(Applause Books). Thirteen plays by the Oscar-winning author of Moonstruck . Includes: "The Big Funk," "Savage in Limbo," "Danny & The Deep Blue Sea," "Welcome to the Moon," "The Red Coat," "Down & Out," "Let Us Go Out Into the Starry Night," "Out West," "A Lonely Impulse of Delight," "Women of Manhattan," "The Dreamer Examines His Pillow," "Italian-American Reconciliation," and "Beggars in the House of Plenty." Also includes an introduction by the author.

The Rose Tattoo is larger than life--a fable, a Greek tragedy, a comedy, a melodrama--it is a love letter from Tennessee Williams to anyone who has ever been in love or ever will be. Professional widow and dressmaker Serafina delle Rosa has withdrawn from the world, locking away her heart and her sixteen-year-old daughter Rosa. Then one day a man with the sexy body of her late Sicilian husband and the face of a village idiot, Mangiacavallo (Italian for "eat a horse"), stumbles into her life and clumsily unlocks Serafina's fiery anger, sense of betrayal, pride, wit, passion, and eventually her capacious love. The original production of The Rose Tattoo won Tony Awards for best play and for the stars, Eli Wallach and Maureen Stapleton. Anna Magnani received the Academy Award as Best Actress for the 1955 film version. This edition of The Rose Tattoo has an Introduction by playwright John Patrick Shanley, the author's original foreword, the one-act The Dog Enchanted by the Divine View that was the germ for the play, and an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar Jack Barbera.

In the work of John Patrick Shanley, the truth is as charming as it is painful, reality as touched with magic as it is factual, and existence as absolute as it is illusory.--BOMB magazineOutside Mullingar is about the romance of Anthony and Rosemary, neighbors in rural Ireland, who are nearing their middle years. It is by turns poetic, uplifting, dark and funny as hell. Anthony is an introverted farmer and Rosemary is the woman who vows to have him at all costs. When Anthony's father threatens to disinherit his son, Rosemary steps into the middle of a land feud and family eccentricities beyond what one might imagine. On the brink of romantic catastrophe, this one-of-a-kind Irish heroine fights against time and mortality in hopes of securing her dream of love.John Patrick Shanley is the author of Doubt: A Parable (Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play), Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Four Dogs and a Bone, Dirty Story, Defiance and Storefront Church, among many others. He wrote the teleplay for Live from Baghdad (Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special), and the screenplays for Doubt (Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay), Five Corners (Special Jury Prize, Barcelona Film Festival), Alive, Joe Versus the Volcano, and Moonstruck (Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay).

This is a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about stubborn moral certainty in the face of a lack of firm evidence - a big hit on Broadway. Chosen as the best play of the year by over ten newspapers and magazines, Doubt is set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, where a strong-minded woman wrestles with her conscience in the face of 'concerns' about one of the teaching fathers. Doubt opened at the Manhattan Theatre Club before transferring to Broadway, winning the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama/

The screenplays of award-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley have earned him a reputation as a gifted writer with a great range and imagination. His movies Moonstruck, Five Corners, and Joe Versus the Volcano have starred such Hollywood luminaries as Cher-who took home an Oscar for her performance in Moonstruck-Nicolas Cage, Jodie Foster, John Turturro, Meg Ryan, and Tom Hanks. This collection showcases Shanley's talent for creating dialogue that is true to his characters and his ability to tell their stories in eccentric and intensely humorous situations.

This volume offers three works by Shanley. In the title play, a couple of sadomasochistic writers fight over rights to their New York City loft in what turns out to be a sexy satire of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The other two works in this book are 'Where's My Money?' and 'Sailor's Song'.

" Shanley's] intense engagement with questions of religion and ethics...remains distinctive and invigorating."-"The New York Times"

"There's a deeper philosophical vein that the author mines, allowing his language to acquire the heft and timbre of a serious moral debate. . . . We taste bitterness, but also much that is sweet."-"Time Out New York"

The final installment of John Patrick Shanley's "Church and State" trilogy--beginning with the award-winning "Doubt "and "Defiance"--concerns a Bronx Borough President who is forced, by the mortgage crisis, into a confrontation with a local minister. Blending earthy humor and philosophical reflection, this morality tale explores the relationship between spiritual experience and social action.

John Patrick Shanley is the author of numerous plays, including "Outside Mullingar," "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea," "Dirty Story," "Four Dogs and a Bone," "Psychopathia Sexualis," "Sailor's Song," "Savage in Limbo," and "Where's My Money?" He has written extensively for television and film, and his credits include the teleplay for "Live from Baghdad "and screenplays for "Congo"; "Alive"; "Five Corners"; "Joe Vs. the Volcano," which he also directed; and "Moonstruck," for which he won an Academy Award for best original screenplay. He adapted his Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Doubt "into an Academy Award-winning film, which he also directed, starring Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.