller and found a way to teach this previously unreachable child. RC 26428, BR 13555. Also available as a descriptive video, DV 191.

The Odd Couple by Neil Simon.
A comedy about a divorced sportswriter who asks a friend, being sued for divorce, to share an apartment. Unfortunately, the sportswriter--a compulsive slob--discovers his friend is a neurotic housekeeper. RC 25174.

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams.
In this play, a recently widowed, faded southern belle visits her bohemian sister and lusty brother-in-law in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Seeking the lost gentility of her early life, she instead faces a mental breakdown because of the insensitivity of those around her. RC 46212, BR 11535.

Summer and Smoke: A Play in Two Parts by Tennessee Williams.
A play by the twentieth-century American dramatist, telling of the unfulfilled love of a puritanical southern woman who is a minister’s daughter. RC 46399, BR 11639.

You Can’t Take It with You: A Comedy in Three Acts by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman.
A comic play about an eccentric family with one conventional daughter. Difficulties develop when the parents of the man she loves arrive for dinner on the wrong night. RC 36178, BR 157.