About the Plays:

In this edition of John Patrick Shanley's complete plays, you will encounter one of America's major dramatists in all his many expressive incarnations and moods. His restless poetic spirit takes refuge in a whole array of forms; he impatiently prowls the aisles of comedy, melodrama, tragedy and farce as he forges an alloy all his own. Thirteen plays by the Oscar-winning author of Moonstruck including: The Big Funk, Savage in Limbo, Danny and The Deep Blue Sea, Welcome to the Moon, The Red Coat, Down and 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.

About the Playwright:

John Patrick Shanley is the author of numerous plays, including 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 TV and film, and his credits include the teleplay for Live from Baghdad and screenplays for Five Corners and Moonstruck, for which he won an Academy Award for original screenplay.